History Series / Extra3

** Their coverage of Angela Merkel's 2017 campaign was titled ''[[Film/NeverendingStory The Neverending Boredom]]''

%% * AxCrazy: How Horst Seehofer and the rest of the CSU are portrayed.
%% * ArchEnemy: The UsefulNotes/DeutscheBahn, as mentioned above
%% * BlatantLies: Firmly insists that it's the ''only'' German Satire program.
%% * ButtMonkey: Alexander Dobrindt is treated like this.
%% * CrossOver: With Series/WalulisSiehtFern, who produce short clips that parody various genres of television, and with WebSite/DerPostillon, which present ''Postillon 24'', a series of [[NewsParody news parodies]].
%% * HonestJohnsDealership: Johannes Schlüter selling German weapons
%% * HypocriticalHumor: Often [[LampshadeHanging pointed out]].

%% * LawfulStupid: Often encountered during the ''Der Reale Irrsinn'' segments

%% * SelfDeprecation: One of the people that Johannes Schlüter pilots was Christian Ehring himself as revealed during the 40th anniversary gala.

%% * SongParody: Almost every week covering almost every political topic available.
%% * TagLine: ''Der Irrsinn der Woche''[[note]]This week's lunacy[[/note]]
%% * TitleDrop: During the OpeningNarration
%% * WeDidntStartTheBillyJoelParodies: ''Mia San der FC Bayern''

For some reason they really do not like UsefulNotes/DeutscheBahn, featuring them negatively in their "realer Irrsinn" segment even for stuff that - upon careful investigation - actually [[CriticalResearchFailure has good reasons for being done the way it is done]].

Extra 3 is a [[GermanHumor german]] Satire program that focuses mainly on political humor as well as the absurdities of everyday life, in a segment titled Der Reale Irsinn[[note]]The Real Lunacy[[/note]].

While always somewhat known, the show stepped into the national spotlight in 2016, as after publishing a SongParody criticzing Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the german ambassador to Turkey was summoned to meet with the Turkish president and Turkey demanded the removal of the video. The situation escalated further, when [[Creator/JanBoehmermann Jan Böhmermann]] in part in response to the absurdity of the situation did an intentionally offensive poem on his show prefacing it with [[DontDoThisCoolThing "you are not allowed to say that on television"]]. Well turns out, you can't and [[EpicFail Böhmermann almost got thrown into jail under a 19th century law on leise majeste]]. However, the law has since been changed, which may or may not have been the point. A year later, extra3 [[RefugeInAudacity produced a second song critizing Erdogan]].

* AxCrazy: How Horst Seehofer and the rest of the CSU are portrayed.
* ArchEnemy: The UsefulNotes/DeutscheBahn, as mentioned above
* BlatantLies: Firmly insists that it's the ''only'' german Satire program.
* ButtMonkey: Alexander Dobrindt is treated like this.
* CrossOver: With Series/WalulisSiehtFern, who produce short clips that parody various genres of television, and with WebSite/DerPostillon, which present ''Postillon 24'', a series of [[NewsParody news parodies]].
* HonestJohnsDealership: Johannes Schlüter selling german weapons
* HypocriticalHumor: Often [[LampshadeHanging pointed out]].
* InsaneTrollLogic: Used frequently as would-be solutions to political problems.
** Everyone hates the [[UsefulNotes/GermanEducationSystem shortened Gymnasium (from nine years to eight years)]]? Johannes Schlüter proposes the G2, in which every student graduates after just two years of secondary education (for better integration into the modern job market).
* LawfulStupid: Often encountered during the ''Der Reale Irrsinn'' segments
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Johannes Schlüter, [[PhraseCatcher native-born Göttingen]], who has had every job imaginable, from specially appointed expert on various topics to [[GhostInTheMachine literally piloting politicians]] from inside his ''Kopfpit''.[[note]]A pun on the german word for head and ''cockpit''.[[/note]]
* SelfDeprecation: One of the people that Johannes Schlüter pilots was Christian Ehring himself as revealed during the 40th anniversary gala.

