#S10E11: Follies of the Living Concerns of the Dead

[gayness-and-mayhem]

Father Mulcahy being a spin the bottle champion is something that's so important to me actually.

[buckets-of-dirt]

Wally, an important question in life - which m*a*s*h episodes are the top tier ones??

Mice I hope you know me well enough by now to know you're getting a long answer to this question lol. I swear I tried to pare the list down to my absolute favourites from each season but it was really hard in some cases.

I'm listing these in release order rather than ranking them because it would be unfair to compare the comedy episodes with the tragic ones. These are the episodes I'd recommend to someone who's interested in the show but not necessarily willing to watch 11 seasons (though of course there are other good episodes that didn't make it onto this list).

s1e6: Yankee Doodle Doctor

s1e15: Tuttle

s1e17: Sometimes You Hear the Bullet

s1e19: The Longjohn Flap

s2e2: Five O'clock Charlie

s2e12: The Incubator

s2e22: George

s3e11: Adam's Rib

s3e19: Aid Station

s4e1&2: Welcome to Korea

s4e5: The Late Captain Pierce

s5e6: The Nurses

s5e22: Movie Tonight

s5e25: Margaret's marriage

s6e5: War of Nerves

s6e16: The Smell of Music

s7e2: Peace on Us

s7e11: Point of View

s7e14: An Eye for a Tooth

s7e17: Inga

s7e21: C*A*V*E

s7e24: A Night at Rosie's

s8e9: Mr. & Mrs. Who?

s8e11: Lifetime

s8e15: Yessir, That's Our Baby

s8e18: Old Soldiers

s9e5: Death Takes a Holiday

s10e11: Follies of the Living -- Concerns of the Dead

s10e16: Pressure Points

s10e17: Where There's a Will There's a War

s11e1: Hey Look Me Over

s11e4: The Joker is Wild

s11e7: Settling Debts

s11e16: Goodbye, Farwell and Amen

[allulily]

just watched mash s10e11 follies of the living concerns of the dead,,,, what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck

[fieryphrazes]

S/O to past Della for stopping a binge right before Follies of the Living-Concerns of the Dead, which means that current Della was immediately smacked in the face by emotions today 🥸

[radarsmenagerie]

S10e11 “Follies of the Living, Concerns of the Dead” Written by Alan Alda

[mash-rated]

S10E11 “Follies of the Living -- Concerns of the Dead”

Synopsis: the ghost of a mortally wounded GI wanders around the 4077th for a few days, but only Klinger (who is delirious with a mystery fever) can see him

Rating:

Jokes: 2/5

Seriousness: 4/5

Plot: 4/5

Queer subtext: 4/5

Margaret's characterization: 3/5

My thoughts: every time the plots start to feel repetitive, an episode like this pops up to change everything. Private Weston’s perspective is unexpectedly refreshing, and I love the one-sided conversation he has with Margaret about feeling like nobody is listening. Though it’s interesting that this is not the only “Private Weston” who’s passed through the 4077th

[quordleona03]

All three of us watched, so focused we were almost mesmerized, as it spun in a neat, tight circle, throwing off reflective flashes under the dim O-Club lights. "Round and round she goes," mumbled Trap. "Where she stops, nobody knows. Place yer bets." At last it slowed...stopped...and I found myself staring down the barrel of an unloaded whiskey bottle. There followed several heartbeats worth of awkward silence before my eyes were drawn to Mulcahy's. "Well," I said, utterly deadpan, "doesn't this mean I'm s'posed to get a kiss?"

Father Mulcahy being a spin the bottle champion is something that's so important to me actually.