The Most Important Episode of MASH 

My father was in a medical unit something like a MASH in WWII. He entered the Dachau camp the day after liberation and later went to Mauthausen. This was one of only two eppisodes of MASH (the other being a newsreel format of interviews) that my father didn't despise; he never saw comedy in war.

The Christmas episode where they were trying to keep a dying soldier alive long enough enough to save his children from seeing Christmas as the day they lost their father was heartbreaking.

The episodes with Sidney were some of the best

this is one of the very few shows that can genuinely make someone laugh and cry several times in just one episode.

I would argue that, while the "Yankee Doodle Doctor" bit Hawkeye is doing throughout the movie is Him at his usual self, the final scene of that "Documentary" is the real Hawkeye. Looking dead at the camera and making it clear that war is no place for human beings to be. He says this best in an operating room conversation between himself and Father Mulcahy: "Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye? Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell? Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe. Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander." Season 5 Episode 20 Hawkeye has no love for war, and would sooner see every one of them home and safe than anywhere near a battlefield. But, this is what the show would eventually turn to. It was an "Anti-War" War sitcom.

Wonderful video, M*A*S*H really is something special. The scene of Col. Potter toasting his old friends, who have all died, wearing his Great War uniform and then toasting to the doctors, nurses and staff of 407 is a scene that has always made me have to take it slow, I'm welled with emotion. Some of the finest characters ever writen, and some of the greatest TV put to the screen.

M*A*S*H takes on a new meaning when you've served. I did 20 years in the US Air Force, retired earlier this year. Deployed three times, and took my M*A*S*H DVDs with me every time. You see some of everybody in the show, in reality. The people who are great at their jobs (Hawkeye/Trapper/BJ/Winchester/everybody but Frank), the people who are super gung ho, but will still do right by their people (later seasons Margaret), the officers who think their shit don't stink (Frank, early Margaret), the young kids forced to grow up really fast (Radar), the malcontents (Hawkeye/Trapper/Klinger. I may have fallen in here, I could be something of a smartass) the arrogant guys who could back it up (Winchester), and who couldn't back it up (Frank) the family men, who are away from those they love most (BJ). I've seen people crap on BJ because "He's always whining about his wife and kid". You try missing your newborn child's life, time you will NEVER get back, and see how well you deal with it. People forget that military service members are some of the most anti-war people you'll meet. We serve our country, because we love our home, for some of us it's a calling. But while the anti-war protestor will go home that night, put their sign down, post online about how they stuck it to whoever, and sleep in a warm, soft bed, the soldier half a world away might be sleeping on the ground, worried that some damn fool will try to kill him, and that he may never see his home again. Trust me, he's not pro-war, at that point, and he wants to go the hell HOME! All three of my deployments were support roles, I was never in combat, never even close to combat. But when you come home after 4 months, or 6 months overseas, for a while you feel like the world just moved on and left you behind. You have to relearn your normal routines. So, in a lot of the later episodes, you can see yourself, or some of the guys you knew in guest characters, or you can at least understand some characters, even if you've never experienced their trauma firsthand. Like the season 8 episode, when Edward Herrman guest starred as a surgeon who just broke in the OR, after a bad push sent them a huge load of wounded. He just walked out, and Hawkeye and BJ had to pick up slack, since Winchester and Col Potter were down with mumps. Sometimes, a guy just finally can't take anymore, and he breaks. The show really nailed the boredom of deployments. The down time when NOTHING is happening, and you have to fill the hours with anything, like when Frank was so bored he arranged all the condiments on the mess tent tables by height and popularity, and then made sure they were perfectly aligned. No point in that except something to do. And how the people there could hate the war, hate the place they're in, hate the situation, but still love the people they're with. Guys from a deployment you'll probably never see again, but you'll never forget them, either. M*A*S*H worked, because it was real, at its core. And I've said this for many years, even when I was still active duty, I learned more about how to be a leader from Captain Picard and Colonel Potter than the Air Force ever taught me.

The episode where Col Blake got sent home… gets me every time.👏

The fact that this show is still shown, and still loved, says volumes about its quality.

