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Yeah and on top of that, it's concept from the beginning was as a SITCOM(Situational COMEDY). It wasn't till about the 4th season and the arrival of Potter and the change in Margarets character from the buffoon to extremely competent Operating room and Head Nurse that the show started taking on more of a serious nature.
@Norberto Fontanez No sir. I am not a MD but I have been in the medical field for better than 45 yrs. I started out as a med tech in the United States Air Force. Then the rest of my career(life, ha) as a civilian with many different hats mostly as a Paramedic and Radiology Technologist. Coincidentally, the *Doc* nickname started in my youth. My initials are D. R. H. There was another D. H. In my class so the teacher distinguished us by giving me the doc tag. And it stuck with me my whole life. Got kinda tricky for awhile when on the job. Now you know more than you ever wanted about me huh?! 😂 🫡
If you wanna hear nitpicky, I noticed a near microscopic error in an episode I must have watched a hundred times. It was the one where BJ is in the swamp lamenting about receiving a medal he felt he didn’t deserve. In the background is a postcard on the wall featuring a 727 airliner. It’s a plane that didn’t exist until 1962. Like I said, nitpicky. But it’s fun finding little imperfections like that. Ultimately, it does nothing to alter my love of the show.
Or he’s a really talented clairvoyant. It would explain how he knows when the choppers are coming. And how he knows what anyone is going to say or when he is about to be summoned & why. And in the case of him reciting a John Wayne line that hasn’t happened yet, it’s supported by Hawkeye not really knowing who Radar is impersonating but makes a joke instead, which in turn hides the fact that Radar is predicting the future. Yeah?
These discrepancies often happen due to different writers being brought in throughout a series. I never understood why actors didn't bring these to the attention of writers. They, better than anyone else, should know their characters well enough. Ultimately, a lot of inconsistencies with timeline comes down to the person in charge of "getting it right".
I found it interesting that none of the nurses ever got pregnant with all the hookups they had. Birth control pills weren't legal until 1960. Some of the wives' names were changed back & forth (Mildred & Lorraine). The horse Potter had kept changing. Look at its markings. How come Max had his own tent while the nurses slept 4 in a tent. They had a higher rank than him. Henry had 2 kids when he was drafted & his wife was pregnant with a 3rd kid, a boy. In his last episode, Henry only had 2 kids, a girl & a boy. Radar said his bear came from his brother who was a box-boy at the grocery store back home. In other episodes, he never talked about siblings. Neither did Hawkeye. Frank stole a Colt 45 revolver from a General in a later episode while in an earlier episode, he actually had his own Colt 45 revolver which he used for target practice. I can't remember for sure but, didn't BJ put up the San Franciso sign on the signpost (yet it is shown in earlier episodes). In the episode when the General sent a psychiatrist to the MASH, the last scene shows Hawkeye & Trapper standing by the door of the SWAMP & facing in the opposite direction from where the General was standing. The surgical team walking around in scrubs & gloves post-op, especially when they should have had blood all over them. Margaret always left the table while she was a scrub nurse & an emergency came up, causing the circulating nurse to take over for her at her table. The circulating nurse should have taken care of the emergency. Margaret cross-contaminated the fields by not changing her gloves. In one episode, you can clearly hear Margaret giving the same orders, in the OR, looped over & over again. When Iron Guts Kelly came to the OR, he was wearing his scrub backward. Radar did that also. I'm a retired RN, BSN & it really ticked me off that the Nurse's uniforms were so tight. I also noticed Margaret's nails immediately. She would have been thrown out of nursing school for wearing her nails that long. One of my classmates actually was, she was told twice to cut her nails. She refused & was kicked out of the program. She actually left nail marks on my wrist while taking my pulse. In one of the seasons, Margaret wore very garish makeup. I don't know whose idea that was but it was terribly distracting & wouldn't have been allowed in the nursing profession.
There is a scene in the OR where Hawkeye goes from one patient to another with bloody gloves and never puts on clean ones; ironic because when Winchester arrives Hulahan accuses him of touching his nose and he was sent to re-scrub. The plastic syringes used in filming mash are questionable; the first plastic syringe was made by an Australian in 1951 and the first disposable patent was issued in 1956. there was one scene where I saw a nurse using a glass syringe.We use a glass syringe on the farm during the 1950's and 60's. There is a scene where they are filming a scene inside of a tent but their camera also captured the sky above the top of the tent on the left side. Love the M*A*S*H series and we have the complete dvd set in the original binder; We watch them all the time from beginning to end,, pause for a couple weeks and then rewatch them again.
