History Awesome / HogansHeroes

* The entire team in "Hogan Gives A Birthday Party." They kidnap a Nazi general, steal a German bomber, bomb a refinery and parachute out back to camp. Bonus points for the general being [[spoiler: the one who actually shot down Hogan in the first place]], and for [[spoiler: making Schultz, of all people, parachute out as well]].
* 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 [[spoiler:with a stolen German ''tank''.]] When Carter drops the IdiotBall, he can get [[LetsGetDangerous pretty awesome.]]

-->'''Schultz''': Lucky for you, I was [[INeedAFreakingDrink loaded]].

* The Gestapo has captured a Free French pilot who has some information they want. Rather than [[ColdBloodedTorture their usual]] [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique methods of questioning]], they convince the man that his fiancée; has started keeping German soldiers company, so to speak. The method the Heroes use to keep the man from giving up the information the Germans want? Sending [=LeBeau=] on a motorcycle to Paris so he can pick up the guy's fiancée, bring her back to camp, and stage a show with a marriage scene so that Klink -- who has some amount of regional authority due to the area being under martial law -- ''can marry them''.

* Kinchloe's boxing match against Battlin' Bruno. Bruno has metal hidden in his boxing gloves and Kinchloe (by far the better boxer) has to stall but not defeat him until [=LeBeau=] has finished raiding Klink's office while the Germans are distracted. Once [=LeBeau=] returns he wipes the floor with Bruno--only for Hogan to declare the unconscious Bruno the winner the second after. This both technically lets Bruno win and keeps anyone from getting shot, and clearly shows the Americans won at the same time.

* The Gestapo has captured a Free French pilot who has some information they want. Rather than [[ColdBloodedTorture their usual]] [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique methods of questioning]], they convince the man that his fiancée; has started keeping German soldiers company, so to speak. The method the Heroes use to keep the man from giving up the information the Germans want? Sending [=LeBeau=] on a motorcycle to Paris so he can pick up the guy's fiancée, bring her back to camp, and stage a show with a marriage scene so they can talk Klink - who has some amount of regional authority due to the area being under martial law - ''can marry them''.

* The Gestapo has captured a Free French pilot who has some information they want. Rather than [[ColdBloodedTorture their usual]] [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique methods of questioning]], they convince the man that his fiancée; has started keeping German soldiers company, so to speak. The method the Heroes use to keep the man from giving up the information the Germans want? Sending [=LeBeau=] on a motorcycle to Paris so he can pick up the guy's fiancée;, bring her back to camp, and stage a show with a marriage scene so they can talk Klink - who has some amount of regional authority due to the area being under martial law - ''can marry them''.

* The Gestapo has captured a Free French pilot who has some information they want. Rather than [[ColdBloodedTorture their usual]] [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique methods of questioning]], they convince the man that his fianceé has started keeping German soldiers company, so to speak. The method the Heroes use to keep the man from giving up the information the Germans want? Sending [=LeBeau=] on a motorcycle to Paris so he can pick up the guy's fianceé, bring her back to camp, and stage a show with a marriage scene so they can talk Klink - who has some amount of regional authority due to the area being under martial law - ''can marry them''.

-->'''Hogan:''' If it were a live grenade, you would have been the first to run. [[KirkSummation You see, you and I both know that you're not a member of a super race.]]

* 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.

* "Praise the Fuhrer and Pass the Ammunition" has a sadistic general toss what appears to be a live grenade at Hogan and his men. As everyone else, including Schultz and Klink, dives for cover, Hogan remains standing--he identified it as a dud. Deutsch asks how he knew.
-->'''Hogan:''' If it were a live grenade, you would have been the first to run. You see, you and I both know that you're not a member of a super race.

-->'''Hogan:''' I doubt it.

* Schultz, [[BavarianFireDrill disguised as a general]], scaring the pants off a couple of Gestapo agents and sending them fleeing out the door. Being completely drunk probably helped his acting skills.

* In "Art for Hogan's Sake", Schultz actually manages to intimidate a Gestapo officer as he pretends to be a General in the Wehrmacht seeing his girlfriend.
--> '''Schultz''': Lucky for you, I was [[INeedAFreakingDrink loaded]].

