Axel!

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Television series
Original title Axel!
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) 2002-2004
length 22 minutes
Episodes 35 in 2 seasons
genre Comedy
First broadcast September 21, 2002 on Sat.1
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Axel! was a German comedy series with Axel Stein in the title role, in which episodes from the life of the character Axel and his friends are shown. The series was broadcast on Sat.1 . As a continuation, another series was created with the name Axel! want to know .

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Each episode in the series is roughly the same. Each episode is framed by Axel's weekly sessions with his psychologist. In the sessions he describes her, his turbulent, young life, which is made clear to the viewer through flashbacks. Some of Axel's flashbacks or stories are only of a fictional nature because he wants to stimulate his psychologist. The protagonists in his stories are - besides him of course - his best buddies Basti and Bong. Despite their character differences, no one can separate the three. Basti is more of the shy, unsportsmanlike tinkerer with horn-rimmed glasses, Bong is a good-looking freak who got his nickname because of his love for marijuana, and Axel is very impulsive and always pulls the other two away.

Episodes

season 1

  • 1. Love and other embarrassments
  • 2. Friends and other enemies
  • 3. Women and other drugs
  • 4. No wedding and a death
  • 5. Booth, lady, king
  • 6. Jobs and flops
  • 7. Axelcalypse Now
  • 8. The tire check
  • 9. Real men don't dance
  • 10. Closed society
  • 11. Cats even more
  • 12. Campers are buddies
  • 13. Group picture with Axel

season 2

  • 14. Mom's new boyfriend
  • 15. The IQ test
  • 16. The break-in
  • 17. The concert
  • 18. The Brazilian
  • 19. The murder
  • 20. The accident
  • 21. The game of billiards
  • 22. The collector's item
  • 23. The fight
  • 24. The father
  • 25. The new car
  • 26. The great love
  • 27. The first time
  • 28. The lottery win
  • 29. The doppelganger
  • 30. The haunted castle
  • 31. The new job
  • 32. The Guru
  • 33. The football game
  • 34. The will
  • 35. The Abitur

Awards

  • Axel Stein and Johnny Challah were each nominated for a German Comedy Award in 2003 .

Trivia

  • In the episode Camper are mates , Basti, Bong and Axel play a game in which one person pantomises a film and the others have to guess it. Basti hardly has to move and Bong is always right. But with Axel, the two have problems getting to the films, even though it's extremely obvious. When Axel the role of John Travolta in Pulp Fiction is, Bong called the title school , Harte Jungs , Tough Guys and Fire, Ice and Dosendingsda (meaning: fire, ice and cans of beer ). These are all films in which Axel Stein played a bigger role.

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