Well, at least the Newhart ending implied there might be some lasting effect. Bob suggested that Emily wear more sweaters…
bup
June 1, 2010, 12:47am
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Is this Newhart as in Bob Newhart? – Didn’t that show end in the 60’s?
Munch
June 1, 2010, 1:43pm
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The_Second_Stone:
Hawkeye was insane. That was kind of the point of the show. The only rationale response anybody could make to war was to be or become insane. He was a cruel, Don Juan, sanctimonious, narcissist. Same as Frank Burns, but an athiest, competent and not so extreme. Our choice in an insane universe is to be Hawkeye or Frank.
While I agree that Hawkeye was nuts, I don’t agree that his response was the only rational response, or even rational; otherwise we have to dismiss BJ, Colonel Potter, Charles, Margaret, Father Mulcahy, Trapper, and Klinger. I don’t mean to put Hawk down either; he just wasn’t built for the stress he was put under.
I started a thread once opining that he never got over Korea, but I’m too lazy to look for it.
According to the books , he got over it just fine.
lorene
June 1, 2010, 7:01pm
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Huh. So, I guess this isn’t where the St. Elsewhere finale circle jerk is being held?
TV Hawkeye ≠ Book Hawkeye ≠ Movie Hawkeye ≠ TV Hawkeye.
JohnT
June 1, 2010, 8:47pm
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The Circle of Hawkeye. I like it. Perhaps we can get Elton John to write a tune.
Belrix
June 1, 2010, 10:50pm
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Bryan_Ekers:
Well, what you call foreshadowing, I call recycling of hackneyed plotlines. And during the episode with the near-drowning, I recall Hawkeye describing the story differently until the true version was teased out by Freedman. That it wasn’t a long drawn-out process is a function of being a 30-minute regular episode instead of a 2.5-hour finale.
Foreshadowing: your clue to quality literature.
You wanna know what pisses me off?
Bryan_Ekers:
MASH
Bryan_Ekers:
MASH
The_Second_Stone:
Hawkeye
Fenris:
MASH
Bryan_Ekers:
Hawkeye
Ike_Witt:
MASH
silenus:
MASH
Skald_the_Rhymer:
Hawkeye
Skald_the_Rhymer:
Hawkeye
JohnT:
Hawkeye
Here’s a perfectly good pit rant about Newhart and all people can do is hijack it into a MA SH bash. You want to bitch about M AS H, start your own goddam thread!
Really? You think this thread is still about Newhart ?
I thought I had swayed you to my way of thinking with this:
kaylasdad99:
Bullshit.
It was the bestest finale EVAR, and when I’m Emperor of the Universe my first decree shall be that all endeavors, upon their completion, must include a variation of Bob Hartley waking up in his bed and telling his wife Emily that he had just had the weirdest dream.
EVERY endeavor. If you can imagine the SDMB ever closing up shop, the final post on the last thread will be a description of Bob Hartley waking up, confused and disoriented, in Chicago. The final issue of Vanity Fair magazine, when published, will have the scene played out in the last article. When Sixty Minutes airs its final broadcast, Bob will wake Emily, and tell her about the strange man with the quirky little observations on our modern world.
When the heat death of the Universe is imminent, I shall arrange that the very components of the cosmos, with their dying bursts of energy, shall present the scene to a non-existent observer stationed at the location where the Big Bang originated.
Assumes facts not in evidence, sucka.
When Newhart orders Chinese food, I hear he prefers Moo Goo Gui Pan.
TV Guide listed Newhart has the best seasons finale ever. So There.
cards
June 3, 2010, 2:16pm
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Folks, you all are missing the finest final episode ever: Seinfeld.
Come on, it was Hogan’s Heroes, when they were liberated by the American forces. Everybody knows that. If you couldn’t feel sorry and well up for Klink and Shultz, then you don’t deserve an opinion on any matters about best series finales.
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The X-files finale was better than the Newhart one. That’s how shitty it was.
cards:
:eek:
I can only hope cards means the Oz version.