MASH_Clip_A Smattering of Intelligence

[@btallred]

Whenever Flagg showed up, I knew we were in for a treat.

[@MartinTach]

Or Sidney Freedman, love all the episodes with him aswell

[@guadalupebaptista9757]

Coronel Flagg was so annoying, paranoidly funny! I 💕 when he came out...

[@bradleydavies4781]

He's a commmist no He's a fascist .

[@fictionfan0]

Whenever Flagg showed up, I grabbed the nearest bottle of ibuprofen.

[@christopherclarkin9584]

I loved Colonel Flagg.

[@maryhlad5277]

Me too. Col. Flagg was crazy and funny at the same time.

[@ronaldshank7589]

He gives a whole new meaning to the word paranoid, that's for sure!

[@davidrichter9164]

He was a pretty good character.😂

[@ronaldshank7589]

@Eric Baker One things for sure: Ol' Flagg didn't need anybody crazy around him. He was his own special version of Crazy! He was as paranoid as you could get! Think about it:If this doofus wasn't trying to fly out of a window, or re-breaking his own arm, then he was, in one episode, trashing the items in a tent, and ramming his own head into something made of wood, and injuring that head of his...as well as giving himself a giant headache!!! As I said:the man was his own special version of Crazy!

[@OdinHammersmith]

He was was my favourite colonel on the show. Add Henry to the mix and you get the best episodes. 😜

[@nicholaslindsey7087]

The writing for this character was genius! And the actor’s deadpan delivery of those absurd lines was A List Gold!

[@magentalady]

Favorite line of the scene? "You guys were so intent on finding some breach of security, some leak, you don't need the real thing, you guys are self leaking!!!!"

[@GoatzombieBubba]

They must of worked for the FBI

[@Patrick-sg7cm]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Sh9168]

"Don't play stupid with me friend. I'm much better at it then you." My favorite Col.Flagg line

[@valerietaylor9615]

“Don’t play dumb, you’re not as good at it as I am.”

[@Species5008]

Pretty sure you mean THAN, not then...

[@JenniferEvans-e5n]

Mine was "I was a showgirl there for six weeks."

[@ethelhoose1196]

Mine to

[@blockmasterscott]

“I’m the wind!”

[@mnirwin5112]

That final bit where Flagg says "Why not" to the offer of a cup of coffee is probably the ONLY time he ever said or did anything that sounded remotely sane!

[@valerietaylor9615]

Or human.

[@brianarbenz1329]

He's not authorized to be human, or sane.

[@historicnorthtexas2138]

I love how even Frank Burns is disgusted with the KKK.

[@lostintime8651]

Most conservatives are. The KKK was created by the Democrat party. No Republican has even been a member.

[@nrkgalt]

@@lostintime8651 The Democrats will say that the 2 parties switched places between 1960 and 1970. All that really switched were the Democrats’ tactics.

[@j-wilk4835]

@@lostintime8651 let's not turn this political, y'all hated when MASH resorted to that after S3. However, just to prove you wrong, Rice W. Means, Rufus C. Holman, and William B. Johnson were all senators who supported the KKK. Means was actually the head of the KKK group in Colorado. Edward L. Jackson was governor of Indiana, a republican, who also joined the KKK. Keep in mind this happened when the democrats still ruled the south, during Reconstruction and well up into WW2. David Duke also ran as both a democrat and republican, very similarly to one infamous politician we all know today. So, your point is wrong. Plenty of Lincoln-era republicans supported the KKK, some even leading them, and plenty modern-era republicans support them today. I have the horrific honor of knowing some.

[@ministryoftruth8588]

@@j-wilk4835 Wow, you sure are a walking contradiction of practicing what you preach. Thanks for outting your political party affiliation though.

[@lostintime8651]

@@j-wilk4835 nope you are wrong. The fact of the matter is the Democrats created the KKK. The Democrats did not want slavery to end. So many things you do not know little boy. Leave it to the grown ups okay?

[@magneto7930]

Any scene with Frank Burns and Flag together was always funny as hell!

