Whiskey and MASH

This week Gloria and Chris review their final episodes of AfterMASH: Ward Is Hell (Ses 2 Ep 6), Saturday's Heroes (Ses 2 Ep 7), and Wet Feet (Ses 2 Ep 8). It has been a nearly three year journey, getting to this point, and we both want to thank you SO VERY MUCH for coming along on it with us! Check out our other podcasts, availabe via links at http://www.narclaninc.com. Thank you so much for listening, and take my advice: pull down your pants, and slide on the ice! :)

This week we talk about Ses 2 Ep 4 - Trials where we see the entrance of a new psychiatrist at General General (Dr. Lenore Dudziak) as well as another Dear episode. Then we discuss Ses 2 Ep 5 - Madness to His Method where Max is hard-selling Dr. Dudziak on his insanity, Boyer is dealing with a very complex knot of emotions adjacent and around Dr. Dudziak, and Sherman and Mildred have their first fight in 37 years of marriage.

This week on #WhiskeyAndAfterMASH, as we review Ses 2 Ep 2 - Calling Dr. Habibi and Ses 2 Ep 3 - Strangers & Other Lovers, we talk about Max's continued out-of-character actions, Potter's defense of Boyer, Boyer's continuing struggles with his disability and lack of a consistent romantic partner, Alma Cox's odd adherance to the strictures of regulations, and Potters attempts to keep his staff and sanity in tact while the ground shifts around him.

This week we watch the season 1 cliffhanger and the season 2 openers that deal with Max getting conned into a house, his pugilistic way of getting out, Boyer's issues relating to people when he's accutely aware of his disability, Soon Lee having her baby (it's a boy!), and Mike D'Angelo being relieved of his post.

This wee we talk about Sherman being on his own for a night, but not really having any alone time as he tends to one crisis, annoyance, or patient after another. Francis finds a new depth to his priestly vocation when a former prostitute, Sarah, entreats him not to move out of his new apartment in her building. Also, Klinger is back to his old ways in Fever Pitch as he helps Dr. Boyer 'obtain' a cooling blanket from another hospital.

This week on #WhiskeyAndAfterMASH we talk about Ses1 Ep 16 - It Had to Be You where Dr. Boyer gets an unexpected morale and ego boost from Radar's jilted Intended-To-Be. Meanwhile, we watch as the Potters, Klingers, and Fr. Mulcahy try to console Radar about seemingly bad knews about the future Mrs. O'Reilley, Sandy. Then, in Ses 1 Ep 17 - Odds and Ends we watch as Max does his best to earn $500 so that he and Soon Li can be ready for their new baby. Bob Skinnel ends up helping them in the end with a gift of $500 that he just had lying around. He didn't realize that, though, until Fr. Mulcahy pointed it out while the two were working out Bob's new will before he went in for another surgery.

This week we talk about Ses 1 Ep 14, CYA, and Ses 1 Ep 15, Yours Truly, Max Klinger, both of which still seem to suffer from the symptom of trying to fit too much plot into too little time. That said, the plots moved at a good pace and were well written.

This week on #WhiskeyAndAfterMASH we talk about Season 1, Ep 12 (All About Christmas Eve) where there are six different plot threads. They include: Alma Cox finally feeling appreciated by Mike D'Angelo then feeling betrayed, turning her ire on Klinger; Father Mulcahy getting a donation of a 12 inch TV set from a department store; an ulcer patient arriving at General General who (as a separate plot) helps Dr. Pfiffer find his holiday spirit; another patient arriving who thinks his wife is cheating on him; and Klinger and Soon Lee finding out they are pregnant. In Season 1 Ep 13 (Chief of Staff) there are only about four plots including: D'Angelo getting a prostate operation; Cox feeling first finally appreciated by Mike, then rejected; Nurse Coleman, a black nurse, arriving at General General and her failed trial under fire; Pvt. Bob and another patient fighting over a (married) elder nurse; Potter's office being redecorated by Klinger and Mulcahy with his gear from the 4077th. Both were very dense, but Chief of Staff was, by far, the more viewable episode.

