History AudioPlay / OmeHenk

** Another recurring clown character is Popi de Zouteloze Clown (lit, Saltless, meaning without any bite to it), who, like the name suggests, is known for being very boring. Most of his acts consist of him telling nonsensical stories, which got so boring on one occasion, that his audience resorted to beating him up. Popi is a parody of the Dutch TV character Pipo the Clown, which in its heyday in the 60's, was very popular, but can come of as bland and stale for contemporary audiences, making the Popi parody TruthInTelevision.

* BigFun: Completely averted with Ome Henk. He is one of the fattest characters in the series and also one of the meanest.

* EnchantedForest: The Oelie-Oelie forest is home to faeries, a witch, several sapient animals including a big bad wolf and the village of ''Franchise/TheSmurfs''.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Whenever Ome Henk parodies a well known children's series, such was ''De Fabeltjeskrant'', ''Series/{{Sesamstraat}}'' (the Dutch ''Series/SesameStreet'') or the Smurfs, the characters of said series will always end up being jerks. Most of them use somewhat foul language and violence against whoever annoys them. Mr Aart from the ''Sesamstraat'' parody probably takes the cake, as he goes from a GrumpyOldMan [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold with a hidden heart of gold]] to a trigger happy jerk who tries to shoot Bert with a shotgun.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Whenever Ome Henk parodies a well known children's series, such was ''De Fabeltjeskrant'', ''Series/{{Sesamstraat}}''(the Dutch Sesame Streat) or the Smurfs, the characters of said series will always end up being jerks. Most of them use somewhat foul language and violence against whoever annoys them.
** Mr Aart from the Sesamstraat parody probably takes the cake, as he goes from a GrumpyOldMan [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold with a hidden heart of gold]] to a trigger happy jerk who tries to shoot Bert with a shotgun.

* TheArtifact: On the first CD, the aptly named ''De Spannende Verhalen van Ome Henk'' (The exciting stories from uncle Henk) Ome Henk is portrayed as a storyteller to the children of the neighbourhood. While this aspect of his character is dropped very early on, he is still asked to tell stories from time to time.
** Lampshaded in the last time he tells he a story to Jantje and Pietje, which is Little Red Riding Hood. The track in which he tells ''the entire story of Little Red Riding Hood'' is less than 0:45.

* BlueCollarWarlock: Koos Korswagen has a bookkeeper working for him going by the surname of "van Veen". Van Veen believes he is in actuality the Wizard of Salsa Borenco. Given that he occasionally displays real feats of magic, there might be some truth to his words.

* FlatEarthAtheist: Koos Korswagen refuses to believe van Veen, his bookkeeper, is actually the Wizard of Salsa Borenco, despite him openly showing feats of magic, like teleporting and transfiguration. Making this even weirder is that several supernatural creatures exist in Biggeveen, making a magical bookkeeper not that extraordinary.

* GainaxEnding: Some stories end in this. One example happens during a story about Henk trying to steal Fleppensteyn's satellite dish, which ends with an elephant finishing the story by blowing it up. Even the narrator thinks this is getting out of hand. This references the phrase "En toen kwam er een olifant met een hele lange snuit, en die blies zo het verhaaltje uit!" [[note]]"Then along came an elephant with a very long snout, and he blew the story right out!"[[/note]] which an annoyed parent may say to a child who keeps asking to continue a story.

* JapaneseRanguage: The owner of the local Chinese restaurant makes heavy use of this trope. The fact that some Chinese dialects can't use the R is a heavily exeggarated stereotype in the Netherlands. This comes from, at the time Ome Henk was made, most Chinese immigrants in the Netherlands came from Hong Kong, where Cantonese is the dominant language, in which the R is almost non-existant.

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The Smurfs are never named by name but rather called "The little blue housing men" [[note]]house being a trendy music variety during the heyday of Ome Henk[[/note]]

** Ome Henk himself has shades of this, as he acts incredibly childish petty when things don't go his way or is called on for his behavior. When confronted about obviously damaging Fleppensteyn's car, for example, he imitates Fleppensteyn with a whiney voice and feigns ignorance.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Fleppensteyn acts as if antisocial characters, such as Henk, are lowly animals, but can be provoked into using foul language or violence himself.

* RichJerk: Fleppensteyn has shades of this. All of his appearances have him flaunt his wealth at least once. However, he is only ever a jerk to Henk, who more or less asks for it with his own reprehensible behavior.

