“Nein Nein Nein!” The Inglorious Heil Honey I’m Home
Friday, August 21, 2009 at 4:04PM
In honor of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds and its sometimes wacky depiction of Adolf Hitler, I present to you one of the greatest blunders in TV history: British Satellite Broadcasting’s Heil Honey I’m Home.
Credible information’s hard to find on this turd from 1990, so let’s put our faith in the show’s, modifiable by anyone, Wikipedia entry:
“Heil Honey I’m Home! was a controversial Britishtelevisionsitcom, produced in 1990, and canceled after one episode aired.
The show centred on fictionalised versions of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, who live together in suburban bliss, until they are faced with new neighbours, Arny and Rosa Goldenstein, who are Jewish. The show’s plot is centered on Hitler’s inability to get along with his neighbours. A caption at the beginning of the episode presented the series as a ‘lost’ sitcom from the 50s, recently re-discovered. The show spoofed elements of 1950s and 1960s American sitcoms such as Leave It to Beaver and I Love Lucy, including the corny title, light (even vacuous) plots and dialogue, and unwarranted applause whenever a character appeared on screen.”
Way back in 1990 this was (apparently) a good idea. Television producers have learned, right?
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