Super Football Caucus M*A*S*H

According to AC Nielson, a record 97.5 million viewers watched last Sunday’s Super Bowl XLI – the most ever to watch a Super Bowl, and apparently, the second largest for any TV Show, second only to the finale of M*A*S*H in 1983, which apparently averaged 106 million viewers.

I want to know what-the-fuck happened in the last episode of M*A*S*H in 1983? Did Radar finally come out of the closet?



According to the US Elections Project only 122 million of 202 million eligible voters turned out for the 2004 US Presidential elections.

To reduce that margin, let’s run old episodes of M*A*S*H concurrently with the Super Bowl in order to maximise voter eyeballs. And then just before an offensive play, touchdown or the punch line to one of Alan Alda’s intoxicating repartee, we flash, “Press the Red Button to Vote and Continue”. Call it “Vote-per-View”. “This caucus is sponsored by Budweiser and the Church of Scientology: hmmm, thetans taste gooood…”