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Life-sized statues were made, and city council meetings were postponed in preparation for the 'M*A*S*H' finale
Tents went up in yards and there were countless 'M*A*S*H bashes' held around the country.
If you've been a fan of M*A*S*H since the show was on the air, you certainly remember watching the series finale.
You know about the record-setting ratings the finale episode received, as some 120 million people tuned in! A record-breaking number like that represents just how big of a deal the series-ending episode was.
All around the country, diehard fans of the 4077th would do just about anything to make their viewing experience of the last episode as memorable as possible. According to a 1983 article from Mattoon, Illinois Journal Gazette, fanatics were hosting "M*A*S*H bashes all over the country."
According to the newspaper article, one fan considered "digging a trench in the front yard," but decided the landlord wouldn't like that too much. She compromised and pitched a tent. That was from a fan in Jackson, Mississippi, but we venture to guess she wasn't the only one.
In the Cincinnati, Ohio suburb of Fairfield, the finale had influence on the city council's agenda that day. "The city council voted 5-2 to postpone its regular Monday meeting so Mayor Donald Leroy and council members could stay home and watch."
Many M*A*S*H fans know about the water issue the series finale caused in New York City, the one where so many people went to the restroom at the same during commercials and after the show. The subsequent pressure drop from flushing toilets caused a surge in the tunnels that brought the water from the Catskills to the city.
Before that happened though, Alan Alda's old dorm room at Fordham University was turned "into a facsimile of 'the swamp' - the tent in which he has dwelt for 11 years as Hawkeye Pierce." Imagine if that was your dorm for a day!
In Jamie Farr's hometown of Toledo, Ohio, many of the M*A*S*H-bashers at a local cafe snapped a few pictures with a "life-sized statue of Farr."
M*A*S*H fans have always supported the show and have gone all-out when it comes to showing their fandom, evident in the examples you just read.
When it comes to the ending of their beloved series, we wonder just how many times these millions of fans have seen the final episode since it originally aired on Feb. 28, 1983.
How many times do you think you've seen "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen"?
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ENOUGH ALREADY!!!
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"A record-breaking number like that represents just how big of a deal the series-ending episode was."
That's just how big a deal the series-ending episode was. NO 'OF'!
What is is with some people that they succumb to the irresistible compulsion to drop utterly superlfuous "ofs" into sentences like these? It's bad writing, terrible English and tells me that whoever is being paid to write this junk needs to be in a different line of work.
It's no mystery as to why immigrants don't want to learn our language - they'd probably speak it better than most Americans today, but it's confusing, unless you master it at an early age.
"I've seen it only once -- the finale was a huge disappointment and not "𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵" of the show."
"worthy" would have been a better choice.
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"𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲."
Should be: What is "it" with some people.
As you can see, they are simple mistakes in spelling and grammar. You make mistakes as well in posts. When you call out those other mistakes and then make errors of your own, it makes your corrections "pedantic" in nature.
There's really nothing more than semantics going on in your various posts. You're trying to call attention to others, but what your doing is calling attention to yourself.
Instead of them having a huge party, it turned into a boohoo, I'm going to miss everyone, mess.
And Hawkeye going crazy was an insane Story line. Come on guys.
High schoolers walking around in cowboy hats and bathrobes. Or Army fatigues. Etc.(none of the guys wore dresses though.)
I never saw the episode unt il about 15 years ago, when I found it at a used book sale, a commercial VHS release.