History Main / ArmedFarces

** The 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 Enos, Fry's grandfather.[[note]]Well, [[MyOwnGrampa not really]].[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Homer winds up joining the army and ends up in a squad of dimwits like him, they took part in an army exercise which involves using them as cannon fodder, they run off and hide in Springfield to which the army occupies the town to flush them out.

* ''Series/HogansHeroes'' is in a German prisoner of war ([=POW=]) camp during World War II. The premise of the show is that the prisoners of war (POWs) are actually using the camp as a base of operations for Allied espionage and sabotage against Nazi Germany as well as to help Allied [=POWs=] from other camps and defectors to escape Germany.

* ''Series/AlloAllo''. The story is set in a small-town café in German-occupied France during the Second World War. It is a parody of another BBC programme, the wartime drama ''Series/SecretArmy''.

* ''Series/{{Enlisted}}'': Three very different brothers, each soldiers in the U.S. Army, find themselves all assigned to the same unit: the fictional A Company, 2nd Battalion, 618th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 18th Infantry Division (Mechanized), at the fictional Fort McGee, located in Florida.

* ''Series/HogansHeroes'' is in a German prisoner of war (POW) camp during World War II. The premise of the show is that the prisoners of war (POWs) are actually using the camp as a base of operations for Allied espionage and sabotage against Nazi Germany as well as to help Allied POWs from other camps and defectors to escape Germany.

* The first couple seasons of ''Series/{{MASH}}'' included a lot of military farce before they decided to concentrate more on general social commentary. However, at least some military humor was inevitable, given the setting.

* ''Delta Farce'', starring Creator/LarryTheCableGuy and Danny Trejo.

* ''No Time for Sergeants'' presents an Air Force take on the genre

* ''TheWackiestShipInTheArmy.'' During WW2, Lt. Rip Crandall, who was a yachtsman before the war, takes command of the USS Echo, a sailing ship, for a secret mission in waters patrolled by Japanese warships. Mores of a comedy-drama.

* ''I Was a Male War Bride'', a VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory 1949 film with Creator/CaryGrant as a French army captain who ends up DisguisedInDrag as a U.S. army nurse in order to accompany his U.S. Women's Army Corps wife back to America after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. (This was because the Pentagon had only anticipated war brides, not war grooms.)

* ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum'' has a Royal Artillery Concert Party whose CO and second-in-command are {{Upper Class Twit}}s with minimal interest in actually running things, a DrillSergeantNasty Battery Sergeant Major who actually does run things with sadistic glee, and a motley assortment of Bombardiers and Gunners (equivalent to corporals and privates in the Army) who may have artistic talent (mostly) but no talent whatever for soldiering.

%%* ''TheWackiestShipInTheArmy.''

%%* ''Film/ZeroMotivation'' is the Israeli take on this trope.

" ''Film/SgtBilko'': A film adaptation of ''The Phil Silvers Show'' featuring Creator/SteveMartin as the eponymous huckster/soldier.

* ''Film/{{Stripes}}'': Two slackers inspire their ragtag bunch of misfits to be slacker soldiers, then get a mission to drive a weaponized Winnebago into East Germany.

%%* ''Film/{{Stripes}}''

%%* ''Film/DrStrangelove''

%%* ''Film/PrivateBenjamin'', the subsequent TV series even moreso.
%%* ''Buck Privates'', starring Creator/AbbottAndCostello.

%%* ''Literature/CatchTwentyTwo''

* ''Tankový prapor'' (1991) about conscripts in a Czech tank battalion during the ColdWar, thought it's also a satire of communism. Adapted from the book ''Republic of Whores''.

Simply put, military humor, LoveItOrHateIt. This particular brand of funny centers on stereotypically dim-witted military personnel, asshole officers, and naive recruits. And a RagtagBunchOfMisfits.

* ''Series/CPOSharkey'' with DonRickles.

%%* ''Series/AlloAllo''
%%* ''Series/TheArmyGame''

%%* ''{{Series/Bluestone42}}''

%%* ''Series/{{Enlisted}}''

%%* ''Series/HogansHeroes''

%%* ''Series/McHalesNavy''

%%* ''Radio/TheNavyLark''

%%* ''Radio/{{Hut33}}''

* ''WesternAnimation/MK22'' is an Israeli animated comedy that is made entirely of this trope. It follows the increasingly zany happenings at a [[OpenSecret top secret]] nuclear missile silo deep in the Negev desert, as seen from the point of view of two enlisted men serving as quartermasters. Over its 10-episode run, the series manages to parody and hang lampshades on pretty much every aspect of service in the [=IDF=], and still has time to laugh as Israeli society in general.

