M*A*S*H was funny because they took real life and 'tweaked' it...some of the plots and jokes were 'overdone' , but the general way of weaving the black humor of war into serious situations made it a special show...what I liked LEAST on it was the buffoonery of Frank Burns and to a slightly lesser extent, Col. (Whatsis) ..before Potter...those characters were done with too broad a brush...Winchester was a better scripted foil...