Favorite episode of MASH?

When Henry Blake was giving the sex education lecture. :rofl:

That was another classic.

And when the general asked for a copy of it, that was priceless!!!

and Hawkeye had his limbs turning fake and going down the river in the boat...great episode

...and so unlike anything seen on what was, theoretically, a "sitcom."

However, since the show was supposed to be humorous, I think my top episode would be the one with "Five O'Clock Charlie" -- the inept North Korean "bomber" pilot.

The one about Hawkeye's psychotic break. "She smothered her own baby". That was a heartbreaker.

I missed your post when I looked through this thread. I loved that episode too. :blush:

the pilot was very glib about what he was doing and Hawkeye brought him down to earth

Flagg rules!!

Flagg:Don't try making friends with me.

Who could forget Colonel Flagg? :rofl:

Colonel Flagg was the best!

:)

Blake- I think all of us that knew and loved Tuttle would like to pay tribute to this heroic man and I think it's only fitting that the man who knew him best, Captain Pierce deliver the eulogy

Burns- (To Houlihan) That's not true, I knew him best

Houlihan- Shh

Hawkeye- We can all be comforted by the thought that he's not really gone, there's a little Tuttle left in all of us, in fact you might say that all of us together made up Tuttle

Houlihan- I'll never forget him

Hawkeye- Our grief will pass, it's already hard to remember how Johnny talked, how he looked. His little laugh. Thankfully he's left behind a memorial. I've been informed by Radar that Captain Tuttles GI insurance names Sister Theresas orphanage as his soul beneficiary, how typical. We salute you Captain Tuttle. Humanitarian and healer. Goodluck doctor in that great big waiting room in the sky (They all salute)

Blake- He was the best damn OD we ever had

...was "borrowed" from a Soviet comic novel and film, Lieutenant Kijé.

When I see a rerun of that show, that one line always makes me laugh till my stomach huts, no matter how many times I've seen it.

right after Hawkeye says, "there's a little Tuttle left in all of us, in fact you might say that all of us together made up Tuttle."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049471/

"The Man Who Never Was" (1956)

Thanks for that movie link.

I haven't seen that show since the first run of the last episode, though. And my memory is terrible.

Favorite serious episode? Gosh. Maybe the one in which Mako, playing an anonymous North Korean soldier, captures Hawkeye while he's heading for some R&R, forcing Hawkeye to treat his fatally wounded friend. Ultimately he dies, but not before Hawkeye demonstrates that he's more interested in saving the man's like than his own. The sequence ends with Mako letting him go, but Hawkeye stays to help dig the man's grave. (but the "Dreams" episode is truly remarkable)

Favorite funny episode? I really like the one in which Frank pulls a series of practical jokes on Hawkeye, with neither saying anything about it to the other, until Hawk gets even at the end by collapsing the latrine before a crowd of onlookers while Frank is doing his business inside.

Great series. All complaints along the lines of "it ran longer than the war" really miss the point. At its peak it was better than anything before or since. At its worst, it was still damn good.

"You sent all the way to Chicago, and no coleslaw??"

"Forgive us. We're draftees."

"He's one of you."

Excellent!

for me to pick a favorite. I was going through the episode list here and "Adam's Ribs" jumped out at me. I used to have a ton of trivia about it written down, like the phone numbers at the rib place and Dearborn Station, the name of the clerk Hawkeye talked to at the station and the reporter's name (Cranston Lamont) he made up, Trapper's "three-night stand" (Mildred Feeney) whom he got to pick up the ribs, etc.

One is when they organize a poker game. Sidney Freedman is there, along with Capt. Sam Pak(played by Pat Morita). The game goes on all night long, while various things happen. Radar hits a local with a jeep - the famous Whiplash Wang. John Ritter pulls a gun on Frank Burns in the shower. Colonel Flagg shows up, too, because Frank told him that Hawkeye and Trapper operated on a CID man without another CID man present.

Another one is when Margaret realizes that she's given her life up to the Army. If she'd married the doctor who proposed to her years ago, she'd have a $45,000 house and two cars. (Or is that a $45,000 car and two houses? :) ) She tells Colonel Blake she wants a transfer, gets plastered, then Hawkeye and Trapper have to sober her up in the shower.

The last one is when the enemy cuts their supply lines, and they are forced to sleep in the same tent. Henry snores, Father Mulcahy's cross is jabbing Radar in the side, Frank and Margaret steal a ham, and they end up using nearly all of Henry's desk for firewood.

I've been watching the reruns in the evening, and boy do the last few seasons of this show suck. Not funny at all, very contorted story lines, really dreadful. Yuck. That show went way past its prime!

Frank Burns left, I'll concede that the early Winchester years were okay. But after Radar left, pee yoo!

...who happen to be wearing gorilla suits when he makes his approach.

"We'll do it--me and the Missus."

Then there was that one shot from the POV of the patient who couldn't talk, until the very end.

"There she is, Miss soon to be frigid".....

Then I knew I would not longer be subjected to it.

After many days of constant duty, all the MASHers were exhausted, and had strange dreams when they fell asleep.

Trapper (dressed like MacArthur):Count off
Radar (to Hawkeye): Are you one?
Hawkey: Yes, are you?