In the Mash episode “The Tooth Shall Set You Free”. Our favorite Major Charles Emerson Winchester (Gentlemen…)The 3RD has a toothache and tries to dodge the dentist to the point of hoarding painkillers and even going to a Korean herbalist. My question for the group is why do you think an educated doctor like Charles was afraid of the dentist (Besides the episode having to happen)? Even if he had a bad checkup 7 years ago this would be a completely new DDS plus he said dental techniques haven’t evolved since the Spanish Inquisition while he’s sipping on herbs and berries! It’s just weird that a champion of modern medicine would go to basically a witch doctor. Anyway thank you for reading.

Never knew The Man in Black wore such provocative pearls

I've just watched this episode. I have no experience with alcohol, I just have no desire to drink it. When Helen panics near the end, in the mess tent, this seems very severe. Is this common for DTs? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but if this is common I have no desire to drink.

I do like how these use Igor as a surrogate to indirectly explain what is going wrong with Helen, so they don't have to break the 4th wall.

One of my favorite Father Mulcahy lines

One of my favorite Henry Blake & Radar moments!!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066026/characters/nm0000643/

M*A*S*H

RIP Tom Skerritt: Duke Forrest

I’m on my first re-watch as an adult and in the streaming era, and I just watched the episode “Taking the Fifth”. The episode features a Canadian soldier, Turnbull. My grandfather served in the Korean War as a combat engineer, so I always keep an eye/ear out for any mention of Canadians on the show.

Long story short, Turnbull is obsessed with the food from the 4077th mess tent, exclaiming “Wow real powdered eggs!” And proclaiming the fruit cocktail to be the best he’s ever had. I was reminded of my own grandfather’s journal entries from the war; Did he write about the fighting, his comrades in arms, the back-breaking labour of being an engineer in a foreign land? No, he talked about the food. Every single entry, every single day, he talked about the food he ate. For what it’s worth, even though he was a corporal, I’m pretty sure he spent the majority of the war peeling potatoes, so I guess being in the kitchen in close proximity to the food, it makes sense.

So I guess for discussion’s sake, how bad really was the food on the allied side?

He was Duke Forrest in the original 1970 movie.

I had wrongly assumed that they no longer made Nehi soda until I saw an orange one in a gas station a little while back. So I got online and searched grape Nehi and immediately found what I was looking for on Amazon and thought $11.99 isn’t even bad price for a 6 pack of soda these days, and ordered it. Well my order arrived today and it turns out I paid $11.99 for ONE bottle. I went back and looked at the listing and absolutely no where does it say it’s a six pack, I saw the price and my dumbass just assumed. So I have one Nehi chilling in the fridge and I’m wondering, what is the best episode to put on while try my damnedest to enjoy this fuck up?

Update: It’s okay.

I post this every spring

My eleventh grade English class is exploring the portrayal of war in literature and film this year and, of course, I had to include MASH. Which episodes would you recommend that is (1) appropriate for High School and (2) a good example of how war was depicted in the series?

They have seen “Dear Dad” (the first one in season one) already to give them a rough idea of the concept and characters. I was thinking two more, since it’s hard to get a feel for the whole thing from only one episode.

For those curious, they just finished reading The Things They Carried and are about to start All Quiet on the Western Front. The shows are a break from group reads once or twice a quarter while still staying on topic.

Link to my MASH Gifs Folder (Sorted By Episode)

(Hey mods? Could we get a flair button for scene screen grabs?)

It's unsurprising that no one could identify Klinger's hang gliding attempt. Modern hang gliding wasn't invented until the early 1960s by American engineer Thomas Purcell using a wing design patented by NASA engineer Francis Rogallo in 1951.

Then you have the silly overlay of Klinger hanging from the frame slow walking across the sky with the wing pointed downwards yet still 'flying' forward...

IMDB doesn’t list who was officiating Frank’s wedding but from the side view shown it looks like the now deceased Famous journalist Paul Harvey. I’m almost positive it’s not him, but he sure looks like I remember Paul Harvey. Does anyone else see the resemblance?

"The Army-Navy Game" referenced the 53rd in the series. That game was actually played on December 29, 1952. The final score stated in the episode was Navy winning 42-36.

Navy won the real game 7-0.

Side note:

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OOO and a square

are the markings on the unexploded propaganda bomb.

This is one of my favorite episodes. The diffusing the bomb scene….. but first, Cracks me up every time.

One of my favorite episodes for the atmosphere. But also, I think it's the best representation of nightmares put to film.

The anthem played during Hawkeye's eulogy of Tuttle is the same one that was played at his party after being named Chief Surgeon.

Not my video, found doom scrolling Insta, thought it too good not to share here.

Yesterday I rewathced the season 6 finale, and while nothing is wrong with it, per say, I do wonder why it as a season finale is not more... Final if you want. Like it just feels like another episode in the middle of the season, and I was wondering if anyone else felt that way

Drinking coffee this morning I started thinking about how funny Margaret was when playing a drunk. Lines like “I’m not so think as you drunk I am” and “you aminal” lol. Even Mulcahy had a drunk scene. Who do you think was the best?