At one point Henry refers to his wife as Mildred then her name became Lorraine. Also, Hawkeye claims to be an only child but his sister knit him a sweater in an episode. Col. Potter originally said he’d be on his porch back in Nebraska barbecuing. Then he was from Missouri. And Margaret, while drunk, says Henry looks just like her father before he died. The. Her father came to visit. I also noticed in an episode briefly that Hawkeye was wearing what looked like blue converse sneakers. And that’s all I’ve got.
You do realize by now that you had a blooper in your report of a blooper, right? When Margaret was trying to encourage Radar...you showed 2 pics of a different actor. 😆
In the 50s most GIs smoked cigarettes. They were practically giving them away, and you couldn't walk into a military facility without being enveloped in a cloud of tobacco smoke. Yet, a few scenes in MASH depicted this rampant habit.
It's like the hairstyles and clothes from Happy Days. They didn't even try to look like the fifties (and eventually the 60's) as the series went on. Their hair and clothes looked late 70's and early 80's. Got lazy I guess.
That didn't really bother me until I got older and noticed the difference. Initially, it could be ascribed to them being a medical unit and military discipline being a bit lax. But the fact that the haircuts are ALL 1970s styles.....
In the episode, I can't remember the name, but the episode where Margaret announces she's fully divorced, while in the mess hall she says "It's official I'm fully divorced." If you look on her collar she has a major rank on the left side, and on the right side she has a lieutenant bar on the left
Hawkeye's ever changing back story was a part of the character, his negative opinion on the military would have him making changes just to mess with the military mind. I don't see it as mistakes but as intentional by the character.
This and other series were made long before VCRs or anyone thinking we'd be able to go into intricate exhumation of errors. It was a TV show, we didn't pay attention to that stuff back then and it seems even siller to do this FIFTY years later.
Hawkeye also refers to Margaret in a early episode as Khaki Godzilla. This is two errors in one. The first film with Godzilla was released in 1954 as Gojira. The name Godzilla comes from the film's English version which wasn't released until 1957.
When the show started, Henry’s son, Andrew, was born, then taking music lessons then talking to Henry on the phone, with henry telling Andrew he’s the man of the house-all in about a year! Also, speaking of Godzilla, Hawkeye calls Col. Flagg a ‘khaki Godzilla’ before the movie came out..also Radar says he’s an only child but in the episode where Frank steals a Col.‘s gun, he has the key to the lock in his bike so his sister can’t use it and lost a baby brother, even though his father died playing peek-a-boo with baby Radar
@@FactsVerse I don't remember exactly, it was just a good childhood memory back when tv was better and people didn't get butt hurt so easily. I don't think that show could air in 2023 lol
Good catches I sure wouldn't have noticed! Now the door's open to the same with Happy Days from about season three on! Season one they stick to the era and it had a Norman Rockwell feeling much of the time! Later on it seemed to be "anything goes" with not only the extras in the crowds but the main actors as well! Hahaha!
Also the music played in each episode was all over the place about 5 years, 2 or 3 in some episodes. When it starts there were songs from 55 to 58 or 59
The first 13 episode package tried to be Korea around 1950, but most of the uniforms, jeeps, trucks, all the choppers, cots, tents, hospital equipment....were Nam surplus. After a year or so every viewer knew it was really about Vietnam and was social commentary on that controversial war. After 75 it was blatant.
This is called foreshadowing. In 1968, 911 became the national emergency number. The same year construction began on the World Trade Center. Also, 1968, the only year the New York Jets won their only Super Bowl. All the world's a stage. Now back to my MASH Bloopers.
But the tune was WWII British. Hitler, has only got one ball, Goering, has two but very small, and Himmler, has something similar, and Goebbels has no balls at all. (whole pub repeats).
oh good grief! If ya'll want historic accuracy, then study history! These are TV shows and movies, and it's called artistic license. I don't watch shows and movies for historic accuracy. I watch them to be entertained. Too damn much realism in shows and movies these days. If I want realism I'll just look at the world around me...not TV!!
There was an episode where Hawkeye claimed to have read up on recent advancement with an open heart massage, and performed one. It was framed as being risky and experimental. Open heart surgery and open heart massage were developed in the 19th century and were standards of medicine before the first world war. I'm sure there are plenty more MASH medical boners, but since I am an engineer, I only have the one that I can state. Sorry I can not say what episode or even what season. Although I vaguely feel it was shortly after Col Potter joined the cast.
I have to wonder how much the producers laugh when they put in bloopers wondering how many people will catch things. I didn't know about most of it because I didn't know when the comics first came out, or the guns, or the helicopter. It's fun to see what bloopers people catch though.
Perhaps the producers, writers and directors were aware of all the inconsistencies, they could have been intentional. After all, the show was a comedy-drama. And the "bloopers " may have been a way of making the horrors of war a little lighter and easier to accept.
There’s a scene where a Jeep has a rear view mirror hanging from the dash that is the type that is glued to the windshield as you would find in cars from the late 60s and beyond. Potter had a son and later had a daughter but only one child.
