Hawkeye's father went from an uneducated man that only ever read one book, "The Last Of The Mohicans" ( which is the source of his son's nickname) to a highly educated and learned Doctor as the show progressed.
Radar could detect helicopters coming in before anyone else and was also implied to be able to read people's minds. Getting comics from the future seems appropriate for him to be able to do.
@@TheRagingPlatypus Yes, but I'm referring to an episode where Hawkeye is writing a letter to his father, which he is narrating. As he writes a comment about Radar being able to read minds as Radar walks by, he adds an insult which Radar then stops, turns to Hawkeye an insults him back, despite Hawkeye not actually saying the insult out loud.
@@RemyJackson Okay, I see what you're talking about. Your writing was a little unclear. It seemed that you were saying the hearing helicopters made him psychic. I remember that episode...would have been clear if you'd've mentioned that in the original comment...but yeah.
They also said the name of the comic wrong and the T marks for father mulcahy were the furthest thing from “highly visible”, also Benson was never there on direct order of colonel potter it was an I corps AG. This whole video is full of stupid mistakes.
@@TheRagingPlatypus We can just agree that Radar is a VERY good procurement officer (not as good as Klinger, though), so good, in fact, he can procure comics from the future
I served in Korea 2 tours (1 yr each) and was stationed in several remote areas. When MASH was on it was like church, no one spoke we are here to watch MASH. My last unit was in Camp Red Cloud, where MASH was stationed. Years after I left service the MASH unit there was disbanded, The Army band played the theme song. I never seen an error on MASH because I and my fellow GIs loved the show so much we didn't care, we were there to watch TV.
My Dad was in Korea....watching MASH was always an exercise in him yelling at the TV about how everything was wrong....most notably how no MASH was "3 miles from the front"...theyd have been destroyed by commie artillery.
I agree whole heartedly. M*A*S*H was such a very well put together sitcom that even after 50 years, it's still holds up as one of the funniest shows of all time.
I was also stationed in Korea in 79-80. When MASH came on the TV, everyone stopped what they were doing and watched. It was a thing that everyone did. I was stationed at the 121 Evac Hospital in Seoul. I worked in the Surgical Ward and in the OB/GYN clinic and ward.
We're happy to know that even in South Korea, you had found time for M*A*S*H. Thank you so much for sharing this, definitely brought a smile to our face. Which episode is your favorite?
I believe that is true, and in the earlier episodes his wife was Mildred, and then for some reason it changed to Lorraine... THEN, in a bit of irony, the writers decided to name Potter's wife Mildred.
Without doubt one of the greatest series ever made, it had everything. For me I love all those poignant moments, the goodbyes, the deaths, the affection between characters... Thank you to all concerned in the making of this timeless, always relevant, masterpiece.
It’s not even a mistake most times. End production knew what they were doing and knew it filled the role or got the job just fine. This video is basically all irrelevancies and a few actual mistakes of their own, like saying the name of the comic wrong.
Susan...the show reminds me of the time I spent in the service (Army) in Germany, and it doesn't compare to Korea, but we were in an isolated area (not many are stationed in Frankfurt!) and if you have no car you are literally stuck just as they were in Korea. I have nothing but warm regard for the show and the wonderful cast! It's so difficult to see the bloopers they are mentioning here, that they are really not worth mentioning.
Dear sigmund is a huge mistake. Freud died in 1939. Sydney couldn’t have written him in the 50s. Seeing as this is one of my favorite episodes though I couldn’t care less. So pull down your pants and slide on the ice
One you missed: Henry's wife was named Lorraine. In the "Army-Navy Game" episode, where the camp is being shelled, Henry suffers a minor head wound, becomes delirious, and talks to his wife...Mildred. Strangely enough, they liked that name so much they gave it to Mrs. Sherman Potter.
@minintoes my thoughts exactly! I mean who cares! I still watch the show and it brings me a nostalgic feeling. I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. September 8th 2023😢
U.S soldiers did spend 4 Christmases during the Korean War. 1950, 1951, 1952 and 1953. The war broke out on 25 June 1950 and the armistice was signed in July 1953 with the cease fire taking place on 31 December 1953. That covers 4 Christmases on my calendar.
The absolute biggest mistake you missed was when Potter first came to the 4077, they announced it as "Arriving, September 1952, Colonel Sherman Potter, regular Army, God help us all!" But then in a later episode where they go through the entire year of 1951 ending with the Giants winning the pennant, Potter is shown at the beginning of the episode dressed as Father Time wearing a sash that said 1950. This episode also has Winchester in it throughout the entire year of 1951 and he didn't even arrive to the 4077 until after Potter did.
I can understand the concept of "artistic licence" but this episode made a mockery of the whole programme. If the plot was correct and as the War started in June/July 1950, then the first eight seasons + six episodes, including Trapper John, Col Blake, Frank Burns and Radar all happened in a period of Six months.
I have been researching M*A*S*H on Hulu. Love it so much. In one episode, a reporter was interviewing Klinger and asked him if he would like to say hello to his family at home. He says hello to his mother, among his other family. This contrasts with a much later episode where their loved ones at home plan a get together and Klinger reveals he had been hiding his service in Korea all along and they took a photo of everyone with a Ft. Dix, NJ sign in the background.
IIRC, he was hiding his service just from his grandmother, not his entire family. That being said, no matter what, it's one of my top 5 shows (I have the VHS tapes, too).
@@johnmartin476 Narrators on shows like this are not necessarily fans of the shows. They are reading from a script; they have no history of the show. Do not blame the narrator; blame the script writer.
I think you completely missed Hawkeye's disappearing mom and sister. In the first "Dear Dad, he mentions both. Then next season (or so), his dad is a widower and Hawkeye has no siblings.
That was a huge glitch for me, as well as hot lip’s parents who were married, divorced, and then her dad was dead out of sequence. And let’s not forget the fact that col. potter had a daughter and a son, but he never mentions that he has two children ever. I would have hated to sit in the writers room, because it would have given me a headache if they had tried to rationalize their thinking on these points. 😝
@@XanBos I must respectfully disagree. There was one episode in which his daughter is expecting and Potter gets really excited about having a grandchild. The whole camp had a pool, predicting when it would be born, whether it was a boy or girl, and how much it weighed. As far as Potter's son, there was an episode in which he told Radar his son is a dentist.
I’ve noticed tons of continuity errors after watching M*A*S*H over and over for 40+ years, but I still love the show…at least until Radar left. Then it became more like a moralistic high school play. Regardless, I love the show so much! Watching it now makes me think back to when I watched it every Tuesday night with my late father, and that makes every episode worth its weight in platinum.
Quality time. I watched Gomer Pyle USMC and McHale's Navy with my Dad. My Mom thought that they were silly and wouldn't watch. They were silly. But my Dad and I laughed and laughed!
@@blackdogslivesmatter1568 Impressive! I was thinking that is the kind of mistake made by mechanical narrators, but I didn't realize this was one. If so, they have certainly improved, and sound more natural.
@@kimiisungstartedthekoreanw2771 they called the 8055th the `80-double nickle' of which the whole creator of m.a.s.h. - richard hooker aka richard hornberger was assigned to during the korean war.
Mistakes like these can be found in most TV shows. As I watched the video, I was reminded of another error regarding the Colonel's horse. On the episode where they found it, Radar addressed the horse as "boy" and referred to it as "he". For some reason, the writers suddenly decided the Colonel's horse was a mare. The only other explanation is that Radar made a mistake, but since he was supposed to be a farm boy from Iowa, I think that's highly unlikely! P.S. I remember reading an interview with Alan Alda shortly before "MASH" went off the air. He acknowledged some of the medical errors from the earlier episodes - specifically, moving from one patient to another without changing gloves. By the time the show went off the air, he knew better. He said, "I would never do that now."
As a farm boy from Iowa, he probably drove a tractor and raised corn. He'd know as much about horses as a boy from the Bronx - probably less given his general naivety.
@@derekmills5394 Um -- I doubt it. I had a fairly sheltered childhood, and I know next to nothing about horses, but even I can tell a male horse from a mare!
They're busy looking for "T" marks on the ground, but how about the most obvious mistake of all.....1970's hair styles in the early 50's! Who the hell had long hair and a mustache in 1953?? Especially in the military!
@@MrThermostatic The modern hairstyles were what I noticed most when watching the show. When I was stationed in Korea in 1970, we were a bit shaggier but nothing like what you see in the episodes.
Kinda bad to start a list of mistakes with the wrong episode name. Capt John Tuttle was a great humanitarian - if only he'd remembered his parachute - LOL. Which is a gaff itself - parachuting out of those helicopters. Great show even with errors.
Add "Four-Thousand-Seventy-Seventh" to the list of gaffes. Change that to "Four-O-Seven-Seven" and you'll begin to sound like a person who has watched at least one episode.
They also keep telling us that M*A*S*H is based on the 8055th M*A*S*H unit and they divided the number in half to get to 4077th. Yeah, 4077 is not half of 8055th I wish they'd stop saying that. It's 4027.5... but if you add the .5 to 2 you get 7 and maybe that's how they got to 4077, but it's not half of 8055. Either explain the bad math or stop saying it's half of anything.