--> '''Schultz''': Lucky for you, I was [[INeedAFreakingDrink loaded]].

* "Diamonds in the Rough": A ruthless Gestapo officer, who even kills his lover after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness she is no longer useful to him]], who has an incredibly dangerously complete grasp of Hogan's operations, nevertheless underestimates Hogan as he falls straight for the BatmanGambit Hogan has set up, which neatly eliminates the problem and paints Klink as the efficient Kommandant Berlin believes he is.

* Sergeant Baker sprays Hochstetter with a fire hose in "It's Dynamite!"

--> Hogan (to Schultz): I found him rearranging the office because he thinks Hitler is in the next room.

* 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 [[spoiler: ''tank''.]] When Carter drops the IdiotBall, he can get [[LetsGetDangerous pretty awesome.]]
* Kinchloe's boxing match against Battlin' Bruno. Bruno has metal hidden in his boxing gloves and Kinchloe (by far the better boxer) has to stall but not defeat him until [=LeBeau=] has finished raiding Klink's office while the Germans are distracted. Once [=LeBeau=] returns he wipes the floor with Bruno--only to collapse immediately afterwards and have Hogan declare the unconscious Bruno the winner. This both technically lets Bruno win and keeps anyone from getting shot, and clearly shows the Americans won at the same time.

** Ditto with Sergeant Baker from Season 6.
* "Praise the Fuhrer and Pass the Ammunition" has a sadistic general toss what appears to be a live grenade at Hogan and his men. As everyone else, including Schultz and Klink, dives for cover. Hogan remains standing--he identified it as a dud. Deutsch asks how he knew.

* "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".

** He also correctly deduced that a Field Marshall's kidnapping in "The General Swap" was too implausible to be real, and if he hadn't made the mistake of voicing his suspicions to Hogan at the very end of the episode, there would have been a lot of trouble. The awesomeness comes from the fact that this one of the rare times Klink played the OnlySaneMan for the Germans. ''Burkhalter'' was fooled.
* Carter's Hitler impersonation in "Will the Real Adolf Please Stand Up."
* All of the heroes schemes should fall under this but some mention should be given to "The Meister Spy". Hogan pretends to be an intelligence officer, fake kidnaps a spy to Berlin, and fools him into thinking that Klink's office is Hitler's summer weekend office, all so that he could get the guy to reveal his contact. The best part comes from him convincing Klink and Schultz that the spy is crazy (and not a spy).

--> Hogan (to Schultz): I found him rearranging the office because he thinks Hitler is in the next room.

-> Hogan (to Schultz): I found him rearranging the office because he thinks Hitler is in the next room.

* Carter's Hitler impersonation in "Will the Real Adolf Please Stand Up."

* "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".

* Bob Crane was a highly skilled drummer. In the episode "Look at the Pretty Snowflakes," Colonel Hogan plays an impressive drum solo for the song "Cherokee" in an attempt to cause an avalanche.

* Bob Crane was a highly skilled drummer. In the episode "Look at the Pretty Snowflakes," Colonel Hogan plays an impressive drum solo for the song "Cherokee" in an attempt to cause an avalanche.

-->'''Hogan:''' I doubt it.

* 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]].

* The entire team in "Hogan Gives A Birthday party": they kidnap a Nazi general, steal a German bomber, bomb a refinery and parachute out back to camp. Bonus points for the general being [[spoiler: the one who actually shot down Hogan in the first place]], and for [[spoiler: making Schultz, of all people, parachute out as well]].

* Kinchloe's boxing match against Battlin' Bruno. Bruno has metal hidden in his boxing gloves and Kinchloe (by far the better boxer) has to stall but not defeat him until LeBeau has finished raiding Klink's office while the Germans are distracted. Once LeBeau returns he wipes the floor with Bruno--only to collapse immediately afterwards and have Hogan declare the unconscious Bruno the winner. This both technically lets Bruno win and keeps anyone from getting shot, and clearly shows the Americans won at the same time.