History Channel Fan Check-in!

[WillyBrandt]

Fans of the History Channel, Check-In.

What's your favorite species of History Channel Show:

1. Hitler Shows
2. Stalin Shows
3. Civil War Programs
4. UFO Shows
5. Generic WWII Shows
6. Cold War Shows
7. Mail Call

I'm voting for the Cold War shows, but I can watch any WWII show they put on without any hestitation.

[roguevalley]

1. hitler because it reminds me of Bush and civil war because my g.grandpas

were on opposite sides and actually shot against each other in the same battle about a hundred years before I was born. :)

[sir_captain]

2. You mean the Hitler Channel?

But seriously, I too love watching stuff on the WWII era

[PartyPooper]

3. Hitler shows remind me of * and Poppy.

God, I must be a masochist! But, really, I love the WWII programs in colour. It reminds me of my father who was a vet of that war.

BTW, 'Mail Call' is repulsive...it SUCKS big time! AAARRRGGGHH! And, that obnoxious host! What ever happened to the "Scud Stud"?

I only wish that I received the International version of History Channel. There's REAL world history there. And, lots of it! They only show it on special promotions...once in a 'blue moon'.

Just my 2¢.

[roguevalley]

4. R. Lee is the DI in Full Metal Jacket. Everytime that is on I watch it

until he gets it. Love his character.

[gyopsy]

5. Surprisingly yes

All of my buddies and I watch the history channel. I don't smoke much pot but they do and they love watching all of these documentaries when they're stoned.

I love them when I'm sober. When I was a kid, they used to show us the most god awful boring documentaries in elementary school and so that put a bad taste of television learning in my mouth for years. The HC changed that. :)

[Captain Absolut]

6. MY GOD!

I watched 7 hours of it today...the whole thing on the Color of War. IT was awesome, but my ass hurts from laziness

[FDRrocks]

7. I was a fan...

but then I realized that the only part of history that channel really focuses on (in the timeslots where people are watching en masse) is war.

WAR. WAR. WAR. They should call it the War Channel, not much history going on.

[rockymountaindem]

8. History Channel has been my refuge

on the TV for years. Couldn't live without it.

[DrWeird]

9. You forgot haunted house shows.

Judging from that network, history is about the study of haunted nazi commies in WWII from space.

It's gotten as bad as Discovery, or MTV. I hear History International is better. They should replace it.

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. Up here we get History "Television", almost the same as History Channel

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And we get some more "revealing" shows than they get "down south"

And seeing as wars usually are a big part of changing History, yup, alot of war shows, but alot of ours are preceded or followed by an updated documentary and discussion about the same show.

Just watched Vietnam: Ghosts of War a 2004 documentary 2 days ago, quite revealing. and disturbing. Many references and comparisons were made to Iraq, including Rummy's rant about "It's a different time, it's a different place ..". He's right that far, but it's the SAME scenario!

And I noticed that alot of the posters make reference to the "H" shows.

How many of us will live long enough to be seeing shows about "W"?

Oh yah, "W" is the next star of the History Channels alright.

For those that are curious - click on the image below to check it out - there's some pretty good articles, transcripts and so on there.

[everythingsxen]

11. Hitler/WW2 Shows..

Above those even though would be the specific field of WW2 - Axis shows.

[gold_bug]

12. some of the Nazi documentaries are fascinating

They played one a while back, Secret History of the Third Reich. Something like that.

I also like the histories of industry.

I watched a little of the UFO thing tonight.

[AlienGirl]

13. The H Channel!

I live with historians, so that channel's on a lot in our house. I like the shows about how things have changed over time. The "History of Sex" series is great, for instance. I prefer shows that focus on the cultures people lived in, rather than battles or personalities.

I also like some of the WWII stuff, but don't watch it much. Every time Hitler is on TV, Jag makes a weird exasperated noise (I call it the "Hitler noise) and flips the channel.

The UFO shows mostly irritate me, because they focus on the UFO phenomenon itself when what I'm most interested in is the cultural reaction to the phenomenon...oh well.

Tucker

[everythingsxen]

17. Take me to your leader

:P

[AlienGirl]

21. Take ME to your dealer!

(I don't wanna meet your leader.) :P

[everythingsxen]

24. Do you want to make a deal?

Is dealing the sort of thing you are into? :evilgrin:

[AlienGirl]

25. Heh heh...you said "deal"

[everythingsxen]

27. I also said butt

Oh wait, no I didn't...

Butt :P

[AlienGirl]

29. Ass!

[everythingsxen]

31. Rump!

[AlienGirl]

44. Tuchus!

[everythingsxen]

46. Buns!

[AlienGirl]

47. Bee-hind!

[everythingsxen]

50. Boo-tay!

[AlienGirl]

51. Shiny metal ass!

[everythingsxen]

52. Butt-tocks!

[AlienGirl]

53. Nether regions!

[everythingsxen]

54. Spooky!

[phrenzy]

14. No Matter How Much I Think I Know About The Nazis

History Channel always comes up with something I didn't know. I agree, it is the only reason I have cable. Basically, my TV only tunes to A&E, History and Discovery. That's all.

