The MASH series that came out of this movie lasted like 5 times longer than the actual war.

M*A*S*H stands for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. FYI, Also the only actor that was both in the movie and T,V. series was Gary Burghoff who was Corporal Radar O'Reiley

Bless your innocence, not getting the spearchucker reference.

"..he could be on screen right now.." he's on screen right now.

"This is so funny... in a really morbid, messed up way." Yup, that sums up MASH pretty well.

The MASH TV show was my grandmother's favorite show. She was a nurse in WWII and the Korean War and worked in mobile hospitals like the one in MASH. She ended up getting released for medical reasons when a Korean soldiers invaded their camp and one of them came in their hospital tent and butted her in the spine with the back of his rifle. He turned his rifle and was going to bayonet her when a fellow nurse got her service revolver out in time and shot him. The crazy thing was they were trying to save the life of a Korean soldier at the time. She had so many stories to tell both from the wars and in civil life about helping save people's lives.

One thing that's nice to see apparently go over Ashleigh's head is the idea that Spearchucker could have gotten his nickname for anything other than his athletic ability.

Ironic how the overlapping dialogue was distracting to someone who talks over the dialogue.

The blond dude in glasses is Donald Sutherland. You'd love him in Kelly's Heroes.

"Did they know he was taking drugs?" They gave Ho-Jon the drugs so he would fail the physical.

M*A*S*H is a war protest movie. It was made at the beginning of the Vietnam War. They purposefully used Vietnamese motifs (the wok hats for example as well as the name Ho-Jon when Kim would be more accurate). It may be set during Korea, but it was more about Vietnam. That said, I can understand the 2 star rating. Being a veteran myself, I love the movie. It does capture a lot about the military life. Dark humor, have to jump to work so fast you can't even get your uniform on (like when they were operating in their golf clothes), even the ending where they get orders to go home (you make good friends in the military and when you get orders to go somewhere else you just drop everything and go). It hits different for me, but that is just how it is. Not a movie I want to watch all the time either, but I consider it a must watch.

More than a few decades ago, I was casevacced to a field hospital set up on an airfield. The 'ward' was in a large makeshift hangar, in the middle of which was a smaller tent setup which was the operating theatre, literally 10 metres away from my bed. A mysterious bug had taken hold in my foot, which within hours had swollen and was starting to die. I was given 24hrs to show signs of improvement or the only choice would be to surgically start removing bits of my foot. Had IV drips in both arms, one for fluids and antibiotics, the other with industrial strength painkillers which thankfully did the trick. About four or five days later i discharged myself, hobbled out, and hitched a lift back to my unit. Took more than 6 months to fully recover the feeling in my foot, after all the skin peeled off like a glove. During my stay however, a person was brought in having been shot with a large calibre round. I'll never forget seeing the surgeon's face as he walked out the back of the tent, past my bed, with the most disappointed look I've ever seen on the face of a human being, having lost the patient.

"We have a lot of voices!" If there's a chaotic dialog scene with 3+ people talking over each other and no one standing out, it's probably a movie directed by Robert Altman.

14:28 Lives are always at stake at a MASH. What you are seeing is them trying to cope with the absolute non stop horror of mangled bodies that they can't possibly save all of.

As for the MASH TV series, it holds a special place in my heart. My grandfather was a WWII combat vet. By the early 1980s, he was enjoying his retirement. I was just a little kid. I didn't understand why he'd laugh his ass off at the MASH TV series. As an adult, I have seen the movie and the series, and I laugh just as hard. It helps me feel closer to my Pop-Pop.

One thing you have to know about doctors and nurses. We can talk about blood and body fluids and other stuff while we’re eating. It’s just shop talk for us. 🤣

Its amazing to think, the son of the director wrote the song as a joke as his dad said "Write a song that is kind sad and funny." and that song would go on to be the main theme of the long running tv series and the son made more money from this "joke" of a song did over the years than his father made for directing this film.

Larry Linville as Frank Burns in the tv series is one of the greatest tv characters ever.

Don't feel bad for it not being your cup of tea, Ashleigh. Dark comedy (and especially wartime dark comedy) is not for everyone. It's also important to keep in mind the time frame of the movie. It takes place during the Korean War, but it was made during (and it's about) the Vietnam War. It's kind of difficult to get your head around that and appreciate the nuances if you're not from either of those times.

