History Series / Hasamba3G

''Hasamba3G'' (Or more literally ''Hasamba The Third Generation''; Hebrew "Hasamba Dor 3", "חסמבה דור 3") is a 2010 Israeli TV mini-series {{sequel}} to a series of pocket books written by Igal Mosinzon since the 1950s and regularly until [[DiedDuringProduction his death]]. The books feature the adventures of Hasamba (which stands for "Absolutely Secret Group" in Hebrew), a Seven Man team: Yaron ([[TheCaptain The Leader]]), Tamar ([[NumberTwo The Second-in-command]]), Uzi (the Thin), Ehud ([[TheBigGuy the Fat]]), [[TheSmartGuy Moshe Yerahmiel]], Shulamit (TheMedic) and Menashe ([[TokenMinority the Yemenite]]). Hasamba constantly struggled with anyone that got in the way of Israel's foundation or was generally a prick, but held a particular (mutual) grudge for criminal kingpin Elimelech Zorkin, essentially Hasamba's ArchEnemy.

It is hard to give the average non-Israeli reader the gist of how '''absurd''' this premise is. This is like putting [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Disney Characters into a Final Fantasy Game]]. This is like if Creator/{{Dreamworks}} made a CGI movie where we find out that Literature/TomSawyer had a son, only the Illuminati put him in Cryogenic Suspension and now, centuries later, he is defrosted and starts a great trek across the USA driving a Subaru station wagon in search of his heritage while unravelling a malevolent conspiracy involving the ''Deepwater Horizon'' Oil spill. Hellish copyright disputes had to be resolved before the concept even took off the ground.

''Hasamba3G'' (Or more literally ''Hasamba The Third Generation''; Hebrew "Hasamba Dor 3", "חסמבה דור 3") is a 2010 Israeli TV mini-series {{sequel}} to a series of pocket books written by Igal Mosinzon since the 1950s and regularly until [[DiedDuringProduction his death]]. The books feature the adventures of Hasamba (which stands for "Absolutely Secret Group" in Hebrew), a Seven Man FiveManBand: Yaron ([[TheCaptain The Leader]]), Tamar ([[NumberTwo The Second-in-command]]), Uzi (the Thin), Ehud ([[TheBigGuy the Fat]]), [[TheSmartGuy Moshe Yerahmiel]], Shulamit (TheMedic) and Menashe ([[TokenMinority the Yemenite]]). Hasamba constantly struggled with anyone that got in the way of Israel's foundation or was generally a prick, but held a particular (mutual) grudge for criminal kingpin Elimelech Zorkin, essentially Hasamba's ArchEnemy.

%%* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Renan
** TheLancer: Iggy
** TheSmartGuy: Luda
** TheBigGuy: Hufni
** TheChick: Yuval

''Hasamba3G'' (Or more literally ''Hasamba The Third Generation''; Hebrew "Hasamba Dor 3", "חסמבה דור 3") is a 2010 Israeli TV mini-series {{sequel}} to a series of pocket books written by Igal Mosinzon since the 1950s and regularly until [[AuthorExistenceFailure his death]]. The books feature the adventures of Hasamba (which stands for "Absolutely Secret Group" in Hebrew), a Seven Man FiveManBand: Yaron ([[TheCaptain The Leader]]), Tamar ([[NumberTwo The Second-in-command]]), Uzi (the Thin), Ehud ([[TheBigGuy the Fat]]), [[TheSmartGuy Moshe Yerahmiel]], Shulamit (TheMedic) and Menashe ([[TokenMinority the Yemenite]]). Hasamba constantly struggled with anyone that got in the way of Israel's foundation or was generally a prick, but held a particular (mutual) grudge for criminal kingpin Elimelech Zorkin, essentially Hasamba's ArchEnemy.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Hufni and Luda; also a case of OppositesAttract. Though as of the 2nd season RealityEnsues and their diametric needs and approaches to life are quick becoming a difficult, not-at-all-sexy issue.

* FiveManBand

* FruitOfTheLoon: What's the matter with those avocadoes, again?

* IWasQuiteALooker: Tamar

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Uzi]] becomes one, though his motivation makes him more of an AntiVillain than anything else.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Freddy's attraction to his sister Sunny is really out of place in this otherwise family-friendly series, which is probably why it's [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar so understated]].

