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MASH (1977, & TV intro link) (media.piefed.ca)
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M*A*S*H ran from 1972 to 1983, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest TV series of all time. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital units were real, but the show's 4077th was fictional. It was loosely based on the experiences of US Army surgeon Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr during the Korean War, who wrote the book MASH in 1968, spawning a film and a TV show.

The 2.5 hour final episode of M*A*S*H, set to the war's ceasefire, remains the most watched series episode in US TV history as of 2026, and for 27 years was the most watched TV production ever (not counting the Apollo 11 moon landing, which was categorized as a news story). The ad spots sold for more money than Superbowl spots.

This is the intro theme from the TV show (youtube).

Dr. Hornberger died in 1997 at age 73 from leukemia. This is Hornberger during the Korean War, serving in the real life 8055th MASH unit.

Hornberger

The main characters from the show are still household names 43 years after the end of the series.

M*A*S*H cast

M*A*S*H

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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

https://i.imgur.com/US1fPnc.png

If a frontend interface doesn't render Markdown properly… :)

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Seems like there isn't really a "properly" here. Stackoverflow thinks markdown doesn't have a single official spec, but lots of different specs saying different things, which people tried to unify, which resulted in yet more specs and yet more MD parser behaviors. Wikipedia agrees:

    At the same time, a number of ambiguities in the informal specification had attracted attention.

    Example, some italicize if the asterisk comes after a non-alphanumeric character, and others don't.

    Sounds like a mess. But it doesn't seem as simple as "if an interface doesn't render markdown correctly."

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