One of the more grating things about the show is how Margaret Houlihan turns into a raving lunatic anytime someone slightly offends her. Christ, it gets old fast.
shareYes, Margaret could definitely be a pain in the ass! She was "by the book".
shareWell, we can't have a whole cast of well adjusted folks who get along famously - wouldn't be funny otherwise. And things tend to get old when the show runs 10 years.
Margaret was written as a volatile uptight regular army prude who just happened to be promiscuous at the same time - a great contradiction. Great character overall, and I like how they "matured" her along with everyone else by the time the series ended - although she could still erupt. Like everyone at the 4077 except Frank, she grew and matured into a better person for the experience and became less loud towards the end.
I believe she was gagged quite a bit as she was a strumpet that enjoyed her share of brass dick. I am sure she gagged on some general's hog somewhere in Tokyo one of her many trips there.
shareI am sure she gagged on some general's hog somewhere in Tokyo one of her many trips there.
Very true, in fact, wasn't she involved with a guy that eventually got demoted.... Scully or something? That was in later seasons I think. Maybe brass dong wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
shareWell, on the one hand, she was funnier when she was sleeping with Frank and plotting with him. She wasn't as funny when she broke up with him and married that adulterous moron Donald Penobscott. He was a terrible husband, and they only married because the sex was good during trips to Tokyo together. Then, after she divorces his worthless butt, Margaret goes all "feminist" on everyone, no thanks to the female writer that joined the show later in the series latching onto her and using her as an avatar.
It's like, I watch her going all "feminist" later in the series, and get tired of her acting like an F-ing martyr and activist towards everyone. Then I'm thinking, "I liked her better when she was an unlikeable bitch." Trying to make her likeable actually wasn't that good an idea.
I'd say the worst episode I saw her in was the two-parter where she and Hawkeye were trapped in an abandoned hut in the middle of nowhere, with bombs falling all around them outside, and she's screaming her head off because the writers decided partway through the series that she was terrified of loud noises and made Hawkeye's life more hellish than normal. Even worse, the show indicated they had sex in the hut they were hiding in, even though there was no physical evidence besides them kissing passionately on a whim and lying together the next morning in the same [undisturbed] clothes they'd worn the night before. Trying to get those two together was a lousy idea and that two-part episode sucked. (They broke up the next morning when self-righteous Margaret got mad over Hawkeye indicating that she cheated on her husband regularly).
It was quite improbable as to how the character changed over the course of the series. It runs contrary as to how life typically goes as a person ages from what I have seen. Yet on MASH other than Frank Burns all the characters seem to "grow" with Potter ditching his regular army stance other than when he was dealing with Burns or Winchester being a glaring example. People that tend to change from their early 20's onward usually are insecure in general in some respect. That does not describe someone like Potter or Houlihan or Winchester or Pierce foe example.
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