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Posted: 1/2/2007 8:39:11 PM EDT

On TVLand. So much for going to bed early.

Posted: 1/2/2007 8:43:02 PM EDT

[#1]

I know....and dad took my satellite and put it upstairs cuz his is tweaked.

Posted: 1/2/2007 8:44:56 PM EDT

[#2]

It usually plays every night from 10pm central to midnight on the Hallmark channel. I used to watch it just about every night. I think I have seen just about every episode. Great show and really funny.

Posted: 1/2/2007 8:48:20 PM EDT

[#3]

Looks like it'll be on all week!!!!!!!!!

Posted: 1/2/2007 9:07:17 PM EDT

[#4]

If it didn't have that panty waisted Cpt. Pierce, it woulld be a better show.

Posted: 1/2/2007 9:08:41 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
If it didn't have that panty waisted ~~Cpt. Pierce~~ Alan Alda, it woulld be a better show.

Fix0red.

Posted: 1/2/2007 9:10:38 PM EDT

[#6]

I have season 1-11 on DVD.
I'll say it. Season 1 stunk. It's predictable slapstick crappy 70's humor

Posted: 1/2/2007 9:12:40 PM EDT

[#7]

Yeah...as an actor, the earlier shows were better. He got in there and started writting his own scripts and it did go downhill from there. I still think it is an excellent show. Lots of other good talent there. I just don't think any show can run that long and be the same show as the first one.

Posted: 1/2/2007 9:14:17 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
I have season 1-11 on DVD.
I'll say it. Season 1 stunk. It's predictable slapstick crappy 70's humor

To a point, yes. But consider the time it was filmed in, I think it was ahead of its time in humor.

Posted: 1/2/2007 9:15:59 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I have season 1-11 on DVD.
I'll say it. Season 1 stunk. It's predictable slapstick crappy 70's humor

To a point, yes. But consider the time it was filmed in, I think it was ahead of its time in humor.

very true. It also almost got cancelled but networks in those days were way the hell more patient.
I actually like the latter seasons when Potter became the CO.
Frank Burns character became buffonish when Hotlips got married.
I always found BJ to be too whipped

Posted: 1/2/2007 9:21:19 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I have season 1-11 on DVD.
I'll say it. Season 1 stunk. It's predictable slapstick crappy 70's humor

To a point, yes. But consider the time it was filmed in, I think it was ahead of its time in humor.

very true. It also almost got cancelled but networks in those days were way the hell more patient.
I actually like the latter seasons when Potter became the CO.
Frank Burns character became buffonish when Hotlips got married.
I always found BJ to be too whipped

Wow!! I didn't know it was almost cancelled!!

Yes to all of the above. Potter really gave it more class and not just a bunch of jokes. I still think the saddest episode was when Henry went home.

Posted: 1/2/2007 9:23:42 PM EDT

[#11]

Yes on Henry. They got bombarded with hate mail and vowed they would never kill off a character like that but they also got praised for having the guts to write that episode.

I love the series finale. Very well done.
Unlike the Seinfeld finale. WTF was that about?

Posted: 1/2/2007 9:26:34 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Yes on Henry. They got bombarded with hate mail and vowed they would never kill off a character like that but they also got praised for having the guts to write that episode.

It HAD to take guts back then to do it, but again, it really brought the whole theme of the show into perspective.I think thats what people were afraid of. Having to admit it was more than just a comedy show, but a very real event.

Never saw the Seinfeld ending.

Posted: 1/2/2007 9:45:16 PM EDT

[#13]

My only real complaints about Hawkeye are his laugh and when he does his I hate guns crap.
Although you do see plenty of M1 garands and carbines

Posted: 1/2/2007 9:50:21 PM EDT

[#14]

I have seen every episode at least 3 times.

Posted: 1/2/2007 9:51:29 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
My only real complaints about Hawkeye are his laugh and when he does his I hate guns crap.
Although you do see plenty of M1 garands and carbines

I hated his gun fear. It was just stoopid in his situation.

Posted: 1/2/2007 9:54:12 PM EDT

[#16]

I'd rather drink anti-freeze than watch another episode of the show.

I was on the road (playing drums) for a dozen years during the 70s/80s - living in hotels. This was in the dark days before the Internet. I'd read magazines, paperbacks and watch TV to pass the time. MASH was on, in reruns, throughout the day and night. I think I've seen every episode at least 100 times. You'd be lucky if the TV in the hotel had four channels. No cable for the most part. It was the stone age.

