Saturday, June 25, 2011

Bring on the wall

I decided that watching a bit more German TV might strengthen the linguistic part of the mind (albeit at the cost of every other part).  So I tried out some Friday night primetime viewing.

It was actually better than I had remembered it.  There were two moments of particular note, which will no doubt have me tuning in again:

  • A sort of poker-inspired challenge game (My Man Can), in which glamourously dressed women drastically overestimate the competencies of their spouses in such challenges as identifying languages, beating malevolent children at dodgeball or (my preferred candidate for a spin-off show) blowing a tissue against a wall for 7 seconds (he managed 6.3 seconds, if one is being extremely generous).

Sometimes it seems like foreign TV is less classy than TV back home.  But at other times this seems like it may be an error.