Mash Theme: The REAL Story Behind "Suicide is Painless"
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- Опубликовано: 29 мар 2020
- In this episode, we're going in deep on the Mash Theme song finding out The REAL Story Behind "Suicide is Painless"
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The lyrics are NOT stupid. They are a masterpiece of melancholy and irony. Irony is something totally different from stupidity.
Director: I need a stupid song , I know I’ll get my stupid son to write a dumb song
One of my family's favorite shows. My Mom was bunkmates with Loretta Swit. My Mom passed in May and I reached out to her to let her know and she wrote back and told me about their time together. So nice of her.
I honestly don't understand how the lyrics are supposed to be stupid. They're very deep.
I was young, in school, I herd the song, my dad was in the United States Marine Corp. I was asked, the day after I heard the song, what I wanted to be when I grew up?
For me "Suicide is Painless" Was always a very hopeful song in the end. He knows that life is hard and painful, that it's just a game rigged against him. He realizes that if he were to take his life it would cause a lot of changes to those he loves. In the end, he had to ask himself, "What do I really want?". He may have not said no directly but the line he repeats all the time "I could take or leave it if I please" shows that he likely won't. When you're at the point where you're about to commit suicide you don't feel like you have a choice. It's the last thing you can do and nothing else will work, or at least that's what your brain is telling you. You don't feel like, "Well I could, I don't care."
I wouldn't call Maxwell Q. Klinger "gender bending." He was trying to get out of the army. He acted no less masculine than the other men. Except he had IMPECCABLE fashion sense! Lol.
Stupid lyrics? I've never thought so.
Yah, I saw MASH first run in the movies. I knew I was slated to go to Viet Nam and I thought the song was the most perfect melody I ever heard. I bought the soundtrack of the movie. I bought the sheet music of the song and learned to play and sing it at the time. Viet Nam came and went. I was there and came home again...but I was different. I went over as a teenager and came home a man with a man's outlook on the world. They started making MASH, the tv show, while I served my time in the Army. When I got out of the service, MASH was still on, and continued for longer than the 9 years I was in the Army. Obviously, MASH, the movie, the song and the tv show are tied together with my Army service. It's been a trying life at times, but now I'm an old man with many memories, both good and bad, and...suicide is painless. It brings on many changes, and I can take or leave it if I try! It's not a dumb song. It's not a stupid song. It is what it is, if you lived it. I did.
Never found the lyrics to the song stupid or even remotely funny. I’ve always been shocked a 14 year old wrote those words. I think it’s powerful. Haven’t heard a cover that tops the original either.
I would think David Ogden Stiers as Chas Emerson Winchester would rate a mention as he was a big part of the tv show. Or Did you Forget?
I was 10 years old when MASH first aired. Eleven years later they aired the last episode in 1983. I joined the Army that year and became a Combat Medic, 91B. On our graduation day they presented a slide show of our group's time at Fort Sam Houston and a band played Suicide is Painless. What a great feeling that was hearing that song at that time.
i dont think the song is a joke.. i take it word for word.. which helps me with my depression.
When the narrator mentions all the new cast characters on the series, he totally forgot about Winchester which is kinda sad
The singers of the theme song, The Ron Hicklin Singers were also the real singers for The Partridge Family, you left THAT out.
Both actors who played Henry Blake died within 24 hours of each other, in 1996
Johnny Mandel, who wrote the music for this song, died on 29 June, at the age of 94. The lyrics were written by the director's young son.
When I graduated from the Army combat medic training in the late 1970’s they played the song while we were given on certificates. I love that song.
What's kind of funny is I never thought the song was stupid. Always took it as an allegory for the war, not literally about the scene it was in. Kind of funny knowing the story behind it now. :D