Back when I was in college, I took a course in German history. The professor, without any change in tone or inflection, seamlessly slipped "...springtime for Hitler and Germany, winter for Poland and France..." into a lecture.
This was before 2005 version of the Producers came out, and the original had come out before any of the students were even born. Three of us lost our shit, and several dozen other students were utterly confused.
Wow. I had no idea this existed. Hard to believe that at no point in the pre-production someone didn’t point out how entirely inappropriate the whole concept was.
Monty Python and Mel Brooks did a Hitler parody a decade or two before this pilot. That was much closer to the time of the war. I think, as others have said, the real crime is how unfunny the show is.
Mr. Hilter, the Monty Python sketch isn't that different than the concept for this show. It's a "what would it be like if Hitler existed in England in modern times?" (modern times being 1970)
As a sketch I could see someone smart being able to pull something funny with that premise, but as an actual tv show you really wouldn't be able to do much past the premise unless you really delved into Hitler as a character and made him empathetic, and yeah, you just can't do that with Hitler hahaha. Like how am I gonna empathize with a guy who murdered 6 million innocent people?
If Hitler is gonna be your main character then you have a lot of work to do to make it work. I did really like JoJo Rabbit though, but also he was just a side character and the director/ writer knew how to use him as an imaginary friend.
As an example, there's a Monty Python sketch about Hitler living in a B&B in England and running in the North Minehead by-election on a platform of annexing Taunton.
That's a shame. I mean, I understand why people would be hella uncomfortable with it, but this has the potential to be hilarious. Maybe we could get the guys from South Park working on it?
i disagree. you have comedies related to funny premises. the thought of taking a movie like hotel rwanda or schindlers list and transforming it into a comedy makes my stomach churn.
have you been abused or have experienced some other form of trauma? i cant think of anything funny that could be tied to genocide but im curious how someone could think that way.
I wouldn't necessarily say so. It's not really pleasant or nice, but I think there are tons of examples where people laugh at that kind of stuff. There's a whole genre of holocaust jokes (worm in apple, grandpa fell off guardtower, etc) and a lot of humour is based on 'punching down'. I don't think it's admirable or anything, but certainly a thing. As far as factors for why someone would think that funny, in general I'd guess emotional immaturity (which could have a variety of roots) and maybe low-grade sociopathy as an effect of privilege. Personally, I'm not a very empathetic person, which likely has roots in my upbringing but not something I'd call abuse.
I don't mind paying for public service broadcasters as long as they fulfil the public service part. I am mostly annoyed that they spend so much money on broadcasting licenses for football.
A bit different, but a few years ago there was a rather short German series called "Familie Braun", in which a Nazi found out he had a child with a black woman, who then leaves the child in front of his door.
Married to a Jewish guy. And the whole family is from Mexico. And they build a big wall between their house and Trumps. Because they think it’s “a shithole”.
And they have a BLM sign out front and fly a Pride flag.
"The way its built, they made it, it's the best quality, its the best fence in the world Nothing can beat this fence there is no fence whiter, the fence has been painted pearl white and built, its made with 100% American wood and not, none of that China wood"
1) The other person’s house is bigger by only a few sq feet so Trump starts making up reasons why “ACTUALLY Trump’s house is bigger when you factor in (insert made up bullshit here)”
2) The other person’s house is massively, undeniably larger, but Trump decides that the bigger house is stupid. That all people with houses bigger than his are dumb.
Yes, they charge it per household nowadays. It's 18€ now I believe per month, about $21 or so. In case you are military you don't have to pay it though, just FYI.
She’s a trans lesbian who’s moved in with her life partner (I’ve found this phrase irritates the right) and she has two dads, Jacob and Eric White. We call the show “The White Houses”
Maybe Jack Black could be nacho libre and move in next door in a big house. I don't think Jack Black's got anything going on right now so that might be a good role for him
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u/Flashy-Huckleberry95 29d ago
a mexican moves in next door