Help with final assignment please: a M*A*S*H Survey

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’m taking a public speaking course (some may recall from my “This movies sucks…” and “Review these movies …” threads) for work, as part of a pre-requisite for advancement.

I’ve been watching FX a lot for their twice daily MASH. I was in high school during it’s original run and still enjoy the repeats (which I’ve seen many times). While watching one episode I remembered it and thought “yuck, I’ve never liked this one” and channel hopped to something else. That’s when I decided on my final speech topic. So I’ve put together this survey for easy data-collection. Without further ado:

Part One: the demographic questions:

  1. Gender (please pick either a or b folks):
    a) Male
    b) Female

  2. Age Group:
    a) Younger than 10
    b) 11 – 20
    c) 21 – 30
    d) 31 – 40
    e) 41 +
    f) I’d really rather not say

  3. Province/State/Other and Country (main residence)

Part Two: the MAS*H questions

  1. Did you watch MASH during it’s original run?
    a) Yes
    b) No

  2. Favorite Colonel?
    a) Henry Blake
    b) Sherman T. Potter

    2.1) Why?

  3. Favorite combination?
    a) Hawkeye – Trapper – Frank
    b) Hawkeye – BJ – Frank
    c) Hawkeye – BJ – Charles

    3.1) Why?

  4. Favorite Company Clerk?
    a) Radar
    b) Klinger

  5. Favorite character (not the actor):

  6. Least liked character:

  7. Favorite episode (brief synopsis):

  8. Least like episode (brief synopsis):

  9. Tell me, does the show stand up to the test of time? Or “yuck, this show sucks” would be more appropriate? Why?

  10. Comment you’d like to make (MASH related please).
    Off topic:

  11. Would you like to have the results posted when the numbers have been crunched?
    a) Yeah, that’d be great.
    b) Nah, couldn’t care less.

That’s all folks.
Again, thanks for you’re input. My last speech (“This movie sucked…”) was a huge success and was very well received.

TTFN
Lynn

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Part One: the demographic questions:

  1. Gender (please pick either a or b folks):
    b) Female

  2. Age Group:
    c) 21 – 30

  3. Province/State/Other and Country (main residence)
    PA / USA
    Part Two: the MAS*H questions

  4. Did you watch MASH during it’s original run?
    a) Yes - I rrealize I was a little kid… but I did watch it… and I have clear memories of it.

  5. Favorite Colonel?
    b) Sherman T. Potter
    2.1) Why?
    IMHO his was the better written character.

  6. Favorite combination?
    3.1) Why?
    I just can’t make a choice on this one… I like them all for different reasons

  7. Favorite Company Clerk?
    a) Radar

  8. Favorite character (not the actor):
    Hawkeye

  9. Least liked character:
    Random scantily dressed nurse of the week

  10. Favorite episode (brief synopsis):
    Where Potter gets his horse

  11. Least like episode (brief synopsis):
    Any one of a number of them where hawkeye and various others get court marshalled… I just find them boring

  12. Tell me, does the show stand up to the test of time? Or “yuck, this show sucks” would be more appropriate? Why?
    The show is timeless… the characters are incredibly well written… and difficult themes are covered with wonderful humor

  13. Comment you’d like to make (MASH related please).
    I have wonderful memories of watching this show with my dad… thank you for bringing such happy thoughts to my day

Off topic:
11) Would you like to have the results posted when the numbers have been crunched?
a) Yeah, that’d be great

-Pandora

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Demographics:

  1. Male
  2. 21-30
  3. NY

MAS*H Questions:

  1. No
  2. Potter
    2.1) He was a no-nonsense “father” type…who could also play along with a joke. He wasn’t a goofball like the rest of the group, but wasn’t super-serious either. Blake was too much a goofball…didn’t make me think “C.O.”
    3)Hawkeye-BJ-Charles
    3.1) Picking on Frank was funny for a while, but he was always a punching bag, and it got tired after a while. Charles was a stuffed, pompous type who made us want to ocasionally deflate him…but he was also capable of taking his own revenge, which kept it fresh.
  3. Radar
  4. Potter
  5. Frank Burns
    7 & 8) Memories of the show aren’t vivid enough for me to remember a specific episode (except the 2.5-hour finale, but I know it wasn’t my favorite or least favorite).
  6. It stands the test of time. It’s a great, funny sitcom with enough distinct personalities to interest a viewer in watching another episode.
  7. Not much to say that hasn’t been said above.
  8. Yes, I’d be interested in the results.
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I hope all my ubb codes work. If not, soceity is to blame.

