What would happen to 1960s military sitcoms in this world? I'm talking about shows like Hogan's Heroes and MASH. Would they exist in this world with some differences in characters and settings?
Pop-culture in TL-191
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Oh, that's a good point. You know I hate to say it, but I think M.A.S.H. is almost butterflied away in this timeline. Given the themes and setting of MASH, that would be my opinion - it was very much a product of its time and although a great piece of media and entertainment in our world, I can't see how a show like MASH could exist in TL-191, at least in the way we know it to be --- its a show that takes place during the Korean War and was produced in the 70s around the tail-end of the Vietnam War. It would have to be a completely different show to take place in TL-191, with different tropes, characters, themes, the works. Heck, it might even be about a post-Second Great War conflict the US gets involved in, making it a more relevant show to the conflicts going on after 1944, not the Second Great War itself. Just about the only thing that would probably remain would be the title though. That's just my opinion of course.
A show like Hogan's Heroes, however, might be able to exist in TL-191. I say this because of the setting and you'd be able to portray the Second Great War in that show. I wouldn't go as far as to put the show in Andersonville though, I'd probably place the show in a fictional prison camp. And the writers would really have to work their butts off to make a script and show with enough humor to appeal a hardened American audience like in TL-191. It can work, but you'd really have to think how you make it funny, you know?
He just might be, yeah! A rather portly one too.I guess the tricky part would be on how to portray the Freedom Party in a comical light then huh.
Divide portrayal of Freedomites between the comically serious true Freedom believers and the more regularly goofy embodiments of every southern stereotype? Think ‘Allo ‘Allo but with confederates instead of Germans.
On that note, tl-191 ‘Allo ‘Allo would be an odd beast
An BBC sitcom about an small-town café in Nouvion, German-occupied France. (Itself an parody of Secret Army.)
I wonder if the some resemblance of the character Memín Pinguín would still be created in TL-191.
Perhaps the context of the comics would be very different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memín_Pinguín
Perhaps the context of the comics would be very different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memín_Pinguín
@Joshua Ben Ari gave out some thoughts on this...
I think that MASH is more likely but put more as a black humor kind of thing. I think Americans would have that kind of attitude in the aftermath of the SGW, while Hogan's Heroes is more... well, focused.
This song I think could actually be an good Post-Great War 2 song.
What would a movie like Die Hard be like ITTL? I have this idea it could be a German production, with the hero being a German police officer at his wife's Christmas party and the villain being a Southerner/Confederate.
What do you guys think?
What do you guys think?
Released in 2008 on the Playbox, Fallout 3, the sequel to the original fallout and Fallout 2, was one of the most highly acclaimed games of the early 2000s.
The game, set in post war Pittsburgh, follows the adventures of the player character known as the last vault dweller (after all the others died due to meltdown in the shelters reactor) as he traverses the land. The main storyline differed depending on the faction the player chooses: side with the dictatorial enclave, or the steel legion (the remnants of the us military).
The series takes place in a post apocalyptic world after a nuclear war between the United States and the Empire of Japan.
The game, set in post war Pittsburgh, follows the adventures of the player character known as the last vault dweller (after all the others died due to meltdown in the shelters reactor) as he traverses the land. The main storyline differed depending on the faction the player chooses: side with the dictatorial enclave, or the steel legion (the remnants of the us military).
The series takes place in a post apocalyptic world after a nuclear war between the United States and the Empire of Japan.
probably no Song of the South for one. i'd go into exhaustive detail, but i haven't quite woken up yet and my coffee is still a little to hot to drink just yet. i'll get back to you later.
*stumbles into a few walls on his way out*
The first and only Confederate cartoon short of Tom Turkey, an anthropomorphic wild turkey, that was made by Tex Avery et al. and voiced by the legendary Melvin Jerome Blank in 1940. Mr. Blank would often voice both American and Confederate characters in animation. The popularity of Tom Turkey was short-lived due to the Second Great War and the dissolution of the Confederacy.
*Factory Iron=Industrial Metal in TL-191
Disney is something...as he Union, he might work later on wartime cartoon and others for moral and relief...dunno if as sucessful.
That was a good one, as Avery and other were texans they're just there to work(and that infamous Bugs Bunny cartoon could work as another dixie wartime one)
Change the song title to "Mr. Featherston's Face"?might? Disney worked on wartime cartoons IOTL