Is it true that more toilets were flushed after the last episode of M*A*S*H than any other time in history?

Question

Or was it Kettles put on or something?

Answer 1

I haven't seen that authoitatively stated, but the episode had such a huge audience that I can well believe it.

Answer 2

This is what I could find:

At one minute past the end if the airing the final episode, the New York City Sanitation/Public Works Department recorded the single larges use of water simultaneously around the city as several citizens commemorated the end of the series by flushing their toilets

Answer 3

No, it isn't true; it is an urban legend. It is said that in New York City, after the episode aired was the largest single use of water in just NYC. No water department can know how much of its usage comes from flushing toilets and how much comes from other usages.

It is true, however, that it is the most-watched single episode of any television show in America; apparently 106 million people watched it together in 1983 (I did too!), about 77% of all television viewers.

Answer 4

I can certainly believe that.....!!!

Answer 5

I would have thought it was after The Beatles came on Ed Sullivan

Answer 6

in america i believe it is during half-time of the superbowl but i forgot which one it was, maybe 2005 or 2004.