Armed Farces: Difference between revisions

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* ''Captain Fatso'' was just one a series of little remembered but once popular navy farces written by Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery.

* ''The Ship With the Flat Tire''

* The ''[[McAuslan]]'' series by [[George Macdonald Fraser]] consists of affectionate, semi-fictional [[Armed Farces]] stories. His ''Quartered Safe Out Here'' is a less farcical, less fictional (though still quite funny) memoir.

* The ''[[McAuslan]]'' series by [[George Macdonald Fraser]] consists of affectionate, semi-fictional Armed Farces stories. His ''Quartered Safe Out Here'' is a less farcical, less fictional (though still quite funny) memoir.

** His ''[[Flashman]]'' series is a good example of the wartime kind, featuring a [[Dirty Coward]] [[Designated Hero]] as the protagonist and replete with [[Black Comedy]] throughout.

* ''[[Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall]]'' by [[Spike Milligan]]. [[Based on a True Story]], but no less farcical.

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== Webcomics ==

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

* ''[[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]].

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== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Private Snafu]]'', a series of [["Faux To" Guide|army "training" films]] made during [[WW 2]].

* [[Donald Duck]] starred in a series of [[Wartime Cartoon~~|Wartime Cartoons~~]] in which he played a bumbling private under [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Sergeant Pete.]]

* [[Donald Duck]] starred in a series of [[Wartime Cartoon]]s in which he played a bumbling private under [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Sergeant Pete.]]

* The ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' episode "In The Army".

* The ''[[Futurama]]'' episodes "War Is The H-Word" and "When Aliens Attack". Indeed, any episode centered on Zapp Brannigan will have some elements of this.