Exactly.... each time he says that it becomes evident this guy is reading a script and has never watched the show before. Besides.... who cares about all of this? It’s a great show. Talk about having too much time on his hands. Geez.
@@johnnypetty7931 Then maybe they need to re-title this video, "12 mistakes you never noticed in M*A*S*H and one more from us because we're clickbait."
Never particularly noticed Radar reading comic books. He clearly did, but it was never something they made anything of. Regarding the barcode and the footmarks, still cannot see them, even on pause. The rest are such pointless technicalities, bringing them up is a disservice to such an iconic show.
I remember him talking about comic books. Once he sent away for a correspondence course by a Superman comic book. Another was when he was discussing comic books with the Marines.
The Comics were the worst errors because they could have been corrected! With exceptions, in the 70s you could still buy comics from the early 50s pretty cheaply, especially comics published by small, lesser known publishers! The producers probably only needed about a half dozen!
You mentioned Henry Blake's inconsistencies regarding his son. What about his wife's name changing from Mildred to Lorraine? And how about Colonel Potter's horse? Originally it was male but then it turned into Sophie! Despite all of these slight flaws it remains my favourite TV show of all time.
Unfortunately, actors are recycled to play different minor characters frequently on TV shows. The actor who played Ugly John, the anesthesiologist very early in the series, also played an Australian MP who shuts down Rosie's Bar.
Over the years I have picked up on the mistakes in the timeline, one concerning the Mickey Mouse Club reference, the hula hoop references, and Radar's take off on John Wayne in McClintock. Also, Hawkeye was supposed to be an only child, yet in one episode he referenced a sister. In a very early episode he refrrenced serving in WWII and being called back for Korea, yet it is never mentioned again. Colonel Potter was the only one who was mentioned having served in WWI, WWII and Korea, although I think one of the nurses had said something about serving in WWII and then Korea.
I remember Henry talking to Andrew on the phone telling him he has to be the man of the family till Henry gets back. Quite a lot to lay on Andrew if he's supposed to be a baby!
How about the narrator repeatedly referring to Klinger as "Sergeant?" He started out as a Corporal, and wasn't promoted until late in the series--some time after he had stopped wearing dresses, I might add.
@@R-BURQUENO Yeah, that's my point, he remained a corporal for an amazingly long time, by real life Army standards considering the length of the Korean War--of course, his conduct in the first several seasons would have been a realistic impediment to promotion.
@@nolanboles8492 True, but, US military protocol dictates that a person is to be referred to as the last rank they held, unless you're talking about a specific time in their military background, ie George Patton will always be referred to as Gen Patton even if he spent the majority of his career as a Captain (not that he did), unless you're talking specifically about the time when he was a Captain. Since Klinger finished his time as a Sergeant it is actually correct to refer to him as Sergeant Klinger.
Klinger never became a sergeant , and he never wore glasses , that was Radar that wore glasses , Radar briefly became a sergeant , however he wanted to be demoted back to a corporal due to feeling uncomfortable with having authority over his enlisted friends , and Radar was the company clerk until he left the show then Klinger became the company clerk.
@@craighowarth9728 Yes, Klinger was promoted sometime in one of the last three seasons; there wasa whole episode devoted to his struggle to pass the sergeant's exam, which he did manage to do. Season 10, episode 17, ,titled Promotion Commotion, March 1982.
So other inaccuracies are when Radar was sick and Hot Lips was reading him a pen pal letter and the gal asked about two songs. The Wayward Wind by Gogi Grant and Diddy Wah Diddy by Bo Diddly. Both songs were from 1956. Way past the Korean War time. Another one was the wounded soldier telling the doctors about the broken fan belt on the chopper and the pilot had to land when it over heated and they got there 200 yards at a time. The only thing about the story is the Bell-47 helicopter had an air cooled engine. No fan. No fan belt. No over heating.
Near the end of her life, as cancer ate away at her organs, MASH was the last program that my wonderful wife of 51 years would still stay awake and ask for more sound as her hearing failed so we could enjoy the show we ALWAYS watched together from the first episode till she passed. I still watch the re-run 2 episodes back to back every night before turning off the set for the night. It is like a last kiss for the love of my life even though I lost her a year ago in August.
Henry mentions his wife’s name as Mildred in one of the early episodes, probably when his son was born. In a later episode,, her name suddenly changes to Lorraine when Radar calls home for Henry. Mildred eventually resurfaces as Col. Potter’s better half.
Same here.Also Frank's Birthday was in 2 different seasons.For a want of a boot episode its was winter.When Hawkeye & Bj had the fake fight for Frank it was summertime.
I don't know if this is technically an error - but the scene of Hawkeye and Hunnicut singing during movie night and improvising the line "We work on soldiers through the day and nurses through the night!" Clearly a holdover line from Trapper. Hunnicut was a devoted family man.
@Quaker 2019 True, very true. In fact I think it was at least implied he went beyond 'almost' with the nurse. Thing is he was devastated at what he had done - and cheating was definitely not something he would have done a happy song about. I don't know for sure - but I would guess the line was originally written for Hawkeye and Trapper but not used until later. Kind of like in Star Trek Generations when Chekov went to sick bay and started barking medical commands. Originally his part was written for McCoy.
To this day - I can't think of another TV series that has you laughing hard (usually the first half of the episode) then crying in the second half ..... I religiously continue to watch.
The one mistake I noticed was the fact that Klinger claimed to have one blood type in an earlier episode, and then a few years later, he said he had a different blood type. Did anyone else spot that one?
I still have my first set of dog tags I received in Basic Training in 1970 at Fort Lewis. On that set I was told I had A+ blood type and was a Lutheran. When I got to Nam, I was issued another set, that one has my Blood Type O+ and was changed to a Roman Catholic. Well the first set had my religion right, but my second set had my blood type right. For the rest of my life, as a matter of fact, I have indeed been O+ and have had 4 major surgery's on my spine the results of a small accident while working on the PD and my blood was always O+ so I guess even the US Army does make mistakes.
@@JerryEricsson blood types dog tags don’t matter in actuality. You either get emergency O red cells, or they test you first. That’s why it’s hilarious when people scribble their blood type on their boots and helmets. “Ok, bud, we weren’t going to kill you by just trusting your word anyway…”
@@JerryEricsson Please forgive me, but I can't figure out the meaning of PD. I know I'm gonna laugh when you tell me, but for now I am lost. Sorta like when my brother was talking about an EDP and my meaning for that didn't make any sense to me. After a few minutes, I asked him, "What does EDP mean to a NYC Transit cop?" Because to me, it meant Electronic Data Processing. To him: Emotionally Disturbed Person. Learned something new every day. This was before all the cop shows on TV. Now we all know what BOLO, APB, and LEO mean.
My wife and I watch an episode almost every day as it comes on after our favorite Jeopardy. We've seen every episodes many times and still enjoy it. It is the show that we've seen more than any other. It's funny, touching- and right on point most of the time. It's interesting to note these gaffes- but as its been said here in comments- It's a sit-com- not a documentary. I'm a bit surprised that you missed a big one. The bus that is always used is a 1953, 1954, 1955, or 1956 Ford. I noticed it years ago- but it hasn't diminished my enjoyment of the show one iota......
Season 1, Episode 15 is called "Tuttle", not "Turtle". It's named after Hawkeye's childhood friend who was the bravest soldier ever. Frank knew him better than anyone.
Another to add to your collection is in season 6. The episode escapes me but here it is. The whole crew is in the OR with Winchester to the right of your television screen with back against wall. After Winchester gives his line, the camera pans to Hawkeye. With the camera shot of Hawkeye on you can see Winchester sitting and having a conversation with someone off camera. I’ve always wondered how it ever made it past editing.
Absolutely fantastic series watching it all over again on great tv every night from 6pm till 9pm brings back fantastic memories just a shame that some aren't alive anymore I. e honeycut the priest Charles and captain Potter and Frank burns looking at the yrs some of them were made like 1972 I was only 5 and 79 I was 12 years old now there all on great tv again I watch them every night from 6pm till 9pm I ❤it just a shame some are gone 😢my favourite actor is alan alda as hawkeye he is now 86 I think and sadly😢 suffers from alzheimers disease it's such a shame that such a cruel disease should take over the life of a fantastic actor such as alan alda I know there is no cure for this horrible disease but I wish alan all the very best and thankyou very much for all the years of laughter and thorough enjoyment you brought us all. Myself especially ❤😢
@@colleen4ever and Frank burns is deceased and colonel Potter the priest too name a few my favourite was hawkeye absolutely love alan alda although it's such a shame now that he suffers with alzheimers disease I think he's 86 not sure but I feel sorry for him he was fantastic as hawkeye he always had me in stitches especially when he was on a scene with hotlips hoolahan I still watch m. a. s. h on great tv never miss it brings back memories 1972 I was only 5yrs old then.. And found out what m.a.s.h.. Stands for... Medical army surgical hospital..
