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The Phil Silvers Show
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Originally titled You'll Never Get Rich, The Phil Silvers Show was a popular 1950s sitcom created by Nat Hiken and starring Phil Silvers as Sgt. Ernest Bilko, the Con Man in charge of the motor pool at the fictional Fort Baxter military base in Kansas. Running from 1955 to 1959 on CBS, a total of 143 episodes were produced, with the entire series not getting a DVD release until 2014.Most of the episodes revolved around Bilko's incessant quest for wealth and influence, which usually took the form of get-rich-quick schemes ranging from (supposedly) simple games of poker to trying to dupe Bing Crosby into performing a show on the base. Standing in his way was Colonel Hall (Paul Ford), the commanding officer of the base, who was always suspicious of Bilko's motives for anything he did. Luckily for Bilko, the Colonel was also quite gullible and manipulable, something he frequently took advantage of. Bilko frequently showed an ability to manipulate a wide range of other people as well. Nevertheless, like in many sitcoms to follow, the Reset Button was all-powerful, and by the end of the episode Bilko would inevitably end up back in roughly the same position he started, but occasionally slightly better or worse off.After the original show had ended, in 1963, Phil Silvers attempted to start a new show to match his previous outing. Called The New Phil Silvers Show, it featured Silvers as Sgt. Bilko-Expy Harry Grafton, foreman at a factory; the new show lasted less than a year. A film based on the original show, called Sgt. Bilko and starring Steve Martin in the title role, was released in 1996, but it was panned by critics and audiences alike. It also influenced the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Top Cat, with Top Cat as a thinly-veiled Expy of Bilko and Maurice Gosfield (who played Pvt. Doberman in Sgt Bilko) providing the voice of Benny the Ball.Despite its relative obscurity compared to other contemporary sitcoms like I Love Lucy, The Phil Silvers Show was highly critically acclaimed in its day and still remains popular among critics. In a post-Second World War society where much of the population had served in the forces virtually everyone had known a Bilko. Premiering a few years after the real-life desegregation of the Armed Forces, it was one of the first US TV shows with an integrated cast, including the semiregular character of African-American Pvt. Sugie Sugarman (Terry Carter). It was also popular in Britain, where the BBC re-ran it for many years. It won three consecutive Emmys for Outstanding Comedy Series from 1956 to 1958, and in 2003, the Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy named it the best sitcom ever made, beating Seinfeld and Fawlty Towers to the top spot. | |
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Limited Advancement Opportunities | |
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Limited Advancement Opportunities: Over the course of the series Bilko was promoted to lieutenant and demoted to corporal, but always ended up back as a sergeant again. | |
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Fat Slob: Doberman is a textbook example. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: In an In-Universe example, Bilko makes a very random cameo appearance in a TV pilot he's directed, citing Hitchcock's example. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: In one episode, a famous rock 'n' roll singer named Elvin Pelvin is drafted and joins Bilko's platoon. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Bilko puts Colonel Hall through quite a few of them. Bilko himself has one when he thinks he has won $300,000 on a horse race, only to discover that Barbella and Henshaw were unable to place the bet. | |
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Blind Without 'Em | |
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Blind Without 'Em: Bilko takes off his glasses during a physical exam and mistakes a skeleton for the doctor. | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: The drafting of Elvis inspired an episode in which rock star Elvin Pelvin gets transferred to Bilko's platoon. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: One of the problems with setting up Major Thorn is that his original introduction is given by Sgt. Bilko himself; it is very easy to assume that Bilko is exaggerating Thorn's character in his own favor. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: The army chant that serves as the source of the original title of the series is often recited by new recruits to show their eagerness. Doubles as a Bowdlerized version from the original Army chant. | |
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A Father to His Men | |
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A Father to His Men: Bilko tries to pass himself off as one of these, but is quick to drop the ruse when it is no longer useful to him. He's fiercely protective of his men when other people scam them of their money... because he wants to be the one to scam them of their money. | |
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Celebrity Resemblance | |
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Celebrity Resemblance: Invoked when Bilko pretends to have mistaken the Colonel's wife (played by Debra Jo Rupp, AKA Kitty Forman of That '70s Show) for Sharon Stone. | |
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Indubitably Uninteresting Individual | |
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Indubitably Uninteresting Individual: Zimmerman, who Bilko claims was born without a personality. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: Bilko's right-hand men Cpl. Rocco Barbella (Harvey Lembeck) and Cpl. Steve Henshaw (Allan Melvin). Sergeants Ritzik and Grover by the end of the show. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: Bilko will happily scam his own men out of their hard-earned money, but woe betide anyone else who tries it. He's also very protective of a young French woman, whom he has known since she was a child, when she visits the base and all the men are swooning over her. | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: Bilko excels at this: | |
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The Prima Donna | |
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The Prima Donna: Spc. Tony Morales, who doesn't shower because it fogs up the mirror. | |
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Framing the Guilty Party | |
