#mash season 1

[captainhunnicutt]

Season 1: Closing shots of every episode

Corresponding opening shot posts: Season 1

#mash #mashposting #mash 4077 #mash season 1 #mash closing shots series #hawkeye pierce #margaret houlihan #trapper john mcintyre #max klinger #radar o'reilly #margie cutler #henry blake

[variousqueerthings]

shout-out to all the things that episode 1 introduces that don’t last:

the longer intro

this sexy emo look alongside the oddly deeper hawkeye drawl and less frenetic speech-patterns of later hawkeye (who is she 😍😜👀 she talks like hawkeye’s porn double!)

narrative centering Lieutenant Dish

“Sorry Major Baby” (actually how many times do they use “baby” subsequently?)

this version of the distillery 

this version of father mulcahy

this guy on the right? (why is he there? where does he go?)

“the MUMMY sTrRiiykes!!!!” otherwise known as the “hawkeye sounds like he’s at a 70s party and he’s high as fuck” line (to me)

“attention, attention, the following personnel are assigned to the 4077th mobile army surgical hospital: [list of names of which only a handful are actually going to be main characters]”

#mash #mash season 1 #mash pilot #... i am... rewatching again #during my current rewatch

[oh-hawkeye]

'Never mind! What the major does is her own business. [...] And you would do very well to keep your stories to yourself and mind your own beeswax!' 'Take it easy, Frank. You're getting yourself into a lather.'

M*A*S*H, "The Ringbanger"

#S01E16 #The Ringbanger #warning: nakedidity #formerly wrongly tagged as “this moment appeared on tv exactly 50 years ago” #formerly wrongly tagged as “posted on the episode's 50th anniversary” #MASH 50th anniversary #mash anniversary #MASH #M.A.S.H. #M*A*S*H #MASH S01E16 #mash season 1 #mash series #mash tv #mash 4077 #hawkeye #hawkeye pierce #benjamin franklin pierce #frank burns #Alan Alda #Larry Linville #mashedit #mash edit #mashposting #my gifs #my post

[quordleona03]

Okay so, this Trapper Tuesday, what do people think are the best 10 Trapper episodes - in the first three seasons, no fair counting the episodes where Trapper exists in spirit as BJ conjures him up.

#Trapper Tuesday #Trapper John McIntyre #Big John #mcintyre #john mcintyre #mash season 1 #mash season 2 #mash season 3 #best 10 episodes #wayne rogers #mash tv #trapper fandom #mashposting

[amrv-5]

A bit of a weird update:

I’ve started an episode-by-episode rewatch and analysis of M*A*S*H, which you can find here.

Hope you guys like reaction posts, cause I’m doing a deep dive on particular moments of symbolism that strike me in each episode. So far I’ve talked about the pilot scene in which Hawkeye and Trapper handcuff themselves together, and To Market, to Market’s anti-bureaucratic image of the desk in flight. Check it out!!!!

#MASH #m*a*s*h #mash analysis #mash meta #mashposting #largely inspired by MASHCast #but this is. yknow. from a 20something’s perspective #mash pilot #to market to market #mash season 1

[t00thpasteface]

look all i'm saying is if you give mash a chance with a very grounded sense of the time it was airing in and the pressures it was rebelling against and the brand-new trends it was setting, there will be a point, maybe a few episodes in or maybe a few seasons in, where you suddenly go "okay, yeah, i see why this show became such a popcultural juggernaut that the finale is STILL TO THIS DAY the most-watched tv show episode ever"

#like. literally only superbowls ever come close to the numbers the mash finale pulled. that's how powerful the mash brainworms are #i was catching season 7 episodes on a retro rerun channel before i started watching it in earnest from season 1 onward #2 episodes a night and i think by the third night i was like ''uh oh. fucking uh oh. i can feel the mycelium growing in my cortex'' #shebbz shoutz #mash

[symphonyincoordination]

