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I was doing a bit of channel hopping last night when I came across M*A*S*H, it was the episode when Klinger was trying to get a Section 8 and Hawkeye and BJ were trying to stitch up the other one. Anyhoo I really enjoyed watching it even though it didn't raise even a tiny titter out of me. Then I thought back ... have I ever laughed at M*A*S*H? Has anybody? The people in the canned laughter department thought it was hilarious though.
Can comedy be unfunny yet still great to watch?
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I used to watch MASH regularly.
Never really found it humourous, but did enjoy the characthers.
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Very smart and cynical and not afraid to show the true consequences of war. The episode that always sticks with me is the one where they ran out of painkiller and resorted, after much debate to try using placebos on a wounded soldier... riveting stuff with Hawkeye battling with the ethical dilemna.
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Never really got into the series, but the film is an absolute classic.
Alan Alda's Groucho Marx impersonation ground on me in the end.
When Mclean Stevenson (Col Henry Blake) was replaced by Harry Morgan (Col Potter) it was inspired casting and gave the show a needed boost, but when Larry Linville (Frank Burns) left it was downhill all the way.
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I liked it at the time, wether I would now dunno.
i never found it funny, although there were funny parts to it.
but i dont think anyone making the show was trying to make it funny. it was a really depressing and real view on war and what happens to people at war...but to make it lighter and have it on TV so they can get the message accross; they put into a dark and depressing enviroment, a bunch of funny characters.
i think the genious was in the way they had polarising characters to themes.