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Framing the Guilty Party: Thorn cements himself as the villain when he's given full proof of the crimes Bilko's actually guilty of (misappropriating supplies and gambling, primarily)... but decides that wouldn't be bad enough and instead decides to frame Bilko for far more extreme levels of embezzlement related to a project he hadn't touched. A version as Bilko gets Thorn to sabotage the hover tank when it doesn't work anyway. | |
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Mistaken Identity | |
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Mistaken Identity: In the story of how Bilko accidentally got Thorn transferred to Greenland, he approached a pugilist who would be performing in a boxing match on the base and convinces him to take a dive in exchange for a bribe. However, Bilko's lackey instead mistakenly gives the money to the opponent who is confused but decides to go along which results in the two just hopping around the ring in a circle. | |
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Failure Is the Only Option | |
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Failure Is the Only Option: Every week Bilko has another scheme to make money, increase his standing or secure some new perk for himself. They almost never succeed. | |
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Special Guest | |
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Special Guest: Bing Crosby (and his brother/manager Everett Crosby), Ed Sullivan, Kay Kendall, and others appeared as themselves, with the three major ones mentioned here receiving top billing in three separate episodes titled "[Sergeant] Bilko Presents [name of celebrity]". | |
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The Film of the Series | |
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The Film of the Series: Sgt. Bilko (1996), starring Steve Martin. | |
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Bald of Evil | |
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Bald of Evil: While not evil per se, Bilko tends to be self-centered and manipulative, and his baldness is one of his signature physical traits. | |
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Evil Power Vacuum | |
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Evil Power Vacuum: When Bilko is cured of his gambling addiction by a new type of tranquilizer, Colonel Hall rejoices until he learns that gambling on the post has actually increased without Bilko's monopoly. | |
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Gender Flip | |
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Gender Flip: Rocky Barbella becomes Raquelle Barbella. | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage | |
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Fourth-Date Marriage: Thorn makes the mistake of proposing when he and Rita hadn't even known each other for a month and his basis for the proposal that he tells her is that he's an officer, unlike noncom Bilko. | |
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Black and Nerdy | |
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Black and Nerdy: Chris Rock plays Lt. Oster, a heavily bespectacled military hatchetman (ahem, hatchetperson), who is brought in by Major Thorn to try and locate any malfeasance or embezzlement on Bilko's part. Bilko constantly distracts him from his job by playing Shipper on Deck and hinting that his partner keeps staring at him. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: Bilko pulls one on the rest of the base when he rents an empty store in town and says he has no plans to do anything with it. Everyone assumes he has some money-making scam planned and his rivals all come to him offering him money to buy into it, allowing him to recoup his recent gambling losses and make a profit. However, Bilko ends up broke again by the end of the episode when his underlings Barbella and Henshaw blow his profits on a further six empty stores thinking they'll make an even greater killing. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: both invoked and subverted. Like Sgt Bilko in fiction Phil Silvers in real life was a notorious gambler. However he had never actually served in the forces, whenever anyone asked about it he would simply point to his hugely thick glasses and remark "With these?". | |
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Runaway Bride | |
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Runaway Groom: Ernie has left Rita standing at the altar at least three times. She repays the favor at the end. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: Col. Hall always thinks Bilko is up to something. And he's usually right. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Lampshaded by Col. Hall when Bilko leaves the army to embark on his latest venture. The Colonel confidently predicts that Bilko will be back in the army within a week. And he's right. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: In the episode "Hollywood," Sergeant Bilko is recruited as a consultant for a war movie about a battle he served in. A studio employee who researched the battle recognizes Bilko's name and vaguely refers to an incident where Bilko took an enemy officer prisoner and tried to hold him for ransom. In "Army Memoirs", most of the incidents Bilko gets people paranoid that he'll put in his Compromising Memoirs are fully explained, but for Sowici, Bilko just says "tomatoes." An agitated Sowici says that "[e]ven the general admitted they looked like peaches." | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Bilko delivers the details of a bet he wants to place to Barbella and Henshaw via missile. Unfortunately, the rest of the US military assumes the unidentified missile heading towards an army base is hostile, so they shoot it down and arrest Barbella and Henshaw as spies. | |
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Manipulative Bastard | |
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Manipulative Bastard: Bilko, especially to the Super Gullible Colonel Hall, but he does it to just about everyone. | |
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Surrounded by Idiots | |
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Surrounded by Idiots: Bilko's schemes are often undone by someone else's idiocy, or one of his minions Comically Missing the Point, especially Doberman. This is in fact what winds up setting off the film's primary conflict. Bilko's primary minion at the time is so stupid that he pays off the wrong boxer to take a dive, leading to an absolutely ridiculous boxing match that gives Thorn all the excuse he needs to go storming in looking for evidence (and winding up framed, completely by accident). | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess | |
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Xanatos Speed Chess: Not only the speed at which Bilko changes plans, but also how he formulates his schemes in the first place. | |
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Mistaken for Spies | |
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Mistaken for Spies: In one episode, the only way Bilko can get some money to Fort Baxter to bet on a horse race is to send it via a missile. However, the rest of the US military assume the unidentified flying object near a military base is hostile and Barbella and Henshaw get arrested as spies. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Bilko was shown as having the tinniest sliver of conscience on occasions and would occasionally his skills to defend his men from other conmen. | |
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Syndication Title | |
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Syndication Title: Sergeant Bilko, or simply Bilko. | |
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| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_4789f57e | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Duane Doberman. Also Colonel Hall on a frequent basis whenever he's duped by one of Bilko's schemes. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_47fea76b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_47fea76b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_47fea76b | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4c1ae434 | type |
Compromising Memoirs | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4c1ae434 | comment |
In "Army Memoirs", most of the incidents Bilko gets people paranoid that he'll put in his Compromising Memoirs are fully explained, but for Sowici, Bilko just says "tomatoes." An agitated Sowici says that "[e]ven the general admitted they looked like peaches." | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4c1ae434 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4c1ae434 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_4c1ae434 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4e52a624 | type |
Screw the Money, I Have Rules! | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4e52a624 | comment |
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Bilko's good side occasionally shines through. Occasionally. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4e52a624 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4e52a624 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_4e52a624 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4eddbc06 | type |
Animated Credits Opening | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4eddbc06 | comment |
Animated Credits Opening: Albeit a very tame one. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4eddbc06 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4eddbc06 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_4eddbc06 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4fdd0d29 | type |
Place Worse Than Death | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4fdd0d29 | comment |
Place Worse Than Death: Thorn ends up in Greenland in the backstory, when he was simply trying to put Bilko through a simple court-martial; in the present, he tries to take revenge by sending Bilko to Greenland himself. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4fdd0d29 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_4fdd0d29 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_4fdd0d29 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_50b9b3d0 | type |
Crazy Jealous Guy | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_50b9b3d0 | comment |
Crazy Jealous Guy: Bilko gets this way whenever Joan shows an interest in another man. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_50b9b3d0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_50b9b3d0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_50b9b3d0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_565ce678 | type |
Game Show Appearance | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_565ce678 | comment |
Game Show Appearance: In one episode, aired September 25, 1956, Bilko tries to cheat on The $64,000 Question. It became rather Hilarious in Hindsight when the quiz scandals, which that game show was part of, erupted two years later. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_565ce678 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_565ce678 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_565ce678 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5860c090 | type |
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5860c090 | comment |
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Colonel Hall views Bilko as his, and Sergeant Sowici is the only prominent sergeant smart enough to fill this role for Bilko in the first season. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5860c090 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5860c090 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_5860c090 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5989e3b6 | type |
Enemy Mine | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5989e3b6 | comment |
Enemy Mine: Bilko and Col. Hall call a brief truce in "The Centennial". | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5989e3b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5989e3b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_5989e3b6 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5b88d4c4 | type |
A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5b88d4c4 | comment |
A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Doberman receives a $500 insurance payout and quickly loses it to a group of con artists. Bilko wins it back for him, only for Doberman to immediately get conned into buying a hotel for $500. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5b88d4c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5b88d4c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_5b88d4c4 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5d7cfc66 | type |
The Jeeves | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5d7cfc66 | comment |