It is hard to give the average non-Israeli reader the gist of how '''absurd''' this premise is. This is like putting [[KingdomHearts Disney Characters into a Final Fantasy Game]]. This is like if Creator/{{Dreamworks}} made a CGI movie where we find out that Literature/TomSawyer had a son, only the Illuminati put him in Cryogenic Suspension and now, centuries later, he is defrosted and starts a great trek across the USA driving a Subaru station wagon in search of his heritage while unravelling a malevolent conspiracy involving the ''Deepwater Horizon'' Oil spill. Hellish copyright disputes had to be resolved before the concept even took off the ground.

The show is set in the PresentDay and attempts to {{Retcon}} all the zany adventures described in the books to make sense while taking them to their logical conclusion. 60 years have passed, and Hasamba has grown old. Yaron is a lt. colonel in reserve duty in the [[IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles IDF]] and a pensioner, he and Tamar are divorced and everyone had generally dispersed each to their boring hum-drum lives. Then a Dr. Zacks calls up Tamar, telling her that he has something she "wants very dearly"; it turns out to be a hard disk which supposedly contains some sort of important information. They set up a meeting- then mysterious bad guys show up at the place of the meeting first and shoot the doctor dead.

* CompetenceZone: Applies to the original book series with flying colors; At one point the books actually featured a "second-generation" Hasamba (or a [[PowerRangers Hasamba Zeo]], if you will), complete with GenerationXerox, who were conceived when Mosenzon figured that the original Hasamba had already reached the ripe old age of twenty and ought to retire. (During the first season this is merely another, slightly more obscure, level the title makes sense on, with the now-assembling youngster Hasamba generation really being the third; in the second season [[spoiler:Hasamba 2G actually comes into play, with several of its members becoming main characters]]). Ridiculously and purposefully {{inverted}} in the actual show, where the usual CompetenceZone for this sort of action series (20-45) is an ''in''competence zone and all the good guys are either teenaged or elderly, though [[spoiler:this rule seems to have an exception now that Uri has been freed from his brainwashing and works for the good guys again]].

It is hard to give the average non-Israeli reader the gist of how '''absurd''' this premise is. This is like putting [[KingdomHearts Disney Characters into a Final Fantasy Game]]. This is like if Creator/{{Dreamworks}} made a CGI movie where we find out that TomSawyer had a son, only the Illuminati put him in Cryogenic Suspension and now, centuries later, he is defrosted and starts a great trek across the USA driving a Subaru station wagon in search of his heritage while unravelling a malevolent conspiracy involving the ''Deepwater Horizon'' Oil spill. Hellish copyright disputes had to be resolved before the concept even took off the ground.

* ShoutOut: To {{Tekken}}; of the most memorable 1st season moments, if not the most. You can watch the whole thing [[http://sdtekken.wordpress.com/2010/12/25/tekken-in-pop-culture-hasamba-3-g/ here]].

->'''[[StatlerAndWaldorf London]]:''' Seems like they've started recycling old ideas into new series!\\

* AllInTheManual: If you're familiar with the book series (or even at least bothered to read up on it), a lot of foreshadowing will jump at you that wouldn't otherwise.

* LaughablyEvil: Sunny and Dante are apparently out to subjugate the entire population of Earth, but it's hard not to let out a chuckle when Sunny's cell phone rings a joyous chorus of {{Kesha}}'s ''Tik Tok'' and they spend about 20 seconds grooving to it before she deigns to pick up the phone. Slightly {{justified|Trope}} in that things have been going particularly well for their nefarious plans just up to that moment and they were in a very good mood.

* DawsonCasting: Most notable with the actor playing teenager Iggy, who was 30 when the series aired.

* CryForTheDevil: Though the show already averts BlackAndWhiteMorality with Uzi's ordeal, it further makes a point to sucker-punch the audience with constant details of Sunny's abusive childhood. Her dad once left her in a hotel abroad as a guarantee when he couldn't afford to pay for their stay. She spent months alone, eating out of trash cans, not knowing if anyone was ever going to come back for her. And ever since then what she'd always wanted was ''[[FreudianExcuse to be in control]]''.