What does Ernie say looking out the window as the rains come down?
According to Don Calfa, “It s coming down like es regnet in Stroemen” (“raining like cats and dogs”). In keeping with his character’s heritage, actor Don Calfa threw this line in by doing a little research. However, it doesn’t sound like this is indeed the phrase! To my ears, it sounds like “it’s coming down like an eindringend soldatisch” (‘an infiltrating soldier or a soldierly penetrating’). However on the DVD subtitles are wrong: ‘getrunken soldat’ (drunk soldier). “Eingetrunken” sounds better. It is definitely a Nazi reference. Yet another visitor to the site – this time an actual native of Germany explains that if he uses correct German it would be: “its coming down like ein betrunkener soldat”.
