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Colonel Bogey March
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How can you show your group to have a cohesive and united front? Show them whistling the Colonel Bogey March. This is originally Lost in Imitation from The Bridge on the River Kwai. The tune is a real march, but there are also about half a million bawdy little numbers written to it — it's a musical snowclone on par with the Major-General's Song. In Bridge (the movie that made it a trope), the prisoners used it as a way of getting one such tune ("Hitler Has Only Got One Ball") past their Axis captors' radar. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Examples: |
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The Simpsons: "Lisa, her teeth are big and green/Lisa, she smells like gas-o-line..." | |
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Magnum, P.I. has Higgins trying to build a scale model of the bridge from the River Kwai film, but Magnum later blows it up, humming the tune as he does so. | |
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Whistled by the students in detention during The Breakfast Club. It's an early indication of the group coming together. | |
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Wanted: Monty Mole uses it as its main theme. | |
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In the British radio sitcom Old Harry's Game, Satan mentions in one episode that he used to think the World War II version of the song was only propaganda, but he's seen Hitler in the showers and now he's not so sure | |
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The Beatles whistle this at the end of their cartoon episode "And Your Bird Can Sing." | |
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In an episode of the BBC comedy programme 2point4 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". | |
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In the The Flintstones episode "The Snorkasaurus Hunter", a picnic is ruined when ants come marching in to this tune and carry off all the food. | |
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The song was used in Episode 5 of Series 3 of The Armstrong and Miller Show, as it comically depicted the writing of it. | |
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The song shows up as one of the records in Nintendogs. If you play it, your dogs will start marching in a circle. | |
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Desmond, Jin, Charlie, and Hurley do this in the Lost episode "Catch-22". | |
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A kazoo version of the song was heard in Recess: School's Out as the kids are preparing to break into the school to save T.J. | |
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In The Parent Trap, the other girls at the camp whistle this as the twins are escorted to the Isolation Cabin. | |
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The song is used to harass a Jewish student in School Ties, a 1992 film. | |
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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..." | |
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Used in The Bridge on the River Kwai, and formed the basis of Malcolm Arnold's score for the film. The lyrics were considered too vulgar and were not used — but any viewer who lived through WWII, especially in Britain, would know exactly what was being referenced. Arnold's score included "The River Kwai March", which was essentially the Colonel Bogey March with a counter-melody of his own composition played over it. The names of the two songs get mixed up frequently. | |
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The lyrics were sung in the 1972 film adaptation of the John Knowles novel A Separate Peace (although they are not in the book, and the tune to which they are sung in the film is not the "Colonel Bogey March"). | |
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Spaceballs: Dink dink, dink dink dink dink dink dink! Dink dink, dink dink dink dink dink dink! | |
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In Overlord II, when disguised as enemy soldiers, the Minions start humming the song. | |
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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. | |
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Briefly heard in Short Circuit: as Number Five leads the robots he's reprogrammed to the roadhouse, he's whistling it. | |
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