[mythtv-users] OT: 3D TV

[jedi]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 04:07:33PM -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 January 2010 11:56:24 am Colin McGregor wrote:
> > On 1/13/10, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> > > Another Sillyname wrote:
> > >> Bring back Mr Ed
> > >>
> > >> Because how can a show about a talking horse be a stupid idea?
> > >
> > > And "My Mother The Car"? ;)
> > 
> > I know we are drifting away from 3D TV. But to note, I had trouble
> > explaining to an Australian born associate that I grew up watching a
> > comedy show about a group of Allied prisoners of war in a World War II
> > German POW camp ("Hogan's Heroes"). Yes, as a young kid, I did find it
> > all quite funny... stupid Germans being outsmarted at every turn by
> > their prisoners...
> 
> Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink) was Jewish, and only agreed to do the show if 
> the Nazis were portrayed as imbeciles, which was not the  original intent.

    Most of the recurring major German characters were Jewish.

> 
> It was an extremely odd premise for a "comedy" show. I knew a couple of former 
> Allied POWs of the Germans who were pretty offended by it.

    The fellow who played LeBeau was a survivor of Buchenwald.