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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2019

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      1. The education system is failing! https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1151077475180527616 …

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2019

      2. Seriously, I'm not one to go to the mattresses to defend Hogan's Heroes, a middling 1960s sitcom on par with Get Smart or Gilligan's Island. But.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2019

      3. The one interesting thing about Hogan's Heroes is that it was a military service comedy, a once popular genre that seems to have died out. The genre runs from the high (The Good Soldier Švejk, Catch-22, MASH) to the low (Hogan's Heroes, Sgt. Bilko)

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2019

      4. As a service comedy, the most interesting thing about Hogan's Heroes was Sgt. Schulz, a German soldier who really didn't want to do his job & was good at not doing it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgcxGFmYyPs …

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2019

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2019

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2019

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Jul 2019

      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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        1. Ken Feinstein‏ @FeinsteinKen 16 Jul 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          The Robin Williams remake of Auto Focus, One Hour Photo, was incredible.

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        1. MaybeDavey  🇺🇦‏ @DannaDave 16 Jul 2019
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          Wow! Way too much time spent on this but I will say that eliminate the historical setting and Hogan's yHeroes was no worse than Friends and only slightly worse than Seinfeld. And by historical setting I mean the timeframe the show ran in.

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        1. Ron Stack‏ @ronstack 16 Jul 2019
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          I’ve long believed that Hogan’s Heros deliberately stood WWII POW movies, such as Stalag 17 and The Great Escape, on their head. What if the Germans were incompetent instead of industrially evil? What if the Allies were lazy instead of heroic? Ballsy or too soon? Never sure.

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        2. your favorite president (me)‏ @rewenzo 16 Jul 2019
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          Hogan’s Heroes had a lot of Jewish actors. E.g. Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink) and John Banner (Sgt. Schultz) escaped Nazi Germany. Robert Clary (LeBeau) survived Buchenwald. Also recurring villains Burkhalter (Leon Askin) and Hochstetter (Howard Caine).

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        3. Mark Palko‏ @MarkPalko1 16 Jul 2019
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          Wikipedia: Klemperer, Banner, Caine, Gould, and Askin play stereotypical World War II Germans, and all had served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II

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        1. Jef Poskanzer‏ @jefposk 16 Jul 2019
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          For a while, whenever you visited the TV department in a store, Hogan's Heroes would be showing on all the demo screens. There was some weird quirk about it being the only show actually in HD instead of just upsampled from SD.

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        1. DänielNöthing‏ @DanielNothing 17 Jul 2019
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          You take that shit about Bilko back, buddy...

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        1. Clark Stooksbury‏ @clarkstooksbury 17 Jul 2019
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          Another interesting aspect was Kinch:pic.twitter.com/FiiLHMaWkq

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        1. Mike Podman‏ @PodmanMike 17 Jul 2019
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          pic.twitter.com/oQRUUmNlAy

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        2. Eric Kleefeld‏ @EricKleefeld 17 Jul 2019
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          There's a long-running British TV game show, "Mastermind" — with a format based on the creator's experience of having been captured and interrogated by the Gestapo as a POW during the war. Hey, it was his experience, and that's how he dealt with it many years later.

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        3. Jamie  🌌‏ @hypple 17 Jul 2019
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          Dark humor has saved many a soul from plunging over the edge.

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