Fortunately, I was able to focus most of my attention on booze and chicks, otherwise I'd have gone crazy.

Posted: 1/2/2007 9:57:52 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
I'd rather drink anti-freeze than watch another episode of the show.

I was on the road (playing drums) for a dozen years during the 70s/80s - living in hotels. This was in the dark days before the Internet. I'd read magazines, paperbacks and watch TV to pass the time. MASH was on, in reruns, throughout the day and night. I think I've seen every episode at least 100 times. You'd be lucky if the TV in the hotel had four channels. No cable for the most part. It was the stone age.

Fortunately, I was able to focus most of my attention on booze and chicks, otherwise I'd have gone crazy.

I've seen every episode too. Still hooked on the show. I still catch things I didn't notice the first 12 times I saw it.

Posted: 1/2/2007 9:58:42 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
I have seen every episode at least 3 times.

Only 3?? Slacker!!!! J/K!!!

Posted: 1/2/2007 10:02:38 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I'd rather drink anti-freeze than watch another episode of the show.

I was on the road (playing drums) for a dozen years during the 70s/80s - living in hotels. This was in the dark days before the Internet. I'd read magazines, paperbacks and watch TV to pass the time. MASH was on, in reruns, throughout the day and night. I think I've seen every episode at least 100 times. You'd be lucky if the TV in the hotel had four channels. No cable for the most part. It was the stone age.

Fortunately, I was able to focus most of my attention on booze and chicks, otherwise I'd have gone crazy.

I've seen every episode too. Still hooked on the show. I still catch things I didn't notice the first 12 times I saw it.

The great thing about the DVDs is you can see the parts they chopped out during the syndicated reruns. Sometimes it was important to the plot and sometimes it was a complete waste of time.

Posted: 1/2/2007 10:07:58 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I'd rather drink anti-freeze than watch another episode of the show.

I was on the road (playing drums) for a dozen years during the 70s/80s - living in hotels. This was in the dark days before the Internet. I'd read magazines, paperbacks and watch TV to pass the time. MASH was on, in reruns, throughout the day and night. I think I've seen every episode at least 100 times. You'd be lucky if the TV in the hotel had four channels. No cable for the most part. It was the stone age.

Fortunately, I was able to focus most of my attention on booze and chicks, otherwise I'd have gone crazy.

I've seen every episode too. Still hooked on the show. I still catch things I didn't notice the first 12 times I saw it.

The great thing about the DVDs is you can see the parts they chopped out during the syndicated reruns. Sometimes it was important to the plot and sometimes it was a complete waste of time.

Great!!!!! Now I gotta spend some money!!!!!

Posted: 1/2/2007 10:15:40 PM EDT

[#21]

Alda is a great actor, a fair documentary narrator, and terrible at everything else having to do with show business. Unfortunately for MASH fans, he was allowed to write and direct quite a few episodes when the show matured. These episodes are usually easy to spot- they aren't funny and they aren't even well written. Most of them are just Alda's pathetic attempt at shoving self-introspection and leftist guilt down the throats of the the audience. It would've been nice if Alda had tried to compensate for his theatrical inadequacies elsewhere.

We can feel some level of schadenfreude, as Alda's career has gone basically nowhere since MASH ended. He produced a few unremarkable chick flicks that rarely see the light of day on screens of any kind these days. The only halfway decent work he's done since 1983 is a moderately successful science show for PBS.

It's really a shame he's such a poofta wuss. He could've had a brilliant movie career.

Galland

Posted: 1/2/2007 10:19:35 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
Alda is a great actor, a fair documentary narrator, and terrible at everything else having to do with show business. Unfortunately for MASH fans, he was allowed to write and direct quite a few episodes when the show matured. These episodes are usually easy to spot- they aren't funny and they aren't even well written. Most of them are just Alda's pathetic attempt at shoving self-introspection and leftist guilt down the throats of the the audience. It would've been nice if Alda had tried to compensate for his theatrical inadequacies elsewhere.

We can feel some level of schadenfreude, as Alda's career has gone basically nowhere since MASH ended. He produced a few unremarkable chick flicks that rarely see the light of day on screens of any kind these days. The only halfway decent work he's done since 1983 is a moderately successful science show for PBS.

It's really a shame he's such a poofta wuss. He could've had a brilliant movie career.

Galland

EXCELLENT!!!! You wrapped that up very well!!! I agree!!!!!

Posted: 1/2/2007 10:22:42 PM EDT

[#23]

Alda was good as Senator Brewster in the Aviator.
All his "recent" movie roles has been as an asshole and he does them well

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