h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I heard that a woman was once on about 25 painkillers a day, but her son gradually replaced them all with placebos and she never noticed.

oooOOOOOoOOoOOoooooo WOW

I saw a M*A*S*H episode like that, the unit had run out of pills to help with a rash that had broken out so Hawkeye and BJ used Placebo's and convinced people they were a superdrug that cured anything, it was all a case of mind over matter

that was a pretty cool episode

One of many great eps

One of the last great episodes...

I liked the one done from the patient's point of veiw, the camera was the patient, that one was really good

I never saw that one, did anything big happen or was it just through the patient's eyes?

I liked the one where Charles took on a Korean aide, but he turned out to be a spy for the North. No-one ever knew, and it was interesting to see how he observed their reactions.

"These americans are strange. They have plenty of rations, yet compalin about their quality."

I liked that one, the one I'm talking about was seeing the M*A*S*H unit from a patient's point of veiw, it went from the time he was injured, to the chopper ride, surgery meeting all the charachters one to one, I think it won an award I'm not sure

Damn, haven't seen that one...

And who could forget the one where BJ played a load of moderate pranks on everyone else in order to drive Hawkeye insane as a huge prank?

Then there was the one with the soldier's ghost trying to contact someone but he couldn't, being a ghost and all (except for Klinger, who was in a fever.) He was worried about his friend, but when the friend was all right, he got to go on to the next life. The path seemes to be the 4077th HQ, except it was bathed in light and all these Koreans were marching past. Soldier boy met an already dead friend who accompanied him.

It seems that the latter episodes, the ones after Frank left, weren't as amusing, but were a good deal more inventive.

I know, it wasn't as funny after Frank left but the drama and storylines were fabulos, the one where Charles helped the lad with the stutter educate himself and get some self estime, you wonder why he'd do this as he couldn't bare anyone with faults then at the end you find his sister Honoria stutter's

And let us not forget the film either, the bit where the doctors are having a party for 'Painless' the dentist, if you look closely at the first shot outside the tent, looking in, they're all seated in the same way as the apostles in the painting of the last supper

And we mustn't forget the book, where Duke and Hawkeye write to their wives telling them they can get them back in America in two weeks if they just do two things, 1) Go mad 2) Let the Red Cross know. Or what about in the film/book, when Duke ask Henry if he can go home if he nails Hotlips and attacks Hawkeye

I was really sad when they killed Blake off, he was my favorite

I liked the one when they're all nice to Frank to cheer him up.

I was sad to see Radar go, I liked the one where he was made an officer as a debt repayment in a card game, it was never the same after that, it alsoo got strange when Klinger stopped wearing dresses

They're rerunning them now, they're at the bit where Donald Penobbscott has a double hernia.

Here I think they're in the post-Frank series'

Going back to the film, I saw a documentry about M*A*S*H the film, they were discribing how they managed to get the look of shock on the actress who played Hoolihan's face, as the tent raised Gary Burgoff (Radar) dropped his trousers, the rest as they say is history

I haven't seen the movie yet.

You should it's really good