In the UK, "The Snowman" animation based on Raymond Briggs's picture book appears to have become a tradition on Christmas Eve - since the eighties at least anyway.
No child or most adults can watch without bursting into tears.
Dinner for one: A little-known British comedy famous in Germany
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
And then the nuclear plant explodes and all the little cows fall over!
Zicke-zacke, Hühnerkacke!
Düm-Düm-Düüm, Düm-Düm-Düüm, Düm-Düm-Düüm-Dididüm-Dümdüüm[1]
Re: Dinner for one: A little-known British comedy famous in Germany
#43As a Brit deeply into comedy I can confirm my total ignorance of
"Dinner For One". How very strange what travels. Visiting the US I was
surprised how many Americans knew obscure and not terribly funny Monty
Python sketches word for word, and meeting a Chinese CTO once whose
first words were "Ah Mr. Bean".
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#44In Sweden, it has been shown since 1969 on New Year's Eve. The distribution rights were bought 1963, but since there was so much drinking involved it took 6 more years before it was broadcast. We use the Swiss version that is 11 min long, not the 18 minute German version.
Yes, it is huge here in Sweden. As an Anglo Saxon, I was surprised it was so popular and we never heard of it.
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#45It‘s British actors, but was filmed in Hamburg by the public broadcaster NDR. It is a tradition which is not that funny unless you are already shitfaced. Loriot, on the other hand…
My kids think it's the funniest, and they don't drink :)
Re: Dinner for one: A little-known British comedy famous in Germany
#46In the UK, "The Snowman" animation based on Raymond Briggs's picture book appears to have become a tradition on Christmas Eve - since the eighties at least anyway. No child or most adults can watch without bursting into tears. https://youtu.be/ZE9KpobX9J8
With or without the David Bowie voiceover?
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#47I’m reminded of the possibly apocryphal story about 30 Rock being the worst-received comedy in German tv history.
Because of the Liz Lemon German jokes?
Re: Dinner for one: A little-known British comedy famous in Germany
#48Here in Denmark, it's new years tradition to watch this on NYE, it's about as important as the Queens new years address. Also, it _NEVER_ stops being fun* [*] Legally required to hold this opinion.
And lest we forget: The hackneyed Disney Christmas Show at 1600 hours sharp on the 24th of December. In this household, Christmas officially starts when the mouse from Cinderilla squints and runs the thread through the giant needle's eye. These are generally the only two times of the year I have anything to do with live TV. Godt nytår!
Whereas in Sweden it starts at 15 and, for some reason[0], is titled “Donald Duck and his friends wish you Merry Christmas”, despite Jiminy Cricket being the presenter.
[0] The reason is obviously his popularity in Sweden
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#49Here in Denmark, it's new years tradition to watch this on NYE, it's about as important as the Queens new years address. Also, it _NEVER_ stops being fun* [*] Legally required to hold this opinion.
Do people drink along with it? Is it on TV or is a vaguely good copy available.
I‘m sure some people are drinking along with James the Butler (quite a feat) but that is not widespread. It is on TV each year but I would be surprised if many people aren‘t watching via YouTube.
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#50Also here in Austria, usually broadcast shortly before midnight. Not sure if the author confused it with Australia, which is confusingly mentioned under "Popularity across Europe", or lumps us up with Germany, which misses the fun factoid that we split up again in 1945 (and also tends to get people over here surprisingly pissy).
> usually broadcast shortly before midnight. That’s cute. It’s been a while, but last I checked, there were 10s of broadcasts of it on the different stations throughout the afternoon, evening and night in Germany ;)
Well, you have to scale everything down by a factor of 10 to map German scales to Austrian ones ;)
We have like 2 or so (?) public broadcasting stations. One of which makes a heroic sacrifice for the audience that wants to see Silversterstadl, so we need to compromise a bit.
Typical Austrian tradition is to get unreasonably shitfaced with friends/relatives throughout the day (same as every other holiday), until you have a sufficiently positive outlook on the new year.
In that state you're then able to bare the presidents new year speech for the purpose of sarcastically mocking it, actually find Mundl's antics afterwards funny and can round it off with "Dinner for One", right before going outside and playing with explosives. If you survive, you get to listen to the final parts of The Blue Danube afterwards.