Original question by @Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world
Ask any Australian/New Zealander who grew up in the late 2000s or early 2010s what they’re favourite show was and they’ll probably say something by Chris Lilley. In particular Summer Highs High or Jonah From Tonga. I used to love watching these shows when I was younger and Lilley is such a great actor. To this day there still quoted in schools all over NZ and Australia.
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Not exactly only in my country, but I was talking to some people a while back and realized something, there’s a TV show that absolutely everyone in Spanish speaking countries (and Brazil) knows of, and has watched over and over again, it’s so ubiquitous to us that the closest comparison in terms of how known it is that I can think of would be The Simpsons. However the show never broke the language barrier (except, like I mentioned, to Brazil where it was translated to Portuguese). So imagine going somewhere and realizing you can’t make Simpsons references because these people have never heard of the Simpsons. By this point I think every Spanish speaking person knows what show I’m talking about, but for non-spanish speaking people the name of the show is El Chavo del 8 (which translates to “The boy from the 8th” as in the boy that lives on number 8, the implicit joke is that he’s so poor he doesn’t even have a name, which sort of got ruined by translation because in Brazil he’s named Chaves)
Ask the Leyland Brothers
Does anybody like the Red Green Show outside of Canada?
How about Kids in the Hall? Best ever Canadian show by far.
Corner gas, Schitt’s Creek, also quite good Canadian tv
Aussie here that’s watched all of Corner Gas a couple of times, due to a recommendation from a Canadian friend. No-one else here has heard of it though. Big fan.
watched both growing up.
I didn’t get the red or green in the show but I had a black and white bunny TV that only got PBS.
I cobbled it together with hangers, aluminum foil, and tape. after all if the women don’t find me handsome…
The Littlest Hobo.
80s kids in Canada.
Link: https://youtu.be/0kabcD3r1Bs
Also: Today’s Special and The Polka Dot Door.
I was surprised Yu Yu Hakusho wasn’t as popular around the world as I thought.
Slam Dunk, too That was big where I live but growing up it seems to be largely ignored
Around the twist.
Still remember the theme tune.
I run into an Australian about once a year in Montreal and suddenly launching into singing that song within the first minute is the fastest way possible to make a new friend.
“Have you ever, ever felt like this” Australasian solidarity kicks in like we’re standing in Anzac cove.
When it was released, Alfred J Kwak was wildly popular in Germany and I think the Netherlands, too. I still consider it to be one of the most beautifully produced European animated shows from that era. DVD releases were sparse and I don’t think you can stream it anywhere (except some shady YouTube channels that probably are only left alone because the whole thing has pretty much disappeared into obscurity).
Something that I guess is only popular over here is Tatort, which is essentially your typical crime solving series. It’s released every other Sunday and always plays in some German speaking city or town. Quality varies wildly, but that is also sort of what makes it nice to watch, Tatort just hits differently depending on whether it’s the one from Münster or from Wien.
Wildly popular over here is also “die Sendung mit der Maus”, “the mouse program”, maybe. It’s usually a set of entertaining animated or puppeteered shorts, educational segments and few-seconds-long animations of the mouse. It’s been on air for decades.
Alfred J Kwak is actually a Dutch series.
I am Dutch btw. My parents always watched Tatort and any other krimi on ARD and ZDF, like Derrick, Cobra 11 and Kommisaris Rex. I learned to speak German at a young age thanks to the TV 😄
Alfred J. Kwak was actually a co-production of VARA (NL), ZDF (DE), TV Tokyo (JP) and TVE (ES). Lots of people involved ;).
Didn’t know those German series were popular across the border! Very interesting. And hey, learning a language is never a bad thing, I guess. Sometimes I wish the Germans wouldn’t dub everything.
I didn’t know it was a co-production, but I knew it was Herman van Veen! That guy had the weirdest kids show ever: “Daar komen de Clowns” (Here come the clowns) about a group of clowns flying through space in a giant top hat.
I’m watching Tatort Münster to learn German. Love Thiel and Börne.
Alfred J Kwak started as a performance by Herman van Veen. I still have the record.
En het orkest riep “boe”. Oh jee, dacht Alfred, wat noe.
I haven’t watched tv here in ages tbh, I don’t even know what’s on lol… though one of the shows I grew up with was “gustavo enciklopedija” which was an educational kid’s thing, and I doubt that was ever dubbed in any other language, so that’s probably something we only had in lithuania
Seinfeld
Never seen it, but I hear it’s schtick is that all the characters are horrid.
It’s like if the It’s Always Sunny characters took more effort to pretend they were good people, but silently ruin the lives of everyone around them.
I actually enjoyed it if only because it can give some context on how people justify some of the absolutely insane things they do. Very much a slow burn.
