AFTERMUSH

AFTERMASH (1983-85) CBS
AFTERMUSH
MAD #247, June 1984
w: Stan Hart
a: Angelo Torres

M*A*S*H was around for 11 seasons, AfterMASH two. M*A*S*H was a sitcom about a surgical hospital during the Korean War, based on the movie, which was based on a series of books. This took place directly after the war in General Pershing Veterans' Hospital involving three of the characters from the original series.

Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) wasn't part of the first few seasons of M*A*S*H, coming in after the actor who played the original character of Colonel Blake left the show. Maxwell Klinger (Jamie Farr) was another character who came in later, originally a supporting character who appeared in dresses because it was a ploy to convince the brass he was too crazy to be in the army. He eventually married Korean refugee, Soon-Lee (Rosalind Chao). Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) was an object of ridicule in the movie but in the series was one of them. Despite all three of them having top billing on M*A*S*H, none of them were the real focus of the show, but probably the only actors willing to continue after eleven years.

Potter was often called in to the hospital and interrupted whatever he was doing with his wife Mildred (Barbara Townsend).

Mulcahy became an alcoholic after the war until he became chaplain at the hospital.

At the hospital, they have to deal with bureaucratic supervisor Mike D'Angelo (John Chappell)

The secretary there (Wendy Schaal) has a crush on Klinger while D'Angelo's secretary Alma Cox (Brandis Kemp) is always trying to discredit him. There's an old man (Bob Scannell) who's been living at the hospital for 35 years.

Pictured here are M*A*S*H cast members “Hawkeye” Pierce, B.J. Hunnicutt, “Hot Lips” O'Houlihan, “Radar” O'Reilly, Frank Burns, and Henry Blake. Burns left the show early and his replacement Charles Winchester is not pictured here.

There was another spinoff called W*A*L*T*E*R at the same time, about the life of “Radar” O'Reilly after the war, that only lasted one show.

AFTER-M*U*S*H
Cracked #203, May 1984
a: John Severin

They ruined the joke in the next to last panel by calling her Fox instead of Pox. That's what you get for having a joke within a joke.

A character that wasn't in the MAD parody was Dr. Gene Pfeiffer (Jay Sanders)

The problem with this punchline is that AfterMASH wasn't exactly a hit show.

John Severin drew something called If TV Shows Were Combined in Cracked #205 in August 1984. The full parody of Knight Rider will come in a few months. In the meantime, you can go back to doom-scrolling on Twitter on however you waste time on your computer.