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* {{Confessional}}: One of them is used in episode 3 for some discrete discreet bribes. This is admittedly done to thwart [[strike:the bad guy]] an even worse guy, but the Catholic church still wasn't amused.
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* UnfortunateNames: "Schimmerlos" means clueless. "Baby" should be self-explanatory. For some strange reason, no one in-series ever {{lampshade}}s this.
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* ItsACostumePartyISwear: With a twist. Baby and Herbie were told that Banz wants to make a "Middle Eastern" themed party and put on disguises in ArabianNights style. Unfortunately, Banz rather meant "Afghan mudjahedeen" with that, so the two stick out pretty much.
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* ItsACostumePartyISwear: With a twist. Baby and Herbie were told that Banz wants to make a "Middle Eastern" themed party and put on disguises in ArabianNights ArabianNightsDays style. Unfortunately, Banz rather meant "Afghan mudjahedeen" with that, so the two stick out pretty much.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Episode 4. More [[ThoseWackyNazis nazi]] references than you can shake a stick at. Young blonde German women training with wooden clubs as if the wanted to recreate the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaube_und_Schoenheit "Glaube und Schönheit"]] (nazi organisation for young women), policemen yelling ununderstandable but menacing stuff, a police president named Doktor Adolf, and the protagonists using the aliases [[Creator/RichardWagner "Siegfried" and "Wieland"]] (while posing as the nephews of a Jewish composer, of all things). Oh, and the latest fashion for women apparently means that you have to look like a cross between a US marine and a neonazi skinhead.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Episode 4. More [[ThoseWackyNazis nazi]] references than you can shake a stick at. Young blonde German women training with wooden clubs as if the wanted to recreate the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaube_und_Schoenheit "Glaube und Schönheit"]] (nazi organisation for young women), policemen yelling ununderstandable but menacing stuff, a police president named Doktor Adolf, and the protagonists using the aliases [[Creator/RichardWagner [[Music/RichardWagner "Siegfried" and "Wieland"]] (while posing as the nephews of a Jewish composer, of all things). Oh, and the latest fashion for women apparently means that you have to look like a cross between a US marine and a neonazi skinhead.
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* ShowWithinAShow: ''Düsseldorf'', the German version of ''{{Dallas}}''.
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* ShowWithinAShow: ''Düsseldorf'', the German version of ''{{Dallas}}''.''Series/{{Dallas}}''.
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* AllStarCast: An all German Star Cast, if not all Bavarian Star Cast.
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* ButIPlayOneOnTV: Franz Xaver Kroetz who played "Baby" was asked by some German newspapers to write columns for them and did so - despite the fact that he had no experience with this kind of writing [[note]]He is a famous playwright[[/note]] and the result was... meager.
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* NamesTheSame: Letter-by-letter with an attack name in KingOfBanditJing manga. It is very probable that this is mere coincidence, though.
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* CosPlay: OK, not the kind you tropers may know, but how would you call it if some guy regularly dressed as KingLudwigII of Bavaria (the mad castle builder) and even rode in a horse-sleigh?
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* CosPlay: OK, not the kind you tropers may know, but how would you call it if some guy regularly dressed as KingLudwigII of Bavaria King UsefulNotes/LudwigIIOfBavaria (the mad castle builder) and even rode in a horse-sleigh?
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* ButIPlayOneOnTV: Franz Xaver Kroetz who played "Baby" was asked by some German newspapers to write columns for them and did so - despite the fact that he had no experience with this kind of writing and the result was... meager.
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* ButIPlayOneOnTV: Franz Xaver Kroetz who played "Baby" was asked by some German newspapers to write columns for them and did so - despite the fact that he had no experience with this kind of writing [[note]]He is a famous playwright[[/note]] and the result was... meager.
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The series features the adventures of "Baby Schimmerlos", gossip reporter for a fictional German tabloid, and his photographer sidekick Herbie, in the high society circles of Munich in TheEighties.
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The series features the adventures of "Baby Schimmerlos", gossip reporter for a fictional German tabloid, and his photographer sidekick Herbie, in the high society circles of Munich UsefulNotes/{{Munich}} in TheEighties.
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* AttentionWhore: Baby's mother thinks that the naked blonde woman she finds in Baby's apartment is this and only wants to use Baby to make the headlines.
* {{Determinator}}: Baby is willing to pull through an important meeting even when he has broken his leg. "I can do anything if I want!"
