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7''Heil Honey I'm Home!'' is a comedy show about UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and Eva Braun moving next door to a Jewish couple.
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9The show was written by British comedy writer Geoff Atkinson (one of the main writers of ''Series/SpittingImage'') in the 1990s, and is an almost perfect example of a StealthParody show. Possibly the most bizarre example of a "reimagining", the series set out to depict Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun living in suburban bliss, with their lives interrupted only by Hitler's dislike for their next door neighbours, an incredibly stereotypical Jewish couple. It was presented to the viewer as a "long lost", "recently rediscovered" 1950s sitcom, parodying and distorting beyond recognition the worst features of such programs (with unnecessary canned applause for every character entrance, hideously vacuous plots and dialogue, and a truly awful TitleSequence).
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11The show's ultimate intent seemed to be to illustrate and parody the banal, cookie-cutter nature of most shows in this style. However, if one changed the names of the main characters, along with a couple of lines, the show would be indistinguishable from a genuine post-war sitcom, and the humour is largely derived from the jarring fact that the domestic fool main character just happens to be Hitler. That said, it's hard to see how the premise, originally envisioned as a comedy sketch, would've been maintained over a series of shows.
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13Needless to say, the show proved to be more than controversial. Many found it to be offensive for its trivial attitude towards Nazism, whilst others considered it to be a legitimate comedy along the lines of ''Film/TheProducers'' and other Third Reich parodies, with the undeniable crassness being an intentional part of the wider stealth parody. And others just thought it was a boring sitcom pastiche that wasn't made funny simply by the fact that a guy dressed as Hitler was in it. Eight episodes were commissioned and planned by the now-defunct Galaxy channel of the now equally defunct British Satellite Broadcasting network, but only the pilot was ever aired. The show's filming was immediately canceled upon Creator/{{Sky}}'s acquisition of BSB.
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15Despite never being shown again, several episodes were filmed, and have since [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWjCkcAmzDc found their way onto the Internet]].
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17This has no relation to another short-lived sitcom (on Creator/NickAtNite/Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}), ''Series/HiHoneyImHome'' (aside from being a more overt spoof of 50s sitcoms).
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20!!''Heil Honey I'm Home!'' provides examples of:
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22* AdolfHitlarious: Although on a far smaller scale than the premise implies. Hitler is portrayed as your average sitcom husband with the CatchPhrase "I've been a baa--ad Hitler" if he did something foolish or Nazi-esque.
23* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
24** Hitler and Braun are married and openly living together in a suburban home in 1938. The real Hitler pretended to be single in public for propaganda purposes (he was "married with Germany"), and only married Braun one day before their deaths.
25** The first episode depicts UsefulNotes/NevilleChamberlain as single, allowing the Goldensteins to try and set him up with their niece Ruth. In reality, Chamberlain had been married for over thirty years by the time he became Prime Minister.
26* AsideGlance: Used by Hitler after he becomes suspicious. He looks at the camera and says "SHE KNOOOOWWWS!"
27* AskAStupidQuestion:
28-->'''Hitler:''' ''[answering the phone]'' Hi, Hitler here. ''[{{beat}}]'' No, ''Bob'' Hitler, who do you think?
29* CatchPhrase: "Honey, I've been a baaaaaaaad Hitler!"
30* CringeComedy: The show was meant to ''run'' on this, being that its main character was ''Adolf Hitler''. The humor was meant to come from how absurd it all was.
31* DinnerWithTheBoss: The plot of the pilot, only with Neville Chamberlain instead. The pilot was actually supposed to be a parody of this plot, but ended up invoking PoesLaw.
32* TheDitz: The unseen Goebbels is portrayed here as a huge idiot.
33* TheGhost: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels Josef Goebbels]] (who's the guy on the phone at the airport).
34* LaughTrack: The audience laughs at ''everything''. Though, that's obviously part of the [[AntiHumor appeal]].
35* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Everyone except UsefulNotes/NevilleChamberlain speaks in a fakey approximation of an American accent.
36* TruthInTelevision: Strangely enough -- Hitler did his best to maintain a quiet, bourgeois lifestyle with Eva Braun.
37* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Well, yes. It's ''Hitler.'' The show doesn't expect the audience to take his side at any given time.
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