While it it true that the show was set during the Korean War, it was clearly a metaphor for the Vietnam War -- so these discrepancies actually increase the show's accessibility for people who lived through that experience.
Another major gaff was in the final episode where they had to evacuate the camp because of a fire. This would be fine except the camera took a full 360 degree turn, showing the damage to the site when they returned. However, it also showed green grass and trees surrounding the camp in all directions. Nothing was burned except their camp. I guess it was a fireball from the sky....?
First watched it in my 20s, I thought Hawkeye was my favourite character. 45 years on, he is my least favourite character; a holier than thou, look at me...look at me...drive anyone nuts with his constant chatter, such an arrogant character!
Watched from day 1 and up till this day, 12/1/23 (because Spectrum is killing the lineup) 2-4 times a day. Never, ever could stand Alda and later on Ferrell. Never heard of Ferrell till this but didn't like him within a couple episodes. Everytime he focused on Peg and Erin I wanted to puke. Watched so much I mastered the exact mute second for anything related to them. Why watch? Loved all the other characters, they were fantastic, especially Nurse Kelly. A couple episodes highlighting her were some of the best. Very few episodes I do not like at all.
In one episode, Colonel Potter is showing Rader a picture of himself in WWI having snuck in at only 15. Another episode he says he was recently married with his own house when the WWI started
Henry Blake's wife's name in the first season was Mildred as he tried to call her at the hospital when she was having their son. But later in later seasons her name was Loraine. And their son was a lot older.
another inaccuracy is in the one where Col. Blake dies. Radar says Blake is being discharged because he "got all his points". But The army had stopped using the point system after WW II, and they never used it with officers and doctors
Once they mentioned "Elewijt" in the epsiode with the UN-attachés. That's my home village. The painter Rubens had a castle there, but that was not open to the public in the 1970's and much less in the 1950's or 1930's (Considering World War II as an obvious period when the castle would not be accesible to Allied...
Tim you pointed out the unauthorized hairdos of the men, but failed to mention that "Hot lips" and a few of her nurses also sported unauthorized hair lengths as well. Up until 2022, female army soldiers hair could not touch their shoulders when combed out, nor could their bangs fall below their eyebrows. Army Regulation(AR) 670-1 Today, army men can now sport longer hair. Allan H Major US Army- Retired
Although the film was advertised as taking place during the Korean war, Mash film was serruptitiously a commentary of the ridiculousness of war during the Vietnam war.
In the beginning in the pilot...rafflling of a nurse for ho jon..Hawkeye mentioned that homonyms can stay with Hawkeyes parents...in a later episode when Hawkeye was waiting on word from his father's surgery,he mentioned that his mother was dead
The first season when they throw a surprise birthday for Frank in the window of the mess tent you can see a silhouette of a hand throwing leaves in front of a fan making it look like a cold fall evening.
If I wanted a program true to history then I would look for one; MASH was a sitcom. These programs were there to make us laugh. They never claimed to be historically correct. I'm quite sure that most tv sitcoms will have 'bloopers' in them if we should sit down and closely scrutinise them. Who cares about the age of Radar's comic books or when General McArthur was around? They were funny and enjoyable. That to me is what matters.
Officers Club I would occasionally see on the back wall above the jukebox, was a Huey helicopter poster referencing a Medivac. Again, Huey's were not part of Korean war.
Col. Potters horse had a sex change from when Radar gave the horse to him, to when in the next season 'he' became a mare. And the blood types of the cast changes from one season to the next.
1951 New Year's Party with Henry Blake ends up having a 1951 New Year's Party with Col. Sherman T. Potter and Radar. Potter did not show up until Sept. 1952.
The 1970 Movie M*A*S*H was a protest on the Vietnam war. However, that would never be allowed so they set it in Korea. I have to wonder if any of these anachronisms were in place for the same reason - that the real target of the horrors of war was Vietnam. Another anachronism is that the series lasted far longer than the Korean war.
I can't cite particular episodes, but I do remember Klinger making references to a wife back home, followed by an episode where he marries his girlfriend back home (over the telephone) and then at the end of the series we see him marry a Korean woman. Bigamy? Trigamy? Polygamy?
His wife back home divorced him, marrying his best friend. This leaves Klinger depressed and an army recruiter that tries to use that his advantage much to the anger of Hawkeye. Good episode.
