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Day 11 – Favourite actress?

I saw The Blues Brothers way before I saw Hogan’s Heroes, but when I finally made the connection and realised that Frau Linkmeyer was a scary nun in Chicago, I laughed my head off. Kathleen Freeman is the only recurring actress who isn’t conventionally pretty, and is there to play the shrewish, small-minded harpy, who is scary because she is 1) forceful, 2) not a beautiful young woman, and 3) a general’s sister (plus a general's (?) widow) and used to a certain amount of obedience from other people. I love Kathleen Freeman’s “Right, Wolfgang? Right” recurring gag when she’s engaged – tells you everything you need to know about her character’s dynamic with a potential husband. She’s in charge, he won’t be able to say a word about anything. The odd thing is, he doesn’t seem to mind too much … At the start ;o)

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Queen and David Bowie, "Under Pressure"

Day 10 – Favourite actor?

Werner Klemperer, hands down :o) Honestly, it’s no wonder the man won prizes for his interpretation of Klink.

Colonel Klink is a snivelling, vain, petty man with an odd mix of delusions of grandeur and a desire to be just left in peace whether the war continues or not. On a meta level, you know he’s doomed to fail again and again in his schemes, and seeing this character flail about like a lizard in a tank is enjoyable by itself; and yet, Werner Klemperer manages to make him almost likeable, and certainly sympathetic at times. You want him to fail; but you don’t want him to die (and he comes close, sometimes). You want Hogan to win, but you want the more serious, worse bad guys to suffer more than Klink. Also, he’s just like Wile E. Coyote in that you know he’s going to get it at the end – half the fun is to discover just how, and he’s hilarious in his attempts to outsmart the Roadrunner/Hogan/the big old boulder rolling toward him.

Klink should have just been the village idiot and a fiddle for Hogan to play, but the way Werner Klemperer plays him makes him quite endearing. I don’t know about you, but in my headcanon Klink survived the war and settled down, maybe as a bookkeeper, somewhere he doesn’t have to grovel to generals and he can play his violin when the mood takes him. Badly, of course.

Current Mood: horny
Current Location: Home again!
Current Music: Queen, "Fat-Bottomed Girls"

(I’ll probably be a little late tomorrow, as I’m out of town for a couple of days - I'm going to Bordeaux to see a concert of One Night of Queen tonight!! In the meantime, more friendship feels :o)

Day 9 – Favourite scene?

Sergeant Andrew Carter is a very talented chemist and bomb-maker and scarily good at impersonation, but he’s also generally considered a goof and a ditz, prone to absent-mindedness and liable to foul up assignments that are thought to be simple. He has forgotten a camera in the middle of the compound (that means the firing squad), is somehow incapable of remembering the name of the (fictional) English town Leedingham, and his friends don’t hold back mockery, cutting remarks and digs, good-natured or not.

If you think this means they wouldn’t risk their lives for him without batting an eyelid, however, you’d be dead wrong.

In “Carter Turns Traitor”, Hogan has Carter pretend to defect to the Germans in order to learn the location of a secret chemical weapons plant. By the end, Carter has been so successful that the scientists take him with them, back to the plant – which is going to be destroyed shortly. A rescue mission being in order, Hogan and the guys dress as SS to get Carter back. This happens just before they go up the tunnel:

Hogan: This is dangerous. It’s broad daylight, and the area right now is loaded with German troops. I want you to understand, this mission is on a strictly voluntary status.
Kinch: So what, Colonel?
Hogan: Just want to make that plain.
Kinch: Let’s go get Carter, Colonel.
Newkirk: Now, Colonel. Now.
LeBeau: Why are we standing here?
Hogan (smiles): Okay. Let’s go.

It should be pointed out that this has to be one of the most serious conversations in the whole show. They mean it a hundred per cent.

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: Queen, "Don't Stop me Now"

Long post behind the cut :o)

Day 8 – Favourite episode?

“Klink vs. the Gonculator”. Everything about this episode is fantastic.

