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How Disney/Lucasfilm could bring Indiana Jones back

Hogan's Heroes was a sitcom. Scrubs was a sitcom. Calling MASH a sitcom is doing it a disservice. War is not funny and MASH never treated it is as such. The occasionally zany antics of the surgeons of the 4077 were a response to the horrors that they faced on a near daily basis dealing with battlefield wounded, in order to keep their sanity in place for the next batch of wounded that could come at any moment. Characters had breakdowns, characters died, and the operating room scenes were always elbow deep in blood. It was serious subject matter, despite the humor. And like I said, the laugh track was just a tragedy.
Having just started a rewatch yesterday, I was floored the very first "Dear Dad" episode - their season 1 Christmas episode fer chrissakes - features Klinger getting ready to frag Frank Burns after they get into a fight in the Post-Op Ward. It's only Father Mulcahy that's able to talk him down and give him the grenade.

Not a second of it is played for laughs.
 
Thank you for this, I do not like dramedies. Monk is the exception. According to Wikipedia, MASH is a half-hour sitcom. :cardie: Why's everyone acting like it's The Sopranos level serious?
Because it can be. It has an intensity at times to it that is deeply heartfelt, emotional and moving.

I rewatch MASH every year with my wife and there are still scenes that make me weep despite seeing it multiple times. It has the dramatic tone of the wonderful human adventure and all that involves. It is far more serious that a cursory glance at a cold text description would offer.

I recall one reviewer noting that the best episode of Season 1 that set the future tone of the show was "Yankee Doodle Doctor" which showed both the antics and then the deep seriousness about how war and the costs it inflicts.

It is the best example of exploring humanity. Better than Star Trek, Stargate, or others.
 
Thank you for this, I do not like dramedies. Monk is the exception. According to Wikipedia, MASH is a half-hour sitcom. :cardie: Why's everyone acting like it's The Sopranos level serious?

There are a lot of very funny episodes and it's principally a comedy--however, it is filled with serious episodes that functioned as a commentary on the Vietnam War in the 70s. Shows that show the unpredictability of war and the randomness of death, PTSD, the exhaustion of war doctors being forced to work triage in the OR for hours one end, what makes an ally vs. an enemy, and the importance of comradery and friendship. Now--please don't even ask another question about it--or even write about it until you have seen a few seasons. You keep asking for explanations for things but never seem will to explore them on your own.
 
Hogan's Heroes was a sitcom. Scrubs was a sitcom. Calling MASH a sitcom is doing it a disservice. War is not funny and MASH never treated it is as such. The occasionally zany antics of the surgeons of the 4077 were a response to the horrors that they faced on a near daily basis dealing with battlefield wounded, in order to keep their sanity in place for the next batch of wounded that could come at any moment. Characters had breakdowns, characters died, and the operating room scenes were always elbow deep in blood. It was serious subject matter, despite the humor. And like I said, the laugh track was just a tragedy.
I just watched some clips on YouTube. It's a Sitcom. Why is being a sitcom bad? :shrug:
 
I am familiar, and I stand by what I said, the cat cannot be alive and dead at the same time. If you can challenge this, I am listening.

Why don’t you go and try to learn something for yourself? Take and put some effort and ownership into things?

Besides, you’re the one making the claim it is wrong. So, it is on you to prove why it is wrong…
 
Thank you for this, I do not like dramedies. Monk is the exception. According to Wikipedia, MASH is a half-hour sitcom. :cardie: Why's everyone acting like it's The Sopranos level serious?

MASH is probably the most honestly human show, in the history of American TV. No one gives a shit what Wikipedia says, it is largely edited by dufuses with too much time on their hands.
 
