Homer's day

I love The Simpsons, and it was interesting to see a German dub of it.
Unfortunately, I was only able to see Homer's version of the day as
other two were not available for viewing. Before I start, however,
I must say that the movie is reversed to avoid a copyrights complaint.

While I was studying the grammar without pronouncing every word that I was
seeing, I did not know how differently German sounded relative to American
English. Because it is a show based on the satirical nature of average American
family, what Homer and Marge were saying sounded very unnatural. It did not
at all seem like what German-speakers would say in such awkward situations(although it
is highly likely that they wouldn't put themselves in those situations first). Perhaps
they have a slight more dull lives than Americans do.

AMD 6

For my AMD 6 I decided to google strange German laws. I always read random laws about the differet states in the USA and find them hilarious, and I feel like Germany alone is already a little strange so why not see if Germany has some as well?

After searching and finding some very funny ones I came across a website that had a list of hilarious rules here are some of my favorites:

1) It is illegal to build an office without a view of the sky.
2) It is illegal to tune pianos at midnight.
3) It is against the law to deny a chimney sweep access to your home if he demands it.
4) It is illegal to have the ashes of your loved one stored in an urn at home after cremation.
5) A pillow is classified as a "passive weapon" and hitting someone with one can lead to charges of assault.

I think the pillow being classified as a passive weapon is so funny. Leave it to the Germans to make a pillow a weapon. With all the pillow fights I had as a little kid I would be locked up for life on chargest of assault.

AMD 6

For AMD 6 I decided to do some research on some of the many pieces of classical music that have come out of Germany. I like to play classical music on the piano sometimes and I've started to notice that I can read more and more titles of songs that are in German. Probably the most famous composers that came out of Germany were Mozart and Beethoven. For example, Mozart's chamber ensemble called "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" would translate to "A little Night Music." It was interesting to think about how many influential composers were from Germany and some of the best pieces of music ever written (in my opinion) originated there. I also learned that a lot of nice opera is a big part of the German music culture, like Mozart's "Requiem." I found out that back in the 15th century a guy name Oswald von Wolkenstein travelled across Europe and learned a lot of different music techniques and styles and brought them back to Germany, which led Germany to produce so many great composers and classical musicians.

AMD 6

It was very hard to understand what they were saying. I could get small bits and pieces but they talk so fast. I could understand what was happening but what they were saying was beyond me. Some phrases and words if they said them slowly I could understand like when Homer says, Ich liebe Bier, and helfe! I wish there were German TV shows that had English subtitles. As I learned Japanese I also watched a lot of anime so I was exposed to the language a lot and could pick up some things. I could understand somethings before the subtitles were fully there. Watching this also made me wonder about German culture and what Germans like to watch on TV. Lola Rennt was kind of dark and it didn't have much humor in it. There were some gruesome pictures. I wonder if a lot of German media is like that too. In Oh, Wie schön ist Panama there was a little rabbit in one of the pictures peeing on a bush. In America you would never see that in a children's book. Also in the K-Fee commercial it was kind of scary. Is that just how German media is? It makes me very curious to what their media is like.

AMD 6

I decided to watch German vidoes that make fun of western culture. The first one that I watched was a parody of Germany's Next Top Model. The first part of the video was really funny because it was making fun of the Top Model franchise. At least to me, the pictures that are taken of the "models" are both demeaning and inappropriate, so I found it funny when the "picture" that they had of the girl was of her sitting on the toilet. When they started saying what I am guessing were "good things" about her picture, she started to smile. It got a lot less funny when they told her to put on a KKK outfit, and I really didn't like that part. The next girl was asked to put on a robot suit. I think that this show how absurd both America's Next Top Model and Germany's Next Top Model are. I didn't post the video on here, but if you want to see it, you can type in "switch reloaded offiziell: Germany's Next Topmodel" into youtube and the video will come up.

The second video was about a couple (maybe "trailer trash") either moving or visiting northern Alaska. I think that the video was making fun of Alaska, along with a few other things, and the real estate agent/ travel agent had a strange resemblance to Sara Palin. There was also a really weird part where they were hugging a concrete poll. I'm not really sure what they were doing there. The next part involved the couple going to a grill. The women brought out 2 full chickens. I'm assuming that they are making fun of how fat Americans are which I thought was pretty funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV4wmIwEuKQ

The website that I first tried to watch these on wouldn't let me, so I went to youtube instead. Anyway, they let me watch the ads, and I thought they were pretty funny. This one includes a little girl running around in a bunny outfit and children stealing candy from old people. :) http://www.prosieben.de/tv/switch-reloaded/video/clip/285876-werbung-deutsche-fussball-nationalmannschaft-1.3114742/