13:54 "Früher war mehr Lametta" (there used to be more tinsel in the past"). This quote by Opa Hoppenstedt is extremely well known, practically a piece of German pop culture. I've even seen it graffitied on walls.

"Gut, dass das jetzt passiert, wo ich gerade da bin!" has become one of the go-to phrases in my family for whenever something goes wrong 😅

An attempt to translate the Advent poem people are missing: The night is blue, the stars a-twinkling, snowflakes quietly downward sinking. On the top of the fir noble sits a white and snowy lobe. And from the woods, a little light breaks the darkness, warm and bright! In the light of candles pure, the woodward's wife sits on the floor. In celestial nightly shine She killed her husband clear and fine. During house chores, as of late, his presence made her too irate. For her plan to murder may St. Nicholas be the perfect day. And when the deer rolled up to sleep, the hares yawned in swales deep, She took her husband notch and bead shoots him front into his head. The crack then caused our hare to the noise lift his ear. But soon he snores in the dark again while thousand starlets spark. And in the house in the wood the forester lies in his blood. His corpse is parted by his wife by aptle use of hunter's knife, The gralloching down to the bone In hunter's fashion swiftly done. With care she puts his limb to limb. Her husband never did this out of whim. She keeps a piece of tender meat to later use as Christmas treat. And four o'clock the woman wraps All other pieces and the scraps. Suddenly you hear a pounding. Dogs are barking, bells are sounding. Whose sorrow, whose plight drives him through the snow at night? It's Santa Claus, who on his sleigh is on his mssion, on his way. Hey, my good wife, have you a gift I can collect now on my shift? The woodward's house is snow-enclosed. But his wife is well disposed. Those four packets and the fifth, it's all I can dispense with! Santa Claus leaves, jolly singing. The silver bells are quietly ringing. The candles's light is so sublime. A sparkling star! It's Advent time!

The kid that played Dickie was actually a girl. When Loriot died, there was a documentary about him and his most popular works, including 'Weihnachten bei Hoppenstedts' and there was mentioned that they casted a child with undiscernable gender, and that was the girl that acted as Dickie.

I love how they emphasize how sustainable, green and environment friendly the tree is without the tinsel, just to bury the whole place with wrappings just minutes later. Loriot always hid pieces of social criticism in his shows.

There was a time, in the 60s and 70s, when a lot of travelling salesmen were running around trying to talk people into buying over priced stuff. Wine and vacuum cleaners were typical items for that. That phrase "Es saugt und bläst der Heinzelmann, wo Mutti sonst nur blasen kann" has become a fixed part in the german language, even till today. Loriot is simply legendary.

Loriot is generally pretty difficult to translate. He loved to use words that are very typically german. Just to name one example, while "Auslegware" can be translated as "Carpentry", a more literal translation would be something like "laid out goods". He really loved to use these kinds of word entanglements. It makes the characters in his sketches sound extremely German. And that was kind of his thing. His humor took these stereotypes, exaggerated them (though just to a small degree, to the point where they are still believable characters, but also believable caricatures. The point of these caricatures was to present the viewer with the illogical behaviour they tend to display, while at the same time poking fun at it.

Loriot is legend. RIP Vicow von Bülow

Loriot was a master of portraying German ways and mannerism. He was ultra precise and highlighted the absurdity of everyday situations and interactions better than anyone else. Everything is a bit over top, but very serious at the same time. The wine name are fantasy name hinting at the fact, that Germans wines have hilarious names in reality, while nobody laughed about that etc Loriot is great

We do not necessarily watch this every christmas, but so many phrases from this became our go to phrases, like: "Abgezapft und originalverkorkst von Pahlhuber und Söhne." "Tapped and flubbed by Pahlhuber and Sons." In my family there is no wine served without this phrase being spoken. We never had tinsel on the tree, but when the tree is revealed, we say: "Früher war mehr Lametta" "In the old days there was more tinsel". And whenever there is stress with the scedule, somebody says: "Jetzt wird erst der Baum fertig geschmückt und dann sagt Dicky ein Gedicht auf. Dann schauen wir die Weihnachtssendung im Dritten Fernsehen und dann machen wir es uns gemütlich." And everybody laughs and the stress maker is silenced...