I used to watch The M.A.S.H. TV series and when I found out that the M.A.S.H. theme songs is called "suicide is painless" and it actually has lyrics and I listen to it I was shocked. And then I finally saw the movie it really makes it all hit home more theme fits the show perfectly.

"The Bickersons" was a radio show about a couple that spent the entire show cutting each other down with insults. The star was Don Ameche.

I slapped my head when Ash said "I don't know what Donald Sutherland looks like so he could be on screen right now and I would know". Donald has been in most scenes for far.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

My husband was a military man for 26 years and has never had a drop of alcohol. He even went through ROTC. Remember, before these men were drafted, they were civilian doctors, living nice lives in the suburbs, with their 2.5 children, a nice set of golf clubs and a well stocked bar in their living room. Of course they enjoy martinis.

I think "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" will make an impression.

The book was written by an army surgeon, who was drafted and sent to Korea. The book is more graphic than the movie. It is also hilarious.

I was a Medical Technician in the Air Force during the Iraq War (2003-2007). We rotated from *Balad Air Base* via Ramstein, Germany to *Washington, DC.* One of the first things our Commanding Officer said to us was "I catch anyone joking around or doing anything similar to *MASH,* I'll court martial them on the spot." We were actually surprised he even heard of *MASH.* Needless to say, we made sure he didn't catch anybody doing anything. 😜 Great reaction!

"How y'all got on the same shirt?" 😂 It's a uniform! They ALL wear the same shirt... lol

"Who died?" Oh Ashleigh, it's a war.

Fun fact: The M*A*S*H* TV series finale, titled "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen", aired on Feb 28, 1983 and received a 60.2 Nielsen rating. Making it the highest-rated telecast at the time. Those kind of numbers would be unimaginable today for a TV series.

"I hear so many voices!" Welcome to the world of Robert Altman movies.

Interesting fact is that when the series aired in the UK on the BBC, it was played without a laughter track. It was required viewing for millions. I tried to watch an episode on a commercial channel many years later with the laughter track included and turned it off because it just cheapened the whole experience.

It's typical of a Robert Altman movie that some things become clearer on a second viewing, such as: Very early in the movie, when Hawkeye and Duke first arrive, they are warned off of trying to score with one particular female officer, but do not hear the actual conversations, so we do not know why. Only much later, when Hot Lips comes to complain to Colonel Blake after the shower incident, do we learn that the colonel is sleeping with that officer - a fact which also explains why he told her that an item he recently acquired was "sent to him," quickly restarting his sentence in order not to say that his wife sent it to him.

29:31 they were giving Ho-Jon the drugs to make him seem like a bad fit for the army. They were trying to protect their friend from becoming a soldier. Sadly, the Korean doctor saw through it.

Just wondering if KELLY'S HEROES was on that list. If not, it should have been.

Cracks me up every time Ashleigh watches a movie, laughs and is completely engaged and having fun, then gives it a low score at the end.

Just a tidbit here as to women wearing pants, as recently as the 90’s a company could require women wear dresses or skirts while the me. Wore suits. The women could not wear a pant suit. That’s the kind of stuff feminists were wrapping up the fight over. It was done by 2000, we have it pretty easy if we’re qualified now. The problem is the unqualified want standards lowered for them. Putting my soapbox away now. ✊ Girl power.

Hot Lips was supposed to disappear after the shower incident but Altman was so impressed with Sally Kellerman he kept her in the film

"Hot Lips, you incredible nincompoop" Freakin love this movie. Military humor is always a trip. When you live in a sea of death, you find humor where you can.

MASH should be your next midweek tv show

What is important about this movie is that it created a new style of film making that became prevalent in the 1970's. Of course it created one of the biggest TV shows ever. The final episode is one of the most watched TV shows ever and was watched by as many people that watched the Super Bowl.

Just reminding people that viagra was invented around 1998, not the 50s.

As a medical professional who has served in the military, MASH is surprisingly accurate.

I once had a nice conversation with Tom Skerritt and I asked which film did he have the most fun acting in and he said "without a doubt, MASH. He said it was a nonstop kegger LOL!" When I asked which was the most important to him, he said ALIEN. Super nice guy.

Fun Fact the series finally of the show titled Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen had more viewers than the Superbowl of that year. You would like the show itself more than the movie I recommend watching it on your own time because it's got like 11 seasons.

