Are these scenes from the first or last episode of M*A*S*H?
How well do you know the hilarious beginning and iconic end of this beloved series?
At a glance, the first and last episode of M*A*S*H seem like they could not be more different. One has a rule-breaking raffle party and the other a wedding ceremony. What started as a raunchy comedy with some reminders of its violent setting evolved into a meditation on trauma, friendship and the strength humans can pull from even in the darkest of times.
But these two episodes are still part of the same show, after all, and there are many similarities. How well do you know the raucous pilot and bittersweet finale of M*A*S*H? Match these scenes to the right episode!
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This shot opens which episode?
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Is this Hawkeye at the beginning or the end of the show?
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Which episode is this beach scene from?
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Hawkeye enjoys this martini in which episode?
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Which episode is this scene from?
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Is this Major Houlihan in the first or last episode?
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Which episode is this O.R. scene from?
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Was Sergeant Rizzo in the first or last episode?
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Which episode is this scene from?
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The latrines were no match for a tank in which episode?
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Do you know which episode this scene is from?
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What about this scene?
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Which episode is this Jeep ride from?
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Is this guest star from the first or last episode?
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This shot comes at the end of which episode?
Are these scenes from the first or last episode of M*A*S*H?
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The character of Sgt. Rizzo was a rare screw up. He was poorly written, and as played by the actor
was an annoying, disgusting slob. The bit with him rolling in a hand grenade to scare people?
Not remotely funny to anyone, how in the heck did that get by rewrite, the producers and
star Alan Alda? Every single vet who saw that bit without a doubt threw something at the TV
or cursed. Rizzo would have been immediately arrested after Potter busted him to private,
given a court martial and sent to military prison. THE dumbest scene in MASH history,
moronic, inane, utter crap.
I missed 9 & 10 outright and if I had taken a bit more time with 15 I would have noticed the home town sign was still intact. 😕
As others have said hair (no grey or perms) had a lot to do with the choices. I also don’t ever remember a beach scene so I decided it must be the last episode that I’ve only seen about 3xs vs like 15+ for the 1st episode.
Good quiz!
Anyways people fooling around was always a big TV and movie trope in the 60s through 80s. Maybe it goes back farther. Not sure why. Maybe because most writers were men back then and they thought it funny? Idk. I do remember other TV shows that thought nothing of married men dating women. Sergeant Schultz of Hogans Heroes also comes to mind. I think Dan from Night Court chased after married women too. By the mid or late 90s showing married individuals casually having multiple affairs for a laugh did fall out of favor.
You want to know one of the reasons guys didn't come back from wars and share with their
families their time in service? Because war and sex and boozing went hand in hand.
These were young men, they could get killed, and sleeping with the local women or anybody
who was at hand, in this case nurses, was a given. They felt themselves in all ways to be in
a different place than normal, that's why they refer to home as "back in the world."
It was ever thus in wartime.
They justify to themselves it has nothing to do with the spouse back home, and it doesn't.
That's the truth. They have to blow off steam due to the ever present chance of death,
the army recognizes that since forever.
A certain portion of the troops do never stray from their wedding vows. But the number of illegitimate kids our troops have sired around the world since WW 1 must number in the millions.
In sum, soldiers fooling around is not a trope from the 60's or any other time.
It's a stone reality that your hubby, son, dad, uncles or grandfather are never going to
share with you.
Unless you hie down to the VFW or The American Legion hall, buy drinks for the house
and then ask the guys for their best ----- stories from when they were young.
You will hear plenty, anybody who says different is lying to you.
Like I said before the writers had Henry, Frank and Trapper fooling around basically all the time as part of the jokes. They were throwing a little bit of realism in on the show because it happened in real life you say? Ok, I’ll buy that. But whyputaname’s comment was about how they thought the first couple of seasons were a bit sexist because all the married guys were running around like dogs in heat for a joke. If you want realism then the married women in the M*A*S*H units probably fooled around just as much as the men in real life. Why not show the married nurses screwing around just as much as the married guys? Because for some reason married women messing around isn’t as funny as married guys? Why? Because most or all the writers were guys? Maybe. I believe they only touched on married women having extramarital sexual relations maybe 3 or 4 times in 251 episodes. But that’s what my comment was about. A comedic trope on a TV show, not about real life.
They did the same thing with the character of Sergeant Schultz on Hogans Heroes. His wife and children lived in their house less than an hours’ drive from the prison camp. A place where we are reminded several times during the series as one of the safest places in Germany never to be bombed by the enemy but they also had him chasing every pretty girl he saw to further the comedic plot. And even though he’s not married there’s also Frank Sutton’s character of sergeant Vince Carter who was safe in the US as a drill sergeant and was willing to step out on his longtime girlfriend Bunny any time he saw a pretty girl. British TV did the same. Films also. For whatever reason it’s only funny when the guys are the “serial cheaters”. My comment was just an observation on what used to be a popular comedian trope. I understand about real life in war zones.