( What's a "Gonculator"? That remains a mystery for the ages. )

The end. Sorry for the messy recap :P

PS: The word ‘Gonkulator’ was later used by computer geeks to indicate the piece of hardware they liked less. It’s also the name of a DOD Electronics guitar effect pedal from the 1990s. Too cool for words.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: The Rolling Stones, "Get Off Of My Cloud"

There's a lot of great one-liners and ping-pong banter in this show, but this is my favourite!

Day 7 – Favourite quote (recurring or not)?

I know it’s dialogue more than just a quote, but it sums up a lot of the dynamics in Hogan’s Heroes. For the context, Newkirk and LeBeau have gone on a dangerous mission:

Hogan: Kinch, all that matters is victory. Even if you have to sacrifice two good men.
Kinch: Right. (pause) And if they’re not back in ten minutes, we’re going out to get them, right?
Hogan: (nods) Right!

(I can’t for the life of me remember which episode this was from… Bad Bel :S I’ll add the title as soon as I find the episode, though.)

It’s a joke, it’s a subversion of the classic “soldiers are expendable” trope, it shows not only Hogan’s “papa wolf” (well, Papa Bear, since this is Hogan's codename ;o) relation to his men but also the fact that Kinch knows his CO so well he doesn’t even raise an eyebrow at Hogan’s first line. I love it.

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Of Monsters and Men, "King and Lionheart""

I’m sorry this is so short :-/

Day 6 – Character you think is misunderstood in fandom/misinterpreted?

I don’t think Felix the mouse from “Operation Briefcase” is real (but I bet Carter wishes he was). Other than that, frankly, I’m stumped.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Back home!
Current Music: The Box Tops, "The Letter"

It’s a good thing I wrote these entries in advance - otherwise I’d never have time to elaborate :o)

Day 5 – Favourite villain/antagonist?

When it comes to killer one-liners and characters snarking at each other, Hogan’s Heroes always delivers; since Hogan and the boys are usually ahead of Schultz and Klink in term of banter and/or awareness of what’s going on, snarking is usually on the side of the good guys. But the one bad guy who could give Hogan a run for his ~~money~~ sarcasm is General Burkhalter.

( Hochstter might be scarier (being Gestapo helps) but Burkhalter seems smarter to me. )

Current Mood: peaceful
Current Location: My in-laws'
Current Music: Charles Aznavour, "Hier Encore"

For this one the cut is really justified, because the answer’s loooooooong :o)

Day 4 – Favourite supporting character, female?

I hesitated a long time, because while there aren’t many main female characters, there are plenty of one-episode wonders, so to speak, and some of them are quite memorable. Lady Leslie Chitterly is crazy awesome (she manages to bluff Adolf Hitler on the phone – her “Really, ‘Dolf!” really are something) and Dr Suzanne Lechay is calm and smiling but fearless, with a core of steel … But I think my favourite female supporting character is Kumasa, aka Carol Dukes, from “Is General Hammerschlag Burning?”.

( I love references to Is Paris Burning?. )

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Of Monsters and Men, "From Finner"

Day 3 – Favourite supporting character, male?

Colonel (Group Captain, really – proper RAF rank) Rodney Crittendon.

( He's a twit, but I like him. )

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: The lorries driving by under my window. Urgh.

I’m thrilled to see other people do this - granted, not on LJ (as far as I'm aware) but it's so cool to be able to share :o) If you aren't, please feel free to jump on the bandwagon! And if you're reading this and you're not in the fandom, I seriously love you :o]

Day 2 - Favourite female character.

There are very few recurring female characters: Helga, Hilda, Frau Linkmeyer, Marya and Tiger – and that’s it. Well, my favourite is Tiger, aka Marie-Louise Monet.

( Cut for length! )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Queen, "Killer Queen"

I'll be putting longer replies in insert cuts to keep my entries friend-list-friendly, because goodness knows I go on and go about things I like. (The image is mine - I used text from one of my unfinished stories and drew the pen. What d'you think?)