I remember watching this episode as a kid. My father had been a lab tech in a mobile army unit in WWII. After watching that scene, he got up and started out the back door. Mom asked him where he was going. He replied, "I need to take a walk." It wasn't until he was in his 80s that he gave any indication how much his military time messed with his head.

Well said. For me, MASH was something I first saw as a very young girl in the late seventies, I was 5 or 6. It was one of my dad's favorite shows and I was allowed to stay up late to watch it with him. I laughed when he did but never understood what I was laughing at. Later when I had grown up, I watched it again and understood everything. The commentaries on racism, sexism, war, sexuality.. My father passed away in 2013. When I rewatch MASH now, I feel close to my dad. So yeah, MASH is quite special to me x

I remember watching MASH growing up in the 70’s and reruns in the 80’s. They were like part of the family. We had fewer choices on TV back then but this will stand the test of time. A true classic!

The mash episode that affected me the most, and made my bullet proof, armor plated, indestructible, 23-year- young butt cry like a little girl with a skinned knee was when Henry got his papers to go home.

I agree. I'm of the opinion that the later episodes, which you correctly observed were more commentary than comedy, may not have been as effective as this type of episode. Another episode in one of the early seasons that has a "gut punch" line is where Radar comes up to Hawkeye and Trapper and tells them that one of Trapper's patients have taken a turn for the worse. Trapper runs off to the hospital and Hawkeye sarcastically comments "Nice little war we have here" and Radar, as he's walking away responds "I could do without it".

You'd be laughing like crazy one moment and then they would rip your heart out the next. M.A.S.H. will forever be relevant. It is timeless. The subject matter---WAR---is serious business but M.A.S.H. put a lot of humor in it. Very good actors at their prime and top-notch writers at their best, too.

I think it’s a few episodes after this one called “sometimes you hear the bullet” and to me that’s one of the best episodes that walks the line of comedy and seriousness that the show got so good at. Hawkeye has to end up operating on his childhood friend but still can’t save his life. At the end Hawkeye is in tears over his friend, but also because he doesn’t understand why he his crying for his friend when he has had so many other patients die on his table. It’s a really moving scene

The MASH movie and TV series was a large part of my childhood experience. The show was very good.

Growing up in the 70's in a violent home. MASH helped me to laugh in the worst of circumstances.

If I remember correctly the General loved the movie. He wanted to use the last bit to send home, but the first bit he wanted destroyed save for one copy for himself.

I was an Army Nurse. 22 years of service. the show was accurate . Some people dont like the last episode. Me. I completely disagree. there is only so much death and horror a mind can handle.

The episode where they are all suffering from nightmares still makes me cry at points. Especially Charles' and Hawkeye's nightmares. Such powerful statements. Prime time has never been so honest with us.

Actually, I think there are *two* really important episodes of MASH One is the episode "Follies of the Living-Concerns of the Dead" where the soldier has already died on arrival and we see the episode from his point of view as a ghost as he walks around trying to find help until the final moments where he meets a another ghost before the camera pans and shows dead from all nations in the war walking off to the great beyond. The second is "Death Takes A Holiday" where a soldier is dying but Hawkeye, BJ and Margaret all try to keep him going until after midnight for the sake of his family. They don't make it but Hawkeye walks over to the clock, changes the time and says he made it. Very quietly and softly, Margaret says "Falsify a record - that'll be a first for me" and its almost inaudible if you don't have the sound turned up... You can tell the character was utterly shaken and broken They really don't write them like they used to

I remember in 1979 the very first year of college we would go to like a dinner and race home back to the dorms to watch MASH it was and still is one of my favorite shows