R.I.P. Loriot, Grandseigneur of german comedy with an outstanding sense of humor. We miss him but his gags and scetches will stay forever in our hearts and minds! By the way, quite intersting channel, watched several Videos until now. Love to listen to that scottish accent👍 Subscribtion left ✌️

Loriot was extremely good in observing people and then finding the right amount of exaggeration to make it very relatable and comedic at the same time. In some videos it also is a picture of German society at that time and representing subjects that were discussed. There’s also a video about what could happen when a picture is a little bit crooked. Almost no talking. So it could be something for you to watch. One version with subtitles is on KZfaq. Das Bild hängt schief- „The picture is crooked“ Loriot in English.

In my family it's common to use the punchlines ("Früher war mehr Lametta", "Opa, nun sei mal gemütlich", ...) as running gags in everyday life 😁. Btw. You missed the Cartoon that Dickie was watching on TV (~5min cut). Maybe it was too hard to translate the very lyrical language. Grüße aus Niedersachsen 🙋‍♀️

So many details get lost in the translation. You would need a minute long monologue for almost every sentence to explain the context. It's much about ambiguity, choice of words, behavioral norms. Loriot was great at capturing it.

No, there were no such toys as the DIY nuclear plant that will explode if you make a mistake. The show is from the 1970s, well before Chernobyl, when everyone was told that progress is good and nuclear plants are perfectly safe and cannot possibly explode. Loriot's very own subversive humour at it again. FWIW, you may have missed the toy that other custormer was trying out. Loriot's humour can sometimes be sexual (another example in this particular show is the dialogue about the "Heinzelmann". The German equivalents of "suck" and "blow" have similar secondary conntoationas as in English. There is more even in this particular show, but it gets lost in translation. For example, when Mrs Hoppenstedt talks about being a member of society, the word she uses for "Member" has a very peculiar secondary meaning which does associate with words such as "suck" and "blow") . It's stuff that I only understood many, many years after watching the show for the first time.

The line "früher war mehr Lametta" ("In the old days, there used to be more tinsel")still today is often used to say (in a funny way) that back in the days, things were better aus today

Travelling salesmen like that may have been more common in Germany in the 1970s than they are now. Needless to say, the names of the wines as well as their taste attributes are entirely made up - there is no wine called "Vogelspinne". At least there wasn't. Back in 2011, in celebration of Loriot's 90th birthday, wines of that name were actually sold in a limited edition, for charity. However, there also exist actual names with somewhat strange names. The first that comes to mind is the "Kröver Nacktarsch", literally "Kröv naked a_s.

"Früher war mehr Lametta" is something every German hat heared

Yes, we watch it every year. Loriot is a genious. He is so special, there is nothing that compares with him.

Definitely a tradition to watch! They cut the TV show the kid watches which is a several minute long poem - a translation of that would be a piece of art on its own!!! It is as hilarious as it is brutal (criticism of TV content not being suitable for kids?) which is why the grownups burst out with laughter. I thought they might cut that :) It is also a tradition in Germany to give presents with educational purposes. The selection of toys in the store is - again - criticism of what constitutes toys for child's play "nowadays" - well, the show is old by now, the topics still present nowadays, I guess. Timeless! Thanks for your perspective, Mert!

Great to see that "German humor" also works outside of Germany! 😊 I love Loriot since I was a child. I got a lot of his books and never missed an episode of the series. Unfortunately a lot of play on words got lost in translation. When for example Mrs. Hoppenstedt is talking about being "an own member" ("ein selbstständiges Glied"), the german word "Glied" can mean "member" as well as "penis". Loriot's sexual puns are very, very subtle, but obvious. He was the king of puns. It's a pity that this version of the episode is very shortened. The original has a runtime of about 45 minutes and included the famous "Jodeldiplom" ("yodel diploma") and Loriot's Christmas poem which is one of the most sarcastic Christmas poems ever.

Yes, this as well as "Dinner for One" and "Ein Herz und eine Seele: Der Silvesterpunsch" are definitely Must-Watch-TV.

My family watches this one every year before unpackng our presents.

