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I have some questions

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*mash is back on the internet archive*

hello, everyone! i was able to download and upload the entire series (which was too difficult, holy hell), and it is now available to watch.

i'm also going to upload the series with closed captioning in english and spanish! (si! se habla español.)

please let me know if there are any issues with the uploads. if, god forbid, it's taken down again, i'm very prepared to put it all back up.

if y'all have any suggestions, please leave those as well. (like if you'd like for me to put it on another shared drive, convert it to a different video player, etc.)

- h <3

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Hawkeye Pierce // 'Nobody's Soldier' - Hozier

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Back by popular demand! (one person in my notes said I should make another one)

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"Frank is the type of character I personally despise...It's a matter of ego but I think I'm doing a service by delineating this type of person. You know, so you'll be able to recognize him."

-Larry Linville on playing Frank Burns

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The hills are alive with the sound of Klinger yelling

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I explain MASH to my Criminal Minds friends by saying ‘Written and Directed by Alan Alda’ is the 70s equivalent to “Written and Directed by Matthew Gray Gubler” and without fail it clicks. I’ve gotten at least 3 people hooked on MASH this way.

‘the late cpt. pierce written and directed by alan Alda’ oh im Sure

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Hawkeye salmon

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oh right the time loop i nearly forgot about the time loop

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'you love life that little' DONT PISS ME OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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i have to admit, my favorite way to watch mash is to imagine it's the second or third or even seventh time these events have happened. sometimes Hawkeye is aware of it, but sometimes he isn't. some episodes, he knows he's about to watch someone die or have the worst day of his life, again. he knows exactly where every piece of shrapnel is inside some 16 year old kid because he's picked out every piece of shrapnel from this 16 year old kid fifteen times already. he knows who dies and he still tries everything to save them. some episodes, he has no idea he's trying in vain to save someone he's never been able to save before, and may never be able to save. he's going to try everything. he can't help but try everything. and the food doesn't get better, either

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Never not thinking about when the (beloved) priest in MASH said

“When the doctors cut into a patient… and it’s cold, the way it is now today… steam will rise from the body. And the doctor will warm his hands over the open wound. How could anybody look upon that and not feel changed?”

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worst ways to watch mash

- alphabetical order by episode title

- watch “Dreams” and nothing else and carry on assuming the whole show was like that

- watch the top-rated IMDb episodes first and experience “Abyssinia, Henry” before anything else

- season 11 -> AfterMASH seasons 1-2 -> W*A*L*T*E*R Pilot -> seasons 1-10

- by writer, in alphabetical order by last name. Start with all the Aldas, Wilcox last and so on

- watch the whole show through TikTok clips

- only watch the first three seasons and then abandon it and assume the rest is bad

- only watch episodes that pass the bechdel test

- experience the show peripherally through mutuals on tumblr

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Bottle Fatigue (S8x16) might be one of my favorite combination of A and B plots. It’s basically Hawkeye having an ADHD crash out after sobering up and Charles having a crash out over his sister getting engaged to an Italian man in front of Alan Alda, an Italian man, and both of them drive everyone insane. Just two girl failures. It’s amazing that they are some of the best surgeons in Korea at the time bc they’re both idiots

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I’ll be real, seeing Hawkeye in Bottle Fatigue is just another piece of evidence for my conspiracy theory wall of ‘Hawkeye has an insane case of high-functioning ADHD’ and it’s such a fascinating case study.

Like within the timeline of the show (early 1950s) ADHD/ADD didn’t even exist as a diagnosis yet, and even tho there were some physicians that noted ADHD-like symptoms most documentation was primarily concerning children. Even when MASH was airing ADHD was not accepted into the DSM until 1980 and again it was primarily focused on children, so Hawkeye from a Watsonian or Doylist perspective, whether it’s from within the show and from the audience’s perspective, Hawkeye is just like a guy. Definitely a wacky kinda guy, but a guy. He’s not defined by a diagnosis bc the diagnosis didn’t even exist yet. It was just kinda accepted that hey sometimes there are people who cannot sit still and who constantly move around and always are talking and that’s ok, this guy does that and he’s pretty cool, he’s actually a top surgeon and hella funny.

The downside is that so much of the negative of ADHD is also present and if anything is exacerbated by the war. Like Hawkeye has a bleeding heart, he cares so much about people that it hurts and it’s what makes his mental state so fragile sometimes, and clearly has trouble leaving people as seem at the end of the show and when Trapper leaves. That matches with ADHD and emotional dysfunction, where people with ADHD can feel emotions to their extreme. Obviously in Bottle Fatigue Hawkeye gets super hyperactive and like is running all over the place before everyone else which drives everyone else crazy (which could be kinda explained by everyone else being kinda hungover, but also like dude wants to play golf??? that shit takes forever my guy he must really need to do something if he’s up at like 6 trying to play a couple rounds) . On the topic of alcohol, people with ADHD, especially undiagnosed people, have higher rates of drug and alcohol abuse, typically because they use substances to cope or as a form of self-medication, something we see Hawkeye doing as a way to help cope with the war, and he has a larger tab than everyone else, meaning he probably drinks more.

Like ADHD is a part of you, so ADHD is like intrinsically part of the good in Hawkeye, the quick wit, the humor, the deep moral compass, the compassion for others, but it’s also connected to his flaws, his impulsiveness, his need to self medicate with alcohol, his fragile psyche. It’s a very good representation of ADHD and ADHD didn’t even exist yet when he was being written. I love this man so much and he doesn’t even exist

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gay people don't even come out anymore they just ask if you've seen mash