The Jeeves: Martin from "Bilko's Double Life" is an American version. He acts as the more grounded valet and confidant of neurotic Blue Blood Herbert Penfield III and tries to help his employer relax more. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5d7cfc66 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5d7cfc66 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_5d7cfc66 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5e2e55e4 | type |
The Casanova | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5e2e55e4 | comment |
The Casanova: Pvt. Pearly Johnson is so successful with women he even carries around an indexed black book full of their names. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5e2e55e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5e2e55e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_5e2e55e4 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5fcedca | type |
Big Eater | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5fcedca | comment |
Big Eater: Ed "The Stomach" Honigan (played by a young Fred Gwynne), the army's eating contest champion who ends up in Bilko's platoon. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5fcedca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_5fcedca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_5fcedca | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_615fdb1f | type |
Dream Sequence | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_615fdb1f | comment |
Dream Sequence: In one episode Bilko tricks the platoon into thinking that Doberman's sister is a beauty, and we see the men dreaming of her. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_615fdb1f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_615fdb1f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_615fdb1f | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_69391768 | type |
Expecting Someone Taller | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_69391768 | comment |
Expecting Someone Taller: In "The WAC" Bilko makes plans to meet the new sergeant. He's shocked to find it's a woman. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_69391768 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_69391768 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_69391768 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: Thorn may be doing this solely to nurse a grudge against Bilko, but he isn't wrong. Bilko is not only mismanaging the Motor Pool, he seems from what the IG investigators found to be actively embezzling from the Army (just not from the hover tank project). He has another good point when he tells Rita that Bilko is not a good person, having stood her up at the altar at least three times. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_6b05b601 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_6b05b601 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_6b05b601 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Ernest Bilko. Please don't make me explain it. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_6bda9a30 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_6e27397 | type |
Missed Him by That Much | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_6e27397 | comment |
Missed Him by That Much: Bilko and Joan keep doing this in "Furlough in New York". | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_6e27397 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_6e27397 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_6e27397 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_70bdac19 | type |
Honest John's Dealership | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_70bdac19 | comment |
Honest John's Dealership: While Bilko never has a formal store, it doesn't stop him from always thinking about profit and acting accordingly. The trope is pretty much invoked in "The Empty Store". After one of Bilko's men loses the squad's money in a poker game, Bilko gets it back by renting out an empty store. Everyone assumes he's starting one of these, and are desperate to get in on it. Eventually he sells a third of it to each of the guys who ran the game. All three of them. The episode ends with Bilko congratulating the card sharks on their ownership of an empty store, and asking what they intend to do with it. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_70bdac19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_70bdac19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_70bdac19 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_71152dd | type |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_71152dd | comment |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Often weaponized by Bilko as part of his cons (such as when he has Colonel Hall talking about working in his garden and some visiting inspectors think that Colonel Hall has to earn money digging ditches due to everyone being underpaid). Bilko himself falls victim to this in an episode where he and his men think that they've signed up for a talent show in Florida when really they've signed to be test subjects for a dangerous strain of disease. It doesn't help that the song their singing (which is repeatedly mistaken for a Face Death with Dignity moment) is "We're Headed for the Last, Roundup". | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_71152dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_71152dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_71152dd | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_72852a93 | type |
Henpecked Husband | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_72852a93 | comment |
Henpecked Husband: Ritzik to the formidable Emma. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_72852a93 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_72852a93 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_72852a93 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_7286e96d | type |
Idiot Ball | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_7286e96d | comment |
Idiot Ball: Seriously, why would anyone play poker with Bilko? | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_7286e96d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_7286e96d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_7286e96d | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_729c69f3 | type |
Politically Incorrect Villain | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_729c69f3 | comment |