* DownerEnding: Baby lost his job at the newspaper, Mona left him, and he doesn't get famous with his story - instead, Banz bribes him with half a million.
* {{Filler}}: In episode 6, Baby's articles about events mostly consist of archive photos, the menu of the day and the guest list. Reason: He is spending all his work time spying on Banz.
* HideYourPregnancy: What Baby suspects the actress of ''Düsseldorf'' is doing.
* ItsACostumePartyISwear: With a twist. Baby and Herbie were told that Banz wants to make a "Middle Eastern" themed party and put on disguises in ArabianNights style. Unfortunately, Banz rather meant "Afghan mudjahedeen" with that, so the two stick out pretty much.
* MillionairePlayboy: Karl Banz, who makes millions for doing nothing.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: The minister president of Bavaria really isn't the most eloquent one.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Karl Banz, RippedFromTheHeadlines: In the ShowWithinAShow. From Baby's headlines, nonetheless. (He had accused princess Caroline of Monaco to be a nymphomaniac who makes millions for doing nothing.slept with several Arab workers who were adding [[PrincessesPreferPink pink]] marble to her bathroom.)
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* ZanyScheme: When he wants to confirm that the actress is indeed pregnant, Baby thinks up one to get some of her urine, for a pregnancy test.
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* AccidentalMisnaming:
--> Baby (to Haffenloher): "Nah, thanks, Herr Pfaffenhuber."
--> Haffenloher: (Guess what.)
--> Baby (to Haffenloher): "Nah, thanks, Herr Pfaffenhuber."
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--> Baby (to Haffenloher): "Nah, thanks, Herr Pfaffenhuber."
--> Haffenloher: (Guess what.)
--> Baby (to Haffenloher): "Nah, thanks, Herr Pfaffenhuber."
--> Haffenloher: (Guess what.)
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Ambiguously Jewish doesn\'t exist in Germany...
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* ThoseWackyNazis: The consul in episode 3 makes the Hitler salute when Herbie tells him to take a pose of triumph. Strangely, AmbiguouslyJewish Herbie isn't shocked.
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* ThoseWackyNazis: The consul in episode 3 makes the Hitler salute when Herbie tells him to take a pose of triumph. Strangely, AmbiguouslyJewish Herbie isn't nobody is shocked.
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* SpitefulSpit: The butler in #3 when the parliamentarian offers him a new job with them, after the consul has committed suicide.
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* ThoseWackyNazis: The consul in episode 3 makes the Hitler salute when Herbie tells him to take a pose of triumph. Strangely, AmbiguouslyJewish Herbie isn't shocked.
--> Herbie: "Not now, in twenty years maybe!"
--> Herbie: "Not now, in twenty years maybe!"
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I think we need to distinguish our Germanies here.
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''Kir Royal'' is a West German TV series from TheEighties, made by director Helmut Dietl and Patrick Süskind of ''The Perfume'' fame, the team also behind ''Schtonk!'' and several other successful and high-quality German movies and TV series.
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* {{Irony}}:
--> Dr. Adolf: "Do you know a place where we could get some amusement, at this time?"
--> Herbie: "Only one I know would be a private brothel, in Waldtrudering..."
--> Dr. Adolf: "Waldtrudering? Oh, too bad, I think I had that one busted last week."
--> Dr. Adolf: "Do you know a place where we could get some amusement, at this time?"
--> Herbie: "Only one I know would be a private brothel, in Waldtrudering..."
--> Dr. Adolf: "Waldtrudering? Oh, too bad, I think I had that one busted last week."
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* WorstNewsJudgementEver: Baby sneaks his article about queen Kati into the evening print without telling anyone. With the result that the headline "Queen Kati - we love you!" stands right next to Baby's article "Queen Kati plans genocide!" Justified because he is the only one in the paper who knew about her plans.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Episode 4. More [[ThoseWackyNazis nazi]] references than you can shake a stick at. Young blonde German women training with wooden clubs as if the wanted to recreate the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaube_und_Schoenheit "Glaube und Schönheit"]] (nazi organisation for young women), policemen yelling ununderstandable but menacing stuff, a police president named Doktor Adolf, and the protagonists using the aliases [[RichardWagner "Siegfried" and "Wieland"]] (while posing as the nephews of a Jewish composer, of all things). Oh, and the latest fashion for women apparently means that you have to look like a cross between a US marine and a neonazi skinhead.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Episode 4. More [[ThoseWackyNazis nazi]] references than you can shake a stick at. Young blonde German women training with wooden clubs as if the wanted to recreate the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaube_und_Schoenheit "Glaube und Schönheit"]] (nazi organisation for young women), policemen yelling ununderstandable but menacing stuff, a police president named Doktor Adolf, and the protagonists using the aliases [[RichardWagner [[Creator/RichardWagner "Siegfried" and "Wieland"]] (while posing as the nephews of a Jewish composer, of all things). Oh, and the latest fashion for women apparently means that you have to look like a cross between a US marine and a neonazi skinhead.
