Wizard 101 Pop Culture – Karamelle – Hans and Franz Ice Cream

Hans and Franz Ice Cream Parlor in Sweetzburg – Pumping Up with Hans & Franz
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Location:Nana%27s_Ice_Cream_Parlor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_and_Franz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAalP0jeqV4

Thank you to MB who reminded me of this reference.

The good townsfolk of Sweetzburg are troubled. There are rumors of witches. Witches whose honeyed words about the misery of Nana’s Happiness Initiative might explain the poor attitude in town.

Since the incident at the Gummy Plant, there has been a lot of cackling coming from Nana’s Ice Cream Parlor. (Note the dialogue and quest marker identify the shop as Nana’s Ice Cream Parlor. The artwork states the name is Hans and Franz Ice Cream.)

Hans and Franz are characters in a recurring sketch called “Pumping Up with Hans & Franz” on the television sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, played by Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon, respectively.

In the sketch, Carvey and Nealon play a pair of muscle-bound Austrian bodybuilders in the mold of Arnold Schwarzenegger, using padding for fake muscles, drab gray sweatsuits, weight belts, and speaking with Austrian accents. The background of the set includes several life-sized cutouts of Schwarzenegger during his competition years. The sketch’s introductory and ending music featured mock Austrian yodeling.

“Pumping Up” primarily consists of Hans and Franz denigrating others for not being strong and as physically fit as they appear to be, striking bodybuilder poses to show off their “muscled” bodies, complete with strained facial expressions. Schwarzenegger made one guest appearance in the sketch (to much applause) in which he ridicules “his cousins” for being “girlie” and weak. Another sketch was done in response to recent sports news, where a “Saturday Night Live editorial” showed Hans and Franz barking back at a recent remark by Jimmy the Greek that African men were more apt to be muscular than European men.

One sketch that did not have the pair in their signature sweatsuits and leather belts was a Halloween episode. Hans and Franz both dressed up as their idol, Arnold Schwarzenegger, with Hans as the titular character from the first Terminator film and Franz as the T-800 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The two compared how their Terminators were tougher, then derided other “girlie” costumes, even a boy who was Superman. Rather than hand out high sugar candy, Hans and Franz gave “treats” of vitamin C pills, coconut oil, and bee pollen to encourage kids to stay in shape.

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