00:01Sprockets, Sprockets, Best German Television presents Sprockets with your host Dieter.
00:09Welcome to Sprockets, I am your host Dieter.
00:12This week we explore the latest phenomena on German television.
00:16It is of course, the monsters.
00:19A brilliant satire of a post-nuclear American society.
00:22Monsters of an American dream turn to nightmare.
00:25It is pure Americanist culture and I love it.
00:29We have a sitting in the studio tonight, the boy who played Eddie Monster, Butch Patrick.
00:34Please welcome Butch Patrick, Eddie Monster.
00:51Hello Eddie.
00:53The monsters are very popular in Germany and you have become a celebrity here.
00:56Are you surprised?
00:59Oh God, well I'll tell you Dieter, I mean, show went off the air in 66 so it has been
01:04a bit
01:05of a dry spell for me.
01:07And when I heard the kids were starting to watch the show over here in Germany, you know,
01:10I figured, gotta go with the heat, you know.
01:13I mean, as actors, we're nomads and so yeah, I got over here as quickly as possible.
01:18Eddie, it has been said of the monsters that they are both crime and magic.
01:26Yeah, well, I think, um, the real crime is that we got cancelled.
01:30I mean, I mean, we were getting ratings, they'd never seen numbers like that.
01:33And then to just, you know, go and pull the plug out of nowhere, I think somebody very
01:36high up got a little scared or something and, uh...
01:40What was it like to work with Fred Gwynn, Herman Monster?
01:43Oh, freak, eight foot freak, uh, the guy was, uh...
01:47Actually, there's a very funny story about Gwynn, you know, he had the flat top, the thing
01:50he wore on the show, right?
01:51So, um, one morning I'm walking into makeup.
01:53Your story has become tiresome.
01:58Eddie, Susan Sontag said of the monsters that they lie at 24 frames per second.
02:11It is obvious that your so-called normal cousin, Marilyn, who was an innocent surrounded by
02:17monsters, was a reference to another American icon, Marilyn Monroe.
02:22Well, I really, I don't know about that stuff.
02:24I mean, that was, you know, we, you know, I guess everybody had their thing on the show,
02:27you know, uh, Grandpa was a vampire, uh, my mother was a vampire, my father was a, uh,
02:32uh, Frankenstein, and I was, um, I don't know what the hell I was.
02:40I read somewhere that Marilyn left the show under a cloud.
02:44Under a cloud?
02:45She was under half the sound crew.
02:49No, no, no, I, uh, I, uh, I joke with her.
02:52She was really, um, ooh, you know, uh, ten years old at the time, I would have definitely,
02:56um, to me, Eddie was an every vampire.
03:01Oh, well, again, vampire, you know, I really, I like to stay away from that thing, but yes,
03:05definitely, there was something in Eddie that, um, that struck a chord that went right to
03:09the heart of what it meant to be an eight-year-old, whatever the hell I was, growing up in
03:14America
03:15in the 1960s.
03:16Can I touch your widow's peak?
03:19Uh, it is most bizarre.
03:23Can I touch the widow's peak?
03:24Okay, you wanna?
03:28Textures interest me.
03:30Do you want to touch my monkey?
03:32Touch your monkey?
03:33I...
03:33You want to touch it.
03:34Uh, I really, no, I gotta...
03:35Touch my satchminky.
03:37I really don't...
03:37Touch the monkey.
03:38Okay, I'll...
03:38I got you to touch the monkey.
03:39Okay, all right, okay.
03:40Touch him.
03:40All right.
03:40Touch him, love him.
03:41Touch him.
03:42Touch him.
03:43You didn't know, baby.
03:44Oh, oh, shit!
03:46He's bleeding.
03:47That thing's bleeding.
03:48Can I...
03:48Oh, I'm bleeding.
03:49Could I get a bandage or something, please?
03:52Ah!
03:54I would have liked to have seen you play Eddie completely covered in sores.
03:58What?
03:59Sores?
04:02Abrasions, lesions.
04:03What the hell is wrong with you, huh?
04:04What the...
04:05Now's the time on sprockets when we dance.
04:08Look, look.
04:08Hey, I'm getting out of here, all right?
04:10Because, uh...
04:11I'm gonna get a bandage or something, all right?
04:13You German creeps.
04:16That's it for this.
04:17Speak of Sprockets.
04:18Our guest has been.
04:19What's Patrick and Eddie Monster?
04:21My name is Gisa.
04:22Happy to see him.
04:22Wait, look.
04:23Can I mention I'll read the Berliner High
04:25and signing autographs all next week,
04:26so please come down.
04:28Wait, get me out of here.
