And under the activism tab was an interesting revelation.
In 2016, after the US presidential election of Donald Trump, Farrell appeared in a commercial to urge Republican electors to block Trump from becoming president by having 37 electors vote for John Kasich instead.
It's interesting that liberals who complain about coups and will of the people were trying to encourage 'faithless electors'.
For those not in the know in America when you vote you technically aren't voting for the candidate themselves, you are voting for the delegates that have promised to vote for that candidate, those people are the Electoral College. A faithless elector is a delegate that doesn't vote with the delegation he was voted to.
Today, you discovered that Mike Farrell died. Today, I discovered that he lived.
They'd argue that this was the intention of the Founding Fathers. Only when it suits them, of course. If their victory were stolen like this they would cry bloody murder.
Nah he's still kicking. I'm guessing you didn't watch MAS*H or you'd know he played BJ Hunnicutt
M * A * S * H was a very big deal in the late 70s early 80s.
The finale tv movie is still the most watched tv event of all time. Over 100 million people watched it.
I'm honestly amazed by how many shows people manage to watch.
MASH was one of the few good shows. It holds up even decades later.
Also it's pretty modular. You can catch one episode and not have to see any others to appreciate any of it.
The author of the book hated the movie and the show.
The director of the movie hated the book and the show
The producers of the show hated the book and the movie.
The book author was a rightie and wrote a largely pro war book about his experiences in Vietnam.
The director of the movie, Robert Altman, is a leftie who wanted to make an anti-war movie. He said the show showed disparaging views of the native Koreans and had white savior narratives.
Larry Gelbart felt the book was pro-war and the movie was too shallow
I think it's weird that their are essentially three different views on the same exact story with almost no collaboration despite having a huge amount of connecting tissue
I have to disagree on that one. Anything with a laugh track is nails on a chalkboard to me now. Whoever came up with the idea for laugh tracks is hopefully rotting in hell for it.
In the UK, Mash was broadcast on the BBC without the laugh track. There was a mistake made once and an episode was shown with the laugh track, everyone got mad and the BBC apologised. The laugh track just sounds so fake and weird, ruins everything.
Television is quite a big deal in the states.
I cannot thing of something literally less American, by definition of the reason this nation was founded, than this. It is literally some unspecified elite loser going against the will of the people to force his own will and invalidate millions upon millions of votes.
Ironically though, it only ever existed outside of a novelty back during the days when the Founding Fathers still lived with it seemingly only making a major difference of any kind during the first real election in this country after Washington retired.
Even more ironically, it happened a bunch in 2016, but almost all of it for the Dems with people going against Hillary.
The only vocal Republicans in the MASH cast were Wayne Rogers and Jamie Farr, the guy who spent half the show wearing dresses.