airyairyaucontraire replied to your post “M*A*S*H - Season 10, misc. notes”
I looked it up and it seems the symbol on the Swamp door is a Moroccan/Moorish charm against the evil eye. Who put it there or how they knew about it remains a mystery!
Thank you.
You know, I’m calling on every visual memory of the Altman movie I can summon, and while I can’t say for sure, “the way the door looks” absolutely has the feel of something they would have replicated exactly on the TV show, in their fascinating piecemeal continuity between the two. What I would like about that a lot is how in both meta-contextual life and within the world of the story, this would be some vestige of war past that the characters just keep inheriting.