Heil Honey, I'm Home

In 1938, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun live next-door to a Jewish couple, Arny and Rosa Goldenstein, in a spoof of mid-20th century American sitcoms which is driven by Hitler's inability to get along with his neighbors. The first episode opens with a caption card explaining the fictional back-story: it supposedly comprises the rediscovered "lost tapes" of an abandoned, never-aired American sitcom created by "Brandon Thalburg Jnr". Hitler and Braun have little in common with their historical counterparts, acting more like a stock sitcom husband and wife; Hitler, for example, appears in a golfing sweater and cravat as well as military garb. The series is a spoof, not of the Third Reich, but of the sort of sitcoms produced in the United States between the 1950s and 1970s "that would embrace any idea, no matter how stupid." In this spirit, the title, plot and dialogue are deliberately vapid and corny, and the characters have New York accents and are applauded whenever they arrive on set.