[@thomascrosby7209]

When Frank put his hand on Flagg's shoulder .."My father touched me like that once, to this day he still has to wear orthopedic shirts"

[@steveb9151]

When Burns and Trapper left, the show went on a steady decline.

[@magneto7930]

@@steveb9151 they wrote some great episodes in the later years, but I definitely prefer Burns and Trapper over the other two.

[@RichardCook-on3gf]

The one when Charles set up Flagg was good.

[@magneto7930]

@@RichardCook-on3gf yes, that was a great episode too.

[@colonelflagg9669]

"Morning Sam," - Ralph Wolf. "Morning Ralph," - Sam Sheepdog.

[@valerietaylor9615]

I don’t get it.

[@davidjorgensen877]

​@@valerietaylor9615 A series of Bugs Bunny cartoons, featuring Wile E. Coyote as Ralph and a sheepdog named Sam. They're sworn adversaries in their day job of guarding/stealing sheep, but before and after punching the clock it's all pleasantries. At the end of the above scene, Pratt says, "Buy you a coffee, Sam?", and Flagg replies, "Why not?" - reminiscent of the coyote/sheepdog after punching out.

[@kyleurban20]

​@@valerietaylor9615too bad for you

[@kyleurban20]

It wasn't Wiley it was his cousin Fred

[@davidjorgensen877]

​@@kyleurban20 The characters were Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf, but the latter had the same character design as Wile E. Coyote (although, unlike Wile E., Ralph could talk, and also his nose was a different color). Sam has a co-worker named Fred (also a sheepdog) who works the other shift, and Ralph sometimes dresses as Fred to try and fool Sam (which, of course, never works).

[@jenpeterson3712]

I don't know how Edward Winter kept a straight face?! Flag was hilarious

[@leftcoaster67]

Sign of a good actor.

[@MichaelBradley1967]

You can tell it's been cut for ads. When Frank says "I'm nothing!", Hawkeye says "We'll vouch for that"

[@christydowns783]

I thought it was odd that neither of them jumped on that one. Thanks for that tidbit

[@MichaelBradley1967]

The season DVD's are probably pretty cheap nowadays. Definitely worth the money for any show you really like.

[@christydowns783]

I've only seen the odd episode so I think its definitely time to binge watch MASH. I wonder what else has been cut for the ads

[@MichaelBradley1967]

Depends on how many minutes are devoted to commercials nowadays. Most MASH episode were around 25 minutes, in a 30 minute timeslot. They're easily doing 10 minutes of commercials now (a guess), so they probably cut 5 minutes out of each episode.

[@christydowns783]

Another reason why I usually wait until the DVD is released

[@kurtb8474]

Flagg would have a field day in Washington DC now in 2024.

[@ianbrown4680]

Flagg ; ....." and round up a box of scorpions.. big ones! ..they're a gift for a friend.." lol.. Classic Flagg

[@yeltsin6817]

My dad loved a Colonel Flagg. Thought he was so well done. Winter did such a great job.

[@LoneLee2022]

Played that part brilliant.................

[@stevedandy973]

M*A*S*H was such a GREAT show.

[@mqbitsko25]

It was until Alda started writing it.

[@valerietaylor9615]

Col. Blake: “ North, south, east or west, we’re the MASH that is the best!” Radar: “ Rah, rah!”

[@AlBundy654]

Man Col. Flagg was so awesome

[@libertygiveme1987]

Burns - "I'm not either; I'm NOTHING!!!!" HaHa!!!!

[@6hypnone]

Delivered so well too!

[@ronaldshank7589]

What a wuss!!! Frank always did have a backbone about him-A backbone like a jellyfish, that is!

[@DisKorruptd]

Well frank, you got one thing right...

[@phillipleblanc7823]

I don't know how I would have made it through prison without MASH reruns. They made doing time easy.

[@WillRennar]

"What, for simple doctor's-file doctoring?" - The look on Hawkeye's face right after he said that... XD

[@gouldney1]

almost, almost fourth wall stuff "the writer made me say it so I'm making the most of it"

[@valerietaylor9615]

Great line.

