After the death of his mother, failed rapper Toni (played by real-life rapper Fatoni, aka Anton Schneider) returns to his backwater Bavaria home town with the charming name Kacken an der Havel, "Pooping on the (River) Havel." So basically Schitt's Creek.
He deals with endearing/annoying townsfolk, his mom's much younger boy toy, and Charly, the 13-year old son that he didn't know he had. While trying to jump-start his rap career. Hey, Crap Happens.
Right: Anton Schneider. I don't think he's the same one.
Preliminary research revealed that Charly is played by the nonbinary German actor Sky Arndt, and voiced in the English dub by trans actor Greg Vinciguerra (left, with his character Brinley Bear of Wolf Pack).
Surely Charly is trans on the show, too.
More LGBTQ representation: The Boy Toy, Johnny Carrera, is played by straight actor Dmitrij Schaad, but voiced by JP Karliak, founder and president of Queer Vox, an organization for LGBTQ voice artists.
Vincent Redetzki, who plays school band leader Paule, is gay in real life.
That's enough for me. I'll review Episode 1.3, which is Charly-centric: he experiences "his first heartbreak" and meets his first arch-nemesis.
Scene 1: Fleischer's Towing Service (his Mom's company). Asleep on a day bed, Toni is awakened by his son Charly: he had a nightmare. Can he sleep in Toni's bed? There's no room, but Charly squeezes in anyway.
The narrator, a talking duckling named Tupac, explains that Charly didn't really have a nightmare. He just wanted to cuddle with his dad.
Scene 2: Toni is exhausted after getting no sleep, but Charly is energetic, and makes breakfast for him, the duck, and the Boy Toy: Chocolate-ketchup fountain, sausage water coffee, green farfalle, and chocolate scrambled eggs. Does Charly have a learning disability? Boy Toy insists that they try it to avoid hurting Charly's feelings, and it turns out to be delicious.
Boy Toy: "It feels like love in my mouth." This is completely innocent of double-entendre.
In other news, is it weird to be in love with your cousin?
Boy Toy: It's normal in Mexico. Toni: It's weird in Germany.
Charlie announces today's plan: Paddleboard limbo (a real sport where you stand on a paddleboat and negotiate a barrier).
Toni: "Sorry, no time. I have writing to do today." Ms. Muller-Muller has commissioned him to write eight rap songs.
Meanwhile, the evil Mayor Veronica and her son are surveilling them, cooking up mischief.
Scene 3: Toni starts to work on a rap song, but is distracted. Narrator: "He hasn't finished a song in 18 years."
At school, Charly heads for Sascha, his girl cousin. She is played by Sherine Ciara Merai, who is gay in real life, and voiced by Jonna-Lynn Alonso, a bi/pan, genderfluid, femme presenting voice artist.
Apparently they've considered dating before, and he is reporting on his research. Genetics: No problem with their offspring. So Charlie must be cisgender. A trans boy doesn't produce sperm, so...wait, is Sascha a girl?
Social attitudes: A problem in Germany, but they can always move to Mexico.
Nope, Sascha breaks up with him. Narrator: "The first heartbreak of his life."
Next, Band Leader Paule comes in to introduce the newest member, Köbi from Switzerland. He tries to impress them by speaking in Swiss German. I ran into that problem in Switzerland. I couldn't understand a word.
Next he demostrate tha the is a guitar whiz. Sacha is totally impressed, but Charly glares. Moving in on my ex-crush! My arch-enemy!
Left: A random Deutsch dude. More after the break.









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