I love the comedy of Loriot. It is so well done and multi-layered. There are the right-in-your-face Gags, the yisual comedy, the between-the-lines jokes and the hidden hints and all in between. Remarkable that they could sneak in sexual offensive things inside a family show in the 70s. I promise I didn't get them when I was young, but now I can understand them and be fascinated about the high form of art that is presented here. Of cause there is a lot of playing with words that can be hardly translated or if, would not do the trick.

Loriot is the best. I don't watch his stuff regularly, but he very well captures absurdities in German family life.

The puzzle if Dickie Hoppenstedt is a boy or girl is never solved in the skits. The child was played by a girl.

As you've seen, this show consists of various individual sketches that are related. That video you watched is just 15 minutes long because two more sketches that belong to "Weihnachten mit den Hoppenstedts" aren't included. One sketch is called "Vertreterkonferenz" ("salesmen conference"), it shows a conference of that guy with the Heinzelmann vacuum cleaner with his collegues in his company. The other sketch is a cartoon called "Advent", basically a very macabre poem about a hunter's wife who had killed her husband and gets rid of his body.

Since Loriot really was a master in playing with the german language, it is really hard to translate the meaning of some parts of his sketches. Though it is still funny to read the translation.

I wouldn't say it's a tradition - but it's one of the best works from Loriot!

Loriot's sharp-witted humor never disappoints. Out of all his acting roles, grandpa Hoppenstedt is still my favourite, though. Just watching him walk around while gesticulating to the Helenen-march has me rolling on the floor, laughing. Glad you enjoyed it.

An absolute classic. Watching this on a regular basis since the 1970s 😂😂😂

There actually is a winery named "Pallhuber" in Germany and they sell wine by coming to your home. Famous vacuum cleaner manufacturer "Vorwerk" used to sell vacuum cleaners like that. They even had a model that could double as a hair dryer, maybe not at the same time as you used it as a vacuum cleaner.

There is nothing like Opa Hoppenstedt 😂 Yes, almost every year!

Grandpa Hoppensted and the Blümel wine salesman are acually both Loriot himself in case you did not know.

The thing about the tinsel is about the German military. The shiny medals of the soldiers and higher ups were refered to as "Lametta/Tinsel" cause there were officers with a lot of medals making them seem worthless shiny objects.

Absolutely. Every year. It's a must.

we watch it every year but never really plan to do so. If we look what's on and see Loriot we watch it.

It's hillarious when a Scot tries to say "Oberföringer Vogelspinne" or "Klöbener Krötenpfuhl" 😂😂😂

Back in the day and even today to some extent the children had to sing a Christmas song or tell a poem before getting any presents. I wonder if other countries do this.

Second generation Loriot fan here, just watched this sketch with my son (12) he almost died with laughter and loves all the other stuff by Loriot as well

The traveling salesmen were a thing in the past. Wine, House-Goods (Brushes, etc), vacuum cleaners, tupper ware. The funny art of the names (of the wines) is, you could guess in the past from the name how good the wine is. Here in the comedy the names are fictional. If a wine was called Vogelspspinne (tarantula) it means it was sour as hell and shocking you away right from the start. If a wine was like krötenpfuhl (toad puddle) it was muddy murky and left a bad taste. So the comedy of loriot was not only consisting of the obvious jokes like the guillotine in the kids store, but also deeper meanings that were apart from the obvious context. He also played a lot with language, because he was a perfectionist in may ways, but unfortunately that is hard to understand in translations.

Phrases you can use throughout all of December: "Früher war mehr Lametta!", "Wir heißen alle Hoppenstedt" "Und DANN machen wir's uns gemütlich!" "Falsch! Wie der zweite!" "...wo Mutti sonst nur blasen kann :)"... Or maybe that's just me and my husband (and the rest of our families) who basically quote the whole thing back and forth all through the festive season XD Proudly looking forward to the time my kids can recite "Zicke zacke Hühnerkacke" under the Christmas tree!

It's my favourite tradition to watch it with my mom. It is a masterpiece

Two of the best parts are cut out... When Dickie and grandpa watch TV 😂

"Früher war mehr Lametta" is a famous, german quote nowadays. You can even buy shirts, pullover and stuff with this words printed on it. And me - or at least my german generation - is watching this classic every year on tv, true! Fun fact: As a kid ... I owned one of those nuclear plants to build for yourself! XD

I always laugh so hard.... I had not seen this in a long time, thank you for showing it.