Politically Incorrect Villain: Major Thorn is a mild example. He doesn't target any minority or individual in particular, but at least two scenes showcase him in situations that contrast him against modern sensibilities. In the first, he interrogates Sergeant Henshaw on why there are women's undergarments in his closet (among other feminine accoutrements around the room) and is informed that he can no longer ask such questions.note Major Thorn is currently operating a surprise inspection, and advance warning allows Bilko to avoid immediate trouble by temporarily switching barracks with another company, since his own is in complete shambles from the Hockey Playoffs. This other company is female In the second example, he explains that Bilko has been "sucking the khaki tit for years", which description vividly startles Lt. Monday. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_729c69f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_729c69f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_729c69f3 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_736d791f | type |
Adaptational Badass | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_736d791f | comment |
Adaptational Badass: Doberman is an out-of-shape Fat Slob in the show, but in the movie, he has quite a bit of Stout Strength and wins a tug-of-war match against a horse. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_736d791f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_736d791f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_736d791f | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_743d2893 | type |
The Woobie | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_743d2893 | comment |
The Woobie: Mjr. Ebersole, who's officially in charge of the hover tank project. He knows he's to blame when it doesn't work and is embarrassed when Col. Hall points it out. He also loses a large amount of money, along with his friends, to Bilko in a short poker game. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_743d2893 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_743d2893 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_743d2893 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_7593161d | type |
Distracting Disambiguation | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_7593161d | comment |
Distracting Disambiguation: Bilko is a fan of these, often asking Col. Hall if he has lost weight and distracting Gen. Tennyson from Thorn by asking him about running for President. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_7593161d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_7593161d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_7593161d | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_77b03c0a | type |
Remember the New Guy? | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_77b03c0a | comment |
Sgt. Sowici disappears after the first season, and in a case of Remember the New Guy?, is repacked as mess sergeant by the much dumber Rupert Ritzik, whose first appearance establishes him as a long-time victim of Bilkos schemes. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_77b03c0a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_77b03c0a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_77b03c0a | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_786bf97f | type |
Real Life Writes the Plot | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_786bf97f | comment |
Real Life Writes the Plot: Sgt Sowici was written out of the show after actor Harry Clark's untimely death. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_786bf97f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_786bf97f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_786bf97f | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_79c34029 | type |
The Nose Knows | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_79c34029 | comment |
The Nose Knows: Bilko can smell money. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_79c34029 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_79c34029 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_79c34029 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_82518cf7 | type |
Motor Mouth | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_82518cf7 | comment |
Motor Mouth: Fittingly for a Sergeant in the Motor Pool, Ernest Bilko again. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_82518cf7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_82518cf7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_82518cf7 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_82b4f38e | type |
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_82b4f38e | comment |
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Bilko is the hero but he's also a greedy swindler and a bit of a coward at times. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_82b4f38e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_82b4f38e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_82b4f38e | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_835d1cd2 | type |
Satellite Love Interest | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_835d1cd2 | comment |
Satellite Love Interest: Sgt Joan Hogan, who is apparently Bilko's long-term girlfriend, but only appears when the plot requires her to be upset or angry with him for his insensitivity or not paying her enough attention. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_835d1cd2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_835d1cd2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_835d1cd2 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_849af6e1 | type |
Dragged into Drag | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_849af6e1 | comment |
Dragged into Drag: Spc. Dino Paparelli, when Bilko needs a mysterious woman to make Rita jealous. Dino hates it, but is flattered into embracing the role; it helps that Major Thorn is puzzlingly attracted to him. Rita, on the other hand, recognizes him instantly. From behind. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_849af6e1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_849af6e1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_849af6e1 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Sgt. Sowici disappears after the first season, and in a case of Remember the New Guy?, is repacked as mess sergeant by the much dumber Rupert Ritzik, whose first appearance establishes him as a long-time victim of Bilkos schemes. Joan Hogan, Bilko's sometime love interest, also disappears periodically. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_863fa679 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_863fa679 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_863fa679 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_86f27af6 | type |
Bait-and-Switch Tyrant | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_86f27af6 | comment |
Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: A stern-looking general visits Fort Baxter and unwittingly walks into a guest house where Bilko and the platoon are hiding a racehorse. To their surprise, he finds it funny. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_86f27af6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_86f27af6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_86f27af6 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_88dbce75 | type |
Card Sharp | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_88dbce75 | comment |
Card Sharp: Bilko. In one episode, Col. Hall hires real life card sharp Paul Draylin to beat Bilko at poker so badly that he'll give up gambling. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_88dbce75 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_88dbce75 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_88dbce75 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_89a600c0 | type |
The Eponymous Show | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_89a600c0 | comment |
The Eponymous Show | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_89a600c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_89a600c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_89a600c0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_8b4f491c | type |
Villainy-Free Villain | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_8b4f491c | comment |
Villainy-Free Villain: If one accepts the premise that Bilko is the villain of the piece, then he never actually does anything more serious than a handful of petty crimes and being a bit of a jerk. He never once actually sets out to harm his opposition Thorn in any way; the first time Thorn wound up framed for fixing a boxing match was completely by accident and something Bilko had no control over, everything after that is just Bilko trying to cover his ass (and protect himself from being framed in revenge). | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_8b4f491c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_8b4f491c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_8b4f491c | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_8cda3dc2 | type |
Flawed Prototype | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_8cda3dc2 | comment |
Flawed Prototype: The Hover Tank does indeed hover. However, the recoil from its primary armament always sends it flying in reverse. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_8cda3dc2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_8cda3dc2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_8cda3dc2 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_8dd4a996 | type |
Identical Grandson | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_8dd4a996 | comment |
Identical Grandson: Bilko's great great uncle, Major Joshua Bilko, who fought in the American Revolutionary War. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_8dd4a996 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_8dd4a996 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_8dd4a996 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_93e0970a | type |
Bowdlerized | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_93e0970a | comment |
Doubles as a Bowdlerized version from the original Army chant. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_93e0970a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_93e0970a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_93e0970a | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_99385626 | type |
Once for Yes, Twice for No | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_99385626 | comment |
Once for Yes, Twice for No: Ritzik's Medium in "Bilko and the Medium". | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_99385626 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_99385626 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_99385626 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_9c4a7090 | type |
Springtime for Hitler | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_9c4a7090 | comment |
Springtime for Hitler: In the episode "A Mess Sergeant Can't Win", Bilko is hurt that Ritzik's wife won't let Bilko attend Ritzik's going away party because of the $400 Bilko won from him over the years. Bilko decides to bet $400 with Ritzik on a sucker bet so that Ritzik can win all his money back as a going away gift. And true to the trope, all the bets (that there would be a cake at the party, that Col Hall and his wife's marriage is steady, and even that Ritzik was born in Peoria) go Bilko's way despite his best intentions. | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_9c4a7090 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_9c4a7090 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show | hasFeature |
The Phil Silvers Show / int_9c4a7090 | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_9edfdf1f | type |
Studio Audience | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_9edfdf1f | comment |
Studio Audience: The first 59 episodes were performed similarly to stage plays in front of a live audience; this changed when producer Mike Todd (of Around the World in Eighty Days fame), who was making a guest appearance, suggested that it would be better to film the show out-of-sequence like a Hollywood movie. In both cases no laugh track was used: the completed episodes were screened to an audience of military personnel whose laughter was dubbed into the episodes. | |
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Braids, Beads and Buckskins | |
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Braids, Beads and Buckskins: Subverted and played straight in "Cherokee Ernie": While traveling to the home of a Native American soldier, Bilko daydreams about the stereotypical Indian village only to find himself on a rather standard upper-middle-class ranch. The elders, on the other hand, are depicted in full traditional dress and living in tipis. Although the one who initiates Bilko into the tribe admits the chant he uses is something he got from a John Wayne movie. | |
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Nervous Wreck | |
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Nervous Wreck: Sgt. Pendleton (except when he had he upper hand, at which point he sometimes shifts into Unsportsmanlike Gloating) due to how much he suffers at the hands of Bilko. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