When I was younger around 8 or 10 or so. My mother recently got Hulu. Along with some other streaming services in exchange for cable curtesy of our new dad. And she found out mash was on there. She tells me that she herself would sneak to watch it while her parents fell asleep. She used to watch it with me and not knowing a whole lot about anything at that age, I still felt comfort by how the voices sound and Alan Alda’s smile. I find myself watching more nowadays when I am feeling sad or need something playing something recognizable to sleep or to get the tinnitus out of my head. My favourite episodes were the ones where things get real quite, very few laughs, and it’s just people in Korea trying to do and be and live the best they can. I remember a single episode. Where Hawkeye crashes a jeep near a homestead with a family on it, and he suffers from some head trauma as he starts bleeding and it remains on his face throughout the episode. Not a single person who speaks English is present aside from Alan Alda’s B. F. “Hawkeye” Pierce and the only other people there is the Korean family who doesn’t speak English. And it’s calming to listen to him try his best to explain the war in his own jaunty and juxtaposed and interesting way of explaining it. If the one you showed was the most important one, then I think the one i’m talking about might be a close second. I mean, not just anyone can do an episode with just a one sided discussion like this about any subject or coming from just anyone, especially on a show that routinely doesn’t do that and instead lets people play off one another. It’s like if speeches were less boring. Anyways just a sharing of my two cents and stories.

Perhaps not the most important episode, but it stuck with me through the decades. In "Sometimes You Hear The Bullet", an old friend of Hawkeye's is shot and dies on the table. Henry tries to console him and says: "All I know is there are certain rules about a war. Rule number one is: young men die. And rule number two is: doctors can't change rule number one." It is profound in its simplicity.

I saw the premiere episode in '72 at 7yrs old and watched pt2 of the last episode on the night before I reported to active duty at Ft Benning via Ft Jackson for in-processing at 17yrs old . I've seen every episode more than 10x and still love to watch M.A.S.H.

My favorite TV show of all time. Grew up with it in the '70's, watched the finale in 1983 in my college dorm, and love watching the reruns to this day. Just the best!

Getting into MASH (the Series) over the last year, I have noticed that who ever was in charge of the audience laugh track should've received an award as it's not played during serious moments, even if there's a bit of humor written in (I've noticed it most during surgeries/operating times). Such a great show that still plays well today.

If you are going to start watching this series I recommend getting the DVDs where you are given a choice in the audio selection of the dialogue without the laugh track. Once you go no laugh track, you can never go back. Makes the show so much better.

I grew up watching this show cause my dad bought the whole series in dvd. Now it’s on Hulu and my brother watches it on repeat as his primary source of background noise. He’s probably watched it over 10 times since the beginning of COVID. Even my wife knows plenty of references from how often it’s been playing in the background from the time we’ve spent with him. This is a show that I think can transcend generations indefinitely if maintained for the people who love it. And it’s our job to share it with others who haven’t.

While military police, I was attached to a medical unit; force protection and administrative medical paperwork. Their 'pajama party' was tops. In appreciation for my duties, the unit gave me a set of military scrubs; those scrubs meant more than a medal. Blessings to the Medical Corps.

As a young man I would watch this show every night before I went to bed. I love every episode. Sadly, I think the reason it ran so many seasons is that it wasn't diluted like today's television. In my younger years there were very few channels to choose from. Today there are literally hundreds. Even still I watch these old episodes with a sense of nostalgia.

I met the author Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. in the early 90's for lunch at the Branding Iron restaurant in Winthrop Maine. At the time he was pretty much retired from his practice of thoracic surgery. He was fascinating to talk too, sitting in the booth, smoking cigarettes with another of his surgeon friends and my buddy John H. ( he and I were not smoking) Before the lunch JH told me not to mention MASH as he was bitter about the fact that he sold the rights to the book that eventually made millions from the movie and TV show. On display at Thayer hospital in Waterville Maine is his surgical smock. He did surgery there and at the Togus VA hospital. A graduate of Bowdoin College and Cornell University Medical School, he did a lot of good in his life and should be celebrated.

Nice video… Mash is special. I heard Alan Alda in an interview saying one of the turning points was season one episode 17 sometimes you hear the bullet. The show evolved from sort of a slapstick comedy to thought-provoking masterpiece. The script writing and character development was phenomenal. Even as they replaced characters the show continue to grow. I always thought the arrival of major Winchester took the show to the next level. His character was more believable than major burns. And the script, writers, ingeniously, had him both an adversary, and sometimes friend to Hawkeye and BJ. I always thought the spin off should’ve been an hour, long drama centered around major Winchester, when he went back to Boston after experience in Korea. This type of spin off was done successfully with Lou Grant from the Mary Tyler Moore show. By the way the episode, sometimes you hear the bullet has a pre-Richie Cunningham, Ron Howard appearing.

