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Post by Jerseygirl on Feb 23, 2006 12:12:14 GMT
Ohhh....I have some more Charles & Margaret caps for everyone... I don't know why she looks so sad, I'd have a smile from ear to ear if I was in her shoes!     Somebody explain to me why the writers didn't have these two drive off together at the end of GFA??? |
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Post by Kay4077 on Feb 24, 2006 7:57:09 GMT
mrsmaxwell wrote: "Somebody explain to me why the writers didn't have these two drive off together at the end of GFA???"
They were supposed to, of course, only Margaret had far too much luggage! ;D
Remember that the main writer of GFA was Alan Alda...
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Post by Jerseygirl on Feb 24, 2006 17:06:22 GMT
You have to pardon me, but I have not seen GFA since it originally aired. Did Margaret say she was going to Boston? For some strange reason I thought she said that during the episode...
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Post by stanford9 on Feb 25, 2006 4:18:09 GMT
I believe she was going to be stationed nearby, wasn't she? Or working at a hospital in Boston?
Hey, at least in MY story they almost ride off together. I stuck with the ep and had Charles riding off with Rizzo in the garbage truck, o'course, to meet up with Margaret in Tokyo.
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Post by Kay4077 on Mar 14, 2006 17:02:51 GMT
You have to pardon me, but I have not seen GFA since it originally aired. Did Margaret say she was going to Boston? For some strange reason I thought she said that during the episode... Wishful thinking, I'm afraid. Her dad kept writing to her with lots of different options during the ep. In the end she said something about deciding for herself and (I think) said something about going Stateside - but she didn't mention Boston. (Pity - it would have shut up the H/M-ers if she had!) |
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Post by Jerseygirl on Mar 14, 2006 19:40:23 GMT
Oh, Kay we do think alike! Why any woman would choose the filthy and repulsive Hawkeye over our dear Charles is beyond me!
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Post by Jerseygirl on Mar 15, 2006 2:42:58 GMT
I say C/M over H/M anyday.  |
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Post by Jenna on Mar 16, 2006 10:06:11 GMT
Oh, Kay we do think alike! Why any woman would choose the filthy and repulsive Hawkeye over our dear Charles is beyond me! It's Hawkeye's fans that think that Margaret wants him but they think everybody wants him. Have you heard about the inspiration for An Eye For A Tooth? |
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Post by Jerseygirl on Mar 16, 2006 11:52:37 GMT
No I haven't. Please do tell!
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Post by Kay4077 on Mar 17, 2006 9:12:55 GMT
The episode was based on a real incident at the studio, when David set up a joke in which each person thought another person had created the joke while David sat back and watched. The cast was eating in the Fox Commissary, and David sent over a round of frozen yogurt desserts for everyone with a note saying that they were compliments of Sir Richard Attenborough, who happened to be sitting at another table. Everyone waved and smiled at Attenborough, who of course had no idea what was going on. Eventually someone realised David was curled up with laughter and realised what had happened. To get their own back, they gave David the bill for the meal - which he promptly signed as 'Gary Burghoff' (who wasn't even there).
In "Just Farr Fun" Jamie Farr relates the next part of the story:
"...We didn't know he'd signed the name of Gary Burghoff, who wasn't even there.
But we were soon made aware of the switch when we noted that Gary and David started snarling at each other on the set. Jeez, what was going on? Now it was clear to us that Gary hadn't appreciated paying the [lunch] tab one bit. What we didn't know was that David and Gary were faking the whole tiff. It was David's way of turning the ongoing practical joke back on us, a joke he had started.
By the end of the week, Gary and David were at each other with their fists. At least, that's the way it looked to us, watching their shadows going at it behind a sheet of canvas. When we broke in on them the two of them were laughing their heads off - and pointing at us.
We got even with Stiers - by having his dressing room painted a hideous orange and purple.
We had it done over a Thanksgiving Day weekend and could hardly wait to see David's reaction. He had no reaction at all. I couldn't believe it. 'Did David say anything to you?' asked Alan.
'No,' I said, 'he hasn't said anything to anybody.'
Finally, toward the end of the week, David sidled over to me. He wanted to know 'Did they do anything to your dressing room?'
All innocence, I said 'No. Nothing - why?'
'Oh," he said, 'They seem to have painted my dressing room a beautiful salmon and mauve'!"
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