Henry Jones senior. The father of Indiana Jones, aka Henry Jones junior. They named the dog Indiana. Junior has a lot of fond memories of that dog.
Henry senior is dead. Sean Connery is dead. Harrison Ford the silent actor is dead. Give Henry Jones a movie. You can't because he's double-dead.
Like Kang/Immortus/Rama-Tut/Dr. Doom AND a Tony Stark-clone, depending on whatever ancient AVENGERS comics you've read. I hate myself for typing this. Tommy Lee Jones was right. ''There's no way outta this place!!!'':brickwall:
I had no idea that there was a Harrison Ford before the Harrison Ford.:eek:

I'm honestly kind of shocked that Ford and Cruise have never done any movies. With as popular as they are, you'd at some point somebody would have brought them together, it's almost guaranteed to be a huge box office record breaker.
I agree. And Cruise could play a long-lost younger Jones brother instead, or even (GASP) a second-billed over-the-title villain. Why the heck not?
Henry Jones. Character actor.
That I believe he figured out....I hope.
Schrodinger's Cat says hi.
Now THAT I'm going to look up!
M*A*S*H... light-hearted and goofy?
Only when an ultra-serious subplot like Mako taking a prisoner away for execution was then followed by a B-story comedy wrap-up...sometimes featuring Klinger. Later MASH episodes simply ran both in parallel directions, but the earlier eps brilliantly stirred the serious and silly moments together.
M*A*S*H was the original dramedy, and still the best. It's a crime against television that the networks insisted upon that canned laughter laugh track. At least there was no laugh track in the operating room.
And none in the entire episode titled ''O.R.'' The final episode or two left the tracks out as well. Two other fifth-year excellent episodes with Frank and Radar on a night bus ride, and the soldier with delusions of Christdom were also laugh-free. They were filmed consecutively. I can see a great point for not yukking up the second. But being so conditioned to the track, the lack of it on the bus ride still makes it an oddity for me. And adds a few half-seconds of quiet between the actors' dialogue.

I'm trying to imagine M*A*S*H as a three camera show performed in front of a live studio audience .
You'd probably get dead silence...even in some of the comedy bits.
Thank you for this, I do not like dramedies. Monk is the exception. According to Wikipedia, MASH is a half-hour sitcom. :cardie: Why's everyone acting like it's The Sopranos level serious?
That question was sufficiently-answered before your above post.
Because it can be. It has an intensity at times to it that is deeply heartfelt, emotional and moving.

I rewatch MASH every year with my wife and there are still scenes that make me weep despite seeing it multiple times. It has the dramatic tone of the wonderful human adventure and all that involves. It is far more serious that a cursory glance at a cold text description would offer.

I recall one reviewer noting that the best episode of Season 1 that set the future tone of the show was "Yankee Doodle Doctor" which showed both the antics and then the deep seriousness about how war and the costs it inflicts.

It is the best example of exploring humanity. Better than Star Trek, Stargate, or others.
Both TOS and MASH are in my top ten TV shows. TOS has fallen to fifth place, though it's still four slots above MASH.
I don't care. If you can explain it, then explain it. I have zero patience for games.
Then why keep playing them while pretending you're not?
And this is trolling.
No.
MASH is probably the most honestly human show, in the history of American TV. No one gives a shit what Wikipedia says, it is largely edited by dufuses with too much time on their hands.
Doofuses. My dad was a proofreader for the GPO.:cool:
 
I am familiar, and I stand by what I said, the cat cannot be alive and dead at the same time. If you can challenge this, I am listening.
It's all about perception. Perception is key. If we do not know then it can exists simultaneously in both states. The point of quantum physics is the idea of how such a state can exist at the same time. Humans like very binary things, but not everything is black and white. It is our perception of the matter that often times matters. To borrow from Protagoras, man is the measure of all things.

MASH is probably the most honestly human show, in the history of American TV. No one gives a shit what Wikipedia says, it is largely edited by dufuses with too much time on their hands.
MASH is a very unique show and probably won't be replicated. Combining both humor as well as extreme self-awareness.
 
It's all about perception. Perception is key. If we do not know then it can exists simultaneously in both states.
The cat is alive regardless of perception. Alternatively, the cat is dead regardless of perception. It cannot be both.
The point of quantum physics is the idea of how such a state can exist at the same time.
Explain.
Humans like very binary things, but not everything is black and white.
Most things in life are binary, not all, but most.
It is our perception of the matter that often times matters.
What's this got to do with zombie cat?
 
I don't care. If you can explain it, then explain it. I have zero patience for games.

It's not a game. It's literally science. Quantum mechanics. Short version; there is a cat in a closed box. To know if it is alive or dead, you need to open the box. Untill then, both states are true. The cat is both alive and dead. Us observing defines the final state of the cat.
If you are interested, google more. If not, you not caring doesn't change anything about this being scientific fact.
 
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