OT - Mr Wizard

"Dan" wrote in message
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Richard Riley wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:59:37 -0400, "Peter Dohm"
wrote:


Interestingly, I heard a while back that someone had decided to run
Hogan's
Heroes in Germany. I don't recall whether they dubbed in the
conversations
or ran subtitles; but the show was not popular. (Duh!)

In any case, they changed the conversations and made Sergeant Schultz
and
Colonel Klink much less competent; and the show became a smash hit.

It was running on German cable for a while, it may still be.

One of the interesting things they had to change was the the phrase
"Heil Hitler." Apparently it's illegal to put on the air in Germany.
But, of course, when they shot the show all the Nazis greeted each
other by raising their hands and saying it.

So they replaced it when they dubbed it - with something different and
completely absurd every time. Like "This is how tall the sunflowers
grow!" Or "Is your daughter this tall?" "No, this tall!" Or "High
Five" "Don't touch me!"

I liked the way the Three Stooges said it - "Hang Hitler."

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

The Three Stooges were ... special.

Peter :-)