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Post by Jenna on Apr 15, 2005 17:33:51 GMT
I liked the character Frank Burns. He provided the show with comedy but unfortunately he could never be taken seriously. Sometimes I'd look at his face and just burst out laughing. I can just picture him as the victim of one of the many jokes.
Of course I like Charles a lot more but I think it would be interesting to get both of the characters together. I wonder how they'd get on?
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Post by Kay4077 on Apr 15, 2005 17:41:03 GMT
I should think Charles would wipe the floor with poor old Frank in no time - look at what he did to Flagg! I enjoy the Frank years - some of the episodes have favourite LOL moments (eg, Potter shooting his jeep to put it out of its misery after Frank has run over it in the tank) - but I think Larry Linville was right to say the character had run its course by the end of the 5th season. Incidentally, David and Larry met in 1997 when they were the only members of the MASH cast to go to Korea (along with writer Larry Gelbart) when the last real MASH unit was decommissioned. Interesting that the "bad" guys were the ones who did the good deed!  |
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Post by majordisaster53 on Apr 15, 2005 22:14:30 GMT
I always enjoyed the Frank episodes. They were great and had a completely different feel than the Charles ones. I do agree it was time to hang up the gloves by season 5. During the last season or two Frank was starting to become very unbelievable. He couldn't do anything right. It was great to see such a nice change in characters.
As for Frank and Charles interacting with each other --- Poor Franky wouldn't stand a chance. He couldn't hold his own with Pierce, Hunnicutt, or Trapper. He'd never survive with Charles. I think he was the most clever one of them all.
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Post by Kirsten on Apr 16, 2005 0:44:02 GMT
I Like The Frank Episodes Too But I Love The Charlies Episodes Better! ;D
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Post by stanford9 on May 12, 2005 8:46:08 GMT
You know, I rather like Frank, mainly cuz I like Larry Linville, who was so utterly opposite of Frank, from what I've heard.
The local Fox station is showing the Potter/BJ/Frank eps, and I'd forgotten how much I liked Frank. LL did such an awesome job of the character.
I don't know who here has seen the movie, but they did a pretty good job sticking in character to Robert Duvall's Frank Burns. He, too, was a pseudo-bible thumper who in turn cheated on his wife. And both Franks end up leaving cuz they go crazy, hahahahaha!! Both over Margaret too.
Frank, in the movie, leaves fairly early on, when Hawkeye and Trapper pretty much send him over the edge and Frank goes nutso on them. They show him being driven off in a strait jacket, and I think Trapper goes, "I am going to MISS HIM!"
Interesting LL factoids: He was married to Joanne Linville, who played the "Female Romulan Commander" in the third season Star Trek ep, "The Enterprise Incident," one of my top ten favorites. His father-in-law was Will Geer (Grandpa Walton).
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Post by Kay4077 on May 12, 2005 12:39:41 GMT
Interesting LL factoids: He was married to Joanne Linville, who played the "Female Romulan Commander" in the third season Star Trek ep, "The Enterprise Incident," one of my top ten favorites. His father-in-law was Will Geer (Grandpa Walton). Hey, I never knew that! And me a Trekkie all these years (okay, okay and I used to watch the Waltons back when I was at school). ;D |
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Post by stanford9 on May 12, 2005 12:51:19 GMT
Original Trek is MY show, lol, the one whose canon I know inside and out.
But you amazed me when you knew "The Entropy Effect." I'd best stop there, cuz I could talk ad nauseum about Trek.
Believe it or not, I think I know MASH canon next best after Trek. Probably from watching it since Day One and growing up with it. And heck, now that I'm not working, watching it for at least 3 hours a day (2 hrs on Hallmark, and an hour on the local channel).
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Post by hawkeye on Jul 1, 2005 18:54:18 GMT
Could someone please tell me Frank's good points because I honestly can't stand his sniveling, whinning, mean, and just downright annoying personality? I am sorry if this offends anyone, I just have a hard time liking this character....probably what the writers wanted.
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Post by Jenna on Jul 1, 2005 19:42:10 GMT
I think Frank was meant to be a character that you were meant to hate.
The reason I liked him was because of the way he reacted to the jokes that were played on him. I think that the camp was more disciplined when he was around (I don't know whether that is good or bad).
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Post by majordisaster53 on Jul 1, 2005 23:13:08 GMT
I don't think Frank was meant to be likable. I do think he had real feelings for Margaret; however, he'd never leave his wife b/c of money.
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Post by hawkeye on Jul 2, 2005 7:42:01 GMT
Thanks...I think because Frank left and Charles replaced him that is why I like the later years. Now, don't get me wrong I LOVE all of mash but hate Frank.
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Post by majordisaster53 on Jul 6, 2005 0:09:52 GMT
You wouldn't be the first person to say they hated Frank  |
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Post by stanford9 on Jul 6, 2005 4:15:57 GMT
I wrote a little fic called "There's Something About Frank" that touches on when Margaret was looking for something in his footlocker, after he goes nutso (I don't remember the episode title.) One of the guys says, Well, Frank Burns is no Donald Penobscott. And Margaret says, In some ways, Donald is no Frank Burns.
Of course the guys want to know what she means by that, and she doesn't elaborate.
In my little story, she puts in her journal what she meant. Frank, for all his foibles and faults, was a passionate man. Now, I know that's not ALWAYS good, depending on what one has passion for, but I think it's at least one good quality of his.
Don't mean to toot my own horn, but I think I depicted what may've been going thru her mind pretty well. It's on fanfiction.net under sg1niner (check my author's profile, if you can't find it on the MASH section.)
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Post by Jenna on Jul 6, 2005 7:33:07 GMT
I wrote a little fic called "There's Something About Frank" that touches on when Margaret was looking for something in his footlocker, after he goes nutso (I don't remember the episode title.) The episode was Fade Out, Fade In |
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Post by Murdock on Aug 19, 2005 20:05:15 GMT
I always liked Frank and I have to say that I felt sorry for him at times, when he always ended up being the one looking stupid. I often wished that he would get one over on that smug so and so, Hawkeye!! I think Larry Linville played him to perfection, and I think he did all he possibly could with the character.
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