This week we talk about episode 10 (11?), Fallout, and 11 (12?), Bladder Day Saints. These two episodes feel like After MASH is starting to hit its stride in how they handle plots in the episodes. At most, Bladder Day Saints has two plots about vets with bladder issues getting checkups as well as another about the 1% case of a guy who wants attention and his VA benefits. But Fallout has, essentially, a single plot about the poisons that soldiers are exposed to (WWI - gas; WWII - radiation) in the government's fight for Victory. These are good, but Fallout still seems to try too hard to be a comedy when it needn't have been.

This week we review Sunday, Cruddy Sunday (Ses 1 Ep 8?) wherein the gang are all at General General on a Sunday for Visitor's Day and the 1st Annual Bake Sale. Next, we reviewThanksgiving of '53 (Ses 1 Ep 9?) which is exactly what it sounds like. In both of our opinions, Thanksgiving of '53 is the best episode of the series to date. Check it out on YouTube to see why and then let us know what you think over at facebook.com/whiskeyandmash

This week we review episodes 3 (Klinger versus Klinger) and 4 (Snap, Crackle, and Plop) of After MASH. I encourage our listeners to head over to the MASH Wikia site that I've used throughout this podcast, located at http://mash.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page , to see synopses of these episodes.

Our apologies for the extended break between episodes. We're starting to watch AfterMASH, and it took two viewings to digest the first episode. We discuss what we liked and didn't like about it, and due to what else I promised to link in the show notes, encourage you to look over at the IMDB page for a full(ish) synopsis: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084969/episodes?season=1&ref_=tt_eps_sn_1 If you want to watch along with us, check out AfterMASH on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/K0qlzogOsCo Or, purchase a DVD set at: http://www.databluedvd.com/After-MASH-MASH-Walter-Pilot-7-disc-DVD-set-with-BONUSES-AfterMASH--NO-CASE_p_8.html

This week, as a denoument to our 4077th podcasts, we present you with our top ten episodes of M*A*S*H. Surprisingly, there was no overlap between lists!

In this, our episode for the last episode of M*A*S*H, we skip our usual synopsis and dive right into our discussion. If you don't know the plot of Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen, please head over to the MASH Wikia page we usually use for the show: http://mash.wikia.com/wiki/Goodbye%2C_Farewell%2C_and_Amen_(TV_series_episode) Truly, we would be unable to properly summarize this episode in a mere 75 minute podcast as it was itself two and a half hours long. As promised, here is the link to Loretta Swit's interview where she talks about the instription David Ogden Stiers left for her in the book that Charles gives Margaret at the end of the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7fJ2NiiK0c#action=share

This week we take an extended look at the last episode of M*A*S*H to be filmed, As Time Goes By (Ses 11 Ep 15). Here, we watch as Margaret and Hawk assemble a time capsule to bury at the site of the 4077th, Klinger does what he can to help his future wife, Soon Lee, and Rizzo tries to scare a few of the officers with a dummy grenade. Next week's episode will be rather long as it will cover "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen," along with what I'm guessing will be fairly extensive commentary about it.

This week I promised to include the title of Winchester's records: Kindertotenlieder by Gustav Mahler. First up this week is Ses 11 Ep 13 - Friends and Enemies, wherein an old Army buddy of Col. Potter's ends up in the care of the 4077th when he tried to help out an infantry unit. Also, BJ, who is laid up with an ingrown toenail, tries to sew discord between Margaret and Charles. Next, in Ep 14, Give and Take, we watch as Charles pawns off Charity Collection Officer duty, only to end up with it literally falling back in his lap, while a GI in Post-Op is forced to come face to face with his preconceptions of the enemy.

