Angelogen!

[muckefuck]

Okay, that was kind of painful. I've been on a Scrubs binge lately. It was never a show I watched when it was in prime time, but I caught some episodes in syndication and enjoyed them, so I've been working my through season two on YouTube. I just got to an episode featuring a German patient and his brother. The German was all comprehensible and grammatical but just so glaringly non-native. Neither of them could pronounce ch for Scheisse. I went to the IMDb and looked up the actors. One even has the urauthentisch name of Ingo Neuhaus, but turns out to be an American army brat who, though born in Karlsruhe, grew up in Texas. The other guy was Danish. Both looked insanely Aryan. Still, kudos to the writers for Not Mentioning the War. Instead we got kooky references to Nena. Vorschritt!

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[mlr.livejournal.com]

Too bad the reference wasn't Nina (as in Hagen).

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Wrong demographic.

[anicca-anicca2.livejournal.com]

Fortschritt?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Das auch!

[linuxcub.livejournal.com]

Durch Teknik ?

[anicca-anicca2.livejournal.com]

Also, I never got the "Don't mention the war" thing, I don't think any German gets it, unless they're very well educated in terms of British stereotypical views of us but most of us aren't. It's Nazism we're sensitive about, not the war.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I'm using it as something of a cover term. Americans can't really bring up the German involvement in WWII without reference to Nazism.

I used to take those kinds of jokes somewhat personally. Now it's chiefly their laziness that annoys me.

[lhn.livejournal.com]

I can certainly see how tarring present-day Germans with Naziism is problematic, but I'm having some trouble seeing how one would bring up German involvement in WWII without reference to Naziism.

(Though it's true that both the Captain America movie and the Justice League cartoon sidelined the Nazis in WWII stories, in favor of fictional organizations whose symbols didn't have to be censored for the EU market.)

[linuxcub.livejournal.com]

Danish ? Who ?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Søren Hellerup. He also made appearances on Gilmore Girls and Boston Legal.