#mash #mash 4077 #trapper mcintyre #henry blake #this is from Cowboy in season 1 #I think we know by now Hawkeye has great laugh but you know what Trapper is up there too

[nedlittle]

something so hauntological about watching mash season 3 knowing how it ends...none of the characters know henry's never going to make it home, the actors all found out in real time. but the narrative knows how this ends, and the narrative is waiting with an open mouth. so the narrative has henry prefigure his own death throughout the season. in o.r. when hawkeye reassures him one day you're gonna have to go back and die in your bed in bloomington, henry says that he's done that several times. he complains in private charles lamb that everything in this country disappears except me (untrue) followed by boy, would i like to wake up some morning, look down and find myself gone (true). when he gets trapped in the wreckage of the latrine in bombed he knocks twice for "dead" rather than three times for "alive." then there's the scene in the consultant where he soaks in the pool, calling it heaven but says the water could be just a titch warmer (burning burning burning), avoiding conversation with frank by submerging himself underwater. henry spends the whole season unknowingly rehearsing his impending death. he goes around camp trying on other people's deaths for size, haunting the narrative before he's even out of it.

in conclusion:

#mash #id in alt text #this is a pointless text post #using the last shreds of my brain power to formulate one (1) thought before this migraine takes over #something something tommy gillis giving him the kiss of death in sometimes you hear the bullet #it's kinda fucked up that they were going to have the cast party immediately after like one of the writers should have said something :/ #deadass if i'd have been mac i would have cried myself to sleep for a week i'd be PISSED #anyway i firmly believe i could get at least three people into mash based solely on The Hauntology and i'm only three seasons in #ghosts

[incorrectoldgodsquotes]

Horned Head: Can't you put your hostility aside for a moment? Daughter Dooley: Oh, alright. I'll stack it on top of my anger.

#old gods of appalachia #old gods pod #ogoa #old gods season 1 #daughter dooley #horned head #incorrect quotes #source: mash

[pherre]

crying

#this is all hawkeyes fault. father mulcahys been asking to borrow his jokes since season 1 #its me talking #vanya watches mash

[marley-manson]

Well I succumbed and watched the Pilot and first ep of Due South last night.

Really struck me how central the theme of Fraser's estrangement from his father is in the Pilot. Fraser mentioning that the last time they spoke was Christmas, essentially saying that the only times they speak are presumably brief calls at holidays. Gerard responding with a platitude - "I guess the more you know someone, the less needs to be said" - but it becomes quite clear that Fraser feels he doesn't know Bob at all, and has to learn about him through his journals.

And yet they're cut from the same cloth: "I always thought your father was the last of a kind. I was wrong - you are." And this is tied to the mountie stereotype lol.

Bob and Fraser both repeat the lines, "You're going to shoot a mountie? They'll hunt you to the ends of the earth," and they're both wrong. No one wants to pursue Bob Fraser's death except Fraser, and no one's happy with Fraser for solving the case because it uncovered corruption. He gets exiled for it. Bob and Fraser are the only mounties who "always get their man," lol, and it's because of Bob's neglect in the course of duty that Fraser follows in his footsteps and becomes so similar to Bob. He idealizes his father and wanted to grow up to be just like him - we can see that admiration in the drawing of him he finds in Bob's things that he made when he was a child eg, or in the song Superman that plays while Fraser reads his journal in the diner. But he doesn't know him. And he pursues duty above all else because he has nothing else of his father.

And then you have Ray, who seems to exist as the opposite of Bob. If there's one thing Ray is, it's there. He is there for Fraser to hunt down suspects, to invite him to a loud family dinner, to save him from an explosion, he tracks him down to apologize for being dismissive, to invite him to dinner, and he flies to the Yukon when he can't reach him by phone. In the diner scene in particular he's directly positioned as a contrast to Bob's absence both in life and death. Fraser is alone trying to understand his father through his journals (looking for something "he missed" ie his dad), and Ray joins him, ending the thematically significant song montage, and eases his solitude. Fraser says he doesn't have family, and Ray shares his own with him.