* SlobsVsSnobs: This is the basis for the conflict between Henk and his neighbor Floris-Jan van Fleppensteyn, with Henk being an unemployed slob who forgoes to do his housekeeping, while Fleppensteyn is a snobbish rich jerk who likes to show off his enormous wealth.

* WorldOfHam: Subtlety is not something you'd find on this series. Every character, even the more subdued ones, is a LargeHam.

* BareYourMidriff: Of the non-fanservicy kind. In much of the official art, like the comic strips, several characters wear shirts or sweaters that are too small for them, resulting in their belly being exposed. This is really noticable with Ome Henk himself.

However, production continued after a change in writing and production staff. Voice actors for long running characters quit, and new characters were introduced to fill in the gaps. The tone shifted from the rather creative parodies and witty humor to the outright vulgar. {{Unusual Euphemism}}s for swear words which were quite inventive if not inoffensive were replaced for more vulgar -- and more straightforward and contemporary -- swearing. Old fans left the series behind as a result, yet also partly because they grew up, as the series was mainly aimed at the teen demographic. A younger wave of fans failed to materialize, as the new more adult and vulgar humor was not deemed appropriate for younger audiences. During the early nineties the old material already skirted the edge of acceptability with more conservative parents; the more blatant sexual references and offensive language of the later series proved to be the final nail in the coffin. The newer material also failed to find a new following in later years as physical media like [=CDs=] started to diminish in favor of streaming services and digital storefronts. As a result its popularity started fading in the early 2000's, with the franchise now barely being on anyone's radar.

However, production continued after a change in writing and production staff. Voice actors for long running characters quit, and new characters were introduced to fill in the gaps.
As a result its popularity started fading in the early 2000's, with the franchise now barely being on anyone's radar. Fans of the series think this is because the humor on newer [=CDs=] got more vulgar and crude, compared to the earlier installments.

As noted above, the tone shifted from the rather creative parodies and witty humor to outright vulgar. {{Unusual Euphemism}}s for swear words which were quite inventive if not inoffensive were replaced for more vulgar -- and more straightforward and contemporary -- swearing. Old fans left the series behind as a result, yet also partly because they grew up, as the series was mainly aimed at the teen demographic. A younger wave of fans failed to materialize, as the new more adult and vulgar humor was not deemed appropriate for younger audiences. During the early nineties the old material already skirted the edge of acceptability with more conservative parents. The more blatant sexual references and offensive language of the later series proved to be a nail in the coffin.
The newer material also failed to find a new following in later years as physical media like [=CDs=] started to diminish in favor of streaming services and digital storefronts.

** An example of the Wizard of Salsa Borenco, whom the narrator introduced as the one who would save the day. He refuses to do so and instead announces the next song on the CD. The next CD, named "Ome Henk en de Tovenaar van Salsa Borenco" (Uncle Henk and the Wizard of Salsa Borenco) is named after him, as he plays a rather large role on it.

* BlueCollarWarlock: Koos Korswagen has an accountant working for him going by the surname of "van Veen". Van Veen believes he is in actuality the Wizard of Salsa Borenco. Given that he occasionally displays real feats of magic, there might be some truth to his words.

* WouldHurtAChild: Ome Henk frequently hits Jantje when the latter is a smartass.

* BalefulPolymorph: One story with the Wizard of Salsa Borenco ends with Koos Korswagen transformed into a frog.

* RuleOfThree: When Ome Henk is stuck in the village of the Smurfs, he's presented with the three challenges. He proceeds to ''beat the stuffing'' out of the Smurfs instead.

--> '''Ome Henk''': So WHAT if it's open, [[FridgeLogic that means I can drive over it, right]]?
--> '''Driving Instructor''': No Henk, you can only do that when it's closed.

* TheLostWoods: The Oelie-Oelie forest is within walking distance of Biggenveen and has faeries, a witch, several sentient animals including a big bad wolf and the village of ''Franchise/TheSmurfs''.
--> '''Narrator''': The ''what'' forest now?

--> '''Mike''': With this pan you can even BOIL WATER

** Koos Korswagen's first appearance establishes himself as a musician mainly, without mentioning him to be a CorruptCorporateExecutive. His later appearances portray him mainly as the latter, with Korswagen cheating Ome Henk out of the money he earned as an artist.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Ome Cor (Uncle Cor), an acqaintance of Henk who is always drunk, is a prominent recurring character in the first five [=CDs=]. After the fifth CD, he suddenly stops appearing.

