You've just gotta love this one! ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/comedys-fastest-cancellation-writer-hitler-sitcom-heil-honey/
Heil Honey I'm Home! A sitcom about Adolf and Eva Hitler living next door to the Goldsteins in 1930's Germany! ...
For veteran comedy writer Geoff Atkinson, getting Heil Honey I’m Home! commissioned – a sitcom about Adolf Hitler (yes, that Adolf Hitler) – was “the easiest job ever”. Atkinson recalls pitching the idea at a lunch with people from Noel Gay Television, which had an open production slate with fledging satellite broadcaster BSB.
“I told them I’d been playing with this idea and people seemed quite excited,” says Atkinson. “I wrote up about half a script and everyone was very pleased. It was simple to get it commissioned. There was no push back.”
On paper – or even in reality, depending on your perspective – Heil Honey I’m Home! could be the most tasteless, offensive British comedy ever conceived: set in 1938 Berlin, it's a parody of 1950s-style American sitcoms, in which Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun live next door to a Jewish couple, the Goldensteins.
In 2020, with ever-growing sensitivities and a so-called culture war being fought over what can and can't be said, it seems outrageous that Heil Honey would even be considered. Never mind go into full series production.
Here's the opening credits ...
What a beautiful toe-curling breath of fresh air: sending-up historical authoritarianism and blowing away the Zyklon-B cloud of today's bossy-booted woke regime with raw offence in one fell swoop! Mockery is sooo much funnier when the irreverent middle finger is raised to today's bunch of little Hitlers into the bargain!
The potential for one-liners of legendary proportions is endless ...
“You may be big stuff in Germany," spits Eva, as she accuses Adolf of paying her less attention than Goebbels. "But I remember you when you were just a house painter!”
“By day he runs the country, by night she rules the nest!”
Has Netflix missed a trick here! Could Heil Honey! reach the podium of cult status and vie for gold (or was that Goldstein!) with past classics?! ...
Come on Netflix, release Heil Honey! and invade our Lebensraums! Show us some things we wouldn't believe in this day and age and let the tears of laughter flow again - lest they be lost in the rain! Pull us back to the ledge and make this not a time to die ...
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