Subscribe for virtual tools, STEM-inspired play, You are toying with me like a cat with a dead moose! And that's exactly what they had him do. We returned to the set. "Frank Burns: I can plug an ace of hearts at fifty feet. -- Hawkeye -- Hawkeye to Margaret Quiet, will you? Subscribe to our newsletter for new stories, tips & events. first number on tonight's schedule is, uh, Father Mulcahy's solo "I'm confessin Incoming wounded. -- Klinger I've gotten "Thank you" notes from people I said I'd never see again. -- PA in a ditch on the edge of town -- Hawkeye -- Potter please report to his going-away-party? On February 1983, CBS ended the series after 11 seasons. ", Trapper: [after being asked a question] "How should I know? He did a great job for three years. -- Frank on the radio now except 'Seoul City' Sue so I figured I'd keep you entertained Colonel Potter is the third, and final, cast member to play Santa Claus at the 4077th. We will always aim to give you accurate information at the date of publication - however, information does change, so its important you do your own research, double-check and make the decision that is right for your family. He was a terrific guy, very smart, very warm-hearted, very dedicated to his work as an actor, the M*A*S*H star explains. Enemy advances bring medical advances -- BJ "If we don't go crazy once in a while, we'll all go crazy. That's great how they can rhyme and be hot at the same time. "They were writing Margaret as an intelligent, capable nurse and a great leader, but here she was having an affair with a bumbling doctor who had the other doctors had no respect for. In partnership with Warner Bros. Entertainment. For once I said "Action" instead of "Cut." Choi Sung Ho: The candy would have brought great joy to the children for a few moments, but on the black market it was worth enough rice and cabbage to feed them for a month. and breaking entertainment news! Ah, Klinger, my constant reminder that Darwin was right! What happens in the event that figure 'A' is attracted to figure 'B' -- Radar over PA attached to certain members of the female species at a time when light If you purchase using the buy now button we may earn a small commission. barren, desiccated, veritable dustbowel of a martini. We couldn't believe what we had read. -- Radar These included Hawkeye, Captain Trapper, Captain Spearchucker and to a certain extent Corporal Radar. -- Hawkeye Pig feathers! ISBN 0-679-42945-X (pp. Oh! Attention. ", 31. ForwardDrink! "Look, mother, I want to go to work in one hour. -- Hawkeye ", 33. anymore. M*A*S*H (1972-1983) was an American television series, airing on CBS, about a team of doctors and nurses stationed at a fictional U.S. mobile Army hospital Pierce, are you deef? "Well, I guess that's a bear we all got to cross. Suffern' saddlesoap! It's a class A Armed Forces Radio 57. Gary would never be able to do a second take as beautiful as he did the first. Larry Gelbart also disclaimed that legend: [H]aving Henry die was not a show-business decision; we were not punishing an actor for leaving the series. So we will retain that record, which is okay with us!". -- Hawkeye The producers' intent was to capture the cast's genuine shock and surprise, and to remind the audience that war takes friend and foe alike. Trapper John: Watch out for your goodies, Hawkeye. "Henry Blake: I've been in the Army a long time. This is the first case of teenage male menopause. Jumping Jeosephat! Mule muffins! 2023 Telepictures Productions Inc. Hawk, you are shaved, cleaned, dressed! While the above quote from Maxwell is only a snippet of the actual one as shown on IMDb, its hilarious enough in itself to make up for the rest. I had couple of words privately with Billy Jurgensen, our cinematographer, told him what was up, and asked him to position his camera for the one additional scene. General MacArthur. see you, while they can still see you. The kind of hole a man can throw himself into with pride. "She was so much more than a piece of anatomy," the actress says now, adding that she never saw and still hasn't seen Altman's film, though she was good friends with Kellerman up until her death last year. ", 2. ", 16. Stars show off their style at New York Fashion Week! TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Mind your own beeswax -- Frank Ad Choices England is still the only place I know How can you kick out this little puppy of a person? At Kidadl we pride ourselves on offering families original ideas to make the most of time spent together at home or out and about, wherever you are in the world. One such example is the quote above said by Hawkeye to Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake, who was the commanding officer during the shows early seasons, which is funny because of its reference to the Twelve Disciples of Jesus who were said to be pure and followed Jesus teachings no matter what. Testing, 1, 2. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. Any nurse wishing to be the bride please contact -- Hawkeye Hawkeye I am appetite! I can take umbrage, I can take the cake, I can take the A-train, I http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/MASH. You know, the writing and the acting and the directing talent was terrific. of a kindactually two of a kind. -- PA I remember saying, 'I don't have your number what if I wanted to invite you to a party?' Jacket, sweater, robe, sweater, sweater, shirt. If you look at the series over time, their relationship grew and deepened. Zale 1. -- Radar as a camp DJ Instead of being in color, its done entirely in black-and-white. 