Being a movie nut, I look for mistakes myself. I give credit to those who work hard on giving us joy in a time of sadness. God Bless the M*A*S*H crew for every loving moment. Thank you all!
The fourth Christmas episode was actually a Boxing Day episode, in which the 4077th tries out the December 26 British Army tradition of the officers switching places with the enlisted. Consider the fourth episode a sequel to the third, showing what happened the day after.
I always find it amusing when someone is talking about mistakes in things when they make a mistake, especially on the first one. It's "Raiders" but he says "Rangers."
Obviously, this guy has never actually SEEN an episode of M*A*S*H. It took me a full minute to figure out what the "Four thousand seventy seventh" was. Then I realized he meant the "four oh seven seven", which is how they ALWAYS pronounced it in the series. What a putz!
Him talking about the crew member behind "a sign post" I was like hey man that is THE sign post, probably the most iconic sign post in television history considering it's meaning to the Four oh double seven.
Possible mistake: In one episode they are having a ping pong tournament. If I'm not mistaken, they are using sponge paddles. Sponge bats were developed by the Japanese in the early fifties, but were not commonly available until several years later.
I'm a huge fan of MASH and don't care about the mistakes. Some people really get off on this kind of thing and I have met a couple of people who made a huge deal over it. I just enjoyed the show for what it was, entertainment.
I was born during the Korean War and stationed in SE Asia during Vietnam at the time MASH was on prime time TV. I've seen these mistakes and many more. MASH is a nostalgia machine for me and brings back memories from the 50s, 60s and 70s and the fact that the mistakes are so obvious makes me think that most were done on purpose and part of the reason it lasted so long as a television series and still talked about today.
Indeed, I am a '51 model myself. Did a year with the 18th Engineer Brigade, 45th Group Dong Ba Thin then Camp Haskins in RVN. I love M*A*S*H myself, I still watch 2 episodes daily on ME TV. Have for years now, and I watched every episode on the original run, well the ones I was not working Night Shift on the Police Department.
@@JerryEricsson I catch two per day on meTV, too! Honestly, I love being able to watch the entire series 3 or 4 times a year. Of course, my wife doesn’t agree but, bless her soul, she lets me have that one hour a night.
the ones I noticed were about potter. talking about how his son is a dentist in an earlier episode, then talking about in later episodes how he only has a daughter, him having a grandaughter at first then it changes to a grandson, and him saying he wants to go his home in nabraska and grill, then his home is in missori, and his horse going from geldling to mare.
In the episode where they're having a sports day hawkeye and Margaret are in a tug of war, they all fall in the mud and Alan is clearly seen saying "It's ok Loretta".
Season1 Episode15 was titled "Tuttle", not "Turtle". I lost count of the mistakes you made in the Kentucky Derby assessment. I also lost count of the other mistakes you made. This video suffers from a serious lack of fact checking and research I can name dozens of mistakes and gaffs you missed as well.
Yeah, doesn't sound like this guy's fluent at ALL with this show. Four THOUSAND seventy-seventh? "Turtle"? He racked up a good many gaffes with this video to be talking about anyone ELSE'S.
@@05steelersrule08 Indeed. He also missed some big ones. Like Hawkeye mentioning his "parents" in season 1 but his father is a wisower for most of the show. Or that he Mentions a sister early on but is an only child. Or that he claims to be from Vermont early on and only mentions CrabApple Cove as a "Summer place" when for most of the show his hometown is CrabApple Cove. I could go on for ages. I've seen every episode at least 10 times...
A couple you missed in the episode “5 O’Clock Charlie” Frank Burns refers to Gary Cooper portraying Billy Mitchell. “The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell” was not released until 1955 which was after the Korean War. There was another episode where they tried to get the “The Moon is Blue” which was not released until hostilities ended.
Fun fact about the 5 o'clock Charlie episode is the plane flown in it, is an American plane. Also, the pilot Charlie isn't even flying the plane. The real pilot can be seen in the front cockpit bent over trying to hide. The plane was given a quick paint job to cover the shiny metal exterior and American markings. The plane is still kept at the same airport that it was flown from for filming the show.
I'm 54. I grew up in NJ. The reason I love MASH is, I remember laying on the floor in my grandparents living room watching the show with the family. I can still smell what the house smelled like. Philly cigars and really great food!
I think what a lot of people forget is when MASH was being made it was just another TV show. Especially early on no one had any idea it would be such a hit and that forty years later it would still be popular and people would be dissecting the episodes for errors.
The show is clearly not about the actual time span of the Korean War, but a time loop that the characters are trapped in. That's why there's both continuity errors and items from future times. The 4077 is trapped in an eternal cycle of war, and occasionally things from outside get in. When Hawkeye breaks down in the finale, that breaks the time loops barriers and they can all escape. It's an endless cycle of bloodshed so strong it warps time itself
Actually the series was an anti war program about Vietnam without it being in Vietnam. It started as a political view, but everyone loved it too much to care!!! One of the best shows
Love MASH-Reminded me of my time in Guam when I supported Arc light-and we lived in tents- but even in shooting programs nothing is perfect. I worked in TV for years and yes we had bloopers. By the way the 16mm movie projector shown on their movie nights came out in the 60s. But God bless all of the cast members in such a classic show. I might add a few years back my dear brother n law passed away from cancer-among the many DVDs he had- was a complete box set of all the MASH shows-which his sister let me have---what a treasure.
Hawkeye in one " Dear Dad" show writes " say hi to Mom and Sis. Colonel Blake says in one episode about the movies " We getting the Blob and the Thing. The Blob wasn't released until 1958. So while you got plenty of "gaffes" . There's plenty more. A lot more. Now that I found your video. I'll drop in now and then with more.
I'm not a dufus who sits at home watching reruns of a great show looking for silly mistakes. I really don't care how many inaccuracies there were on this show too be honest. It is still one of my favorite TV shows to this day. I still watch it almost everyday.
And he missed more obvious ones in my opinion; like when in the first few episodes, the guy who ended up taking their commanders desk, referred to Korea as being in south east Asia. And, in the incubator episode, which is one of my favorites, the corrupt general said he could get them a B52. Which didn't even fly until after the war was over
The comic one is so funny bc like. Bj got drafted in 52 but is at a New Years party for the incoming of 51. Radar is canonically psychic. Like Hawkeye in his own inner monologue refers to it as ESP and Radar responds to the thought. Multiple people tell him to stay out of their heads and at one point Henry even asks him to stop coming before he’s called and they say “well I dont like to be late sir” “how can you be late when I don’t even know I want you” implying that even Henry didn’t know he was about to call him. Time doesn’t work and they have a guy who’s psychic, I think the comic thing is fine and fits in just as well as reading minds or being at a party that took place a year before you getting there.
This is basically what happens when a bunch of hipsters have over-estimated their own intelligence. This, WatchMojo, and other hipster-run TH-cam channels are pure cringe. They're reading a script and they usually have no idea what they're talking about.
When Sherman Potter said he lived in MO and later on a different writer he was from Nebraska and had a daughter later a writer said that he had a son either way I still love Mash there are mistakes in a lot of different shows that's the way it goes
I have two more! Henry Blake's wife when she was giving birth to their son was named Mildred as noted when he tries to call her at the hospital. Later in the series Blake's wife is named Loraine! Number 2" In the first season there is a Korean teenager that the 4077 wants to send back to the States. Hawkeye says, "He can stay with my folks" But later in the series it is revealed that Hawkeye's dad was a widower and Hawkeye was only 12 or so. Ooops!!! Great show!
We've always loved Mash so much that there's absolutely no reason to list any mistakes that may have been made on that show! Nothing would make any difference anyway 🤔🤗!
I agree with Susan Gill, no matter how many mistakes you find in MASH, I will never stop loving the show or think differently about it. MASH is one of my favorite TV shows and nothing can spoil that.
The only "mistake" or "blunder" was thinking that those of us who watch MASH ,to this day,really care about a couple oopses in the most endearing show out there .
I've caught some of those mistakes myself, but one that was overlooked in this video is a video shot of one episode of someone in "Radar's" office picking up the trash can to dump it on the desk and the trash can is a 5 gal. "Plastic" bucket painted drab green. They only used metal cans back then. It had round reinforced plastic molding on it's bottom. You couldn't tell it was plastic until it was inverted.
You are the first person other than myself I've seen notice that. I DO remember the metal cans used before the plastic buckets and there is a difference very noticeable from the side. The plastic buckets have reinforcing rings around the top, the metal buckets do not.
You missed a few. Henry said his wife's name was Mildred and later it was changed to Lorraine. In the first season Hawkeye got a sweater from a sister and then mentions in later seasons that he is an only child. Potter talks about a daughter and then in other episodes he says he only has a son.