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* CloserToEarth: Mona, Baby's girlfriend.
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* DistractedByTheSexy:
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* TheSequel / SpiritualSuccessor: The movie ''Zettl'', which came in 2012. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally they had planned to expand it into a similar TV series, and have Baby as the main character again.]]
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* CosPlay: OK, not the kind you tropers may know, but how would you call it if some guy regularly dressed as king Ludwig II of Bavaria (the mad castle builder) and even rode in a horse-sleigh?
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* AllStarCast: An all German Star Cast, tf not all *Bavarian* Star Cast.
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* AllStarCast: An all German Star Cast, tf if not all *Bavarian* Bavarian Star Cast.
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* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Jerkasses Like Their Mamas]]: Baby[[spoiler:, although he learns it only when she's dead]].
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* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Jerkasses Like Their Mamas]]: Baby[[spoiler:, Baby [[spoiler:...although he learns it only when she's dead]].
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The series features {{expy}}s of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Strauss the then-minister president of Bavaria]], MarleneDietrich and others. Heck, even Baby Schimmerlos is supposed to be German gossip reporter Michael Graeter.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The series features {{expy}}s of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Strauss the then-minister president of Bavaria]], MarleneDietrich Marlene Dietrich and others. Heck, even Baby Schimmerlos is supposed to be German gossip reporter Michael Graeter.
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''Kir Royal'' is a German TV series from TheEighties, made by director Helmut Dietl and Patrick Süskind of ''ThePerfume'' ''The Perfume'' fame, the team also behind ''Schtonk!'' (the satire about the faked Hitler diaries) and several other successful and high-quality German movies and TV series. series.
The seriesis about features the adventures of the "Baby Schimmerlos", gossip reporter Baby Schimmerlos (of for a fictional German boulevard newspaper) tabloid, and his photographer sidekick, sidekick Herbie, in the high society circles of Munich during (as said) in TheEighties.
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* DepravedBisexual: Karl Banz (episode 6)
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* EarWorm: The title music
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* JerkAss: Baby
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* OlderSidekick: Herbie
* TheQuietOne: Herbie, the photographer
* ReallyGetsAround: According to Baby, this was Queen Katharina of Mandalia in her youth in Hasenbergl [a poorer part of Munich].
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Karl Banz, who makes millions for doing nothing
* TheQuietOne: Herbie, the photographer
* ReallyGetsAround: According to Baby, this was Queen Katharina of Mandalia in her youth in Hasenbergl [a poorer part of Munich].
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Karl Banz, who makes millions for doing nothing
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* TheQuietOne: Herbie, thephotographer
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* ReallyGetsAround: According to Baby, this was Queen Katharina of Mandalia in her youth inHasenbergl [a Hasenbergl, a poorer part of Munich].
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Karl Banz, who makes millions for doingnothingnothing.
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!! Provides examples of the following tropes:
* AffairHair: In episode 2. Baby doesn't even care to deny it.
* AllStarCast: OK, All *German* Star Cast. If not All *Bavarian* Star Cast.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Herbie
* ArmsDealer: The Swiss "Massaker-Raeber", which means exactly what you think it does.
* AsHimself: Among others, singer Konstantin Wecker and chef Eckard Witzigmann
* BigFancyHouse: The villa of the late painter Wilfried Schildkraut in St Peter am See. For just 3½ million marks, a real steal!
* ButIPlayOneOnTV: Franz Xaver Kroetz who played "Baby" was asked by some German newspapers to write columns for them and did so - despite the fact that he had no experience with this kind of writing and the result was... meager.
* CampGay: There seems to be at least one per episode
* CatchPhrase: "Edda, schreib!" (Edda, write!) for Baby. "Hysteriker!" (You hysteric!) for Edda.
* CloserToEarth: Mona, Baby's girlfriend.
* {{Confessional}}: One of them is used in episode 3 for some discrete bribes. This is admittedly done to thwart [[strike:the bad guy]] an even worse guy, but the Catholic church still wasn't amused.