My father told me in his youth in the 60ies/70ies there was a wine seller coming every other week ringing the bell and selling wine (and YES, giving out samples). My grandparents used to buy his wine and would always praise it as such high quality and offer it at special occasions and family/friends meetings. Turned out later that the wine of this brand was actually contamined by chemicals. But I'm positive it was high quality chemicals.

I don't know if there is an English translation, but my parents loved to watch "Familie Heinz Becker", "Family Heinz Becker". There is also a christmas episode called "Alle Jahre wieder" - (rougly) "Every year again". This is very crude german humor about christmas at the Becker family. This series was created in the 90's and was a very popular TV show. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a5uHgaRe0bymZ30.html Unfortunately this one has no English subtitles. Maybe there's another source with subtitles.

The "Früher war mehr Lametta" has a double meaning. It either means Lametta as a silver decoration for christmas trees. It could also mean the medals of army uniforms. When officers had many medals, wearing them at every occasion, it was said "he is wearing much lametta" too. Making a little bit fun of it. For the grandpa s a little militaristic and of "another time" it´s the joke of it, when he sais it at christmas listening to military music.

loriot is one of the very big ones - what a timeless classic

"Mein Gott, dann hat es eben KEIN Zipfelchen!" 😂😂😂 I'm a german and don't like german comedy at all (I'm more a Monty Python geek) but Loriot (R.I.P.) is the only exception. He was a genius in wordplay and visual comedy. Every german can relate to his sketches because they are an apt observation of the stuffy bourgois of the seventies. He examined the absurdity of reality and the failure of communication like no one else. Altough I am rather young and was born long after the first broadcast of his shows I quote Loriot all day everyday. So many of his lines became part of the usage of our language. His cultural impact is amazing. Our parents loved it, we love it and our kids love it. I watch the "Weihnachten bei Hoppenstedts" every year since my early childhood. It's indeed a tradition. Loriot, Evelyn Hamann and Heinz Meier are still missed. "Zicke zacke Hühnerkacke" Many of the jokes get totally lost in the subtitles. For example Frau Hoppenstedt's line "Ich möchte ein Glied sein in der Gesellschaft. Ein Glied, dass auf eigenen Füßen steht." is so funny because of the double meaning of the word "Glied" (member) which also means "Penis" in german. So she wants to be a "penis in the society. A penis standing on its own feet."

I have been watching that for as long as I can think. Loriot was such a genius and no matter how many time I watch his films, they never fail to make me laugh

Loriot is also called "Intelligent Sense of Humour" and I love it so much! Somehow the parody fits in well with my family, my grandad had marching music cassettes and at least once a month he would lock up in his living room, there was a mighty stereo system in a built-in wall and because he was almost deaf, he would turn it up full blast. For at least an hour. My parents got into a fight while untangling the fairy lights for the Christmas tree - before that we had real candles and one year (I was 5 or 6), in the middle of gift-giving , my mum suddenly screamed and my dad ripped open the terrace door, grabbed the decorated Christmas tree, blew out the remaining candles from the tree as good as he can ... the tree caught fire! He threw the whole tree into our garden, wo burned in the snow. I was the only one laughing so hard, I almost pissed myself. Another year, when I was 12, our cat sneaked behind the tree during gift-giving, the tree flew to one side and almost hit the ground, my mum screamed and the cat fled under the sofa. A minute later we left the living room choking, the cat had pooped behind the Christmas tree. The stench was just awful. 😂 And there I was again, in tears laughing 🤣 And one year I got a Carrera track and my dad set it up and played with my brother, who was almost grown up at the time, until I started crying and my mum was fed up. 😂 Christmas today is really boring - "Früher war mehr Lametta!" 😂👍

omg this is literally the best christmas comedy... I also watch this every year. its a must

"Es saugt und bläst der Heinzelmann, wo Mutti sonst nur saugen kann." "The Heinzelmann is sucking and blowing when mama can only (vacu)suck." Yes and also in German this can have a sexual connotation.

Omg yesss, this is my favourite at christmas, thanks for reacting!

Fun fact - the actor playing the salesman of the "Heinzelmann" broke his arm shortly before the filming session. So Loriot had to change his actions, dealing the machine with only one hand.

