If you though most of today's TV is bad... - Page 2

Herr-Berbunch · 11-22-13, 09:29 AM

I think they should air it again, but rename it to 'Heil Celebrity-X, I'm Home', and call it the latest reality TV show. Idiots would flock to it.

Dread Knot · 11-22-13, 09:46 AM

There was a pilot made for a show called The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer, about a former slave working as a servant for the Lincoln family. In addition to some questionable gags about slavery, they decided to recast Abraham Lincoln, arguably the most revered president in history, as a one-note buffoonish sex addict in order to parody then-president Bill Clinton.

Apparently, someone came to their senses and aborted it.

GoldenRivet · 11-22-13, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by fireftr18

And I'm one of them.

Did you realize that Hogan's Heroes was loosely based on Stalag 17?

yep. lots of interesting trivia with that show.

like... Sgt Schulz actor John Banner left Austria with a traveling show before hostilities, while he was gone, crap hit the fan... ultimately his family died in a concentration camp.

Red October1984 · 11-22-13, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by fireftr18

Did you realize that Hogan's Heroes was loosely based on Stalag 17?

The main reason I tracked down S17 and watched it.

It's a great movie.

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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

yep. lots of interesting trivia with that show.

like... Sgt Schulz actor John Banner left Austria with a traveling show before hostilities, while he was gone, crap hit the fan... ultimately his family died in a concentration camp.

Lots of the characters were jewish and some of them had experiences in concentration camps.

Still one of my favorite shows of all time no matter where the actors came from.

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Herr-Berbunch Kaiser Bill's batman Join Date: May 2010 Location: AN72 Posts: 13,203 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	I think they should air it again, but rename it to 'Heil Celebrity-X, I'm Home', and call it the latest reality TV show. Idiots would flock to it. __________________

11-22-13, 09:46 AM	#17
Dread Knot Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,288 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	There was a pilot made for a show called The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer, about a former slave working as a servant for the Lincoln family. In addition to some questionable gags about slavery, they decided to recast Abraham Lincoln, arguably the most revered president in history, as a one-note buffoonish sex addict in order to parody then-president Bill Clinton. Apparently, someone came to their senses and aborted it.