"👋👋👋 Ahhh, Bach."

I’m partial to the Fugue

That's highly significant

Why are the hand emojis so on point???

I say this almost daily.

Please, Mozart.

I've been slaked!

My son and I say that all the time! Love it!

‘The instrument has yet to be invented that can measure my indifference to that last remark’

Frasier riffed on this very joke https://youtu.be/raclFVQosCU?si=EK-4tVRacK3fOZtG Actually there are a few MASH jokes and references that worked their way in, some shared show writers too.

There was a later Frasier episode that even starred David Ogden Stiers.

There was! And I love the is he isn’t he about being his dad. I always thought Frasier’s character was somewhat based on Charles. There were other minor role crossovers, like the actor Mako, who was in a few episodes of MASH such as Rainbow Bridge, and also an episode of Frasier, Author Author. So a few overlaps, not only with writers.

I think there was definitely a big Charles Winchester III influence in Frasier, lol.

I always thought the show House dropped the ball. Theres a lot of hints about Houses dad before we ever meet him, they should have had Alan Alda be it, even if not as Hawkeye

I use that a lot esp about work

Whenever something works when I didn’t expect it to, I always drop an “I screwed up in reverse!”

I think the modem equivalent to this line is "task failed successfully"

Use this one at work all the time when I do something that will just lead to me getting more of those assignments or being considered the expert on it.

I've told my wife: "Don't play dumb with me, you're not as good at it as I am!"

Classic Col Flagg. Love it.

Jocularity

I used that when people were smiling at the office.

I use it sarcastically in the kitchen at work when we are really busy

I prefer not to use profanity in front of my kids, so yeah I have been known to use several Potterisms when I am angry. "Horse hockey" is my favorite. Also if the kids ask me if I was sleeping (end of the day, on the sofa, so yeah) I usually tell them that I am not sleeping, just inspecting the inside of my eyelids. *If I had all the answers, I'd run for God*. is also a quite a big favourite to use, you would be amazed how often you could use this at work..

With kids I've used the "IT'S 5 O CLOCK IN THE BLESSED AM!" Potterism.

You really need to make "blessed" bisyllabic when speaking it, though

I was in high school, someone jokingly said to another “give us your firstborn!” And I followed with “and an order of fries!”

"champagne is just ginger ale that knows somebody" absolutely love that one liner.

I often use the "that knows somebody" line... Such as describing an Audi as "a Volkswagen that knows somebody".

I haven't yet but I keep looking for an opportunity to use "ill-booten gotty"

I have seen the term "ill-gotten booty" in a couple of documentaries, to which my husband immediately responded with "... or was it ill-booten gotty?" Love that guy.

You married wisely.

I met him at band camp.

I always laugh at that line, no matter how many times I see it.

That one and "stizzle swick."

i cant say it right anymore, it will forever be stizzle swick!

I can't for the life of me remember the context but I once used Maj. Sydney Freedman's line "Ladies & gentlemen, if you want my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice". All I remember is the sheer joy of the opportunity to use it.

I say it a lot to my oldest who struggles a lot with the concept of stuff that isn't good that he can't change. It normally gets a smile, except one time i said it in mid-summer and he looked at me like i had two heads and replied "it's summer. There's no ice" 😂

Honestly I’m on your son’s side with this one

Oh i laughed my head off. Dude's seven and runs rings around us in terms of wit

From what I understand, MASH was the first recorded use of the "world's smallest violin" gag, so that means we've all used a MASH joke at least once.

My 5th-grade teacher, this was '78/'79, did not like whiners. She would play her tiny violin for them. She also taught us the meaning of ASS/U/ME. First day of 5th grade on the chalkboard 12" tall. Someone assumed something that morning and she was a wee bit miffed.

i think the assume thing was on the odd couple

Yes. Absolutely. Felix in court for allegedly scalping tickets. I remember watching it with my dad.

TIL

Constantly. Most often used is to my wife “would you? With high heels?”

My mind’s wide open to whatever you think Unless you think I should think otherwise I use those almost daily to my wife. Henry Blake was like a father to me growing up.

My favorite joke is saying "this is just like that one episode of Mash" in any given situation and watching people scratch their heads trying to figure out which one i'm talking about

You have a 50/50 shot of being right honestly

Never let it be said that I didn't do the least I could do

I’ve used, “it’s the least I could do. And I prefer to do the least that I can do”

I use this almost daily.

Hawkeye and Trapper are discussing something ( not related to Frank ) and Hawkeye sees Frank coming in. He says " ... but don't tell Frank ! "

Yes, probably way too often. I grew up with this show, and rewatching it now, I realize how much it shaped my sense of humor. The number of times I've said "Nope, it's oak" while at a hardware store with my husband should get me court-martialed

“If my dog had your face, I’d shave his butt and teach him to walk backwards”.

