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This is so awkward. Who thought this premise would be a great idea for a sitcom?
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Uhhh...

Hogan's Heroes was not set in a concentration camp. It was set in a prisoner of war camp run by a retarded German Colonel and an inept German Sergeant. All of the prisoners were members of the US, British, or French militaries and the show's premise was the prisoners really ran the camp as a behind the lines military base right under the German's noses. Did you not bother to read the wikipedia entry for it or have you literally never seen the show?

Err wait...maybe you don't know the difference between a POW camp and a concentration camp?
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Face.
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WHERE IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS IS MY GOOD MORNING NEWS?!
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Someone (George Lucas) needs to erase Carol Channing (please!) and stick Diddy in there.

@BlackedOut: I zipped over to the Wikipedia entry, and was surprised by this bit of info: "Leonid Kinskey appeared in the pilot episode as Vladimir Minsk, a Soviet POW who specializes in tailoring. Kinskey ultimately turned down a contract to become a permanent character, contending that the subject matter was being treated too lightly."

Considering how Soviet POWs were treated by the Nazis (very differently than prisoners from Western nations) one can understand his viewpoint. I'm surprised they didn't just plug in someone else who could do a Russian accent.

Confidential to Colonel K.: Watch yourself. There's no delicious Jell-O...or Dream Whip...on THE RUSSIAN FRONT!
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Todd:

It didn't matter whether it was General Burkhalter or Major Hochstetter who said that line, it was always hilarious!

Interestingly enough, Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink) was jewish and made an hilarious appearance on Politically Incorrect w/ Bill Maher back in the 90's.
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Watching Newkirk and Kinch extol the nutritional and lo-cal virtues of Dream Whip cause me to experience emotions that defy any attempt to put words to them, and argue that we are all actually in Hell being punished for something.
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@SJK: Yes, the whole package, Carol Channing, the laugh track, the "food" being extolled, the interminable length, all make it seem like some fever dream one might have with a stomach full of sauerbraten and NyQuil.

@eastside: From Wikipedia: The actors who played the four major German roles—Werner Klemperer (Klink), John Banner (Schultz), Leon Askin (Burkhalter), and Howard Caine (Hochstetter)—were Jewish. [Klemperer] defended his playing a Luftwaffe Officer by claiming, "I am an actor. If I can play Richard III, I can play a Nazi." Banner attempted to sum up the paradox of his role by saying, "Who can play Nazis better than us Jews?"

BTW, I mailed a headshot of Klemperer to him for an autograph back in the early '90s, and he was kind enough to sign it and send it back.
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Wow! He mailed it back?!?!
That's awesome.
Apparently his caveat to playing Klink was that the character had to be a bumbling nincompoop.
Klemperer himself was a very talented actor.

As an aside, I had stumbled upon the movie "The Wicked Dreams of Paula Shultz" on late night TV long ago and loved it. Maybe because I own the entire Hogan's Heroes series on VHS...
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I've never heard of that film! I just looked it up...Crane, Klemperer, Banner, Askin...and Elke Sommer? I'll have to see it someday...

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