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Ascended Extra: While a larger example than usual for this trope, Sgt. Grover the head of Fort Baxter’s signal Corps is initially the least prominent of the trio of Bilkos rival sergeants but is also the only one to stick around for the whole show, and by the third season takes the lead while being Partnered with Sergeant Ritzik and falling victim to Bilkos cons. | |
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Status Quo Is God | |
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Status Quo Is God / Reset Button: For all his scheming, Bilko invariably ends up more or less where he started the episode. Lampshaded by Col. Hall when Bilko leaves the army to embark on his latest venture. The Colonel confidently predicts that Bilko will be back in the army within a week. And he's right. One episode has Sergeant Grover buying an engagement ring for his girlfriend (to the dismay of Bilko, who’d been about to try to con him out of the money he ended up using to buy it) but later episodes make no mention of her and still have Grover distracted by various women, making it likely she either turned him down or he is unfaithful. The penultimate episode has Bilko's sidekick Henshaw swear off gambling and get nearly every other man on the post to join a gamblers anonymous chapter, to Bilko's seething frustration and they remain resolute at the episodes end. The beginning of the final episode has Bilko running a crap game with Henshaw assisting him and Grover and Bilko's platoon (who'd been part of the gambler anonymous chapter) happily betting. | |
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Monster Brother, Cutie Sister | |
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Monster Brother, Cutie Sister: Bilko and the platoon convince themselves that Doberman's sister must be a beauty, because surely no parents would be unlucky enough to have *two* children who look like him. In fact, she looks exactly like him and is also played by Maurice Gosfield. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Thorn when he realizes that he just admitted to sabotaging the hover tank test in front of a four-star general. His face as he slowly tries to hide the fire control and super elevator board is great. Bilko as he reads his transfer orders to Greenland. | |
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Beautiful Singing Voice | |
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Beautiful Singing Voice: Fat, ugly, and stupid Doberman sings soprano solos in Bilko's glee club. | |
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A Simple Plan | |
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A Simple Plan: Most episodes start this way. Naturally, Finagle's Law usually intervenes and most end up Gone Horribly Wrong (or Gone Horribly Right). | |
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Playing Cyrano | |
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Playing Cyrano: Bilko plays this role for one of his soldiers in one episode, aptly titled "Cyrano de Bilko". | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: Bilko lectures the men of the platoon for making Doberman do their chores for them, then proceeds to scold Doberman for not ironing his clothes properly. | |
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Sleeping Single | |
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Sleeping Single: Col and Mrs. Hall have separate beds. | |
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Relationship Sabotage | |
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Relationship Sabotage: Bilko does this a few times, like when he thinks one of his men is being scammed into marriage by a Gold Digger. | |
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Tyrant Takes the Helm | |
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Tyrant Takes the Helm: Looking for a soft touch new lieutenant, Bilko conspires to have Papparelli appointed. To his dismay, Papparelli takes the role seriously and becomes a Drill Sergeant Nasty. | |
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So Proud of You | |
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So Proud of You: Bilko about Wally, after Wally saves the day with his faked hover tank test idea and resets the Colonel's odometer, finally lightening up and really joining Bilko's crew. | |
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Unexpected Inheritance | |
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Unexpected Inheritance: Col. Hall inherits $5000 from a distant cousin who died. He can't even remember his name. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name: Duane Doberman, Rupert Ritzik. | |
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Unwitting Test Subject | |
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Unwitting Test Subject: Zigzagged in one episode. Bilko and his men do volunteer to be tested for what was thought to be a dangerous biological weapon (fortunately it doesn't work) but only because they didn't Read the Fine Print on the forms doing so (although Zimmerman almost did before Bilko told him to quit wasting time) due to only noticing the part at the end saying all signing soldiers would be immediately sent to Florida, and assuming that was meant for the talent show. | |
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Soldiers at the Rear | |
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Soldiers at the Rear: No one at Fort Baxter has been near a battlefield since World War II and Bilko doesn't have the monopoly on sleazy finagling. | |
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Curb-Stomp Cushion | |
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Curb Stomp Cushion: Played for Laughs in one episode where (partially in order to gain some influence over a bookie by placing a huge bet with him and making him think they'll win) Bilko becomes the head of publicity for the underdog football team at the fictional Schmill College right before a game with Notre Damme (who have beaten them by over a hundred points in every game for decades). Schmill still loses the game horribly but find a cause to celebrate in finally breaking that humiliating point spread (albeit only by a single point). | |
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Monochrome Casting | |
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Monochrome Casting: Averted: Silvers faced down producers who tried to enforce this on the show (in contrast to the reality of the US Army at the time which had been fully integrated by then) by issuing an ultimatum - either the show included black characters and actors or he wouldn't do it. He won. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: Bilko uses this to his advantage in "Empty Store". He rents an empty store and says (truthfully) that he has no plans to do anything with it. Of course, no one believes this and they all assume has he another Get-Rich-Quick Scheme in the works. So all his rivals literally beg (and pay) him to make them his partners. | |
