It's a Jew thaing. IMHO the funniest series EVER on television. My brother, who has lived in Germany for the past 25 years says that they show it over there dubbed in German. He loves the show, and always makes a point to watch it when he's here in the States. But he says that the show just isn't funny in German.
OTH, he said that the German dubbed "Married with Children" is much funnier than the original American English version. I don't speak German, but somehow I can't imagine how that could be.
Most humor is funniest in its native tongue. VERY FEW things are funny at all in German, and usually only those that originate in the German. An exception is material translated into German that either has no direct translation or is translated LITERALLY...which can be hysterical!
I don't remember specifics, but some company was making its products in Japan and wanted to sell them in France. Rather than hiring a translator, the company translated the owner's manual itself. Only one problem: the company had only Japanese-to-Portuguese and Portugese-to-French dictionaries on hand. They couldn't find a Japanese-to-French dictionary, so they used the other two. The resulting laugh riot was funnier than any of those mis-translated signs you see passed around in email.
Michael