Reception
TV Guide described Oliver as a "clichéd plot device" and a "cookie-cutter villain", but Schwartz said that reception was mixed with viewers loving the character as "someone that we love to hate." Other reception noted that he was irritating but "addicting person to watch", that he "was able to exude as much hate that a writer could place on a single character", and that he was an "audience-infuriating nut".
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“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
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