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How can you show your group to have a cohesive and united front? Show them whistling the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvWLMkxSwIo Colonel Bogey March]. This is originally [[Lost in Imitation]] from ''[[The Bridge
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== Comics ==
* The Jim Steranko History of Comics includes an anecdote about artists working on Captain Marvel who reworked the song to satirize the demands of the publishing house's censors: "Captain Marvel Has No Balls At All."
* In the Vertigo DC Comics 2001 3-issue miniseries Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, "Operation: Bollock", the Rifle Brigade is sent on a mission to retrieve Adolf Hitler's missing testicle.
* A verse combining the first two lines of Variant 2 and the last two lines of Variant 1 appears in the 2000 Vertigo miniseries Adventures in the Rifle Brigade by Garth Ennis and Carlos Ezquerra. The follow-on miniseries, Operation Bollock, uses the missing testicle as a central plot device.
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== Commercial ==
* The lyrics are alluded to in a 2003 advertisement for Spitfire Beer (the 'Bottle of Britain'), an English Ale. Hitler is shown photographed in full Wehrmacht Uniform with the caption 'Spot the ball'. The advertisement refers to print media spot the ball competitions in which readers were shown photographs of moments in football matches and asked to guess where the ball (which is edited out) would have been. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130516020235/http://www.spitfireale.co.uk/spitfire-adverts/ See: Spitfire site].
* Once used (with a new text,
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* The song is used to harass a Jewish student in ''[[School Ties]],'' a 1992 film.
* [[Bette Midler]] sang the lyrics in her concert film ''Divine Madness!''
* Done by the Dink Dinks in ''[[
* Used as in ''[[The Bridge
* Briefly heard in ''[[Short Circuit]]'': as Number Five leads the robots he's reprogrammed to the roadhouse, he's whistling it.
* Whistled by the students in detention during ''[[The Breakfast Club]]''. It's an early indication of the group coming together.
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* In one of the 'Head-to-Head' dialogue sketches in the BBC comedy series Alas Smith and Jones Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones reminisce about the war and about the songs of the era. Smith sentimentally and poignantly sings the opening lines of "White Cliffs of Dover", and "We'll Meet Again", and then (to avoid lowering the tone) has to interrupt Jones when he begins to sing, "Hitler has only got one..."
* In an episode of the BBCTV comedy programme, 2 Point 4 Children the grandmother mentions Goebbels in conversation with a friend and - when queried - points out that "he was the one with no balls at all, if you remember".
* The lyrics were heard on the British TV sitcom [[
* Desmond, Jin, Charlie, and Hurley do this in the ''[[Lost]]'' episode "Catch-22".
* Done by the kids in ''[[The Breakfast Club]]''.
* Occasionally the Minions in ''[[Overlord]] 2'' will do this (at least, if they're disguised in Imperial Guard uniforms).
* The original version of ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]''. The other girls at the camp whistle this as the twins are escorted to the Isolation Cabin.
* [[Salute Your Shorts]]: "Ug, one day his face turned blue/Ug, he likes to punish you..." Used in promo commercials during the show's run.
* [[The BBC]]'s 1983 adaptation of [[
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[
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