* CosPlay: OK, not the kind you tropers may know, but how would you call it if some guy regularly dressed as king Ludwig II of Bavaria (the mad castle builder) and even rode in a horse-sleigh?
* DepravedBisexual: Karl Banz (episode 6)
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Episode 4. More [[ThoseWackyNazis nazi]] references than you can shake a stick at. Young blonde German women training with wooden clubs as if the wanted to recreate the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaube_und_Schoenheit "Glaube und Schönheit"]] (nazi organisation for young women), policemen yelling ununderstandable but menacing stuff, a police president named Doktor Adolf, and the protagonists using the aliases [[RichardWagner "Siegfried" and "Wieland"]] (while posing as the nephews of a Jewish composer, of all things). Oh, and the latest fashion for women apparently means that you have to look like a cross between a US marine and a neonazi skinhead.
* DumbBlonde: Herbie's one-episode girlfriend, Lisa; Baby's affair in episode 2, and Liane von Alvensleben in episode 5.
* EarWorm: The title music
* TheEighties
* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Jerkasses Like Their Mamas]]: Baby[[spoiler:, although he learns it only when she's dead]].
* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: Episode 5
* FoodPorn: The descriptions alone may qualify.
* FriendsRentControl / ImprobableFoodBudget: Averted; Baby regularly spends more money than he makes, is deep in debt and has to start to take what you make call, well, bribes.
* GambitPileup: In episode 3, consul Dürkheimer, Baby and a conservative Bavarian MP fight for a villa, each one with his own agenda and planning to cheat/double-cross someone else.
* [[BritishBrevity German Brevity]]: Only six episodes, if very good ones.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Katharina of Mandalia (nee Kathi Maiböck), who's really behind the brutal fight against the guerilla in her country and doesn't even mind doing business with the ArmsDealer herself. While in her negligé.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted; Mona did this at least once.
* IntrepidReporter: Except that Baby is just interested in gossip, not in uncovering political scandals. Except-except in episode 5.
* JerkAss: Baby
* MagnificentBastard: Media mogul Gregori Wiener (episode 6)
* MobileShrubbery: Baby and Herbie hide behind cut-off fir trees to take photos of Banz.
* NamesTheSame: Letter-by-letter with an attack name in KingOfBanditJing manga. It is very probable that this is mere coincidence, though.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The series features {{expy}}s of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Strauss the then-minister president of Bavaria]], MarleneDietrich and others. Heck, even Baby Schimmerlos is supposed to be German gossip reporter Michael Graeter.
* OlderSidekick: Herbie
* TheQuietOne: Herbie, the photographer
* ReallyGetsAround: According to Baby, this was Queen Katharina of Mandalia in her youth in Hasenbergl [a poorer part of Munich].
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Karl Banz, who makes millions for doing nothing
* SarcasticConfession: When Mona has enough of Baby and his affairs in episode 2 and wants to kill him, a security guard asks her whether she wants to kill someone with the big knife in her handbag, which she simply answers with yes.
* SassySecretary: Edda
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Baby, who won't take bribes of any kind, only because people want to read about themselves in his gossip column. [[spoiler: He changes his mind.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Glue producer Heinrich Haffenloher. "I'll shit my money at you until you give up!"
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Düsseldorf'', the German version of ''{{Dallas}}''
* SwappedRoles: Former diva Claire Maetzig has her servant Marie Craemer play her.
* ThemeNaming: Could be, with the girlfriends of Baby and Herbie (named Mona and Lisa), but lisa appears only in episode 1, so this might be coincidence.
* UnfortunateNames: "Schimmerlos" means clueless. "Baby" should be self-explanatory. For some strange reason, no one in-series ever {{lampshade}}s this.
* WTHCastingAgency: A leftist German author with no TV experience as a gossip journalist? Germany's most famous political cabaretist as his photographer? But Helmut Dietl makes it work.
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* AffairHair: In episode 2. Baby doesn't even care to deny it.
* AllStarCast: OK, All *German* Star Cast. If not All *Bavarian* Star Cast.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Herbie
* ArmsDealer: The Swiss "Massaker-Raeber", which means exactly what you think it does.
* AsHimself: Among others, singer Konstantin Wecker and chef Eckard Witzigmann
* BigFancyHouse: The villa of the late painter Wilfried Schildkraut in St Peter am See. For just 3½ million marks, a real steal!