I love MASH. However, the point system wasnt in in the Korean War. Througout the shows run, Hawkeye suffered many mental issues. He would have been discharged for having any one of them. Klinger would have been put in the brig for his section 8 scam Blaker's number of children changed, his wife, Lorraine, even gave birth while he was in Korea. In one early episode. Burns says that his family came to the USA in 1927, the would make Frank about 23 years old, too young to be a qualified surgeon. Father Mulcahey gave the last rites to any soilder who died. This is a catholic ritual. Mulcahey would have had to dertermine the soilder's faith to see if he would need to perform this. Also, he may have been a catholic preiest but he also said he covered all Christian dedomintions, Potter was a Methodist, BJ a Prespertarian, Klinger an atheist, Hawkeye an agnostic, and even Frank said that there was a catholic living in his street. There were not too many catholics at the 4077th
Always was a great show despite any bloopers. And the long hair on the actors could have been appropriate, despite the 1950s' setting. Because they were in a war zone & that the main theme of the show was about rebellion from traditional military mores amid the fundamental absurdity of war, it's certainly believable that they could have been pretty sloppy about adhering to standard military uniform rules of the day.
Most pertinent question I have is this: Was the show entertaining? If people watching shows such as this are hell bent on finding flaws such as those depicted in this presentation, they should spend their evenings doing something other than critiquing TV shows or movies in order to find flaws in the presentation.
I never understood who was making all those announcement one liners about wounded coming in, never showed him nor mentioned a name... Wouldn't have been the company clerk Radar or Klinger making those announcements.
You made many references to after the war was over. Technically it was never a war but a police action and technically that police action never ended and is still ongoing so many of your comments if not most of them technically are wrong, but of course we all know what you mean. I would think the term "Korean conflict" might be better but again technically that is still ongoing.
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I appreciate your dedication to historical accuracy, but as one who enjoyed the series, Who Cares!
Life gets easier when you realise it was a TV show...
The heart of the show is the only thing that kept me attracted to it.
Yep,
Yeah and on top of that, it's concept from the beginning was as a SITCOM(Situational COMEDY). It wasn't till about the 4th season and the arrival of Potter and the change in Margarets character from the buffoon to extremely competent
Operating room and Head Nurse that the show started taking on more of a serious nature.
@Norberto Fontanez No sir. I am not a MD but I have been in the medical field for better than 45 yrs. I started out as a med tech in the United States Air Force. Then the rest of my career(life, ha) as a civilian with many different hats mostly as a Paramedic and Radiology Technologist. Coincidentally, the *Doc* nickname started in my youth. My initials are D. R. H. There was another D. H. In my class so the teacher distinguished us by giving me the doc tag. And it stuck with me my whole life. Got kinda tricky for awhile when on the job. Now you know more than you ever wanted about me huh?! 😂 🫡
You mock the mental illness of strangers in other videos. I'll be damned if I am going to take life advice from you.
If you wanna hear nitpicky, I noticed a near microscopic error in an episode I must have watched a hundred times. It was the one where BJ is in the swamp lamenting about receiving a medal he felt he didn’t deserve. In the background is a postcard on the wall featuring a 727 airliner. It’s a plane that didn’t exist until 1962.
Like I said, nitpicky. But it’s fun finding little imperfections like that. Ultimately, it does nothing to alter my love of the show.
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@@FactsVerse I alway love trivia videos about old shows from the 70s. Barney Miller. All in the Family. Good Times. The such.
Loretta Swit. So gorgeous
Despite its inaccuracies, MASH was actually really funny and imo the best comedy of that whole era by far!
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By far!!!!....1st 3 seasons way ahead of its time!!!
@@keithbrown8814 Absolutely! The first three seasons with Henry Blake and Trapper John were the best. Those two couldn't be replaced.
Radar being a time traveller would make sense, with him hearing the helicopters before anyone else does
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Or he’s a really talented clairvoyant. It would explain how he knows when the choppers are coming. And how he knows what anyone is going to say or when he is about to be summoned & why. And in the case of him reciting a John Wayne line that hasn’t happened yet, it’s supported by Hawkeye not really knowing who Radar is impersonating but makes a joke instead, which in turn hides the fact that Radar is predicting the future. Yeah?
In the first season, Henry refers to his wife as Mildred and later she becomes Lorraine and Potter's wife is Mildred.
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the thumbnail pic is misleading, wasn't in the video
These discrepancies often happen due to different writers being brought in throughout a series. I never understood why actors didn't bring these to the attention of writers. They, better than anyone else, should know their characters well enough. Ultimately, a lot of inconsistencies with timeline comes down to the person in charge of "getting it right".
When Col. Potter first got there he said he was from Nebraska, then later in the series, he was from Hannibal Mo.
Don't forget he was also a crazy general
In the military, where you are from (where you live with your spouse and kids) and where you are born and raised may be two different things.
I found it interesting that none of the nurses ever got pregnant with all the hookups they had. Birth control pills weren't legal until 1960.
Some of the wives' names were changed back & forth (Mildred & Lorraine).
The horse Potter had kept changing. Look at its markings.
How come Max had his own tent while the nurses slept 4 in a tent. They had a higher rank than him.
