for 50 year after world war 2 the united state be in a state where key segment of the economy be dominate by military interest . at the same time and because of the draft and war and everyone in society have serve and or be connect to someone who have . this allow for a minigenre base on the notion of american cleverness in the midst of an inflexible military machine . sometimes that machine be non u military and for example in prisoner of war situation . once remove be story in other machine represent science fiction and corporate and but they always reference this military genre and and indeed the testosterone shot of action even reference their comic sibling . you can trace it and i think and perhaps start in the comic and meaning amrican and section of the great escape and which immediately spawn teevee offspring in gomer pyle and hogan hero . then a second wave trigger by catch 22 and mash and both of which have be real life and then book and then movie and and in the mash case and then teevee . but before all that and there be the phil silver show and about a sergeant bilko and this follow from mister robert . a happy con man and who only commit harmless crime and and then only a response to an overly crude system which attempt to limit his life . this be in the day when teevee show matter . you absorb them instead of merely carry them to work to chatter about . it wasn not particularly clever in any way and except in find that crack between what we want in control and freedom . it one large zone where american work out how they think about forgivable and even endear lie in a military context and a zone that have be appropriate by one of our political party here . because it big and it sometimes pay off in laugh . stripe be pretty darn funny i think . it have the twist of the misfit actually defeat serious foe and sort of folding in some dirty dozen . and sexual adventure . now this and well before the cultural war escalate . it try to touch that sweet spot and like other remake that manhandle steve martin . it be so unfunny and you actually root for the army to be the strong player . yet another way to track how society work out the handle on military power . ted evaluation 1 of 3 represent you can find something good to do with this part of your life .