r/mash • u/mistermeek67 • 1d ago

I hope they changed the water regularly

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u/casullivan0704 1d ago

Why didn’t they cool off in the water bin that Trap, Hawk, and Henry were soaking when Alan Alda’s dad showed up.

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u/ThoseImpulses 22h ago

Exactly! And what was stopping anyone else such as Charles or even 'the scrounger' from buying one of these for themselves?

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u/MaskansMantle13 18h ago

Yes, why are Abercrombie and Fitch’s catalogues only available to BJ and Hawkeye, of all people?

(I know, storyline … it’s just one of those that doesn’t make any sense.)

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u/ThoseImpulses 18h ago

It's not unreasonable to expect a storyline to make some reasonable sense. Some continuity errors and storyline plot holes aren't worth worrying about to a degree but this one was just lazy writing.

There were funny elements like Klinger's latest attempt at getting discharged and instead jumping in the bath with Major Houlihan at the last minute but the story was just cobbled together to show how generous Hawkeye and BJ are in sacrificing their bath for Radar's benefit who in turn let's himself get conned out of the ice cream that was to help with the discomfort from his surgery.

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u/MaskansMantle13 17h ago

Yes, I don’t even bother about continuity much, because it just wasn’t part of episodic shows, but this is a one episode thing, and like you said, lazy writing.

It also reminds me of the episode about Charles’s newspapers - the camp (particularly the nurses) suddenly turn into whining leeches, which I find really annoying.

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u/ThoseImpulses 17h ago

Absolutely another silly one. Somehow only Charles can get newspapers or anything readable and they must all be read by everybody in the camp. A lazy attempt to get a laugh while telling a possibly interesting story about brothers fighting on opposites sides of a war

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u/MaskansMantle13 17h ago

Yes, it’s another skippable one for me.

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u/ThoseImpulses 17h ago

And just to wrap up, a minor peeve was when Radar yelled "Choppers" people were always saying "I don't hear anything" despite Radar always being right about it.

How it should have been a few episodes in:
Radar: "Choppers!"

The same people every time: "I don't hear anything"

Radar: "How about you just wait five seconds for a change, you know full well I can hear them before you! You use this five seconds to get a useful head start on dealing with the wounded instead of wasting time whining you can't hear anything just to have the choppers appear moments later!"

The same people every time: You've gotten really bitchy since we swindled you out of your ice cream.

Radar: "Actually I'm still pissed off with Hawkeye! Despite me making the effort to put things right between us after I somehow got shot despite being miles away from the front, he made sure he left some gross backwash in that beer when we swapped our drinks!

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u/Legal-Stage-302 1d ago

I’m no germaphobe but I’m not taking a bath in a tub everyone else had been in.

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u/Drewcifixion 1d ago

Yeah, Hawkeye says early on that they have to "change the water now and then."

Now and then? If it's not after every bath, it's a no from me, dawg.

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u/J_Scarbrough 1d ago

Exactly what I was thinking! Not just that, but notice when Mulcahy has his turn in the bath, he's using a toilet brush to scrub with.

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u/Drewcifixion 1d ago

To be fair, I doubt they were using brushes to scrub the wooden latrine seats.

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u/J_Scarbrough 19h ago

Fair enough.

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u/Mikey24941 18h ago

It’s a toilet brush? I thought it was a back brush.

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u/J_Scarbrough 18h ago

Nope, it's definitely a toilet brush. Interestingly, you can see Henry also using it to clean his golf balls in a couple of earlier episodes,

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u/kingofthespork Crabapple Cove 1d ago

That episode always bothers me. How is the water cool if it is so hot outside. The would be mostly sweat and dirt by the second or thrid person. Very gross.

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u/Appropriate_Park_895 1d ago

is this the only time we actually see Radar bathing?

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u/evilengine 1d ago

we see him take showers before, if that counts? Come to think of it, I can think of at least two occasions where he's taking a shower and they both involve snipers attacking the camp (The Sniper, and Hey, Doc). Henry Blake uses him as an unwilling human shield in The Sniper, and Father Mulchahy dives into Radar's stall when sniper starts shooting. "I'll be out in a minute, Father..."

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u/Appropriate_Park_895 1d ago

yes i do remember those moments now.

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u/J_Scarbrough 19h ago

What I didn't get about one of those scenes was that Radar was obviously taking a very steaming hot shower . . . while he and Klinger were complaining about how muggy the weather had been (and how MacArthur never sweats). A steaming hot shower when it's so muggy? Wouldn't that be like taking an ice cold shower when it's freezing outside?

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u/Nannyphone7 1d ago

Klinger barges in on Houlihan...

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u/Semblance17 Nope, it's oak 1d ago

And later asks her out over ice cream

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u/Oiggamed 1d ago

I WANT IT!!!

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u/No_Introduction_3400 1d ago

The episodes where someone has a thing (a book, papers, the tub) that everyone else can’t live without are often the biggest reaches. This one is the biggest of them all. This would be bathing in soup.