The TV series finale was the only time we convinced a teacher to put off a test by another day, because we said no one would be studying that night, we'd all be watching the MASH finale.

You missed the fact that the dentist was hung like a horse

My Grandfather was a 20 year Navy veteran and served in both Korea and Vietnam. He hated the MASH TV show because he said it reminded him of the doctors he met. Most of them were drafted and acted unprofessional. According to him the show was an accurate representation of the shenanigans that occurred. He was 18 years old in 1952, Graduated early in December and enlisted. He spent a few weeks in boot camp and then 5 months in Korea patrolling until the armistice and then aided in evacuations for the remainder of his deployment. He retired from the Navy in 1973 as a Lieutenant. He served 3 tours in Vietnam and was involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident that started that war. His ship was damaged and had to be towed. We have a picture of him holding a piece of shrapnel from a rocket that hit the mess hall on the ship. They offloaded the crew in the Philippines and the ship was towed to San Francisco before getting repaired. During that time he was reassigned to search and rescue of downed airmen in the gulf during the initial air raids before the ground invasion.

This is one of those movies that are more powerful in its time. The audiences at the time “got” this movie. It was a huge success,

RIP Donald Sutherland

Robert Altman encouraged the cast to improvise. He put microphones on every actor including the background players and shot the movie in a wide angle lense so he could zoom in on anyone so the actors made sure to converse in character at all times

Growing up during the Vietnam War era I can tell you this theme song stresses out a lot of people including myself. Even though the tv series based on the movie doesn't use the lyrics it still doesn't help.

The football games were intense in Korea, mostly because if you got injured during the game you still got points that would get you home, and got out of combat duty until you were healed.

MASH was very controversial at the time. It was the first movie to actually show surgery, blood and guts in the operating room. Government higher ups didn't want the public to see all that, in fear that it would turn the public against the war.

Not a fishing lure, he's typing flies as in fly fishing. You wrap thread, tie knots, affix feathers and the like to a fishook and wrap it up. Ends up looking like nymph or black fly, etc. The patience and focus on tying flies is similar to surgical stitching and would ensure you maintained your fine motor skills.

The one thing that not a lot of people realize is this movie came out during the Vietnam War and was an Anti-War movie set in Korea.

"This is funny, in a morbid, messed up way" nicely describes MASH.

MASH used to often come on after Saturday morning cartoons. As soon as that music started it was the que to shut off the TV play. Then I decided to watch an episode when I was older and ended up watching every episode. MASH has some of the best and funniest writing of any show.

Ashleigh. There are movies I love that didn't work for you. Conversely, there were 5 star movies for you that left me looking for the 40 minutes I didn't enjoy. My point is, as individuals, some things rock our world, some are a rock to the head. Never apologize for your honest opinion of what you like. I think I speak for all of us who watch your channel, we'd rather have your honesty than bowing to a perceived pressure to like something that a bunch of people like just because they are a bunch and you are one. Keep being refreshing and honest. That's what we love. Dolly would agree.

Alan Alda who played Hawkeye in the TV version said that a big difference between the movie and TV show was that the surgeons were very serious when it came to operating in the TV show. They may have joked while they worked but the patients came first.

Jekel and Hyde is a novel. Dr Jekel develops a potion that unleashes his inner, more powerful/aggressive persona called Mr Hyde. The Incredible Hulk is based on it.

Trapper John, the "mustache guy", was played by Elliot Gould who is Barbra Streisand's ex-husband and father of her son Jason Gould.

In case you didn’t know, they didn’t have regular milk. They had powdered milk, which means you had to add water to it to reconstitute it.

Trivia: the director’s son wrote the lyrics to the theme in 15 minutes. Even though it’s not heard in the TV SHOW he still gets paid!