[@valerietaylor9615]

It was the best line in that episode. “ You guys are self-leaking” was the next best.

[@larryyoakum3]

My favorite aspect is how at the end when the doctors leave, both spies are like hey let’s go get a cup of coffee, two old friends after the job is done

[@valerietaylor9615]

After all, it was nothing personal. Just doing their jobs.

[@NihongoGuy]

Similar to GOP and DNC congress members after a long day of pretending to be enemies in front of the cameras,then going to dinner to plan the next show for the American voting dumbasses.

[@DarkMagic6942]

This is a perfect and surreal reflection of how things are in 2020, lol.

[@g00gleminus96]

One of the few times that Hawkeye ever saluted, even if it was a mockish salute.

[@GeneralG1810]

Yeah you could count how many times he saluted on one hand, I think the ONLY time he meant it was when they were giving Henry a farewell

[@sumobowler3790]

@@GeneralG1810 and in the finale, Hawkeye and Honeycutt saluted Col Potter

[@rharris4736]

@@GeneralG1810 Sumo Bowler said it first. I can think of those two, and I think that's about it.

[@Truckerdaddy]

He saluted Radar when he left, Col Potter and if I remember right he saluted Lt Col Blake when he left.

[@jeffsanders663]

Yeah. Radar had said that Hawkeye never saluted anyone, but he did salute quite a few. And, he saluted ferret-face a couple of times. For certain most of them WERE mockish. Didn't Hawkeye salute a general?

[@dorothycoker8830]

I think they should make an episode of all the bloopers and out takes with Ed Winters as Col. Flagg! I don't know how they got through all of the scenes 😄.

[@75aces97]

In the Quo basis Captain Chandler episode, Mike Farrell and Alda clearly couldn't keep straight faces even in the take that made the episode.

[@valerietaylor9615]

It’s Quo Vadis, and it was one of the best episodes before Major Winchester joined the cast.

[@williamwhite2113]

Col. Flagg's first appearance at the all night poker game is still memorable as well as the episode with the wounded bombardier who had a messianic complex. Good stuff.

[@babyboomer9560]

Flagg tells Hawkeye he is the “wind“ because he’s so elusive…as he leaves the tent you hear a crash. Hawkeye checks outside the tent. He comes back in and announces “The wind just broke his leg”

[@kepler240]

I think he done the same thing jumping out of Col. Blake's office.

[@michaelhamm5321]

The best episodes were before Alan took over..so much fun!..I very much enjoyed watching at 6..6:30 pm..and 10 n 10:30 pm for yrs in reruns w my dad..

[@scottrudd782]

yeah I used to watch it with my dad to four years we would cook chili beans and sitting by the woodstove I grew up in the country it was cold but it was always good thing to watch when we got home from work I'm good good deal I still love to watch him episode is to

[@BlackNGoldRules]

I agree. When they killed off Henry Blake, the show kinda went down hill. Turned into more of a drama when Alda took it over. Wasn't that funny anymore.

[@bitburg40]

@Bobbie Charles When he filled Frank’s foxhole with water and yelled air raid. That was funny as hell.

[@saongpark2423]

@Bobbie Charles Totally agreed,the guy had no comic timing. At times it felt like nails on a chalkboard.

[@fooman2108]

MASH had some of the funniest occasional characters in the history of television.

[@LoneLee2022]

M*A*S*H is still my favorite TV show of all time.

[@valerietaylor9615]

Mine, too.

[@blockmasterscott]

My favorite one time character was that crazy general played by Harry Morgan. My god, that was funny.

[@Chipotleadvisory]

This or 5 O’clock Charley are my favorite episodes

[@LordZontar]

This was the single wittiest script ever written for the series. Lots and lots of great dialogue flows through the episode. "Stone? Engineers?" "I understand he also moonlights as a priest." "His name's not Stone, it's Martinez." "Whatever you say, Col. Flagg." "My name's not Flagg, it's Carter. Ask your C.O." "Alright..." "Can I trust you, Pierce?" "If that's who I am."

