The evolution of Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in M.A.S.H.

[JoeMoma]

But the movie is where the characters originate and set the die they are cast as;

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(Some might say the movie hasn't aged well ...); (For that matter the TV series plunged too far down the Leftwing hole by it's end.)

I've never watched the movie all the way through. It could never hold my interest. I think it is much because to me the real M*A*S*H was the TV show.

 

[whitehall]

How did those smarmy fictional MASH surgeons get away with the fictional torture a hard working combat nurse in Korea and why was it considered funny?

 

[Mr Natural]

And why was Frank Burns, a draftee, second in command when Major Hot Lips was regular Army?

 

[rightwinger]

Hot Lips and Frank were one dimensional characters similar to the movie roles. Neither was given a chance to be anything but the butt of jokes.
Once Frank left, Hot Lips was given the chance to become Margaret. She was much more complex, sensitive and compassionate

Similar transition was made for Klinger

 

[rightwinger]

I've never watched the movie all the way through. It could never hold my interest. I think it is much because to me the real M*A*S*H was the TV show.

TV show was much better
Initially, they tried to duplicate the movie
But that got tired quickly and they allowed more character development

 

[JoeMoma]

TV show was much better
Initially, they tried to duplicate the movie
But that got tired quickly and they allowed more character development

I was but a young tyke when M*A*S*H the movie came out.

 

[rightwinger]

I was but a young tyke when M*A*S*H the movie came out.

The movie came out when I was in HS. It was must see at the time if you could sneak in because there was a quick nude shot of Hot Lips in the shower.
Watching it years later, it is hard to watch. Not as funny as I remembered

 

[JoeMoma]

The movie came out when I was in HS. It was must see at the time if you could sneak in because there was a quick nude shot of Hot Lips in the shower.
Watching it years later, it is hard to watch. Not as funny as I remembered

I was 4 or 5 years old. It wasn't even on the radar for me.

 

[rightwinger]

I was 4 or 5 years old. It wasn't even on the radar for me.

Yea…Radar was in the movie too

 

[g5000]

Hot Lips in the 1st season: Co-Villain with Frank "Ferret Face" Burns a married man with whom she was having an affair.. Hot Lips was a person of low character who would sleep/hookup with most any superior officer that could further her career -- thus her nickname "Hot-Lips" . Also, she would often go "Karen" on Hawk-Eye and Trapper (or anyone else below her rank). Hot-Lips was made the butt of the jokes along with Frank during the early seasons of the show.

Gradually as the seasons progressed, the respectability of Margret grew. She ended her affair with Frank and married colonel Donald Penobscott. It is important to note that the character of Frank went crazy and soon left the scene. Margaret was shown to be a capable head nurse although she sometimes rode the nurses under her too hard. Margaret also was no longer hooking up with any colonel or general that walked by her tent. Her nick name of "Hot Lips" faded away during the middle seasons.

During the latter seasons, Margret divorced her cheating husband Donald and grew to be a most respected character. As respected as Hawk-eye, B.J, and Colonel Potter.



I sometimes watch reruns of M.A.S.H on Me-TV. The early Margaret is very very different that the later Margaret.

Hot Lips got her nickname during the original movie.

"Oh, Frank! Kiss my hot lips!"

 

[cnm]

See you have no fucking clue who "Sprear Chucker" was, just a lunatic fringe Marxists, who has to call everyone "Wasist".

And they thought they were so equitable in actually treating a Black man as near equal as they glossed over their white privilege whilst glossing over the discrimination he had to face.

But I'm talking of the book, of course.

 

[JoeMoma]

RIP LS. I thought it would be a good time to bump this thread.

 

[JoeMoma]

Yea…Radar was in the movie too

I think he (Garry Burghoff) was the only cast member to go from the movie to the TV show.

 

[0311]

Hot Lips in the 1st season: Co-Villain with Frank "Ferret Face" Burns a married man with whom she was having an affair.. Hot Lips was a person of low character who would sleep/hookup with most any superior officer that could further her career -- thus her nickname "Hot-Lips" . Also, she would often go "Karen" on Hawk-Eye and Trapper (or anyone else below her rank). Hot-Lips was made the butt of the jokes along with Frank during the early seasons of the show.

Gradually as the seasons progressed, the respectability of Margret grew. She ended her affair with Frank and married colonel Donald Penobscott. It is important to note that the character of Frank went crazy and soon left the scene. Margaret was shown to be a capable head nurse although she sometimes rode the nurses under her too hard. Margaret also was no longer hooking up with any colonel or general that walked by her tent. Her nick name of "Hot Lips" faded away during the middle seasons.

During the latter seasons, Margret divorced her cheating husband Donald and grew to be a most respected character. As respected as Hawk-eye, B.J, and Colonel Potter.



I sometimes watch reruns of M.A.S.H on Me-TV. The early Margaret is very very diftv ferent that the later Margaret.

M*A*S*H was one of my favorite shows. Gail recently watch the series on HULU for the second time. Such programing would never be seen on . Gail and I just the whole series on HULU for the second time.

 

[toobfreak]

I've never watched the movie all the way through. It could never hold my interest. I think it is much because to me the real M*A*S*H was the TV show.

Basically, everything coming out of Hollywood is leftist Hollywood trash. MASH was a leftist Hollywood spin on war. Jed Clampett and Archie Bunker were both really just leftist plays on how they saw the right. Hollywood began as entertainment, then by the latter 20th Century slowly shifted more and more into being just Leftist entertainment.

And there sits Hollywood today a mere shell of its former self.

But the original MASH movie, I like it, I saw it at a drive in when it first came out, but I actually thought the TV version was a better treatment and the characters stronger than that portrayed by Sutherland, Gould, Skerritt and Duvull (which amazes me considering that I consider Duvull one of the better character actors of all time).

 

[rightwinger]

RIP LS. I thought it would be a good time to bump this thread.

She was really a great character on MASH

She bugged the writers to allow her character to grow beyond a one dimensional floozy looking to sleep her way to the top.

When Hot Lips became Margaret, it was a much better show

 

[0311]

And why was Frank Burns, a draftee, second in command when Major Hot Lips was regular Army?

She was Head Nurse, Frank Burns was Major and second in command both Henry Blake and Sherman Potter.

To me the movie was Leftest garbage. Typical Liberal shit coming out of Hollywood back in those days. Because of the movie being crap I never watched much of the TV series. Maybe a few minutes here and there while channel surfing but never a complete episode.

I saw at the post theater at Ft. Meyer Virginia. I thought it was and still a great movie. I served in 'Nam knew the difference between movie war and real war. Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould were great.

 

[rightwinger]

Switt married actor Dennis Holahan in 1983 so her married name would have been Holahan.

He had played a Swedish observer Perrs who had a relationship with Margaret

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