Henry had 2 kids when he was drafted & his wife was pregnant with a 3rd kid, a boy. In his last episode, Henry only had 2 kids, a girl & a boy.
Radar said his bear came from his brother who was a box-boy at the grocery store back home. In other episodes, he never talked about siblings. Neither did Hawkeye.
Frank stole a Colt 45 revolver from a General in a later episode while in an earlier episode, he actually had his own Colt 45 revolver which he used for target practice.
I can't remember for sure but, didn't BJ put up the San Franciso sign on the signpost (yet it is shown in earlier episodes).
In the episode when the General sent a psychiatrist to the MASH, the last scene shows Hawkeye & Trapper standing by the door of the SWAMP & facing in the opposite direction from where the General was standing.
The surgical team walking around in scrubs & gloves post-op, especially when they should have had blood all over them.
Margaret always left the table while she was a scrub nurse & an emergency came up, causing the circulating nurse to take over for her at her table. The circulating nurse should have taken care of the emergency. Margaret cross-contaminated the fields by not changing her gloves.
In one episode, you can clearly hear Margaret giving the same orders, in the OR, looped over & over again.
When Iron Guts Kelly came to the OR, he was wearing his scrub backward. Radar did that also.
I'm a retired RN, BSN & it really ticked me off that the Nurse's uniforms were so tight.
I also noticed Margaret's nails immediately. She would have been thrown out of nursing school for wearing her nails that long. One of my classmates actually was, she was told twice to cut her nails. She refused & was kicked out of the program. She actually left nail marks on my wrist while taking my pulse.
In one of the seasons, Margaret wore very garish makeup. I don't know whose idea that was but it was terribly distracting & wouldn't have been allowed in the nursing profession.
There is a scene in the OR where Hawkeye goes from one patient to another with bloody gloves and never puts on clean ones; ironic because when Winchester arrives Hulahan accuses him of touching his nose and he was sent to re-scrub.
The plastic syringes used in filming mash are questionable; the first plastic syringe was made by an Australian in 1951 and the first disposable patent was issued in 1956. there was one scene where I saw a nurse using a glass syringe.We use a glass syringe on the farm during the 1950's and 60's.
There is a scene where they are filming a scene inside of a tent but their camera also captured the sky above the top of the tent on the left side.
Love the M*A*S*H series and we have the complete dvd set in the original binder; We watch them all the time from beginning to end,, pause for a couple weeks and then rewatch them again.
At one point Henry refers to his wife as Mildred then her name became Lorraine. Also, Hawkeye claims to be an only child but his sister knit him a sweater in an episode. Col. Potter originally said he’d be on his porch back in Nebraska barbecuing. Then he was from Missouri. And Margaret, while drunk, says Henry looks just like her father before he died. The. Her father came to visit. I also noticed in an episode briefly that Hawkeye was wearing what looked like blue converse sneakers. And that’s all I’ve got.
You do realize by now that you had a blooper in your report of a blooper, right? When Margaret was trying to encourage Radar...you showed 2 pics of a different actor. 😆
I saw that too n was like.. wait, is this a test haha
@@erictroxell715 I know! I could hardly believe it! ☺️
Lol I thought I was seeing things 😂
Yep! He became a caddy in 1980. Before that, he was on the submarine Neptune in "Gray Lady Down" and the boyfriend of a Walton sister before that...
In spite of the bloopers, it’s still a great show.
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@@FactsVerse All of them. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
No wonder we are so cynical as a society. Finding fault with everything takes the fun out of watching anything.
1) Watch what you like & enjoy it.
2) Quit reading / listening to nitpick "blooper" posts.
Maybe for you. For others it adds to the enjoyment rather than taking away from it.
In the 50s most GIs smoked cigarettes. They were practically giving them away, and you couldn't walk into a military facility without being enveloped in a cloud of tobacco smoke. Yet, a few scenes in MASH depicted this rampant habit.
It's like the hairstyles and clothes from Happy Days. They didn't even try to look like the fifties (and eventually the 60's) as the series went on. Their hair and clothes looked late 70's and early 80's. Got lazy I guess.
Same ! With the hairstyles on Mash
That didn't really bother me until I got older and noticed the difference. Initially, it could be ascribed to them being a medical unit and military discipline being a bit lax. But the fact that the haircuts are ALL 1970s styles.....
The drum heads that Radar was playing on in one episode weren't produced until the mid-sixties! 😆😆
In the episode, I can't remember the name, but the episode where Margaret announces she's fully divorced, while in the mess hall she says "It's official I'm fully divorced." If you look on her collar she has a major rank on the left side, and on the right side she has a lieutenant bar on the left
Hawkeye's ever changing back story was a part of the character, his negative opinion on the military would have him making changes just to mess with the military mind. I don't see it as mistakes but as intentional by the character.