Okay, a LOT to help unpack. As you found out, M*A*S*H stands for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. The M*A*S*H units were a big experiment during the Korean war. The concept was to have the primary emergency care units as close to the fighting as possible for rapid/immediate care. They were around 3-4 miles from the actual fighting. The front changed positions, THEY changed positions (hence the MOBILE part of the acronym). And, as you found out at the end, Donald Sutherland was the goofy looking scarecrow guy who was on the screen, pretty much, the entire movie. The studio had Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould signed on BEFORE having a director (went through 13 before finding one crazy enough to take on the task). By the third day of actual filming, the two aforementioned lead actors decided to approach the producers with a request to have said director removed, fearing for the future of their careers. This meeting was PRECEDED by one with the director making a similar request (for different reasons) about the two lead actors. Obviously BOTH requests were heard and ignored and everyone was asked to get along and play nice and just ride it out. Between the "gore", the language, and the (very few) nude shots (mainly "Hot Lips'" ever famous shower scene), The movie VERY NEARLY got an "X" rating from the censors. This movie, remember was made in 1970. These days, a lot of that stuff can be shown on Disney Kids without much fear. Although this movie is set during the Korean war, the director didn't let the word "Korea" be said during the entire movie, other than the written quotes at the very beginning from Douglas MacArthur and Dwight D. Eisenhauer. Due to the time period, this caused a lot of audiences to parallel what they were watching with the Vietnam war that was currently (at the time) raging, and the director WANTED it that way. He got it past the studio by being WAY under budget (if you noticed in the opening credits, about 80% of the cast was "introduced" in this movie) and keeping STRICTLY to the studio's timetable. The shower scene took about 8 takes to actually film. What was supposed to be a complete surprise for "Hot Lips" was in the script; so, every time that tent flap so much as ruffled, Sally Kellerman (the actress) would immediately follow her first gut-instinct - HIDE (as would be normal for ANYONE). The director begged her to try and hold her pose for even a brief second and she just couldn't do it. Finally, Gary Burghoff (Radar) got a brilliant idea. He and the director got up on a hill across from the tent where they could be right in Sally's line of sight when that tent fell. So the scene starts, the tent falls, and the very first thing Sally Kellerman sees is Gary and the director standing across from her on a hill... with their pants down. This caused her to pause JUST ENOUGH to get the shot. No, they didn't give "Painless" Viagra. Nor did they insinuate that anything even resembling it was used. IN FACT they don't mention, one way or the other, WHAT the "Black Pill" was. And, while Viagra DIDN'T exist in the 50's, hormone shots (that could do the same basic thing) DID. Rene Auberjonois (Father Mulcahy) ad-libbed the "blessing of the jeep" at the end before Donald Sutherland and Tom Skerritt puttered away into the sunset. I'm not gonna give you crap about your low rating. I DO get it, I think. A lot of the surgery scenes were a lot to deal with. They were a HELLUVA lot in 1970 (didn't see surgical scenes like that before anywhere). And, really, not everything is great for everybody. My siblings and I were practically raised on the show (one of my dad's all-time faves). I LOVED it (one of the only things my dad and I could bond over), my younger brother was kinda indifferent to it (something to watch before the big football game), and my older sister HATED it. She only watched THIS movie ONCE... less than half-way (I don't think she even made it as far as Frank Burns' departure). At least it looked like you enjoyed yourself for quite a bit of it, though. All good.

So when they're talking about "Painless" being the best equipped dentist in the Korean Theatre of Operations. They're not talking about his dentistry equipment, they're talking about his block and tackle so to speak. Which is why Lieutenant Dish looked so happy, when she was in the helicopter going home. Also I can't recall if you've seen him in anything else. But Frank Burns was played by Robert Duvall (most famous for playing Tom Hagen in The Godfather). Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde was originally a book, written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Who also wrote the book Treasure Island. There have been multiple movie, tv show and even a Broadway Musical adaptions of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde. (There's even been an Abbott and Costello meet Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde). Any of the movie versions would make a great reaction for Hallowbeans. Also Ho-Jon wasn't using drugs, at least not in the way you're thinking. Hawkeye and the gang, gave him a drug to increase his heart rate and blood pressure. So he'd fail the medical evaluation and not get drafted into the South Korean Army. The problem is the Army doctor who examined him saw through the ruse. There was a subplot in the original script that involved Ho-Jon showing up at the M.A.S.H. Camp wounded after being drafted and dying on their operating table. But it was cut, the footage was used though and re-dubbed. So that the man they're operating on, is a North Korean P.O.W.

