After all these years, I've only just noticed he is reading a "German" newspaper (with English title "The Daily Oppressor") and then asks "What did he say?" 😄
Äntligen! Låten har bleknat med åren, sedan jag hörde den i radion på 90-talet, men låttiteln och bandnamnet har hängt kvar i mitt minne i alla dessa år. Då och då har jag försökt hitta låten utan framgång, men nu är letandet slut och även om låten inte alls är som jag trodde så är den i alla fall helskön och ett par snäpp vassare än originalversionen. 😀
This is the kind of movie you really have to watch a couple of times to get all the jokes, and even then you'll miss a few. This movie was chockful with these kinds of visual jokes, not even counting the jokey dialogue. The ass-backwards scene in the bookstore is a masterpiece in itself.
Never knew this movie existed but I’ve laughed more from a few clips than from any entire modern comedy… well, unless you count all ten seasons of friends maybe…. But I suppose they weren’t modern either as they were done decades ago.
On holiday in england 84/86 uncle gave us a video to play to keep us 7nutjobs quiet,, what can i say that backfired we watched tat movie back to back we had to missed half of it pure laughter would love to c it again ,, choocolate moouse /gota hand it to the germans they make great cars /
When we watched the movie first time some 40 years ago, seeing a black conductor in East Germany, and even him, speaking German was the quite contrast, so I remember my friends were laughing in tears. Still I wonder , was this directors’ intention?
I thought this was a 15 minute clip from the number of jokes but it's barely 3 and a half minutes. So called "comedies" these days would struggle to have this many jokes in the first act.
*It resulted in your physical mailbox being filled with slick-paper ads every week and a 2-inch-thick catalogue landing on your doorstep four times a year. Old skool SPAM. Cheers!*
THAT's the size of MilkBone dog biscuits they were looking for ! there's more sight gags in Top Secret than Frau Blucher meeting Terri Garr with speedbumps.
This movie is a staple in our house. My four kids (all under 25) make their partners watch it and base their decision on whether they're 'keepers' on the reactions. A little odd but certainly understandable.
*But so spot-on. Well, you had to venture past Checkpoint Charley to see for yourself. Under Walter Ulbricht, East Germany strived to out do both the Soviets and the Nazis. The normally laudable German spirit (especially engineering) of "we'll show them how it should really be done" but ethically unfettered and writ large. Cheers!*
The Montgomery Ward one? They are (were) a big retailer in the U.S., like Sears or J.C.Penny. Long before the internet. Getting on their mailing list meant getting tons of physical paper in your physical mailbox. The original spam, in a way. Super annoying.
Every 3 months you would get a 3inch thick seasonal catalogue in the mail, and there would regular sales ads too. Once on the mailing list the only way to get off was to move.
I was at a concert once, the performers were Scottish. The performers gave a little introduction before the music, and I couldn’t understand a word they said. Then they began to sing and I understood everything.
