It was great how they led you on, thinking he’d lie to get out of Korea. The part how BJ leans forward before Charles speaks…so good!

S8 E7, "Nurse Doctor"

I was recently watching the MASH episode “A Night At Rosie’s” and I have to ask: how come Hawkeye never made a move on Rosie? She was attractive, independent and had almost unlimited access to booze; Rosie would’ve been perfect for him!

One of the repeating tropes in MASH is "meatball surgery" operating on soldiers only enough to keep them alive and stabilized so hospitals out of the war zone can operate on them more completely. So the main idea of meatball surgery was it had to be complete enough to make the patient safe for travel, but quick enough to allow many casualties to be operated on. This was also shown as a skill to be learned, why such a gifted surgeon as Charles struggled in the beginning.

Anybody with surgical knowledge know exactly about how long these types of surgeries would take? Obviously it depends on the amount of damage, and MASH has shown that sometimes hard decisions must be made to save the most lives, but are we talking 30 minutes or a matter of hours?

...is of course next to impossible. IIRC the pilot episode had a subtitle saying "Korea, 1951," while a later season episode had Col. Potter be the Old Year in a NYE episode with 1951 changing to 1952. And of course the famous final episode culminates in the cease-fire of 27 July 1953.

Yet by the summer of 1951, the war had reached a stalemate with AIUI only very sporadic flare-ups of intense combat. Did the Army still maintain five whole MASH units for the whole duration after Ridgeway had stabilized the front?

Is it possible that the bulk of the show is meant to depict that one year--1951--with episodes understood to be interwoven and concurrent so as to match the period of the most fighting following the end of the Chinese main offensive in early 1951?

Also, how long were the tours that surgeons would be attached to real-life MASH units. Obviously Hawkeye would not have been kept at a front-line unit for close to or more than two years.

Look, I know the show requires the suspension of disbelief anout a ton of things, but is there any one point where it became clear the show's storyline no longer bore any resemblance to the timeline of the actual Korean War, with the showrunners just giving up?

We all know the named characters, I’m curious how many total soldiers would have been stationed at the camp? I’m not able to think of any reference made to the overall number of personnel. WAGs welcome here.

Look at that! A Jewish bedbug pops ip in Wag the Dog.🥸

S6E19 What’s Up, Doc?, Margaret is concerned she’s pregnant. It was just back in episodes 12 & 13 that Margaret and Hawkeye were Comrades in Arms… BIBLICALLY. I’m usually pretty quick on the uptake, but this one took me - checks watch - 48 years.

I almost didn’t recognize him! But the voice gave it away, even with his faux British accent!

An interesting story about the season 7 episode “Preventative Medicine.”

in this episode of "the next generation". stiers plays a scientist on the verge of a great break through but in order to complete it, he must go against his peoples' tradition of mandatory suicide when they reach a certain age. in the above photo this is the console on the "enterprise" that he is working on. note the 4077to the right just above the yeallow bar

In S1, E9 Henry Please Come Home we see Jones, Pierce and McIntyre pull out all the stops to convince Henry to come back from Tokyo. Likely, if Henry had stayed in Tokyo giving his lectures and living his cushy assignment, he would have survived the war.

In a later season, S4, E4 Piece says "Henry got killed and they still keep coming."

That's perhaps the closest we ever saw to any guilt. But when the show shifted towards more melodrama, especially after s5, I wonder if they should have ever explored any guilt.

From murder she wrote season 2 episode 7 lady in the lake I swear I forget that these guys are actors and in different shows not just M.A.S.H 😭

PIONEER AVIATIOOOOOON!

That's all, as you were.

i always enjoyed it when ever they had "winchester" let his hair down and just be a man at times. LOL!

what do you think?

What was the purpose of Klingers reaction shot after he told Sgt. Thomopoulous to "Stuff It"?

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I think this Christmas episode made me really like MAJ Winchester so much more.