M*A*S*H: The Story of the 4077th

**Chuck** (0:01)
Montreal, bonsoir! It is Josh and Chuck, and we are coming to your French-ish town.

**Josh** (0:07)
Yeah, and not just Montreal, we're also coming to Ottawa, the capital of Canada itself, and Toronto, one of our favorite cities in the entire world.

**Chuck** (0:17)
That's right, we're gonna be in those cities on June 25th, 26th, and 27th, and there are still plenty of great tickets available. We love going to Canada, and we can't wait to go to some of these towns we've never been to, and you can get tickets.
Well, you can go to the websites of the venues, you can go to stuffyoushouldknow.com, click on the on tour button, and click on the tickets link there. There are all kinds of ways to find these tickets.

**Josh** (0:38)
Yeah, and we'll see you guys next week.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:46)
Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio.

**Josh** (0:55)
Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too.
And this is Stuff You Should Know, part of our ongoing TV edition, because we were raised on TV. So it's familiar to us, and we love it.

**Chuck** (1:10)
Well, one of us loved this. We might as well go ahead and get that out of the way.

**Josh** (1:15)
What do you mean?

**Chuck** (1:17)
MASH.

**Josh** (1:17)
Yeah.

**Chuck** (1:19)
I love MASH, you hated MASH.

**Josh** (1:21)
I don't know what you're talking about.

**Chuck** (1:23)
Come on.

**Josh** (1:26)
I don't hate MASH. It's mostly a put on just to annoy you. I don't hate it. You know what I mean?

**Chuck** (1:35)
Well, tell me your history. Did you watch it at all?

**Josh** (1:37)
Yeah. I watched it with my dad.

**Chuck** (1:39)
Okay.

**Josh** (1:40)
My dad would laugh out loud, throw his head back and clap sometimes. Yeah. It was fun just to see my dad do that. Of course, he had consumed two old Milwaukee tall boys by this time. But I would guess that he probably would have laughed regardless.
That was it. That's how I know Mash, essentially. I've seen probably a decent amount of the episodes, but it was never like I love Mash, like head of the class. I never loved Mash like I loved head of the class or Perfect Strangers.

**Chuck** (2:16)
Right. Well, this is when I remember that you are younger than me, so it's not like you were like me, nine years old and loving a show about alcoholic surgeons in the Korean War.

**Josh** (2:27)
No, but I don't feel like a lot of it was lost on me. I think I got a lot of it. It just, I don't think I was old enough for the comedy.

**Chuck** (2:35)
Yeah. Well, I have talked about it before, but it was definitely weird that a nine-year-old was into a comedy, sometimes serious, about alcoholic surgeons during the Korean War.

**Josh** (2:47)
Right.

**Chuck** (2:48)
But I was into it.
At one point, MASH was on reruns in the evening and then late night, and while it was still airing, so on Thursdays, I believe it aired on Thursdays in prime time, at least it did from my recollection. At one point, I was watching five episodes of MASH on Thursday, and four episodes of MASH every other day of the week.

**Josh** (3:12)
Wow. There's not that many shows you can do that with.

**Chuck** (3:15)
No, it was like five and 530, and then something like 10 and 1030 or something like that.

**Josh** (3:21)
I can do that with Law and Order. I can just watch Law and Order indefinitely, the original series.

**Chuck** (3:27)
But I was into it. It was a formative show for me. It was the top five show as a kid.

**Josh** (3:32)
Wow. And is it still one of your top shows?

**Chuck** (3:35)
Yeah. I mean, it's not one I go back to, and it certainly has a place in my heart, but it's hard to definitively rank today's TV against TV back then, you know?

**Josh** (3:45)
It's different. Very different.

**Chuck** (3:48)
There are no short shows about alcoholic surgeons in the Korean War now.

**Josh** (3:52)
There are no short shows. They're all six or eight hours long, at least.

**Chuck** (3:56)
Yeah, the 30-minute sitcom is on its last legs, it feels like, huh?

**Josh** (4:01)
Are there any out there? Oh, I guess there's a few.

**Chuck** (4:04)
I mean, the main networks still have their shows. I just don't watch any of them.

**Josh** (4:09)
The last mainstream network show that I saw that I really liked was a Ted Danson show called Mr. Mayor.