[@LordZontar]

"Yeah, he came in with a broken arm from a chopper crash." "That old dodge." "What dodge? I set the arm myself." "Oh, I can guarantee you that Flagg ordered the chopper pilot to crash and then broke his own arm. Variation on how he infiltrated the CID last year. Ran a jeep into a wall, set himself on fire." "This guy available for kids parties?"

[@thomasferrusi1345]

whatever you say Louise 😏

[@valerietaylor9615]

Didn’t Hawkeye say “ Or my name’s not whatever my name is” during the doctor’s file doctoring scene?

[@LordZontar]

@@valerietaylor9615 I think that was the episode when Frank imposed prohibition of liquor and Hawkeye and Trapper were rummaging through the supply hut for alcohol -- when Margaret came and went to her hidden bottle.

[@LordZontar]

"You should know that I'm authorised to kill without seeking permission from my superiors." "Well, that certainly cuts down on the old paperwork." "You'll never know what hit you. Your toothpaste could explode in your mouth. We could drop a grenade down your shorts. We can even booby-trap a nurse."

[@davidtaylor9219]

Well at least they cleared Major Frank Burns. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍

[@michaelkelly6583]

This was my favourite MASH skit, a hilarious and poignant depiction of current American political culture.

[@MsAbyss123]

Current and perpetual.

[@barryhyde2514]

Top show-One of the all time greats!

[@jamesjarrettjr.5974]

A Martin Bohrman telethon in Argentina 😂

[@DavidKalnbach-vm3xc]

who remember's Mad's 'Spy vs. Spy' with Hekyll & Jekyll..??..😆

[@jerrynorton1080]

Dat wazent hoikema an joikema?

[@spectrum9631]

"I know nothing about intelligence."

[@dr.roberts4508]

Wish Flagg could have one more Episode. For last season

[@gh9111]

Flagg was a great character. Loved him.

[@jayzrat]

Favorite flagg comment: “You are dumb; very dumb. But this time you’ve met your match in me!”

[@rayjones2877]

back in the day, 1981 or so, I get Mash out of San Antonio and Austin, e times on each channel.....

[@TheSaturnV]

Love how Hawkeye pulled Frank out of there and then saluted him, a very rare thing indeed 😂

[@alexzorro8884]

Just realized who he reminds me of.....the great chuck Heston !

[@RadioDon1]

So know we know the answer to one of the big M*A*S*H trivia questions of all time. Q: What is Colonel Flagg's first name? A: Sam.

[@ronaldshank7589]

Wouldn't it have been funny if it had been U. S?!?

[@reax2237]

Yes, now we know! NOW WE KNOW!

[@briane173]

Flagg's nieces and nephews must be frustrated as hell whenever they have to address him.

[@strangelee4400]

Gadsden?

[@ronaldshank7589]

As in: Uncle Sam? Yeesh!

[@beasmith5262]

Frank Burns (ultra-great actor Larry Linville) was necessary for so many characters on the show. When he left the series fell apart. Hot Lips became Margaret and was the unbelievable born-again virgin. Without Burns her character seemed like 100 people with just the same name.

[@beasmith5262]

Did anyone ever notice that Hot Lips never became Major Penobscott?

[@ronaldshank7589]

@@beasmith5262 Well, actually, she did... until he abandoned her, and went to Hawaii. She was somebody that really took charge of her own life after that. She dated around... but nothing ever came of it. She was her own Woman...at last!!!

[@ronaldshank7589]

The show never fell apart. It simply segwayed in another direction, and David Ogden Stiers (Major Charles Emerson Winchester) took Ferret-face's place, and that show was in the top category of shows of it's type. At least 110,000,000 people watched the last episode of MASH, which was entitled:"Goodbye, Farewell, Amen". That, of course, was a two-hour show that ended up being a real tear-jerker, and also ended up being one of the most-watched episodes ever witnessed in the annals of TV history!

[@valerietaylor9615]

I like Charles much better than Frank. In fact, Frank was the one MASH character I disliked.

[@valerietaylor9615]

P.S. Margaret certainly grew, as a person, but she never became a virgin again.