That’s right actually-Henry’s wife when she was in the hospital he told the operator “Mildred Blake” but she’s Lorraine later. Also, Trapper’s wife was Louise, and later Frank’s wife was too. And the continuity good with Henry’s kids was not reflected well in this video. When Henry was on the phone with his family (when he brought Nancy to the 4077 to visit), he tells Andrew “I understand your sister dropped an ice cube down your underwear-girls will do that. You mustn’t hit her with the dog.” Clearly Andrew wasn’t the baby. I thought Janie was the baby, from the baby talk he did over the phone (even if he was told he had a son). Ok, there were a lot of continuity errors. So did The Odd Couple and lots of shows. It’s rare to write a bible of who’s who, especially in the early years of a show.
@@sunflowerhumbridge8737 I figure Henry had two girls, one boy he left behind and another boy born while he was in Korea. When I saw "Abyssinia, Henry," I realized that his younger son would never know him.
@@sunflowerhumbridge8737 P.S. I also counted four children of Colonel Potter - two sons (one of whom was a dentist) and two daughters (with different married names, so it had to be two daughters).
Rewatch the finale. Father Mulcahey's hair changes colour 3 times. He's grey, blonde, then has brown hair. Hawkeye also goes from being slightly grey after coming back to MASH to having totally dark hair during the "what I'll do after the war" scene, then back to slightly grey again with BJ at the end.
So I caught the John Wayne reference when it first aired, the many mistakes family members, and also a reference to superman which was not possible at the time. it is fun spotting such things. I think it makes the shows more fun.
Which mistake was worse? Having a writer and narrator who obviously never watched the show? Unless the mistakes and miscues were some kind of inside joke... I've never heard the 4077 referenced as the four thousand seventy seventh. Excuse me while I go look for this episode I've never seen called 'Turtle'
Radar's future stuff. He IS Radar after all. Maybe he not only ears extremely well but sees into the future. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA GREAT video! Thank you for creating it.
In an early episode Hawkeye writes a letter home and toward the end says "Give Mom a kiss for me." in a different episode he shows an overly large sweater his sister knitted him. It's later established he's an only child and his Dad is a widower.
Margaret's father dies, then comes back to life, and Col. Potter, famously from Missouri, once said he would be home in Nebraska. Henry's wife changed names, and his son can play Ravel's Bolero in his crib. But we still love the show.
And if I'm not mistaken, didn't Hawkeye need Sidney to help him get over a psychosomatic mold allergy because when he was a kid, his brother pushed him out of a boat and into the water?
there are many more mistakes that are a whole lot more obvious, but i love the show to much to care, i have whole collection and have been watching it every night b4 bed for 15 yrs. :)
There are mistakes, errors and bloopers in all our favorite shows. It's kind of fun to catch them, but you usually need to watch the show several times. If you love the show watch it...when you know the plot and script by heart-look for mistakes, errors and bloopers. 65 + years old and still watch M*A*S*H reruns. Thanks for pointing these out!
My favorite was always the "wintertime" episodes, when it's the dead of winter and everyone is freezing. But in the outdoor scenes there in the background are trees and shrubs with full leaf cover.
@@thomaskemer8109 not probably, it really was! apparently the writers of the show would put the actors in parkas during the summer months to deter the actors from making notes or suggestions about their characters to the writers.
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It’s the 4-077th and people we’re playing with homade hula hoops before they were popular and patented
You put your bare hands in a body during surgery in a emergency war time incident trust me
You have to do and make do in war time
Hawkeye's father went from an uneducated man that only ever read one book, "The Last Of The Mohicans" ( which is the source of his son's nickname) to a highly educated and learned Doctor as the show progressed.
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Say it with me...
"FOUR OH SEVEN SEVENTH"
Radar could detect helicopters coming in before anyone else and was also implied to be able to read people's minds. Getting comics from the future seems appropriate for him to be able to do.
No, he had good hearing...they said so.
@@TheRagingPlatypus Yes, but I'm referring to an episode where Hawkeye is writing a letter to his father, which he is narrating. As he writes a comment about Radar being able to read minds as Radar walks by, he adds an insult which Radar then stops, turns to Hawkeye an insults him back, despite Hawkeye not actually saying the insult out loud.
@@RemyJackson Okay, I see what you're talking about. Your writing was a little unclear. It seemed that you were saying the hearing helicopters made him psychic. I remember that episode...would have been clear if you'd've mentioned that in the original comment...but yeah.
They also said the name of the comic wrong and the T marks for father mulcahy were the furthest thing from “highly visible”, also Benson was never there on direct order of colonel potter it was an I corps AG. This whole video is full of stupid mistakes.
@@TheRagingPlatypus We can just agree that Radar is a VERY good procurement officer (not as good as Klinger, though), so good, in fact, he can procure comics from the future
I served in Korea 2 tours (1 yr each) and was stationed in several remote areas. When MASH was on it was like church, no one spoke we are here to watch MASH. My last unit was in Camp Red Cloud, where MASH was stationed. Years after I left service the MASH unit there was disbanded, The Army band played the theme song. I never seen an error on MASH because I and my fellow GIs loved the show so much we didn't care, we were there to watch TV.
Well spoken! 😁
Great attitude!
@James McGill Thank you for your service Sir.
My Dad was in Korea....watching MASH was always an exercise in him yelling at the TV about how everything was wrong....most notably how no MASH was "3 miles from the front"...theyd have been destroyed by commie artillery.
I agree whole heartedly. M*A*S*H was such a very well put together sitcom that even after 50 years, it's still holds up as one of the funniest shows of all time.
I was also stationed in Korea in 79-80. When MASH came on the TV, everyone stopped what they were doing and watched. It was a thing that everyone did. I was stationed at the 121 Evac Hospital in Seoul. I worked in the Surgical Ward and in the OB/GYN clinic and ward.
We're happy to know that even in South Korea, you had found time for M*A*S*H. Thank you so much for sharing this, definitely brought a smile to our face. Which episode is your favorite?
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Thank you for your service
I believe that is true, and in the earlier episodes his wife was Mildred, and then for some reason it changed to Lorraine... THEN, in a bit of irony, the writers decided to name Potter's wife Mildred.
Without doubt one of the greatest series ever made, it had everything. For me I love all those poignant moments, the goodbyes, the deaths, the affection between characters... Thank you to all concerned in the making of this timeless, always relevant, masterpiece.
Who cares, MASH is one of the greatest shows ever made.
Truth! I just got done binge watching all the seasons. That show has held up incredibly well with time, it's still funny.
It’s not even a mistake most times. End production knew what they were doing and knew it filled the role or got the job just fine. This video is basically all irrelevancies and a few actual mistakes of their own, like saying the name of the comic wrong.
@@JasonNation72 I just finished binging them too. Love the show
@@TrishPranger Could do without Seasons 9 or 10 though. As I like to call them, the "SHUT UP, HAWKEYE!" years.
It's interesting but your right it really doesn't matter
Nothing can ruin mash for me, no matter how many mistakes you find!
Susan...the show reminds me of the time I spent in the service (Army) in Germany, and it doesn't compare to Korea, but we were in an isolated area (not many are stationed in Frankfurt!) and if you have no car you are literally stuck just as they were in Korea. I have nothing but warm regard for the show and the wonderful cast! It's so difficult to see the bloopers they are mentioning here, that they are really not worth mentioning.
Dear sigmund is a huge mistake. Freud died in 1939. Sydney couldn’t have written him in the 50s. Seeing as this is one of my favorite episodes though I couldn’t care less. So pull down your pants and slide on the ice
Not even Mike Farrell?
No ones trying to ruin it for anyone...you're choosing to watch and comment, yet the title is clear about the content!
That is the truth
One you missed: Henry's wife was named Lorraine. In the "Army-Navy Game" episode, where the camp is being shelled, Henry suffers a minor head wound, becomes delirious, and talks to his wife...Mildred. Strangely enough, they liked that name so much they gave it to Mrs. Sherman Potter.
There's never gonna be another show like MASH 💖
Why on earth does any of this really matter?
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@minintoes my thoughts exactly! I mean who cares! I still watch the show and it brings me a nostalgic feeling. I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. September 8th 2023😢
I think this stuff is interesting. Good continuity is important and even the best television shows can drop the ball.
U.S soldiers did spend 4 Christmases during the Korean War. 1950, 1951, 1952 and 1953. The war broke out on 25 June 1950 and the armistice was signed in July 1953 with the cease fire taking place on 31 December 1953. That covers 4 Christmases on my calendar.
YES!!! This video is lame af
Someone needs to do a mistakes of the mistakes of. : - D
@@jack002tuber LOL
GOOD CALL!!!👍
The last xmas episode doesn't mention any final cease fire.
"Four-thousand seventy-seven" hurt my ears so much I couldn't watch this vid to the end.
As colonel Potter said occationally,, "the 4 0 double 7".
I’m with both of you!
Imlost it when he described Radar as “goofy and geeky.”
Wuss
It's the 4 0 double natural..not 4,077
The absolute biggest mistake you missed was when Potter first came to the 4077, they announced it as "Arriving, September 1952, Colonel Sherman Potter, regular Army, God help us all!" But then in a later episode where they go through the entire year of 1951 ending with the Giants winning the pennant, Potter is shown at the beginning of the episode dressed as Father Time wearing a sash that said 1950. This episode also has Winchester in it throughout the entire year of 1951 and he didn't even arrive to the 4077 until after Potter did.
