Jeanie,

you mean you went to bed early after a delicious meal? You really should do that more often, even on New Year's Eve.
Oh no, I see now, you could mean what presumably comes after the sketch has ended: You felt like being ninety after having made love four times (grin)...There are some more possibilities left but I won't go into details.
Whatever it was exactly you seemed to enjoy may it be the same procedure next year (and don't forget: next year is already now).

Alanabit,

why does a particular sketch capture the hearts? Difficult to tell. The fact that we do not understand all of it due to the fact that the sketch is in English without subtitles (never done at any other opportunity in German TV) may contribute, but I guess the main factor is the repetition itself at a predictable time, but only once a year.

In an unsure world, some things have to come in the same shape, at the same time as it always was when we have been young and as it will be when we'll be old. And for Germany that is, among a few other things, always the same few verses of Luke at Christmas Eve, always the same song (So ein Tag) as Mainz carneval's last encore and Dinner for one on New Year's eve.

It is just reassuring in terms of common cultural background when people ask "Should we come before or after 'Dinner for one'?" when you invite them to share New Year's Eve.

Isn't it ironic that German hating Freddie Frinton by his insistance that the sketch should be shown in English without subtitles has contributed in unforeseen ways to German postwar culture.

We have other movies too that come to particular times as Christmas, but never so reliably.

Wolfgang