Part One: the demographic questions:

  1. Gender (please pick either a or b folks):
    a) Male
    b) Female–This is me.

  2. Age Group:
    a) Younger than 10
    b) 11 – 20
    c) 21 – 30
    d) 31 – 40 - somewhere in here
    e) 41 +
    f) I’d really rather not say

  3. Province/State/Other and Country (main residence) - Michigan

Part Two: the MAS*H questions

  1. Did you watch MASH during it’s original run?
    i]a) Yes *
    b) No

  2. Favorite Colonel?
    a) Henry Blake
    b) Sherman T. Potter

    2.1) Why? -* Potter was more believable ( even if this was a sitcom.) Blake was a likeable flake, but totally unfit for command. I’ve had a few bosses like him in the dippy department.Brilliant at one thing, totally useless in every other department. Potter’s crustiness, letters home to Mildred and his horse, endeared me to him. *

  3. Favorite combination?
    a) Hawkeye – Trapper – Frank
    *b) Hawkeye – BJ – Frank *
    c) Hawkeye – BJ – Charles

    3.1) Why? * Watching Hawkeye and BJ irritate Frank was half the fun. Although I really liked Charles too. Seeing him get set down was a joy. In a way, he was an earlier incarnation of Fraser. An elitist snob. *

  4. Favorite Company Clerk?
    a) Radar
    b) Klinger

  5. Favorite character (not the actor):* Hawkeye. *

  6. Least liked character: *Col. Blake. *

  7. Favorite episode (brief synopsis): *Colonel potter is the last survivor of a group of WW1 veterans and the MASH gang all share a bottle of cognac (?) with him. It’s the first episode I can think of. That and the one about Col. Potter’s horse have colic. *

  8. Least like episode (brief synopsis):Can’t recall any at the moment.

  9. Tell me, does the show stand up to the test of time? Or “yuck, this show sucks” would be more appropriate? Why?

*War stories, even satirical ones like MASH, are timeless. Even though it was far from a documentary-ish mentality like , well, Platoon or Saving Private Ryan, it captured the funnier stuff, the irreverant attitudes that I am willing to bet occurred more often than not, only the folks at home never heard about it because it would look unpatriotic and disprespectful to the cause - whatever the hell that means.
Not all soldiers were John Wayne about getting the enemy.

I think Hawkeye embodied the disillusioned soul who did his job that he was very very good at and he hated it every step of the way. Hated the waste of life and the constant death.He had a cutting wit that saved his spirit from becoming morose.*

  1. Comment you’d like to make (MASH related please).
    *I was a kid and grew up watching MASH and still would rather watch this show than, say, 90210/Melrose/Buffy or some other teenage angst crap-fest like that. This may sound like a load of excrement, but I owe alot of my comic timing to Hawkeye. I learned from him the power of a cutting remark and how to put someone in his place. To pop one’s ego balloon, if you will, with one well timed verbal jab.

Fr. Mulcahy was a little unbeleivable at times with his “oh gosh” attitude.

Looking back on it, Klinger should be the patron saint of Transvestites.Even though he wasn’t truly one because all he really wanted was a Section 8. It’s not a big deal now to see a man in dress, but what his character did made everyone laugh every week with his outfits and weasel like ways of scrounging for the company.

When the show ended, 1981?/1982?, I cried like an idiot. And in retrospect, consider all the shows out there that had long runs and then think of their last show. I think that MASH’s ending was one of the best, with everyone having a farewell dinner and then going their seperate ways back into the Civilian World and Hawkeye seeing from the chopper, "Goodbye’ in the flagstone. Very appropriate and realistic. (Cheers’ ending is the other great endings to a great show, IMHO.)*
11) Would you like to have the results posted when the numbers have been crunched?
a) Yeah, that’d be great.
b) Nah, couldn’t care less.
I have a question for the MASH-ophiles out there, I swear that I saw Colonel potter ( only not playing colonel potter) in an episode playing a tight ass old school regular army general. This was during the Blake time. Am I on drugs or what?

