https://www.isegoria.net/2022/09/the-misogyny-and-cruelty-behind-many-of-the-gags-are-as-striking-as-the-black-comedy/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:09:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2022/09/the-misogyny-and-cruelty-behind-many-of-the-gags-are-as-striking-as-the-black-comedy/comment-page-1/#comment-3566710 Altitude Zero Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:26:07 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49283#comment-3566710 The TV show was pretty funny for the first two or three seasons, but it got really preachy and unfunny in later seasons, and by the time it wrapped up, it was unwatchable leftist agitprop. Also, the characters never looked or acted like people from the Fifties, in either the movie or the TV show. Should have been cancelled after about the fifth season.

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]]> https://www.isegoria.net/2022/09/the-misogyny-and-cruelty-behind-many-of-the-gags-are-as-striking-as-the-black-comedy/comment-page-1/#comment-3566672 Altitude Zero Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:59:05 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49283#comment-3566672 One funny note: the guy who wrote the book, a surgeon who served in the Korean War, as you might have guessed, was a conservative Republican, hated the TV show, or at least its politics, and always deplored the uses to which his work was put by the political Left. “MASH wasn’t anti-war,” he once stated. “It was anti-Army!” And yes, both the movie and the TV show always had a nasty edge behind the humor.

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