Damn. There really is some kind of a Neue Deutsche Ekelwelle (new German gross-out wave) going on. On TV, I mean. Or it sure seems that way when you read these comments about last night’s “Wetten, dass…?” show, anyway (it was competing for viewers with RTL’s smash hit jungle freak extravaganza).

“And in the end, one realizes sitting at home on the sofa just how awful our TV situation is. Especially when you tune in once a month to our big Saturday night show to watch our entertainment elites complain to invited foreign stars about how stiff Germans are compared to the rest of the word.

It’s no wonder so many guests have to get up and leave in the middle of the show to catch a flight. What kind of a country is this anyway, when you get invited to a show to hear the hosts continually complain about themselves?”

Oh I don’t know, it’s probably the same kind of country in which journalists write an article the next day complaining about the same thing. You know, complaining about the TV hosts who complain about themselves. There’s nothing ekelig (gross) about that. Germans just like to mecker around (bitch and grump) a lot.

It ain’t no big deal, really. It’s just what they do. And as you can see, I love to do so myself (bitch and grump), thank you, and I’m not even one of them. Maybe it’s the water here or something.

Und… „Amerikaner müssen Filme über unsere Geschichte drehen, damit sich die Jugend überhaupt noch dafür interessiert.“