Tutti Frutti (Show)

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Television broadcast
Original title Colpo grosso
Country of production Italy
original language German
Year (s) 1990–1993, 2016
Production
company
ASA TV (1990–1993),
strandgutmedia GmbH (2016)
length approx. 45 (1990–1993),
approx. 90 (2016) minutes
Episodes 151 in 4 seasons
Broadcasting
cycle
weekly on Sunday evenings (1990–1993),
once on Friday evenings (2016)
genre Erotic game show
Moderation
First broadcast January 21, 1990 on RTL plus

Tutti Frutti (Italian; "all fruit, mixed fruit") was the German version of the Italian erotic - game show Colpo Grosso (it about "the big coup."). It was broadcast from January 21, 1990 to February 21, 1993 on the private broadcaster RTL plus . A total of three seasons with 150 episodes were produced. Season 1 (1990/91) ran on a slot on late Sunday evening, Season 2 (1991/92) was broadcast on Fridays, Season 3 (1992/93) alternated on Fridays and Saturdays. Tutti Frutti is considered the first erotic TV show on German television.

On December 30, 2016, a one-time new edition of the show was broadcast on RTL Nitro , moderated by Jörg Draeger and Alexander Wipprecht .

The broadcast

production

The show was presented by Hugo Egon Balder , who was supported by up to three co-presenters:

  • Season 1: Monique Sluyter , Tiziana d'Arcangelo, Nora Wenck
  • Season 2: Monique Sluyter, Tiziana d'Arcangelo
  • Season 3: Gabriella Lunghi

The show was shot in stages in the studios of the ASA TV production company in Cologno Monzese ( Milan ). The shooting time was around four weeks each. The stage design, the format and large parts of the cast, which changed with each season, were completely taken over by Colpo Grosso , as was the theme song sung in Italian. Further Colpo Grosso adaptations took place in Spain ( ¡Ay, qué calor! ) And Sweden ( Tutti Frutti ). In Brazil , a version called Cocktail , which was not shot in Italy, but otherwise almost completely copied, was broadcast. Even today, the Italian recordings in particular are broadcast on various satellite channels around the world.

The ballet Cin Cin

The so-called ballet Cin Cin (in the original: ragazze cin cin ), a group of models who were permanently under contract, took on smaller roles in the quiz rounds and presented themselves with little clothing, played a not inconsiderable part in Tutti Frutti's success . Each model represented a certain color or fruit, by which some are still known today. Among other things, Stella Kobs as lemon (season 1) and Elke Jeinsen as strawberry (season 3) could be seen, both former Playmates of the year in German Playboy , as well as Jasmin Capelli (strawberry season 1), the Swedish wife of the Italian Formula 1 Driver Ivan Capelli . Many other members of the Cin Cin ballet were represented with photo series in international men's magazines. Porn actress Zara Whites made her first screen appearances on the Italian show.

Candidates

One man and one woman appeared as candidates per broadcast. Almost all of them were amateurs who broke new ground both in front of the camera and with the striptease interludes. Exceptions were Petra Vieten , who was a candidate in 1990 and also appeared as a Euro Girl, and Isabel Golden , who later became known as a porn actress , who, like her husband, who later became a porn film producer, Klaus Goldberg, was a candidate on the show. The candidates were initially able to apply through Neue Revue magazine , which sponsored the first season , and were later selected by the Hamburg agency Euro Casting. In every program, television viewers were asked to apply as a candidate.

Rules of the game

The candidates were able to win points through quite simple games of chance and guessing games , which were invested in the clothes of the so-called Euro-Girls ( strippers who each represented a European country). The candidates scored additional points through their own striptease inserts, with certain items of clothing being assigned a fixed point value. The rules and point values ​​differed from season to season. The winner received 3000 D-Marks in ECU coins (Season 1) or 1000 D-Marks for each country point earned (Season 2). In season 3, Balder immediately handed over a 1,000 mark note for each country point earned, regardless of the outcome of the game.

Shipment history

At the beginning of the broadcast, the candidates were welcomed by Balder in short conversations and the assistants, Cin-Cin and Euro Girls were introduced. Then the candidates each selected a Cin-Cin girl who bared their breasts in front of the moderator Balder and gave the candidates an assigned point value as starting capital using a sticker. In other games, among which simple variants of roulette , dice , quiz questions and 17 and 4 as well as the slot machine were recurring elements, the candidates could win additional points. Sometimes points had to be set in the games. If the candidates had no more points in their accounts, they had to collect the necessary points themselves with their own striptease interludes. If they still had enough points, moderator Balder asked the candidate to do a "voluntary" strip after a while. The bra always had the highest point value for women and trousers for men . The candidates always kept at least one pair of panties on and were also allowed to put on a bathrobe after their striptease . Initially, the bathrobes had an advertising print from the Neue Revue, so that some of the first programs had to be marked as long-term advertising . The lettering was later pixelated and abolished from the second season.