The "Helenen-Marsch" that Grandpa wants to listen to all the time is a traditional march from Prussia, when Germany still was an empire (until 1918), I guess that Grandpa fought in WWI

I just found your channel and I'm happy that you found Loriot. This sketch is a must watch for me every year at least once :-) It's actually longer though, you missed out on some very funny scenes, i.e. the actual Christmas tv program With that marvelous accent of yours, though, you could recite a list of plants and I'd listen for hours 😂

Tratsch im Treppenhaus is also a timeless classic and must watch on new years eve..

A somewhat fluent translation of the vacuum cleaner slogan could be: "Heinzelmann, blows and sucks in one go, where mommy otherwise just can blow." To somewhat catch the rhythm of a product campaign slogan and include a rhyme plus the innuendo. I know, "suck" is not a synonym for vacuuming but it works a little if you think of airflow - the vacuum cleaner sucks it up in the front and blows it out into the hair-thing. And yes, the "sucking and blowing where mom just can blow" is not a subtle innuendo 😁 As for the wines: I saw another comment that mentioned "Vogelspinne" and "Krötenpfuhl" being wine jargon for bad wines but I don't know much about wine and I couldn't find a source to confirm it. But anyway, it's still funny even if you aren't a wine expert: Vogelspinne = tarantula = big, fluffy, hairy spider. Krötenpfuhl: toad-murky pool/puddle. Both create images that you do not want to associate with having on your tongue (fun fact: there's the "Tarantel" in the German language but that's not the same type of spider as the English tarantula. Taranteln belong to the wolf spider family, meaning Vogelspinne and Tarantel are not synonyms in German. Irrelevant for the video and yes, I'm fun at parties.). Her reply "Somewhat fuzzy" when he asks how it tastes and the way they roll the wine around in their mouths adds to it (just to be sure: Please don't roll hairy spiders and toads around in your mouth, dear children, it scares them. Also, don't drink unfiltered water from bodies of water in the wild, murky or not, unless you are a German giga chad named Otto). Jungferngärtchen = virgin + small garden (-chen at the end of a noun is what turns a cat into a cute kitten in German). Well, on the one hand, "Jungfer" not only means virgin in the human sense but also "new" so at first glance, this one almost sounds legit, like "new harvest" or something. It also sounds very dainty (and pretentious, like all of them). But it's another dirty joke if you know that "Jungfern" isn't plural as one might think in this context. Written in one word, the "n" between Jungfer and Gärtchen is a linking element, indicating possession. So, it's the little garden of a maiden/virgin. That can be another visual, especially in the much hairier 70s, if you want. However, the punchline isn't even the naughty joke but the guy's immature schoolboy-giggle when he says the word "Jungferngärtchen". His reaction makes sure that you understand the naughty connotation (it's almost like it's supposed to say, "Yes, we mean the 'garden' of the virgin with this, not a pretty young woman taking a stroll in a pretty garden"). Edit, because I forgot: there's another German word with "Jungfern" that's the same length and also has an "ä"-umlaut and ends with "t-chen" - "-häutchen". It might be a bit far-fetched to call the linguistic/phonetic closeness intentional but I wouldn't be surprised...but since I might be completely wrong, I'm not going into further detail and leave puzzling that one together to any poor soul who reads this whole comment 😁

The toast given by Frau Hoppenstedt about being an eigenständiges Glied in society is a reference to another sketch worth seeing about a Jodel-School.

We really watch it every year - it's a family tradition and everyone knows the quotes 🙂.

Finally! You discovered the master. We just celebrated his 100th birthday. Check out his two cine films. I saw them around 25 times each and still discover a new gag in the background.

those Christmas scenes evoke the horrors of my teenage years! I'm marred for life!

This has got to be my favorite Loriot...definetely watch it every Christmas

This year would have been Loriots 100th birthday. To honor him the Caricatura museum in Frankfurt am Main presents an exibition about his life and work, that is just great. If you are in Frankfurt am Main before the 12th of May 2024 you have a chance to see it. Part of the exibition is the "We build a nuclear plant" game. There is also info about his life that is not that well known and some "serious pictures" from him.

This is really the finest and most classic piece of german comedy. Loriot´s humour is really a part german culture.

