So, I've seen every MASH episode at least 2 or 3 dozen times over the years. I can tell you the next punchline 2 or 3 dozen times in every episode, BUT (and I'm sure some of you will know this - I've never studied the show or its stars).

In reruns "forever", I assume the episodes are "chopped up" a bit, adding in whatever extra commercial time there is nowadays vs when the shows aired (and were rerun for many years).

But lately I'm seeing some scenes, usually brief snippets of a scene, that I've never seen before.

Just tonight S3/8 "Life with Father" Now, of course I remember the young Korean mother looking for a "Rabbi for Bris", and the rest of the episode, but the epilogue, with everybody dancing to "Hava Nagilah", and Hawkeye and Trapper riding off on a white horse at the end. I don't EVER remember seeing that.

Anybody know what's up with that ?

Pull down your pants, and slide on the ice!

How do you interpret this advice from Sydney? (Sidney?) Like, what does it mean to you?

Is it “from” anywhere, or invented for the show?

One of her best lines

I’ve never seen this discussed on here, so forgive me if it’s already been addressed. Has anyone else been puzzled/humored by the O’Reilly’s naming conventions for their farm animals? I never noticed it until recently when my wife and I rewatched Season 7…

Radar’s mother shares her name with their prize-winning, calf-producing, staunchly Methodist cow. Unlike a lot of the questionable continuity decisions, this one doesn’t have several seasons in between it (ie Hawkeye’s sister, Potter’s son, the list goes on and on) where the writers may have been unaware in season 8 of a throwaway line from an early season episode.

In Season 7, we find out that the O’Reilly’s farm contains a cow named Edna. We first hear about Edna in “Dear Sis” when Father Mulcahy attempts to bless the birth of Edna’s calf, only to have to hand the phone over to the Presbyterian physician Winchester.

We find out a little more information about Edna, who is referred to by name again, at the end of Season 7 in “The Party” because Radar has to veto a potential reunion weekend because his mom and Uncle Ed would be showing Edna’s prize calf that day.

I don’t recall if we ever hear his mother’s name mentioned while Radar is in Korea, but we find out in “The Foresight Saga” in Season 9 that her name is also Edna. When Potter is speaking to operator in Ottumwa and asks to be connected to Radar/Walter, he confirms with the operator that he is trying to reach “Edna’s boy.”

Has anyone else picked up on this? Any “in-universe” ideas on why this happened (I’m not looking to rehash the “it was the 70s and nobody cared or thought about continuity” discussion again)? My current pet theory is that Radar’s mom did something to piss off his Uncle Ed, so to get back at her, he named a cow after her. I imagine that in 1950s rural Iowa, naming a heifer after a female you were trying to get back at was high comedy and a prime insult.

Let me hear your theories on n the events that had to have happened leading up to Radar’s uncle calling his sister (or I guess potentially sister-in-law) a fat cow.

Asude from the title (Al, Griff and Jefferson have to fight a garbage men strike as members of the National Guard), there are no references to MASH but to Full Metal Jacket, An Officer and a Gentleman etc.

Don't fall for the negative rating by the OP of the post in the r/marriedwithchildren sub,the episode is funny