In using Schultz to deliver radio parts to the underground, Hogan causes a marital tiff, which, to fix, requires getting Klink to believe that his sergeant is dying from premature old age.In using Schultz to deliver radio parts to the underground, Hogan causes a marital tiff, which, to fix, requires getting Klink to believe that his sergeant is dying from premature old age.In using Schultz to deliver radio parts to the underground, Hogan causes a marital tiff, which, to fix, requires getting Klink to believe that his sergeant is dying from premature old age.
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- TriviaIt is revealed that Mrs. Schultz is named Greta, a diminutive of Margrethe. Since it is previously known that Sgt Schultz is named Hans, a diminutive of Johannes, together the Schultzes are quite literally Hansel and Gretel.
UPDATE: Cute story, but Barbara Morrison is credited as Gretchen Schultz, and John Banner does call her "Gretchen" when Schultz greets her. It is a drawn-out pronunciation ("Greht-chaaan!"), but he does pronounce the "n" at the end. Getting to Gretel from Gretchen is more of a stretch than it is from Greta, with the hard "n" sound distinctly different from the hard "l" sound.
- GoofsWhen asked about the distance to Heidelberg, Schultz indicates it is 106 and 5/7th kilometers (approx. 66 or 67 miles). The metric system does not use such odd fractions. Also, if he had used a car odometer to measure the distance, he would not have been able to measure the odd fraction, as the odometer would have (at best) measured down to the tenth of a kilometer. He more correctly should have indicated the distance as 106.7 kilometers (5/7 = .714). In reality, at the distance stated, the fraction would essentially be irrelevant anyway, and Schultz would probably have rounded it up to 107 kilometers.
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Col. Hogan: And they say dogs are loyal.
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No Time for Sergeants. Or Tired Jokes.
With padding as ample as that on portly Sergeant Schultz, "Killer Klink" is a one-joke premise stretched nearly to the breaking point that produces at best mild amusement while you keep checking the clock to see how much more you have to watch. The catalyst in this slight script by industry journeymen Harvey Bullock and R. S. Allen is a female underground agent in Heidelberg whose radio is on the fritz, prompting the Heroes, Colonel Hogan's intelligence and sabotage unit operating secretly from German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag 13, to smuggle the necessary parts to repair it to her. But who can they get to transport them?
Conveniently, Sergeant of the Guard Schultz not only lives in Heidelberg but will be going there on his three-day pass, and once Hogan lays on a sob story--complete with Corporal LeBeau's mournful harmonica playing in the background--about the girl in Heidelberg who captured his heart before she had the Gestapo capture him after he bailed out of his bomber, Schultz agrees to take her some flowers topped with a suggestive card and with the radio parts safely hidden in the pot. But when Schultz's wife Gretchen (Barbara Morrison), come to Stalag 13 to collect him, gets the wrong idea about the flowers, they fight, with Schultz tearing up his pass in the heat of the moment. And then, when he tries to get Colonel Klink to issue him another one, the camp commandant, affronted at this disrespect to his authority, instead orders middle-aged, overweight Schultz to walk a post complete with heavy pack from here to eternity. Or at least until the end of this episode, which is nearly as long.
Talk about Contrivance City. And this is only the set-up. Here's the kicker. When Oscar Schnitzer (Walter Janovitz), the veterinarian-cum-underground contact who tends the guard dogs, comes to camp with his eighty-year-old father, Hogan is inspired to persuade Klink that Schultz looks terrible after doing all that marching, prompting Klink to order a physical for him, only instead of Schultz going to the doctor, Hogan gets Schnitzer's father to--
--Checking your clock yet? Because this is a long way to go to get to the punchline involving reliable sitcom stalwart Parley Baer as the doctor who tells Klink that Schultz is suffering from--wait for it--premature aging and really could use a furlough. Har! Har! Did you hear the rimshot?
What's funnier is the post in the Goofs section for "Killer Klink" by some pompous idiot mansplaining--and you just know it had to be a guy who submitted this--how the metric system doesn't employ fractions and it really should be expressed as a decimal blah blah blah. Because, you know, "Hogan's Heroes" was a serious drama that did scrupulous research to ensure accuracy and never entertained the comedic possibilities of spoofing das metrische System. On the other hand, considering how tired the one joke is in this episode, that might not be a bad approach.
Conveniently, Sergeant of the Guard Schultz not only lives in Heidelberg but will be going there on his three-day pass, and once Hogan lays on a sob story--complete with Corporal LeBeau's mournful harmonica playing in the background--about the girl in Heidelberg who captured his heart before she had the Gestapo capture him after he bailed out of his bomber, Schultz agrees to take her some flowers topped with a suggestive card and with the radio parts safely hidden in the pot. But when Schultz's wife Gretchen (Barbara Morrison), come to Stalag 13 to collect him, gets the wrong idea about the flowers, they fight, with Schultz tearing up his pass in the heat of the moment. And then, when he tries to get Colonel Klink to issue him another one, the camp commandant, affronted at this disrespect to his authority, instead orders middle-aged, overweight Schultz to walk a post complete with heavy pack from here to eternity. Or at least until the end of this episode, which is nearly as long.
Talk about Contrivance City. And this is only the set-up. Here's the kicker. When Oscar Schnitzer (Walter Janovitz), the veterinarian-cum-underground contact who tends the guard dogs, comes to camp with his eighty-year-old father, Hogan is inspired to persuade Klink that Schultz looks terrible after doing all that marching, prompting Klink to order a physical for him, only instead of Schultz going to the doctor, Hogan gets Schnitzer's father to--
--Checking your clock yet? Because this is a long way to go to get to the punchline involving reliable sitcom stalwart Parley Baer as the doctor who tells Klink that Schultz is suffering from--wait for it--premature aging and really could use a furlough. Har! Har! Did you hear the rimshot?
What's funnier is the post in the Goofs section for "Killer Klink" by some pompous idiot mansplaining--and you just know it had to be a guy who submitted this--how the metric system doesn't employ fractions and it really should be expressed as a decimal blah blah blah. Because, you know, "Hogan's Heroes" was a serious drama that did scrupulous research to ensure accuracy and never entertained the comedic possibilities of spoofing das metrische System. On the other hand, considering how tired the one joke is in this episode, that might not be a bad approach.
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