34. "Hawkeye: "I think he's vacuuming Korea. "I was consumed with writing that. The betting book is now One of the ongoing elements in M*A*S*H was Frank and Major Margaret Houlihans romantic relationship despite the fact that Frank had a wife waiting for him back home in the United States. "Life Time" is told in Real Time, with a clock in the corner of the screen ticking off the minutes as the doctors race to replace a soldier's crushed aorta before he becomes paralyzed. He felt he had done everything he could with the character; the new, more serious tone might have been a major contributing factor to that decision, too. -- Radar, "The way I see it, the army owes us so many coffee breaks, we should get 1954 off." the glory that always goes to those lucky few who just happen to get shot And just -- PA Alan wrote me a note after the show ended about how wonderful it was to have that opportunity to fulfill Margaret's character and see her grow meaningfully. -- Hawkeye I happened to agree with doing it, but I didn't say a word. down. you seen my stethoscope? That I Love You." "Trapper" John McIntyre, Lt. (Father) Francis Mulcahy, Cpl. When you buy through the links on our site we may earn a commission. he dresses a lot like my wife -- Potter So as he flies the blue lady of the skies into the sunset, we say 'aloha, ", 11. going home but us. We planned the production schedule for this episode so that the O.R. time. MASH? -- Potter, "I don't mind eating if it's possible to make a martini sandwich." Here's a mover and a groover and it ain't by Herbert Hoover. What good is it to be a Ferrari if you are out of gas? it. and will be shown right after supper, which is also a holdover from last And he loved being a businessman. Join us tomorrow same time. Since there are no casualties again today, Talking to Major Houlihan is the same as talking to me as we are intimate Great Caesar's Salad -- Potter -- Potter That's what I understand from a very reliable gossip! I should be out. I never lose anything. Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen (TV series episode). If you want a drink, sir, -- compliments Henry Blake -- brandy, scotch, The enemy cuts off your supply line, lets you get cold and hungry and "I don't know, but I really felt that was not quite right for Margaret in my heart. Oh, go salute yourselves! "I can take umbrage, I can take the cake, I can take the A-train. Although several Super Bowls have since surpassed it, the M*A*S*H finale still holds the record for non-sports programming. While the line can be seen as funny out of context, it does have a sense of truthfulness in context which makes it memorable. The The setting is the 4077th MASH (short for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, a type of US Army field hospital first activated in the last month of World War II), located three miles from the front line in Uijeongbu. He'll rip the doors off of the mess tent!' Hawkeye: I'm too In a surprise twist at the end of the episode, the characters learn that Blake's plane was shot down en route to Japan, and everyone aboard died. -- Klinger, "I've eaten a river of liver and an ocean of fish! -- Trapper -- Hawkeye, "It's 3 'blessed' a.m.! Sit down, Trap, it lets you use your best part. There was so much of all of us in our characters: as Houlihan, I was touched by Winchester giving me that book, and as Loretta, I was touched by my friend David doing that for me. "I wish they wouldn't land those things here while we're playing golf. Although M*A*S*H fans would have happily stuck around the 4077th for another five years, Swit says that she and her co-stars began seriously thinking about the series finale almost two years before they actually filmed it. Assuring him I didn't, I gave each [actor] a copy of the scene to read to themselves. ", 15. With little help from the "Trapper John McIntyre: You have a lot of trouble with women, don't you? The star actor describes what made the show so successful and so special over the years. -- Hawkeye about Radar Please note: prices are correct and items are available at the time the article was published. But an unexpected twist of one short final scene was tacked onto the end of the episode, in which a choked-up Radar (portrayed by Gary Burghoff) intruded into a busy operating room to deliver the sad news that Col. Blake's homeward-bound plane had been shot down (with no survivors): https://youtu.be/E_RWAc1uvUQ Because of the epidemic, tonight's broken This material may not be reproduced without permission. "Tonight's movie is a holdover from last week and will be shown right after supper, which is also a holdover from last week. six weeks of negotiation, the U.N. and North Korea have agreed that flagpoles New York: Abradale Press, 1988. Margaret: I've gotta go now, darling. In partnership with Warner Bros. Entertainment, 2022 Emmy Nominee for Outstanding Entertainment News Program. -- Potter Road apples! We blocked it without saying a word so the crew wouldn't know anything until we actually did it. I want a martini If I don't eat regularly, everything solid in my body turns to liquid. Anyone not in their own beds at that time will have In honor of 'M*A*S*H' star Harry Morgan, who died Wednesday, 'Extra' collected 10 of the best quotes from the long-running hit CBS show. "I told them: 'Can you imagine what fun you're going to have with Larry when I come back to town and I tell him I'm engaged? up my own mouth hole. Attention. -- Potter Well, what's the slop du jour? I was heartsick. WebMash Quotes. And I delighted in that.". By order of Major Frank Burns, lights out Due to a lack of casualties, today's midnight movie will be shown at 9:00 in the morning And midnight has been canceled.". Never insult seven men when all you have is a six shooter -- Potter Summary: Meanwhile, Winchester fulfills a family Christmas tradition but has trouble maintaining the anonymity required to keep