After doing so wiki research on Public Morals, it naturally led me to investigate other shows in the classic only-one-episode-aired field. The first incredibly interesting one I came upon was Britain's 1990 sitcom, Heil Honey I'm Home! Basically, the premise is that a '50s era TV sitcom has been rediscovered which is about the uncomfortable relations in 1930s between Hitler and Eva Braun and his nosy semetic neighbors Arny and Rosa Goldenstein, who he wants out of their lives, but who seem to keep butting into them. Naturally, the programme (it's British, remember), was hugely controversial and widely panned as being in bad taste, and possibly trivializing Naziism. The premise of the first episode is that Neville Chamberlain is coming to dinner ("the most important man in Europe" Adolph claims) and Hitler wants to keep the Rosenbergs out of it, but of course they find out and chaos ensues. With a set up like that, it seems like the program is bound to be either hilariously bad, hilarious offensive, hilariously absurd, or at least in some way funny on any pure or ironic level. I mean, there are so many different ways for it to at least be mildly amusing through it's potential for incredibly misses-the-point parody.

Anyway, so I found it on youtube, which I was pretty stunned about at first, until I watched it.

It was awful. Beyond awful. It was set up in three parts, and after watching the first, which I barely got through, there was not a sliver of a chance of watching the rest. Nothing about it was funny. Not the show itself, unsurprisingly. But not the Hitler offensiveness. Not how ridiculously stupid the humor was. Most of the times the laugh track went off, there wasn't even a joke, not even a cheesy, cliched, or Lockhorns style jab. Usually, someone just said something and then for reasons I couldn't understand studio laughter ensued. Anyway, I'd recommend not watching anything in the video I'm putting up here as a document of the show's existence.



It really makes you appreciate things that are so-bad-it's-funny. When you watch something like, say, Manos: The Hands of Fate - sometimes it makes you feel as if anything could be made so bad, that it's funny - but it's really not true. Some things - many things, even are so bad, they're just bad - and watching isn't funny, or even painfully funny, or ironically funny, it's just painful.

The only other notable thing is if you actually choose to watch the first couple seconds of the theme it bears a vague resemblence to the song from the old "My Buddy" commercials.