There is a long history of men dressing up as women to avoid military service. For example, Bonnie Prince Charlie disquised himself as a maidservant to avoid the Battle of Culloden. However, there is no other cross-dressing solider more famous than Corporal Maxwell Klinger of MASH, fictional though he may be. Throughout much of the … Read more
No other character shows the writing prowess of the MASH writers better than Klinger. As Jamie Farr said, how many times are you going to laugh at a guy wearing a dress. If you’ve seen it once, you’ve seen it. Klinger had so much dimension and there was always something new to laugh about or … Read more
As with many questions about MASH, this one comes from the basic mistake of forgetting that it was a fictional comedy show first and everything else second. Nothing about the living quarters of the various characters on MASH had anything to do with reality and none of it made sense. They all served to advance … Read more