re: RIP Sidney Freedman

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without trying to derail the thread, watching those two buffoons play a Major and a LTC in the Army, much less doctors, was cringe worthy.

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Which two?

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watching those two buffoons play a Major and a LTC in the Army, much less doctors, was cringe worthy.

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Vietnam was still going on when they started the show. I always thought Frank was the epitome of what anti-war people wanted the public to think Army officers would be like. You could even argue Col Blake could have been the anti-war people's choice to represent the old school leader who is in over his head.

Frank was a wretched weakling character that you wouldn't want any kid to have to take an order from.

I didn't get to watch MASH as a kid. My parents were Goldwater/Nixon conservatives that thought it was a commie pinko show. We were still watching Dragnet, Gunsmoke or Lassie after we got the KIA count from Walter Cronkite at 6:59.

MASH was as controversial back then as the shows people say have "gay agendas" are now.