[AlienGirl]

15. What's the weirdest thing you've learned about them?

The weirdest for me was hearing that Himmler had designed a sex doll. :shrug:

Tucker

[everythingsxen]

16. Yeah but.. that's so cool..

:D

[AlienGirl]

18. Uh...okay...

[everythingsxen]

22. Come on... Himmler with a sex-doll..

That's comedy!

Say.. why aren't there more Nazi related comedies on TV? The only one I can think of was Hogan's Heroes and it sucked.

Nazi's are a Comedy Central special waiting to happen. :D

[AlienGirl]

28. "Laugh hard at the absurdly evil"?

[everythingsxen]

32. Exactly!

Evil is too funny to *not* laugh at. :P

[phrenzy]

19. Damn!

That's the first I've heard of the Sex Doll thing? Wow!

One of the most twisted ones is about Rudolph Hess (aka Frauline Hess for his man-on-man exploits) parachuted into the UK to try and single handedly negotiate peace with The Duke of Hamilton (who had no power himself)

Bizarre!

[AlienGirl]

20. Yeah, apparently Himmler thought it was "safer"

IIRC there was some committee that was supposed to make the doll properly Aryan-looking. Himmler thought it would be safer for the SS to have these dolls than to sleep with prostitutes on the front. I don't know if they ever actually made these sex-dolls or not though.

I knew the thing about Hess. I also heard Goering used to cross-dress ("wore pink tutus and ate whole bakeries").

Tucker

[everythingsxen]

23. Yes..

It's amazing some of the stories one hears about the Nazi high command....

:evilgrin:

[AlienGirl]

26. You live with historians, you hear things!

[phrenzy]

30. Long Knives

Oh yeah, the purge they did - Hitler himself rousing Rohm out of his bed at his gay retreat and offering to "let" him shoot himself.

[everythingsxen]

33. Rohm asked for it...

He tried to consolidate more power than a man in his position should have. He should have known better... he should have gotten out when he could.

[AlienGirl]

34. Yeah--though I heard something interesting

The gossip I heard was that Goebbels had essentially talked Hitler into doing that because Rohm had made advances to Goebbels when they were drinking on a train, and Goebbels said no, and Rohm got forceful.

I also heard that Goebbels was bi and had an *enormous* crush on Hitler--even offering to "help him out" once when Hitler complained of sexual frustration.

Tucker

On edit: one of my roommates is one of three or four people who can read Goebbels's handwriting, and worked on translating the Goebbels diaries. So I hear a lot of Goebbels stories.

[everythingsxen]

35. Meh..

Maybe.. maybe not. I am inclined to believe the simplest answer, Rohm got greedy for power and made himself a threat to people he should have avoided becoming a threat to.

[AlienGirl]

36. I'm taking Ulex's word for it

She would know.

[everythingsxen]

37. Fair enough..

[phrenzy]

40. Rohm Controlled the brownshirts

That scared Hitler. I don't think it was so much a power play than it was the organization that Rohm controlled was in conflict with the newfound 'legitimate' power structure that Hitler developed as Chancellor.

[AlienGirl]

41. True; it was a way for the SS to take over from the SA

But I still think the little bit of gossip I heard about it is fascinating.

Tucker

[everythingsxen]

42. The Gestapo was sooo much cooler than the SA or SS...

Those coats were to die for! :evilgrin:

[AlienGirl]

38. When will they come out with the Physics Channel?

I really, really want that...

Tucker

[everythingsxen]

39. I thought that was TLC?

:P

[ConcernedCanuk]

43. Right now I'm watching "The Great Escape" on History Television

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You remember this guy



http://www.historytelevision.ca/film/greatEscape/



GREAT SHOW

[everythingsxen]

45. Wait..

Are they actually showing The Great Escape or is it like what we have on History Channel History vs. Hollywood: The Great Escape ?

[ConcernedCanuk]

48. Steve McQeen just ran his bike into the barbed wire .

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Does that answer your question?

:hi:

[everythingsxen]

49. Yes, yes it does..

:P

You wanna know my absoulte favorite part of that movie? It is very evil. It's when Bartlett and whoever he is with are getting on the bus and the Gestapo are checking everyones papers...

They are all through the business and as the guy gets on the bus the Gestapo man says "Good Luck" very courteously. He replies "Oh thanks". I love that part. :evilgrin:

(is evil)

[AlienGirl]

55. Oh, you just like seeing the Gestapo

Because it's your area of study and you like the uniforms. :P If they put the Gestapo on soap operas you'd probably watch them, too!

Tucker

[everythingsxen]

56. A Gestapo soap opera.. BRILLIANT!

"Vee haf vays of making you vatch..." :evilgrin:

[LibertyorDeath]

57. I love all of it because History is the future

Today was tomorrow yesterday.