The missing part is when the little boy switches on the tv and there comes a nice little poem about the peaceful Christmas time. It sounds so cute by the way how it is said but describes a murder.Some people hate it. And it is untranslatable.

I still watch it every year. I remember watching it when I was a toddler, and thats 40 years ago! Can recitide the whole thing 😂

If you‘re intrested, there are even more skits that kinda belong to this where you already get to know the family Hoppenstedt. There is one called „Das Jodeldiplom“ where Frau Hoppenstedt takes a course to get her “yodeling diploma” (it’s not a real thing, but there even is an english wikipedia entry for it😄) to be her own member in society. This is what she refers to when she is talking here about being her own member. Monty python and Mr. bean are also very popular with a lot of germans. I watched “weihnachten bei Hoppenstedts” almost every year growing up. Many quotes from this are used in my family regularly, we know pretty much all of the dialogue. Don‘t even live at home anymore but when I’m at my parents for Christmas we‘ll definitely watch this😊

When Ms. Hoppenstedt says that as a woman she wants to be an independent member of society, the German is particularly funny because she uses the word Glied for member. In German, Glied not only means member, but also todger. So she is saying that as a woman she wants to be an independent todger who stands on her own two feet. Loriot was the greatest.

I believe at 11:49 a part was cut out. Maybe one of Loriot’s animated cartoons. Therefore this version is shorter than the other one

That's an iconic video from an iconic comedian. His comedy partner Evelyn Hamann ist also a legend, she made Loriot's works great with her acting skills. The line "früher war mehr Lametta" (not really grammatically correct😉) ist a cult phrase, which is quoted until today. The names of the wines are a parody on existing names wich sometimes sound funny, too. The name Dickie doesn't mean "dick" in Germany, we rather think of a fat person.

I hit the like button right away before even watching the video, it's so awesome to see you react to that particular Loriot episode!😁 I definitely need to watch it every year, along with the Christmas episode of a show called "Familie Heinz Becker". Both shows are shown during the Christmas days on several public tv channels (maybe even all of them). I love the typical Loriot-style use of words, like these complicated and basically non-sensical names of the wines and how part of the joke is that they aren't actually even that unrealistic. And I love how the mother reclaims several times how "gemütlich" it is in their home. I think this word can't be translated very well, the words used in the translation don't really fit in my opinion. Some phrases are actually well known and (jokingly) used in different contexts, like "früher war mehr Lametta" (there was more tinsel back in the day). The part where she gave that drunken monologue about being a "member" of society was already explained in other comments. She used the word "Glied" which can either mean "member", or a term for p*nis. I like the contrast between these people being kind of uptight (including the way they speak, especially the very 'orderly' and professional salesmen) and then seeing them getting drunk and messing up often rather complicated words and sentences (another great one for me is "verkorkt" (corked up) vs. "verkorkst" (screwed up) by the wine salesman). I also like that little detail a lot when Dickie is sent to his/her room by the mother, only to be called back by her to join the family probably not one minute later, in such an impatient way, like "why does this child always have to dawdle?". I also like Mr Bean, but it's not really on German tv during the holidays, I believe. I think one private channel shows a Mr Bean marathon on Christmas eve(?) each year, but I'm not sure. If I catch that I watch it, including (and especially) the Christmas episode, of course.

That‘s 70th comedy, where you could buy toy soldiers, plastic guns of all sizes. But the toy shop scenery is way over the top 😁

Loriot was such a delightful ham. Awesome.

Fun fact about the nuclear reactor set. Around the same time Loriot wrote his sketch, the KWU (Union for Nuclear Reactors) released a similar 'set' where you could build your own pressurised nuclear reactor. Of course it's just a scale model made of paper!

