Charles Emerson Winchester III Favorite M*A*S*H the Giants win the Pennant

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Peoria's own.

Filled in well on MASH. Was good in those teen films with John Cusack and the senior citizens tv shows my parents watched. He sure nailed that dialect in MASH. Seemed like a good guy.

Central Illinois!

RIP Major Winchester.

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As the insane customer in first season of two guys, a girl and a pizza place he made me chuckle. I’m only slightly embarrassed I watched that show. I blame the wife.

I hated him on MASH when he first replaced Burns but I tend to prefer those episodes now.

Burns, as a character, was incapable of growth. Same cartoonish dumbass every time. Winchester, on the other hand . . .

Ryan Reynolds' second greatest role!

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Yes.

Frank was always the buffoon. Never cared about anyine but himself.

Charles had that side as well but was capable of genuine warmth and compassion.

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To help with his homesickness, Hawkeye had Charles' mother send out the winter hat that her son used to go sledding with in his youth.

One of the very first times Charles showed gratitude and emotion.

I enjoyed that episode.

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Agree. Winchester 3 was a far superior character than Frank. He was better than Trapper too imo.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

A better foible as well. Actually, probably like Winchester, Honeycutt and Potter over Burns, Trapper and Blake.

More time to figure out what the characters needed. The original characters were only supposed to be funny for two to three hours, not a decade.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Is Trapper John in the spinoff better than Trapper John on the original? Im not sure.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

I actually enjoyed that show . They never really referenced MASH in it . Christopher Norris gave teenage rogue a boner .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

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Stopped watching after McLean Stevenson left.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Hello, Larry was not a Diff'rent Strokes spinoff, regardless of what you may read.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Had to google the name. She had an interesting name v

Frank Burns ran his course but so did M*A*S*H as a series. When I was a kid and channel 32 would show reruns, I liked the early seasons better.

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Bill Hader's Alan Alda is one of the best impressions I have ever experienced.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Frank Burns was an exceptional character.

Winchester had some great moments - the classical pianist with diminished use of his right hand was one of my favorite episodes.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

When I saw this RIP, I went down the Wikipedia rabbit hole and was reading about M*A*S*H and how CBS forced them to use a laugh track, but the producers got them to agree not to use it in any operating room scenes. What I found out was that there was one guy named Charles Douglass who did the laugh tracks for virtually every single sitcom from the 50's through the 70's (except those that were filmed in front of a live studio audience). This guy had invented a device that stored 320 different laughs, from chuckles to guffaws, of various ages, genders and ethnicities, and he could layer them to create the desired effect. The studios would give him the tape of the show (without laughter), give him the insertion points for the laughs, and he would create the entire laugh track out of anyone's sight (to preserve his secrets).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Douglass

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Ironically my wife saw this on TV Saturday evening and we watched about 3 episodes. I had never seen the show before but really
enjoyed it quite a bit. Read the news the next day and found out he died. Weird.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami