Wednesday, 15 October 2003
I know notink! NOTINK! If you had to guess which American sitcom was least likely to be dubbed into German and rerun every weekday on German television, what show would you have picked?
Yeah, that's what I would have guessed too… but I'm flipping around the dial in a Frankfurt hotel room, and there it is: "Hogan's Heroes." Now here's a show that could only have been made in America in the Sixties: Bob Crane and his hip, wacky POWs running rings around those square, uptight Nazis. Prison camps have so many rules, maan. Turn on, tune in, drop out.
It's not that I put "Hogan's Heroes" in the that's-not-funny-young-man category (as George Carlin once said, anything can be funny), but somehow I didn't expect this particular show to appeal to a German audience. Shows what I know.
Time Warp! This entry was written (offline) on October 15th, but didn't appear online until November 10th.- Posted by Scott Forbes at 2:00 pm. comments.
