@@IronschmuckThey didn't, the wife didn't understand a word Audrey was saying to her, and Audrey didn't seem to notice because she did all the talking and the wife was appearing like she was listening. Neither of the couple understood a word of English, yet they managed to not just allow the Griswolds to spend an entire night there but somehow made the Griswolds continue to think they were their relatives they were looking for.
Nice to see this clip of Chevy Chase and Willi Millowitsch here. For those of you who don't know: The old man is Willi Millowitsch, he was a very famous and popular German stage and TV actor from Collogne. So as a German I feel this scene of European Vacation is extraordinary funny.
Willy Milowitsch was an absolutely legendary stage and screen actor. He was also deeply involved in Rhenish carnival culture and released quite a few records. R.I.P.
I love that part when Clark says "Guten Tag. My family and I are looking for sex." when he meant to say sechs which is pronounced "Zechs" and the guy calls him a pig dog in German
@@Genners111 Bitte mein freunde. I was saying and that's how they say you're welcome my friend but when you write bitte meine freunde that's when you're writing a woman mein freunde is to a guy
smashing! I noticed that the elderly people they've been to in Germany were well known actors - esp. the man with the white hair. His name is Willy Millowitsch who was a very famous actor with his very own theatre in Cologne, Aachener Straße. My granny used to live next door!
I love this scene. My other half is German and this is German hospitality when we go to see her family in Freiburg. There is always a plate of food or a beer put in my hand. Her uncle loves getting me drunk, I don't speak much German and he doesn't speak much English but we get on great.
From what I’ve observed, Germans either speak English really well or barely at all. When they do learn to speak it, it’s apparently not that hard because English is derived mostly from German.
@@matthewmcalister2165 That's true. That couple overall was very hospitable for letting them stay for dinner and for the night in spite of not knowing them at all
You'd think in a small German town on the same Straße, that this old couple would've known the real Fritz and Helga, and gladly point them out in the right direction
I don't think it was a small enough town where everyone knew everyone. That same town was holding that festival that they went to next, the one where Clark clashed with the dancers on stage
Thats right.I am from Germany and i love this film so much.The Stereotypes are so funny.Chevy Chase is brilliant.One of his best Movies ever.This Movie is timeless and always funny again."Fritz Spitz".....hilarious. :o)
Well i would say depends also a Bit of the Generation, people in the age of my Parents and grandparents for sure. I guess the Most germans of my age wouldnt but I know him because im living Close to His hometown Cologne. He was very popular there.
How awkward would that be... Having strangers walk into your house, speaking a weird language and pretending like they've known you forever x] It's funny how they let them stay.
I was a kid when I first saw this movie and I didn't realize how hospitable this German couple was. Nowadays, anyone else would have slammed the door in their faces.
the brilliant subtle way they hint at what was special about Jack. .at dinner when Audrey is talking to the old lady as they are passing the plate of the sausages she glimpse at the sausages and says God I miss jack. subtle hint but interesting
0:40 Dippelstrabe!!! I love ß. It gives the German language some character. Those who know anything about the German language and the EsZett ligature will understand why Clark's mispronunciation is hilariious.
Few people will know that the actor who play's the German host was rather famous: He ran a "folk theatre" (a theatre where comedies are played in the local dialect) for decades, and they were very successful in the 60s to the 80s on German TV: He's Willy Millowitsch, known to everybody older than 40. He's dead now, and his family theatre just closed its doors after 70 years - but he performed almost to the very end of his life.
This led to a running joke when we say goodbye to friends - “who the hell were they?” “Beats the shit out of me.” Deliberately said loudly enough for everyone to hear.
This scene was so funny and weirdly endearing. It made me really want to visit Germany. I've met many Germans and they are so warm and sweet and have a great sense of humor. Honestly Europeans in general 😁
Germany does have plenty of cute small towns, nature and beautiful scenerie. However, what you see in this part of the movie is actually Northern Italy, bordering Austria. And keep in mind, this movie is 37 years old. Though it´s just a movie and while it is still relatable to people my age, it was a very very very different time compared to nowadays.
I remember visiting our relatives in Guangxi, China. We went to the wrong village. Where? Our relatives lived and stayed at a strangers for about one week.
My mom went to Germany..where they filmed The Sound of music.. beautiful mountains.. then my mom and I and my daughter went to Banff, Alberta, Canada..the Canadian Rocky mountains..beautiful!!! Elk, deer, bears, rocky mountain sheep, wild goats.. beautiful..Canada
I had to look up what they said at the dinner table: Husband: Maybe these are Hermann's children from the woman he was married to in Hamburg. Wife: He didn't have any children
I love Germany/Ich liebe Deutschland! The largest portions in the World. The biggest beer mugs on Earth. The best freeways/motorways on the planet. How I wish to go back..
Actually she said: 'I don't know either' The words of the guy were translated correctly (though he uses the German word for devil instead of hell and he is not reffering to 'they', but to 'those people'). Subtitles in American movies often do not match what was really said in foreign languages.
The funny thing is that the old German man („Fritz“) whose name is Willy Millowitsch, is actually a Cologne legend and not Bavarian at all. Always seems weird to me to see him play a Bavarian. It’s like seeing Robert DeNiro portray a deep Texas cowboy or so. 😄
It's interesting to note that the sausage looked very similar to Cumberland sausage.This was originally brought into Cumberland (Now Cumbria) by German miners centuries ago.
Some of the points have already been made in this film. I guess young people could watch a new film like this, but the French people's reputation is wide-spread in the United States. I guess a movie about a trip to Spain would work because that country is absent in this movie.
Only Fools and Horses in the UK pulled off a very similar scene and joke. John Sullivan and John Hughes were pretty much kindred spirits in my mind anyway. Loved them both for their comedy and compassionate writing. Wonder if they ever met.
I took four years of German in high school and I was surprised they included that line, because probably less than 1% of the people who saw the movie got the joke!
