Recently, I started watching the television series "Community" (2009-2015) with my son Miles and my daughter Sara, who have both long been fans of the show. Last night, near the beginning of "Investigative Journalism", the thirteenth episode of the show's first season, the characters referred to the television series "M*A*S*H" (1972-1983), so I filled Sara in on the basic outlines of that show (and the movie that preceded it). As the "Community" episode continued, Sara now understood many of the references to "M*A*S*H" that she had missed before. I had even sung the "M*A*S*H" song "Suicide Is Painless"—and at the end of "Investigative Journalism", Abed (Danny Pudi) hums the theme. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 25 August 2026)