dutch tv

May 31, 2005 3:40 PM

TELEVISIE FAVORIETEN! Download sound and watch video clips from your favorite dutch television programs!!
posted by onkelchrispy (11 comments total)

I like my Dutch series a lot, but do you really think there's an audience for small snippets from Dutch TV from waaaay back ? On the other hand, if you have a complete series of "De Zevensprong", I'd be very interested...
posted by swordfishtrombones at 3:48 PM on May 31, 2005

personally, i prefer my snippets to be a little longer in length. snoppets, or snurppets if you will. or won't. what?
posted by onkelchrispy at 3:52 PM on May 31, 2005

FLIPPER!
posted by ColdChef at 4:23 PM on May 31, 2005

zeer goed
posted by blag at 5:07 PM on May 31, 2005

Most video clips seem to be from wayy before my time. Some of the tunes, however, are lifted straight from my youth.

The Daily Fable (mp3)



Hello Mr. Owl, where will you take us - to the Land of Fables?
Eh, yeah, to the Land of Fables.
And will you then read to us from the Daily Fable?
Yeah, the Daily Fable. In which you can read just how the animals are doing.
Really?
Really.
Really, Mr. Owl?
Hmm-mm. Because animals are just like humans. With the same human wishes. And the same human antics. All of this gets printed in the paper of the Land of Fables.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 5:15 PM on May 31, 2005

BTW onkelchrispy, a 'holland' and/or 'netherlands' tag would be nice. Thanks for posting this, I had never seen it before.

Fopje, flauw mopje!
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 5:19 PM on May 31, 2005

Also, I vaguely remember drunkenly singing this with a couple of equally intoxicated Swedes, in two different languages at the same time. Another reason to vote in favour of the EU constitution. Or not. Someone had to spoil the fun and bring that up, I guess.

Did USians get TV Pippi at all? Wikipedia only mentions a couple of films for US distribution.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 5:22 PM on May 31, 2005

Did USians get TV Pippi at all? Wikipedia only mentions a couple of films for US distribution.

we got it--i know it, but only from movies--early-mid70s? --"Pippi, Pippi Longstocking, how i love my silly name..."
posted by amberglow at 5:28 PM on May 31, 2005

Tnx amberglow, I knew you'd be in here.

Stateside readers, I would really appreciate it if you would play these as loud as possible at your place of work tomorrow and coax your co-workers into an attempt to sing along. Please report back with results, preferably with audio and/or video footage. Thanks.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 5:36 PM on May 31, 2005

lol! kokki and peppi! i love them! (they would expect it from me, so it wouldn't be a fair experiment--i always share weird online stuff at work)

you'll have to play some of ours, goodnews, and report back. : >
posted by amberglow at 6:03 PM on May 31, 2005

Cool. I lived in Holland for a few years, as a child at the end of the '70s and early '80's. My main memory of Dutch television is, for some bizarre reason, the comedian Andre Van Duin. To this day, whenever I encounter somebody from Holland, I mystify them by telling them, in their native language, that there's a horse in the corridor.

Then I follow up with a boom-boom.
posted by veedubya at 3:29 AM on June 1, 2005