Talk:Heil Honey I'm Home! (Missing Episodes From British 1990 Sitcom)/@comment-23.240.29.54-20150107064744

I was wondering why everyone was speaking with an American accent given that the show was made in Britian. Doing some reading, turns out it's actually a fairly vicious satire of American sitcoms. The conceit of the show was that the "tapes" were found in the trunk of a dead American television producer. The show featured corny situations and tropes, such as the studio audience applauding whenever a "popular character" would appear on screen. Frankly, it sounds a whole like like Trey Parker and Matt Stone's That's My Bush! show from 2001.

It makes a whole lot more sense now. And considering all the new information, it really isn't that bad. Though Comedy historian David Hawkes cites  Heil Honey, I'm Home! as a "heavy-handed concept", and argues the show was a failure as a comedy because it "disastrously exceeded" the limits of irony.