One of the things that makes M*A*S*H a desert island show for me, is that when it starts over again, it bursts with this youthful, kinetic, energy.
Towards the end of its run, M*A*S*H had wrung all the humor and ideas out of the show like a wet towel.
We will put new American metal into the spine of this nation.
I can't stand it on MeTV. They cut out too many scenes. But, I do agree that it's good to watch from the start.
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I blame autocorrect.
You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.
I bet that every single day somewhere in the world a MASH episode plays over the air waves.
And I think it has been that way for a long time.
By the end it was the 80s the draft ended 10 years earlier, Saigon had fallen 8 or so years earlier.
From the pop culture perspective those events were a long time ago Vietnam was over and Korea was 30 years ago.