But, yes, with all the cynical rip-off, you have to admit that watching a Saturday night show on the sofa at home on Saturday evenings feels a bit familial, at least in fading levels, if you actually do that once in the quarter - the milled childhood memories are even three decades of other television habits still not quite weathered.
However, if you look at four Saturday evening shows on four channels at the same time, it feels like a completely out of hand run family reunion: The awkward uncle pinches a back in the cheek and asks if you have already made Erdkäs homework. The talkative aunt supposedly wants to know how things are, then to tell long-distance-chattering only about himself. The silly brother-in-law asks again, when the fart competition starts. And the fidgety cousin, who really wanted to fake a double flicflac while balancing the fishbowl on his head, destroyed the tile table and scorched the curtains during the improper landing.
In a rare constellation of programming astronomy, the First, ZDF, RTL and Pro7 actually broadcast their own show last night - each with a format that can archetypically stand for the general show understanding of the respective broadcaster, with the appropriate channel-representative moderation powers ,
A pretty experimental arrangement for the question: Does this TV-traditional institution still tickle something today, apart from atavistic bathtub-terry pantyhose reflexes? Can you still look at it seriously today? And if so, in which transmitter interpretation?
ARD: Bootcamp in the disco pumpkin
ARD / Thomas Leidig / BrandNewMedi
Let's start with the uncle, who wants to query a continuous Latin vocabulary: The first , "I know everything" , moderated by Jörg Pilawa. The orange studio looks like being trapped inside a disco pumpkin, but the silly atmosphere is deceptive: this is nothing short of a boot camp of the mind. The winner was not able to identify a winner at the first issue of the show a few weeks ago, says Pilawa. Because no candidate made it to the final. But this is also the "heaviest quiz in Europe".
One considers still, which schikanöse additional achievement one must provide with an apparently even more demanding Quizsendung in the USA (give all answers in Duhudefu secret language? After the final question still a ground-level Limbotanz?), There it goes already starting with a juvenile Schniegelkandidaten , who must first compete in the category "Romy Schneider" against expert Alice Schwarzer.
There is dynamically meant background music of the kind, to which you see in retro clips on Youtube grimacing hippies dance in rubber suits. The Schniegelkandidat has reportedly never seen a Sissi movie, but knows that Sissi just fishing when she first met Emperor Franz. Great. Then he has to compete against the audience: "What is the plural of plural?", Pilawa asks with Fox smiles and then wants to know then on which occasions Idefix breaks out in the Asterix volumes regularly in tears. He has never read Asterix, says Günther Jauch. "Lupo, Goofy, that was my world!" And you never felt any more sincere sympathy with this man. Switch quickly so.
ZDF: Gottschalk's erotic youth fantasies
ZDF / Uwe Ernst
Thomas Gottschalk with Inka Bause, Claudia Roth, Uschi Glas and Andreas Gabalier
Next to the talkative aunt. On ZDF is "Gottschalk's big 68-show" . As he zips over, he's just sniffing an old mail order catalog and fantasizing about the skin-colored underwear models as an erotic stimulant of his youth. "Today they order sushi," he denounces the snacking habits of today's boys. If somebody used to say he was vegan, you would have said, go to the doctor. Gottschalk sits in the middle of a bizarre 68-panel of questionable qualifications:
- Uschi Glas, "sweetie" diploma
- Claudia Roth, then 13, but in possession of a bright yellow mini dress
- Inka Bause, born 1968
- completely bizarre: Andreas Gabalier, born in 1984.
In the past, music was still melodic, Gottschalk raves: "I can hardly remember anything about the current music - I always think that this is a song that lasts four hours."
Urgently hoping for the next station before someone says "monkey horny".
RTL: "Oh my God"
MG RTL D / Stefan Gregorov
Children's dancers on RTL
At RTL's "Supertalent" - the brother-in-law with the Furzwettbewerb - a crowd of children is dancing a concentrated choreography to a Backstreet Boys medley. It's very uncomfortable. People in the audience are running wild, getting up, Bruce Darnell is losing his temper: "Oh my God, that was so nice, kids, great, awesome!" Then he has to cry a bit. "I've never seen eight-year-old kids dance on Backstreet Boys," Sylvie Meis says, and one wishes her many such revival experiences. "The fun factor was crazy with you," says Dieter Bohlen, "the music of the Backstreet Boys was kind of cool at the time."
You already think in the mental bottom, so somehow in safety, stupid it will probably not be more. A Angela Merkel doppelganger who does not even look remotely after Angela Merkel arrives on the stage with a strong Polish accent and appoints Bohlen as "Federal Judge of the Casting Nation for Lifetime".
It is very stressful, one wishes back to the first, where now probably just Ulrich Wickert a candidate in the "Paris" -Themenrunde smiles in the ground. But first you have to listen to a memorable dialogue at RTL.
Dieter Bohlen: But Mrs. Merkel is much smaller than you.
Double: I'm just a double.
Then a man comes on stage who supposedly looks like Donald Trump, but in truth has just a shit hairstyle, and dances to "I'm sexy and I know it". Next, continue.
Pro7: Is that ham on Palina's wrist?
imago / Stefan Zeitz
Palina Rojinsky
At Pro7 - the fidgety cousin - Joko Winterscheidt is looking for "winner against beginner" just a crowd man, who compete against a gigantic muscle man and wants to pull a truck to the bet. Matthias Opdenhövel and Palina Rojinski are sitting on a couch. Her outfit looks from a distance, as if she had ever strapped a glazed ham around her wrists, which seems unlikely, but not completely excluded. Finally, when Evil Jared arrives to assist the candidate, the classic Pro7 show ensemble is complete. Rarely has the theory been held that there are in reality only 20 people in the world, more plausible than at this moment.
Ok, again a quick run
It's hard to decide on a favorite relative this evening. Or, more honestly, for the one who is the least annoying.
Another fast zapperrunde!
The first one clarifies why Romulus killed Remus, and that there are over 20,000 apple varieties on earth. "No, that can not be true!", Calls Alice Schwarzer.
In "Supertalent" a woman takes a tarantula in the mouth. "I'm speechless," says Sylvie Meis. "And now swallow," says Bohlen. On Pro7 two men hit a ball over a ping-pong table, apparently it is just very exciting.
MG RTL D / Stefan Gregorov
Dog dance on RTL- "Supertalent"
Politically speaking, the 68er nostalgia on ZDF becomes: "How is it that at that time we had the feeling that politicians know what they are doing?" Asks Gottschalk. "Today you have the feeling of poking in the fog and reacting sooner." The audience is tossing. Well, says Claudia Roth, the policy at that time had been pretty jerky. "Andreas, can we live with the new image of women today?" Asks Gottschalk. "Yes, absolutely absolutely," says Gabalier, grinning. And then Gottschalk starts with a story about how he always had to puke when it came to family holidays over the Brenner.
Was that it?
In the end, the first may be the longest. All other shows are already silent, as in the final, a Swiss plays for 100,000 euros. He has to sit in a so-called "final capsule", which floats from the stage ceiling: a mixture of the candidate ball, which gave it at the "Grand Prix", and a futuristic loo. This is music from "Captain Future".
"What does the name Siberia mean?" Pilawa wants to know. The candidate chooses "the land that sleeps". Then all staring at the illuminated letter "S" at the end of the lettering of "I know everything!" Because if the answer is correct, it will flicker. It really does not sound silly, just before midnight. The "S" flickers. "What a devilish stress," says the Schwarzer. In the background "On days like this" starts.
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