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  1. Gender a) Male

  2. Age Group:
    c) 21 – 30

  3. Indiana, USA

  4. Did you watch MASH during it’s original run?
    a) Yes

  5. Favorite Colonel?
    b) Sherman T. Potter
    2.1) Why? Much more realistic. Blake was too
    goofy. Potter added so much more to the
    plots.

  6. Favorite combination?
    c) Hawkeye – BJ – Charles
    3.1) Why? I agree with cmkeller. Charles was a
    much better addition to the great duo of
    Hawkeye and BJ. But Trapper was wonderful
    character as well.

  7. Favorite Company Clerk? a) Radar

  8. Favorite character (not the actor): Hawkeye

  9. Least liked character: Burns

  10. Favorite episode (brief synopsis): The episode
    that spanned one year. Started with New Years,
    ended with New Years. (Actually, this is the only
    favorite of mine I can remember right now.)

  11. Least like episode (brief synopsis): Literally
    cannot think of one.

  12. Tell me, does the show stand up to the test of time? Or “yuck, this show sucks” would be more appropriate? Why?

I could watch this show everyday.

  1. Comment you’d like to make (MASH related please). MASH is a wonderful reminder of my youth. It was the show my family watched together, especially on vacations at my grandparents’ house.

Off topic:
11) Would you like to have the results posted when the numbers have been crunched?
a) Yeah, that’d be great

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Sorry about the screw up in the italics to bold. Anything in italics is my answer. I need to call the CLUE POLICE and figure out what in the heck happen.

FTR, I really couldn’t pick between hawkeye/bj and the frank or charles conundrum. I liked them all, in their own ways.

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Part One: the demographic questions:

  1. Gender (please pick either a or b folks):
    b) Female

  2. Age Group:
    c) 21 – 30

  3. Province/State/Other and Country (main residence)
    CA, USA

Part Two: the MAS*H questions

  1. Did you watch MASH during it’s original run?
    a) Yes

  2. Favorite Colonel?
    b) Sherman T. Potter

2.1) Why? Henry was kind of a flake.

  1. Favorite combination?
    a) Hawkeye – Trapper – Frank

3.1) Why? Eh, I like the original trio.

  1. Favorite Company Clerk?
    a) Radar

  2. Favorite character (not the actor): Hawkeye

  3. Least liked character: Frank…the weasel!

  4. Favorite episode (brief synopsis): The one where HotLips thought she was preggers, but they needed a rabbit for the test. They were going to used Radar’s, but Radar didn’t want his rabbit killed for the results, so they did surgery on the bunny.

  5. Least like episode (brief synopsis): The one where Henry died on his way home. Sad stuff.

  6. Tell me, does the show stand up to the test of time? Or “yuck, this show sucks” would be more appropriate? Why? Yes, because the theme of trying to be normal (live a normal life) in a place and time of turmoil is always interesting.

  7. Comment you’d like to make (MASH related please). My family and I were driving from FL to MI (returning from a vacation) when the final episode was aired. We stopped in a hotel just to watch the episode.
    Off topic:

  8. Would you like to have the results posted when the numbers have been crunched?
    a) Yeah, that’d be great.

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Demographics:

  1. Gender
    a) Male

  2. Age Group
    d) 31-40

  3. Location
    Colorado USA

MAS*H

  1. Watch Original?
    a) Yes

  2. Favorite Colonel?
    b) Sherman T. Potter
    2.1) Potter was a stronger character with more sincere writing. Potter came along when the show tried to be more serious. Blake was often portrayed as a buffoon.

  3. Favorite Combo?
    c) Hawkeye - BJ - Charles
    3.1) Charles was a more interesting foil who could turn the tables on Hawkeye & BJ. Charles also had a human side; Burns was nothing more than a caricature with no redeeming human qualities.

