#mash polls

[summerreign4077]

May the best Charles win…

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Francis Mulcahy…

Propaganda for the mic skills:

The man is snarky af and can definitely find unique ways to insult his opponent

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Propaganda for the wrestling skills:

He was a professional feather weight boxer, so he has some experience with organized fights

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[francisjohnpatrickmulcahy]

Something that's been knocking around my skull for a while is about how MASH and Muppets are two of my very most favorite things. Two things which no matter what's going on in the world around me or inside my head, these are two things which always make me feel… if not "good" then at least some flavor of "comfortable" (no small feat with that kind of reliability).

I sometimes find fun comparisons between MASH and Muppets from the same era both shows would have been on TV, the most obvious parallel imo being Houlihan and Miss Piggy of course. But I also see such similarities between Klinger and Gonzo, Radar and Scooter, Charles and Sam the Eagle, etc.

But here's the million-dollar question:

These are as many characters as I am imaginative to come up with for possible contenders, I'm certain I must be looking clear past a few obvious choices.

Also I'm curious to know if there're other similarities you guys see!

[quordleona03]

The 4077th diner

Hawkeye Pierce (naturally) is the waitstaff. Who is the cook, and what diner food does the cook make? Pick your MASH 4077th character to be the cook and then reblog with the diner menu that the cook is going to produce.

[basil-the-scorned]

My only take on the Mash polls: I'm really surprised/ happy that the final 4 episodes that made it are specifically episodes that you can show to someone as the main genre of MASH, which is a comedy- drama.

Yes, it does leans more on the drama in later season, but it was always there. Sometimes You Hear The Bullet is one of those key episodes where it shines the most and that's in the first season of the show.

(gonna hide spoilers for it even though it's a 40+ year show)

Yankee Doodle Doctor hits that seriousness towards the end with Hawkeye's speech, but to me it doesn't linger on the rest of the episode like it does in Sometimes You Hear The Bullet.

Tommy's death is such a shock, that it affects everything, from Hawkeye's actions from then on, to even making the B plot of the episode duller afterwards. That was the first time the series leaned into the drama part, and it stayed for the episodes.

After that, more episodes began to do that, like Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde where Hawkeye's inability to sleep becomes more uncomfortable and sad to just watch. From him singing "Der Fuehrer's Face" with rain/unshed tears while Radar worryingly looks on to telling a also worried Trapper his rambling plans to find who started the whole Korean war, the episode leans into Hawkeye's disgust on the war, which lingers into future seasons.

It also unknowingly foreshadows later seasons where Hawkeye reaches small breaking points and frustrations over the war, from the food to the countless lives, relationships and time lost, until the finale where it just becomes too much and Hawkeye is changed forever.

[kreetchius]

Major Character Death Warning

This is sort of a M*A*S*H question but also an AO3-warnings question.

In a post-GFA story where Frank Burns never actually appears as a character but the reader finds out during the story that Burns is dead, do you have to tick the Major Character Death Warning tickbox? Technically yes because Burns is a major and so if he dies this is a Major Character Death. Technically no because he's not a major character in the story in which he dies. Which is it? Asking for a friend.

[pretzelcoatll]

Any kind. And if you feel like it put in thr tags your favorite kind/ why you dont.

[mash4077confessions]

*Yes, this poll has been previously done. I removed Frank this time, because last time he won by an overwhelming majority. I'm curious to see who people will choose without him on the list this time.

[summerreign4077]

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

How successful would Captain Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce…

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[tawnysoup]

SIFFRIN FLAT NOSE TRUTHERS WE WIN!!!!! WE HAVE WON!!!!!!

[episodeoftv]

FINAL VOTE (3rd place votes)

propaganda and summaries are under the cut (May include spoilers)

M*A*S*H: 11.16 Goodbye, Farewell and Amen

In the closing days of the Korean War, the staff of the 4077 M*A*S*H Unit find themselves facing irrevocable changes in their lives.

LITERALLY the most episode ever. For American television broadcasts it remains the most-watched primetime television episode ever, beaten only by a number of Super Bowls, the moon landing, and the Nixon resignation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Farewell_and_Amen

Star Trek: The Original Series: 2.01 Amok Time

In the throes of his Pon Farr mating period, Spock must return to Vulcan to meet his intended future wife, betrothed from childhood.

this is the fuck or die episode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amok_Time

[quordleona03]

Hawkeye (Clinton Francis "Clint" Barton)

Benjamin Franklin Pierce canonically explains to anyone who asks him why he goes by Hawkeye that it's a character from The Last of the Mohicans, either the only book his father ever read or his father's favourite book. Hawkeye Pierce was born (I think) in August 1920, went to Korea just before he turned 30, had 3 birthdays in Korea, and his 33rd birthday after the war ended. In September 1964, when the Marvel comic book character Hawkeye/Clint Barton was introduced, my headcanon is that Hawkeye Pierce was 44, no longer looking at comic books (I assume he did as a boy), and crucially, I think the people in his life who still call him "Hawkeye" are - his college friends, those he's still in touch with: his fellow 4077th survivors: and, occasionally but not invariably, his dad. Hawkeye/Clint Barton was introduced as a "reluctant villain" in three issues of Tales of Suspense - September 1964, December 1964 and April 1965: Hawkeye joined the Avengers in May 1965. Hawkeye left the Avengers in 1973, appeared only sporadically for ten years or so, returned with a new series called The West Coast Avengers, and has appeared fairly regularly since then in various different series and crossovers through the 1980s and 1990s and even early in the 21st century. Until the Marvel Cinematic Universe launched (Hawkeye/Clint Barton first appeared in Thor, 2011) I think it at least possible that Hawkeye Pierce would never have heard of Hawkeye/Clint Barton. I think that unless you are a comic books fan, or at least happened to be looking at comic books during the right time period, you would be unlikely to be familiar with the name "Hawkeye" in the M*A*S*H universe (which is a trouser-leg of the multiverse in which the series M*A*S*H was never broadcast and so no one ever heard the name Hawkeye unless they read Fenimore Cooper (or Mark Twain's essay about Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses). So: In the M*A*S*Hverse, how likely is it that anyone would have told Hawkeye Pierce at any time after September 64, that he had a comic-book villain/hero namesake? Would someone have gifted him a copy of a comicbook with Hawkeye on the cover? What are the odds? (Seriously: I don't know. I never was a comic books fan, with a handful of very particular exceptions, and I'm pretty sure that before 2011, I associated the name Hawkeye pretty firmly with M*A*S*H only and via M*A*S*H with Fenimore Cooper.)

[nocontext4077th]

Favorite Season 2 M*A*S*H Episodes As Voted By You -> #4: Carry On, Hawkeye

"Yeah, I- Yes, I know- I know I'm a capable young surgeon. Let me add I have good prospects and I'm a great catch, but I'm not looking for a husband!"