What makes Inga Emmy worthy?

[eXcalibur]

Folks:

I've made my way through the 7th season DVD set a couple of
times since I got it for Christmas. Admittedly, I don't see the
appeal of why the episode "Inga" was deemed to be Emmy worthy.
Alan Alda won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy or
Comedy-Variety or Music Series category in 1979.

I would be interested in hearing the thoughts of other
MASH'ophiles regarding this episode.

Cheers!

eXcalibur

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[Gumbo ...]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:23:03 GMT, eXcalibur
<eXca...@usenet.newsgroup> wrote:

>>Folks:
>>
>>I've made my way through the 7th season DVD set a couple of
>>times since I got it for Christmas. Admittedly, I don't see the
>>appeal of why the episode "Inga" was deemed to be Emmy worthy.
>>Alan Alda won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy or
>>Comedy-Variety or Music Series category in 1979.
>>
>>I would be interested in hearing the thoughts of other
>>MASH'ophiles regarding this episode.
>>
>>Cheers!
>>
>> eXcalibur

Alan Alda probably won the Emmy because the episode was written by
Alda but it was also directed by him and the whole episode was
basically about him...

But I do believe there are better episodes for season 7 than just
Inga...

[David Brunt]

"Gumbo ..." <Gu...@mkx.org> wrote

> But I do believe there are better episodes for season 7 than just
> Inga...

'Point of View', 'Our Finest Hour', 'Hotlips is Back in town'.....

[Gumbo ...]

Those 3 episodes and also 'Dear Sis' & 'A Night at Rosie's'

[ShandaRose]

the message of the episode won it an Emmy, not just the content of the players.
The message was that a woman could be just as good a doctor as a man, even in
the early '50's, when "good" women were at home making dinner for the husband
and cookies for the children.

Alan Alda was a champion for women's rights in the '70's, which is probably why
he wrote this episode.

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"Individuality is fine as long as we do it together", Frank Burns

[Dan]

ShandaRose wrote:

>
> Alan Alda was a champion for women's rights in the '70's, which is probably why
> he wrote this episode.
>

Exactly. And the whole theme of Hawkeye "meets his match" in
a---(gasp)---WOMAN doctor theme played very differently when the episode
first ran in the 1970's. Even though the show takes place in the early
1950's, "Inga" is probably one of the more dated episodes.
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Dan

Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying

[Gumbo ...]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:35:35 -0500, Dan <High...@comcast.net> wrote:

>>ShandaRose wrote:
>>>
>>> Alan Alda was a champion for women's rights in the '70's, which is probably why
>>> he wrote this episode.
>>>
>>
>>Exactly. And the whole theme of Hawkeye "meets his match" in
>>a---(gasp)---WOMAN doctor theme played very differently when the episode
>>first ran in the 1970's. Even though the show takes place in the early
>>1950's, "Inga" is probably one of the more dated episodes.

Come on... We all know it was because Inga wanted to give Klinger a
sex change operation and Hawkeye was sex himself...

[amu...@earthlink.net]

The Academy likes to give awards to "very special episodes," ie, ones
that interject drama into a sitcom. They feel this elevates the form.
God forbid making a good comedy should be enough. Though black comedy
has been the definitive form of literature in the second half of the
twentieth century (Joyce, Vonnegut, Heller, Roth, etc. etc.), the
various "academies" of this world, with their provincial bourgeois
standards, will never see it this way. Screw 'em.

[ShandaRose]

>Come on... We all know it was because Inga wanted to give Klinger a
>sex change operation and Hawkeye was sex himself...
>

hmmm couldn't agree with you more LOLOLOL

(hope no one under 18 is reading this LOL)