There are more episodes of MASH that make me cry than anything else in life...I find myself so fortunate to be born in the time I was. How terrifically horrible life was during the Korean War. Nothing does it justice better than this show.

‘Hawkeye’ & ‘Trapper’ weren’t titular characters, but rather lead characters. And ‘M*A*S*H’ (the show even more than the film) was more of thumb in the eye or satire of the war in Vietnam than the Korean War it used as a set piece. At least in the eyes of the movie’s director (Roger Altman) and the cast & crew of the show. All in all this is a great video, about maybe the greatest military ‘themed’ TV show in history. Certainly one of the most important. Well done!

Fantastic series. Never tire of watching episodes.

Excellent perception and observation. One of the best sitcoms ever.

I love MASH, maybe even more than Star Trek. Well, not really. But one of my favorite episodes was Sometimes You Hear the Bullet, where Hawkeyes best friend dies on the table because he just cant save him. Great episode!

One of the best epeisodes was the one where they have the timer on the clock on screen to save one patient with another patient who was clearly not going to make it, the episode shows that and the other timer to save another patient during the same time. Showing how quick the jobs need to be done in, about 1/2 the time a regular hospital does things if I quote Sherman Potter in his first season on the show.

MASH portrayed the worst and best of humanity with enough humor thrown in that we didn't lose our sanity over the ugliness that humanity can really be. I grew up with MASH from its beginning, waiting anxiously for each new episode and happy to watch reruns when they started up. I love MASH. Best show ever.

Many MASH episodes were a divine mixture of laughter & tears, all in the same 1/2 hour.

Every year, my family watches “Boxing Day” and “Death takes a Holiday.” They’re among my favourite episodes, and Christmas wouldn’t feel right without them.

MASH is one of the few TV shows that I can rewatch over and over again... even though know how the episode ends it's just damn good storytelling and keeping the viewer engaged.

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There were some episodes displaying classic military memes...such as "Adam's Ribs", depicting the underground economy in the Services. I've always craved BBQ so badly after watching that one! And IMO Trapper and Hawkeye were the original masters of trolling - who could blame them, with a roommate like Frank. Good Times, Good Times...

Thanks for that. I think MASH is the best tv show ever. Sense of humor is amazing and balance between drama and fun is perfect. There are so much scene that make us to rethink some stuff, think deeper about it and main character's attitude, sense of responsibility, solidarity and brotherhood, even if they make fun of each other or are angry and don't like someone, it's exemplary. For example, they don't like Frank at all, for good reasons, but when he was depressed after Margaret's engagement, they stood up for him.

I loved watching MASH every week in the 1970's.

I’m fortunate enough to have been in the time frame where they were still airing the seasons. New shows, character arcs, character changes, the death of some characters, divorces, infidelity , the show took on a life of its own. Some of the biggest plot twists in a tv show happened on mash. The last episode was so popular, we had the tv guide page ripped out at magneted to the refrigerator so we would not miss it.

A M*A*S*H video essay was not what I expected to see on my for you page today, but it is *very* welcome. A well done video, my good sir!

Great commentary. It's refreshing to hear someone your age who is articulate and does not mumble. Thanks for the posting.

MASH will always be evergreen so long as nations go to war for what they think are the "right" reasons. Doesn't matter the issues and politics involved, MASH taught us better. As Henry Blake once said, "There are certain rules about a war, and Rule Number One is young men die, and Rule Number Two is, doctors can't change Rule Number One."

I remember on the final episode the power went out in my area. The network ended up playing the episode again the next day.

Was a great series, thought it ran 12 years... I remember them saying it ran three times longer than the actual war after it ended. Got pretty heavy with Pierce's mental issues... a mother trying to keep her crying baby on a bus from giving their position away. He said it went to sleep... remembering later that she'd strangled it while he cried. It was a brilliant show.

The first four seasons with Larry Gelbart at the helm as head producer and writer is the Golden Age of the show, in my opinion. I wish they had kept Rogers and Stevenson longer.

The bottom line of MASH was do whatever you want to do, but when its time to go to work, you're 100% locked in.

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.

‘Sometimes you hear the bullet’ is a great episode.

