Videos: Hogan's Heroes, BBF Dance, Stan Sakai, Bernd das Brot

As mentioned in an earlier post, I was dumbfounded to find a German-language version of Hogan's Heroes on German television late one night.

Iisaw said that apparently the dialogue has little to do with the original American script, which I can believe, but there are other notable differences: no swastikas (they've been blacked out on the armbands of the Gestapo officer and Hitler is never mentioned (they just silently salute).

According the the Wiki article on the show, the German Powers-That-Be were -very- unhappy that this ever aired and eventually forced it off during its first run in the 90's. Another version (not sure what the differences are) was aired in the early 2000's and is obviously still airing.

As much as this is considered a "bad" show, I think it's one of the funniest shows ever made (along with Gilligan's Island and Get Smart).

( Here are a couple more videos from the con (under cut) )

These include Stan Sakai telling the story of Momo Taro, more Hogan's Heroes (in German) clip and a shot of the Saturday night BBF dance.

Videos: Hogan's Heroes, BBF Dance, Stan Sakai, Bernd das Brot

As mentioned in an earlier post, I was dumbfounded to find a German-language version of Hogan's Heroes on German television late one night.

Iisaw said that apparently the dialogue has little to do with the original American script, which I can believe, but there are other notable differences: no swastikas (they've been blacked out on the armbands of the Gestapo officer and Hitler is never mentioned (they just silently salute).

According the the Wiki article on the show, the German Powers-That-Be were -very- unhappy that this ever aired and eventually forced it off during its first run in the 90's. Another version (not sure what the differences are) was aired in the early 2000's and is obviously still airing.

As much as this is considered a "bad" show, I think it's one of the funniest shows ever made (along with Gilligan's Island and Get Smart).

( Here are a couple more videos from the con (under cut) )

These include Stan Sakai telling the story of Momo Taro, more Hogan's Heroes (in German) clip and a shot of the Saturday night BBF dance.

Videos: Hogan's Heroes, BBF Dance, Stan Sakai, Bernd das Brot

As mentioned in an earlier post, I was dumbfounded to find a German-language version of Hogan's Heroes on German television late one night.

Iisaw said that apparently the dialogue has little to do with the original American script, which I can believe, but there are other notable differences: no swastikas (they've been blacked out on the armbands of the Gestapo officer and Hitler is never mentioned (they just silently salute).

According the the Wiki article on the show, the German Powers-That-Be were -very- unhappy that this ever aired and eventually forced it off during its first run in the 90's. Another version (not sure what the differences are) was aired in the early 2000's and is obviously still airing.

As much as this is considered a "bad" show, I think it's one of the funniest shows ever made (along with Gilligan's Island and Get Smart).

( Here are a couple more videos from the con (under cut) )

These include Stan Sakai telling the story of Momo Taro, more Hogan's Heroes (in German) clip and a shot of the Saturday night BBF dance.

British TV: Oy! Mongrels and Hyenas!

Two more tv shows I was introduced to thanks to friends at EF and Fatkraken:

Mongrels
This is a Henson-like puppet show about dogs. This is to kids shows what Simpsons or South Park is to American kids shows (ie, played straight, with a lot of adult humor and sniff-jokes). Watch this and you'll finally get all the "Oy!" jokes running around the fandom lately.

Scratch and Sniff : these are two hyenas who were originally the puppet bumpers to a cartoon show that eventually got their own game show. Their goal to to help make kids smarter by eating the stupid ones. Noble ideals, indeed! One of the creators also worked on "Wolf it!"

British TV: Oy! Mongrels and Hyenas!

Two more tv shows I was introduced to thanks to friends at EF and Fatkraken:

Mongrels
This is a Henson-like puppet show about dogs. This is to kids shows what Simpsons or South Park is to American kids shows (ie, played straight, with a lot of adult humor and sniff-jokes). Watch this and you'll finally get all the "Oy!" jokes running around the fandom lately.

Scratch and Sniff : these are two hyenas who were originally the puppet bumpers to a cartoon show that eventually got their own game show. Their goal to to help make kids smarter by eating the stupid ones. Noble ideals, indeed! One of the creators also worked on "Wolf it!"

British TV: Oy! Mongrels and Hyenas!

Two more tv shows I was introduced to thanks to friends at EF and Fatkraken:

Mongrels
This is a Henson-like puppet show about dogs. This is to kids shows what Simpsons or South Park is to American kids shows (ie, played straight, with a lot of adult humor and sniff-jokes). Watch this and you'll finally get all the "Oy!" jokes running around the fandom lately.

Scratch and Sniff : these are two hyenas who were originally the puppet bumpers to a cartoon show that eventually got their own game show. Their goal to to help make kids smarter by eating the stupid ones. Noble ideals, indeed! One of the creators also worked on "Wolf it!"