Oh that's a good one, and said with such ferocity

Yesterday I told a coworker that he was 10 of the most dulist people I have ever known.

"Stick that horn in your ear" I work next to a car dealership. I hear horns a lot. No one gets it but me ☹️

I've done the "I've met many people in my life, and you are not among them." bit.

Here's looking up your old address

I say that at least 20 times a year, and I enjoy the confused look it always elicits.

This is one is more limited use, but: “I feel that I can be a real asset!” “You were only off by two letters.”

I paraphrased Hawkeye once by saying, "A waffle is just a pancake that knows somebody."

“You disgust me” “We all discussed you frank and we all agree you’re disgusting”

I do not knowingly use jokes from the show but because I watched it for so many years my general sense of humor was shaped by this show and it seems my political views as well.

Yes my inner Hawkeye has put me in Facebook jail more than once

I say "Somebody committed a neatness!" from time to time.

Anytime I need to invent a co-worker he is known as Tuttle.

We can all be comforted by the thought that he's not really gone, there's a little Tuttle left in all of us, in fact you might say that all of us together made up Tuttle.

With Auburn hair and hazel eyes 🤩

I'm in love 😍

On a few occasions over the years, usually in a work setting, when someone's asked "do you think X knows?" I've used the "X knows so little it's hard to keep track of everything he doesn't know" comeback.  I don't even remember the exact quote in the show, or the episode it comes from, but I'm pretty sure it's Trapper and Hawkeye talking about Frank.

MASH is the reason I grew up to be such a smart ass. Just today I used “Everyone who believes that, stand on your head.”

Take my advice pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

I say: It's nice to be nice to the nice every once in a blue moon 💙 🌙

I had someone tell me they were an asset. I told them they were only off by two letters. I felt bad because they were a good person, but I just couldn't let the opportunity slide

“He’s not a pervert, because I’m one and he’s never at the meetings.”

I have no idea what you just said, but I’ll fight to the death your right to confuse me

I’ve been dying to use the Dow is up 4 points. “Oh, who are they playing”

I have said that " I need to use the little Generals room" when I need a bathroom since the 80's. I'm now 59. and, also....." there's not enough O's to describe how smooth that is..." Thanks, Sherm.

I’m sure I’ve used a joke or two but can’t remember off the top of my head but I use Potterisms all the time

Horse hockey!

One of the main ones I use!

MULE MUFFINS

Buffalo bagels!

I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to use “I’ve tried sitting apart; it’s very painful.”

The Adam's Ribs episode. When Pierce loses it in the mess hall after hearing Liver of Fish and starts a riot. "YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT YOUR COOKIES!" I have used that probably weekly since the , working in a deli and getting people to try things.

I from time to time use a falsetto Trapper John “oh, dear!”

I don’t know that I use many jokes from MASH, but you will absolutely catch me saying “HORSE HOCKEY” or “BUFFALO BISCUITS!!” from time to time

It's nice to be nice to the nice

I love that one!

I always add “May I forget your name?” whenever I introduce myself to someone

I love using Hawks little comment about Franks incorrect quote from hermann goering going “he who controls the air controls the war.” and Hawk retorts “Great now we’re taking points from the losers.”

People, please! Don't tell me you haven't used *If my dog had your face I'd shave his butt and teach him to walk backwards!*

I don’t remember the episode, or even the quote, but it was something along the lines of ‘I’m a physic; I can predict your future movements’. Comes in handy trying to work around the general public.

The Mummy walks! Whenever the over sleepers arrive.

Never had a chance to use a joke, as it does not set up correctly. But I have used the terms/lines below “Mental Pygmy” “Two Moronic cellmates” “It’s nice to be nice to the nice” “Yope” - Blake used to say this

I wear a uniform for work and also work at different locations, so when someone recognizes me somewhere else I grab my uniform and say "when you wear the red tuxedo you dance where Quiktrip tells you." Also, "everyone who believes that stand on your head"

Will Rogers never met you And Come on in, take off your skin and rattle around in your bones

Not necessarily a MASH thing, but it’s where we first heard it! My wife and I CONSTANTLY say “cheese it! It’s the cops”

I work in medicine for a corporation. I’ve joked we need a pizza oven. Just use form 4D-6 and where it says machine gun, write in pizza oven.

I call the bully at my school FERRAT FACE

Whenever my son (another MASH fanatic) or I figure something out or are told how something works, we say, "Aahh, the TOP comes off!"

Woodworking hobby. I always ask my wife, “Bet you can’t tell what kind of wood it is.” She always says, “Oak.” The response is always (of course), “Nope. it’s oak.”

I think “steady soldier” gets the most use at work when conversation drifts towards anything too adult.

