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* HilariousInHindsight: Len Lesser plays combat engineer Bellamy, who helps Kelly and Oddball when he learns about the gold. Six years later, Len Lesser would play a gold-seeking bounty hunter in yet another Clint Eastwood movie ''Film/TheOutlawJoseyWales''.
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** A roamer is played by Creator/DonaldWaugh, who would later be best known for playing Hughes in ''Series/GrangeHill''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Len Lesser plays combat engineer Bellamy, who helps Kelly and Oddball when he learns about the gold. Six years later, Len Lesser would play a gold-seeking bounty hunter in yet another Clint Eastwood movie ''Film/TheOutlawJoseyWales''.
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Flame Bait and lacks the context to convert it to the correct You'd Expect/Instead format
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* WhatAnIdiot: In the opening scene, Germans located their field kitchen just next to a large, water-filled hole in the road. Even without the escaping Jeep, they just had to get thoroughly splashed sooner or later. If one watches carefully, there are many way more suitable places for a field kitchen around.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic : The Tiger tank theme, which really helps sell their power, particularly when it kicks into high hear as Tiger 113 is reversing after smashing through a building trying to get to Oddball's Sherman. The theme was reused in ''Film/InglouriousBasterds''.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic : SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The Tiger tank theme, which really helps sell their power, particularly when it kicks into high hear as Tiger 113 is reversing after smashing through a building trying to get to Oddball's Sherman. The theme was reused in ''Film/InglouriousBasterds''.''Film/InglouriousBasterds''.
** The main theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8uRpq6TlY "Burning Bridges"]] by the Mike Curb Congregation.
** The main theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8uRpq6TlY "Burning Bridges"]] by the Mike Curb Congregation.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic : The Tiger tank theme, which really helps sell their power, particularly when it kicks into high hear as Tiger 113 is reversing after smashing through a building trying to get to Oddball's Sherman. The theme was reused in ''Film/InglouriousBasterds''.
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** One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], Captain Stubing of 'Series/TheLoveBoat''.
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** One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], Captain Stubing of 'Series/TheLoveBoat''.''Series/TheLoveBoat''.
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* EarWorm - "Burning Bridges"
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Not an example. Try Hand Wave.
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: Oddball's "pipe on the gun" claim covers the fact that the Shermans used for the movie had been up-gunned postwar.
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** One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], [[Series/TheLoveBoat Captain Stubing]].
** Hey, hey! [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
** [[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]], and later on, [[Film/TheHungerGames President Snow]].
** And of course, Kelly ends up as a [[Film/DirtyHarry vigilante detective in San Francisco.]]
** Hey, hey! [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
** [[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]], and later on, [[Film/TheHungerGames President Snow]].
** And of course, Kelly ends up as a [[Film/DirtyHarry vigilante detective in San Francisco.]]
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** One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], [[Series/TheLoveBoat Captain Stubing]].
Stubing of 'Series/TheLoveBoat''.
**Hey, hey! [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Len Lesser, Jerry's Uncle Leo]] Leo on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
**[[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] Carrol O'Conner is a glory seeking general.
** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]], and later on, [[Film/TheHungerGames President Snow]].
** And of course, Kelly ends upgeneral, shortly before his best known role as a [[Film/DirtyHarry vigilante detective in San Francisco.]]Archie Bunker on ''Series/AllInTheFamily''.
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** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]], and later on, [[Film/TheHungerGames President Snow]].
** And of course, Kelly ends up
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: Oddball's "pipe on the gun" claim covers the fact that the Shermans used for the movie had been up-gunned postwar.
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* GeniusBonus: Moriarty describing the "captured" Tiger as a "piece of junk" with "fuel leaking everywhere". Deadly as they could be Tiger tanks were also underpowered, mechanically unreliable unless maintained often and notoriously leaky since wartime shortages meant their fiendishly complicated fuel systems (5 tanks and over 120 tubes and fittings) were made with household plumbing pipes instead of military grade materials.
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* GeniusBonus: GeniusBonus:
** The Operation Tannenbaum mentioned by the captured German officer was a real operation, albeit one that never went into action: it was a German plan to invade Switzerland.
** Moriarty describing the "captured" Tiger as a "piece of junk" with "fuel leaking everywhere". Deadly as they could be Tiger tanks were also underpowered, mechanically unreliable unless maintained often and notoriously leaky since wartime shortages meant their fiendishly complicated fuel systems (5 tanks and over 120 tubes and fittings) were made with household plumbing pipes instead of military gradematerials.materials.
