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TIL that “MAS*H” audiences were so upset that character Col. H. Blake was killed when his plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan that actor McLean Stevenson appeared in a skit on The Cher Show afterwards in a lifeboat saying, “I’m OK! I’m OK!”

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