No other series comes close to this. Our hour nearly every evening with the cast of MASH is time well spent. As relevant today as it was in the seventies.

Because M*A*S*H is some kind of bizarrely sacrosanct American institution, I'm sure people will hate my opinion. I have a lot of reasons to despise the show, mainly because it's so unrealistic and preachy. I'll share those reasons with everyone. 1. Alan Alda is always the hero. Alda has made a living out of superficial and bland good-guy roles, and he of course is always the heroic character in every episode. 2. The authority roles of MacLean Stevenson and Harry Morgan are incredibly unrealistic. No 1950s army officer would ever act like that or tolerate that kind of behavior and disrespect under his command. 3. Apparently working on horribly wounded soldiers is funny, because Alda and company are always (incongruously) cracking jokes during surgery. 4. No 1950s army outfit would tolerate a soldier (Klinger) who wears women's clothes. The others would beat him mercilessly until he straightened up. This plot device is particularly stupid. 5. Although set the in early 1950s, all characters have 1970s hairstyles and use 1970s slang. 6. The Winchester/Burns/Houlihan characters are supposed to be stuffy and intolerant, but instead they come off as convenient caricatures to be ridiculed by Alda and company. 7. Finally, the show is self-important and preaches and preaches and preaches to its audience about behaviors and attitudes we should have. I'm able to make up my own mind, thanks.You have a right to hate my opinion, which I respect. However, lots of people on IMDb liked "Welcome Back Kotter", "The Dukes of Hazzard", and "Laverne and Shirley" as well. M*A*S*H was typical of the endless line of stupid sitcoms that aired during the 1970s. I celebrate 1983 every year because that's when this show finally left the air after overstaying its welcome by about 11 years.

You can attack it on either side. But the background for the show is a rather nasty war. Yes after a year in that scenario, you'd be screaming to get out of there.ER isn't fun but ER makes a heck of a lot more moolah than the ARMY medics have. Even still, I'm the one who can relate to Ross from Friends who goes to the same pediatrician he's seen since he was a kid walking out with a lollipop because he stubbed his toe or something like that. I can't stand hospitals and yes I appreciate the doctors at Van Nuys or my Native American Phlebotomy in Kern County who goes by the alias "Vampire". I cried to my dad when I got stuck in the ER with an IV. I HATE hospitals, you need a special set of guts right there.THEN! Add the element of war where people are coming in with injuries and illness. War impoverishes countries. Apparently Korea found Mao a big enough threat to go through that to remain sovereign or else MASH would've been rescuing victims from the camps and execution fields as well.It still takes a toll and that humor goes a long way.For those who thought it was dry, etc. That's the military-not the actors. The actors did great at bringing that element to life.You guys need to take off the Jane Fonda wannabe blinders and see what your country did for the world. Being away from home as missionaries-literally putting people back together during this nightmare.This show out of almost all appears to bring out the raw human element. It got into drama. Drama happened, that was unfortunately part of the story. Sorry.

No words can perhaps sum up what I think of this show. I absolutely love this show! I was practically raised on it and even as I watch it now I do not get tired of it one bit. Who could possibly hate the crew of the 4077?? They're witty, funny and very easy to relate to.There's the woman-hungry Hawkeye Pierce and his sidekick married man but also woman hungry Trapper John McIntyre(later becoming family man B.J Hunnicutt), the goofy C.O. Henry Blake later replaced by the stern Sherman Potter, there's tattle-tale Frank Burns (later on sent off and to come take the place is Boston man Charles Winchester III) and love interest head nurse and feminist type (in my opinion) "Hot Lips" Margaret Houlihan, then there's the naive country boy Radar O'Reilly, cross dressing lunatic Klinger and of course the holy priest Father Mulcahy. All of them under the strains of the Korean War trying to save the many lives that come their way in their hospital.For a long time this show became my obsession and I was the oddball for a very long time until high school at least. Couple of friends actually watch the show on reruns occasionally but never up to my standards when it came to obsession. That was fine, at least they knew the show.Even by today's standards of television, this show is still highly praise for its comedy but also reminders of war. And as it rests, it is still one of the greatest shows of all time. Watch it. You won't regret it.