It landed on "MASH".
"What's 'MASH'?," wondered Karyn. "It sounds like one of those shows from before I was born."
"It is from before you were born," replied Jon. "Dad has a DVD set of it. It's about a medical team during the Korean War."
"You mean you just wished us into the middle of a war?" Karyn looked around. "That must be why it looks so different... Wait a minute. That doesn't make sense."
"What doesn't make sense?"
Karyn looked around the room. "There's only a few differences. Your computer is gone. And look at that thing." She pointed to the calendar on the wall. It now read April 1952. "But I don't see any guns or bombs."
"I don't get it either," said Jon. "Do you think I should wish for some guns and bombs?"
"NO!!!" yelled Karyn. "I don't want to get killed before the end of the day. Besides, I think I know what happened. You wished we'd be sent to the world of the TV show. Well, there is an America in the world of the show, right? There's no reason why our counterparts in that world would have to be in the battlefield."
"But I meant for us to be sent to the part of the world we see on TV."
"But you didn't say that. Maybe we should just reset the whole thing. Does the magic stay if you roll the dice again..."
"Let's find out," said Jon. He grabbed the dice and rolled them. Nothing happened. Then he looked down at them... "Karyn, look at this! The dice are blank!"
"What? What happened?"
"I can guess. There's no Star Trek, or anything like that in the MASH world. There's certainly no MASH TV show there. So the dice don't work. Oh well, I can use the stone...." He reached for the stone, only to find it missing. "Oh, no! I forgot! There's no magic in the MASH world either. So the stone's gone until the day is over..."
"And," said Karyn, "we're spending the next day in 1952. No computer or video games, no cell phones, no microwave ovens, TV is black and white... most women stayed in the home... I don't like this place."
"I see your point," said Jon, "but we've only seen one room of it. Let's go to school."