* ButIPlayOneOnTV: Franz Xaver Kroetz who played "Baby" was asked by some German newspapers to write columns for them and did so - despite the fact that he had no experience with this kind of writing and the result was... meager.
* CampGay: There seems to be at least one per episode
* CatchPhrase: "Edda, schreib!" (Edda, write!) for Baby. "Hysteriker!" (You hysteric!) for Edda.
* CloserToEarth: Mona, Baby's girlfriend.
* {{Confessional}}: One of them is used in episode 3 for some discrete bribes. This is admittedly done to thwart [[strike:the bad guy]] an even worse guy, but the Catholic church still wasn't amused.
* CosPlay: OK, not the kind you tropers may know, but how would you call it if some guy regularly dressed as king Ludwig II of Bavaria (the mad castle builder) and even rode in a horse-sleigh?
* DepravedBisexual: Karl Banz (episode 6)
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Episode 4. More [[ThoseWackyNazis nazi]] references than you can shake a stick at. Young blonde German women training with wooden clubs as if the wanted to recreate the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaube_und_Schoenheit "Glaube und Schönheit"]] (nazi organisation for young women), policemen yelling ununderstandable but menacing stuff, a police president named Doktor Adolf, and the protagonists using the aliases [[RichardWagner "Siegfried" and "Wieland"]] (while posing as the nephews of a Jewish composer, of all things). Oh, and the latest fashion for women apparently means that you have to look like a cross between a US marine and a neonazi skinhead.
* DumbBlonde: Herbie's one-episode girlfriend, Lisa; Baby's affair in episode 2, and Liane von Alvensleben in episode 5.
* EarWorm: The title music
* TheEighties
* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Jerkasses Like Their Mamas]]: Baby[[spoiler:, although he learns it only when she's dead]].
* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: Episode 5
* FoodPorn: The descriptions alone may qualify.
* FriendsRentControl / ImprobableFoodBudget: Averted; Baby regularly spends more money than he makes, is deep in debt and has to start to take what you make call, well, bribes.
* GambitPileup: In episode 3, consul Dürkheimer, Baby and a conservative Bavarian MP fight for a villa, each one with his own agenda and planning to cheat/double-cross someone else.
* [[BritishBrevity German Brevity]]: Only six episodes, if very good ones.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Katharina of Mandalia (nee Kathi Maiböck), who's really behind the brutal fight against the guerilla in her country and doesn't even mind doing business with the ArmsDealer herself. While in her negligé.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted; Mona did this at least once.
* IntrepidReporter: Except that Baby is just interested in gossip, not in uncovering political scandals. Except-except in episode 5.
* JerkAss: Baby
* MagnificentBastard: Media mogul Gregori Wiener (episode 6)
* MobileShrubbery: Baby and Herbie hide behind cut-off fir trees to take photos of Banz.
* NamesTheSame: Letter-by-letter with an attack name in KingOfBanditJing manga. It is very probable that this is mere coincidence, though.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The series features {{expy}}s of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Josef_Strauss the then-minister president of Bavaria]], MarleneDietrich and others. Heck, even Baby Schimmerlos is supposed to be German gossip reporter Michael Graeter.
* OlderSidekick: Herbie
* TheQuietOne: Herbie, the photographer
* ReallyGetsAround: According to Baby, this was Queen Katharina of Mandalia in her youth in Hasenbergl [a poorer part of Munich].
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Karl Banz, who makes millions for doing nothing
* SarcasticConfession: When Mona has enough of Baby and his affairs in episode 2 and wants to kill him, a security guard asks her whether she wants to kill someone with the big knife in her handbag, which she simply answers with yes.
* SassySecretary: Edda
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: Baby, who won't take bribes of any kind, only because people want to read about themselves in his gossip column. [[spoiler: He changes his mind.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Glue producer Heinrich Haffenloher. "I'll shit my money at you until you give up!"
* ShowWithinAShow: ''Düsseldorf'', the German version of ''{{Dallas}}''
* SwappedRoles: Former diva Claire Maetzig has her servant Marie Craemer play her.
* ThemeNaming: Could be, with the girlfriends of Baby and Herbie (named Mona and Lisa), but lisa appears only in episode 1, so this might be coincidence.
* UnfortunateNames: "Schimmerlos" means clueless. "Baby" should be self-explanatory. For some strange reason, no one in-series ever {{lampshade}}s this.
* WTHCastingAgency: A leftist German author with no TV experience as a gossip journalist? Germany's most famous political cabaretist as his photographer? But Helmut Dietl makes it work.
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