[@blairbrown4812]

2:12-2:16 was the very last time we ever saw Colonel Flagg be so....human.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Flagg would've made a perfect bumbling Vulcan.

[@brucelamberton8819]

Col. Flagg was great

[@hankkingsley2976]

really like how casual they are at the end of the clip.

[@racingfootball]

THIS I LOVED IT

[@kepler240]

One of my favorite characters.

[@tc4007]

1 of my favorite scenes and episodes.

[@craigisbond007]

What always gets me about this is the “buy a coffee? Sure” exchange

[@thomasferrusi1345]

Vinny Pratt, Trappers friend say " buy ya a cup of coffee Sam "

[@valerietaylor9615]

And Sam Flagg answered, “ Why not?”

[@ericschminke8233]

"I've got enough pictures of your file to have you executed for the rest of your life." Yet another classic Flagg comment.

[@valerietaylor9615]

Henry Blake: “ I’ll get life in front of the firing squad.”

[@LordZontar]

"Frank, you're entitled to make one phone call to the Kremlin."

[@jamesjarrettjr.5974]

Comrade Burns😂

[@Davevegasful]

Great episode

[@pmdk1953]

I wish I could download all the Colonel Flagg episodes!

[@LoneLee2022]

I DVR'd all of them. They're the best ones.😆

[@pmafterdark]

The best seasons of MASH.

[@chriscosby2459]

Colonel Flagg was hilarious.

[@kepler240]

Yes he was....whoever he was that day.

[@TRINFSS]

“Martin Bormann telethon in Argentina.” 😂

[@jeffreyking279]

Great episode!

[@kennethmelnychuk9737]

The 1st of 2 times in the series that BFP ever saluted.

[@CanarsieJoe67]

No it was three times he also did it with trapper when Henry was leaving and when radar left while in surgery

[@valerietaylor9615]

He and B.J. saluted Potter in the series finale, and as I recall, he kissed Henry on both cheeks when he left.He said “ I’m afraid a handshake’s not going to do it, Henry.”

[@TheJohnnyCotts]

Hawkeye saluted a number of times. - In the last episode, he and BJ saluted Col. Potter. - he saluted Radar when he gave him his Purple Heart, then again when he went home. - he saluted nurse Margie Cutler in Requiem For A Lightweight, mainly because she ran out of the showers wearing only a towel when wounded came, then left her towel behind with Hawkeye and Trapper. - he saluted Margaret in one episode, because she had a vibrating massager strapped to her hand (she was giving Frank a facial massage), so she'd hit herself in the head with it when she returned the salute. - he saluted Frank after pranking him by having the latrine walls fall apart while he was in it, leaving him with his pants down in front of the whole camp. There were probably others as well.

[@gouldney1]

Love it when Bill Fletcher loses it during the "below the belt/hernia" exchange. Salute Bill! And to the director for letting it go.

[@hanscombe72]

“I’m not either. I’m nothing”. Poor old Frank.

[@jamesduclos2545]

I remember those little Instamatic cameras!

[@ronaldshank7589]

Click. Snap. Done. Simple as that!

[@HughMartell]

Those were not instamatics, but expensive German-made Minox brand cameras. Very collectible but film no longer available these days.

[@ronaldshank7589]

@@HughMartell You know, you'd think that if they were going to make these Cameras, even in a limited mode of production, that they'd still make the film for them. Even if they don't still make these little gems, they should still make the film for them...even if it were to be in a limited supply. That'd be like having a Twelve-Gauge Shotgun, but no shells to use them in.

[@gouldney1]

@@HughMartell yep Minox. So they're not using 35mm film cut down?

[@DanaNorman-p9p]

I watch M*A*S*H every week on TVLand

[@cathy.gilligan2172]

I'm not either... I'm nothing 😂😂😂

[@beauvearing8450]

"How about this little item!" "running a linen laundry for the klu klux clan!!" 👳‍♂️👳‍♀️

[@michaeljames955]

Love that! Same old story, latter times

[@colwilliamnoydb4134]

My fther was recruited by my uncle who was an OSS Agent. My father made it up to Maj Gen, Deputy Director of the DIA. I still have a top secret Security clearance and most of the people I have met, the older ones were just like Col Flagg.