This week on #WhiskeyAndMASH we discuss what happens when Charles snores so loudly that it causes Potter's son in law to cheat on his wife while en route to the 4077th (May not be a completely accurate summary of the plot; Ep 11 - Strange Bedfellows was Gloria's episode). Next, we watch as Margaret loses her voice due to laryngitis that she, apparently, contracts from a late-night OR session that pulls her out of the shower mid way through a perm. Additionally, a Major General sets up camp in the 4077th while his son is recovering (Ses 11 Ep 12 - Say No More).

This week on #WhiskeyAndMASH, we talk about what happens when you think you're getting a ringer for a bet and don't (Ses 11 Ep 9 - Run for the Money). Next, we talk about what it takes to cure a headache, a neck ache, a stick up a major's bum, a psyhological block to intimacy, and a doctor's ability to beat himself up over a patient's condition (Ses 11 Ep 10 - U.N., the Night, and the Music).

This week, to round out the first third of the last season of M*A*S*H, we look at what it takes to pull off a suprise party for Potter as well as to what lengths a good leader's men will go to avenge his wounding (Seas 11 Ep 7 - Settling Debts). Next up, we talk about what happens when the 4077th is declared a dry camp during a heat wave. Specifically, to what ends BJ and Hawk turn their attentions when it's not focused on booze (Ses 11 Ep 8 - The Moon Is Not Blue).

This week on #WhiskeyAndMASH we talk about how much a person can really hide themselves in their work as well as what it takes to get a successful children's toy financed (Ses 11 Ep 5 - Who Knew?). Second, we discuss how hard it is to book Marilyn Monroe for a visit to the 4077th as well as what it takes to get a Bronze Star to give away to a deserving soldier in Post-Op (Ses 11 Ep 6 - Bombshells).

This week on #WhiskeyAndMASH we talk about the depth of Charles' character when a French maiden comes to call from the Red Cross (Ses 11 Ep 3 - Foreign Affairs), but ends up living too Bohemian of a life for his status. Next, we see just what paranoia can do to a person when Hawkeye is tricked into believing that BJ is after the whole senior staff (Ses 11 Ep 4 - The Joker Is Wild) when in fact it is the whole senior staff who are after Hawkeye.

This week we begin the last season of MASH (sad panda) with Episodes 1 (Hey, Look Me Over) and 2 (Trick or Treatment). In Episode 1 we see Nurse Kelleye get the spotlight she deserves for being in a total of 178 episodes of M*A*S*H. She confronts Hawkeye after he unsuccessfully attempts to seduce nurses right in front of Kelleye. Also, there's a minor subplot about the OR being a shambles and a nurse-Colonel inspector coming to see how Margaret handles herself after a bug-out scenario. In Episode 2 we watch at the 4077th is inundated with unexpected casualties as they are gearing up for a Halloween party. During this the staff share ghost stories, Charles deals with self-inflicted wounds of Marines, Hawk helps a soldier get on the road to mental health, and Fr. Mulcahy saves a life while performing Last Rites.

This week we close out Season 10 of M*A*S*H with Ep 20, Picture This, and Ep 21, That Darn Kid. First, in Picture This, we see again how boredom combined with cramped quarters can drive the surgeons to interpersonal conflict, even as Potter tries to capture them in a portrait for Mildred. Next, in That Darn Kid, we watch as Rizo cons Winchester out of a month's pay while Potter and Klinger work together to keep Hawk from being in debt to the US Army for the rest of his natural life.

This week we talk about Ses 10 Eps 18, Heroes, and 19, Sons and Bowlers. In Heroes, we watch as Hawkeye is forced into the limelight agianst his will, leading BJ and Charles to become jelaous. Meanwhile, Klinger finds that a memo from General Wilberforce opens every supply door he could ever hope to have access to. In Sons and Bowlers, Potter turns to bowling as a way to beat the Marines at some sort of sport while Hawk and Charles grow closer while Hawk tries to find out what is going on with his father, who has gone in for an operation.

