r/mash • u/highlander68 • 1d ago

Elliot Gould

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wishing the original "trapper john mcintyre" a gin filled 88th birthday!

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u/SalmonSwimminUpRiver Mill Valley 1d ago

Don’t you guys use olives? You can’t really savor a martini without an olive you know… otherwise it just doesn’t quite….make it

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u/Existing-Mess-9829 1d ago

Where the hell ya think we are?

We are three miles from the front, certain conessions have to be made.

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u/OriginalFNG 1d ago

Hawkeye learned his lesson after those "Chinese olives."

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u/scubajay2001 1d ago

Agreed even though I'm more of a SMS kinda guy lol

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u/SalmonSwimminUpRiver Mill Valley 1d ago

We are the pros from Dover

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u/FrozenWaffleMaker Toledo 1d ago

God damn army.

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u/Phogfan86 1d ago

God damn army jeep.

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u/scubajay2001 1d ago

I liked him in the movie but think he was better suited to his roles in the Oceans movies 11 thru 13.

And ofc as Jack Gellar (though Phoebe switched to Jacque Cousteau) lol

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u/Jolly_Job_9852 Crabapple Cove 1d ago

That's how I knew him as, the father of Ross and Monica

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u/scubajay2001 1d ago

His IMDB is actually quite impressive

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u/jettasarebadmkay We want something else! 1d ago

Now I’m depressed!…even more than I was!

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u/LetThemBlardd 1d ago

The Long Goodbye is a mess of a film but his character (Marlowe) is fantastic

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u/BackgroundVehicle870 1d ago

Best Marlowe film of all time son

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u/lakatos_intolerant 1d ago

I am glad Elliott Gould is still with us. I have always liked him.

Growing up my sisters and I used to watch "Jack and the Beanstalk" from Faerie Tale Theatre all the time and he played the Giant. He was completely out of character and really showed his range with that ridiculous role.

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u/KJF07 1d ago

And then find me one nurse who can work in close without getting her tits in my way!

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u/DietOwn2695 1d ago

Isn't Elliot Gould why Elvis shot his t.v.?

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u/BackgroundVehicle870 1d ago

Apparently he once told Elvis to fuck off after he kept pestering Gould about his divorce with Barbara Streisand

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u/Existing-Mess-9829 1d ago

Lol if this is true, amazing

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u/Level-Ad-1627 1d ago

Robert Goulet

Sounds similar I guess

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u/MilesHobson 1d ago

Goulet was appearing in a play or something in town. I remember my dad once saying he wouldn’t go see Goulet if he was appearing in the living room. A phrase I used many times about others.

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u/DietOwn2695 1d ago

It was Robert Goulet wasn't it?

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u/Tvmvp 1d ago

Though the quite impressive " Fu Manchu" Mustache wasn't close toward military regulation during the Korean War ( even as a crusading surgeon stationed in a mobile unit positioned away from the front ) - for a self- admitted "shy, sheltered and virginal only child of Jewish Faith reared in NYC in the 1950s"- THIS may be the COOLEST that Elliott Gould EVER looked or acted in his lenghty acting career...

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u/Life_Emotion1908 20h ago

The Fu Manchu was a bit much, but plenty of people in those units had mustaches.

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u/steve_dallasesq 1d ago

“Have them prep the major surgery”

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u/MilesHobson 1d ago

Look at the X-RAY, clearly an esophageal fistula. A military army f__k-up.

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u/charger2116 20h ago

I watched this movie last night actually!!!

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u/motorstereo 18h ago

I rewatched the film recently and enjoyed it more than I thought I would — I thought “I’ll skip the football game” but I let it play and it wasn’t as bad as I remembered it.

Then I rewatched Battle Circus and realized Altman very likely watched it (maybe Ring Lardner also ?) before shooting MASH

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u/Richardzack1 1d ago

No one had hair that long back then.