I Love the 40's
The recent success of VH1's pop culture nostalgia series "I Love the 80's" and "I Love the 70's" has spanned a host of imitators for this wildly popular phenomenon. Among the imitators in the works is the History Channel's "I Love the 40's", coming this fall. Below are some recently released promotional excerpts:
"Then Frau Goebels showed up at the Fuhrer's ball wearing the same dress as Eva Braun, what a disaster! Of course she borrowed the matching handbag from Rudolph Hess."

"Remember when we were all dressing up as U-boat crewmen? Why were they so hot, I can't remember now. Of course after Nuremberg I got rid of all my U-boat stuff, but after Das Boot came out I ran to the Goodwill to try to get it all back."

"Come on, 'I was only following orders?' none of us really believed it at the time either."

"You want to talk about war crimes, all that green and black, yech! You know what Robin Williams said about camouflage, 'If you're going to fight, clash!'"

"Mussolini was a poor man's fuhrer. I mean bald really isn't that beautiful babe. And Ethiopia? That's almost as bad as 'attacking' France. At least Franco had a real hairstylist."

"Of course you have a war in France. The weather's nice, the food's great, and they sleep with any army that rolls through. Now Russia on the other hand..."

"I hear the real reason Hess flew to Scotland was he heard about all the men in skirts."

"Sausage and sauerkraut, sausage and sauerkrat, it's a wonder we all weren't as fat as Georing. Why couldn't we have plundered a few recipes while we were in France. Or invaded India for a little spice, like the British did. No, our empire had to be in Russia, sausage and beets, what a change!"

"While of course we all bought the record, I mean it was the thing to do in '42. But you can't really dance to 'Deutschland Uber Alles.' I remember once in this disco in Munich where Georing got on the dance floor, thinking he was Baron Von Trapp. Of course he slipped on some Guacamole Himmler had 'accidentally' spilled. That SS bastard was always stuffing his face."

"The worst was when the Fuhrer decided to start up a boy band to get the ladies interested in the party during the early days. Goebels was the sensitive one, Hess was the cute one, Himmler was the funny one, Von Stauffenberg was the rebellious one, and of course Hitler was the genocidal maniac."


Of course there are other imitations in the works. The History Channel is also doing "I Love the Civil War" "I Love the Gulf War" "I Love Vietnam" and "I Love the Reagan Era Military Buildup". Ken Burns is reputed to be filming "I Love the Enlightenment" for Public television. Fox News is working on "I Love George W. Bush" and MTV is reported to be working on "I Love 2002".

Courtesy Mark Hoolihan and the Hoolinet
Copyright 2003 Boniface Bugle Productions. All Rights Absurd.

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Mark Hoolihan
Department of Historical re-re-enactment and Potato Camouflage
Michigan State University
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"I said no green M&M's and I meant it"
_Hitler's reported excuse for declaring war on the United States