Thursday, March 8, 2018

"THE GOLDBERGS" & "HOGAN'S HEROES" - I KNOW NO ZONK, NO ZONK!



'THE GOLDBERGS'
"HOGAN IS MY GRANDFATHER"


From IMDB:
Adam's school project about Pops backfires while Beverly teaches an important lesson to Erica and Barry.

In order to keep Adam as his rapt audience, his grandfather started spinning fictional WWII stories about himself.  Rather than talking about how he was a clerk in charge of pants allocations, Pops cribbed the plotlines from the sitcom 'Hogan's Heroes' and made those stories about himself.

You might find this hard to believe, but this isn't a Zonk.  'Hogan's Heroes' is an historical fact in Toobworld - a top secret spy operation in a prisoner of war camp which was declassified after the war and a TV series was created from it.  

The fact that it was done in jest is just an interpretation.

And the Toobworld TV show was similar to the Real World version in that they both hired the same actors to play the roles of the real historical figures, as seen in the screencaps displayed here.




BCnU!


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