Schultz: They DID blow up the ammo supply!
Le Beau: No kidding!
Schultz: You all knew it, before it even happened. How? H-how did you know it?
Hogan: Schultz, we know nothing, we see nothing, we say nothing!
Schultz: We know nothing, we see nothing, we say nothing. Very good! I'll have to remember that.
Hogan's Heroes (1965)
2 quotes from season 3
Starring: Bob Crane, John Banner, Robert Clary, Werner Klemperer
Request Permission to Escape - S1-E32
Continuity mistake: While Carter and Klink's secretary are conversing, the waste basket Carter holds switches positions from up to down and back again.
Trivia: During WW2 Robert Clary, who played Louis LeBeau, had been imprisoned at Drancy internment camp in France, and at Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp where he was tattooed with the number "A5714." He was the youngest of 14 children. Twelve members of his immediate family were sent to Auschwitz, and perished.
Question: What exactly is the "cooler"?
Answer: It's a slang term for an isolated jail cell. In wartime, POWs who attempted to escape or otherwise thwart their captors might be punished with solitary confinement, often in a cramped, poorly ventilated, windowless space.
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Answer: It's a solitary cell. Steve McQueen, star of 'The Great Escape' is known as the 'Cooler King'.