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getting hugged by Hawkeye would fix me I think

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the real mash take i have that people don't want to hear is that i think charles is just as if not more insidiously evil than frank he's just a better written and developed character

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everybody say thank you to Willette Jordan and B. Brass, who brought these burning questions to The Macon News and The Detroit Free Press, respectively (17 July 1983 and 21 December 1972)

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hilarious comedy show

hawkeye pierce ⋆ that joke isn't funny anymore

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There are just so many great things about “Yankee Doodle Doctor.” Hawkeye and Trapper doing the movie star and bodyguard bit. Henry describing Hawkeye as the heartbeat of the 4077th. Bricker’s blatant hypocrisy as he avows the importance of integrity while doing a propaganda film. Hawkeye’s open hatred of the film’s agenda. Margie’s inclusion in the movie. The Marx Brothers routine. And, of course, “Not a very happy ending for a movie. But then no war is a movie.”

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sorry kids daddy lost all his money betting on rhinoceros beetle fights again there won't be a christmas this year

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People quote this scene a lot but I think you miss out if you haven't heard the way William Christopher delivers it

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I haven’t really warmed up to Frank as much as the rest of the fandom seems to have (sorry), but Larry Linville is very funny, and I admire his commitment to the part

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girls love him for his poor posture and pathetic demeanor

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guess who just got ✨dommed by the narrative✨✨✨

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Mike’s instagram

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mash and/or becket for the fandom meme

I'll do M*A*S*H. Thank you!

My favorite female character

Margaret by default. I wish there had been more than one woman in the main cast, but Margaret has some very satisfying character growth. As a bonus, my favorite minor/one-off female characters are Soon-Lee, Kyung-Soon, and Helen

My favorite male character

Hawkeye. I have nothing to say about him that hasn't been said already; he's just a wonderful character

My favorite book/season/etc

I go back and forth between season 3 and season 5. Season 3 is when the show really finds its footing. It has some landmarks with the first episode of the show to not feature a laugh track and the first episode of any sitcom to kill off a main character. It also has a great comfort episode in "Springtime" and the criminally underrated "Bulletin Board." Season 5 has just the right blend of comedy and drama. It has one of the best Sidney episodes with "Dear Sigmund," and it really hones in on Margaret's development. Season 5 is a turning point for both her and Hawkeye; as Margaret starts to grow and improve, Hawkeye (or more specifically his mental health) starts to take a turn for the worse.

My favorite episode (if it's a TV show)

I'm cheating and saying two. I adore "Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde" for the same reasons you highlighted here, and I love "Dear Sis." When Mulcahy's anger issues are brought up in the show, it's mostly played for laughs, but "Dear Sis" takes it seriously. He assaults a patient, and that has personal repercussions. Also, the scene when the 4077th sings Dona Nobis Pacem in the mess tent makes me cry almost every time.

My favorite cast member

Alan Alda by default. I don't know most of the cast members' lives outside of the show, but Alan Alda has had such an interesting and eclectic career. I like his podcast, although I haven't listened to it in a good while, and I like his memoir Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned. It has a killer opening sentence.

My favorite ship

Hawkeye and Trapper maybe, although I don't have any serious ships. I love their yes/and comedy dynamic, and I love ho much they clearly care about each other

A character I’d die defending

Klinger - not from the fandom but from the show. He is subjected to more and more racism as the show progresses, whether it's jokes about his nose or the abhorrent "Goodbye, Cruel World." His pivot from a man desperate to escape the Army to a moneygrubber makes absolutely no sense to me, and that feels rooted in racism as well. And it sucks that he is subjected to so much cruelty when he is perhaps the most consistently kind and selfless character in the show.

A character I just can’t sympathize with

Flagg. I don't even enjoy him as a comedic character some of the time. Some of his episodes I like ("The Abduction of Margaret Houlihan" makes me laugh very hard every time), but other episodes I can't stand.

A character I grew to love

Charles. I still don't love him as much as some of the fandom loves him - I think his bigotry is much deeper and more insidious than Frank's, and it seems like neither the fandom nor the show is willing to call him out - but man does he have a good arc. I didn't like him at first, but I eventually warmed up to him. David Ogden Stiers is just so good in the part. Also, his plot in the series finale is my favorite and the one that left the biggest impact on me, although that could be because I didn't know anything about his plot while other plots had been spoiled for me. I don't think I'll ever recover from the "He wasn't even a soldier. He was a musician" scene.

My anti OTP

I'm glad the show had the sense to not make Margaret and Hawkeye a couple; they're much better as friends and wouldn't be suitable romantic partners. In terms of ships I've seen in the fandom, I can't get behind Charles/Klinger at all. I know they have some moments of connection in the show (I love their last scene in "Death Takes a Holiday"), but I don't understand why people are shipping Klinger, a Lebanese, working-class man, with someone as egregiously racist and classist as Charles.

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BJ just sitting there straight up creaming his pants like “And then hot, sexy Carl will come over with a skin tight t-shirt on with the sleeves cut off….. and then he will climb up a ladder and Peg will simply not be able to resist watching his beautiful ass cheeks as he ascends….. and then he will sexily remove debris with his huge arms from the helpless tender open gutter….. and then he will suggest having sex right there on the luscious dewy grass…. and how can I possibly resist….. I mean how can my wife Peg possibly resist…….” 

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i wish we could expand the definition of characters having a "parent/child relationship" (platonic connotation) to the nastier parts of parenting: the projection, the control, the invasions of privacy, the entitlement, the codependency that sours into mutual bitterness because the relationship is unbreakable and fragile at once. I want to see two unrelated characters have the kind of perversely needy animosity generally reserved for a lonely, angry mother and her kids... i want to see two characters who never once knew each other as kids play out the dynamics of an inheritance of misfortune otherwise reserved by fathers for their children