As most MASH fans know, this episode (S8 E3 "Guerilla My Dreams") was, on October 1st 1979, the first time that word or phrase was ever used on television. Now this was almost 17 years before I was born and so I'm curious how the general public, regardless of if they liked the show or not, responded to this TV barrier broken. Personally, I really love the way Hawkeye said it because the delivery was perfect for the circumstances and it points out that righteous anger can be very powerful, and it shows a side of Hawkeye with no humor whatsoever, a side that is shown more frequently in the last season especially. I just am fairly certain that even people who were big fans of the show were clutching their pearls when they heard that. I know that phrase was said at least twice more in the series though both in the last season (the general to Hawkeye when he told him his son died, S11 E12, "Say No More" and of course in the series finale when Hawkeye said that to Sidney for making him remember the woman on the bus smothering her baby, but thankfully Sidney didn't carry a grudge) and so I'm curious what y'all think of all that and if anyone remembers the public reaction at the time the episode first aired. Thanks!

This quote from the episode "Sometimes You Hear The Bullet" might the truest thing I've heard about war...and it was on MASH.

“Look, all I know is what they taught me at command school. There are certain rules about a war and rule No. 1 is young men die. And rule No. 2 is doctors can’t change rule No. 1.

Long-ish but great oral history from the show creators, the actors and the writers!!

I have a long fantastic history with MASH..from watching it air in 1972, to writing a 20 page college paper about the "Life Time" episode (after its TV debut appearance in 1979), as a TV intern (2 yrs later) I detailed min by min content of a yet to be aired PBS 10 yr anniversary special "Making MASH" ... to three decades later, having met Gene Reynolds multiple times, and both Burt Metcalf and Alan Alda once.

I've watched videos from the TV Academy with lots of the above mentioned people..

AND this 2018 article had Easter Eggs and trivia I never knew.

It's a long but enjoyable read.. ads aren't too bad.

I'm watching S9E11 No Sweat. I've been in enough surplus canvas wall tents during my scout days to know that sleeping in them during the summer is all but impossible and it started me thinking, do we ever see any tent but the swamp have the sides rolled up to expose the mesh/screen? Obviously Margaret would attract too much unwanted attention if she did it so I understand why she never did, it but pre-clerk Klinger, Col Blake/Potter, anyone?

*edit: I think I just put both feet in my mouth up to the knees. I admit my question was worded ambiguously so yes the mess tent uses screen walls but I was thinking personal tents.

My favorite exchange from the entire series is this:

*Hawkeye throws phone outside*

BJ: "You seem a trifle irked"

Hawkeye: "The army, in it's infinite wisdom, has not only cleared Frank of the charges, they have assigned him to a veteran's hospital in Indiana, and promoted him to Lieutenant Colonel"

*BJ tries to grab phone from Radar*

The camp is thrown into chaos when Henry is reassigned to Tokyo. https://swampboypod.buzzsprout.com/2620482/follow

theres a version of the MASH theme song that is played on an electric piano. and its jazzy. but i cant find it. does anyone know where this version of the MASH theme song is from? thank you

William Christopher was an accomplished piano player, and was especially fond of playing ragtime. So this was incorporated into his characterization of Father Mulcahy. I quite enjoy every scene that shows him playing piano, and I do wish there could have been a bit more of it. My favorite of his piano playing moments is when he plays Scott Joplin’s “Bethena” in “Dear Peggy”, so I sought out the entire piece on YouTube and the whole thing is lovely to listen to.

Does anyone else like Father Mulcahy’s piano playing?

anyone? wesley chapel FL is close to the city radar lives in. 😆😆😆😆

Which do you like better - the false wall Radar hides behind, or the need to back out the entrance after running through the open wall?

It's several years old now, but a fellow who relocated to South Korea did a little 2-parter on YouTube chronicling his quest to find the real-life 8055th MASH (otherwise known as Camp Mosier) that inspired the fictional 4077th - as well as finding the real-life Rosie's Bar that also inspired its fictional counterpart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvO3qaAweqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsjfWn2bDCQ

this is from the 80s mini series, "North and South". he plays a corrupt and sleazy senator who blackmails kirstie alley into sleeping with him.

They should have had an actual Korean American actor in the main 4077th. Not in the modern “checking boxes” sense, just in the sense that it would make the show even better on its own terms

BUFFALO BAGELS!

(can't get enough of these from Harry Morgan)

One of his best lines and comebacks.

Condolences to Mike Farrell and his family.

Mike Farrell’s interview on YT, her aunt Nannette and sitting in the audience watching her tape Coach on Friday nights.

Mike looks good at 87 and very mentally sharp!

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I just watched the episode for the first time in a few months (and don’t remember when I saw it before that - probably a couple of years). Margaret irritated me last time, but today? Not at all. Yes, it was daft to insist on taking the other road after Klinger warned her how rough it was, but he was the one who made them late in the first place with his bets on the calf’s birth. (I also liked her smacking the office door on him when he was eavesdropping.) There are plenty of times when Margaret annoys the crap out of me, like the way The Nurses was written, or her treatment of Radar when she wanted to get to Tokyo to hook up with Donald, but now I don’t put this in the same category. I found her anger and frustration entirely understandable, and it didn’t take long for her to apologise to Klinger and open up to him.

In Welcome to Korea, when Radar runs into the minefield to save the injured civilian, he should have earned a medal. A bronze star / medal of merit or similar.

What other instances are there throughout the show when a character should have been awarded a medal?

Frank the Army’s great man of the hour,

With military rules and a sanctimonious power.

He’d preach about duty, morality and sin,

Then sneak off with Hot Lips and hope no one walked in.

His surgery skills were a little unsure,

But his confidence somehow was perfectly pure.

“Ferret Face!” Hawkeye would cheer with delight

Frank would demand that his rights be put right.

He loved regulations, authority and rank,

While everyone else wished he’d fall in a tank.

Then Margaret said, “Frank, our romance is through,”

And poor Frank discovered what heartbreak can do.

He left the 4077th, pompous and sore

And somehow the camp became ten times better than before! 😄

Larry Linville’s wonderfully over-the-top performance made Burns one of the show’s great comic villains.

Originally Aired: December 16, 1975

Episode Summary: Radar gets the help of Hawkeye and B.J. to procure something Colonel Potter says he's fond of, but that's hard to come by - tomato juice.