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That was always a big one for me. It's called a war for all seasons, season 9 ep6.
don't forget in earlier episode harry morgan play a crazy colonel
@@stevenssbargainbarn2294 General Steele
I can understand the concept of "artistic licence" but this episode made a mockery of the whole programme. If the plot was correct and as the War started in June/July 1950, then the first eight seasons + six episodes, including Trapper John, Col Blake, Frank Burns and Radar all happened in a period of Six months.
I have been researching M*A*S*H on Hulu. Love it so much. In one episode, a reporter was interviewing Klinger and asked him if he would like to say hello to his family at home. He says hello to his mother, among his other family. This contrasts with a much later episode where their loved ones at home plan a get together and Klinger reveals he had been hiding his service in Korea all along and they took a photo of everyone with a Ft. Dix, NJ sign in the background.
IIRC, he was hiding his service just from his grandmother, not his entire family. That being said, no matter what, it's one of my top 5 shows (I have the VHS tapes, too).
@@bikeny hate to be a critic, but no, Klinger supposedly never told his mother he was in Korea in the family reunion episode.
@@bikeny it was mother not grandmother. This person is spot with it being an error.
The name of the first episode you talked about was “Tuttle” not Turtle
Ironic a video about mistakes starts out with a mistake of their own
@@johnmartin476 Narrators on shows like this are not necessarily fans of the shows. They are reading from a script; they have no history of the show. Do not blame the narrator; blame the script writer.
Tuttle gets credit at the end, said "appearing as himself". Look for it
also no one refers to it as 4 thousand 77 its 4 o 77th
@@jack002tuber He has an IMDB entry too.
I think you completely missed Hawkeye's disappearing mom and sister. In the first "Dear Dad, he mentions both. Then next season (or so), his dad is a widower and Hawkeye has no siblings.
Thanks for sharing this, gabevee3
uhhhh i got some bad news for ya they all died in that time span. massive car crash crab apple cove will never be the same after that tragedy.
That was a huge glitch for me, as well as hot lip’s parents who were married, divorced, and then her dad was dead out of sequence. And let’s not forget the fact that col. potter had a daughter and a son, but he never mentions that he has two children ever. I would have hated to sit in the writers room, because it would have given me a headache if they had tried to rationalize their thinking on these points. 😝
i was going to ask ya about his sister that knitted him a sock of which he uses as a sleeping bag :P
@@XanBos I must respectfully disagree. There was one episode in which his daughter is expecting and Potter gets really excited about having a grandchild. The whole camp had a pool, predicting when it would be born, whether it was a boy or girl, and how much it weighed. As far as Potter's son, there was an episode in which he told Radar his son is a dentist.
What I noticed was a unit without flush toilets, etc, but there was never a shortage of plungers.
there was an episode where trapper was holding a plunger with rolls of tp on the handle. i thought the same thing
Good point, but they DID have sinks, and those drains get clogged too.
I’ve noticed tons of continuity errors after watching M*A*S*H over and over for 40+ years, but I still love the show…at least until Radar left. Then it became more like a moralistic high school play. Regardless, I love the show so much! Watching it now makes me think back to when I watched it every Tuesday night with my late father, and that makes every episode worth its weight in platinum.
Quality time. I watched Gomer Pyle USMC and McHale's Navy with my Dad. My Mom thought that they were silly and wouldn't watch. They were silly. But my Dad and I laughed and laughed!
Has this joker ever seen an episode? It was NEVER referred to as the ‘four thousand seventy-seventh.” Ever.
Its a robot talking and the whole video was a joke...but they made money off our clicks.
@JACK O RENO Cast: Captain Tuttle- Himself. That was funny.
@@nicoleknight9412 Could have been William Tuttle, Make-Up created by in How The West Was Won
@@blackdogslivesmatter1568 Impressive! I was thinking that is the kind of mistake made by mechanical narrators, but I didn't realize this was one. If so, they have certainly improved, and sound more natural.
@JACK O RENO OH--Tuttle! I had no idea what it was talking about. I do remember the mysterious Tuttle.
Here's another mistake, but it was yours, not in the show.
It was called the "Four, Oh, Seven, Seven" NOT the "Four thousand Seventy-Seven"
Technically, it is more accurate to refer to 4077th as that "Four thousand Seventy-Seventh".
This is similar to the common practice of speaking aloud an address or phone number and replacing the ZERO digits with the letter, "O."
and narrator said "rangers" instead of "raiders".
@@kimiisungstartedthekoreanw2771 they called the 8055th the `80-double nickle' of which the whole creator of m.a.s.h. - richard hooker aka richard hornberger was assigned to during the korean war.
Sounds like a text to voice program.
Nothing can ruin it for me, I watch the reruns all the time! Really takes me back!
Mistakes like these can be found in most TV shows. As I watched the video, I was reminded of another error regarding the Colonel's horse. On the episode where they found it, Radar addressed the horse as "boy" and referred to it as "he". For some reason, the writers suddenly decided the Colonel's horse was a mare. The only other explanation is that Radar made a mistake, but since he was supposed to be a farm boy from Iowa, I think that's highly unlikely!
P.S. I remember reading an interview with Alan Alda shortly before "MASH" went off the air. He acknowledged some of the medical errors from the earlier episodes - specifically, moving from one patient to another without changing gloves. By the time the show went off the air, he knew better. He said, "I would never do that now."
As a farm boy from Iowa, he probably drove a tractor and raised corn. He'd know as much about horses as a boy from the Bronx - probably less given his general naivety.
@@derekmills5394 Um -- I doubt it. I had a fairly sheltered childhood, and I know next to nothing about horses, but even I can tell a male horse from a mare!
Alan Alda in real life was very into the medical stuff. He even hosted a show on PBS. I think it was called Scientific Frontiers.
Sorry, I saw no "T" marks on the ground anywhere except where you showed what they looked like and their use. Not on the show's footage.
They're busy looking for "T" marks on the ground, but how about the most obvious mistake of all.....1970's hair styles in the early 50's! Who the hell had long hair and a mustache in 1953?? Especially in the military!
@Ken Lompart same. Wasted time looking several times.
@@MrThermostatic who was allowed to wear a dress?
I didn't either.
@@MrThermostatic The modern hairstyles were what I noticed most when watching the show. When I was stationed in Korea in 1970, we were a bit shaggier but nothing like what you see in the episodes.
Tuttle was one of the most memorable episodes too.
Don't you mean TURTLE????😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Kinda bad to start a list of mistakes with the wrong episode name. Capt John Tuttle was a great humanitarian - if only he'd remembered his parachute - LOL. Which is a gaff itself - parachuting out of those helicopters. Great show even with errors.
A spoof of Lieutenant Kije
He was the best damn OD we ever had...
Frank - " I knew him best" 😂
21 years old here and Mash is one of my favourite shows
Add "Four-Thousand-Seventy-Seventh" to the list of gaffes. Change that to "Four-O-Seven-Seven" and you'll begin to sound like a person who has watched at least one episode.
It sounds more like a year than an army unit. eight thousand sixty three
They also keep telling us that M*A*S*H is based on the 8055th M*A*S*H unit and they divided the number in half to get to 4077th. Yeah, 4077 is not half of 8055th I wish they'd stop saying that. It's 4027.5... but if you add the .5 to 2 you get 7 and maybe that's how they got to 4077, but it's not half of 8055. Either explain the bad math or stop saying it's half of anything.
Exactly.... each time he says that it becomes evident this guy is reading a script and has never watched the show before. Besides.... who cares about all of this? It’s a great show. Talk about having too much time on his hands. Geez.
I agree but the kid narrating probably wasn't born when the show was on network.
@@johnnypetty7931 Then maybe they need to re-title this video, "12 mistakes you never noticed in M*A*S*H and one more from us because we're clickbait."
Never particularly noticed Radar reading comic books. He clearly did, but it was never something they made anything of. Regarding the barcode and the footmarks, still cannot see them, even on pause. The rest are such pointless technicalities, bringing them up is a disservice to such an iconic show.
The bar codes should have been "painted" over with a brown marker or something. They ARE visible!
I remember him talking about comic books. Once he sent away for a correspondence course by a Superman comic book. Another was when he was discussing comic books with the Marines.
@@jsivco3sivco785 Boy you have good eyes! I went looking for them and only saw white squares or ??.
@@dianeericson7900 I only saw white squares too!
The Comics were the worst errors because they could have been corrected! With exceptions, in the 70s you could still buy comics from the early 50s pretty cheaply, especially comics published by small, lesser known publishers! The producers probably only needed about a half dozen!
You mentioned Henry Blake's inconsistencies regarding his son. What about his wife's name changing from Mildred to Lorraine? And how about Colonel Potter's horse? Originally it was male but then it turned into Sophie! Despite all of these slight flaws it remains my favourite TV show of all time.
