Our host Matt examines the failed sitcom "Heil Honey, I'm Home" about a Jewish couple living next door to Adolph Hitler. And yes, it's just as bad as it sounds. Matt's t-shirt provided by Codex Art & Apparel. Artwork by Ash Marnich.
Well, here are my thoughts: Heil Honey I'm Home is a work of art and it's hilarious. Yes it's in poor taste and it's also incredibly stupid but that's the whole point. To be honest I think you missed the point of it, in my opinion the show is mostly meant to be a satire of the traditional sit-com formula. They're so formulaic that someone thought "what if we used that formula but based it around the most tasteless thing possible?", and I think that's where the idea came from. It's not meant to be good a good show in and of itself, the whole point is that its bad. It's poking fun at how bad most TV comedy is, and that's what makes it good in my opinion. The whole show is one big meta-joke. And yes, they know Hitler was a bad person, that's the point. Just my 2 cents.
When you announced you'd be reviewing a BBC show, I thought, "NBC should be safe from ridicule in this one." But I've learned that NBC is never safe from ridicule. Poor poor peacock.
I cannot believe I'm trying to come up with a way in which this show "Could work" but having Hitler be the antagonist is the only logical call. Why they went the other way we may never know, and that is probably for the best.
AlanMandic I think it could have worked if the Jewish couple weren’t utterly reprehensible stereotypes. If they always had the upper hand and comedically foiled Hitler’s schemes. There should never be a time when you even remotely sympathize with Hitler.
@@ThePilotIsDead Yea that is basically what I was getting at. He could be comedically inept but should always be the bad guy. It really boggles the mind this ever got produced.
Wow, I didn’t know that. He was seriously the best part of that movie. His Tuesday speech was great. (But even as a kid I knew it was a terrible movie.)
@@ThePilotIsDead his kids were big fans of Street fighter, and like the original person noted he loved making it. He just loved doing film, and if I ever watch Street Fighter again it will be purely for him. And that Australian chick who played Cami, I can't think of her name but I kind of had a crush on her for a long time
gonna be interesting to see how JoJo Rabbit approaches the subject and how people react. i'm wondering if it's even going to get released now that disney owns it.
The animated opening was planned for the actual series, in which despite all being filmed, never made it to air. The pilot has a different opening sequence and not all the pilot cast returned for the main series. As bad as this is, I’d still like to see the unaired episodes someday. The actor who played the neighbour was in an episode of the British comedy “Bottom”. Scenes from the unaired episodes appear in a montage of his work. This pilot was broadcasted on BSB; a rival satellite TV company to Sky who merged with the latter in 1991 to form BSkyB.
raul julia actually knew he was going to die and did Street Fighter as a gift to his kids who loved the video games. And the movie is worth watching if only for his amazing over the top performance and JCVD's over the top horrible performance
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if there WAS a Holocaust joke in one of the lost eps. I also wouldn't be surprised if "lost" meant "destroyed with great prejudice."
You know, I personally subscribe to Mel Brooks view of things which is the best thing that the world could do for Hitler is to render him and his ilk absurd. I also believe that we need to continually confront things head on or we're going to repeat them. I just finished reading a fantastic book that was written in 1841 where the author had listed all of the stupidity of the thin last few hundred years, focusing on hysteria, Mass delusions, absurdities that gripped a culture. And if I just did a find and replace every essay he wrote could easily be adapted to anything in the last 20 years. As a species we continually repeat ourselves because we don't have long retention. I also subscribe to people like George Carlin who didn't believe that anything was a sacred cow. Honestly, I kind of would have liked to have seen this somehow get greenlit and continue past the pilot episode which as you say, fails spectacularly. I mean, okay it's a funny concept as a comedy sketch from a sketch show or something, but what would you do one episode after the next? What did the writers have planned? How many jokes could you make that were just double entender of actual historical events? I honest to God I'm curious beyond all belief.
yep it was from producer paul jackson and director juliette may from red dwarf but sadly this concept of the mien furher living next to an jewish couple was an bad idea thank the lord the show never took off and will be panned by todays standards .
i love the subject matter when you're actually talking about it, but having to slog through someone's stream of consciousness and all these non-sequitur clips, for like ten minutes before you finally get on topic, is REALLY difficult
