M*A*S*H

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Very funny, very clever, a classic, but sooooo soulful. Very deep stuff.

 

[NannyBeBe]

So true. Every episode could make you laugh and cry.

 

[Praying Colonel]

Unpopular opinion: got preachy after a few seasons. After the first couple of Colonel Potter seasons, I stopped watching.

 

[footballmouse]

Such a funny show.

 

[goofyernmost]

Unpopular opinion: got preachy after a few seasons. After the first couple of Colonel Potter seasons, I stopped watching.

That's a shame because, in my opinion, you missed a whole lot of really good shows.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Col. Flagg is my hero

 

[easyas123]

Unpopular opinion: got preachy after a few seasons. After the first couple of Colonel Potter seasons, I stopped watching.

We enjoy the show - still catch it here & there on reruns, and agree it can get preachy at times.

 

[goofyernmost]

We enjoy the show - still catch it here & there on reruns, and agree it can get preachy at times.

Yes, it was and it was intended since the book, published in 1968, to be just that. It is an anti-war program and having been in one, (a war) it is needed to inform those that haven't just how freaking awful war is, albeit shown in a more palatable way! What they managed to do was to expose just enough personal upset with absolute human waste of life. Sorry, if hearing about it offends anyone, however, living it was and still is far worse. If "preachy" means being shown the crap that humans are constantly seemingly programed to institute, then it is used properly.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Best show ever written. Alan Alda is a genius.

 

[Uncle Coaster]

One of those shows I watched as a kid but when I go back and try to watch as an adult I just don’t get it. I think it’s primarily because I just don’t find the Hawkeye character likable.

 

[easyas123]

Yes, it was and it was intended since the book, published in 1968, to be just that. It is an anti-war program and having been in one, (a war) it is needed to inform those that haven't just how freaking awful war is, albeit shown in a more palatable way! What they managed to do was to expose just enough personal upset with absolute human waste of life. Sorry, if hearing about it offends anyone, however, living it was and still is far worse. If "preachy" means being shown the crap that humans are constantly seemingly programed to institute, then it is used properly.

Whoa, chill. I wasn't denigrating anyone who served our Country or making light of how awful war is. Nor do I need a sermon on WHY it is needed to be portrayed the way it was in that show.
You stating such doesn't offend me, nor should me finding some of the storylines a tad 'preachy' offend you. Please don't presume that others of us on this board do not understand the toll serving during war time or peace time can take on a person and/or their family due to some offhand comment about a TV show that is a piece of entertainment.

I wish you peace.