Art is never flawless. The value lies in the fact it is art.
It Looks Like Facts Verse NEEDS TO GET THE FACTS RIGHT.
You are right. The word is versus, too, not "verse."
I love mash no matter how many mistakes found it won’t change my childhood fav show
Yes! We have it on continuous record! My favorites...5:00 Charlie and the one where they try to watch My Darling Clementine!
This whole show was great, it taught us all how to face the reality of life! We all need a lesson about the real world!
Hmm I didn't get that at all from mash. It was a television show only to me. I leaned life lessons about the real world from the real world.
@@shagnasty6391 to each his/her own, right? Lessons can be learned wherever.
I like how Harry Morgan plays a crazy general in one show to show up as Colonel Potter.
What have I learned by watching this video? That Captain 'Turtle' was the best damned O.D. they ever had at the 'Four Thousand and Seventy Seventh'.
LMAO
It was Tuttle nor Turtle.
LOL!!
LOL
Its TUTTLE not Turtle
Don't forget about the Private that tried to marry a Korean girl also played Potter's son-in-law that cheated on Potter's daughter.
Unfortunately, actors are recycled to play different minor characters frequently on TV shows. The actor who played Ugly John, the anesthesiologist very early in the series, also played an Australian MP who shuts down Rosie's Bar.
and Harry Morgan played a Steele before Potter
Doppelgangers.
Over the years I have picked up on the mistakes in the timeline, one concerning the Mickey Mouse Club reference, the hula hoop references, and Radar's take off on John Wayne in McClintock. Also, Hawkeye was supposed to be an only child, yet in one episode he referenced a sister. In a very early episode he refrrenced serving in WWII and being called back for Korea, yet it is never mentioned again. Colonel Potter was the only one who was mentioned having served in WWI, WWII and Korea, although I think one of the nurses had said something about serving in WWII and then Korea.
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Nurse Bigalow mentions serving in WWII at the very end of the war in the final episode.
Radar’s comic gaff is easily explained, he had a DeLorian fitted with a flux capacitor.
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Honestly, if you think Radar can't requisition a comic book from the future, you underestimate his skills as Company Clerk.
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t LOL!
I remember Henry talking to Andrew on the phone telling him he has to be the man of the family till Henry gets back. Quite a lot to lay on Andrew if he's supposed to be a baby!
How about the narrator repeatedly referring to Klinger as "Sergeant?" He started out as a Corporal, and wasn't promoted until late in the series--some time after he had stopped wearing dresses, I might add.
Klinger became a sergeant in the later days of mash. But he spent most of the sitcoms length as a corporal.
@@R-BURQUENO Yeah, that's my point, he remained a corporal for an amazingly long time, by real life Army standards considering the length of the Korean War--of course, his conduct in the first several seasons would have been a realistic impediment to promotion.
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True, but, US military protocol dictates that a person is to be referred to as the last rank they held, unless you're talking about a specific time in their military background, ie George Patton will always be referred to as Gen Patton even if he spent the majority of his career as a Captain (not that he did), unless you're talking specifically about the time when he was a Captain.
Since Klinger finished his time as a Sergeant it is actually correct to refer to him as Sergeant Klinger.
Klinger never became a sergeant , and he never wore glasses , that was Radar that wore glasses , Radar briefly became a sergeant , however he wanted to be demoted back to a corporal due to feeling uncomfortable with having authority over his enlisted friends , and Radar was the company clerk until he left the show then Klinger became the company clerk.
@@craighowarth9728 Yes, Klinger was promoted sometime in one of the last three seasons; there wasa whole episode devoted to his struggle to pass the sergeant's exam, which he did manage to do.
Season 10, episode 17, ,titled Promotion Commotion, March 1982.
So other inaccuracies are when Radar was sick and Hot Lips was reading him a pen pal letter and the gal asked about two songs. The Wayward Wind by Gogi Grant and Diddy Wah Diddy by Bo Diddly. Both songs were from 1956. Way past the Korean War time. Another one was the wounded soldier telling the doctors about the broken fan belt on the chopper and the pilot had to land when it over heated and they got there 200 yards at a time. The only thing about the story is the Bell-47 helicopter had an air cooled engine. No fan. No fan belt. No over heating.
Near the end of her life, as cancer ate away at her organs, MASH was the last program that my wonderful wife of 51 years would still stay awake and ask for more sound as her hearing failed so we could enjoy the show we ALWAYS watched together from the first episode till she passed. I still watch the re-run 2 episodes back to back every night before turning off the set for the night. It is like a last kiss for the love of my life even though I lost her a year ago in August.
Touching 😢
I'm so sorry for your loss. It's good to have memories of the good times.
Henry mentions his wife’s name as Mildred in one of the early episodes, probably when his son was born. In a later episode,, her name suddenly changes to Lorraine when Radar calls home for Henry. Mildred eventually resurfaces as Col. Potter’s better half.
True dat. I noticed that too
I remember that well also.
Same here.Also Frank's Birthday was in 2 different seasons.For a want of a boot episode its was winter.When Hawkeye & Bj had the fake fight for Frank it was summertime.
Mildred was Potter's wife
Henry’s wife’s names were Lorraine and Louise!!!
I don't know if this is technically an error - but the scene of Hawkeye and Hunnicut singing during movie night and improvising the line "We work on soldiers through the day and nurses through the night!" Clearly a holdover line from Trapper. Hunnicut was a devoted family man.
@Quaker 2019 True, very true. In fact I think it was at least implied he went beyond 'almost' with the nurse. Thing is he was devastated at what he had done - and cheating was definitely not something he would have done a happy song about. I don't know for sure - but I would guess the line was originally written for Hawkeye and Trapper but not used until later. Kind of like in Star Trek Generations when Chekov went to sick bay and started barking medical commands. Originally his part was written for McCoy.
To this day - I can't think of another TV series that has you laughing hard (usually the first half of the episode) then crying in the second half ..... I religiously continue to watch.
The best! Amazing to think MASH has been part of my life for fifty years.
The one mistake I noticed was the fact that Klinger claimed to have one blood type in an earlier episode, and then a few years later, he said he had a different blood type. Did anyone else spot that one?
I still have my first set of dog tags I received in Basic Training in 1970 at Fort Lewis. On that set I was told I had A+ blood type and was a Lutheran. When I got to Nam, I was issued another set, that one has my Blood Type O+ and was changed to a Roman Catholic. Well the first set had my religion right, but my second set had my blood type right. For the rest of my life, as a matter of fact, I have indeed been O+ and have had 4 major surgery's on my spine the results of a small accident while working on the PD and my blood was always O+ so I guess even the US Army does make mistakes.
@@JerryEricsson blood types dog tags don’t matter in actuality. You either get emergency O red cells, or they test you first. That’s why it’s hilarious when people scribble their blood type on their boots and helmets. “Ok, bud, we weren’t going to kill you by just trusting your word anyway…”
Well, with the amazing doctor skills of Hawkeye, I’m sure he was successful in changing Klingers blood type. 🤣 🩸
@@JerryEricsson Please forgive me, but I can't figure out the meaning of PD. I know I'm gonna laugh when you tell me, but for now I am lost. Sorta like when my brother was talking about an EDP and my meaning for that didn't make any sense to me. After a few minutes, I asked him, "What does EDP mean to a NYC Transit cop?" Because to me, it meant Electronic Data Processing. To him: Emotionally Disturbed Person. Learned something new every day. This was before all the cop shows on TV. Now we all know what BOLO, APB, and LEO mean.
@@bikeny PD = Police Department.
My wife and I watch an episode almost every day as it comes on after our favorite Jeopardy. We've seen every episodes many times and still enjoy it. It is the show that we've seen more than any other. It's funny, touching- and right on point most of the time. It's interesting to note these gaffes- but as its been said here in comments- It's a sit-com- not a documentary. I'm a bit surprised that you missed a big one. The bus that is always used is a 1953, 1954, 1955, or 1956 Ford. I noticed it years ago- but it hasn't diminished my enjoyment of the show one iota......
Your wife and I also enjoy watching MASH in bed
Season 1, Episode 15 is called "Tuttle", not "Turtle". It's named after Hawkeye's childhood friend who was the bravest soldier ever. Frank knew him better than anyone.
Fun stuff, thanks for sharing! What other types of video would you like to see?
Another to add to your collection is in season 6. The episode escapes me but here it is. The whole crew is in the OR with Winchester to the right of your television screen with back against wall. After Winchester gives his line, the camera pans to Hawkeye. With the camera shot of Hawkeye on you can see Winchester sitting and having a conversation with someone off camera.
I’ve always wondered how it ever made it past editing.
