Comments by "Holger P." (@holger_p) on "Classic American TV Shows that EVERY German knows! | Feli from Germany" video.

That's something still impossible today. The German cannot find out, what ads YouTube presents to Americans today, cause the advertiser pays only for presentation in US, and somebody else pays for presentation in Germany.
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@IcouldBNE1 It's considered as (low level) comedy. But you have to know, it was first aired in 1991, 25 years after production. That's why it never become really popular, it fell out of time. And people see it with kind of distance, no matter if Hogans Heroes or Schindlers List. They don't say "they make fun of us", they say, "they make fun of the Nazis". They don't identify with them for understandable reason.
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That's still so , up to today. But Culture dominating, I would rather go on Music, US-Star are very likely wordwide stars, like Michael Jackson, or Beyonce or whoever.TV and movies is more like - OK- we like good entertainment and have something in common. It does not work on sports. Recently, there is a show about Colin Kapernik on Netflix. First nobody knows this guy, and even when you google it - nobody knows the rules of American football. (where a ball is not round, and you hold it in your hand).
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@wardandrew23412 True, and btw, most Germans are unable to distiguish British and American actors. It's more or less all just "hollywood". Is James Bond or Harry Potter British ? Nobody knows, nobody cares. You have to remember, all the local accents are lost and unknown in Germany. Don't worry about McDonalds, they exist, I use them about once a year when Travelling and really want to have something within 15min, but they are only popular in a rather small group of people. But Burger really became more popular in the last decade, but from regular restaurants, on real china. I sold some myself on a festival.
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@wardandrew23412 actually the turkish Kebab is the #1 fast food, followed by pizza. Sausages became seldom.
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@The_Str4nger yes, but it's gone. You can hardly find it on the street or in a shopping mall, it's typical for a beer garden in summertime, but it's not a take away or daily Restaurant food (any more). It's ten times more easy to get Döner and Burger, than a Wurst.
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You kind of missed the hits from the last years, like The Big Bang Theory, How I met Your Mother, or King of Queens. For some period of time, they have broadcasted up to 10 episoded of TBBT per day - and for years, I think they start with episode 1 once per year or so. They must be on the 20th repetition, and all on one channel only.
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Netflix is currently a huge game changer. It may make more American shows available for German auditory, but that's not my point. It makes shows from all over the world available for any auditory. So we now have access to Spanish , Brasilian, Icelandic or Korean shows or whatever. Besides not everything from US is brought to German TV, from imported shows, it's 95% from US, you hardly see something Swedish, Danish or French. So the domination of US production habits is broken up a little.
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That's the case in most countries, except in Germany. Cause you have no shows in English in German TV. That's why in Poland, Sweden, Netherlands people actually speak better english. And so it comes, if Polish people migrate, they prefer UK over Germany. Language skills really have an economic effect - at least before Brexit.
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