This and other series were made long before VCRs or anyone thinking we'd be able to go into intricate exhumation of errors. It was a TV show, we didn't pay attention to that stuff back then and it seems even siller to do this FIFTY years later.
Hawkeye also refers to Margaret in a early episode as Khaki Godzilla. This is two errors in one. The first film with Godzilla was released in 1954 as Gojira. The name Godzilla comes from the film's English version which wasn't released until 1957.
Great video. Well done. 👍😄 We have the complete TV series. Love Mash.
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You didn't say anything about the photo that made me click on this! Thumbs down!
Exactly.
When the show started, Henry’s son, Andrew, was born, then taking music lessons then talking to Henry on the phone, with henry telling Andrew he’s the man of the house-all in about a year! Also, speaking of Godzilla, Hawkeye calls Col. Flagg a ‘khaki Godzilla’ before the movie came out..also Radar says he’s an only child but in the episode where Frank steals a Col.‘s gun, he has the key to the lock in his bike so his sister can’t use it and lost a baby brother, even though his father died playing peek-a-boo with baby Radar
I grew up watching mash old school style on a console TV with a antenna on to roof ,and if the weather was bad you might just be out of luck !
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@@FactsVerse I don't remember exactly, it was just a good childhood memory back when tv was better and people didn't get butt hurt so easily. I don't think that show could air in 2023 lol
Good catches I sure wouldn't have noticed! Now the door's open to the same with Happy Days from about season three on! Season one they stick to the era and it had a Norman Rockwell feeling much of the time! Later on it seemed to be "anything goes" with not only the extras in the crowds but the main actors as well! Hahaha!
Not to mention the disappearance of the older brother Chuck.
Also the music played in each episode was all over the place about 5 years, 2 or 3 in some episodes. When it starts there were songs from 55 to 58 or 59
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The first 13 episode package tried to be Korea around 1950, but most of the uniforms, jeeps, trucks, all the choppers, cots, tents, hospital equipment....were Nam surplus. After a year or so every viewer knew it was really about Vietnam and was social commentary on that controversial war. After 75 it was blatant.
This is called foreshadowing. In 1968, 911 became the national emergency number. The same year construction began on the World Trade Center. Also, 1968, the only year the New York Jets won their only Super Bowl. All the world's a stage. Now back to my MASH Bloopers.
Super Bowl 3 was played In Miami in January of 1969.
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Yeah, but that means it was for the 68 season
There was an episode where Klinger was whistling the theme of The Bridge over the River Kwai. That movie didn't come out until around 1957.
But the tune was WWII British. Hitler, has only got one ball, Goering, has two but very small, and Himmler, has something similar, and Goebbels has no balls at all. (whole pub repeats).
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oh good grief! If ya'll want historic accuracy, then study history! These are TV shows and movies, and it's called artistic license. I don't watch shows and movies for historic accuracy. I watch them to be entertained. Too damn much realism in shows and movies these days. If I want realism I'll just look at the world around me...not TV!!
There was an episode where Hawkeye claimed to have read up on recent advancement with an open heart massage, and performed one. It was framed as being risky and experimental.
Open heart surgery and open heart massage were developed in the 19th century and were standards of medicine before the first world war. I'm sure there are plenty more MASH medical boners, but since I am an engineer, I only have the one that I can state. Sorry I can not say what episode or even what season. Although I vaguely feel it was shortly after Col Potter joined the cast.
I have to wonder how much the producers laugh when they put in bloopers wondering how many people will catch things. I didn't know about most of it because I didn't know when the comics first came out, or the guns, or the helicopter. It's fun to see what bloopers people catch though.
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Klinger's being a fan of the Toledo Mudhens, a team that was formed in the 1960's when the Richmond Virginians moved from Richmond to Toledo.
There were earlier incarnations of the Toledo Mud Hens all the way back to 1916.
It's not "the four-thousand-seventy-seventh). It's "the four-oh-seven-seven". Or as Col. Potter calls it one time "the four-oh-double-natural".
Perhaps the producers, writers and directors were aware of all the inconsistencies, they could have been intentional. After all, the show was a comedy-drama. And the "bloopers " may have been a way of making the horrors of war a little lighter and easier to accept.
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There’s a scene where a Jeep has a rear view mirror hanging from the dash that is the type that is glued to the windshield as you would find in cars from the late 60s and beyond. Potter had a son and later had a daughter but only one child.
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It's a TV show not a documentary so who cares it was still a good show
In "mad dog and service men" Margarete is reading a letter to Radar. All the letters I've read have horizontal folds, not vertical.
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While it it true that the show was set during the Korean War, it was clearly a metaphor for the Vietnam War -- so these discrepancies actually increase the show's accessibility for people who lived through that experience.
