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* Then there's a meta-CMOA. At the time the show was broadcast, many Southern networks would air shows with the black characters edited out to avoid offending [[ValuesDissonance delicate sensitivities.]] However, the black Sgt. Kinchloe was made such a prominent character that it was impossible to cut him out and still have a comprehensible episode, so ''Hogan's Heroes'' was never [[PerfectlyCromulentWord deblackified]].
** Ditto with Sergeant Baker from Season 6, and several black extras in the background during the whole show.
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** This isn’t the only time Schultz has assisted the Heroes, either. Reluctant as he is to do so, [[TheSoCalledCoward it says a lot about the man]] that he’d still commit outright treason to help them complete their mission.
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* Carter's accidental infiltration of the German army. He gets his hands on the recaptured dynamite but not the detonator box, so he instead blows up the bridge with a stolen German ''tank''. When Carter drops the IdiotBall, he can get [[LetsGetDangerous pretty awesome.]]

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* Carter's accidental infiltration of the German army. He gets his hands on the recaptured dynamite but not the detonator box, so he instead blows up the bridge with a stolen German ''tank''.''tank''[[note]]The same [[TanksButNoTanks self-propelled howitzer]] Team Hogan stole in an [[PropRecycling earlier episode]][[/note]]. When Carter drops the IdiotBall, he can get [[LetsGetDangerous pretty awesome.]]
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* Team Hogan steals a ''tank'' from the Third Panzer Division, drives it into Stalag 13 with one of them in SS uniform, disassembles it, blueprints it, reassembles it, and returns it. Everything about that episode is made of pure win, especially poor Schultz's protestations that he knows nothing about the tank the team hid in their barracks.

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* Team Hogan steals a ''tank'' ''tank''[[note]]Well, actually, a [[TanksButNoTanks self-propelled howitzer]], and one that was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M7_Priest actually]] on the American [=To&E=] in real life, but since a genuine Tiger I was completely out of the reach of the production staff, it counts as an acceptable break from reality...[[/note]] from the Third Panzer Division, drives it into Stalag 13 with one of them in SS uniform, disassembles it, blueprints it, reassembles it, and returns it. Everything about that episode is made of pure win, especially poor Schultz's protestations that he knows nothing about the tank the team hid in their barracks.

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* "Klink vs. the Gonculator" had the word "gonculator" enter actual usage, adopted by computer geek-types as jargon to denote their least favorite piece of hardware, and its spelling changed to "gonkulator".

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* "Klink vs. the Gonculator" had the word "gonculator" enter actual usage, adopted by computer geek-types as jargon to denote their least favorite piece of hardware, and its spelling changed to "gonkulator". The episode itself has the hero do a masterful job of DeathFakedForYou for a defector.


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* Faking the end of the war in "War Takes a Holiday" to trick major Hochsetter into releasing several underground leaders.
* In "The Big Record" they tape a German staff meeting and then trick Klink ''into mailing it to London for them'' due to Klink thinking that the record contains his violin recital and might get him a record contract.
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* In "A Klink, a Bomb and a Short Fuse", Carter is in the tunnels right under an unexploded bomb but even after the cave-in trapping him is cleared, he insists on staying until he can finish broadcasting a code book to London, regardless of the risk.
** From the same episode, Hogan managing to disarm the bomb, despite having gone in expecting it to be a dummy.
* The gang smuggling out twenty men in the climax of "Reservations are Required" with a bit of trickery into getting Klink and his guards to always be at the wrong end of the tunnel at just the wrong time while those men escape.
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* In "The Hostage", the heroes sabotage a vital rocket project and then trick the Germans into thinking it was a design flaw and suggesting that they have the scientist "pretend" to defect back to the Russians to build more flawed rockets (or rather more rockets that the Germans ''think'' will be flawed).
** From that same episode the original plan of the scientist behind the rocket is impressive in a chilling way. He just wanted to finish his rocket in order to prove his theory was right, then program it to come crashing back down and blow up himself, his work and the Germans, striking a blow against the Germans, and preventing his rocket from being used against Russia while allowing himself to die content that his invention worked perfectly.

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* Hogan bluffing not only a mole, but his own men in "How to Catch a Papa Bear." Newkirk gets captured by the Gestapo, and Hogan appears to callously write him off until arranging an attack on a nearby ammo dump (with the mole's assistance, drawing the Gestapo away from the jail). Then he draws on her, reveals that Newkirk mentioned the emergency broadcast frequency to her but ''not'' the TrustPassword they had agreed on before he left, and not only frees Newkirk, but hits the ammo dump as well. From his reaction when he's freed, Newkirk at least suspected she was a mole as well.

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* Hogan bluffing not only a mole, but his own men in "How to Catch a Papa Bear." Newkirk gets captured by the Gestapo, and Hogan appears to callously write him off until arranging an attack on a nearby ammo dump (with the mole's assistance, drawing the Gestapo away from the jail). Then he draws on her, reveals that Newkirk mentioned the emergency broadcast frequency to her but ''not'' the TrustPassword they had agreed on before he left, and not only frees Newkirk, but hits the ammo dump as well. well once the soldiers waiting in ambush there leave to respond to the jailbreak. From his reaction when he's freed, Newkirk at least suspected she was a mole as well.well.
* Hogan hiding thirty prisoners in the tunnel to make a man trying to replace Klink look bad in "How to Escape from a Prison Camp without Really Trying."
* Newkirk planting tampering with the recordings being used as evidence against an Allied spy to make it look like the Gestapo agent who sold him out was the real spy, and then having them played in court.
* The gang regularly using Klink's car to smuggle people out of camp is no small feat itself, but in "The Dropouts" they manage to smuggle out a defector in the trunk of ''Hochstetter's'' car, three times in a row.
* In "The Gestapo Takeover" they trick the Gestapo officer trying to take over the camp into implicating himself and his boss in a (made up) plot to kill Hitler with the promise of a nonexistent bribe.
* In "Hogan Goes to Hollywood" they trick Burkhalter, Klink and Schultz into blowing up a vital German bridge on film with a NotSoFakePropWeapon during the making of a propaganda movie, forcing Burkhalter to cover the whole thing up to save his own neck.
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* Perhaps the biggest and most predominant CMOA is that Team Hogan are not only running a resistance operation behind enemy lines--they're running it ''out of the middle of a fortified prisoner of war camp.'' The only reason they haven't escaped back to friendly lines is that they're more useful to the war effort where they are than anywhere else.

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* Perhaps the biggest and most predominant CMOA is that Team Hogan are not only running a resistance operation behind enemy lines--they're running it ''out of the middle of a fortified prisoner of war camp.'' The only reason they haven't escaped back to friendly lines is that they're more useful to effective against the war effort Germans where they are than anywhere else.else. It also says a lot that they're doing more work for the war effort as saboteurs than as the pilots of bombers and fighters as they were originally.

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