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Eric: I'll give Gadzikowski five dollars American if the next sequence is based on "The Paper Chase."

(From Arthur, King of Time and Space. Click on the thumbnail for full sized medical hijinks!)

I can't help it. I'm a sucker for pop culture. More to the point, I'm a sucker for pop culture that didn't happen last week. Ashlee Simpson? Not that interested. Petula Clark? Oh yeah -- please don't sleep in the subway, honey.

I've always been like this. In the 70's and 80's I got addicted to radio programs from the 40's and 50's. I used to watch Game Show Network obsessively on Sunday evenings, because they showed game shows in black and white, from the days when they handed each contestant a carton of cigarettes as they walked out onto the stage. (I swear I'm not making that up.) I know who Robert Q. Lewis was.

It's now the twenty-first century. I'm not sure how that happened, but it did. And M*A*S*H ended decades ago. And in a fast random survey of high school students wandering outside of my office, not one of them had heard of Hawkeye Pierce or Hotlips Hoolihan. I'm almost positive that if they had, they wouldn't know Colonel Blake or even Frank Burns, because Colonel Potter and Major Winchester were there at the end.

And here's Arthur, King of Time and Space, which loves to randomly bounce into new eras when we least expect it, and they're doing M*A*S*H.

I dunno. I'm grooving on it, that's all. Nimue as Radar just kind of works.

Posted by Eric Burns-White at March 30, 2005 9:56 AM

Comments

Comment from: hess42 posted at March 30, 2005 10:39 AM

Any reference to M*A*S*H is always a good thing.

As an aside, you need to make a quick fix to that link, there. hhttp, indeed. ;)

Comment from: Bo Lindbergh posted at March 30, 2005 11:10 AM

So you're saying king Arthur fits better than Batman here?

Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at March 30, 2005 7:21 PM

M*A*S*H was That Thing That Got Me Through Adolescence, the way most boys glom onto cars or sports, or the way most geeks glom onto STAR TREK (not that STAR TREK wasn't one of mine too, but it was second after M*A*S*H). However an adolescent obsession for something Larry Gelbart spent four years on is much more fruitful in the later life of one who aspires to the composition of humor on a schedule.

Thanks for reading. Oh, and thanks for being someone who spells names right.

Comment from: ralphmerridew posted at August 23, 2006 9:30 PM

The URL is out of date. The file is at http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0314.htm

Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at August 23, 2006 10:35 PM

Not Eric's fault. At the time, AKOTAS did not subscribe to the Websnark-endorsed best practice for webcomics of providing the individual strip's permalink at the initial time of update.

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