In the interruptions between the games, some of which lasted longer than the games themselves, the points earned by the candidates were invested in the Euro-Girls' clothing, which they then removed in strip insoles. If a candidate had almost completely undressed one of the strippers, he / she received the country point assigned to this stripper. The dancers always kept a thong on. The total number of country points achieved ultimately decided the victory.

The program was loosened up with live music performances by the studio band (especially in the first season, mostly with Balder himself at the piano and microphone). In addition, Balder regularly tried to give the program a comedic or even anarchic touch with jokes or ironic contributions. One of the highlights of this kind was an appearance by screenwriter Hubert Franke , who mingled with the Cin-Cin girls with a mustache but in a mini skirt and tight top as savoy cabbage . If (time) needed, short, previously recorded strip clips of individual girls from the Cin-Cin ballet, which had been produced for the Italian original, were added. In such feature films, the Italian original Colpo Grosso occasionally showed a complete striptease, during which the last shell fell off. In the German version, the genital area remained covered throughout these scenes.

reception

When Tutti Frutti was first broadcast , the Federal Republic of Germany was changing. As the first erotic TV show on German television, Tutti Frutti functioned as a kind of “erotic wall opening ”. The show was then criticized as misogynistic , but Tutti Frutti's daring handling of bare facts hardly led to a moral scandal . Rather, the debate at the time in the German tabloid and quality press documents the “completed normalization of publicly staged nudity.” The mostly devastating judgments of the TV criticism were aimed more at the questionable aesthetics of the show than at moral issues.

Financially, Tutti Frutti was a great success for a long time, as the advertising income far exceeded the per-minute price of the program. Among other things, Tutti Frutti drew attention to himself through a complaint by the responsible state media authority against RTL because of the display of sponsor advertising (hence the display of long-term advertising or the subsequent defacement of the logos), by playing with strips in 3D (see Pulfrich effect ) in the second season and a very extensive merchandising (sound carriers, magazines, calendar, videos).

Fans especially appreciated the show's rather anarchic charm. " Tutti Frutti was what would later have been called a cult ," said media critic Hans Hoff .

New edition 2016

RTL announced the new edition of the show in October 2016. The program was broadcast on December 30, 2016 on the special interest channel RTL Nitro . Jörg Draeger hosted the show, with Alexander Wipprecht acting as co-moderator . In addition, a six-person Cin-Cin-Playboy-Ballet took part in the show, which was made up of the six former Playmates Lea Götz, Annetta Negare, Daria Eppert, Jennifer Martin, Victoria Paschold and Nina Weis. Monique Sluyter was there again as an assistant, while Hugo Egon Balder could only be seen in single-players.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. imfernsehen GmbH & Co KG: Tutti Frutti (D) Season 1 episode guide. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
  2. imfernsehen GmbH & Co KG: Tutti Frutti (D) Season 2 episode guide. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
  3. imfernsehen GmbH & Co KG: Tutti Frutti (D) Season 3 episode guide. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
  4. What is actually doing ... Monique Sluyter in Stern from December 9, 2003
  5. Candidates. In: TUTTI FRUTTI & COLPO GROSSO. December 2, 2012, accessed on April 3, 2020 (German).
  6. Christoph Velten, Gregor Tholl: Hubert vom Venn at "Tutti Frutti": Little fruits and an author. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
  7. a b Hans Hoff : Anyone who watches "Tutti Frutti" wants to be ashamed of themselves on a tour , Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 30, 2016, accessed on December 30, 2016.
  8. Christian Pundt: Conflicts about the self-description of society: The discourse about privacy on television. In: Ralph Weiß, Jo Groebel: Privacy in Public Space: Media Action Between Individualization and Delimitation . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2002. pp. 272-273.
  9. RTL NITRO on Twitter . In: Twitter . ( twitter.com [accessed October 14, 2016]).
  10. Advertise & Sell: W&V: "Tutti Frutti" is back on TV. In: www.wuv.de. Retrieved October 14, 2016 .