RE: I loved the show MASH... BUT....
April 30, 2019 at 3:15 pm
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2019 at 3:39 pm by Brian37.)
(April 30, 2019 at 3:02 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: Omg are we really making a thread to the single greatest show on Earth?!?!?! EKKKKK YAYAYAYAY!
I am seriously in LOVE with MASH and I never saw an episode air live. By the time I got into it when I was in middle school it was playing reruns for 20 years. I had everything with MASH on it. Scrubs when I worked at the daycare, a wallet, literally wore a MASH shirt yesterday (I have two), my purse is army green and I painted MASH 4077 and a red cross on it, and my truck says MASH 4077 across the back window. I can quote almost every episode and I detest the movie.
With that said I agree that Radar was treated badly. My issue though is how they mock him for being short and innocent. Just because he doesn't go out drinking and womanizing he was laughed at constantly. Hawkeye and Trapper were sexist pigs (still love them though)
I loved Radar, not the ESP crap, but everything else.
I never thought that about Radar. Certainly under stress words fly, and that did happen. But characters like Henry, Hawkeye, Trapper, Margaret, BJ and Potter, all loved him. There was even an episode where he had gone home where the gang decided to call him to tell him how much they missed him. I just watched that rerun this week. They all thought of Radar as the glue that held the unit together.
The only real dicks to Radar on the show were Frank and Flag.
He was lovable. I always love how he ordered a Grape Nehi.
I don't think you have to look at the other characters putting him down, as much as they were teasing a friend.
They didn't razz Radar the way they rightfully picked on Frank. Frank was a fucking asshole.
I remember the episode where Hawkeye wanted to catch Trapper before he left, but was too late. Ended up meeting BJ, and convinced Radar to go into the officers club with some bullshit rank that didn't exist. Radar was shitting his pants but did it. I think it was "Corporal Captain".
Radar often spoke up to his superiors in that show. And there were plenty of times where his superiors backed him up when assholes like Frank bullied him.
(April 30, 2019 at 3:11 pm)mlmooney89 Wrote: I like when Hot Lips says "I'm not as think as you drunk I am." and anything with Flagg in it. He is the best character ever made.
Flag is every hyper nationalist Alex Jones Isis wannabe in human history.
Frank Burns was only slightly less annoying. Not much, but only slightly.