Mash took place in a parallel universe that explains everything
Another major gaff was in the final episode where they had to evacuate the camp because of a fire. This would be fine except the camera took a full 360 degree turn, showing the damage to the site when they returned. However, it also showed green grass and trees surrounding the camp in all directions. Nothing was burned except their camp. I guess it was a fireball from the sky....?
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That whole scene was added to the last show because the set burned down for real before principle shooting, and had to be rebuilt.
First watched it in my 20s, I thought Hawkeye was my favourite character. 45 years on, he is my least favourite character; a holier than thou, look at me...look at me...drive anyone nuts with his constant chatter, such an arrogant character!
I agree. Alda became so quippy. I could no longer watch.
Watched from day 1 and up till this day, 12/1/23 (because Spectrum is killing the lineup) 2-4 times a day. Never, ever could stand Alda and later on Ferrell. Never heard of Ferrell till this but didn't like him within a couple episodes. Everytime he focused on Peg and Erin I wanted to puke. Watched so much I mastered the exact mute second for anything related to them.
Why watch? Loved all the other characters, they were fantastic, especially Nurse Kelly. A couple episodes highlighting her were some of the best.
Very few episodes I do not like at all.
I agree
The only one I absolutely knew was wrong was Hotlips' nails. Thank you.
The triple axle was performed at the 1988 Winter Olympics right here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
I believe the point you’re making is that all the stuff was presented in the show before it’s time in real life. Nice observation.
Well, they were great anyway!😂
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In one episode, Colonel Potter is showing Rader a picture of himself in WWI having snuck in at only 15.
Another episode he says he was recently married with his own house when the WWI started
On a recently watched rerun I noticed the doctors talking about seeing the Blob movie in Korea. Truce was years old when the Blob was made
Great series, but this just adds even more to the shows. Well done.
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Henry Blake's wife's name in the first season was Mildred as he tried to call her at the hospital when she was having their son. But later in later seasons her name was Loraine. And their son was a lot older.
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My recollection was the use of a camera which did not exist at that time!!!
another inaccuracy is in the one where Col. Blake dies. Radar says Blake is being discharged because he "got all his points". But The army had stopped using the point system after WW II, and they never used it with officers and doctors
Once they mentioned "Elewijt" in the epsiode with the UN-attachés. That's my home village. The painter Rubens had a castle there, but that was not open to the public in the 1970's and much less in the 1950's or 1930's (Considering World War II as an obvious period when the castle would not be accesible to Allied...
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Ummm. Sitcom. Not documentary.
Hey, at least they got Tuttle right in this video
Henry Blake's wife was initially Mildred (like Col. Potter) then turned into Lorraine later on.
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Tim you pointed out the unauthorized hairdos of the men, but failed to mention that "Hot lips" and a few of her nurses also sported unauthorized hair lengths as well.
Up until 2022, female army soldiers hair could not touch their shoulders when combed out, nor could their bangs fall below their eyebrows.
Army Regulation(AR) 670-1
Today, army men can now sport longer hair.
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Although the film was advertised as taking place during the Korean war, Mash film was serruptitiously a commentary of the ridiculousness of war during the Vietnam war.
" 5 0 clock charlie " Don Burkett was flying the PT -22 see him hiding in back seat ....
Lack of enlisted rank insignia (excepting SOME recurring and visiting enlisted personal).
Klinger, who hails from Toledo, is clearly wears a Texas Rangers cap, which didn’t become a team until 1972.
Great show, final episode was a big deal!!! “Goodbye farewell. Amen” ❤️
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Mash aired for something like 13 yrs. How long was the Korean war?
MASH aired for 11 yrs. The war lasted for just over 3 yrs.
In the beginning in the pilot...rafflling of a nurse for ho jon..Hawkeye mentioned that homonyms can stay with Hawkeyes parents...in a later episode when Hawkeye was waiting on word from his father's surgery,he mentioned that his mother was dead
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Hawkeye being from Crabapple Cove, Maine is taken from the Movie and novel M*A*S*H the original hometown of Hawkeye in both the novel and movie.
I suspect it's more of a multiverse issue than a time travel issue.
The first season when they throw a surprise birthday for Frank in the window of the mess tent you can see a silhouette of a hand throwing leaves in front of a fan making it look like a cold fall evening.
In some episodes they show a period correct Bell and Howell projector. However more often they showed an early 1960s model during movie night.
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If I wanted a program true to history then I would look for one; MASH was a sitcom. These programs were there to make us laugh. They never claimed to be historically correct. I'm quite sure that most tv sitcoms will have 'bloopers' in them if we should sit down and closely scrutinise them. Who cares about the age of Radar's comic books or when General McArthur was around? They were funny and enjoyable. That to me is what matters.