  4. Favorite Clerk?
    a) Radar

  5. Favorite Character?
    Charles. See 3.1 above.

  6. Least Liked Character?
    A tie between Burns and Klinger (both very simple charicatures).

  7. Favorite Episode?
    Any of the various practical joke episodes. Also the second time (with BJ instead of Trapper) where Hawkeye performs unnecessary surgery to keep a gung-ho general out of combat. The moral complexity of the dilemma gives us a break from Hawkeye’s usually self-righteous attitude.

  8. Least Liked Episodes?
    Any of the ones with a syrupy “message” with no moral complexity (it’s wrong to abandon infants, etc.).

  9. Test of Time?
    More or less. The writing, acting and production is usally top-notch. Many of the episodes are forgettable, but the characters and general theme will be true as long as humans have to do uncomfortable and unpleasant things for ambiguous or dubious reasons.

  10. Comments?
    Having travelled extensively, I’ve noticed that one can find MAS*H broadcast nearly everywhere in the world. It’s a nice taste of home that one can count on in a strange place.

  11. Post results?
    a) Yeah, sure, why not?

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Part One: the demographic questions:

  1. Gender:
    a) Male

  2. Age Group:
    d) 31 – 40

  3. Province/State/Other and Country (main residence):
    Maryland

Part Two: the MAS*H questions

  1. Did you watch MASH during it’s original run?
    a) Yes (but saw more episodes in re-runs)

  2. Favorite Colonel?
    a) Henry Blake

2.1) Why?
It was a close call for me. The Potter character was certainly more complex and developed. But Blake wins for humor value.

  1. Favorite combination?
    a) Hawkeye – Trapper – Frank

3.1) Why?
See above (2.1) for similar rationale. I did like Charles’ insufferable pomposity. B.J was okay until he grew the mustache.

  1. Favorite Company Clerk?
    a) Radar

  2. Favorite character (not the actor):
    Colonel Flagg was my favorite. But if you are looking for a regular, I’ll have to go with Frank. Trapper would have probably won this vote if he had been around longer.

  3. Least liked character:
    Klinger

  4. Favorite episode (brief synopsis):
    The one where Hawkeye and Trapper try to score an incubator for the unit. A classic.

  5. Least like episode (brief synopsis):
    I can’t really say right now; one of the latter preachy ones, I’m sure. Pick any where Hawkeye is showing his pacifism more than the usual 90%.

  6. Tell me, does the show stand up to the test of time? Or “yuck, this show sucks” would be more appropriate? Why?
    Yes, it stands the test of time. It still makes me laugh. And, despite what it may seem from my earlier comments, I still think the poignancy can be very affecting. I saw the Final Episode again just a couple of months ago, and still broke down when the lady smothered her own baby. That is power, folks. It’s just too bad Alan Alda felt like he had to reside on the soapbox all too often.

  7. Comment you’d like to make (MASH related please).
    One of the best shows ever to hit the air. No, make that the best.

Off topic:
11) Would you like to have the results posted when the numbers have been crunched?
a) Yeah, that’d be great.

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Demographics
1 – A. male
2 – D
3 – Ohio
MASH
1 – A. Yes
2 – A. Blake (My favorite character. Couldn’t stand Potter’s “sufferin’ saddlesoap.”)
3 – B. Hawkeye-BJ-Frank (funniest trio, never cared for Trapper that much. Would have been great to see Hawkeye-BJ-Frank-Henry in the same episodes)
4 – A. Radar
5 – Henry Blake (Yeah, he was a buffoon, but a funny one; as an inept but well-meaning leader, he was a great sitcom character. Not too complex to be funny, but not a total joke like Frank Burns. One of the few I think I would care to be friends with IRL, along with BJ and Mulcahy.)
6 – Hawkeye (I just couldn’t stand his “terminal righteousness”, something he accused Frank Burns of in one episode. Then his character made no sense in later years; he would get all upset over totally mundane things in one episode, then be back to normal in the next. I hate that kind of character incongruity.)
7 – The one (first season) where each character wants something from someone else, and has to do a favor for him or her to get it, which leads to a chain of favors that falls apart at the end.
8 – The one where Hawkeye is out somewhere and gets injured and has to be cared for by some Koreans, and he is the only one who speaks English, so we get a half hour of nothing but his whining.
9 – Early seasons were timeless, and are still funny today; no topical humor, just funny situations and dialogue. Later seasons sucked, weren’t funny then and painful to watch now.
10 – On local late-night TV here they show MASH reruns, and have now gotten to the last season, which I didn’t watch most of in original airing. It’s interesting to watch some episodes from close to 20 years ago that I’ve never seen before, but mostly I’m amazed at how truly wretched this show got in the later years. I don’t mean in predictability or caricature, like “Cheers” or “Married with Children”; I mean horrendous acting, total lack of any humor, characters doing things completely out of character. This show lived about five years too long.