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** One of the assistants working on the film was a young budding filmmaker named Creator/JohnLandis. While in Yugoslavia shooting the movie, Landis witnessed an event involving gypsies burying a corpse in the middle of a road which inspired him to write the script for ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''. He also got to be friendly with Creator/DonaldSutherland and years later got him to an appear in two of his early films, ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' and ''Film/AnimalHouse''.
** One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], [[Series/TheLoveBoat Captain Stubing]].
** Hey, hey! [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
** [[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]], and later on, [[Film/TheHungerGames President Snow]].
** And of course, Kelly ends up as a [[Film/DirtyHarry vigilante detective in San Francisco.]]
** The Operation Tannenbaum mentioned by the captured German officer was a real operation, albeit one that never went into action: it was a German plan to invade Switzerland.
** Moriarty describing the "captured" Tiger as a "piece of junk" with "fuel leaking everywhere". Deadly as they could be Tiger tanks were also underpowered, mechanically unreliable unless maintained often and notoriously leaky since wartime shortages meant their fiendishly complicated fuel systems (5 tanks and over 120 tubes and fittings) were made with household plumbing pipes instead of military grade
* RetroactiveRecognition:
** One of the assistants working on the film was a young budding filmmaker named Creator/JohnLandis. While in Yugoslavia shooting the movie, Landis witnessed an event involving gypsies burying a corpse in the middle of a road which inspired him to write the script for ''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon''. He also got to be friendly with Creator/DonaldSutherland and years later got him to an appear in two of his early films, ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' and ''Film/AnimalHouse''.
** One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], [[Series/TheLoveBoat Captain Stubing]].
** Hey, hey! [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
** [[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]], and later on, [[Film/TheHungerGames President Snow]].
** And of course, Kelly ends up as a [[Film/DirtyHarry vigilante detective in San Francisco.]]
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* RetroactiveRecognition: One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], [[TheLoveBoat Captain Stubing]].
** Hey, hey! [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
** [[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]], and later on, [[Film/TheHungerGames President Snow]].
** And of course, Kelly ends up as a [[Film/DirtyHarry vigilante detective in San Francisco.]]
** Hey, hey! [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
** [[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]], and later on, [[Film/TheHungerGames President Snow]].
** And of course, Kelly ends up as a [[Film/DirtyHarry vigilante detective in San Francisco.]]
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** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]]
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** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]] Korea]], and later on, [[Film/TheHungerGames President Snow]].
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Full stop on that "full stop". A character can't be a designated hero unless they are presented as being heroic, when they are not. Otherwise, you have an anti-hero or a villain protagonist.
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* DesignatedHero: Kelly and his crew, full stop. They are motivated purely by opportunistic self-interest, and participate in the events of the film only for a chance to line their pockets. While they don't do anything particularly evil, they also exhibit nothing resembling selfless heroic behavior, either.
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** Hey, hey! [[{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
** [[AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
** [[AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
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** Hey, hey! [[{{Seinfeld}} [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
**[[AllInTheFamily [[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
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* DesignatedHero: Kelly and his crew, full stop. They are motivated purely by opportunistic self-interest, and participate in the events of the film only for a chance to line their pockets. While they don't do anything particularly evil, they also exhibit nothing resembling selfless heroic behavior, either.
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** And of course, Kelly ends up as a [[Film/DirtyHarry vigilante detective in San Francisco.]]
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* GeniusBonus: Moriarty describing the "captured" Tiger as a "piece of junk" with "fuel leaking everywhere". Deadly as they could be Tiger tanks were also underpowered, mechanically unreliable unless maintained often and notoriously leaky since wartime shortages meant their fiendishly complicated fuel systems (5 tanks and over 120 tubes and fittings) were made with household plumbing pipes instead of military grade materials.
* RetroactiveRecognition: One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], [[TheLoveBoat Captain Stubing]].
** Hey, hey! [[{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
** [[AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]]
* RetroactiveRecognition: One of Oddball's tank crew is Gavin [=MacLeod=], [[TheLoveBoat Captain Stubing]].
** Hey, hey! [[{{Seinfeld}} Uncle Leo]] is brought in to the plan by Oddball to build a bridge.
** [[AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]] is a glory seeking general.
** Oddball himself becomes a [[Film/{{MASH}} pacifist womanizing prankster in Korea]]
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* WhatAnIdiot: In the opening scene, Germans located their field kitchen just next to a large, water-filled hole in the road. Even without the escaping Jeep, they just had to get thoroughly splashed sooner or later. If one watches carefully, there are many way more suitable places for a field kitchen around.
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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome - When Oddball's tanks lay waste to the German railroad operation.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome - When Oddball's tanks lay waste to the German railroad operation.
