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Philoktetes
05/18/21 3:46:17 PM
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It's almost never a good idea to go to war. Trust me on this.
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coh
05/18/21 3:46:51 PM
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Wasnt it super anti war?
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g0ldie
05/18/21 3:46:52 PM
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Philoktetes
05/18/21 3:47:17 PM
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g0ldie posted...
idk about that:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GUeBMwn_eYc


>mobile link
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Antifar
05/18/21 3:47:23 PM
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You might be thinking of most other Hollywood depictions of war

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SiO4
05/18/21 3:50:02 PM
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Bad take TC, bad take.
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ScazarMeltex
05/18/21 3:51:21 PM
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Ummmm which episode of MASH suggests that war is good?

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BroodRyu
05/18/21 3:51:52 PM
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TC is probably one of the oldest trolls on the site, guys. Come on. Lets move on from this topic.
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g0ldie
05/18/21 3:52:41 PM
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BroodRyu posted...
TC is probably one of the oldest trolls on the site, guys. Come on. Lets move on from this topic.
tbh, I didn't look at the username until I saw the ">mobile link" reply

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Blue_Target
05/18/21 3:53:24 PM
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divot1338
05/18/21 4:22:09 PM
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*holds chicken tightly*

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eston
05/18/21 4:23:03 PM
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Maybe if they never actually watched MASH, read about MASH, or heard anyone talk about MASH ever

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divot1338
05/18/21 4:25:00 PM
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SiO4
05/18/21 4:54:16 PM
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Blue_Target posted...
Suicide is Painless


Not a lot of people would know what you are saying there.
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Big_Nabendu
05/18/21 4:55:26 PM
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It brings on many changes

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TheDurinator
05/18/21 4:56:58 PM
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Most people under 30 have never seen a single episode of M*A*S*H
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Tom Clark
05/18/21 4:57:45 PM
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divot1338 posted...
*holds chicken tightly*

Too soon

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SiO4
05/18/21 5:02:14 PM
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Big_Nabendu posted...
It brings on many changes


It's actually a good song. V_V
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PrettyBoyFloyd
05/18/21 5:10:42 PM
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Was a wee lad when this show ran on TV.

I just assumed it was just a bunch of doctors and nurses working in a crappy place and they tried to make the best of it with shenanigans.

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UnfairRepresent
05/18/21 5:12:50 PM
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g0ldie posted...
idk about that:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GUeBMwn_eYc
Daymn

Spitting truth there

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divot1338
05/18/21 5:13:19 PM
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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...
Was a wee lad when this show ran on TV.

I just assumed it was just a bunch of doctors and nurses working in a crappy place and they tried to make the best of it with shenanigans.
It sort of is on the most superficial outer layer.

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K181
05/18/21 5:13:29 PM
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Did you ever watch MASH? They constantly bitched about the brutality, hopelessness, and meaninglessness of war in the show.

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Delirious_Beard
05/18/21 5:16:30 PM
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BroodRyu posted...
TC is probably one of the oldest trolls on the site, guys. Come on. Lets move on from this topic.

and one of the lamest

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BeyondWalls
05/18/21 5:18:51 PM
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SiO4 posted...
Bad take TC, bad take.
Hes not exactly wrong. I remember the MASH fever of the early 80s. There was definitely some glorification going on. I remember one of the most popular things at the fair grounds was the MASH tent where you got bandaged up and your face painted with fake wounds.

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SiO4
05/18/21 5:21:00 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Daymn

Spitting truth there


I want the scene where they casually mention Vietnam.
It's in there somewhere.
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BeyondWalls
05/18/21 5:21:05 PM
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K181 posted...
Did you ever watch MASH? They constantly bitched about the brutality, hopelessness, and meaninglessness of war in the show.
...while getting into hilarious hijinks. Lets not kid ourselves. MASH played up war like it was summer camp.

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IShall_Run_Amok
05/18/21 5:24:31 PM
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And I can take or leave it if I please.

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Ricemills
05/18/21 5:25:20 PM
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that show lasts longer than the actual war
anyways, funny to see people getting riled up on the latest topic fad.


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SiO4
05/18/21 5:25:32 PM
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BeyondWalls posted...

Hes not exactly wrong. I remember the MASH fever of the early 80s. There was definitely some glorification going on. I remember one of the most popular things at the fair grounds was the MASH tent where you got bandaged up and your face painted with fake wounds.


Welp thar ya go....as much as that show was about The Korean was, it was every bit as much about Vietnam...a...conflict that too this day America has not yet digested. I don't think we ever will, think of Veteran Homeless. Humanity itself is still reeling from WWII, we just pretend we aren't.
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mustachedmystic
05/18/21 5:31:59 PM
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BeyondWalls posted...
...while getting into hilarious hijinks. Lets not kid ourselves. MASH played up war like it was summer camp.
Summer camp with dysentery, sniper fire, and children wandering into mine fields.