11 – Yeah, that’s be great.

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Part One: the demographic questions:

  1. Gender (please pick either a or b folks):
    a) Male

  2. Age Group:

    c) 21 – 30

  3. Dublin , Ireland

Part Two: the MAS*H questions

  1. Did you watch MASH during it’s original run?
    a) Yes

  2. Favorite Colonel?
    b) Sherman T. Potter
    2.1) Blake was just to one dimensional . Potter was just a better and funnier character

  3. Favorite combination?

    c) Hawkeye – BJ – Charles

    3.1)Charles was a better counter to Hawkeye / BJ

  4. Favorite Company Clerk?
    a) Radar

  5. Favorite character (not the actor):
    Hawkeye.

  6. Least liked character:
    Klinger

  7. Favorite episode (brief synopsis):The one where Hawkeye has a mental breakdown on the bus

  8. Least like episode (brief synopsis):Hawkeye and Hotlips during the bombraid.

  9. Tell me, does the show stand up to the test of time? Or “yuck, this show sucks” would be more appropriate? Why? :
    Yes it does stand up after all these years . It also travells very well and is loved all over the world.

  10. Comment you’d like to make (MASH related please).
    Don’t have one .
    Off topic:

  11. Would you like to have the results posted when the numbers have been crunched?
    a) Yeah, that’d be great.

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By the way, Shirley, Harry Morgan did play a gung-ho general before Potter; General Bartford Hamilton Steele, in a good third season episode where he goes nuts at the end after trying to court-martial Hawkeye. He asks the black chopper pilot on the stand to give him “a number”, and then says, “well, come on, boy, you’ve got it in your blood.” And then starts dancing and singing “Mississippi Mud.”

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LOL, nope, not drugs.

In fact, I’m watching that episode right now!!!

Not only is he ‘tight ass’ he’s loopy, 'round the bend, certifiable, loony as a $1 coin.

Now, to answer the survey:

Part One: the demographic questions:

1) Gender (please pick either a or b folks):
a) Male

2) Age Group:
c) 21 – 30

3) Province/State/Other and Country (main residence)
Ontario, Canada

Part Two: the MAS*H questions

1) Did you watch MASH during it’s original run?
a) Yes

I think so, anyway. I was just a wee one, but I think I caught the tail end of the original run.

2) Favorite Colonel?
a) Henry Blake

2.1) Why?
::Shrug:: Dunno…that lovable goofball just appealed to me.

3) Favorite combination?
a) Hawkeye – Trapper – Frank

3.1) Why?
Again, dunno.

4) Favorite Company Clerk?
a) Radar

5) Favorite character (not the actor):
Hawk/Radar/Frank tied.

6) Least liked character:
Charles.

7) Favorite episode (brief synopsis):
Too many to choose.

8) Least like episode (brief synopsis):
Blah…none of them.

9) Tell me, does the show stand up to the test of time? Or “yuck, this show sucks” would be more appropriate? Why?

Timeless. It deals with topics that will never go away, isn’t topical to the point of being nonsensical and is just plain funny.

Off topic:
11) Would you like to have the results posted when the numbers have been crunched?
a) Yeah, that’d be great

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  1. b)Female

  2. c)21-30

  3. Manitoba, Canada

Part two

  1. b)No

  2. b)Potter - He was by far the more believable.