Absolutely fantastic series watching it all over again on great tv every night from 6pm till 9pm brings back fantastic memories just a shame that some aren't alive anymore I. e honeycut the priest Charles and captain Potter and Frank burns looking at the yrs some of them were made like 1972 I was only 5 and 79 I was 12 years old now there all on great tv again I watch them every night from 6pm till 9pm I ❤it just a shame some are gone 😢my favourite actor is alan alda as hawkeye he is now 86 I think and sadly😢 suffers from alzheimers disease it's such a shame that such a cruel disease should take over the life of a fantastic actor such as alan alda I know there is no cure for this horrible disease but I wish alan all the very best and thankyou very much for all the years of laughter and thorough enjoyment you brought us all. Myself especially ❤😢
@@melaniemason4049 Honeycut is still alive. You're thinking of Trapper.
@@colleen4ever and Frank burns is deceased and colonel Potter the priest too name a few my favourite was hawkeye absolutely love alan alda although it's such a shame now that he suffers with alzheimers disease I think he's 86 not sure but I feel sorry for him he was fantastic as hawkeye he always had me in stitches especially when he was on a scene with hotlips hoolahan I still watch m. a. s. h on great tv never miss it brings back memories 1972 I was only 5yrs old then.. And found out what m.a.s.h.. Stands for... Medical army surgical hospital..
It's important to remember that I don't care about the mistakes. I just thoroughly enjoyed all the shows for what they were. Great entertainment.
totally agree....it was a brilliant show, comedy and sad times too....but thoroughly enjoyable :)
Why is it important we remember that?
Hell's bells, I never even noticed Radar's abnormal hand until years later when it was mentioned! I was so focused on his expressions and acting!
@@conniesedona116 I know, right? Only after I read that did I notice how his left hand was always out of the shot.
@@datsnuffydude5460 SO WHAT!!!
Being a movie nut, I look for mistakes myself. I give credit to those who work hard on giving us joy in a time of sadness. God Bless the M*A*S*H crew for every loving moment. Thank you all!
The fourth Christmas episode was actually a Boxing Day episode, in which the 4077th tries out the December 26 British Army tradition of the officers switching places with the enlisted. Consider the fourth episode a sequel to the third, showing what happened the day after.
Colonel Potter’s first appearance on mash was as a crazy general steel. Later came back as Colonel Potter
I always find it amusing when someone is talking about mistakes in things when they make a mistake, especially on the first one. It's "Raiders" but he says "Rangers."
And the episode name in the FIRST one is Tuttle not Turtle
Clown is pointing out inconsistencies and he makes his own.
Also the "four thousand seventy seven" ughh! It's "four O seven seven" or "four O double seven"
True, additionally, the issue that is the 2 of that title, albeit the 10 issue of Captain Savage.
more mistakes in the narration of this video than in the whole run of m.a.s.h
I stopped watching after the fourth or fifth mistake. even the title "Mistakes in MASH" has a mistake and says "Mistakes IS MASH"
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Obviously, this guy has never actually SEEN an episode of M*A*S*H. It took me a full minute to figure out what the "Four thousand seventy seventh" was. Then I realized he meant the "four oh seven seven", which is how they ALWAYS pronounced it in the series.
What a putz!
Him talking about the crew member behind "a sign post" I was like hey man that is THE sign post, probably the most iconic sign post in television history considering it's meaning to the Four oh double seven.
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I always thought the 70's style haircuts in a Korean War era was the biggest unintentional mistake.
Possible mistake: In one episode they are having a ping pong tournament. If I'm not mistaken, they are using sponge paddles. Sponge bats were developed by the Japanese in the early fifties, but were not commonly available until several years later.
Well, they were in Korea and spent R&R in Japan, so...
I'm a huge fan of MASH and don't care about the mistakes. Some people really get off on this kind of thing and I have met a couple of people who made a huge deal over it. I just enjoyed the show for what it was, entertainment.
That's just what the mistakes were........more entertainment!
I was born during the Korean War and stationed in SE Asia during Vietnam at the time MASH was on prime time TV. I've seen these mistakes and many more. MASH is a nostalgia machine for me and brings back memories from the 50s, 60s and 70s and the fact that the mistakes are so obvious makes me think that most were done on purpose and part of the reason it lasted so long as a television series and still talked about today.
Indeed, I am a '51 model myself. Did a year with the 18th Engineer Brigade, 45th Group Dong Ba Thin then Camp Haskins in RVN. I love M*A*S*H myself, I still watch 2 episodes daily on ME TV. Have for years now, and I watched every episode on the original run, well the ones I was not working Night Shift on the Police Department.
@@JerryEricsson I catch two per day on meTV, too! Honestly, I love being able to watch the entire series 3 or 4 times a year. Of course, my wife doesn’t agree but, bless her soul, she lets me have that one hour a night.
the ones I noticed were about potter. talking about how his son is a dentist in an earlier episode, then talking about in later episodes how he only has a daughter, him having a grandaughter at first then it changes to a grandson, and him saying he wants to go his home in nabraska and grill, then his home is in missori, and his horse going from geldling to mare.
In the episode where they're having a sports day hawkeye and Margaret are in a tug of war, they all fall in the mud and Alan is clearly seen saying "It's ok Loretta".
Season1 Episode15 was titled "Tuttle", not "Turtle".
I lost count of the mistakes you made in the Kentucky Derby assessment.
I also lost count of the other mistakes you made.
This video suffers from a serious lack of fact checking and research
I can name dozens of mistakes and gaffs you missed as well.
Yeah, doesn't sound like this guy's fluent at ALL with this show. Four THOUSAND seventy-seventh? "Turtle"? He racked up a good many gaffes with this video to be talking about anyone ELSE'S.
@@05steelersrule08 Indeed. He also missed some big ones. Like Hawkeye mentioning his "parents" in season 1 but his father is a wisower for most of the show. Or that he Mentions a sister early on but is an only child. Or that he claims to be from Vermont early on and only mentions CrabApple Cove as a "Summer place" when for most of the show his hometown is CrabApple Cove. I could go on for ages. I've seen every episode at least 10 times...
@@n3Cr0ManCeD Yeah, he barely scratched the surface there. WAY too much more there was.
“Major Charles”
He refers to the Kentucky Derby ep which is in Season 6, but the clip shown is with Frank Burns who was replaced by Winchester in S.6
A couple you missed in the episode “5 O’Clock Charlie” Frank Burns refers to Gary Cooper portraying Billy Mitchell. “The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell” was not released until 1955 which was after the Korean War. There was another episode where they tried to get the “The Moon is Blue” which was not released until hostilities ended.
Fun fact about the 5 o'clock Charlie episode is the plane flown in it, is an American plane. Also, the pilot Charlie isn't even flying the plane. The real pilot can be seen in the front cockpit bent over trying to hide. The plane was given a quick paint job to cover the shiny metal exterior and American markings. The plane is still kept at the same airport that it was flown from for filming the show.
OMG! YOU DESTROYED IT FOR ME! WHAT NOW WILL I DO?
DUMBA$$
good catch...kinda... too persnickety for my taste but good job on your part. Thanks for sharing.
I'm 54. I grew up in NJ. The reason I love MASH is, I remember laying on the floor in my grandparents living room watching the show with the family. I can still smell what the house smelled like. Philly cigars and really great food!
Philly cigars????? I forgot all about them; my Dad smoked them-thanks for the flashback!
I think what a lot of people forget is when MASH was being made it was just another TV show. Especially early on no one had any idea it would be such a hit and that forty years later it would still be popular and people would be dissecting the episodes for errors.
The show is clearly not about the actual time span of the Korean War, but a time loop that the characters are trapped in. That's why there's both continuity errors and items from future times. The 4077 is trapped in an eternal cycle of war, and occasionally things from outside get in. When Hawkeye breaks down in the finale, that breaks the time loops barriers and they can all escape. It's an endless cycle of bloodshed so strong it warps time itself
Good point, Cathy!
Actually the series was an anti war program about Vietnam without it being in Vietnam. It started as a political view, but everyone loved it too much to care!!! One of the best shows
@@deborahmangan8480 Why not both?
Agree it was the best
Well that's one way to look at it.
Something like Catch 22?
First 4 seasons were the best...Hawkeye and Trapper together were the best.
Never noticed any of these - I was busy watching my favorite show!
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The first three seasons of MASH are second to none. The next two were great, after that it coasted.
I'd say it coasted around season 9. As I call it the "SHUT UP HAWKEYE" season
It is ridiculous how excited I get when I find Mash videos
Love MASH-Reminded me of my time in Guam when I supported Arc light-and we lived in tents- but even in shooting programs nothing is perfect. I worked in TV for years and yes we had bloopers. By the way the 16mm movie projector shown on their movie nights came out in the 60s. But God bless all of the cast members in such a classic show. I might add a few years back my dear brother n law passed away from cancer-among the many DVDs he had- was a complete box set of all the MASH shows-which his sister let me have---what a treasure.
Hawkeye in one " Dear Dad" show writes " say hi to Mom and Sis. Colonel Blake says in one episode about the movies " We getting the Blob and the Thing. The Blob wasn't released until 1958. So while you got plenty of "gaffes" . There's plenty more. A lot more. Now that I found your video. I'll drop in now and then with more.
I'm not a dufus who sits at home watching reruns of a great show looking for silly mistakes. I really don't care how many inaccuracies there were on this show too be honest. It is still one of my favorite TV shows to this day. I still watch it almost everyday.