And after the pilot case, there's nothing drawing them together except friendship. They're not a mismatched pair of cops assigned together who have to learn to get along, they work together unofficially because they can't help but spend every waking moment together.

Bob represents absence and Ray represents presence, distant admiration vs actually knowing someone.

And I'll probably have more to say on that as like, poles Fraser is caught between, if/as I rewatch more of the show. Ray's position is a little muddy especially because pre VS he buys into Fraser's image to an extent, as pointedly examined in Heaven and Earth. But again, more on that another time.

#due south #boy do i have thoughts on heaven and earth that have been percolating for twenty years #i won't know for sure unless i rewatch it all but i feel like the first season is very thematically coherent and then it kinda #falls apart and gets muddy and contradictory. i last watched season 1 in 2014 and that was how i felt then at least #actually i'd say pilot -> vault is a cohesive thematic narrative and everything after that is extra. maaaaybe bird in the hand #marley on due south #text post #i don't think this will subsume my mash thing - it's an old nostalgia run and those never really become main fandoms - but i do think #it'll make a great side thing for a little bit #i never got the chance to talk much about this show back when i was first into it because i was a lurker then

[grinchwrapsupreme]

MASH and Red Dwarf are sitcom opposites but also the same due to the fact that while both of them are comedies taking place in the midst of tragedy MASH is funnier without the laugh track whereas without the laugh track Red Dwarf becomes a bottomless black hole of existential loneliness and dread

#mash #red dwarf #i think its because 1. #mash happens on a base full of people whereas the crew of red dwarf are extremely isolated #and 2. #in mash theyre making the best of a situation that we know will eventually end #whereas in red dwarf they are actively trying to end their situation and get home and we know they never will #but anyways funney sitcom haha #special thanks to the one season of red dwarf without a laugh track for showing us why its a good thing they usually have one

[variousqueerthings]

i will give hawkeye a pain kink and i will muse to what extent he developed it in edwina..........

#hawkeye pierce #MASH #MASH season 1 #that last bit where nurse cutler steps on his foot and he goes *you're my kinda girl* #if the war did one thing for him it was allow him to explore kink....... #i actually really like nurse cutler it's a shame she doesn't stick around (i say continuously about the nurse characters)

[oh-hawkeye]

Some more Germ Warfare Hawkeye.

#the last one kills me #❤ω❤ #S01E11 #Germ Warfare #mash 50th anniversary #mash anniversary #mash S01E11 #mash season 1 #mash series #mash #m.a.s.h #m*a*s*h #mash 4077 #Hawkeye #hawkeye #hawkeye pierce #benjamin franklin pierce #b. f. pierce #Alan Alda #mashedit #mash edit #my gifs #my post #my personal favourite #mashposting

[dick-chugger]

Genuinely going a bit insane over the fact that almost every major (pun not intended) character in M*A*S*H is queer. Like that's just a thing? Like Hawkeye just casually says things like "If you were any taller, I'd kiss you on the lips" to his friends and most of the time no one mentions it as weird? And yeah, Klinger crossdressing is supposed to be funny to the audience, but in universe most of the characters just think he looks cute? Like dude, I don't know, it's just so refreshing seeing people be so casually queer, especially in a show that's over 50 years old.

#also the quote is from somewhere in season 1 and he says it to radar if anyones wondering #anyways im being normal and not crying #mash #m*a*s*h #hawkeye pierce #trapper mcintyre #bj hunnicutt #maxwell klinger #max klinger #radar o'reilly #henry blake #i dont feel like tagging everyone but i could probably tag like every single character #LIKE EVERY MAN ON THE SHOW FINDS HAWKEYE HOT #LIKE THATS JUST A THING #mash 4077

[amrv-5]

My M*A*S*H season 1 review, episode ranking, and best-of awards list is up!

#mash #mash ranking #mash season 1 #mash review #parker complains