(this broad ain't playing with a full deck) ([info]nerdcakes) wrote in [info]mash100th,
2005-03-20 22:00:00
Faith

Oh, I’m crazy all right. I’m one hundred per cent, purebred Lebanese crazy. I can out-crazy the lady who lives in your attic and out-dress her while I’m at it. I’m crazier than this whole outfit - if I can’t get my hands on a section eight then nobody can.

But the way he stands up at that makeshift pulpit every Sunday and preaches to a single well-dressed atheist, the way he takes confessions and collects donations like it was just some regular parish...

He calls it ‘faith’ but take it from a guy who knows. That man is crazy.


Cookie to Klinger, because I have a feeling that Mulcahy'll be getting plenty of cookies without me helping him along this week ;)

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[info]minttown1

March 20 2005, 22:04:52 UTC 7 years ago

I really, really like this.

[info]nerdcakes

March 20 2005, 22:05:52 UTC 7 years ago

Thanks :)

[info]janecarnall

March 20 2005, 22:17:24 UTC 7 years ago

Oh, this is lovely.

Brilliant. Just brilliant. The sort of lovely that has me grinning a little and wanting to cry a little and wanting to hug Klinger a lot.

I could quote all of this quite happily but:

He calls it ‘faith’ but take it from a guy who knows. That man is crazy.

Excellent!

[info]nerdcakes

March 20 2005, 22:28:27 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you! *glows*

Watching the early episodes made the whole Klinger/Mulcahy dynamic click into place in my mind the way it never did in the later seasons. That scene in the prohibition episode where Mulcahy's preaching and Klinger's the only one in the congregation is just adorable on so many levels. And Mulcahy talking Klinger out of throwing a grenade at Frank at some point - there aren't many moments but you get a sense that they were closer than you'd expect them to be.

[info]canpin

March 20 2005, 22:21:20 UTC 7 years ago

a very nice way of looking at it. i love it. and i have a feeling you're right about the Mulcahy thing

[info]nerdcakes

March 20 2005, 22:29:25 UTC 7 years ago

i have a feeling you're right about the Mulcahy thing

...unless of course everyone thinks the same way I do ;)

[info]canpin

March 20 2005, 22:30:40 UTC 7 years ago

actually when i wrote that i thought exactly the same thing

[info]whatho

March 20 2005, 22:30:28 UTC 7 years ago

Hurrah, and yes. The voice is just spot-on and the observation is brilliant. Triffic.

[info]nerdcakes

March 20 2005, 22:33:06 UTC 7 years ago

Ooh, good. Klinger has a very distinctive voice so I was hoping I'd gotten it about right.

[info]whatho

March 20 2005, 22:35:29 UTC 7 years ago

I got it from the very first sentence.

I think the Klinger/Mulcahy dynamic's a very interesting one too. You don't get it at all from the later episodes, though in retrospect there's a certain sense of 'I owe you one' between the two. Klinger's early scene with the grenade is a real shocker when you met him as Potter's clerk.

[info]nerdcakes

March 20 2005, 22:41:06 UTC 7 years ago

Klinger's early scene with the grenade is a real shocker when you met him as Potter's clerk.

Yes, exactly. Klinger's much more out there in the first few seasons - isn't there an episode where he threatens Frank with a gun, too? But at the same time there's still all the softer Klinger elements when he's playing with the orphans and as soon as Mulcahy makes him hand over the grenade he sort of snaps back into his normal self. It's very disconcerting, really, and we don't see much of that darker side of Klinger in fic. Or maybe we do and I just haven't noticed it anywhere...

[info]roobarbpierce

March 20 2005, 23:12:23 UTC 7 years ago

V. interesting. I love that episode with the Mulcahy/Klinger/Grenade (tho it's more to do with how Mulchay looks as he holds out his hand... so appealing) So I totally agree with the 'I owe you' comment. There is definately an affinity between the 2 characters, tho not in a slashy way IMHO (that's just v wrong - sorry!) I like this fic lots tho, Klinger's voice really comes through, he really was the sanest person in camp throught the whole dang show! Da Iawn!

[info]nerdcakes

March 20 2005, 23:24:32 UTC 7 years ago

I'm not sure if I can really see Klinger/Mulcahy in a slashy context, and this drabble wasn't intended in a particularly slashy way, but it's not as completely mad a concept as I used to think it was. Maybe not on Mulcahy's part, but Klinger does seem to have that particular admiration for him that makes me think there might be something one-sided there.

And, y'know, he showed up to Mulcahy's masses when no one else did! How cute is that?

[info]roobarbpierce

March 21 2005, 00:56:45 UTC 7 years ago

AAARRGH! OK, before I found this community I thought H/M was wrong and that slash would never EVER happen in MASH land. And now? Now anything I write post war has H/M as standard, and Hawk/Trap trips off my keyboard as easily as 'Would you like to receive our monthly newsletter/no thanks'. I am clinging to my sanity, however, when it comes to Mulcahy and Klinger. And I'm praying with more vigour than our hero ever did that I don't come round to that one. Someone as beautiful as Mulcahy would never go for someone as hairy as Klinger... would he? WOULD HE????? OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!! *reaches for bottle as the nasty pictures flash before her poor innocent mind!*

[info]janecarnall

March 21 2005, 01:15:35 UTC 7 years ago

Hmmm... *looks innocent* I wonder what Klinger was doing in MirrorMASH?

[info]nerdcakes

March 21 2005, 14:36:57 UTC 7 years ago

Aww, but Klinger's a sweetheart, really. And he has such style! ;)

[info]audaciously

March 21 2005, 00:36:43 UTC 7 years ago

I love this! The last line is pure genius. It really is a very interesting way of looking at things. :)

[info]qzee

March 21 2005, 07:03:03 UTC 7 years ago

interesting drabble, Mulcahy and Klinger had an interesting dynamic in the show. Two men who respected each other a lot, could understand why the other believed and acted as they did, and both seeing more of the "real" person behind the persona that others put up than anyone would expect. Sort of like two sides of the same coin.

[info]siggen1

March 21 2005, 11:20:22 UTC 7 years ago

Love this... Really, really. And I think you're right that Mulcahy will get enough cookies without your help:)
This is an interesting angle, and I hope someone will explore this in fic one day...

[info]wishfulaces

March 21 2005, 15:11:49 UTC 7 years ago

Sweet.

*big, goofy grin*

Gawd, I love Klinger.
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