The most fun thing about MASH is that all of the things your MASH-watching mutuals say about it, that sound unhinged on the level of Supernatural posts, are actually objectively true about the show
Basically every episode is about how much the characters hate the army, and the ones that don’t are explicitly villainous. When people are like “Hawkeye is an androgynous bicon and anti-racist ally“ they sound like insane crazy people attempting to reclaim 1970s Gay Jokes through a progressive lens, but when you actually watch the show, whenever he makes a joke about making a pass at the male nurses too, the joke is always ALWAYS on the people who’d make a big deal out of that. There are several episodes that involve him going to incredible lengths to teach elaborate lessons to somebody who made a racist comment, sometimes intentionally getting them fired from the army for it. There’s an episode where Hawkeye and Trapper blackmail a homophobic character to stop him outing a gay guy
You see Klinger walking around in his dress and you’re like “oh great a Man In A Dress joke” but in the actual context of the show, the joke is very specifically about how his attempts to capitalize on the bigotry of his time and the military always fails because he’s found himself in a weird little enclave of flamboyant 1950s men who don’t understand why anybody could possibly object to a man wearing a dress, especially not when he wears it so well.
Again this all sounds like the most insane reaching you’ve ever heard. I sound like a 2017 Always Sunny blogger trying to pretend the show is all about growth. This description literally sounds like the “Kylo Ren is queer-coded” posts, I get that. But also all of this is like. Literally just the actual text of the series
Steve Harringron in season 1 of Stranger Things is the most character. He did some bad stuff and immediately went “Aw, beans. That wasn’t cool. I better go apologize” at which point The Plot he’d been blissfully unaware of for the entire show immediately tried to eat him.
Eurovision viewers every year since the 50s: Of course France have a song in French again 🙄
France this year: We’re going to make the Académie française so mad and Europe so proud
Let’s remember that for a while, not that long ago, people from Brittany were forbidden to speak Breton and you weren’t allowed to name your kid something that was too obviously Breton, so it’s a huge FUCK YOU to the old French practice of trying to cancel its regional identities
Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.
Meanwhile Emily Brönte just said “We can make each other worse.”