Okay, let's do this! :o)

Day 1 - Favourite male character.

( This probably won't come as a surprise... )

For a show that was never big on internal continuity, especially characters’, and had no narrative arc whatsoever, the script writers sure wrote engaging characters :o)

Current Mood: excited
Current Location: My flat
Current Music: The Seatbelts, "Tank!"

I've been neglecting this blog in a way that borders on the criminal. I don't know if anyone outside of me is even still interested with the contents :( But I'd like to try an experiment - posting every day.

See, I'm going to do a "30 days of Hogan's Heroes" challenge - no daily prompts, just answers to one question a day.

( Here're the 30 questions... )

I'll post them on Tumblr from October 1st as well as here. Anyone want to join me? I welcome comments and discussions :o)

Some are easily answered with a couple of sentences; most are looking like mini-essays/analysis with a few lines from the show thrown in for good value. I thought about a few pictures, but I'm not so sure.

I'm almost finished, with 4 questions left to answered - that way I'll just have to post every day, or at least try. My October schedule is going to be a bit hectic, but I'm doing this. Yeah.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: My flat
Current Music: Fever Ray, "Keep the Streets Empty for Me"

I saw this on

hogan_macgyver's page and couldn't help trying it!

Rules:
1. Reply to this post with "UNICORNS", and I will pick five of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

So

hogan_macgyver picked these five... Apart from "Black", which is just a black square, all my icons are (from) drawings of mine.

Flash: About three or four years ago, the Justice League (Unlimited) cartoon was my main fandom, and my favourite character was the Flash, aka Wally West, a sweet goofball who originally hid his insecurities behind bravado and a somewhat childish sense of humour. He still remains my favourite character, because he fails, tries hard, sometimes does do amazing and selfless deeds and is one of the only heroes who actually knows the people in his city and is able to talk down a villain rather than use violence.

Sherlock: This particular drawing is from an unfinished Sherlock Holmes meme I started (and which I will post on DeviantArt as soon as it is finished). It's the 2010 BBC re-invention of Sherlock Holmes in modern London, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman (♥!) - a show I really love, clever, witty, hilarious and surprisingly poignant.

Black and white me: I don't even remember when I drew this one. It must have been around 2007 or 2008; I had shortist hair (not that short, though), a new hat, and no tablet yet, so I did this one by mouse. It's the image I default to using, on LJ, on DeviantArt, on Facebook, on Tumblr... A five-minute doodle and so far I haven't been able to come up with a picture I like better. Ah well.

Louis LeBeau: (one of) my favourite character(s) from Hogan's Heroes. As a Frenchwoman I'm very sensitive to the way my countrymen are portrayed in English-speaking fiction (mostly American), if only because there is such a lot of it, although I try not to be. But it still rankles (a lot) whenever people think the "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" thing is funny, especially where World War Two is concerned. I suppose one of the things I love most about LeBeau is that he so completely and utterly blows this stereotype to pieces. He has his shortcomings, some of his reactions (mostly when Marya is around, but also his and Newkirk's mocking of Carter's Sioux heritage) make me want to thump him over the head, but goodness, I love this character with all my heart.

Black: I only used this one twice, and I dearly hope I won't have to use it again in a long time. I created it when my granddad passed away in summer 2010, because the last thing I felt like doing was smiling and I wanted my icon to reflect that. Turns out I used it again a month later, when my grandma died, too, since I simply did not feel like putting up a picture of me smiling or something fandom-related. I haven't deleted it because I know that if I do LJ will replace it by the default icon.

And... that's it. Now - do you lot have some unicorns for me?

In other news, my contract ended last Halloween, so now I'm free as a bird again and getting back to normal (my right ring finger still gets sort of stuck in the morning), although there's a ton of stories to review I've saved in my tabs and I still haven't done much in the way of writing... But I'm working on changing that :o]

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: This Mortal Coil, "Song for the Siren"

(Since I haven't finished the cover image for FFnet and this snapshot is finished and beta'ed, I'm posting it here. In case anyone reads this, I'd really like your opinion.)

