Stupid double posts.

If I am correct I believe it was Father Mulcahey suggested to Radar to write Charles' mom
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If I am correct I believe it was Father Mulcahey suggested to Radar to write Charles' mom to have her send something, and the mom decided to send the tobaggon

exactly. how can a few hours make a difference to how you feel about someone dying? They would know that, even if not dead, he was dying on christmas day. the day would still have that association for them. the implication hat somehow it's less sad to have your husband/father or whoever die on Boxing day rather than Christmas day is just silly. whether he dies on Christmas day, Boxing day, new year's d ay, easter, 4th july, August bank holiday, what difference can it make? he's still dead.

There's an irony in that show. Although I assume they were able to date his death certificate as 12/26, at home he still died on 12/25, and being that close to Christmas I doubt it would've emotionally made a difference to them anyway.

the only one i like is the first one. the others i hate, they are far too sentimental, especially the one where they are trying to keep the man alive until boxing day, so his family won't be upset about him dying on Christmas day. that is really bizarre. they should be concentrating on the patients they can save, not wasting precious time on someone who is dying.

That was the S1 episode "Dear Dad."

Yes. He was supposed to play Santa Claus, but he ended up having to go up in a Helicopter to go take care of some wounded.

Wasn't there an early episode with Hawk dressed s Santa, taking care of wounded or something?

they had at least four chirstmases, because they have one episode where they go through a whole year at a time.

What makes it even more odd is that they get rid of Spearchucker because there were no black doctors in a MASH unit and yet they will go ahead and give them more christmases than the real troops went through at the time.
Yeah, the Spearchucker removal was unwarranted, as they broke all the other rules of reality.
People would disappear all the time.

I never looked for any kind of chronology from MASH. Time's out of whack from 0:01 of S1E1 when it opens with "Korea 1950: A Hundred Years Ago" and the guys are driving golf balls. Summer 1950 the American-UN/SK forces were in retreat and fighting for their lives down in the Pusan Perimeter, no where near Uijonbu.
So we just take it that MASH is historical fiction with a really big emphasis on the fiction part.
They just base the show on a real war and then throw any accuracy of the war out the window as well as any linear timeline to go with it.
What makes it even more odd is that they get rid of Spearchucker because there were no black doctors in a MASH unit and yet they will go ahead and give them more christmases than the real troops went through at the time.
And based on your example, does that mean that a MASH unit in the area would have been Mobile, also in retreat?
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Dear Dad is my favorite Christmas episode

I never looked for any kind of chronology from MASH. Time's out of whack from 0:01 of S1E1 when it opens with "Korea 1950: A Hundred Years Ago" and the guys are driving golf balls. Summer 1950 the American-UN/SK forces were in retreat and fighting for their lives down in the Pusan Perimeter, no where near Uijonbu.

They backtracked on the timeline in "A War For All Seasons" because they needed the year to be 1951. That's when Bobby Thomson's home run happened, which was the climax of the Klinger/Winchester baseball betting story.
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Yeah, that's part of them back-tracking on the timeline. I would blame the writers for this, but I don't know how else they could have handled the timeline at that point.
Also, about 10 years after the show went off the air, I was stationed near Uijongbu, so that was kind of fun, being a Mash fan.
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MASH would have spent most of the war in Uijonbu when the front line stabilized in 1951.
It didn't quite make sense that there was a Christmas episode with Henry and Trapper and then the 'A War for All Seasons' ep. where Colonel Potter and the gang are celebrating the end of 1950.

I always thought the episodes were generally in chronological order, except that in the first season, they already had events take place out of order. Ho-John (whatever kind of Korean name that might be) went to the states in the first episode, but then he's in several of the remaining episodes of the first season.
I think the arrival of new characters and the departure of old characters is supposed to follow a chronology, except that there's one episode that covers an entire year. Also, the writers had to back-track on the timeline during Potter's tenure as CO. Then, there are things that happen in entirely the wrong order, and the 4077th seems to spend the entire war in Uijonbu, which would have been impossible the way the front lines moved back and forth, so I'm not sure about the intent of the four Christmases or just three.
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Shouldn't it have?
Otherwise we are supposed to think that everything we see doesn't follow some sort of chronological order?
Then Henry and Trapper should have been in a few more episodes following their departure.
As it is, now it looks like the Korean war seen through MASH had 4 Christmases.
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I think it's kind of inconclusive. The last time I looked at this, I don't think you could tell if the Boxing Day episode was supposed to follow one of the Christmas episodes or not.
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Which means that the MASH war lasted through 4 Christmases?
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I think they had three Christmas episodes and one Boxing Day show, that didn't sync up with any of the other Christmas shows.

So the real Korean war went from June 1950 - July 1953.
Which means that Christmas was celebrated three times over there for any American service men and women.
How many times did they celebrate it on MASH for comparison?
If it's more than three, well, we have to suspend our disbelief yet again that the TV war lasted longer than the actual one.
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Great moment! I appreciate the sentimentality & warmth of it, but I also like how it was tempered with the fun of Klinger's mentioning "seconds" available of Rizzo's nasty hog jowls & pigs' feetas if Winchester would even touch those! haha!