This week on @WhiskeyAndMASH we discuss what happens when it's BJ's turn to go to Battalion Aid, but he's out for a trim and manicure in Seoul. Hint: Hawkeye ends up going in his place and we get a bunch of flashback scenes (Ses 10 Ep 16 - Where There's A Will, There's A War). Next, we discuss what happens when a young man tries to stick to his morals amidst the immorality of war, and just what lengths some enlisted men will go to as they try to earn their promotions at the last minute (Ses 10 Ep 17 - Promotion Commotion).

This week on @WhiskeyAndMASH we talk about the pain that goes along with oral higene as well as that when a CO is caught making racist duty assignment (Ses 10 Ep 14 - The Tooth Shall Set You Free). Next, we chat on what happens when Hawk fixes a small surgical bug that Potter missed, as well as what happens when Charles resigns as the Swamp's Chamber Maid (Ses 10 Ep 15 - Pressure Points).

This week on @WhiskeyAndMASH Gloria, Chris, and their guest host Tom, talk about what happens when an old war correspondant looking for a juicy story shows up at the 4077th with 6 pints of blood and a need to glorify war (Ses 10 Ep 12 Blood and Guts). Next, the MASH Trio tackles what the chaplaincy looks like in the service while managing to share some observations about Father Mulcahy's character stability throughout the series and what happened to the fresh eggs promised to the occupants of the 4077th (Ses 10 Ep 13 A Holy Mess).

In this week's episode of @WhiskeyAndMASH we see what happens when a Klinger gets a high fever combined with soldiers who didn't make the trip from Battalion Aide to the 4077th (Ses 10 Ep 10 - Follies of the LIving, Concerns of the Dead). Also, we see how just a simple kind act, such as sharing a bran muffin, can turn a person's birthday around (Ses 10 Ep 11 - Birthday Girls). Did I mention that the doctors of the 4077th turn a cow into a guinea pig?

This week we conclude the Snap/Snappier Judgement two-part episode (Ses 10 Ep 8 - Snappier Judgement) to find that Klinger, by a hair, is found innocent. Also, we find out what Boxing Day does to the morale of the 4077th while also being reminded that not every job is as easy as we think it is (Ses 10 Ep 9 - 'Twas the Day After Christmas).

This week we talk about what happens when Charles loses possession of his May 5th edition of The Daily Boston Globe (otherwise known as his good judgement) while a North Korean POW encounters his war-separated ROK brother (Ses 10 Ep 7 - Communication Breakdown). Additionally, we see what happens when Max fails to submit a stolen goods report in a timely manner (Ses 10 ep 8 - Snap Judgement). Hint: it doesn't go well.

This week we look at Ses 10 Ep 5 - Give 'Em Hell, Hawkeye (or Ep 4, depending on your numbering) wherein Colonel Ditka offers the 4077th a needed water heater if they'll undergo a beautification project at camp. During this, a young Korean boy by the name of Kim Han is earning money so that he can buy surgery to look more American. In our second episode (Ses 10 Ep 6 - Wheelers and Dealers), Klinger has to inventory the laundry, Potter has to take remedial drivers' ed, and BJ goes off on a tizzy when Peg has to get a job.

This week on #WhiskeyAndMASH we talk about two soldiers who arrive at the 4077th questioning their choices in life and one questioning everyone elses' (Ses 10 Ep 3 - Identity Crisis) as well as what lengths the staff of the 4077th will go to in order to keep (almost) everyone in tact there as a new MASH forms elsewhere (Ses 10 Ep 4 - Rumor at the Top).

This week on #WhiskeyAndMASH we talk about Season 10 Eps 1 & 2, That's Show Biz. A USO troupe ends up staying over at the 4077th after stopping to see one of their number who was in for an apendectomy. Listen as we recount how these USOers help the members of the 4077th expand their horizons a bit, and even pull on some heart strings in the process.