I was toying with word prompt tables the other day (I think I'll go with random words generators next time, though), and came up with a few drabbles. And then I reached the word "If" at some point, remembered "That's No Lady, That's My Spy" and a challenge over at the Forum XIIIC ... And out came this. Don't look for quirky humour here; it's probably the bleakest thing I've written so far.

So, in the cold open of the aforementioned episode, SS shot at our Heroes, LeBeau got grazed, and Underground leader Oskar Danzig was seriously wounded. However, in another leg of the Trousers of Time (see Terry Pratchett for details), things … did not quite go that way.

Fandom: Hogan's Heroes
Titke: If
Characters: Hogan and the gang
Rating: PG
Genre: drama
Pairing: none
Summary: A call from Red Riding Hood comes in the stunned hush that follows tragedy. An AU take on the opening of 'That's No Lady, That's My Spy". Word of warning: short, and as brutal and ugly as unexpected death can be.

( The radio suddenly crackling into life broke the stillness like a thunderclap... )

Notes: "Grandmother" is Danzig, and the "cake" is the information Hogan and co. passed to him.

I promise that the next thing I publish will be more cheerful than that (not that it's hard).

Current Mood: sad
Current Location: Rion des Landes
Current Music: Ella Fitzgerald, "Blues In The Night"

Yep, like "Well, rats", except much more miffed.

I used to be able to go online to see episodes of Hogan's Heroes in original version, and now the person who had put them up has taken them down from their YouTube account after CBS and YouTube came down on accounts who streamed whole episodes of their TV shows. (S)he says (s)he'll put them up again whenever (s)he finds a fitting site and gets the chance, but it might take a very long time, and in the meantime I only have the few (seven, actually) episodes I actually downloaded. Now I wish I had downloaded all of them :-/

So if you know a cosy little place on the Net where Europeans can watch Hogan's Heroes (because there are such a lot of sites I can't access from France), I'd be very grateful. But in the meantime, well, nuts.

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Location: Rion des Landes
Current Music: Don McLean, "American Pie"

So the plot bunny for this snippet has been nibbling at my ankles for some time, but I decided I had to get it down for

rose_of_pollux's birthday. Birthday presents are always a good incentive to do your best :o) So joyeux anniversaire, Crystal Rose of Pollux! Have some Newkirk and LeBeau banter - hope you like it :D

Fandom: Hogan's Heroes
Chapter: Merlu Pané et Pommes de Terre Frites
Characters: Peter Newkirk, Louis LeBeau
Rating: G
Genre: humour, friendship
Pairing: none

( Post-war snippet. The best part of fish and chips isn't the fish and chips; it's who you share it with. )

Current Mood: happy
Current Location: Hourtin-Plage (my in-laws)
Current Music: The sound of the sea and the wind in the pines

Er... remember my post back in February about a Hogan's Heroes story of mine being nominated for what we (in the HH fandom) call the Papa Bear Awards (an annual election of the best HH fanfiction)? I just got the results. And I'm just starting to calm down now, although frankly I'm still grinning so wide it almost hurts and my heart's still pounding from the excitement :D So I apologise for the exclamation points, the abuse of which I'm perfectly aware is usually associated with someone who wears their underpants on their heads. I don't, although right now I'm so over the moon I'm in another galaxy, if not another dimension, so I really wouldn't really notice if I wore my left sock on my right ear.

See, the results come like in sports, with gold, silver and bronze "medals". Well, Soul Food came Silver in "Best Long Comedy" and "Most Unique Story", Bronze in "Best Story of 2012" (!!!), and Gold in "Best Portrayal of a Canon Character"!!!!