And he missed more obvious ones in my opinion; like when in the first few episodes, the guy who ended up taking their commanders desk, referred to Korea as being in south east Asia. And, in the incubator episode, which is one of my favorites, the corrupt general said he could get them a B52. Which didn't even fly until after the war was over
Little discrepancies happen all the time. You missed the one where Margaret's father visits long after she had referred to him being dead.
He was just to her. Maybe cause he divorced her mam and she was mad at it like fraiser telling Sam in cheers that Marty was dead
I always knew Klinger really invented the Hoola Hoop. lol
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The comic one is so funny bc like. Bj got drafted in 52 but is at a New Years party for the incoming of 51. Radar is canonically psychic. Like Hawkeye in his own inner monologue refers to it as ESP and Radar responds to the thought. Multiple people tell him to stay out of their heads and at one point Henry even asks him to stop coming before he’s called and they say “well I dont like to be late sir” “how can you be late when I don’t even know I want you” implying that even Henry didn’t know he was about to call him. Time doesn’t work and they have a guy who’s psychic, I think the comic thing is fine and fits in just as well as reading minds or being at a party that took place a year before you getting there.
No one has EVER referred to MASH as the "four thousand seventy seven"
This is basically what happens when a bunch of hipsters have over-estimated their own intelligence. This, WatchMojo, and other hipster-run TH-cam channels are pure cringe. They're reading a script and they usually have no idea what they're talking about.
@@Axess-sv8nq Zacly!
@@Axess-sv8nq That took me off guard, I did not like that 😂😂😂
When Sherman Potter said he lived in MO and later on a different writer he was from Nebraska and had a daughter later a writer said that he had a son either way I still love Mash there are mistakes in a lot of different shows that's the way it goes
I was born in the same hospital as Radar in Ottumwa Iowa!! Love you Gary Burgoff!💖
I Live In Waterloo.
Went To 0ttumwa About 30 Years Ago To Take My Mom To The Amtrack Station.
His bear was on sale on ebay there for a while
I rode my bike thru 0ttumwa IA in 2000, in RAGBRAI
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They Canceled It This Year!!!!
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I have two more! Henry Blake's wife when she was giving birth to their son was named Mildred as noted when he tries to call her at the hospital. Later in the series Blake's wife is named Loraine! Number 2" In the first season there is a Korean teenager that the 4077 wants to send back to the States. Hawkeye says, "He can stay with my folks" But later in the series it is revealed that Hawkeye's dad was a widower and Hawkeye was only 12 or so. Ooops!!! Great show!
I don’t know why I watch this! I don’t want to see any mistakes lol I just want to keep loving it!
We've always loved Mash so much that there's absolutely no reason to list any mistakes that may have been made on that show! Nothing would make any difference anyway 🤔🤗!
There may have been blunders but it was a fantastic show and my personal favorite.
I agree with Susan Gill, no matter how many mistakes you find in MASH, I will never stop loving the show or think differently about it. MASH is one of my favorite TV shows and nothing can spoil that.
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The only "mistake" or "blunder" was thinking that those of us who watch MASH ,to this day,really care about a couple oopses in the most endearing show out there .
I've caught some of those mistakes myself, but one that was overlooked in this video is a video shot of one episode of someone in "Radar's" office picking up the trash can to dump it on the desk and the trash can is a 5 gal. "Plastic" bucket painted drab green. They only used metal cans back then. It had round reinforced plastic molding on it's bottom. You couldn't tell it was plastic until it was inverted.
You are the first person other than myself I've seen notice that. I DO remember the metal cans used before the plastic buckets and there is a difference very noticeable from the side. The plastic buckets have reinforcing rings around the top, the metal buckets do not.
You missed a few.
Henry said his wife's name was Mildred and later it was changed to Lorraine.
In the first season Hawkeye got a sweater from a sister and then mentions in later seasons that he is an only child.
Potter talks about a daughter and then in other episodes he says he only has a son.
Potters wife was Mildred, Blake's wife was Lorraine.
@@jimpatterson3286 That was the point....that Blake originally said his wife was named Mildred in an early episode...
That’s right actually-Henry’s wife when she was in the hospital he told the operator “Mildred Blake” but she’s Lorraine later. Also, Trapper’s wife was Louise, and later Frank’s wife was too. And the continuity good with Henry’s kids was not reflected well in this video. When Henry was on the phone with his family (when he brought Nancy to the 4077 to visit), he tells Andrew “I understand your sister dropped an ice cube down your underwear-girls will do that. You mustn’t hit her with the dog.” Clearly Andrew wasn’t the baby. I thought Janie was the baby, from the baby talk he did over the phone (even if he was told he had a son). Ok, there were a lot of continuity errors. So did The Odd Couple and lots of shows. It’s rare to write a bible of who’s who, especially in the early years of a show.
@@sunflowerhumbridge8737 I figure Henry had two girls, one boy he left behind and another boy born while he was in Korea. When I saw "Abyssinia, Henry," I realized that his younger son would never know him.
@@sunflowerhumbridge8737 P.S. I also counted four children of Colonel Potter - two sons (one of whom was a dentist) and two daughters (with different married names, so it had to be two daughters).
Rewatch the finale. Father Mulcahey's hair changes colour 3 times. He's grey, blonde, then has brown hair. Hawkeye also goes from being slightly grey after coming back to MASH to having totally dark hair during the "what I'll do after the war" scene, then back to slightly grey again with BJ at the end.
So I caught the John Wayne reference when it first aired, the many mistakes family members, and also a reference to superman which was not possible at the time. it is fun spotting such things. I think it makes the shows more fun.
They were done on purpose, easter eggs. Similar to the Coen Bros. Fargo “this is a true story”. 😏
@@AZVIDS could you site your source for mash Easter eggs?
The blooper that is the most difficult to understand is the fact that Henry forgets about his 3 kids, especially poor Janine.
well he was a drunk lot so forgive him
Which mistake was worse? Having a writer and narrator who obviously never watched the show? Unless the mistakes and miscues were some kind of inside joke...
I've never heard the 4077 referenced as the four thousand seventy seventh.
Excuse me while I go look for this episode I've never seen called 'Turtle'
I agree 100% with what you said. Another thing, 4077th wasn't even a real MASH, it was based on the real life 8055th MASH.
And it was Cpl. Klinger, not Sgt. Klinger.
@@mikemaricle9941 Klinger actually got promoted to Sergent in a Season 10 episode Promotion Commotion.
True, the camp was always called the "Four O("O" as in own) seventy-seventh.
I believe he means “Tuttle”
Radar's future stuff. He IS Radar after all. Maybe he not only ears extremely well but sees into the future. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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My favorite blooper is when a captain come to 4077th to confirm Hawkeye is not dead state that " you are what they call in (1986) as an unperson.
In an early episode Hawkeye writes a letter home and toward the end says "Give Mom a kiss for me." in a different episode he shows an overly large sweater his sister knitted him. It's later established he's an only child and his Dad is a widower.
Margaret's father dies, then comes back to life, and Col. Potter, famously from Missouri, once said he would be home in Nebraska. Henry's wife changed names, and his son can play Ravel's Bolero in his crib.
But we still love the show.
And if I'm not mistaken, didn't Hawkeye need Sidney to help him get over a psychosomatic mold allergy because when he was a kid, his brother pushed him out of a boat and into the water?
@@jimtownsend7899 It wasn't his brother. It was another family member.
@@jimtownsend7899 NO, it was his cousin!
there are many more mistakes that are a whole lot more obvious, but i love the show to much to care, i have whole collection and have been watching it every night b4 bed for 15 yrs. :)
There are mistakes, errors and bloopers in all our favorite shows. It's kind of fun to catch them, but you usually need to watch the show several times. If you love the show watch it...when you know the plot and script by heart-look for mistakes, errors and bloopers. 65 + years old and still watch M*A*S*H reruns. Thanks for pointing these out!
No matter what I will always love watching Mash
Since the episode "Potter's Retirement" was in Season 6 the character of Frank Burns was not there anymore. But your video for it shows Frank there.
I was going to comment this. That is from Season 5's "The Most Unforgettable Characters" when Frank is talking about the kid in the wheelchair.
The episode was called Tuttle the announcer called it turtle
My favorite was always the "wintertime" episodes, when it's the dead of winter and everyone is freezing. But in the outdoor scenes there in the background are trees and shrubs with full leaf cover.
and the water in the puddles isn't frozen! LOL
Yea, and you never saw their breath outside,...probably because it was really 85 degrees!! 😃
@@thomaskemer8109 not probably, it really was! apparently the writers of the show would put the actors in parkas during the summer months to deter the actors from making notes or suggestions about their characters to the writers.
It was shot on a lot in California, right?
Hogans heroes has the same goof, there was always snow on the ground and roof but all the trees in the background had leaves.
I'm glad Henry Blake finally got to see his son when he flew home...oh wait....
Nobody cares about small mistakes, WHEN the TV show was so flawless!