Heil Honey, I'm Home!

In 1990, the BBC broadcasted a delightful little sitcom that centred around two bickering neighbours and their never-ending fights with their respected partners. It's sound the typical cliched sitcom: The familiar dialogue, the canned laughter and stock characters yet with a slight catch.

It features Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun who live next door to a jewish couple called Arny and Rosa Goldenstein. It's called Heil Honey I'm Home, and think that's bad? It's centred around Hitler's inability to get on with his neighbours, his jewish neighbours. His neighbours, who are JEWISH. Really?

I could't think of a more inappropriate concept to develop on television. It doesn't make sense. The show only aired one episode and due to the inevitable controversy that would ensue, it got cancelled.
It essentially got criticized for trivialising Nazism and has since been considered the "world's most tasteless comedy" and was ranked 61, in Channel 4's 100 Greatest TV Moments From Hell.

I watched the episode and apart from the crassness, the humour was corny and awful. However, just the pure absurdity of the concept, is hilarious. Not in the sense as: This show is funny but the idea that someone deemed this suitable is funny.

Worse is the characters all sound like stereotypical Jewish New Yorkers, especially the Bronx area. Even Hitler and Braun have the stereotypical Jewish accents and humour. And the fact the Jewish couple have the name "Goldenstein" is a bit ridiculous. I know it's all in the vein of irony but this is something else.

Maybe in an alternate reality where the events of WWII were different, this might of been acceptable, but in a world where WWII still resonates in the modern day, it's not going to happen, and shouldn't.