Father John Mulcahy

Casual not writing.

Father Mulcahy, do you go, "I'm gonna take you to a dance"? Well- Take you to a dance.

Well, yeah.

[laughs] Yeah, choke you.

A terrific doctor and a great human being.

Maybe we should call Father Mulcahy.

He could give the truth the last rites.

To hell he's a great human being.

And I don't like that.

To go back to Dan Buster's Dog Prize for Problematic Moments, The fact that there is an extended joke about suicide, which features the image of the Last Supper, and the priest presiding over this is referred to consistently throughout the film as Dago Red.

I mean, it's just...

Just multi-level offensive

Oh yeah, no, actually that's true.

Somebody gets the last rites and they say he's already dead and I need you to come and hold.

So there are two deaths where Dago Red is summoned over to assist with an operation because the surgeon says that guy's already dead and I need your help here.

But no, it's an oddly low body count movie given, you know.

You know, when you talk about President Lincoln saying both prayers cannot be answered, there's a great episode of MASH years ago where there was a pilot who was brought to the MASH unit, and he had a serious mental collapse and thought he was Jesus Christ.

And so the doctors brought the priest in, Father Mulcahy.

He said, Father, we got a friend of yours in here.

So he comes in and he says, I'm Jesus Christ.

I've never left the studio.

That kind of sounds more Father Mulcahy than the Kermit the Frog weird voice that

I was

doing

No, but glad to have you back.

Yeah, thanks, man.

And now that I know you can do a Father Mulcahy or

that's what works well.

Why, who is this? I should have made love to you when I had the chance.

Father Mulcahy? I

just did not

expect that.

And again, I longtime fan.

I mean, I remember Father Mulcahy in the original MASH film and even just occasional times he would do, I mean, of course Benson, but one of my favorite original Bob Newhart episodes when he's the psychiatrist is when Renee is this visiting psychiatrist from France and the most obnoxiously arrogant guy.

And it's so great.

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