a) RUSH should always be written in all-caps.

I'd be way more impressed if he said he uses TeX.

I don't think you're giving M*A*S*H enough credit. Like Blackadder Goes Forth, M*A*S*H also balanced the comedy against the deadly-seriousness of the setting. Think about the episodes of M*A*S*H where they took a moment to remind the audience that this was a grisly war. The episode where Colonel Blake dies in a…

My cat leaves dead mice for me on my doorstep, and I still love my cat.