  3. c) Because Winchester was so fun to bug, what a pompus ass.

  4. a) Because he seemes so sweet

  5. Colonel Flagg, gawd he would crack me up.

  6. Tie between Frank and Hot Lips, was in the military myself, can’t stand her or him.

  7. Any episode with Colonel Flagg.

  8. Tie between when Radar leaves or when Colonel Blake gets shot down.

  9. Yes it does. I dates a tough headbanger biker type who confessed to me that the final episode was the only show that made him cry.

  10. Wish they had something equivalent now, I liked China Beach but it didn’t last, Tour of Duty bit.

  11. sure run the results.

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  1. Male

  2. Age Group:d) 31 – 40

  3. Province/State/Other and Country : Georgia

                  Part Two: the M*A*S*H questions

  4. Did you watch MASH during it’s original run?
    a) Yes

  5. Favorite Colonel?
    a) Henry Blake

2.1) Why? I enjoyed Blake’s good-hearted ineptitude. The perfect comic take on the incompetent boss.

  1. Favorite combination?
    a) Hawkeye – Trapper – Frank

3.1) Why? I agree with Gilligan. The writing was better in the early years. BJ was preachy and annoying. One preachy, self-righteous character (Hawkeye) was enough. BJ provided better balance. His character wasn’t self-righteous; he was a party guy just trying to make the best of a bad situation. Frank was hysterical. I loved the episode where the North Koreans captured him, but then sent him back.

  1. Favorite Company Clerk?
    a) Radar. The episode where Radar gets wounded is a classic.

  2. Favorite character (not the actor):
    Colonel Flagg among the occasional guests. Colonel Blake among the regulars.

  3. Least liked character: Klinger. Annoying.

  4. Favorite episode (brief synopsis): Death of Henry Blake. It was hilarious right up to the end, when Radar announces Blake’s been killed. The OR goes silent. You hear someone drop a scalpel. Nicely done. Oh yeah, the scene where Radar is standing at attention as the helicopter takes off, and Blake gets out, comes over and salutes him. Classic.

  5. Least like episode (brief synopsis): 90% of the episodes in the last few years were weak. The bad episodes were so forgettable, I’m struggling to think of one of the plots. I’ll guess I’ll go with the episode where Hawkeye gets blinded temporarily. A bit overwrought.

  6. Tell me, does the show stand up to the test of time? Or “yuck, this show sucks” would be more appropriate? Why?

Well, considering BJ and Hawkeye’s 70’s - style haircuts, I guess you could say it’s dated. :wink: Some of the more strident anti-military episodes are a bit dated. (Post-Viet Nam anti-military attitudes come through loud and clear.) Hey, the military is not always either evil or incompetent, OK, Hawkeye?

  1. Comment you’d like to make (MASH related please).

The show went downhill after Margaret got plastic surgery and stopped being slutty. Sorry, but slutty was funny. When a visiting General would show up, and then make some knowing aside to Margaret, man, that was funny stuff.
Off topic:
11) Would you like to have the results posted when the numbers have been crunched?
a) Yeah, that’d be great.

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On question 3, I meant to say Trapper provided better balance (not BJ).

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Part One: the demographic questions:

  1. Gender (please pick either a or b folks):
    a) Male

  2. Age Group:
    c) 21 – 30

  3. Province/State/Other and Country (main residence)
    Oregon USA

Part Two: the MAS*H questions

  1. Did you watch MASH during it’s original run?
    a) Yes!!!

  2. Favorite Colonel?
    a) Henry Blake

2.1) Why?
Blake was a drinking buddy type, Potter was really more of the father figure, responsible type. I prefer the drinking buddy.

  1. Favorite combination?
    a) Hawkeye – Trapper – Frank

    3.1) Why?
    I liked Charles a lot better than Frank, but Trapper was much cooler than BJ. See above explanation.

  2. Favorite Company Clerk?
    a) Radar

  3. Favorite character (not the actor):
    Father Mulcahy. You gotta love an alcoholic boxer priest.

  4. Least liked character:
    Max Klinger. Watching the shows now, I don’t know why, but as a child he always creeped me out. I guess hairy transvestites have that effect on me.

