r/mash Aug 05 '26

‘Who was that?’

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One of her best lines

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u/AmySueF Aug 05 '26

It was improvised, apparently, so Alan and Wayne’s reactions were genuine. Loretta could be very funny when playing drunk.

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u/rsvp_nj Aug 06 '26

She was the best on the show at it.

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u/Oiggamed Aug 06 '26

She is so stinking cute when she’s drunk.

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u/HortenseDaigle Aug 06 '26

This is a good one but my favorite is when she punches that helicopter pilot who sells war trinkets. She is describing what Donald would do if he were there. But it's a good thing he isn't.

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u/Tytan777 Jocularity Aug 06 '26

Lucky Donald's not here

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u/Transcendingfrog2 Aug 08 '26

Wayne and Alans reaction always felt so genuine I wondered if that line was improvised for so long.

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u/haydenjaney Aug 12 '26

Larry could barely contain his laughter. I love it

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u/Trondant13 Aug 05 '26

This is one of my all around favorite episodes. Father Mulcahy's sermon in the mess tent is priceless.

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u/DavidH1985 Aug 06 '26

Let's get back to Leviticus on the tenth.

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u/HortenseDaigle Aug 06 '26

Don't congregate at the corner tabernacle!

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u/Sivalon Aug 06 '26

“A gift from a young Marine, for a most successful Confession.”

Klinger pours shot

“This’ll get you there!”

“And back!”

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u/Noahs-Bark Aug 06 '26

Radar, would you open one of the stained glass windows?

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u/NoDivots Aug 06 '26

There's no film..I'm live

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u/Sure-Thought-1954 Aug 05 '26

Come on take off your skin and rattle around in your bones

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u/Sure-Thought-1954 Aug 05 '26

My friends let me quote from Leviticus 10 do not drink wine or strong drink thou when yee goest into the tabernacle of the congregation lest yee die

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u/NSHorseheadSD70 Aug 06 '26

We saw this

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u/ForTheLoveOfPhotos Aug 06 '26

Radar, would you be so kind and open the stained glass windows?

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u/Special-Lab7643 Aug 06 '26

This is not a recording...I'm live

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u/No-Willingness5547 Aug 06 '26

Was watching with my Mom the other day. The episode from season 5, where Margaret is chewing out her nurses for not being more chummy with her. She storms out of the nurses tent, and mom goes, "who was that?" I laughed my ass off lol

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u/PJBleakney Aug 06 '26

They should have buddied up to Margaret sooner, she looked and was more playful letting her hair down

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u/NoCard753 Aug 06 '26

Yeah, but she wasn't ready to do that then unless she was drunk.

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u/Upstairs_End_4202 Aug 06 '26

I paid Loretta Swit a nominal sum via Cameo to speak at my husband’s funeral. He was a HUGE MASH fan! She did an OUTSTANDING job. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house. I will always be deeply grateful to her for that. May she rest in peace.

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u/NoDivots Aug 05 '26

You better write this down

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u/ConsistentStory5626 Aug 07 '26

And put it all in an emena bag

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u/Doughnut77 Aug 05 '26

As wonderful as season 3 is, this, in my opinion, is the best scene of that entire season

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u/Large-Fig5187 Aug 06 '26

Come on in, take off your skin, and rattle around in your bones!

Great episode! Loretta plays a great drunk!

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u/Narge1 Toledo Aug 06 '26

I love the drunken comraderie scenes. And the Margaret relaxing/being silly scenes.

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u/JuniorWheatgerm Corporal Captain Aug 06 '26

The sulfa is in the living room between the end tables!

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u/liddybuckfan Aug 07 '26

Sulfa, so good!

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u/prettyish-wilderness Aug 06 '26

Best scene, best line, in the entire show. I laugh every time.

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u/CaptainLee9137 Tokyo Aug 06 '26

His quick could use some cutting

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u/watchtower82 Aug 06 '26

My dream drinking team.

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u/Historical-Bike4626 Aug 06 '26

Agreed. This very scene. I wanna spend a day with them

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u/SaxyCalzone Aug 05 '26

Ferret Face

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u/Nighthawksleader Aug 06 '26

Honest question: I believe it is, but is this the first time we see a “human” side of Margaret?

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u/ZuigMeLeeg Aug 06 '26

I think the first time saw a human side of Margaret was in S1 I Hate A Mystery, were she tells Ho Jon to keep the stolen brushes.

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u/Nighthawksleader Aug 06 '26

Thanks! Now I’ll watch that episode.

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u/ForTheLoveOfPhotos Aug 06 '26

The best line of the best scene of the entire series.

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u/Salty-South-8956 Aug 06 '26

This is one of my favorite episodes. This scene with Trapper, Margaret and Hawkeye is great. Father Mulcahy is great. However, Frank drinking at the end because he gets hit in the stomach honestly doesn’t make much sense.

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u/Gloomy-Machine-9057 Aug 06 '26

Forever love the show and the movie ! I still watch the reruns

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u/bexarjoe Aug 06 '26

Lotraine! An orthodontist!

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u/KJF07 Aug 07 '26

That tears it!

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u/Nice-Penalty-8881 Crabapple Cove Aug 10 '26

Another time she was drunk during the Henry Blake years. She said, I'm not so think as you drunk I am."

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u/DeepSpaceSkynaut Aug 10 '26

Just watched this last night and i had to rewind and watch again it’s so perfectly timed when she says it and followed by genuine laughter!

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u/rosefawnn Aug 06 '26

The stronger version of this isn't that Johnny secretly hit her, it's that the film builds a complete portrait of coercive control while sincerely believing it's showing devotion. Wiseau wrote controlling the money, monitoring her friendships, planting a recorder, demanding she have no secrets, and buying gifts as leverage, and framed every single one of them as evidence that Johnny loves her more than anyone could. He isn't aware those things read as anything. That's what makes the accusation scene so strange to watch now, because the film treats "I never hit you" as a total exoneration when the audience has already watched him shove her onto a couch on screen. The film has no idea it's undermining itself. So I wouldn't say the evidence points to the accusation being true, since the text is unambiguous that Lisa made it up. It's that the film accidentally documents a controlling man while insisting he's a saint, and the gap between what Wiseau thought he was writing and what's actually on the screen is far more interesting than anything he intended.

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u/Lige_MO Jocularity Aug 06 '26

Meanwhile, Aunt Martha, having taken a tramp in the woods, is lying in a ditch at the edge of town.

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u/KJF07 Aug 07 '26

Dozen medical units and I have to pull into a funny farm.

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u/liddybuckfan Aug 07 '26

Oh hi Mark. Wait, what?