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Tuesday, July 16, 2002

Via Greg Hlatky over at A Dog's Life, his comments on TV Guide's list of the 50 Worst TV shows:

FOR ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY TV Guide has come out with its list of the 50 worst TV shows. Number 5 is Hogan's Heroes. It's not the first time I've seen it on one of these lists.

Yes, yes, yes, I know that we can't have any sense of humor where Naziism is concerned, but am I the only person in the world who liked Hogan's Heroes? If it was that terrible a show, why did we forever afterwards associate Werner Klemperer with the role of Colonel Klink?

Klink: "You have to watch out for some of those staff officers. They can be verrrry clever!"
Gen. Burkhalter: "Klink, I am a staff officer."
Klink (frantically apologetic): "I'm sorry General Burkhalter. You are not clever."
Gen. Burkhalter: "KLINK!"

All the rest of the list I more or less agree with, many of the shows listed being spin-offs of dieing or dead sitcoms (AfterMASH, Hee Haw Honies, The Brady Bunch Hour) or just pure excrement (Jerry Springer, PTL, Pink Lady...and Jeff!), but I can't quite understand Hogan's Heroes being included. Six seasons is nothing to sneeze at, and it did give us "I know NOT-INK! I seeeee NOT-INK!" and it had Cynthia Lynn as Fräulein Helga and Sigrid Valdis (Mrs. Crane) as Fräulein Hilda. How could this be a bad show? No, Greg, you are NOT the only person to like this show! (Or F-Troop, for that matter.)

posted by Terry at 9:33:00 AM

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