* HypocriticalHumor: Sometimes, Henk laments how easily people can be provoked into violence these days, only for him to start a physical fight over something trivial. Like when he gets thrown out of the Bingo hall, and then proceeds to beat the shit out of the person of a local Blockbuster equivilent for not renting him a violent videogame.

Ome Henk also got famous in the Netherlands for the multiple songs featured on his [=CDs=]. Usually, these songs are parodies on existing songs that were popular at the time. Examples are "Op de Camping" (Dutch for: At the Campsite), which parodies Music/{{YMCA}}'s "In the Navy" and Mambo nr. 6, which obviously parodies Lou Bega's "Mambo No. 5".

As noted above, the tone shifted from the rather creative parodies and witty humor to outright vulgar. {{Unusual Euphemism}}s for swear words which were quite inventive if not inoffensive were replaced for more vulgar - and more straightforward and contemporary -- swearing. Old fans left the series behind as a result, yet also partly because they grew up, as the series was mainly aimed at the teen demographic. A younger wave of fans failed to materialize, as the new more adult and vulgar humor was not deemed appropriate for younger audiences. During the early nineties the old material already skirted the edge of acceptability with more conservative parents. The more blatant sexual references and offensive language of the later series proved to be a nail in the coffin.

Ome Henk also got famous in the Netherlands for the multiple songs featured on his [=CDs=]. Usually, these songs are parodies on existing songs that were popular at the time. Examples are "Op de Camping" (Dutch for: At the Campsite), which parodies YMCA's "In the Navy" and Mambo nr. 6, which obviously parodies Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5.

'''Ome Henk''' (Uncle Henk) is a Dutch comedy series, released in the format of audio plays on CD, but also featured in a series of [=DVDs=] and comic strips.

The focus of this series is the very strange life of the eponymous Ome Henk. Henk is a cranky, aggressive and antisocial old man, who lives in the fictional Dutch town of Biggeveen. This town is filled with all sorts of equally antisocial or just plain weird characters that Henk has to interact with.
A typical Ome Henk story features Henk encountering a problem, which may or may not be caused by one of his acquaintances. Usually, he tries to solve his problems trough harsh language or violence, which causes most of his stories to end with a brawl. Other moments, stories end with an explosion that often occurs without any reason whatsoever.

This series was really popular among the Dutch youth in the 1990's and even spawned a line of merchandise, including comic strips, pens and school diaries. The series was set to end with the 12th Ome Henk album entitled “Ome Henk maakt er een eind aan” ("Ome Henk Ends It All"), a swansong album with a compilation of the best sketches and most popular songs, as well as some new material.

As noted above, the tone shifted from the rather creative parodies and witty humor to outright vulgar. {{Unusual Euphemism}}s for swear words which were quite inventive if not inoffensive were replaced for more vulgar - and more straightforward and contemporary - swearing. Old fans left the series behind as a result, yet also partly because they grew up, as the series was mainly aimed at the teen demographic. A younger wave of fans failed to materialize, as the new more adult and vulgar humor was not deemed appropriate for younger audiences. During the early nineties the old material already skirted the edge of acceptability with more conservative parents. The more blatant sexual references and offensive language of the later series proved to be a nail in the coffin.

* ApocalypseHow: Ed van Hooydonk, ''for some reason'', had a chest containing [[AttackOftheKillerWhatever genetically manipulated soy beans]], which were supposed to be able to ''destroy all life on Earth''. Until Uncle Henk beat them up, keeping them busy until Harry the Aso-HulpSinterklaas came by with benzodiazpenic acid, which nearly kills everybody present.

* TheLostWoods: The Oelie-Oelie forest is within walking distance of Biggenveen and has faeries, a witch, several sentient animals including a big bad wolf and the village of ''Franchise/TheSmurfs''.
--> '''Narrator''': The ''what'' forest now?

** Lampshaded in the last time he tells he a story to Jantje and Pietje, which is Little Red Riding Hood. The track in which he tells ''the entire story of Little Red Riding Hood'' is less than 1:30.

* HypocriticalHumor: Sometimes, Henk laments how easily people can be provoked into violence these days, only for him to start a physical fight over something trivial.

* TalkingToHimself: MANY of the characters are voiced by the same people. Koos Korswagen and the Narrator are two blatant ones.