This week on #WhiskeyAndMASH we revisit a small character named Walter "Radar" O'Reilly as he works his way through civilian life. Turns out, however, that it isn't treating him as well as he'd have his friends back in Korea believe (Ses 9 Ep 19 The Foresight Saga). Next, in the season finale (according to broadcast order) we watch as Charles comes perilously close to death, Hawkeye deals with trays in the Mess, BJ with sheets in Laundry, Margaret with a mopey Charles, and Father with the camp's garbage. Mainly, though, we watch as Charles deals with his brush with death (Ses 9 Ep 20 The Life You Save).

This week we see another installment of "Hawkeye Going Crazy" (Ses 9 Ep 17 - Bless You, Hawkeye) as well as both the detrimental effects of a Cardinal's visit to the 4077th on Fr. Mulcahy as well as the counter-effects of a terminally ill patient on the same Francis Mulcahy (Seas 9 Ep 18 - Blood Brothers).

From our new temporary location, #WhiskeyAndMASH returns this week as we talk about the perils of becoming an alcoholic in a warzone (Ses 9 Ep 15 - Bottoms Up) as well as what it takes to (a) lower one's blood pressure while a commanding officer in a warzone and (b) get out of one's duties as corpsman and company clerk (Ses 9 Ep 16 - The Red/White Blues).

This week on #WhiskeyAndMASH we watch as Col. Baldwin returns to the show. Unfortunate timing, as Hawkeye has taken a vow of sincerity for 24 hours (Ses 9 Ep 13 - No Laughing Matter). Also, we watch what happens to BJ when he finds himself at another anniversary (this being his real one) away from Peg and Erin (Ses 9 Ep 14 - Oh, How We Danced).

In this week's episode we talk about the trials and tribulations of the 4077th during a three-day heat wave (Ep 11 - No Sweat), wherein Potter ends up taking a sleeping pill to help him get some shuteye, and what Hawkeye decides to do when the camp is accidentally gifted with 500,000 tongue depressors (Ep 12 - Depressing News). Hint on that second one: it involves Hawk making a monument, and then using prima-cord.

This week we discuss two episodes from season 9, Taking the Fifth (ep 9) and Operation Friendship (ep 10). In Taking the Fifth we see the plot revolve around 757 mL of Bordeaux as Charles seeks more and Hawkeye seeks to trade his bottle for pleasure of the flesh. In Operation Friendship we watch as Charles plays hand servant to Klinger after he saves Charles from near certain death at the hands of the autoclave while BJ is knocked to his caboose by the same device, ending up in his hand suffering a compartment hemmoraghe which nearly ends his surgical career.

This week we watch the fallout of an Army retention NCO's visit to the 4077th (Ses 9 Ep 7 - Your Retention Please) as well as what happens when Charles is left in charge whilst a young Marine's mother is facing deportation (Ses 9 Ep 8 - Tell It tTo The Marines).

This week we take a break from our regular schedule to play our second of two rouds of MASHED, a Powered by the Apocalypse RPG. This week's episode involves the fallout and repercusions, specific to the three main characters, that are a result of the Deluge that the camp just survived.. For the forseeable future this will be our last time playing the MASHED RPG.

This week Gloria and Chris discuss what sanitary steps the 4077th takes to avoid post-op illness (Hint: it involves cement, not food preparation; Ses 9 Ep 3 - Cementing Relationships), as well as what happens when 'Educational Materials' and Howitzer Al Houlihan arrive at 4077th at the same time (Ses 9 Ep 4 - Father's Day).

This week we take a break from our regular schedule to play our first of two rouds of MASHED, a Powered by the Apocalypse RPG. This week's episode includes character creation as well as a debilitating round of surgery, mainly focused around Laura's character, Cpt. George Baker.

This week on #WhiiskeyAndMASH we talk about how a 24 hour pass to Seoul can be less than fulfilling as well as how playing Bridge can lead to becoming a hand maid (Ses 9 Ep 1 - Best of Enemies) as well as how becoming a 4th grader's pen pall can dredge up all sorts of feelings of accomplishment, mirth, loss, and guilt (Ses 9 Ep 2 - Letters).

