Talk:Hitler Has Only Got One Ball
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In popular culture[edit]
"In an episode of 'Allo 'Allo! which is set in a P.O.W. camp for captured British airmen, one of the characters begins to sing the lyric "Hitler has only got one..." before the German officer interrogating the troops orders him to be silent." is factually inaccurate. The show 'Allo 'Allo! is not set in a P.O.W. camp, but rather a WWII era French restaurant run by a secret member of the resistance. The description of the show and contextual reference to a "German officer interrogating the troops" may actually be from the American television show "Hogan's Heroes". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:579:C004:18:35DE:EEAB:ABDC:ABEC (talk) 17:38, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- I have removed the entire "In popular culture" section since none of it was sourced. Thank-you for reporting the problem. The article – like most articles on Wikipedia – is not protected and anybody can edit it: in future please feel free to boldly edit articles to fix any problems that you find yourself. Best, Wham2001 (talk) 18:02, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
- The episode in question (Series 3, Episode 6, "The Great Un-Escape") is in fact set in a POW camp. ak47wong (talk) 11:57, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
Yes, it's at the end of "The Great Un-Escape", more precisely at 37,21 minutes of the 40,22 minutes episode, see https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6tlhqq MC202 zipper (talk) 21:34, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
Copyedit and lead[edit]
EEng (and/or anyone else watching this page), would you have time/interest in copyediting this recently expanded article, and maybe taking a crack at the lead? (You're so much better at it than I am.) Bonus points if you can think of some hooks... Thanks! Levivich 17:26, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- I'm under the gun for a few weeks, but there's sure plenty to work from hook-wise. DYK ... that "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" offered an "itemized taxonomy of malformed German genitalia" and "scattered satiric buckshot across the whole Nazi high command"? EEng 19:51, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
- The David Lean story could be a great hook, but looks like the only path to DYK is GA, though that shouldn't be too hard. EEng 16:13, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
- @EEng: I wasn't even paying attention to the 7-day-post-expantion rule... I think I might want to nom this to be the TFA for Feb 24, 2022, but I'm not sure if that's a reasonable expectation or not... but either way, GA is either a necessary step or a relatively easy one. Levivich 16:18, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
- Ah, Wikipedia at its best. The lines "Hitler has only got one ball, The other is in the Albert Hall" are encyclopaedically and accurately described as "focused on local landmarks". — Amakuru (talk) 15:08, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
Pictures[edit]
@EEng: I was thinking I can make shorter crops of the headshots that will work better for this formatting, but I'll do it after the text is further along, so we know how much vertical space we have to work with in each section. I think we should have a picture of Albert Hall, though, so the reader understands what it is (a large stately building) without having to click on the link (and also so we have a picture of something that's not a Nazi). Levivich 17:30, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
- Right. It always makes sense to defer worries about img placement until the text is well developed, since image-crowding is typically the biggest layout headache. EEng 17:53, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
"Legacy"[edit]
I'm not sure songs have legacies. EEng 20:45, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
- Let me assure you. Levivich 23:29, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
should someone put the actual song instead of the theme its set to?[edit]
as old as it is i'm sure it's in the public domain
Caucasianhamburger (talk) 13:41, 3 April 2023 (UTC)