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The TV series M^A^S^H was anti-Vietnam war polemic.

Well done. Thank you for noticing that moment.

I was a kid that grew up watching M.A.S.H. I still remember watching the finale and crying. I was 10 years old. Shows like this shaped a generation of kids that grew up without hiding hardship or reality from them. To this day I still remember pretty much every episode and how it made my feel and how it changed the way I grew up seeing the world. There aren't shows like this for the current generations. Everything is so sugar coated and safe space. I am quite thankful for the experiences like M.A.S.H. that shaped us.

A great movie turned in to a great show

Was a great movie 🎬

MASH eas horrible leftist liberal propaganda 😑.

I was a kid growing up in the 70s (born in '68). My own dad served six tours in Vietnam... and although M*A*S*H was supposed to be about the Korean War, we all knew, even as kids, it was originally an anti-Vietnam War focus... or anti-war in general. Still, with all the sadness it would portray, the comedy lightened the theme and this is what made it such a hit. To this day, even after growing up with Little House on the Prairie, Leave it to Beaver reruns, Bonanza... it was M*A*S*H that I always was drawn to. Often not getting the humor, my dad, a US Navy Officer, would explain without holding back, what the humor was about. He explained what a Section 8 was, along with all the innuendos, my dad wanted me to understand the brutality of war that was veiled by the comedy. In the 70s after Dad came home for good from the Vietnam War, he was assigned to the Apollo Space Missions, plucking the astronauts from the Pacific aboard the USS Ticonderoga (a WWII aircraft carrier). It wasn't until the 80s when my dad was in command at Miramar Naval Air Station that he had a duty that would allow him to come home every night. I was in high school by them, and only then did it dawn on me just how high-ranking my dad had been. It never clicked that Dad, now a Navy Captain, was the same rank as Colonel Potter in M*A*S*H. To me, he was "just Dad". When he started flying back to the Pentagon and returning sometime later, a week, two weeks, he could never tell us how long he would be gone or what he was doing. Often he would come home in his uniform with a Colt 1911 on his holster belt and a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist, then locked into a VERY secure safe in his personal library - a room we were only allowed access if he was with us to pick out a book to do a history or book report. When he made Admiral, and transferred to some underground facility in Washington DC did it really hit my brother and I just what could it be that Dad did, now in the Department of Defense, NavSatCom office deep under some place near Washington DC. Dad passed away in December of '21 and there were things about his career we never knew. As a kid, we would ask and his response would be, "If I told you, I would have to kill you"... we thought it a joke back as kids, but only later, after his death when two higher-ranking Admirals and a couple black-suited men came to my mother's house to "gather some documents" that things really confused us. Dad had been retired for 20 years and the Navy still kept eyes on him all this time. My brother and I wondered why Mom would host private dinners with members of Congress (the US Congress) at our parents' house over the years after his retirement. We still don't know and Mom is not talking. She refuses to talk about his career other than say his last assignment was for NavSatCom. One thing my brother and I always did growing up was "Play War" with our neighbor kids... it never made sense that Mom would tell us, "Don't be playing war when your dad comes home. It's not something heroic or a game". Maybe this is why Dad wanted to explain the series M*A*S*H to us boys and never let us miss an episode. We thought it was just "family time to watch TV"... maybe he wanted us to see the bad consequences of war, hidden within a comedy, and why he didn't hold back from explaining everything we didn't understand. M*A*S*H was a huge part of my television-viewing childhood that I will never forget.

I just thought about the scene where Margaret finds out about the dog she was quietly taking care of. 😢

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME SHOW 😢😢😮😮😊😊

When I was in the military, some of the other men started calling me Radar. They thought that I looked just like Radar on the Mash T.V. series. 😮😊

Also the still in the swamp was actually an example of something that would technically work.

The movie will always be one of my favorite films. The show will always remind me of my family’s service in the military. A great example of sacrifice for service people.