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lolife67
05/18/21 5:35:19 PM
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How to say "I've never actually watched M*A*S*H" without saying you've never watched it.
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ScazarMeltex
05/18/21 6:07:47 PM
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mustachedmystic posted...
Summer camp with dysentery, sniper fire, and children wandering into mine fields.
Yeah. At no point was the message of MASH anything other than "war is horrible". Yes there was comedy, otherwise the show is completely awful and depressing. But even with that it's made clear in pretty much every episode that the whole reason they are able to get through the horrors of the every day life of the unit is because of their bonds with each other.

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ForsakenHermit
05/18/21 6:10:34 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mEsXz-Bpog

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Big_Nabendu
05/18/21 6:55:40 PM
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Show was about Vietnam
Even tho it was set during the Korean War
I fucking love mash

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SiO4
05/18/21 7:18:42 PM
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ForsakenHermit posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mEsXz-Bpog


Fucking love The Marx Brothers!!
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Forest_Temple
05/18/21 7:22:06 PM
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That show is for old people

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The_Critic
05/18/21 7:27:24 PM
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Big_Nabendu posted...
Show was about Vietnam
Even tho it was set during the Korean War
I fucking love mash

was it? Or was it that war never changes and an allegory for 1 war will likely work for the next one?
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Kastrada
05/18/21 7:28:02 PM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
Ummmm which episode of MASH suggests that war is good?

I can't find a video clip of it and obviously this is coming from two horrible people (or at least Burns was) but this is still one of my all time favorite quotes from a TV show.

Frank Burns:
Funny thing, war: never have so many suffered so much so so few could be so happy.
Margaret:
We're lucky to be two of the few and not the many.
Frank Burns:
I know, darling, and I love being both of us.

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SiO4
05/18/21 7:36:51 PM
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The_Critic posted...


was it? Or was it that war never changes and an allegory for 1 war will likely work for the next one?


Yes
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DarkBuster22904
05/18/21 7:54:50 PM
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I'd say MASH made the transition from full-on comedy to actual dark comedy with a lot of grim horrors-of-war messaging around the time they swapped out Henry and Trapper for BJ and Potter.

Actually, I'd argue McLean Stevenson's last episode is the EXACT moment when the change happens.

Before that, the grimness was pretty heavily diluted. One or two odd moments ("You never hear the bullet" comes to mind).

I'd also argue that that transition point is also when the show got really, really fuckin good.

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Kastrada
05/18/21 7:56:21 PM
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16-BITTER posted...
You guys are getting real worked up over an obvious parody of that Friends topic

Friends tricked people into thinking that going to war is good!

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SiO4
05/18/21 8:13:19 PM
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DarkBuster22904 posted...
I'd say MASH made the transition from full-on comedy to actual dark comedy with a lot of grim horrors-of-war messaging around the time they swapped out Henry and Trapper for BJ and Potter.

Actually, I'd argue McLean Stevenson's last episode is the EXACT moment when the change happens.

Before that, the grimness was pretty heavily diluted. One or two odd moments ("You never hear the bullet" comes to mind).

I'd also argue that that transition point is also when the show got really, really fuckin good.


It's been about 25 years, but I have watched it straight through....this post makes me want to do it again.
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Chicken
05/18/21 8:14:04 PM
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divot1338 posted...
*holds chicken tightly*
Let me fucking go

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Dark_SilverX
05/18/21 8:15:24 PM
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https://youtu.be/GIGYLBVjYZA

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mustachedmystic
05/18/21 8:15:58 PM
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It's gotta be one of the cheapest, if not the cheapest syndicated show for a station to pick up. multiple channels(not at the same time) played the show throughout most of my childhood, and it was the go-to replacement when a ball game went into a rain delay. I've literally seen every episode at least 2 dozen times.

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Philoktetes
05/18/21 10:58:23 PM
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Forest_Temple posted...
That show is for old people


1) this is gerontophobia and

2) old people shows are better than the shit millennials like

did you enjoy the newest big bang theory ep?
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Forest_Temple
05/18/21 11:05:25 PM
#49:


Philoktetes posted...
1) this is gerontophobia and

2) old people shows are better than the shit millennials like

did you enjoy the newest big bang theory ep?
I'm just trolling. I watch old people shows too. One of my favorite live action shows of all time is Miami Vice and I'm only 25.

And I hate the Big Bang Theory lol.

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008Zulu
05/18/21 11:23:40 PM
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How did doctors and nurses patching up kids blown apart by artillery, make war seem an enviable prospect?

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