Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,064
edits
The Rat Patrol: Difference between revisions
defaultsort
m (Dai-Guard moved page The Rat Patrol (TV) to The Rat Patrol over redirect: Remove TVT Namespaces from title) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (defaultsort) |
||
| (3 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 7:
----
{{tropelist}}
* [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]: Moffitt has degrees in archaeology and anthropology, is an expert on geological formations in the desert, and speaks fluent German and Arabic. His knowledge of the terrain and people is why he was assigned to the Patrol.
* [[Affably Evil]]: Dietrich is very polite to the Rats, even when he is trying to capture and kill them.
* [[Badass Crew]]: Driving through the desert, sneaking up on Nazis and blowing them sky high with 50 caliber guns strapped to jeeps badass enough for you?
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: There are frequent long passages in untranslated German and occasionally French. Hans Gudegast (aka Eric Braeden), who played Hauptmann Dietrich, is a native speaker, as are most of the Nazi characters who speak German. Apparently he sometimes adlibbed German lines—watch the English speaking Nazi extras trying to keep up.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Dietrich may be the closest counterpart to [[Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner
* [[Dress-Coded for Your Convenience]]: Subverted. The Germans, the Americans, and the British all wear similar khaki colored uniforms. Eventually you’ve just gotta tell them apart by their equipment or headgear. [[Truth in Television]], as before long the North African sun had bleached all army’s uniforms the same basic color.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: There are several episodes where Dietrich and the Rats form a truce while working for a common end. [[Status Quo Is God|By the end of the episode though]], they always go back to trying to kill each other.
Line 29 ⟶ 28:
* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]: Seems to be Dietrich’s motivation for remaining a German officer. [[Truth in Television]], as many ''Heer'' (Army) officers despised [[Hitler]], but still wanted a strong Germany and were willing to put up with him if he could give their country superpower status once again.
* [[Nice Hat]]: One for everybody. Moffitt sports a black beret, Troy has an Australian slouch hat, Hitchcock is in a red kepi, and Tully wears the only standard headgear, an American GI helmet.
* [[Officer and
* [[Pin
* [[The Quiet One]]: Tully sometimes goes for whole episodes without saying more than one word. Pulls it off by being [[The Big Guy]] who gets to use the bazooka.
* [[Sergeant Rock]]: Sergeant Sam Troy, natch.
Line 50 ⟶ 49:
[[Category:The Rat Patrol]]
[[Category:TV Series]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rat Patrol, The}}
| |||