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Showmaster Pocher: Alone against four Internet stars
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Stefan Gregorowius / TVNOW / picture alliance / dpa
You could have rappeled down from the studio ceiling with a self-tied rope made from these obtrusively advertised, allegedly highly elastic adult rompers.
A game of water polo in a pool filled with hair mask silt would have been conceivable.
Or they could have guessed in a guessing game how many migrant workers in Dubai, the favorite country of influencers and big luxury ferrets, die every year because of the miserable working conditions.
The direct encounter between Oliver Pocher, his wife Amira and the influencers he has shown on Instagram with a long and tiring regularity could actually have wrested one or the other food for thought.
Instead, like Pocher's battle with Michael Wendler last year, the duel turned out to be a boring and boring game.
And rubbish business dealings with those who are accused of doing business with rubbish.
Of course, you don't have to know Pocher's opponents, the trash TV professional buffoon Sam Dylan, the biggest German tiktoker Younes Zarou and the influencers Kristina Levina, Payton Ramolla and Tim Kampmann.
But that goes for quite a few people, on television and elsewhere.
You can also live excellently without ever having seen a single one of Pocher's “screen controls”, in which he sometimes mixes justified criticism of those influencing the profession with unnecessarily foul bullying.
So now the pince-nez and the pinchers drove blindfolded in mini cars in a cheerful children's birthday unit through a traffic cone course, hopped over hurdles from piled-up toilet rolls like funny TikTok pets and appreciated whether Lady Gaga's French bulldog or Lewis Hamilton's English bulldog were more Instagram followers Has.
The fact is briefly discussed that the influencer Caro Daur, who is not present, has "high view numbers in the reels", and whoever is involved in all the "Schlag den Raab" -like show formats in this dreary rubbish-off rampage can really never complain again when Instagram is coming up soon once again wading through very flat puddles of content.
As expected and according to plan, an Instagrammer then says something not very clever: Payton Ramolla doesn't know who Christian Drosten is, you almost have to admire her for this radical shyness.
As expected, Pocher avoids the embarrassment, later, purely by chance, Sam Dylan of all people will play in the only game in which you have to write something down.
With him you don't know for sure whether his word errors, which Pocher has reported extensively in the past and regularly displayed on Instagram, are calculated-business-like modeling of his trash persona or actually spelling weaknesses, and in both cases it can be poor for various reasons find Dylan, of all people, to compete in a game in which he has to taste the ingredients of a long drink and write on a blackboard - "Bludi Mari" is then there, and one wonders when the announced quality offensive will start at RTL.
For a moment it almost became even more interesting when a game called »Pool Party in Dubai« was played and moderator Laura Wontorra Pocher reminded us that they once celebrated such a pleasure together in the said emirate.
Everything else is mumbled away, however, and sinks, like so much on this evening, in a fascinatingly shameless shallowness: You throw plastic rings at puffed-up flamingo hats.
In the end, Pocher wins, and no tooth whitening story on Instagram could be any worse.