The best episode made. Alan Alda made his point well

One thing I didn't understand for decades is that it's difficult to stay antiwar when your country is being invaded by North Korea

I have every episode of M*A*S*H on my hard drive ( only 3 episodes with the laugh track still there ) and when I'm feeling down, I select the M*A*S*H group and hit "play random". You don't want to know how many times that randomly selected episode sort of helps me through the day. More often than not the plot-line does not even vaguely resemble whatever BS that I am going through BUT the humor gives me enough of a pick-me-up to shrug it off and carry on. The episode with the "chicken" on the bus gets me crying like a baby EVERY TIME. Sort of deja vu - still have night-mares about my lived version of that episode 40 years after it happened... Life is SO FRAGILE yet the human race survives - somehow. Another movie collection I think is very close to the bone of reality is the "John Rambo" collection. Shows just how little veterans are taken care of IN ANY COUNTRY after the fact and how they are persecuted by the cowards who made sure that they did not serve - its DISGUSTING ! ! !

LIL FEATS there is a Fat Man inhis own blood bath with his own mafia blues...Ask Tracy Ullman what to do whats to be done about the cold war and Big City Blues

"...Dated, and sometimes a bit insensitive...." No more insensitive than New York City Mayor Eric Adams, just yesterday saying that illegal Mexicans are good swimmers, and should be lifeguards.

"Yankee Doodle Doctor."

There are no important episodes of MASH. It's a TV show for heaven's sake

I think its "intended audience" is any generation that lives in a world where war is actively happening. Which is frankly all of us, ever. The combatants change, the venue and the weapons change, but what always remains true is that a lot of people suffer and die for the goals and orders of a few who never have to dirty their own hands.

Enjoyed your video and commentary. Realize as well that MASH was intended as a commentary on the Vietnam War as much as anything. IMHO, that was the show's biggest gamble and strength.

I agree with you, BJ and Potter coming in was basically a teenager becoming an adult.

It’s hard for me to narrow down one favorite episode but I think it would be the one where Hawkeye has to give a eulogy for a nurse he was dating. In the episode Hawkeye comes into the Swamp lamenting on this nurse he was seeing and the night they had together. The next morning at breakfast he learns that she had stepped on a land mine and died. Father Mulkahey is asked by Colonel Potter to give a eulogy and by his own admission he hardly knew her so he opted for a standard eulogy. Hawkeye upon hearing this visits Mulkahey and tells him that he would like to do the eulogy. After going around the camp he finds out that no one really knew her. The nurses thought she was cold and distant and told him that she once gotten a big box of fudge from home only to give out a little bit of it to the nurses. It wasn’t until Mukahey presented Hawkeye with her diary that he began to see her for who she was. When the day of her eulogy came Hawk addressed the fudge incident telling them she gave the rest of it to the wounded and that she may have came off as cold and distant but in reality she was in awe of them. The episode ends with Hawkeye telling them to take a page from her diary and say what you really mean. He goes around the room and tells everyone exactly what they mean to him and finishes by saying “I love you all. I just didn’t know how to say it.” It was one of the ones that stood out for me because I had lost a lot of people in my life that I never got a chance to tell them that I loved them. Truly a beautiful episode.

I thought it was going to be about the death of Henry Blake.

I believe MASH was a way to comment on the Vietnam War indirectly as well.

Thanks for the video essay ♥️♥️♥️

I've gotta ask, is mash worth watching post-trapper? I can't begin to express how furious the Season 4 premiere made me and it's forced me to consider dropping the show after the first 3 Seasons

I finished rewatching this episode a few hours ago, genuinely one of the funniest, yet realest episodes yet, I loved hawk's monologue at the end of the film, when you think about it, the film they made is a brilliant way of expressing how they use humor to circumvent despair or insanity.

I'm a millennial, but I grew up on M.A.S.H reruns. My mom loved the show. I'm very thankful she did.

