I'm sure some of you know two things about me and television.
- I don't own a TV. Even when I've had access to a TV, I don't really watch it.
- M*A*S*H is the greatest show ever created.
And this is where people start thinking, "M*A*S*H? How boring."
Well you know what? Your mom is boring.
In all seriousness, M*A*S*H is an amazing show. It was legitimately funny. Not the shit that passes for humor too often these days. There were still plenty of childish pranks, but mostly made use of its witty characters to make its audience laugh. At the same time, there was substance to the show. It focused on the Korean War, a very serious subject. It showed how people learn to deal the horrors of war, the stresses of deployment, and frustrations with the military. The characters were very human. It was their humanity that really drew me to the show. Not everyone could have a happy ending, and the situations the characters dealt with obviously wore on them, but they learned to survive and to keep each other going, day after day, episode after episode.
If you haven't really watched it before (or only saw it when you were too young to grasp the show's more cerebral content), I highly recommend checking it out. There's a reason it's still incredibly popular ;)
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