Excuse me? In what universe was Loretta Swit ever remotely close to Sally Kellerman in terms of sheer hotness?!? :dubious:
You left out “Kiss my hot lips!” :o
And at breakfast the next morning, Hawkeye sent Frank over the edge by asking if she was “better than self-abuse.” 
That is one HOT woman!
For what it’s worth, she was described in the novel as a fairly ordinary looking fortyish blonde woman. “She was tallish, willowy, blondish, fortyish. She had a nice figure. She was, in fact, a nice-looking forty-year-old female.”
Not a bombshell, and older than most of the main characters.
Not hot, but cute as a button! 
Michelle Phillips (Mackenzie’s stepmother) was Lt. Dish in a few first-season episodes (she was played by Jo Ann Pflug in the movie), but was soon dropped along with most of the supporting cast.
I always thought the nurses Radar was infatuated with were really cute, especially the one who liked classical music. She could play Bach for me any time! :o
That is almost exactly how I would describe Swit’s Hot Lips. I wouldn’t have used the word “willowy”. Maybe “sturdy”.
Ah, Bach!
River Hippie:
That’s what Donald Penobscot said!
I’d say she was average looking, neither insanely attractive or remotely ugly. But she knew how to use what she had.
I haven’t watched the show in ages and posted my initial response from memory. But I was also a kid when I saw most of them and I guess Swit just struck me as older and thus uninteresting. Now that I’m in the age bracket she was in during the show, I can see a lot more of the attraction. No amazing Hollywood temptress but I’d swing her into the “hot” column given the binary choice.
Okay, there seems to be some confusion here over TV MASH, Movie MASH, and Book MASH. In the film and book, Radar was NOT the innocent boy he was in the series and Hawkeye wasn’t the lothario/chief malcontent that he was in the series either.
In the film, O’Houlihan (she had an O’ then) got her nickname during the coronation celebration when Trapper got named Chief Surgeon. Radar ran the cord and planted the microphone under her cot. And then, back in the radio room, after Trapper, Duke, Radar, Diego Red (I love the Bickersons!) and a couple others listened in, they decided to share the proceedings with the rest of the camp and switched it over to PA. Hawkeye was in surgery at the time, he commented to I think it was Ugly John that it seemed that Major Burns was performing a dilation and curettage on Major O’Houlihan.
The major reason Wayne Rogers left the series was he was tired of Trapper being second fiddle to Hawkeye. In the film and book, the characters were equals or Trapper was a bit higher in status.
Correction: Dago Red. The nickname comes from the book and involves an incident with some sacramental wine.
I never found her particularly attractive. Nothing wrong with her at all, but she just didn’t do much for me.
I think she was very sexy in early MASH. Maybe I’m biased by having watched her in my ‘formative’ years.
Wide sensual mouth. I don’t think she ever really showed her body. You were left to assume she was curvy under the fatigues. (Or assume she wasn’t curvy if you don’t like curvy.)
The word ‘saucy’ comes to mind.
But Miss Piggy has better hair.
I always felt “Hot Lips” was closer to Peanut’s Lucy Van Pelt. Except blond. Sorta.
Not hot woman playing a hot character. By ‘hot’ I mean in terms of attitude and personality, she’s fine with me physically.
Hot, but not smokin’ hot.
Would she make an attractive zombie, or are all zombies equally unattractive?
I don’t know that she was considered “ugly” in Mission: Impossible. Her character was just what I would call “plain” or “mannish” (since she was shown to be a tomboy when she was a child).
Hell, I once had someone try to tell me that Sandra Bullock was “mannish,” which completely blew me away. I think she’s yummy! :o
She wasn’t bad, but I thought that the woman who played “Hot Lips” in the movie - Sally Kellerman - was better looking.