I decided to watch alot of tv during the next couple of months with Thanksgiving and Christmas break. I've never really watched MASH but I watched a couple of episodes and actually found it very funny. Can anyone suggest one of the better seasons to rent from Blockbuster? Thank you.
Best seasons of MASH?
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I would go for season 2 and 3. Skip season 1 and the later seasons where they got all moralistic and less funny.
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also consider starting with the movie. It helps fill in some gaps, although it is a pretty dark and melancholy film.
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The movie was awesome...plus, find a current movie where they could get away with calling someone "Spear Chucker"
I don't know how to describe it except to say that they show seemed less coherent than it was in the 2-4 seasons. I agree that it got preachy in later seasons. Although I still like the whole series. I think by the later seasons it was more of a family show that you watched because you cared about the characters, but from a pure fun point of view, the first seasons were better.
JulesMaximus
No Lifer
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The movie > *
After Trapper left the series it became preachy and pretty much sucked. I can still watch the old ones though and get a good laugh out of them.
GagHalfrunt
Lifer
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MASH always ruled man.
Its revolutionary. Its a shame we don't have talent like Altman anymore.
Shows have become so watered down and one dimensional - pretty much CSI - etc. etc. no one really looks at the real issues anymore.
R.I.P. Robert Altman
Fuk 24, yea I said it.
Its revolutionary. Its a shame we don't have talent like Altman anymore.
Shows have become so watered down and one dimensional - pretty much CSI - etc. etc. no one really looks at the real issues anymore.
R.I.P. Robert Altman
Fuk 24, yea I said it.
Yup. A lot of people don't seem to like the transition from the Blake/Burns era to the Potter/Winchester days, but I actually think the shows from about 1975-1978 saw the show at its height and included a mix of casts from both eras. Once Radar left was when it stopped focusing on being a sitcom.
I actually liked them both. Frank was great and you couldn't help but like him. But Winchester could at least give as good as he got sometimes. It got old sometimes watching Frank getting endlessly beat up on.
Did anyone see the original movie?
LOL
Its hilarious, the later parts of the series with the controversial stuff was closest to the original content.
LOL
Its hilarious, the later parts of the series with the controversial stuff was closest to the original content.
waggy
No Lifer
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yeap.
I have always loved the show. but it was not just the same once Radar left the show.
though i didn't mind Potter/winchester. it was good to have someone that was the opposite of the others.
MASH is still one of my favorite shows to watch (even though i am only 32!)
Through early morning fog I see
visions of the things to be
the pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see...
That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
I try to find a way to make
all our little joys relate
without that ever-present hate
but now I know that it's too late, and...
The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
so this is all I have to say.
The only way to win is cheat
And lay it down before I'm beat
and to another give my seat
for that's the only painless feat.
The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger, watch it grin, but...
A brave man once requested me
to answer questions that are key
"is it to be or not to be?"
and I replied "oh why ask me?"
'Cause suicide is painless
it brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
...and you can do the same thing if you choose.
Yea only watch seasons 1-4
/sarcasm
visions of the things to be
the pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see...
That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
I try to find a way to make
all our little joys relate
without that ever-present hate
but now I know that it's too late, and...
The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
so this is all I have to say.
The only way to win is cheat
And lay it down before I'm beat
and to another give my seat
for that's the only painless feat.
The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger, watch it grin, but...
A brave man once requested me
to answer questions that are key
"is it to be or not to be?"
and I replied "oh why ask me?"
'Cause suicide is painless
it brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
...and you can do the same thing if you choose.
Yea only watch seasons 1-4
/sarcasm
Originally posted by: Queasy
Heh, I got you beat by a year. I'm 31.
My favorite Potter moment was when he put down his Jeep like he would a horse. :laugh:
:thumbsdown:
The best Winchester episode was when Hawkeye and Honeycut were secretly switching out his pants for various sizes to make him think he was losing weight, and then gaining weight. They played him like a fiddle.
Seasons 1-4 are the funniest (four is probably the funniest because Frank goes batsh!t insane) and the rest of the episodes are just really good.
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