Couple things here. #1, Hawkeye got to say goodbye to BJ, something he didn't get to do with Trapper. #2, it never hit me until now. This aired on February 28, 1983. A few months later I graduated high school. This show ending marked the unofficial ending of my childhood. The official ending was a few months later. Funny how things turn out.
the character potter could have take the horse home...all he had to do was pay for quarantine of the horse for six months...would have been better for the horse not have to worry about being dinner....
Technically, this was NOT the last new episode of M*A*S*H. That would come a few months later when CBS actually promoted "An all-new M*A*S*H" that was an episode on Marylin Monroe that was the last actual new episode to air (held over from before this aired). I remember watching this both the first time it aired and when it was re-aired several months later that September. "Goodbye, Farewell, Amen" in the eyes of many also has the record for the most watched prime-time TV wedding of all time as Klinger got married in the episode (setting things up for the "AfterM*A*S*H" spinoff that lasted 1 1/2 seasons). While that may technically be true, the record is STILL for prime time Joe marrying Rhoda on "Rhoda" in 1974 (overall it would still be the daytime wedding of Luke and Laura on "General Hospital" in 1981).
@@greywakez Probably not. Most times, morons who post things like "woke", "Trumpster", "libtard", or "conservaturd" can't articulate in a coherent way, they're keyboard warriors.
I was at the young age of nine, well, almost 9, when this show ended. Even at 49, hearing that helicopter takeoff for the last time in the last few notes of the theme song make a big lump in my throat. Since I found the show, I have always liked the sound of a bell 47 helicopters. It always meant it was time for mash when I would hear that.
Im 35 years old so i never watched mash growing up......i saw it for the first time a couple months ago and since have probably watched a couple seasons...great show im glad i took the time and gave it a shot
Social media and the ubiquity of cell phones and texting has destroyed the poignancy of goodbyes. I am not one of those toxic nostalgics who hates everything today, but it is kinda sad how we feel like loved ones are “always” available because we can see them on Facebook every day. This was very possibly the last time these two would see each other. Or even speak. And it resonates in the goodbye. But today it seems like technology makes it easier to take loved ones for granted. And that goodbyes don’t have that impact as much anymore. While social media and cell phones keep friendships alive much longer and easier. Just a different kind of goodbye I guess.
I cry my eyes out every time I see this scene.. Bj looks like my dad and he reminds of him so much.. He has been gone 30+ years so its like seeing him still
This was one of the greats. Still watching to this day. You know, with all the shows on that we follow and like , some end some get cancelled. You rarely get to see a final episode. There have been some great cancelled shows that deserve a final episode.
