Column: Heil Honey, I’m Home

In this day and age, a person can find just about anything on the Internet, including the first and only aired episode of “Heil Honey I’m Home.”

“Heil Honey I’m Home” was a ‘90s sitcom based in the late ‘30s. It was supposed to be a comedy portraying a fictional life of Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun living next to a Jewish couple. The show centred on Hitler’s inability to get along with his neighbours.

 According to critics, the show was actually a tasteless waste of airtime that trivialized Nazism, the genocide and conflict of the Second World War.

“Heil Honey I’m Home” also parodied components of more classic ‘50s and ‘60s shows such as “I love Lucy” and “Leave it to Beaver.”

People could argue that due to the differences between the show and factual history, it was meant to be more tongue-in-cheek or avant-garde rather than hurtful and demeaning.

“Heil Honey I’m Home” has been compared to the likes of “Hogan’s Heroes.”

What I’d like to know is how the pitch for the show went. It’s one thing to be controversial when it comes to things like art, culture or politics but everything has a limit and the idea of that show went beyond it.

Movies and shows have portrayed Nazism before but as far as I know none have tried to make the era into a joke and that’s where “Heil Honey I’m Home” failed.

Copyright © 2024. All Rights Reserved. No part of this website may be reproduced without written consent. Please contact digitalcomm@lethpolytech.ca for more information. We encourage all readers to share their comments on our stories, photos, video, audio, blogs, columns and opinion pieces. Due to the nature of the academic program, comments will be moderated and will not be published if they contain personal attacks, threats of violence, spam or abuse. Please visit our editorial policy page for more information.
Related Posts