Wednesday, December 7, 2011

It is not a potato sack

The only German TV show I could follow (a children's show called Elefantastisch! featuring an elephant and a rabbit and a word of the day and some silly songs) has been replaced by the adventures an old guy and his helpful potato sack. The strange hopping sack and old friend have a timelessness to them - one show everyone was wearing doublets, breeches and ruffs while in the next week the villain was wearing a tight dark Star Trek styled suit.
But it turns out, based on my research for an image so you could see the whole situation, the old guy is probably Weihnactmann (Germany's Santa Claus) and the potato sack is probably filled with toys. So, it is just seasonal TV.
And in retrospect, a equal sized pink rabbit and purple elephant friend pair is weird, too.

1 comment:

Elaine said...

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