My dad was a Korean War vet, US Navy, and this was his favorite show. He would howl at most of it. He never talked about his time over there, but he did love this show.

I watched the show with my Mom. One of her favorites and soon became one of mine.

I liked MASH as a comedy. Yes, war is not funny. I'm a veteran. My brother was a medic in Viet Nam. My dad was a medic in WW2. Dad loved the show. But, I didn't see MASH as a war comedy. To me it was a comedy about a couple of officers in a MASH unit who used humor to get through it. And when they recognized some of the idiocy that can be typical in a military unit, and just about every unit has some idiocy in it, they acted on it. They never did treat the war as part of the comedy in the show. But over time, MASH quit being the comedy I just described and became a war drama. A war drama that lasted 3 times longer than the actual war. I stopped watching it when it no longer was a comedy.

I appreciate the deeper-thought premise of this summary on M*A*S*H*. At the end of a day, all commercial media are profit-sensitive. Calling it a “cash grab” trivializes the dynamic of commercial media…

Don't forget spear chukker from season 1

I never liked the early seasons... too goofy.

I remember watching this and the movie on tv. I went and bought both on dvd. The movie several years ago and have the digital copy. The complete series a couple of months ago. I have watched the series on one of the streaming platforms.

M*A*S*H* was my dad's favorite show. I watched every episode growing up. Turned out, my high school history teacher was the original (the guy who wrote the book) Hawkeye's daughter. She had a lot of interesting stories to tell about all things M*A*S*H*. M*A*S*H* was based on his experiences as a surgeon during the Korean War (he was Hawkeye). Her dad paid for her college education from the royalties he received from the show. "Crabapple Cove" is actually Bear's Cove in Maine. Her dad liked the movie but hated the TV show. His pen name, "Hooker" was because he had a terrible hook in his golf swing. The only character in the TV show he liked was the only one who was never a character in his book...Klinger.

That is very true how the us military medical units are going through at anytime they will always good through every thing to break up between the medical tents and normal things they will do movies and other parties as well

A few years ago on an interview, Loretta (A.k.a-Hot Lips) said that she still received fan letters from people of every age; including kids that became fans of the show. She was surprised and happy to know that they still had many generations of people enjoying the show. I still enjoy watching it. Even in the serious times that happened throughout the episodes.

11 years unheard of? Cheers, Friends, Big Bang Theory, Law & Order... etc. And let us not forget 20 years of NCIS.

The show lasted longer than the war did

Mash is a masterpiece.

TV and movie producers/networks....etc COULD make great movies and tv like MASH but they won't. Instead they go for the cheaply made crap like reality tv shows with drug addics, hucksters and whores. I gave up on TV years ago and now mostly watch UA-cam videos when I am sitting around the living room. I rarely turn on the TV. And thankfully I do not have cable or satellite.

See what happens when they take out the PC …. Shows become entertaining again. 🙂

I was a military contract aircrew. For sure raised up on MASH. And that program set the tone for me career flying overseas for various Military Air Commands and military aviation groups as civilian support. I truthfully went out of me way to offer up the Hawkeye Pierce mode of operation everywhere I was stationed. Definitely unorthodox. There's plenty of pentagon "Lite birds" who demanded I be removed and replaced. And their complaint fell on ears more interested in making and banking profits than anything I often said and am quite likely guilty of doing. The show was me operation procedural manual for thirty years of civilian air transport service world wide. I'm sure there are still some Lite birds still alive who have nightmares and stories for the grand kids about a crazy pilot that always did things his own way.😅

each day we're gettin older

No no no happiest days are when winning

First three seasons were the best and was never made to be a generic cash grab. After season three the quality dropped dramatically. But Yankee Doodle Doctor was an awesome episode in every way. They should have kept the irreverent humor but still kept up the hard look at war. They could have done it as the movie clearly did.

I find this 4 yrs later actively looking for smth like this, king had no idea what he made.

Such a good show.