Why Should I Believe You? You're Hitler!

Some days, I am baffled at how people thought something was a good idea.

Case in point: Heil Honey I'm Home!, a 1990 sitcom idea satirising the general vacuousness of 1950's sitcoms.

Doesn't sound so bad, huh?  Well, take a look at the title again.  It's a sitcom satirising 1950's sitcoms, starring the characters of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, who don't get along with their next-door-neighbours, the Goldensteins.

What's scarier than the fact that someone even thought this would be a good idea, is that eight episodes got produced, and one even got aired.  You can find it on YouTube in two parts (Part 1 & part 2).  I don't suggest watching the whole thing though; to call it bad would be an understatement (and I'm not just referring to bad taste).  The entire thing feels like a poorly thought out Saturday Night Live skit that never seems to end.  (Ok, so that last bit was redundant.)

Personally, I'm curious as to how the writer pitched it so that somebody actually was willing to approve it.