A few fun facts about this wine: 1) The wine company "Pahlgruber & Söhne" (& sons) refers to the actually existing wine company "Pallhuber", whose customer Loriot was probably. Many years ago I worked as a technician at a household trade fair. As I was walking around the halls during my break, I spotted a wine tasting stand from the company "Pallhuber". I immediately thought of the Loriot sketch - and asked one of the employees if he could say something about it. An old employee then confirmed to me that Loriot had used their company name without asking, but had changed it slightly so that it wasn't too noticeable. However, he could not conclusively confirm that Vicco von Bülow (Loriot's real name) was a customer at the time, but there were a few clues. But with a wink he admitted that they would have benefited quite a bit from the indirect mention. 2) The wine names mentioned in the video are based on wines that existed at the time - only slightly renamed. I refer you to a Wikipedia entry called “Vertreterbesuch" (Representative Visit). The wine names are assigned in one of the lower paragraphs. 3) Three of the Loriot wines mentioned and one "Spätlese" (Late harvest?) were actually sold by a winery in Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate?) from 2013 onwards. Over 120,000 bottles (as of 2016) were sold for a good cause (DRK - German Red Cross Bremen). Google search: "Pahlgruber und Söhne liefern wieder" (“Pahlgruber and Sons deliver again”).

Loriot ist eine Legende RIP Loriot

17:17 How he Grandpa kicks the TV...gets me everytime when I see it ^^

Two things where missing. Every time a family member watches TV, there where actually a little cartoon playing. The first was a Christmas poem about the forester's wife killing the forester and giving the wrapped up body parts Santers little helper as presents for the poor. And the second cartoon was just a children choir. The poem is probably hard to translate.

this is epic! thx for bringing it up.

There were a couple of cut-aways that were cut from this version, which played outside the Hoppenstedt's home. We get a glimpse into the board room of the Heinzelmann company with great visual and lyrical humor, and when Dickie watches TV, there's a cartoon animation of Loriot reading his famous Advent poem. This version seems to focus on the core of the Hoppenstedt family experience 😊

the english loriot subtitles are quite accurate and on point.

To the best of my knowledge there's never been such a play set and Loriot uses Atomkraftwerk (atomic power plant), not Kernkraftwerk (nuclear power plant), the former is traditionally used by opponents while government and advocates use the latter so that it sounds a bit less like Atombombe, nuclear bomb. The original is from 1978, plenty of law suits and protests going on back then organised by groups which would become the Green Party in 1980.

You should also check out "The Picture is crooked" by Loriot! 😂

Although I love Loriot, I have never watched this. But I know the phrase "Früher war mehr Lametta" and immediately recognized this :D Now I know where it's from...

Our tradition is everybody watches it sometime in the advent weeks and the grandparents give a presentation at the Christmas dinner table each year. 😊

As a kid (born 1971) there were salesman going around in a neighborhood offering vacuumcleaner, book abonements, soap and cleaning stuff and frozen goods etc.

Vogelspinne - birdspider (tarantula); trockenes Domtal - dry cathedralvalley; Krötenpfuhl - toad puddle; Jungferngärtchen - maid garden The other words are cities or regions. The wines of Germany usually have such names which are the place where the grape was harvested. I don't think that the ones in the video exist but they sound like they could.

"Früher war mehr Lametta" has become a saying in our family

the cut parts: - (between toystore and stairway) sales meeting of the Heinzelmann suck'n'blow where they discuss the tactic of faking one broken arm to demonstrate how easy the handling is. - some transitions by Loriot, later joined by Evelyn (the Mom) and some decorations - [I somehow think there's an animated part missing when the kid kicks the TV, but that's cut from the version I can find, too ] - when Grandpa kicks the tv, there's an animated choir "remix" skit [also missing from the version I can find]

It's great to see you discover the German comedy scene. Makes me want to revisit some of the classics, too. Keep it up! I really enjoy seeing to exploring this stuff, and getting another perspective of things. Have you discovered other 70ies classics like "Nonstop Nonsens" yet?

One of my favorite comedies. My parents used to buy wine like that... the guy was called the Wein-Pfeil (wine arrow). The name of the wines are pure parody for German wines have really funny or strange names like Nacktarsch (naked butt). We do watch this every year around christmas! Greetings from Düsseldorf!

Is there a version of Ekel Alfreds (Ein Herz und eine Seele) Silvesterpunsch?

Classic xmas eve... pure Chaos. quite en pointe

"Last time, there was more tinsel!" :D

The quote "there used to be more tinsel in the past" I used in our retirement home just yesterday when a colleague decorated the tree in our living quarter.

The child actor who played Dickie was actually a girl. I love Loriot so much, I grew up with the comedy of this genius. Nowadays it's difficult to get hold of it because his heirs enforce copyright very strictly.