M.A.S.H.

31 here. Watched the series growing up, and once I saw the movie it quickly became one of my favorites. so much so that I unconsciously adopted Hawkeye's whistle as my own, and someone called me out on it,

I think it still has a place in today's culture, because no matter the technology or the time period, war sucks and the military has goofy idiosyncrasies that should be skewered (I doubt bonehead senior officers were phased out after Korea, ).

34 here.

My parents watched it growing up in my very early years, but I never really paid much attention to it. However, I have distinct memories of falling asleep while they were watching it, so the theme song is forever sketched into my brain. I'm whistling it now as I type this actually.

So while I can't relate to the actual show or its characters, in a weird way, it holds a special place with me because of the memory of my parents watching it.

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I preferred Winchester to Burns.

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I prefered Winchester to Burns.

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I can live with that. But Klinger was no Radar and BJ couldn't carry Trapper's jockstrap in a suitcase. I liked Henry Blake much better than Col Potter too.

Doubt if you could call a black surgeon Spearchucker today.

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Frank was a one trick pony. At least on occasions Winchester gave back as good as he got.

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Frank really was an awful person. He had literally no redeeming qualities. I think Henry summed him up once with something like, "Frank, you're always wrong. That's the only thing right about you." Frank had two functions, one being pure comic relief, and he was always the butt of the joke, or he was portrayed as someone to hate for being incompetent, selfish, petty, etc.

Winchester OTOH was a competent surgeon, he was devoted to his stuttering sister Anoria, he would anonymously leave gifts of chocolate to the orphans and recognize what a trivial gift it was compared to what they needed, he taught the Koreans how to play Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, he could get obsessed over a baseball game, and he once went and got blackout drunk, fake-married, and had smiles painted on his knees. Gen-tlemen.

Watched it a bunch growing. Between 10-13, now 25 years old. Haven't seen it in a while, but still think about it sometimes, and would probably enjoy it.