it a truly charitable act. -- Potter So we were all of the same mind. And here he is for your wartime pleasure, the one and only, 5 O'Clock Freud said that there is a link between anger and wit. -- Hawkeye, "I've got a soft spot for Klinger. naked. When I got thrown into this war I had In both cases, Houlihan's affair with Hawkeye's foil, Frank Burns (played by Larry Linville in the TV version), is the source of her moniker, and since that relationship carried over into the early seasons of the show, so did Hot Lips. M*A*S*H was first presented as a wacky, slightly edgy sitcom based on Robert Altman's hit movie which was itself an adaptation of Richard Hooker's novel but the series moved away from strictly comedic storylines early in its run (starting with Season 1's "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"), often incorporating dramatic plotlines in conjunction with comedic ones in the same episode. Now one of the episodes that could be argued as being critical of Americas handling of Vietnam was Preventative Medicine in Season 7 when the 4077th MASH camp is visited by Lieutenant Colonel Lacy whose battalion is infamously known for having a particularly high casualty rate. This is the last darn sock I darn until the war is over. Ugly color, 40 years out of style, fits like a tent? Margaret Houlihan may have remained at the 4077th until M*A*S*H's not-at-all-bitter end, but her alter ego "Hot Lips" Houlihan disappeared much earlier. And he had an average of about a hundred and twenty, a hundred and thirty foals a year.". Frank: (laughing) I mean I'd kill both of you and then I'd kill myself. "Well, you know, Man o' War, after they retired him from racing, they put him out to stud. Considering that the original novel consisted mostly of the characters engaging in wacky fratboy hijinx and boasting about how much sex they have (and showed a truly awful degree of sexismnote"Trapper" got his nickname for using a train toilet to take advantage of his prom date and nobody seems to care that this may have been rape as long as he 'got some'; 'Me Lay' is famous for using his absurdly crass pick-up line, "Me lay, you lay," to acquire a stupendous 'batting average'; the doctors' only interest in the epileptic whore down at the local brothel is in how much fun it is to have your penis inside her when she has a seizure; the reputation of the unit depends in part on the size of the dentist's male organ; the list goes on and on. "I know you! Due to the number of people bored last Sunday, next Sunday will be Major Houlihan, your chest x-rays are ready and they really as each one of us is one or the other gender of it once we're born, which "It is better to have loved and lost than - oh give me a drink." Because M*A*S*H broadcasted around the same time as the Vietnam War, they had to walk a thin line between criticizing the war through its comedic take on the Korean one and just being an entertaining show with no underlying criticism whatsoever. And that's what I'm gonna do what I've wanted to do all along: Work in the States in a hospital. -- Hawkeye reading the letter Hawkeye wanted to sent to Frank's wife. ", 35. I am not so think as you drunk I am. The series also has several Voiceover Letter episodes, a Fever Dream Episode, the obligatory Clip Show, and a Documentary Episode done as a series of (largely improvised) in-character interviews with the cast. ", Hawkeye: "Insanity is just a state of mind. After a long days work, adults will often get together at a bar somewhere and have a few drinks to get their minds off of things. Attention all personnel. ", Because Linville who died in 2000 and Swit were so funny together, the M*A*S*H writers were understandably nervous about cutting off a reliable source of comedy. I'm a former child myself. I said fine. incarcerate me with two moronic cellmates. Your membership is the foundation of our sustainability and resilience. Trapper : What's wrong with two? The eagle screams today. "They just went ahead and did it in their minds, they thought it was a lovely ending for her." While local orphans attend a Christmas party in the mess tent, Hawkeye, B.J., and Margaret try to save the life of a critically injured solider so that his family won't We resolved that instead of doing an episode in which yet another actor leaves yet another series, we would try to have Mac/Henry's departure make a point, one that was consistent with the series's attitude regarding the wastefulness of war; we would have that character die as a result of the conflict. (The duo did go on to create AfterMASH, a sequel series starring Farr, Morgan and William Christopher as Father John Mulcahy, that only lasted two low-rated seasons from 1983 to 1985.) England is still the only place I know where any young man can grow up to be the Queen. Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don't know what it -- ", 58. With it came some noticeable changes between the film and the TV show such as Hawkeye sharing a tent with Major Frank Burns which remains the case for several seasons as opposed to just one time in the film. Stars attend the Sundance Film Festival 2023! Death was one of the many subjects that was rarely allowed to intrude into television series of the 1950s and 60s. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, he's somebody who's tired enough and cold enough and hungry enough not to give a damn. "You son of a bitch," Gary said to McLean. ", Swit says that she didn't get the chance to talk to the writers about her preferred version of her alter ego's future, one that would have sent her to Vietnam. The series spanned 251 episodes and lasted almost four times as long as the war which served as its setting. 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