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What are your favourite bits of TV that you have seen on your holidays?

We were in Amsterdam the other week and there was a ridiculous soap opera about a man and his wife or something. Anyway, the opening credits show a relaxing sea-scape and a sung-tv theme, kind of similar to the Home and Away credit sequence. An oval window opens in the ocean and we see the main, male character.
All of a sudden he lunges at his wife and punches her in the face. Then the window shows the female character with blood pouring from her nose, crying and the actress's name appears underneath. Flick back to her husband pulling the cheesiest shrug at the camera that kind of says "too bad, but what you gonna do about it?". The actor's name appears again, all the while playing this romantic music. Flash back to the wife character except in a previous, more happy time, laughing and smiling.

Maybe the most disturbing credit sequence to any soap opera? Tell us your baffled visions of foreign telly.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

wtf?!?!

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

happy distant memories of Mahabharat

― ;_; (blueski), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

wtf?!?!
-- Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (poxyfule...), October 23rd, 2006 1:59 PM. (Molly Jones)

I know, it's like "hey, this looks like a nice show, let's watch this, it's my favourite."

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Vietnam has lots of shows consisting of young girls in army uniforms marching around cheap sets singing songs about Ho Chi Minh. They also show Western and HK movies with the volume turned down low and the same woman dubbing all the voices in a very bored tone of voice.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

We were in Cairo having dinner with some people who were trying to get us to buy perfume once, and they were watching a strange Arabic soap opera that's also a game show. At the beginning of the ad break, a woman comes on and asks a question relating to the bit of the show you've just seen, and then you phone a premium rate number to give your answer, and they phone a lucky winner back and give them some paltry prize. Having spent a total of four weeks in Egypt in my life, I can confirm that they are mad for premium rate phone numbers there. Everyone we met was playing Nokia Game.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

DL was this a SOAP thingie or REALITY. Do you remember any NAMES?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

it was definitely a soap, i'm pretty sure. it was called something or other - it actually might not have been dutch but the title had the word "Fortune" or a foreign equivalent in it.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

There was a French/Japanese anime series on TV when I was younger and visiting my family near Toulouse called "Ecole des Champions" whereby kids would play football matches in OTT Dragonball-Z style action settings. The average match would take about half a series and it would be rendered in such incredible technicolor slo-motion that even a header could take up to 5 minutes on screen. Mentalism.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

last week, myself and Teh_Kat watched AIR AMERICA in a bar in Crete. it was in english with greek subtitles, but the sound was down. Fortunately, having seen it 100 times as a pre-teen, i was able to explain exactly wtf was going on and even lip-sync some of the more "memorable" lines. pwnj.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)

WHEN IN FRANCE DO U HAEV GENERAL DE GAULLE CARRY LUGGAGE?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, " L'ecole des champions". I loved that show when I was a kid, though it was just a lame and pale copy of "Olive & Tom" (Jap show about kids playing football and really wanting to go play in Brazil), which tbh is a lot better. I loved the fact that the players could run towards the opposite team's goal for like 5 mns while talking strategy, the ball taking an oval shape if it was hit hard etc

― Jibé (Jibé), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Were these shows Japanese or French or both? Nicky Larson etc..

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

Nicky Larson was Japanese iirc. Actually almost all of these shows were Japanese and sometimes you'd get a crappier French spin-off (like "L'ecole des champions" was to "olive & Tom").

― Jibé (Jibé), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a clip from Studio Julmahuvi, the best Finnish comedy series in years.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

And another one.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

A bit from Dorfers Donnerstalk, the funniest thing on Austrian tv. Context: the far right continuing to do well in German and Austrian elections.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBIKNRVSHxo

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

That was funny, even with my limited German.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 30 October 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

Jay Leno mentioned this program in his show once. The show's called In De Gloria and has different returning sketches. "Hallo Televisie" has a host who visits random people in their home. Here he finds a black guy opening the door. The host refuses to hear that the guy is born in Belgium, instead he wants to find out all about how it is in Africa and why he has all this tribal art in his home. It's actually the wife's collection but the host refuses to acknowledge the woman.
It's incredibly un-PC but extremely hilarious.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 30 October 2006 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

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