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Implausible Deniability | |
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Implausible Deniability: In one episode, Colonel Hall realizes that the reason the gambling-obsessed Bilko is so happy about the upcoming desert maneuvers is that the are near Las Vegas. Bilko and his men plan to abandon the maneuvers to hit the casinos. Usually, Bilko is a very good liar, but when Hall makes this accusation, Bilko is caught off guard, and his nervous denial is pretty weak. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Thorn takes what he thinks is a vital component out of the hover tank, thinking that it won't work during the big test and Bilko will be shipped off to Greenland. When it does work, Thorn continues to attempt to expose Bilko by claiming he faked the test while insulting Bilko and Hall. When a 4-star general demands evidence to support Thorn's allegations, he immediately shows the component he took out and asks how it could work without it before realizing he just admitted to attempting to sabotage the project. Cue a 2nd tour of duty in Greenland! | |
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Race Lift | |
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Race Lift: Henshaw is black in this version. | |
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Reset Button | |
| The Phil Silvers Show / int_d9c4365c | comment |
Reset Button: For all his scheming, most episodes end with Bilko pretty much where he started. | |
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Inelegant Blubbering | |
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Inelegant Blubbering: When Bilko's future at Fort Baxter seems bleak, he announces to his platoon that he has a plan, at first acting all confident before it erodes away quickly, culminating in Bilko shouting that he has a plan, writing it on a blackboard as PALN before breaking down. | |
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Historical In-Joke | |
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Historical In-Joke: Bilko's ancestor Major Joshua Bilko was unwittingly responsible for almost every disaster the colonists suffered during the War of Independence, from the Battle of Brandywine to recommending that Benedict Arnold be appointed to Washington's staff. | |
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Criminal Doppelgänger | |
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Criminal Doppelgänger: In "Viva Bilko", they encounter a Mexican Bandito who looks exactly like Doberman. | |
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Plot Allergy | |
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Plot Allergy: In "Bilko's Allergy", Bilko develops an allergy to playing cards. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Doberman repeatedly says "Aw, Sarge." with different inflections throughout the film. | |
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Divide and Conquer | |
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Divide and Conquer: Bilko gets bounced from a planned appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show by playing the crew against Ed himself. | |
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Weight Woe | |
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Weight Woe: Thorn asesses that Doberman is 50 pounds over the allowed weight for the Army and a later scene has Doberman required to do push-ups or he'll be thrown out. Since this is the motor pool, several members hop into a pit, Doberman lays over it and they, out of sight, push him up to trick Thorn into thinking he's doing it himself. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: "Playing Cyrano" features two women called Natalie - an aunt and her niece. Bilko doesn't realise there are two of them until he's proposed to the wrong one in an effort to scupper the proposed marriage of one of his men. | |
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Once per Episode | |
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Once per Episode: Bilko's get-rich-quick schemes. | |
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Digging Yourself Deeper | |
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Digging Yourself Deeper: Thorn in front of Gen. Tennyson at the second hover tank demonstration. After accusing Bilko of faking the test, he insults Col. Hall, screams at the General, and finally admits to personally sabotaging the test. | |
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Chain of Deals | |
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Chain of Deals: Bilko does a short one at the beginning of the third episode "The WAC". | |
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Hover Tank | |
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Hover Tank: The army has been developing a prototype that has a massive flaw; The recoil from its main gun tends to send it careening backwards. | |
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Get-Rich-Quick Scheme | |
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Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Bilko has one of these almost every week. | |
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Number Two | |
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Number Two: Sergeants Henshaw and Barbella are more or less Bilko's Co-Dragons, depending on whether one sees Bilko as hero or villain. They sometimes fight over who should fill a one-man role, such as who should get to be Bilko's Best Man this time. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Major Thorn, in the present, is motivated in part by the desire to do his job and in part by the desire to get back at Bilko. The latter takes more and more precedence, eventually going so far as to stoop to duplicity and sabotage. | |
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Mighty Whitey | |
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Mighty Whitey: In "Cherokee Ernie", having been rebaptized as Bald Eagle of the Cherokee Nation, Bilko uses inconsistencies in the original treaty ceding Oklahoma to the United States to lead a statewide Cherokee secessionist movement. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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