One of those did this show really exist obscurities? Heil Honey I'm Home ended up receiving a heavy backlash against it when it aired back in 1990 on the British satellite television network, Galaxy. The basic premise is a pastiche of classic American sitcoms like The Honeymooners with Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun played as generic American stereotypes, living next door to a middle-aged Jewish couple. The concept had lofty ambitions, and this might have worked perhaps as a five-minute sketch with tighter writing, but the problem with Heil Honey I'm Home, where there may have been the potential for some great, sharp comedy Atkinson, who admittedly I'm not all that familiar with as a comedy writer, his ambition far outweighs the sustainability for the show to have lasted long, crumbling under the weight of it.
Parodying classic U. S. sitcom and their tropess is all very well and good, but in the context of satire, it just feels shallow and tawdry. My objection to it was not as a matter of being offensive but trying to be gratuitously edgy for the sake of edginess. I will grant it that I did laugh briefly once at one line when Neil McCaul as the titular pseudo-Hitler caricature in attempting to compose himself needs to think nice thoughts, and then goes all gooey-eyed as he proceeds to think about Poland. Beyond that, and to be fair admittedly decent performances from its cast there's very little else good to say about it, other than its an obscure oddity, and worth seeing for just being a bizarre curiosity, but hardly a surprise it was canceled after just one episode when eight had been filmed.
Parodying classic U. S. sitcom and their tropess is all very well and good, but in the context of satire, it just feels shallow and tawdry. My objection to it was not as a matter of being offensive but trying to be gratuitously edgy for the sake of edginess. I will grant it that I did laugh briefly once at one line when Neil McCaul as the titular pseudo-Hitler caricature in attempting to compose himself needs to think nice thoughts, and then goes all gooey-eyed as he proceeds to think about Poland. Beyond that, and to be fair admittedly decent performances from its cast there's very little else good to say about it, other than its an obscure oddity, and worth seeing for just being a bizarre curiosity, but hardly a surprise it was canceled after just one episode when eight had been filmed.