He was wisecracking, quick-witted, above average in intelligence, soft-hearted, a helluva surgeon, and had his own freaking still! Heh, I would've spent whatever free time I had fooling around with Hawkeye up there right on his high horse.
What you wrote that i made bold is why the show was important and why i didn't watch till summer rereuns. When it first came on the air while the tide of support for the Viet conflict was dwindling it continued for a while.
Yeah i was not going to answer that because Klinger had his own place in the story and some of our hearts long before Radar went home. If i remember right at one point Potter has to essentially tell Max 'Don't try to be Radar. You do you, make your own mark.'
I tend to agree, nothing funny about war and death. MASH was not as bad as say Hogan Heroes.
Hogan's Heroes always rubbed me the wrong way. Some trivia I learned on MeTV really surprized me.
One of those you don't know till you are there things. I am not Jewish, or an actor, but don't think I'd want to play a Nazi either, just don't want to go there.
Tough one, I liked both the originals and the new characters. I liked both Col. Blake and Col. Potter, but Col. Potter seemed more realistic to me, me being an Army veteran. I did not like Major Burns, not even for short moments. Maj. Winchester was alien to me(East coast upper crust snob) but at least he had a heart, and some scruples. Cpl. O'Reilly was the quintessential Army orderly room clerk, who was actually the unofficial company commander.
I knew one guy when I was in the Army that was like Klinger...he didn't cross-dress but he was a draftee that was trying his damndest to get out of the Army. He always said he wouldn't mind staying in if he could get transferred to Schenectady Army Depot. I always thought he made that up, but there really was a Schenectady Army Depot...
Me too!He was wisecracking, quick-witted, above average in intelligence, soft-hearted, a helluva surgeon, and had his own freaking still! Heh, I would've spent whatever free time I had fooling around with Hawkeye up there right on his high horse.
An actor is acclaimed if they play the part with believability That is why they exist you know.
Sometimes called gallows humor and it is a coping mechanism. No one can internalize all the suffering. They'd go insane.
They all look familiar but a couple I can't name. Here's my guesses:
Trapper, Potter, Winchester, Klinger. By the way, Klinger did not replace O'Reilly. They were both on until the show ended.
Korea was a U.N. war and since we were members of the U.N., we served along with all the other nations. This was in no way Vietnam and we certainly had no business bringing down the House of Diem. Different politics altogether at play in that disaster.
The film depicts a unit of medical personnel stationed at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. It stars Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, and Elliott Gould, with Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, René Auberjonois, Gary Burghoff, Roger Bowen, Michael Murphy, and in his film debut, professional football player Fred Williamson. Although the Korean War is the film's storyline setting, the subtext is the Vietnam War – a current event at the time the film was made.