* ''I Was a Male War Bride'', a VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory 1949 film with CaryGrant as a French army captain who ends up DisguisedInDrag as a U.S. army nurse in order to accompany his U.S. Women's Army Corps wife back to America after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. (This was because the Pentagon had only anticipated war brides, not war grooms.)

* Music/TomLehrer released a song called "It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier", which pokes fun at the military.

But, he's going to be a big success\\
He heads his class at OCS\\

*** ([[DontExplainTheJoke "OCS" is Officer Candidate School]]).

%%* ''Series/GomerPyleUSMC''

** In the 8th season, we learn that the Red and Blue armies are actually [[spoiler: used for training simulations, with the soldiers consisting of the lowest-rated troops that think they're fighting a real war.]] When we see other Red and Blue teams, we see that they can be almost as stupid, if not even more so, than the main teams.

* Creator/TomLehrer released a song called "It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier", which pokes fun at the military.

* Hašek’s classic satire ''The Good Soldier Švejk'' is about the lunatic ineptitude of the Austro-Hungarian Army in UsefulNotes/WW1 seen through the eyes of the cunning soldier Švejk.

* The episodes "War Is The H-Word" and "When Aliens Attack". Indeed, any episode centered on Zapp Brannigan will have some elements of this.

* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'' is a peacetime variant to comic extremes, centering on a military camp located on the US which has somehow managed to remain uninvolved in armed conflict despite numerous wars over the strip's lifetime (Possibly because the Army has figured out that the best way the soldiers in that camp can aid the war effort is to stay as far away from it as possible).

%%* ''ComicStrip/PVTMurphysLaw''
* Bill Mauldin's ''ComicStrip/WillieAndJoe'', 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.
* ''{{ComicBook/Asterix}}'': Roman soldiers are portrayed as a bunch of weak and incompetent losers. And quite a few centurions aren't that better. The army is very lacking in efficiency and organisation, the spirit is that everyone is only out for themselves and everyone treats their job as a chore.

* ''ComicStrip/BlueyAndCurley'' was a WWII Australian comic strip featuring two larrikan Australian soldiers: Bluey (who had served in the First AIF), and Curley, a new recruit. At the end of the war, the strip followed the pair as they transitioned back to civvy street, and it gradually stopped being military humour.

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%%* ''InTheArmyNow''

* ''Film/PrivateBenjamin'', the subsequent TV series even moreso.
* ''Buck Privates'', starring Creator/AbbottAndCostello.

* ''Film/ZeroMotivation'' is the Israeli take on this trope.

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* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' practically ''embodies'' this trope. [[spoiler:It starts getting serious (somewhat) when ''actual'' soldiers start showing up]].
** In the 8th season, we learn that the Red and Blue armies are actually [[spoiler: used for training simulations, with the soldiers consisting of the lowest-rated troops that think they're fighting a real war.]] When we see other Red and Blue teams, we see that they can be almost as stupid, if not even more so, than the main teams.
-->'''Church''': (After the Blue Team is sent a tank that none of them can drive) Holy crap, ''who is running this army?!?''
** Season 12 gives us the two sides in the civil war on Chorus, the Federal Army and New Republic. The war has been going on for so long that most of the worthwhile soldiers were already killed. To put it lightly, these guys look up to the Blood Gulch Crew, which tells a lot about their standards. Most of the actual fighting is done by mercenaries, who are in fact working together to kill off the planet's population and steal the alien relics kept within.
* ''SpriggsAHalo3Machinima'' unlike the Reds and Blues above, a lot of the characters are real ''badasses'', but they are stuck in Zambi 7 with nothing to do, and are placed there to rot.

* ''BattyBattalion'' Follows this trope to the tee, It has stupid military personnel, asshole military personnel and naive military personnel who spend more time bitching about each other and the Covenant than actually fighting them.

* The ''{{WesternAnimation/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 Enos, Fry's grandfather.[[note]]Well, [[MyOwnGrampa not really]][[/note]]

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* ''SpriggsAHalo3Machinima'' unlike the Reds and Blues above, a lot of the characters are real ''{{Badass}}es'', but they are stuck in Zambi 7 with nothing to do, and are placed there to rot.