An aside: I have read that when the part was first conceived, they wanted him to play the stereotypical gay personna up. Jamie Farr wanted to play it straight and the result was much better.
Wow, if that's true that is so correct. It would not have aged well at all.
Not that I can watch MASH without cringing, growing up we watched the reruns like every damn night and it seemed great but now it's so forumulaic and the laugh track...then the later years that really were woke well before woke was a thing. So obvious what they were doing then, now.
"The black man was the first sensitive man, long before Alan Alda." - Fear of a Black Hat
An aside: I have read that when the part was first conceived, they wanted him to play the stereotypical gay personna up. Jamie Farr wanted to play it straight and the result was much better.
Wow, if that's true that is so correct. It would not have aged well at all.
Not that I can watch MASH without cringing, growing up we watched the reruns like every damn night and it seemed great but now it's so forumulaic and the laugh track...then the later years that really were woke well before woke was a thing. So obvious what they were doing then, now.
"The black man was the first sensitive man, long before Alan Alda." - Fear of a Black Hat
They aired it without the laugh track in England. I hear it makes it a much better, more poignant show.
Ah. I was about to comment that I don't recall a laugh track.