M.A.S.H. did indeed address many moral issues that concerned war and the military. The show was also condemned by some as being too liberal or "commie friendly." Not nearly as much as it would be today, though. You might want to look into the sitcom Barney Miller. I believe it is the best example of serious social issues that were broached and defined in 70s sitcoms. Even now, nearly 48 years after the show began, many of the issues brought up are still extremely relevant.

I've seen every single episode of MASH at least twice in my lifetime and would watch them all again. It's true that the series started out as a comedic tale but over the seasons it became much more. It became a series that didn't mind pointing out the cruelty, ignorance, and glory of war. Unfortunately as a veteran i understand that from time to time it becomes necessary to go to arms to defend those who can't always defend themselves even though you know what the cost will be in doing so. My one fantasy has always been that those that make the decision to go to war and send men and women into battle had to go with them and face the same dangers as the soldiers they are sending in. If that were the case i'd bet there would be a lot more negotiation and effective peace talks before any gunfire was started. What a wonderful world that could be.

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.

While I understood the need for the powers that be to "stretch" their talents and to do more "important" episodes, I always found myself enjoying the first 3 seasons the most, with Henry, Trapper, Frank, etc. I know it was more lighthearted screwball comedy then, but I just thought the cast was better. For me, the "Capt Tuttle" episode had me almost crying with laughter the first time I saw it. That was my favorite episode. Maybe not important, but hilarious.

As a firm Treckie, and a devout Whovian... I can say with all honesty and earnest, Alan Alda will always be my Doctor.

Really good work, keep it up!

As a 10 year old, I distinctly recall watching the first episode and instantly loving the show. It was a time of the young and against 'the Establishment' and M*A*S*H portrayed that so well for me. From the original movie to Catch-22 to Kelly's Heroes and many others, it was a poke in the eye against being told what to do, something that appealed to this soon to be teenager. As the show altered course with the changing times and cast, I'll admit it appealed to me a bit less, though I still watched every episode without fail. I had favourites and there were characters I could have done without. But so many memorable moments and episodes of all of them more than made up for what I saw at the time. I never liked the Winchester character (though I gained an admiring appreciation for David Ogden Stiers later on), yet the Christmas episode where he and Klinger grow a huge respect for each other still speaks to me as among the best. I never knew how much I like Frank Burns until after Larry Linville was gone and I really missed his own level of the same lovable insanity carried by Hawkeye and Trapper. The recurring characters that came in and out on occasion were always highlights, Sidney and Colonel Flagg as two great examples. The transformation and growth of Margaret Houlihan was both wonderful and disappointing. I missed how offended she would get, yet equally loved how she could be portrayed as cold by rank and by being a woman fighting for respect in a male dominated world, yet she could be emotionally human in the same episode. I appreciated how the nurses lost the role of being objects of amorous attention and got the respect they deserved for the job they did. Colonel Potter was no Henry Blake, Max Klinger was no Radar O'Reilly, BJ was no Trapper John, and Winchester was no Burns. Yet each was their unique self and a lesson that I should take each person I meet on their own merits. As a 21 year old, and changed just as much as M*A*S*H had in those intervening years, I watched with rapt attention to the final episode. It was upsetting to see Hawkeye suffering as he had been. It was emotionally tearful watching everyone saying goodbye in much the same way as it had been for me on the final day of high school. It was the end of an era and, in a way, a goodbye to what remained of my own childhood. In irreverent and disrespectful comedy, in the stages of life where friends and acquaintances leave our personal path, in the serious moments where we have to face our own emotions and demons, M*A*S*H transcended from a goofy TV comedy sitcom and echoed the paths of our own lives. I watched the characters grow and flourish as I was also doing, set for new adventures and growth after the show ended and we all had to find our own place in the world. In so many ways M*A*S*H was a reflection of myself and I am all the richer for having seen it all.

I could never imagine the trauma that the medics at battaliom aid stations would be subject to in Korea.

When the opening music played, i got shocked and tears just ran out. I've heard that music after 30 years. How quickly life goes by.

My family is 3 generations deep into being fans of this amazing show.

Excellent job on your commentary--MASH was 1 of a kind,I applaud you for breaking it down with the reverence it deserves.

