Awesome / Stalag 17

• Dunbar's Offscreen Moment of Awesome where he blew up an ammunition train with a matchbook while being taken to the POW camp.
• The Geneva Convention inspector spends every moment he's on-screen snarking about the poor attempts at making the POW camp's conditions seem better than they are and threatening von Scherbach over his plan to execute Dunbar as a saboteur without any evidence.
• Sefton's "Eureka!" Moment about how the barracks spy is operating begins when he sees the shadow of a light cord swaying back and forth after the spy undoes a knot in it as a signal to the guard picking up his messages. This is followed by a meeting between the spy and his handler Schulz after a staged air raid empties the barracks. Once they leave, Sefton emerges from the shadows with a triumphant look, having overheard everything they said and wryly mimicking Sgt. Schulz's expression of satisfied pleasure at the information he received.
• Hoffy, Marko the mailman, and Steve the crutch smuggle a smoke bomb into the middle of the compound inside of Steve's empty pant leg as the Gestapo are taking Dunbar to their staff car. The rest of the prisoners then swarm the Germans, and Hoffy spirits Dunbar away and hides him in the water tower as the Germans can only look around impotently.
• Animal carves a new ocarina for Joey as a Christmas present in less than a week using whatever it is he managed to scrounge up.
• Sefton stops The Mole from ruining Dunbar's rescue by convincing the people who think he's The Mole to have that man guard him while they help Dunbar.
• When Sefton gets to reveal who the mole really is.
  • After which Price tries to make a run for it through the trap door. The men quickly pull him out to which he tries to shout for the guards to help. Everyone (save Joey, of course) dogpiles on him and holds him down while the searchlight pass over unaware.
• The climax: The prisoners know that the guards are waiting for either the escape attempt or for the mole to alert them, so they combine the two. While the escape attempt is kicking off on one side of the camp, the mole is thrown out of the hut with cans tied to his feet in order to attract attention. While the guards are busy shooting their own spy to death, the Americans have gone under the fence and are on their way to freedom.
  • Further awesome: Sefton was worried about how to deal with a mole because the Germans could just kill the lot of them or ship the mole to another station. By making it look like an American was attempting escape when he was shot, they can't retaliate as they were the killers. Additionally, the Germans can't try this again, as the other barracks will certainly be told how the mole infiltrated Barracks 4 and everyone will be on the lookout for this from now on with any new arrivals.

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