Millions of German-speaking TV viewers celebrate Christmas with the Hoppenstedts year after year. Where else could they learn how to make the holidays truly cosy (for instance with the game Let’s Build a Nuclear Power Plant) and how to get rid of wrapping paper surreptitiously in the stairwell? When Dicki recites thought-provoking poems and Grandpa Hoppenstedt proclaims: »There was more tinsel in the old days!« – that’s when they know it’s Christmas.