1. The education system is failing! https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1151077475180527616 …
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5. It's strange that the service comedy has disappeared despite (or maybe perhaps because of?) the interminable Forever Wars.
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6. The critique that Hogan's Heroes whitewashed or made light of Nazis wasn't just made by woke millennials -- that was Mad Magazine's critique in the 1960s (they shifted story from a POW camp to a concentration camp).pic.twitter.com/WKbwvmNy4v
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7. Other interesting byproduct of Hogan's Heroes is the movie Auto Focus about the disturbing life & death of star Bob Crane. Not a great movie but a decent one.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Focus
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8. One last thing: Hogan's Heroes shows how seemingly contemporary "woke" controversies are usually reprisals of critiques that existed all along. That's true of much debates about culture. These controversies are of long standing.
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The most interesting thing about Hogan's Heroes was that Cpl. Lebeau was played by Robert Clary, an actual Holocaust survivor.
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There was a sitcom a while back, Enlisted, that was totally unwatchable from the promo trailer jump, since most of the characters had hair that was too long or were otherwise out of regs.
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That's okay if it's a war movie or something where people are like...guerrilla-style, but it was unbelievable in the context of "some US base full of misfits".
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My father (German military) was a huge fan of Col. Klink, because Klemperer’s portrayal of classist ‘Prussian’ officers was so dead-on hilariously/tragically accurate.
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I thought the most interesting thing about HH was that Jewish refugee Werner Klemperer played Klink with the understanding that he would never win and always look foolish.
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That’s true, but it’s also true that *no one* in Hogan’s Heroes wanted to be there. In some sense they were *all* prisoners. Schulz wasn’t just bad at his job, he subverted it whenever he could (“I know nothing! I see nothing!”). I don’t think it’s a service comedy at all.
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