[2] Further contributing to the series' failure was the fact that Married... with Children had already premiered in Germany a year before and was broadcast daily in the afternoon while Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt was broadcast once a week in the evening, on the same station.
[2] The series was critically panned due to the poor translation and adaptation of the original scripts.
German newspaper taz called it "very boring", while 20 years later in a retrospective article on the show, Der Spiegel said that it "couldn't work".
[2] Christian Richter of Quotenmeter.de called it "the probably most colourless comedy series on German television".
"[4] The series received very poor ratings and was cancelled after the 26 episodes of the first season were broadcast.