  5. Favorite episode (brief synopsis):
    The Easter episode where the gang gets a lamb, and Radar gets attached to it, and saves it from being killed. In the end I think they all had leg of Spam, if memory serves. I never figured out why Radar, an Iowa farmboy (from Ottumwa, I think), was uncomfortable with that.

  6. Least liked episode (brief synopsis):
    I know they don’t count, but any of the “AfterMAS*H” episodes. hurrrk, yecch!

  7. Tell me, does the show stand up to the test of time? Or “yuck, this show sucks” would be more appropriate? Why?
    It definitely stands the test of time, because it was really one of the first effective ensemble shows, where each character really added to the depth of the show. It was also the first show I remember that used location to good effect. I think the camp itself was as much of a character as any of the people. It kind of foreshadowed a lot of the shows in which most of the action took place in a very few locations, shows like Taxi, Barney Miller, Cheers, etc. in which the where was as important as the who. Brilliant, IMHO.

  8. Comment you’d like to make (MASH related please).
    If it hadn’t been made, the whole landscape of network television would be vastly different. It showed that TV shows can be made out of movies (although, in doing so it encouraged such dreck as the “Police Academy”, “Fast Times at Ridgmont High, the Series”, and countless other huge, hurking, steaming piles of dung).

Off topic:
11) Would you like to have the results posted when the numbers have been crunched?
a) Yeah, that’d be great.

You’re doing honorable work. I salute you.

BTW, in addition to Harry Morgan being on the show before Potter showed up, does anyone remember the episode that Mike Farrell was in before BJ came on the scene?

And wasn’t it odd that Colonels Blake and Potter both had wives named Mildred? Didn’t Trapper and BJ have wives w/ the same name too, or am I high on White Out again?

Didn’t thay pay the writers enough to come up w/ some new names?

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Blake’s called his wife Mildred in some early episodes, but then it became Lorraine. Sweet Lorraine. You stumped me on Mike Farrell in an early episode. A patient, probably, but I’ll have to go do the research.

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Part One: the demographic questions:

  1. a) Male
  2. Age Group: d) 31 – 40
  3. New York

Part Two: the MAS*H questions

  1. a) Yes

  2. Favorite Colonel? b) Sherman T. Potter
    2.1) He was a more complex character and the contrast between a regular army officer and the draftees who served under him created better script opportunities.

  3. a) Hawkeye – Trapper – Frank
    3.1) Not a big BJ fan. I think the best combo probably would have been Hawkeye-Trapper-Charles

  4. a) Radar

  5. Col Flagg was always funny but not a regular.

  6. Probably BJ (see above). I can’t think of a single distinguishing thing about his character. Father Mulcahy and Frank Burns were also pretty one dimensional.

7 & 8) I haven’t watched an episode in over ten years and can’t recall any particular ones off the top of my head.

  1. I suppose the fact that I haven’t felt any major desire to watch reruns would indicate that the show hasn’t stood the test of time for me.

  2. I feel the show went downhill when Alda politicized it in the later years (despite the fact that I agree with him on many political issues).

  3. a) Yeah, that’d be great.

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1a, 2d, 3 MN
1a, 2a 2.1 original character, caught mood of film better
3b 3.1 better actors, Charles was unfairly set up to be the heavy
4a
5 Frank
6 Hawkeye
7 None, really
8 Hawkeye doing a long monologue after getting hit on the head
9 No, it doesn’t stand up. It didn’t stand up during its run. It went from an ensemble show about the Korean War to a star vehicle that really belonged in Nam and where everyone become Max and Margaret and they saved 102% of all the patients and the AUTHOR of the books said that he hated the series.

10 I hate MASH and think it is tremendously over-rated (and I have a Masters in TV comedy)

  1. a (sure)

P.S. MASH sucks

P.P.S. This survey will probably mostly draw from people who like it, so (as a speech teacher) please don’t use it to back any claims that MASH is good. It’s all opinion anyway.

P.P.P.S. If they had killed off Hawkeye, maybe MASH wouldn’t have sucked.

Bucky