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Kilroy was here

Kilroy was here

Search complete. 4 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Kilroy was here".

Oct 29, 2026

Bart TophamGUEST
14:48
It's hard to say, to describe, but it was like a long-nosed individual peeking over a wall.
Bart TophamGUEST
14:55
And the sign underneath it said, Kilroy was here.
Bart TophamGUEST
14:59
Well, that caught on with the GIs in World War II.
Bart TophamGUEST
15:02
And they would make those drawings.
TomHOST
19:46
Let's make a connection between the two"? Or is this directly where they got the idea, and they just built a Doctor Who idea into something in the DLC? I think it's more likely the second, but what do you think? [upbeat music] Now, there's still a little bit more graffiti to talk about.
TomHOST
20:09
Do you guys know who Kilroy is? "Kilroy was here." Have you seen this anywhere in the DLC? Maybe the think tank or the sink where you have this funny little character, a little bald character with a nose and fingers peeking over a wall, and it says, "Kilroy was here." That is a reference to World War II graffiti art that looks basically identical to what you see there.
TomHOST
20:34
And I dug into this a little bit.
TomHOST
20:36
It turns out that it's very hard to know exactly when this became a thing during World War II.
TomHOST
20:50
The American soldiers had kind of their version of this.
TomHOST
20:53
The British soldiers had a slightly different version of this, and it was something that they would put on walls or even on weapons and things.
TomHOST
21:00
And it got to the point where when the Germans confiscated some of the American supplies that they found, they found these little drawings kind of etched on things, and they thought Kilroy may be a spy who was labeling things that he accomplished out in the world.
TomHOST
21:18
And so they kept an eye out for a spy who went by the code name Kilroy or something like that.

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