This week we're covering three episodes from Season 8: ep 23, War Co-respondent; ep 24, Back Pay; ep 25, April Fools. In War Cor-respondent, we see BJ develop a crush that temps him as closely as he was in Season 5's episode "Hanky Panky." However, BJ keeps himself from losing his lifeline home to Peg and Millvalley. Hawk, for his part, keeps after the reporter Aggie O'Shea as much as she is hounding after BJ. Next, in episode 24 Hawkeye attempts to bill the Army for services rendered as a doctor is doing back in Minneapolis while Charles plays professor a gorup of three Korean doctors. In the end Hawkeye doesn't get his compensation and the Korean doctors do help Charles with his back problems. Finally, in April Fools, we watch as Col. Potter pulls the grand-daddy of April Fools pranks on his senior staff while they play at child versions amongst themselves.

This week on #WhiskeyAndMASH we talk about another *crazy* scheme by Klinger to get home (which almost succeeds) in Ses 8 Ep 21, Good-bye Cruel World. Next, in Ses 8 Ep 22 Dreams we watch the innermost nightmares of the senior staff of the 4077th. Also, coming in the next couple of weeks we will be having a series of special episodes where we will be playing MASHED, a Powered by the Apocalypse RPG.

This week on #WhiskeyAndMASH we watch Ses 8 Ep 19 (Morale victory, http://mash.wikia.com/wiki/Morale_Victory_(TV_series_episode)) where Hawkeye and BJ deal with the near-riot they incited after watching a movie for the umpteenth time while Charles tries to reach a patient who sees his career as a concert pianist end because of an injury. Next, we discuss the Alda-filled episode Lend a Hand (Ses 8 Ep 20, http://mash.wikia.com/wiki/Lend_a_Hand_(TV_series_episode)) wherein Dr. Borelli, Alan Alda's father, and Medic Corporal Jarvis, Alan Alda's brother, make an appearance while the 4077th is slammed with a bought of boredom, relieved by a series of near-successful parties.

IN our first episode this week we see just what combat surgery can do to a brilliant surgeon as well as what being couped up together wiht the mumps can do to two brilliant surgeons (Ses 9 Ep 17 - Heal Thyself). Next we see, once again, what light children bring to the 4077th while ties from old friends bring an end to one chapter of Col. Potter's life (Ses 8 Ep 18 - Old Soldiers).

This week we talk about babies left on tent steps (the Swamp doesn't have a doorstep) and what they can expect as a Korean-American child (Ses 8 Ep 15 - Yessir, That's Our Baby) as well as what happens when one of the doctors decides to leave the bottle alone due to an outrageous bar tab while another decides to jump in based on a letter from his sister, Hanoria (Ses 8 Ep 16 - Bottle Fatigue).

This week we discuss the socio-political motivations that lead to a tussle in Post-Op between and Turk and Greek soldier as well as the intricacies of getting a phone line open from Korea to the Pentagon (Season 8 Ep 13 - Captains Outrageous) as well as what is all involved in getting an article written and published in the American College of Surgeons. Also, Jack Skuly makes his last appearance at the 4077th (Ses 8 Ep 14 - Stars and Stripes).

This week on the show we review Season 8 Episode 11, Life Time, and Season 8 Episode 12, Dear Uncle Abdul. In Life Time we watch as Hawkeye works feverishly from the chopper pad through the operating room to save a young man who has had a large portion of his aorta shot away. In doing so Hawkeye and BJ work together to keep from paralyzing the man while finding a sufficiently large graft to repair his heart. IN Episode 12, Dear Uncle Abdul, we see a lull in the action at the 4077th which invariablely means zany antics including Col. Potter using Klinger as a body double on Sophie, BJ and Hawkeyke having a running joke-off, Charles using Klinger as a bird dog, and Margaret seeking a replacement to her footlocker "that gave its life, that I might live."