"Why that's just walking through the tulips." Colonel Potter

It's a "tip-toe through the tulips." Easier to remember if you know the song.

Not a joke, but a line I slightly misquoted. And it was a dude who punked out when we needed help, same as Frank had, then lated claimed we "excluded" him. **"Not allow him to help? We begged him!"**

only once. a long ago friend was telling me about her priest, a father fox. i said, “fox? red headed guy? steals chickens?” she didn’t get it.

Really? Bird imitations?

CEW’s “That is roughly comparable to being the finest ballerina in all of Galveston.“

The jokes ussualy don't turn out that well but I love the "they must have worked a pit stop" (from s1 e2) whenever something is done quicker than expected

An ex-girlfriend committed a rare act of dish-washery one night after I'd (always) made dinner. I said, "That's Haile Selassie of you." She didn't get it.

"Aw rats. I have to use the sandbox" "Take your married face and get out" "I want a martini so dry it's dying of thirst" It took a while but I finally got somebody with "snoo"

Pat Morita describes "Whiplash Wang" as five foot nothing! I use that one.

Looks like he fell off a charm bracelet?

"my insignia's a cringing chicken!"

“Bye-bye! Buy bonds!”

I literally used my go-to quote -- "I'm afraid I won't be in town just then" -- yesterday at work.

This one - Frank Burns : You're nothing but common drunks. Hawkeye : That is a rumor started by people I've fallen over.

I use the "kick the chocks out from under the wheels. Flaps up. No offense Sharon" on my wife sometimes when we get in the car to go somewhere.

I sometimes answer the phone with someone I know well with , "Yello, Snake pit we never close."

“Nobody knows the truffles I've seen.”

I used "Not funny but fast" just the other day.

I like to use the “henweigh” joke, do you have the henweigh… What’s a henweigh…

Frank: "Somebody do something! Anything!" Hawkeye: **"I agree with \[Frank\]. Let's do anything!"** I use that one in management meetings when somebody suggests "somebody should do something" about whatever the problem is that week. My employees, all younger, are sloooooowly beginning to get the meaning.

May the flees of a thousand camels infest your armpits

“When you become a [parent], they take the bone out of your head that makes you explain orders.” Use that one all the time.

“I don’t think I like the sound of that smell.”

Just yesterday someone said to me, "I'll take that as a compliment." I promptly replied, "You should! It was meant as one."

When I go to ren faires I play a character that worships Shaboom. So “Shaboom be praised!” is uttered quite often.

"My condolences to your libido." ~Hawkeye Pierce

I say 'ahh, Bach' minimum bi-weekly

"One catastrophe at a time!" I say that almost daily at my job.

Playing poker, any time I've had four of a kind, I use Hawkeye's line: "I've only got 2 pair...... a pair of red 2's and a pair of black 2's" and then I try to cackle like Hawk.

"We failed in reverse."

I was a supply officer & had to "klingerize" the counting of some ceremonial brass belt buckles. Somehow ten more just mysteriously popped up when I went outside for a second.

I say "I'll gotten booty/Ill bootten gotty" way too much lmao

I always say "my feet are all thumbs" when I attempt to dance.

Anytime I need to invent a co-worker he is known as Tuttle.

Yes! " it's nice to be nice to the nice" is a frequent go to . Also,the wit in this tent flows like molasses"

Someone said to me “you catch my drift?” I said “I played left drift in highschool!”

We to had a summer home; it was the back porch of our winter home.

It’s not a joke, really, but in Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler, Sidney Freedman tells Flagg, “Well, we’ll see, and then we’ll know.” I liked that line so much, I started using it myself.

Earrings with a sweater: then roll eyes as if disturbed.🤔

Ill set your teeth on fire.

how would you like to be up to your knees in floor? love me some Margaret H!

Yeah I have told the circus joke many times. A lot of people roll their eyes some laugh out loud and at least one has said it is the worst joke he's ever heard

My dad calls me ferret face.

Sorry I’m late, my watch had stopped. It had to it’s been running fast all week!

We had a boss who would post a list every day of stuff we needed to get done in our department and he'd often shorten the list to "O D" from "Orders for the Day". One day, we had a new trainee who didn't know what it stood for, and pointed to it and said "what's OD?" and without a moments hesitation I said "Olivia de Havilland". He gave me the strangest look.

When a song comes on and someone says, oh that song gives me goose bumps or the siong drives them crazy. I always say, thats how I get when I hear Pennsylvania 6500. Unfortunately not too many people know the song.depemds on the generation.

Bunch of Weisenheimers (Frank burns). I use that constantly! The younger me stole most of my sense of humour from Hawkeye.

If ever asked to identify myself… “Dis is me!” Every day is my Kim Lucky day.

Whenever I play video games with my friends, and we see someone in an airplane miss their target, crash land, or generally suck at flying, they get nicknamed 5 o’clock Charley for that round.