Officers Club I would occasionally see on the back wall above the jukebox, was a Huey helicopter poster referencing a Medivac. Again, Huey's were not part of Korean war.
Col. Potters horse had a sex change from when Radar gave the horse to him, to when in the next season 'he' became a mare.
And the blood types of the cast changes from one season to the next.
Where was the picture of hot lips in the thumb nail?
remember when Halkeye was declared dead. a Lt . commented that Halkeye is as Orwell said in 1983 you are whats known as a undead person
I believe the 1953 Ford bus may have been incorrect as well.
Of coarse Colonel Potter had a proper hair cut, Henry Morgan was a no nonsense cop on Dragnet 1967. But it's all about the comedy not history.
Yes, look at Houllahans hair and make up are definitely not 50’s style
I waited ten minutes for more pictures of Margaret in th full slip!
There was a Ford ambulance vehicle that was probably a 1955 or 1956 model. Some Jeeps were also not from the Korean War Era.
I saw a X-ray of a woman’s chest instead of man’s hanging during filming behind I believe Hawkeye.
In the first 3 seasons, Radar was a drinker, cigar smoker, and had a girlfriend. When Potter arrived, Radar was a virgin, never smoked or drank.
1951 New Year's Party with Henry Blake ends up having a 1951 New Year's Party with Col. Sherman T. Potter and Radar. Potter did not show up until Sept. 1952.
The 1970 Movie M*A*S*H was a protest on the Vietnam war. However, that would never be allowed so they set it in Korea. I have to wonder if any of these anachronisms were in place for the same reason - that the real target of the horrors of war was Vietnam.
Another anachronism is that the series lasted far longer than the Korean war.
I can't cite particular episodes, but I do remember Klinger making references to a wife back home, followed by an episode where he marries his girlfriend back home (over the telephone) and then at the end of the series we see him marry a Korean woman. Bigamy? Trigamy? Polygamy?
His wife back home divorced him, marrying his best friend. This leaves Klinger depressed and an army recruiter that tries to use that his advantage much to the anger of Hawkeye. Good episode.
@@Snorlax-cuddles Ah. Missed that somehow.
Avengers 60 Release Date. November 12, 1968 ; Cover Date. January, 1969
I love MASH. However, the point system wasnt in in the Korean War.
Througout the shows run, Hawkeye suffered many mental issues. He would have been discharged for having any one of them.
Klinger would have been put in the brig for his section 8 scam
Blaker's number of children changed, his wife, Lorraine, even gave birth while he was in Korea.
In one early episode. Burns says that his family came to the USA in 1927, the would make Frank about 23 years old, too young to be a qualified surgeon.
Father Mulcahey gave the last rites to any soilder who died. This is a catholic ritual. Mulcahey would have had to dertermine the soilder's faith to see if he would need to perform this. Also, he may have been a catholic preiest but he also said he covered all Christian dedomintions, Potter was a Methodist, BJ a Prespertarian, Klinger an atheist, Hawkeye an agnostic, and even Frank said that there was a catholic living in his street. There were not too many catholics at the 4077th
It only took 50 plus years to let everyone know.
An iconic show smugly nitpicked by somebody who apparently has nothing important to do.
Always was a great show despite any bloopers. And the long hair on the actors could have been appropriate, despite the 1950s' setting. Because they were in a war zone & that the main theme of the show was about rebellion from traditional military mores amid the fundamental absurdity of war, it's certainly believable that they could have been pretty sloppy about adhering to standard military uniform rules of the day.
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Also, "Firstborn of Godzilla" isn't an actual movie.
Most pertinent question I have is this: Was the show entertaining? If people watching shows such as this are hell bent on finding flaws such as those depicted in this presentation, they should spend their evenings doing something other than critiquing TV shows or movies in order to find flaws in the presentation.
It wasn't a Smith & Wesson 19 but a Smith & Wesson Victory snub nose. I'm a major gun collector and dealer and I easily recognize the model.
I think MASH was highly influenced by Catch 22 and also was really talking about the Vietnam war even though it was set in the Korean conflict.
I never understood who was making all those announcement one liners about wounded coming in, never showed him nor mentioned a name...
Wouldn't have been the company clerk Radar or Klinger making those announcements.
Early in the transition with Col Potter, he mentions home being in Nebraska and his wife's name is different.
In Good Bye and Farewell the tanks was a M24 but when Hawkeye drove it ,it was a Sherman ?
At the beginning of the series Radar smoked cigars at the end he choked on one because he didn't smoke
You made many references to after the war was over. Technically it was never a war but a police action and technically that police action never ended and is still ongoing so many of your comments if not most of them technically are wrong, but of course we all know what you mean. I would think the term "Korean conflict" might be better but again technically that is still ongoing.
thank god we still have Hawkeye...