I still can't believe it, really. It's a bit like waiting for Christmas, and then opening your presents and finding they're the best ever - and like Christmas, now that I know what I got, I expect the excitement will wear off in proportion to what it was just before (and believe you me, I spent all day like a cat on a hot tin roof, with almost frazzled nerves, not unlike waiting for the results of an exam) and that I'll perhaps feel a bit low knowing that I don't have this to look forward to anymore... But in the meantime, I'll just let out a big WHOO-HOOO!!!!!

(I know, more exclamation points - time to check for knickers in inappropriate places :P)

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: Queen, "Friends Will Be Friends"

Procrastinating instead of writing - which admittedly can count as procrastination in itself, because there are a hundred things I ~~could~~ should be doing... How sad is that? :o)

Anyway. I'm considering posting a snippet/story or two only here, a follow-up on Bobby, Robert, Pauline and co. (once I finish it, anyway; I'm still working on the first chapter) that consists of six phone calls between the boys/their families. It's post-war, with a lot of original characters, and nothing much really happens, so I don't know 1) if it's good enough, 2) if anyone will be interested in reading it, or even 3) whether I'll see it through. I'll do my best.

In the meantime, the last chapter of Soul Food!

Fandom: Hogan's Heroes
Chapter: Bouillon de Poule (5/5)
Characters: Sergeant Schultz, Corporal Newkirk, Colonel Hogan, Sergeant Kinchloe, Sergeant Carter
Rating: G
Genre: drama, humour
Pairing: none

( January 1945: How Schultz Learned To Stop Worrying And Let Prisoners Make Chicken Soup. )

It's the first time I've ever been able to write "the end" at the end of a multi-chaptered story. Ever. I don't know if it actually counts (if it doesn't, then Into the Woods is the first actual multi-chaptered story I managed to finish) but when I wrote these words, boy they meant a lot.

Writing this story confirmed something, too: I really really like Newkirk and LeBeau. Writing their dialogue (to or about each other) was one of my very favourite things in Soul Food :o)

Current Mood: content
Current Music: Jimi Hendrix, "The Wind Cries Mary"

Well, I intend to post the 4th chapter of Soul Food and I post the 5th and last instead. Typical :P

Magret de canard – usually just called "magret" – is roasted duck breast (Sud-Ouest cuisine tends to feature duck prominently), and together with gratin dauphinois, it's probably one of my very favourite dishes when done well. It's not gourmet food (it does require some culinary knowledge, though, compared to something like garbure, which is basically leftover soup), but it's absolutely delicious :o)

Fandom: Hogan's Heroes
Chapter: Gratin Dauphinois (et Magret de Canard) (4/5)
Characters: Sergeant Schultz, Corporal LeBeau, Corporal Newkirk, Sergeant Carter
Rating: G
Genre: drama, humour
Pairing: none

( August 1944: Is the gratin dauphinois burning? )

This is probably my favourite chapter; it's the one I enjoyed writing most, anyway. Hope you liked it, too :o]

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: M and Sean Lennon, "Little Wing"

So... Took this "Which Hogan's Heroes" Character are you" test (which I ~~filched~~ borrowed from

rose_of_pollux. I fixed a typo or two (they dropped Kinch's "h" and Schultz's "c") because I tend to obsess about getting people's (and characters') names right. Big surprise, I am...

( This suspense is killing me! ...Okay, no, it isn't :D )

Not much of a surprise, perhaps, but I'm still glad! Plus that description does fit LeBeau to a T (and yeah, I must admit I see a lot of myself in that, too - at least the first two sentences). I'm slightly worried that Klink and Hochstetter are so high up on the list, though... Honestly I thought I was more Carter and Schultz :D

Still, rather fun :o]

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: The Beatles, "Two Of Us"

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Entries tagged with hogan's heroes

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The Icon Meme

HH snapshot - "If"

Well, nuts.

[Fanfiction] Merlu Pané et Pommes de Terre Frites

The "Papa Bear Awards" results are in. Good Lord.

[Fanfiction] Soul Food (5/5), "Hogan's Heroes"

[Fanfiction] Soul Food (4/5), "Hogan's Heroes"

Fun with tests (the nice kind!)