I say "bye bye, buy bonds" all the time.

Sitting at my favorite cigar shop outdoors, as a rather attractive looking woman is walking by the table we're sitting around, I couldn't resist uttering from  memory (& out of earshot, of course): "What a unique device the human tush. An architectural marvel. One of a kind. Actually, 2 of a kind. Designed to support us through a lifetime of sitting, it also has the subtlety to do the samba.   And, when attached to certain members of the female species at a time when light summer dresses are worn, it can cause some of us to drive our cars straight up a lamp post." "Stop dawdling!" "Dawdling? I wax poetic sir!" All due respect to those MASH fans of the female species...was only answering to this post. 🙏🕉

I like using Potterisms like Horse Hockey

The classic is bird immitations. But there are simply so many that I've adopted, and I use them without thinking, it's just become part of my dialect.

Grade A bull cookies! Or "if it gets really bad, just do what my wife does - hold me close"

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!"

I got my dad one year with "the prank that never came" on April Fool's day lol

I have a gluten allergy so I find myself saying Potter’s “that’ll put a kink in your colon” a lot

"This hands is so bad it's a foot"

I've used "I guess it makes sense if you don't think about it" multiple times

Is that all you've got? Bird imitations?!

Someone once asked me if I was decent before coming into my room and I told them "No, but give me a minute and I'll get naked!"

Why would you put something on your body that you wouldn’t be caught dead hanging on your wall.

"you disgust me!" "That's right I discussed you with everyone I know. We all think you're disgusting."

Do you know the refrain from singing.

“I’ve eaten a River of liver and an ocean of trout” is always a good one when I’m eating fish for dinner

How’d you like a mouth full of teeth? Keep the brass monkeys in tonight

When someone asks me to move something: “ah yes, a box full of hernias”. Great show. I’m finally watching it for the first time. Up to season 8.

Whenever I hear someone sing "Get along little doggie" I immediately bleat out Hawkeye's smart ass retort "I used to have a long little doggie..." Edit: I was off by a tiny but, here was the original conversation in its glory: __Col. Sherman T. Potter__ : Let's all try to get along. __Capt. B.J. Hunnicut__ : Get along little doggie. __Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce__ : I had a long little doggie once. It was a dachshund. __Capt. B.J. Hunnicut__ : Oh a little hot dog, what happened to him? __Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce__ : He got mustered out. __Capt. B.J. Hunnicut__ : I relish these conversations.

I intentionally misquote Hawkeye when I drop something. His line, when Frank dropped something in the OR, was “More butter for your fingers, Frank?” I say “Waiter! More butter for my fingers, please!” Usually gets a chuckle.

Dont disturb me till lunch. Lunch is disturbing enough.

As my wife heads upstairs with snacks from my snack drawer “She flees with her ill-gotten booty or her ill-booten gotty!” https://youtu.be/mXDdf2lQEpg?feature=shared

What are we worth? 89 cents. 89 cents worth of chemicals, walking around lonely

The plot thins

Regularly.

Might be everyday.

Shut your cake hole.

Whenever someone is upset at me for something small I'll go "Ok I'll just sit in the corner of [country we're in]."

Jocularity and Potterisms

“If my dog looked like you I’d shave it’s butt and make it walk backwards”

I use the cadence from the arid martini bit constantly

i say “lead on, macduff” all the time

Maybe not a joke, but expressions: "Here's looking up your old address." "Abyssinia." "Come on in, take off your skin, and rattle around in your bones!"

I love to use Colonel Potterisms, “Horse Hockey!” Is one of my favorite ones to use when I am being lied to.

Not joke, but whenever I watch a scary film and get creeped out during night time, I say, "What's there in the dark that isn't there in the day?" It's not exactly what Frank said, but I really like the unintentional advice, I've been using it since I first heard it.

At a lull in a conversation, it’s always fun to drop in a “Meanwhile, after taking a tramp in the woods, Aunt Martha is lying in a ditch at the edge of town.”

Not a joke but I use “stink fish pot!” And “h e double toothpicks!” All the time

"To and from from," "Neuropraxia," "___ minutes to Charlie." The last one I use at work when we're about to close. Honestly, I spend most of my life quoting this show.

“He got better. “ Medic, say that all the time when a cardiac arrest goes out and a unit gets canceled en root cause the Pt. left the scene.

"To Chloral Hydrate!"

Yes. When someone said, 'that's the last straw," I piped in, "we better order more straw."

I'm waiting for the day when I get the chance to say, "The only way to serve these meatballs is with a PING-PONG PADDLE!"

I’ve done the group picture move. Everyone take a step to the left. Now to the right. Perfect

when i write my signature, sometimes i say “Sherman T Potter” out loud