Just recently started watching a few MASH episodes, still excellent. MCU fan, tough times.

This show was such a huge part of my childhood, I now make mash videos on tiktok lol 😆 best show ever

M*A*S*H - sheer genius. Remains in my top (probably) 5 favourite US sitcoms. I can't think of a series that could mix comedy and some very dark real world subjects in such a way. The version without the laugh-track - in the UK, I think - gave the whole thing a different tone. Decades ahead of it's time.

Mesh was filmed at Malibu State Park I've actually seen the site where it was filmed when it was still some of this outstanding

50 years on, and it is still running repeats.

The show also shows Disfunctional things and how to work around it. Also Dark hummors .Keep doing your best for others and hope for better.

Charles is probably my favorite character of the series, which is ironic as I definitely prefer the first three seasons before the character ever arrived. I wish he had a chance to interact with Henry Blake and Trapper.

Fantastic video, I'm glad someone is talkign about this amazing show

I am old enough to have been a teen when MASH first aired. It became one of the very few television shows I made a point to watch. That was at a time when you had to sit down in front of a big box at a specific time on a specific day (and sit through the commercials) in order to watch something. MASH was one of the few shows worth the effort.

One of the great ensembles ever ensembled. Not only that, so many stars or future stars made appearances. A truly special show.

The first 3 years of the show with Henry and Trapper John were the best and must watch television. It was a very funny comedy that dealt with darker subjects. The remaining years the show became whiny and preachy which occasionally tried to be funny.

Even the main theme is haunting. They couldn't even air the lyrics with it.

Later, it turned into the Alan Alda me,me,me, look at me show!👀☹️

I watched the original movie and have watched every episode multiple times over the years and not many shows can even come close.

I was two years old when match premiered on TV and I grew up watching it as a kid on my black and white television set. To this day I still remember the final episode of MASH very well, it was not the tragedy of Hawkeye which touch my heart would rather the tragedy of Charles Emerson Winchester. The very real way he grieved for the loss of the North Korean musicians and his final speech about music being a reminder stays with me to this day. I still tear up every time I watch this episode, without fail. 😢

I normally shy away from anything with a commentary, but I liked this a lot. The fact it's about M*A*S*H meant I was half-way there already, but you did a very good job with it as well, The theme tune gives me Goosebumps every time, and I still have a crush on the leading Nurse at 2:02 . . . .

M*A*S*H is one of the best shows to have watched. I watched it early in the morning after The Munsters. This was in the mid 90s. I learned a lot from this show. The first three seasons where it was a comedy show and when it got darker in the later seasons. Best two episodes for me is "Blood Brothers" guest starring Patrick Swayze and "Billfold Syndrome."

Watched the first episode on TV in 72 and the last episode at the M*A*S*H party at a local bar in 83. (Standing room only.) And seen every episode in between at least 5 times over the years. M*A*S*H will never get old, even though I will/am.

I was so sure you'd be discussing Sometimes You Hear the Bullet, and was surprised to see Yankee Doodle Doctor. But you're absolutely right.

I remember this episode vividly. I was six years old when MASH premiered on TV. It was must-watch TV for my family growing up. My father served in both Korea and Vietnam, a total of 22 years in the Army and the Air Force. I was in high school when it finally left the small screen, and enlisted from college to do my own service. I come from a military family, and both my father and I believed MASH to be the best sitcom on television. It is still the best military show ever on television.

Nice presentation. I grew up watching MASH. (Hope you got an A)

A bit of Alan Alda trivia: he served in Korea as an artillery officer during the war. He had first hand experience.

That was beautifully done. I'm not sure how many times I've seen it all but I was there for the first run, as well. That final episode... wow.

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.

I’m 54 years old and l remember watching MASH growing up and to this day still love watching those episodes.

I always liked the MASH episodes with COL Flag

Terrific show! Terrific cast! Irreplaceable Alan Alda 💞...

Love the take brother. great show with all its ups and downs. Humor and reality what made this program gold. The characters were ones who would be able to change the future of television.

I am OBSESSED with Hawkeye.

I respectfully disagree. I think abyssinia Henry was really the most important one. It was also their most controversial

What a Chad this RU-vidr is