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* Modern readers of ''M* A* S* H'' may be surprised to find that the original book was more about military farce than social commentary. Later books in the series do include a lot of social commentary, but it's ''conservative'' social commentary.
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* Modern readers of ''M* ''[[{{MASH}} M* A* S* H'' H]]'' may be surprised to find that the original book was more about military farce than social commentary. Later books in the series do include a lot of social commentary, but it's ''conservative'' social commentary.
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* Hašek’s classic satire {{The Good Soldier Svejk}} is about the lunatic ineptitude of the Austro-Hungarian Army in WW1 seen through the eyes of the cunning peasant soldier Svejk.
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* Hašek’s classic satire {{The ''{{The Good Soldier Svejk}} Svejk}}'' is about the lunatic ineptitude of the Austro-Hungarian Army in WW1 seen through the eyes of the cunning peasant soldier Svejk.
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* ''Major Dad'' inevitably included some miliary farce (as you would expect from the title) though the true focus was on DomesticComedy.
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* ''CrewDogs'': Similar to ''AirForceBlues'', a comic about a squadron of [[BunnyEarsLawer Bunny ears Aviators]].
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* ''CrewDogs'': Similar to ''AirForceBlues'', a comic about a squadron of [[BunnyEarsLawer [[BunnyEarsLawyer Bunny ears Ears Aviators]].
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* TerminalLance, a comic based on enlisted Marine life ([[TagLine You can't spell "Disgruntled" without "Grunt"!]])
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* TerminalLance, ''CrewDogs'': Similar to ''AirForceBlues'', a comic about a squadron of [[BunnyEarsLawer Bunny ears Aviators]].
* ''TerminalLance'', a comic based on enlisted Marine life ([[TagLine You can't spell "Disgruntled" without "Grunt"!]])
* ''TerminalLance'', a comic based on enlisted Marine life ([[TagLine You can't spell "Disgruntled" without "Grunt"!]])
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* ''AirForceBlues'', though the characters are more like {{Bunny Ears Lawyer}}s than full-on incompetent.
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* Bill Mauldin's famous ''Willie and Joe'' comics, published in during WWII, and later collected in ''Up Front'' and ''Back Home''. He made fun of the top brass so well [[ButtMonkey General Patton]] threatened to stop publication of ''Stars and Stripes'', but Eisenhower came to Mauldin's defense due to the comics' morale-boosting effect.
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Not exactly. More often than not, it\'s more self-deprecation.
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Simply put, military humor, LoveItOrHateIt. This particular brand of funny centers on [[AcceptableTargets stereotypically dim-witted military personnel]].
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Simply put, military humor, LoveItOrHateIt. This particular brand of funny centers on [[AcceptableTargets stereotypically dim-witted military personnel]].
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* ''AdolfHitlerMyPartInHisDownfall'' by SpikeMilligan. BasedOnATrueStory, but no less farcical.
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** His ''{{Flashman}}'' series is a good example of the wartime kind, featuring a DirtyCoward DesignatedHero as the protagonist and replete with BlackComedy throughout.
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* ''In The Army Now'', [[strike:known]] blamed for jumpstarting the career of Pauly Shore.
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* ''Catch22'' is military farce turned up to eleven
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* ''Catch22'' ''{{Catch 22}}'' is military farce turned up to eleven
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** ''Flygsoldat 113 Bom'' (the Air Force) and ''Flottans gossar, Frisk och Rask'' (the Navy) aren't, however, but they had a good long publishing history. Basically, up until very recently Sweden had a conscript army for a very long time, so almost all adult Swedish males could relate to military humour. ''BeetleBailey'' is also absurdly [[GermansLoveDavidHasslehoff popular in Sweden]] for the same reason.
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** ''Flygsoldat 113 Bom'' (the Air Force) and ''Flottans gossar, Frisk och Rask'' (the Navy) aren't, however, but they had a good long publishing history. Basically, up until very recently Sweden had a conscript army for a very long time, so almost all adult Swedish males could relate to military humour. ''BeetleBailey'' is also absurdly [[GermansLoveDavidHasslehoff [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff popular in Sweden]] for the same reason.
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* The ''McAuslan'' series by GeorgeMacdonaldFraser consists of affectionate, semi-fictional ArmedFarces stories. His ''Quartered Safe Out Here'' is a less farcical, less fictional (though still quite funny) memoir.
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** ''Team Fortress 2'' in general, really. As opposed to a typical realistic military FirstPersonShooter, everything uses a cartoony style and the different playable classes are larger-than-life humorous personalities.
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* ''Dr. Strangelove''''DrStrangelove''
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* DonaldDuck starred in a series of WartimeCartoons in which he played a bumbling private under Sargeant Pete.
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* The ''RenAndStimpy'' episode "In The Army".
* The ''{{Futurama}}'' episodes "War Is The H-Word" and "When Aliens Attack". Indeed, any episode centered on Zapp Brannigan will have some elements of this.
** Also "Roswell That Ends Well", with the antics of Private Ennis, Fry's grandfather[[hottip:*:Well, [[MyOwnGrampa not really]].]]
* ''LooneyTunes'' short "Forward March Hare", in which BugsBunny joins the army.
* The ''RenAndStimpy'' episode "In The Army".
* The ''{{Futurama}}'' episodes "War Is The H-Word" and "When Aliens Attack". Indeed, any episode centered on Zapp Brannigan will have some elements of this.
** Also "Roswell That Ends Well", with the antics of Private Ennis, Fry's grandfather[[hottip:*:Well, [[MyOwnGrampa not really]].]]
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* ''Operation Petticoat'' ''OperationPetticoat'' about a pink submarine.
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