42:05 "Who died?!" It was Ho-John. It's what's left of a deleted subplot where Ho-John ends up as a patient by getting shot in battle. The body on the Jeep is his. Robert Altman was a revered late-20th century director; his specialty was naturalistic lighting & photography with overlapping dialogue, most of it improvised. MASH put him on the map, but some of his best stuff is NASHVILLE, SHORT CUTS, and THE PLAYER. Funny note about Sutherland: Altman's style was so radical in 1969 that people thought him incompetent. Both Sutherland and Elliot Gould (Trapper) tried to get him fired behind his back. After the movie became a hit, Gould owned up to it but Sutherland didn't. Gould worked with Altman regularly for the rest of Altman's life. Altman never hired Sutherland again. "The Bickersons" was a very popular radio program with Don Ameche and Francis Langford about a constantly-fighting married couple. If it makes you feel better, real M*A*S*H veterans have said no camp would ever treat their head nurse the way they treat Hot Lips. A head nurse was the second-most important person in the camp next to the supply clerk because she kept everything running smoothly. The whole thing with Hot Lips is that she was a"regular-Army"--she was Establishment, not a draftee, so she was by the book, while everybody else is a civilian trying to get through the day. MASH is an anti-Establishment film so all the heroes are scoundrels and the villains are clean-cut authority figures--so Hot Lips is a "villain" until she lightens up.

Hawkeye didn't steal the Jeep. He strategically transferred equipment to an alternate location.

It was a sleeping pill and as they said he was the best equipped dentist in the army. Also, the show and I assume the novel, show more of why Frank and Margaret are disliked. Frank is an incompetent doctor and granted the shower prank was too far, but early on Margaret is very strict with the doctors and her nurses.

This movie has two Star Trek actors in it... Father Mulcahy - René Auberjonois played Odo in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine & Colonel West in Star Trek VI: the Undiscovered country. & Major "Hot Lips" Houlihan.-Sally Kellerman played Dr Elizabeth Dehner in Star Trek (TOS) Where No Man Has Gone Before

Painless was, err... was the best 'equipped' dentist in the army and the others would stare at his junk in shower because it was so big. Also, this is an emergency treatment hospital - fast & dirty "meatball" surgery to save lives before shipping the wounded back to other hospitals to finish up treatment. Big stitches take less time. The goal was to get the wounded on & off the surgical tables as fast as possible. This was one of the mobile hospitals that moved to follow the battle - often only a mile or so from the front lines for quick treatment to save the wounded lives before shipping them elsewhere

My father (Royal Artillery) received treatment for a head injury in a US Military Hospital and said later that M*A*S*H was a pretty accurate reflection of what he remembered it being like. After treatment there he spent two weeks in Tokyo where a couple of American aircrew taught him a card game called "poker" so he bought a Rolex to keep his winnings portable. I gave that watch to one of my sons as a birthday present earlier this year.

This film was based on a book "MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, was written by Richard Hooker," The author wrote it under a pseudonym. The real authors were H. Richard Hornberger and W. C. Heinz Hornberger was a surgeon at the 8055th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea during the Korean War. So it's hard to say how much of it is exaggerated in the movie. Meatball surgery gives you all the blood and guts of war with people who became doctors and nurses to help people heal. It's got to be a special kind of hell. Doctors weren't a dime a dozen so they couldn't just be sent back home if they had mental issues developed in the course of their work. They could get away with odd behavior. To some extent.

Seeing Bud Cort in the film made me wonder - what would Ashleigh think of Harold and Maude, which also has a great cameo from Tom Skerrit.

TMI Warning My mother was a nurse in a MASH unit in Korea. My dad was a medic attached to his infantry unit, the 15th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army. Mom never said how they met, but, since they married at Fort Sam Houston, I'm going to assume it was there. Then again, maybe it was through their duties in Korea. Who knows? Unfortunately, they separated when I was 4, so I didn't get to grow up with my dad.

Actual names I encountered in the military: Lt. Colonel Kurtz Captain Wacker, later promoted to Major Wacker And I swear to god I am not making this up; Seaman Guzzler

Donald Sutherland once said that the dialogue on this film was never the same between takes. Between the wide shot, the medium shot, the close ups… all at least slightly different. He said the editor (I believe) got an academy award, but “probably deserved a Nobel Prize.”

This is before the sitcom and it’s set in the Korean War and the Acronym of M*A*S*H is Mobile Army Surgical Hospital! And god bless Walter Eugene “Radar” O’Reilly

At 18:32, "dilatation and curettage" is a surgical procedure of widening the cervix and scraping out the uterine lining with a sharpened loop (curette). He's making a crass joke that Burns is all up in O'Houlihan's business.

