The War at Home (TV series)

• Michael Rapaport: Dave Gold
• Anita Barone: Vicky Gold
• Kyle Sullivan Larry Gold
• Kaylee DeFer: Hillary Gold
• Dean Collins: Mike Gold
• Rami Malek: Kenny Al- Bahir

• Dave Gold: Sascha Draeger
• Vicky Gold: Tina Eschmann
• Larry Gold: Willem Manke
• Hillary Gold: Catherine Keller
• Mike Gold: Alexander Kapp
• Kenny Al- Bahir: Ivo Möller

War at Luxe ( Original title: The War at Home) is a created by Rob Stein Lotter American comedy television series that ran in two Wednesday night program on ORF 1 and in the early evening of SF. The first episode was broadcast in Germany on 28 October 2006 on RTL. RTL 2 beamed the series under the title Behind the sofa at the front.

Action

Dave and Vicky live with their three children, Hillary, Larry and Mike together in Long Iceland (New York). Dave is a medium of Jewish insurance salesman. Since he is a stubborn, paranoid, about caring father, his family has problems to put up with him, especially Larry, the Dave always makes for sow and once even beating as he is constantly annoyed by him. At the end of the first season, however, it is clear that Dave is so acting as his own father has constantly badgered him. Is married to Dave with Vicky, an attractive, Catholic interior designer. Basically it is a very reasonable person who grapples with Dave's arguments and bad manners, but can they also be from time to misbehave.

The eldest of her three children is Hillary, a typical 17 -year-old adolescents who frequently makes things that she should leave his dear, and tries to allow this behind the backs of their parents. Dave and Vicky 's why they usually treat with suspicion. The second-oldest of the children, the 16 -year-old Larry, an eccentric outsider. Larry behaves melodramatic, such as Vicky does not allow him Brian Boitano as Bilbo Baggins in the Ice Capades version of The Lord of the Rings to see on ice. Most of the time he spends with his best friend Kenny, what Dave gives reason to think that he might be gay. Later, however, made ​​it clear that Larry is not gay, but Kenny is secretly in love with his best friend. Dave and Vicky, but to a lesser extent, treat Larry's flamboyance carefully. The youngest child is the pubescent 14 -year-old Mike, who has to deal with his father issues such as masturbation, love and gambling. His mother Vicky even smoked during pregnancy, supposedly to keep his opinion it small.

The last episode ends with a rather open-ended, by Hillary gets her high school diploma, which Dave's ardent wish is true that finally the first child leaves the house. At this moment, Vicky is pregnant again, as the two not for contraception - in the belief that the other one did get sterilized.

Special

A striking characteristic of the series are rehearsed between scenes. The action is repeatedly interrupted by short scenes in which one of the people commenting on the action. Thus the true intentions behind a given statement are often significantly.

It is also unusual for a sitcom that actions are often taken from a series in later episodes again.

Broadcast

RTL broadcast 16 of the 22 episodes from the first season under the title War at Luxe. Due to poor ratings, the series was discontinued from the program. ORF1 beamed the seasons since April 11, also a week off, stopped broadcasting but after a few episodes of the second season. Also, the Swiss television took family dispute de Luxe on the program and sends both squadrons with repetition of 29 October 2007 to March 10, 2008 a day. Since spring 2008, the ORF in the series Wednesday night program repeatedly 2. On 17 May 2007, the FOX network has announced the dismissal; thus there is no another season. As of January 7, 2009 beamed RTL 2, the series under the new title Behind the sofa at the front again. Since the September 28, 2013 Tele 5 shows the sitcom under the original title Saturday in double episodes.

Episodes

Season 1

The first season aired in the U.S. on Fox on 11 September 2005 to 30 April 2006. In the German television for the first time on RTL on 28 October 2006 to 16 December 2006 and then on RTL2 from 29 January 2009 to 3 February 2009.

Season 2

The second season was aired in the U.S. on 10 September 2006 to 22 April 2007. In the German television for the first time on 6 February 2009 to 4 March 2009. The series was canceled after the second season.