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From the great Jack Davis(who, as we all know, could draw anything), and possibly the only post-Kurtzman MAD writer you could actually call brutal and angry, Larry Siegel, a famous parody of one of the most tasteless premises for a comedy ever. The only post-HK MAD parody I've seen coming from a place of genuine seething rage. (Interesting note: not only were all the Nazis played by Jews who escaped Germany, LeBeau was played by Robert Clary, an actual concentration camp survivor.)


(c)1967 EC Publications.

suggested tags: publication: MAD, creator: larry siegel, creator: jack davis, genre: satire, subject: nazis

Date: 2010-03-12 01:28 pm (UTC)
starwolf_oakley: Charlie Crews vs. Faucet (Default)
From: [personal profile] starwolf_oakley
Gilbert Godfrey once did a routine about how "Hogan's Heroes" was pitched to the network. I don't remember the whole thing, but if any of Hogan's plans failed or were exposed, the Nazis would *kill* them.

Date: 2010-03-12 01:49 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] espanolbot
Ah, the most tasteless WW2 themed sitcom I've heard of is one called Heil Honey, I'm Home! and was a rapidly cancelled one about Hitler and Eva Braun sharing an apartment next to a Jewish family and they get up to wasky hijinxs.

Date: 2010-03-12 01:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] nezchan
I remember hearing that Werner Klemperer, who played Klink and was Jewish himself, was the reason the Nazis were always portrayed as wacky incompetents since otherwise he wouldn't be a part of it. Which of course turned out to be ratings gold, so they owed him a lot of gratitude for that.
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Date: 2010-03-12 02:01 pm (UTC)
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Yeah, I remember reading somewhere that all of the lead Nazis were played by Jews, and three of them had even fled Europe because of the Nazis.

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Date: 2010-03-12 08:35 pm (UTC)
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Not a hoax, but a rather odd choice for a parody sitcom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_Honey_I%27m_Home!

Date: 2010-03-12 02:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dcbanacek.livejournal.com
I always looked at the William Holden classic "Stalag-17" as the "pilot" for "Hogan's Heroes"... Unfortunately, using that logic "King Rat" would be the pilot for the Pacific theatre spinoff.

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Date: 2010-03-12 04:44 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] cleome45
We weren't allowed to watch Hogan's Heroes as a kid. Oddly enough, it's one of those rare parental injunctions that didn't make me want to run out and see whatever it was that I wasn't supposed to see. To this day, I still haven't seen it.

My folks never minded when we watched The Producers, though. Go figure.

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Date: 2010-03-12 06:18 pm (UTC)
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Well, I always enjoy watching Hogan's Heroes when it comes on.

Date: 2010-03-12 08:42 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] icon_uk
It's sort of like 'Allo,'Allo, a long running British sitcom about the farcical adventures of the French Resistance in Occupied France, as a reluctant cowardly bar owner has to deal with his own ineptness, his insane family and staff and ludicrously stereotyped Axis officers.

What's particularly sad is that the primary source for the spoof is the actually extremely good, but nowadays almost forgotten, drama series Secret Army about the Belgian Resistance, and loosely based on the activities of the "Comet" organisation devoted to repatriating escaped Allied prisoners.

Date: 2010-03-13 02:02 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] autolychus2
I loved 'Allo, 'Allo.

My dad used "Hogan's Heroes" as a teaching moment -- though the old man would've never used those words. He saw me watching it when he came from work one day and explained to me that while he thought it was all right to laugh at the comedy, making fun of the Nazis was fine, he also wanted me to know what monsters the Nazis were and that "Hogan's Heroes" was nothing like the real world.

Date: 2010-03-12 10:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] werehawk.livejournal.com
Nice MAD parody. I'd be interested in seeing any Green Lantern or Conan MAD parodies if you have em :)

Date: 2010-03-12 11:23 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] zordboy
I have family members who really enjoy "Hogan's Heroes", but I always found it a really inappropriate show, I could never really get behind it.

And it's funny -- as Icon and a few other posters mention, there seem to be a decent amount of sitcom-type shows that are set during WW2. Was WW2 a particularly fun or entertaining time to be alive for the human race?

Or maybe it's just Refuge in Audacity taken to a logical extension. You can't cry, so you may as well laugh?

Date: 2010-03-13 01:26 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mechanicaljewel
I've never seen it? What kind of funny is it? I have a feeling it's not gallows humor, which I probably could get behind.

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Date: 2010-03-13 12:09 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] whatdoyousee
This is so bad, it's amusing. Kinda like the show - either makes you wanna laugh or headesk or both at the same time. Or cringe. Parody or a parody, nice.

Date: 2010-03-13 12:10 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] whatdoyousee
of, not or. dammit...

Date: 2010-03-13 05:23 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] psychopathicus_rex
While I never saw the show, 'Hogan's Heroes' was supposed to be a parody of movies like 'the Great Escape' and such, wasn't it? As such, I think MAD was overreacting just a tad. I mean, one of the central themes of 'the Great Escape' is the fact that the POWs get away with an incredible amount right under the noses of the guards - and it's based on real-life events, so if you take the movie literally and add a sarcastically humorous spin to it, it really DOES make the Nazis look like freakin' idiots. In short, if MAD magazine had decided to do a bit of 'the Great Escape', they might very well have come up with something like 'Hogan's Heroes'. Irony?

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