* SongParody: Almost every week covering almost every political topic available.
* TagLine: ''Der Irrsinn der Woche''[[note]]This week's lunacy[[/note]]
* TitleDrop: During the OpeningNarration
* WeDidntStartTheBillyJoelParodies: ''Mia San der FC Bayern''

While always somewhat known, the show stepped into the national spotlight in 2016, as after publishing a SongParody criticzing Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the german ambassador to Turkey was summoned to meet with the Turkish president and Turkey demanded the removal of the video. The situation escalated further, when [[Creator/JanBoehmermann Jan Böhmermann]] in part in response to the absurdity of the situation did an intentionally offensive poem on his show prefacing it with [[DontDoThisCoolThing "you are not allowed to say that on television"]]. Well turns out, you can't and [[EpicFail Böhmermann almost got thrown into jail under a 19th century law on leise majeste]]. However, the law has since been changed, which may or may not have been the point.

While always somewhat known, the show stepped into the national spotlight in 2016, as after publishing a SongParody criticzing Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the german ambassador to Turkey was summoned to meet with the Turkish president and Turkey demanded the removal of the video. The situation escalated further, when [[Creator/JanBoehmermann Jan Böhmermann]] in part in response to the absurdity of the situation did an intentionally offensive poem on his show prefacing it with [[DontDoThisCoolThing "you are not allowed to say that on television"]]. Well turns out, you can't and [[EpicFail Böhmermann almost got thrown into jail under a 19th century law on leise majeste]].

While always somewhat known, the show stepped into the national spotlight in 2016, as after publishing a SongParody criticzing Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the german ambassador to Turkey was summoned to meet with the Turkish president and Turkey demanded the removal of the video. The situation escalated further, when [[Creator/JanBoehmermann Jan Böhmermann]] in part in response to the absurdity of the situation did an intentionally offensive poem on his show prefacing it with [[DontDoThisCoolThing "you are not allowed to say that on television"]]. Well turns out, you can't and [[EpicFail Böhmermann almost got thrown into jail under a 19th century law on ''leise majeste'']].

While always somewhat known, the show stepped into the national spotlight in 2016, as after publishing a SongParody criticzing Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the german ambassador to Turkey was summoned to meet with the Turkish president and Turkey demanded the removal of the video. The situation escalated further, when [[Creator/JanBoehmermann Jan Böhmermann]] in part in response to the absurdity of the situation did an intentionally offensive poem on his show prefacing it with [[DontDoThisCoolThing "you are not allowed to say that on television"]]. Well turns out, you can't and Böhmermann almost got thrown into jail under a 19th century law on leise majeste.

For some reason they really do not like UsefulNotes/DeutscheBahn, featuring them negatively in their "realer Irrsinn" segment even for stuff that - upon careful investigation - actually has good reasons for being done the way it is done.

While always somewhat known, the show stepped into the national spotlight in 2016, as after publishing a SongParody critzing turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the german ambassador to Turkey was summoned to meet with the turkish president and Turkey demanded the removal of the video.

-->''Hier ist [[TitleDrop extra3]]! [[TagLine Der Irrsinn der Woche]]!''

extra3 is a [[GermanHumor german]] Satire program that focuses mainly on political humor as well as the absurdities of everyday life, in a segment titled Der Reale Irsinn[[note]]The Real Lunacy[[/note]].

“extra3“ is a [[GermanHumor german]] Satire program that focuses mainly on political humor as well as the absurdities of everyday life, in a segment titled Der Reale Irsinn[[note]]The Real Lunacy[[/note]].

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Extra3 is a [[GermanHumor german]] Satire program that focuses mainly on political humor as well as the absurdities of everyday life, in a segment titled Der Reale Irsinn[[note]]The Real Lunacy[[/note]].

* TitleDrop: During the OpeningNarration

-->''Hier ist [[TitleDrop extra3]]! [[Tagline Der Irrsinn der Woche]]!''

* Tagline: ''Der Irrsinn der Woche''[[note]]This week's lunacy[[/note]]

* SongParody: Almost every week covering almost every political topic available.

** The slow death of the [[UsefulNotes/PoliticiansAndPartiesOfGermany SPD]] was made into a "movie" entitled ''[[FIlm/DieHard SPDird langsam]]''