They didn't pick on Hot Lips because she was new, she was reporting everyone for violations. That affects your military Pay and the possibility of Promotions. She was messing with their lives. They are in a war zone, and military regulations really can't be followed under such extreme conditions. Either she needs to get with the program or get a transfer to another unit.

Based on the the book "MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors", which was a bestseller in it's day.

A little trivia: Roger Bowen who played Henry Blake in the film and McLean Stevenson who played him in the TV show died a day apart.

MASH=Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. There were a couple episodes of the tv series where they had to “bug out”- pack up the camp quickly and move to a new location. I highly recommend checking out the tv series. The first few seasons were the best.

2:20 The Bell H-13 Sioux was a pretty neat machine. Weighs under a ton and a half unloaded, cruises at over 80mph, and you can fix about 95% of things that go wrong with it with nothing more than a hammer, socket set and oil.

I love that "spearchucker" is such a weird, obscure racial slur that Ashleigh said it without even blinking...

This is one of those rare films where the movie is better than the book.

Gary Burghoff as Radar O'Reilly is the only one from the movie that was in the tv show

"My God they've shot him" "Margaret you incredible nincompoop, it's the end of the quarter" 😂😂

The TV version of MASH sharpened it into bite-sized 30-minute pieces and cleaned it up for television. It's widely regarded as one of the greatest TV shows in history, lasting 11 seasons. The series finale episode broke all kinds of viewership records.

If you notice you might realize why the lyrics were omitted for the theme song. :)

The director's son wrote the lyrics to the song "Suicide is Painless".

That naked shower scene with Sally Kellerman is so iconic . . .

I knew a phycician who was in Korea in a forward aid station. He got the silver star and a letter of reprimand for treating civilian refugees.. He had them mounted side by side on his living room wall.

It is based on true stories of surgeons from Korea. The interesting thing when reading the original novel is understanding that the doctors and nurses were so young - most were under 30. The book has even more obscene pranks. Pulling outrageous pranks and hooking up seem to be necessary life affirming activities surrounded by unrelenting death. Robert Altman intended this movie to be a criticism of the Vietnam War that was currently raging when he filmed. So, actually MASH is the first Vietnam movie and not Apocalypse Now. 20th Century Fox made Altman add the introductory text about Korea because Korea is never mentioned in the film. It is obviously Korea, but the suits were worried that people would think it was about Vietnam.

Honestly, I do not fault your rating at all. For one thing, I think this movie is very centered in a particular time and place that simply no longer resonates. Released in 1970, at the height of the US's involvement in the Vietnam War, set in the Korean War as a stand-in, this movie and later the show was speaking directly to the futility and senselessness many Americans felt about these wars we'd gotten ourselves embroiled in. For another thing, while the TV show didn't necessarily shy away from calling out that senselessness, it also was much more comedy-oriented than the movie. And the show was on TV for so many years I get the sense that it eclipsed the movie in the popular imagination of what MASH was, so it's thought of as more of a comedy than it actually is. Though, I was VERY young at the time, so take that musing with a grain of salt, as I could be wrong about that. I remember being a big fan of the TV show and then going back and watching the movie later and being frankly disappointed by it. Anyway, I voted for Invasion of the Body Snatchers in the poll, and I do hope you get to it eventually (perhaps, indeed, for Hallowbeans) - it's an excellent film and much more entertaining than this one, IMO.

the opening music was used in the TV show as well for its theme song, but they felt that the lyrics were a bit too dark for TV so they removed them and just played the song without them.

4:20 - M*A*S*H - The film depicts a unit of medical personnel stationed at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. I used to wear my fave 'army green' t-shirt to music festivals that spelled out... H*A*S*H.

Jo Ann Pflug (Lt. Dish) was married to game show host Chuck Woolery for eight years. Woolery was the original host of Wheel of Fortune (he was replaced by Pat Zajak).

My Favorite & THE BEST ROLE he has ever played,, Donald Sutherland as "Oddball" in "Kelly's Heros" (1970) A MUST SEE Classic Movie. 🔥❤️🔥

The TV show is an absolute masterpiece. I'm glad I grew up with it and watched the heck out of every episode many times.

My grandfather was a Korean war vet and absolutely refused to watch this movie or the television series mash. He didn't think the idea of somebody making jokes about the horrible things he had seen.