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thank you so much Sherman Potter for agreeing to be the diversity hire🙏🙏 it must have been so hard to be the only heterosexual in the cast

My poor boyfriend didn't know what hit him.

"Yeah, I actually really liked the few episodes you showed me. What are some more episode's you'd suggest?"

Say no more my love.

(Kinda kidding, but since it's spring break next week I can show him more than 4 episodes so I'm trying to narrow them down)

IM SORRY FOR THE WAIT 😫😫😫

OP I hope you don’t mind but ur right there are so many episodes that fit

Average MASH ep dichotomy

Colors. My greatest enemy.

(It looked fine and then I tried to add lighting and now the skin colors aren’t skin coloring)

I wanted to put in the scene where they send him out into the minefield with a map of New York but couldn’t figure out how to fit it.

Just finished season 4 of MASH

I know this art blog is quickly becoming a MASH rampage (not intentional, I swear) but I really want to give my thoughts on the season 4 finale and this seems like the best place to do it.

An incomplete list of every moment that struck me in S4E24: The Interview:

Hawkeye's demeanour in this episode is entirely different than in 'Yankee Doodle doctor', particularly his behaviour toward the film crew. This is unsurprising, but still significant to me.

I loved hearing Radar talk about his earthworms. I love whenever the characters engage in genuine hobbies outside of their jobs in the army, but hearing Radar babble about his earthworms was especially lovely.

"War is just killing, that's all." - Klinger

Hawkeye is so honest this episode, and he does it all with this completely checked out look, eyes glazed over.

Hawkeye also sums up his whole entire character. He talks about putting on a 'coat' of morale just to make others stop believing in where they are because it's the only way he can feel present. He also get's asked how he stays sane, which is pretty significant foreshadowing, to which he answer with a list of frankly insane things to do. It reminds me of the S1 episode where he pretended to lose it in order to get time off, but also of all the little times in episodes where he did something that was a bit outlandish, a bit crazy, and somehow also made perfect sense, like when he (briefly) pretended to be a corpse in an attempt to get back to his father.

"There's so much more to care about," and "It just doesn't matter anymore," are two things Hawk says in basically one breath and boy is that relatable.

I've already seen this clip but Mulcahy talking about the steam and the bodies in the cold hurts every time.

Genuine, non-sexual focus and appreciation for the nurses and the jobs they do.

Referencing the episode where Radar get's drunk in Tokyo and him looking so abashed about it.

"If I knew all the answers, I'd run for God." -Klinger again

More on Klinger– Usually he takes advantage of any opportunity to display his insanity to higher ups. He doesn't do that here. He talks entirely sincerely about his joy for home and his hate for the war. You can really see every emotion on his face. He is so real.

Radar's compassion for the local Koreans. There's something special about it coming from him specifically that I can't quite pinpoint but I love it. Maybe because he comes from such a similar background but is now in a position where the people he answers to tell him that he's better than them. I think Radar must feel he has more in common with the local farmers than with his own colleagues.

I've never thought about it before, but it makes so much sense that Potter misses being around people his own age, and I could probably go on about that forever but I probably shouldn't.

Father Mulcahy looks so tired.

BJ smiles when he greets his wife and daughter, but when he looks down he looks devastated. How hard must it be to talk to his family through a TV screen. The acting in this episode it amazing.

I think it was BJ who talked about being torn between his love for the people he worked with and wanting to erase them from his memory, which reminded me of a line from the MASH fanfic I wrote before I even watched this episode; 'Nothing makes me happier than having people to miss, and that they’re far enough away that I can miss them.' (Check out my short fic, it's called After Life - Hawkeye's Poem)

The narrator ends by saying that they're doing what they do best but what they'd rather not do in a place they'd rather not be and I think that's just about the point of the show

All said, amazing episode, perfect acting, did what just about every episode of MASH does and gave me a deep sense of melancholy. I've seen a lot about this episode on here and I totally get why but I think we should also give some appreciation to the episode before it (Deluge) because I genuinely believe that that was just as good.

None of my friends watch mash so I have to publicly post me first time reactions and…

Guys s4e23???? I feel like there’s a brick in my stomach. I don’t have words for it.

I wish I had the time to make art for every episode that hit me this hard, but there’s too many

It’s been FOREVER since I last posted

(It’s been six days)

Sorry Trapper fans- his art is going to be late because I’m working on this pretty much obsessively.

S4E8 The Kids made me really emotional okay???

The people have spoken. I will work my way through all of them in order of most votes (yes even frank you jerks)

I can’t actually put into words why I love him as much as I do.

Gary Burghoff playing his own mother had no right to make me tear up in class

Kernel Popcorn

Colonel Potter won’t come until next week so here’s some Hawkeye for the interim. (Realism is NOT my strong suit)

Guys bj is afraid he won’t recognize his family when he goes home and Hawkeye is afraid his family won’t recognize him… and they both know it’s going to be true

Unforeseen obstacle- having to figure out which scenes of the ones I chose does bj have a mustache in

ALRIGHT YALL WHO SHOYLD I DO NEXT PLZ TELL ME

(Shit I just noticed two mistakes I’ll fix them tomorrow and repost ughggghh 😩)

i once had a dream that i was hanging out with my friend when B.J hunnicutt walked up to us and started arguing with my friend. they were really going at it and B.J started violently twerking at them to prove a point. i have no idea what point he was trying to prove

CW: Death

Well I had a weird dream that the MASH Finale was even sadder. Sophie was starting to go and Colonel Potter couldn’t bring himself to believe it. So he did walks around the camp with her and Radar went with them. Father Mulcahy receives word from B.J. that his wife Peggy passed away. So Mulcahy holds separate secret funeral for both Potter’s horse and public funeral for B.J.’s wife all while still keeping his personal secret.

Then right after the funeral who comes “home” to the 4077 but Hawkeye himself? He notices the mood is very different in camp and begins to slowly cheer some people up. Yet respectfully to the pain. But it doesn’t work for B.J. The last part I saw is B.J. staring sadly at Hawkeye from a distance; just as they depart for home.

Brain does that weird thing where you can read character’s thoughts in the dream. B.J. thinks as the finale proceeds “I wish it was all different. I wish you could have met Peg and been my daughter’s uncle. Now we’re all going back home to the real world and my best friend won’t be there.”

(Klinger still gets married from what I saw but stays in Korea. Charles tries to help B.J. with Margaret but fails. There’s a minor funny moment where there’s cake after Peggy’s funeral but it’s entirely too sweet. It’s implied so people are just finding ways to respectfully discard of it after taking a few bites.)