Are you down to mash?

Good show

 

The movie wasn't too bad but the TV show was horrific (but of course that was the MASH that I saw) not the wonderful endearing show which captured your imagination for 11 hilarious heartwarming seasons on the CBS



Hotwater

 

Yeah! Trapper John is my favorite.

 

Haha!

Horrific? If you don't mind me asking, what did you find so terrible about it.

When Alan Alda took control it got kinda preachy/weinery, but it was still great. They took on a lot of issues other shows wouldn't touch at the time. Drug abuse, infidelity, racism, etc.

 

Putting aside the issue of race (no black actors) the show was depressing and jokes just weren't very funny.

As for Alan Alda, his talent was wasted on MASH. He showed his true form for 10 years as host of Scientific American Frontiers :2thumbsup:

hotwater

 

It's better than bumping uglies or slapping skins.

It happens because culture is culture and fashion is fashion .. cool is cool and hip is hip. It's a wave ... ride the wave weeee!

 

Actually they did have a black cast member for part of the first season. His name was Spear Chucker and the studio made the producers end the character because the name was racist. That's what I heard anyways.

Rather than just change the character's name...

 

mash what? mash like irish water comes from, or mash potatoes or mashing your thumb with a hammer? then there's the monster mash.

oh THAT mash. mobile armed services hospital, or someting like that. a tv thing based on a movie set in korea as a parable about viet nam. which was a place where america was killing people who didn't need killing just about the time i was graduating high school.

as for the 'jokes', it wasn't so much about humor as irony. i mean here you have an army of a nation, the nation of its audience, a nation that was putting ideology ahead of people's lives, and the context is a military field hospital, that is there to save soldier's lives so they can go out and kill again.

the humor, what there was of it, was intentionally very very 'dark'. that was the movie. what tv did with it, well that's what tv does with everything.

 

I Always Thought The Correct Term For A Mad Session Between

The Sheets Was To "Thrash It Out", Maybe Mash Evolved From That....



Cheers Glen.

 

nope. supposedly it was an actual military terminology. though one that may have been already obsolete at the time. if it had ever actually been.

i was in the air force, but i was never anywhere near anything like that, so i really wouldn't know. but that was the premis of the movie, and thus subsiquently the series.

 

now THAT i'm down with. i got the bangers but i need to get some of that ready mix mash.

i usually chop them into soup with noodles instead.

although i do have some of those breakfast potatoe patties that come frozen like they call a big breakfast at those fast food places.

they're not as bad as that sounds actually. a bit salty and greasy, but not unbearably so.

 

Mash until they're mush!

 

I say I'm slidin' yo there's a lot of slang I don't know all of it

 

I work in a pizza restaurant with a lot of kids and can say I have NEVER heard this term used for anything but potatoes.