The Most Important Episode of MASH

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Жыл бұрын

Edit:
Thank you all so much for 100,000 views! This video has done far better than I ever could've imagined, and rest assured, a follow-up is in the works.
Also: I AM AWARE that I misused the word 'Titular'. This was a grammatical error I didn't catch on my last pass of the script. I caught it after completing the video, but I felt it was too minor an issue to warrant re-editing the project (for the third time). Grammatical issues like these will be minimized going forward, as I no longer have to crunch to get these videos done by a college due date!
Original Description:
Hi all,
This was a project I made for my Modern American History college course. There are a couple things here that I would love to go back and tweak, but at this point, I've kind of moved on from the project (and onto other college projects, heh). I consider this not half bad work, and certainly work I'd be happy presenting publicly. This is my first video essay as well, so please be kind!
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@captainjohnh9405

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.

@sharons5714 Жыл бұрын

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.

@marionkeepper5972 Жыл бұрын

The episodes with Sidney were some of the best

@georgesturges2918 Жыл бұрын

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.

@garethspotfur1 Жыл бұрын

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

@MrJLCharbonneau Жыл бұрын

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

@Driven2Beers

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

@mudduck754 Жыл бұрын

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.

@xancassiel6326 Жыл бұрын

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.

@captainjohnh9405 Жыл бұрын

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.

@northernbrother1258 Жыл бұрын

I realize now that Frank Burns and Hot Lips were Christian conservatives and would be MAGA today! 😮

@Spark_Chaser Жыл бұрын

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:

@specialk9424 Жыл бұрын

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.

@dionysus6892 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful video, M*A*S*H really is something special.

@celticlass8573

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

@powerdroidgirl Жыл бұрын

Well said.

@reconty2133 Жыл бұрын

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!

@brycedewsnup2813 Жыл бұрын

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.

@stopspammandm Жыл бұрын

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".