Mobile Army Surgical Hospital - M*A*S*H (1972) Discussion

[–] randbanks 8 years ago

actually the 4077th bugged out several times.

the structure were permanent due to the fact that they're safer under fire, far more sanitary than tents, much better in bad weather.

Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory and ending a battle to save an empire is no defeat

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[–] Blueghost 8 years ago

I only remember it at the end. I don't recall them ever moving.

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[–] randbanks 8 years ago

Bug-Out I & II
The Party
C*A*V*E
&
G.F.A

Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory and ending a battle to save an empire is no defeat

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[–] Blueghost 8 years ago

Don't recall. Watched the damn thing with the family, and really couldn't stand it after the first season or two.

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[–] Sunny_Nelson 8 years ago

Good thing you decided to post on a M*A*S*H board then. 

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[–] FatherMulcahyFan 8 years ago

Then you would have hated the later seasons even more when Hawkeye got really preachy and annoying.

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[–] indy_go_blue44 8 years ago

Please post your favorite show(s) so I can go to those boards and pez and moan about how much I didn't like them.

smh as to why you people post here.

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[–] buttsronc 8 years ago

What happened to Sophie the horse in the other bug out episodes?
Potter rode Sophie in Bug Out but the horse is absent in "CAVE" and "The Party" as well as "GFA".

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[–] Sunny_Nelson 8 years ago

I don't remember "CAVE" and "The Party," but the horse is most definitely there in the finale. Potter rides her at the end.

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[–] crypticanomaly73 8 years ago

They moved a few times, Frank when in command even made them move the whole camp across the road. It wouldn't make for great tv if they were always bugging out somewhere so I can see why they left it pretty much static most of the time.

Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.

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[–] revolver95 8 years ago

Every time they bugged out they came back to the same spot they left. Even when Frank made them move across the street, he had them move back the next day.
I think in one episode Potter mentioned they moved something like 20 times.

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[–] crypticanomaly73 8 years ago

They did always return to the same spot. That would have been a cheap thing to do, have them actually go to different parts of Korea. But then it wouldn't have mattered much I guess in the end.

Sometimes a movie or tv show plot is so stupid that only the stupid can understand it.

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[–] dawnbaxter34 8 years ago

The MASH film 'Battle Circus' with Humphrey Bogart had a few bug-out scenes that were realistic, including one where they had to burn the tents because there was no room for them on the trucks.

The Commanders's 'office' was a basic tent with a desk for the C.O. and for the company clerk. It wasn't the elaborate office with wooden walls, decorations liquor cabinet and tons of filing cabinets that Blake and Potter had.

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[–] ZakkWyldeMyLittlePony 8 years ago

Also known as M*A*S*H.

Metallica, Iron Maiden, and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fan

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[–] buttsronc 8 years ago

In real life the MASH followed the advancing or retreating US Eighth Army. In the first years of the war the front was always shifting. MASH units lived and worked in tents.By the end of 1951 the Korean War settled into a stalemate along the 38th parallel. The MASH units settled into permanent wood buildings like on the show. In fact the book takes place in 1952 when the front no longer moved.

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[–] dawnbaxter34 8 years ago

There was the episode where General Steele wanted to move the MASH closer to the front but Henry said they were in their location a long time and settled in. It definitely would be hard moving all the items in the Officers' Club like the piano, jukebox and pinball machine.

MASH means Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and mobile you shall be!

Sir, that'll mean tearing down the tents, the buildings. We'll have to pack everything up.
I mean, we've been here a long time. We fixed it up so nice. I mean, gee whiz, just last week the nurses planted radishes.

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