[@robertmckee4074]

I loved this character! Edward Winter did a fantastic job!

[@timothychamberlin6985]

Greatest character ever....

[@starwolf3020]

Flagg , best onliners in the whole series , ever !!!!

[@Howlingmadrobert]

COL FLAG KEPT EVERYBODY ON THEIR TOES😮

[@AKACitizan101]

Timeless

[@beauvearing8450]

Fellas it's been both a privilege and a nightmare meeting you!

[@walkerch]

I must have missed this show

[@ronaldshank7589]

We got a lot of funny for the money a'workin' here! The yuks are a'comin' a mile a minute! Trapper and Hawkeye really set these two bozos up...and set 'em up good, that's for sure! They sure had Ol' Frank Burns goin', too! Kind of a rotten trick to pull on Frank...but after what he'd been putting Trapper and Hawkeye through, Frank deserved it!

[@6hypnone]

"I'm nothing!" 😁

[@FlorianD30]

"I'm really with the CID. I just tell people I'm with the CIA so they'll think I'm in the CIC."

[@LordZontar]

"He's a CPA."

[@jerrynorton1080]

Cos hes with the CIB...

[@OlgaluciaCubides]

Los años 80 yo llegaba de visitar ala novia a eso de las 10 pm y me sintoniza a con fama y después M*a*s*h qué noche de sabado

[@HughMartell]

Flagg- the colonel we love to hate who has given us the ultimate oxymoron: military intelligence

[@j.lietka9406]

Col. Flagg, I want to serve under your command!

[@rolfstamenov9914]

you could find a tarantula in your shorts......

[@jeffryder1430]

We could booby-trap a nurse.

[@konigeurichderwestgoten4460]

"You've slandered one of the finest Americans since my father!" And Hawkeye actually gives Frank a semi-respectful salute.

[@australiantrains8988]

Classic Colonel Flagg, should have been more of his visits to the 4077.

[@harperstacey9604]

Colonel flagg should have been a regular cast member on the show. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

[@markmerzweiler832]

It's hard to believe Flagg was only in like 7 episodes.

[@harperstacey9604]

Colonel flagg was the funniest character on mash.

[@LoneLee2022]

@@harperstacey9604 He was!

[@harperstacey9604]

@@LoneLee2022 his deadpan humor stole the show. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

[@elizabethhestevold1340]

Beautiful...🦅🗽📫🤔🇩🇰🇺🇸

[@johnjohn-bl7fs]

Secret agent Goldman was everywhere.

[@justinbrockshus8483]

Comrade Burns

[@handsdownchulo6579]

Love the first 3 seasons of mash! After trapper left it wasn’t the same

[@clintonjhowerton9438]

It was better after he left

[@valerietaylor9615]

I prefer the episodes with Charles, especially the one where he made a fool out of Flagg.

[@frankbarnwell____]

Choppers! They come first.

[@jjaa6157]

Never pictured Ferret Face attending the ballet.

[@benjaminjones2185]

It wouldn't be so funny or sad if wasn't true.

[@tonynesbit9673]

I loved this guy so funny.

[@bneale]

After Mclean left, Flagg (whenever he showed up) was the only reason to watch the show.

[@eufordking4428]

Flagg was top notch guy..best episodes with him..best looking female was karen philipp ..lt. dish

[@beauvearing8450]

"Frank, you're entitled to one phone ☎️ call to the kremlin" 🕌

[@rolfstamenov9914]

Louise!

[@russs7574]

Ed Winter was hysterical as Col. Flagg.

[@LoneLee2022]

Played that part Brilliant..............

[@bobwhite420]

Buy ya a cuppa coffee, Sam ?

[@chieftenbets2114]

So few appearances yet so many laughs. Alan Alder was under threat from that Comic Titan.

[@keithbrown8814]

The writing of this episode is steller.....really making fun of intelligence agencies!!!