My parents always watched MASH when I was growing up. When I got older I started to watch it in syndication and became a fan. After all these years it's easy to see some of the cracks in the facade, but for the most part I think it's lionized status is well-deserved, even those later episodes when Alan Alda got behind the camera and crammed important lessons about the human condition down our throats. Speaking of Alan Alda, he recently named some of his favorite episodes of the series for CNN. Got any favorites of your own?
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10-06-2005 @ 4:36PM
Susan Coble said...
Remember the episode where someone was booby trapping Henry Blake? My favorite vision is Henry standing there after the latrine exploded. Toilet seat around his neck and toilet paper streamers falling down around him. And he says, "boom!" A classic!
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10-06-2005 @ 4:57PM
elf said...
The John Tuttle episode was an inspiration for me and my friends. In eighth grade our school's math lab was holding a contest with a rather nice calculator (for the time) as the prize. We were ineligble, having won previously, so we submitted an entry using the psuedonym John Tuttle. When Tuttle won we had to hire a kid from another school, unknown to the math lab personnel, to come in and say he was John Tuttle to claim the prize. The next year John Tuttle got his own library card and we tried to get him entered into the school's computer system, but that didn't work.
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10-06-2005 @ 7:25PM
Emily said...
What was the name of the crazy CIA Colonel? I loved that guy. He played it so straight.
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10-06-2005 @ 7:52PM
Robert Marks said...
Ok first off the booby trapping episode was "The Cowboy" a very good one. Then Tuttle was the other one. A great show. His names was infact Jonathan S. Tuttle from battlecreek. Good times
The the Cia man was Col Samuel Flagg played by Edward Winter
my favorite episode is Soilder Of the Month
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10-06-2005 @ 8:12PM
Brad said...
The MASH Olympics that started as a weight loss program and the one where it was a freezing cold winter period, and everybody had to consolidate into just a few tents for warmth were two of my favorites, and how can you forget any of them with 5 O'Clock Charlie?
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10-15-2005 @ 10:20PM
Robert said...
Rainbow Bridge and the Practical Joker episode featuring Sydney Freedman are up there but my number one is from season four, "The Late Captain Pierce" featuring this dialogue between Hawkeye and BJ on Digger's bus full of dead soldiers.
BJ: Are you really going home?
Hawkeye: Finally. I've been fighting death since I've got here. I'm tired of death. I'm tired to death. If you can beat it, join it ... (he rolls over and looks at the covered bodies) ... right boys?"
That's about as powerful as the opening shot of frame from the original movie.
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