Armed Farces: Difference between revisions

 

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* ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' includes some military farce, even if it's only to contrast the difference between the real military and the Nadesico's crew of [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|oddball civilian contractors.]]

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[PVT Murphy's Law]]''

* Bill Mauldin's ''[[Willie and Joe]]'', published in during WWII, and later collected in ''Up Front'' and ''Back Home''. He made fun of the top brass so well [[Butt Monkey|General Patton]] threatened to stop publication of ''Stars and Stripes'', but Eisenhower came to Mauldin's defense due to the comics' morale-boosting effect.

 

== Film ==

* ''Buck Privates'', starring [[Abbott and Costello]].

* ''I Was a Male War Bride'', a [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]] 1949 film with [[Cary Grant]] as a French army captain who ends up [[Disguised in Drag]] as a U.S. army nurse in order to accompany his U.S. Women's Army Corps wife back to America after [[World War II]]. (This was because the Pentagon had only anticipated war brides, not war grooms.)

 

== Literature ==

* [[Evelyn Waugh|Evelyn Waugh's]] [[Sword of Honour]] trilogy is a story of a man who trains to be an [[Super Soldier|elite commando]] in [[World War Two]]... and spends almost the entire war dealing with pointless bureaucratic red tape and farcical incompetence. Only once in the entire war does he actually even see a [[Those Wacky Nazis|German soldier]] with his own two eyes, and that is an indication that he has gotten hopelessly lost and accidentally gone too far toward enemy lines. This series was [[Real Life Writes the Plot|based on Waugh's own experience]] as a Royal Marine during the war, during which he participated in several military actions... all of which were incompetently-managed and utterly ineffective fiascoes.

* A section specifically made for military humor has always been a tradition for ''Reader's Digest'' magazine.

* [[Mary Gentle]]'s ''[[Grunts!]]'' has military joking aplenty. From the hapless recruits under [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Gunnery Sergeant Ashnak]] early in the evolution of the Orc Marines to the equally hapless elf recruits and their orc trainer Sgt. Dakashnit later on. Dakashnit's advice for her recruits on what to do if their parachute fails, in particular.

 

* ''[[It Ain't Half Hot Mum]]''.

* The first couple seasons of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|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.

* ''[[F Troop]]''

* ''[[The Army Game]]''

* ''[[The Phil Silvers Show]]''

* ''[[Major Dad]]'' inevitably included some miliary farce (as you would expect from the title) though the true focus was on [[Domestic Comedy]].

* ''C.P.O. Sharkey'' with [[Don Rickles]].

* ''At Ease'', a short-lived '80s sitcom starring Jimmie Walker of ''[[Good Times]]'' fame.

* ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]''

 

== Radio ==

* ''[[The Navy Lark]]''

 

== Video Games ==

** ''Team Fortress 2'' in general, really. As opposed to a typical realistic military [[First-Person Shooter]], everything uses a cartoony style and the different playable classes are larger-than-life humorous personalities.

 

* ''[[Air Force Blues]]'', though the characters are more like [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]s than full-on incompetent.

* ''[[Gone With the Blastwave]]'' makes use of this in a post-apocalyptic conflict. As one character asks: [http://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=26 "Why haven't we lost this war yet?"]

* ''[[Crew Dogs]]'': Similar to ''[[Air Force Blues]]'', a comic about a squadron of [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Bunny Ears Aviators]].

* ''[[Terminal Lance]]'', a comic based on enlisted Marine life ([[Tagline|You can't spell "Disgruntled" without "Grunt"!]])

 

== Web Original ==

* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' practically ''embodies'' this trope.

{{quote|'''Church''': Holy crap, ''who is running this army?!?''}}

 

== Western Animation ==

 

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