I’m not tech savvy enough to know how to turn things into a gif, but Alda sees his muffin top in the mirror, squishes it and then decides to cover it up with his boxers. Very funny scene, sorry I can’t post the gif.
A whole lot of military films will be coming out soon. You'll see older ones showing up on streaming service and new ones soon to follow. Sure, a few are, in fact, very good movies. But here's the caution:
Any film featuring the US military is paid for by the US military. They have the final word on what comes out. These films are recruitment tools. Same applies to TV shows, and doubtless many will soon be showing up.
Do not be fooled by these films and shows. They are designed to bring in new recruits. When these are released, there is a surge in new people enlisting in the military. These recruits swiftly discover they were fed bullshit, but now they're stuck due to a contract. Going AWOL, away without leave, is desertion. You will be caught and put on trial for desertion, and they are not light with the sentencing.
Please, for the love of fuck, do not enlist with the military. You are cannon fodder. They do not care about you.
Recruiters are told to lie. To do whatever it fucking takes to enlist new people. Do not fucking fall for it.
These films and shows are recruitment tools paid for by the military. It's why they're so big, glamorous, and quickly made. Enjoy what you see, but don't sign up. It's a fucking lie.

![Screenshot of a M*A*S*H script- Yankee Doodle Doctor. Peach background with Black manual typewriter font. [begin] INT. POST_OP WARD- DAY Hawkeye stands near hte bed of a young GI, taking his pulse. An I.V. setup, etc., is in evidence. Hawkeye turns, addresses the camera: Hawkeye: Three hours ago this man was in a battle-- two hours ago, we operated on him. He\'s got a fifty-fifty chance. We win some, we lose some. That\'s what it\'s all about... no promises, no guaranteed survival... no \'Saints in Surgical Garb.\' Our willingness, our experience, technique are not enough. Guns have more power to take life than we have ot preserve it. Not a very happy ending for a movie... but then.. (indicating hospital) no war is a movie. WIDER ANGLE- Hawkeye moves to another bed. The picture FADES OUT.](/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2F64.media.tumblr.com%2F153fafe26bd98f0118d799d87b3deb99%2Fbf188a3847c568e7-a2%2Fs640x960%2F6d3bb6e567e2b1b5616d8bc21889015391e6523f.png)
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![Screenshot from linked Ken Levine website. Yellow background, black font. [Begin] For example on MASH, if you watch real closely, after a couple of years (and this is especially true when new characters replaced the original), you can see where scripts are basically re-cycled, e.g. a situation occurs with Trapper and a few years later the same exact situation occurs with BJ and so on with Burns and Charles and other characters. Sometimes the role/words Hawkeye spoke to Trapper end up being the same (or virtually the same) or virtually identical are switched and BJ says them to Hawkeye, etc. etc. etc. So my question is this: what\'s the shelf life of a TV show, how long do you think it lasts before it actually becomes redundant? After five or six seasons every show starts showing its age. Sometimes recasting can add a freshness that keeps the show going for a few more years. And some shows that rely on a successful formula (like LAW & ORDER) seem to defy time and can go on forever. But I’d say seven years is the magic number. Let’s see William Shakespeare come up with the 150th episode of Hamlet (and getting notes on the outlines from a network executive who just graduated from Sarah Lawrence). The name of the MASH episode Just a Guy was referring to was Preventive Medicine from season seven. The story seemed very intriguing. The number of arriving wounded had increased because of one careless Colonel. Hawkeye slips him a mickey then to keep him from returning to the front removes his appendix. This was before malpractice suits and HMO’s, but there was still that pesky question of ethics. It created a nice debate between Hawkeye and BJ. We did a lot of rewriting on that episode, the cast was happy, we were happy, and they went off to the ranch to make it. On Friday night David tuned in to the MASH rerun that CBS was airing at 11:45. After watching a few minutes he came upon a horrible discovery – IT WAS THE EXACT SAME SHOW THAT WE WERE FILMING. Identical. Same plotline, same argument. The only difference was it was better (no surprise there – Larry Gelbart vs. us). We were mortified. I mean, it’s one thing to steal from other shows, but to steal from your own? We looked like a couple of blithering idiots. The amazing thing is that no one on the cast or crew caught it. And a lot of them were there for the original episode. By the way, check out the first and last seasons of THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW. There are some episodes that are practically identical. So we weren\'t alone. Although that doesn\'t help. I\'m still embarrassed. By By Ken Levine at 6:00 AM 32 comments : [end]](/deoxy?target=https%3A%2F%2F64.media.tumblr.com%2F02eb9651f95e11d94e04ae3b8ca0ed26%2Fede895257b742925-cf%2Fs640x960%2F0b54e3224bf022843f8b075e6439aa90f8cc8175.png)









