you creamed it, you ninny!

M*A*S*H* sideblog most notably for all your Father Mulcahy needs.

[dr3am-operator]

happy pride month to HIM

[transjudas]

M*A*S*H - The Interview / The Pitt - 8:00 P.M.

[funfettitoonz]

Maybe my favorite photo of Alan Alda ever

[nho-jungle]

made this

[chekhovsbird]

The Pitt - Mash-style title sequence

Anyway, welcome to today’s use of free will people in the middle of this Venn diagram

[depressedraisin]

watching my way through m*a*s*h and i'm awestruck by how much the show does not valorise the practice of military medicine...? the sense of contempt that the text of the show has towards war, the military and american institutions also extends to medicine in some inexplicable way. they're saving lives out there, they're good work but it's not important bcs they shouldn't have needed to do it at all. hawkeye shouldn't have to stitch up kids on his operating table bcs the kids shouldn't have ended up there anyway. neither should've hawkeye himself. at the end of "the late captain pierce", when bj is trying to get hawkeye off digger's bus, he doesn't give rallying crying about how noble and important their work is. bcs it isn't and they know it. hawkeye is keenly aware of his moral duty but it doesnt seem enlightening or revelatory - it's a noose around his neck. i'm in season 4 rn and the most dashing, "heroic" acts of medicine they do - when they help that north korean soldier in "the bus" or the girl blown up by the landmine in "welcome to korea" - are when they actively say a big ol' fuck you to their roles and responsibilities as army surgeon

[bananonbinary]

i really enjoy how even beyond 'they shouldn't have ended up there,' hawkeye is SEVERAL times forced to grapple with the knowledge that in many ways he is only healing them enough to chuck them back into the grinder, begging the question of whether the healing is even a kindness or moral imperative at all. if the healing isn't damnation in and of itself.

[funfettitoonz]

father mulcahy - the boxer by simon and garfunkel

[mustangterracesandredwine]

There's no MASH character I look up to more than Sidney Freedman. Hawkeye, Trapper, BJ: they're all 'main characters'. They drink martinis and play pranks and say witty stuff and they're supposed to be seen as 'cool', but no one was cooler than Sidney Freedman. He's the cool guy they all wish they were. He takes on Colonel Flagg in Quo Vadis Captain Chandler and he is so smooth about it you can see Hawkeye doing the fangirl heart eyes.

Top tier character. Allan Arbus plays him perfectly, with that calm, dry voice and the wry smile. Would love to know about the inspiration for him, especially the way Alan Alda writes him.

[thefunkiestmerguy]

[springinsfeld]

Hawkeye my bisexual icon i miss you

(screenshot redraw from 5x11 - Hawkeye Get Your Gun)

[white-bow-tie]

you'll never leave this place

[axe-hell]

It's my bath and I'm taking it! So there! Forgive me....

William Christopher as Father Mulcahy

MASH S07-E07: None Like It Hot

[dealmeout]

Interviewer: Are women in this country going to be better off... uh, with President Reagan in office?

Alan Alda: [laughter] No. (x)

[omar-little]

not counting introductions. the first thing bj hears hawkeye say is "I missed trapper by ten minutes TEN LOUSY MINUTES" and the first thing hawkeye hears bj say is "anything I can help with? can I help?" and they put this on television in 1975 and we all already know this why am I telling you. it's so dark in here

[berlynn-wohl]

quick guide to every MASH episode

[trapperlesbian]

M*A*S*H: The Comedy That Changed Television (2024)

[kosherdragon]

This!! This is what I'm talking about!

[verityasdragon]

-"That's a very interesting joke, Sam."

-"Thanks for seeing me, Sidney."