Blondi is the name of the fictional, intelligent German Shepherd and companion to Otto on the television miniseries "Kingdom Hospital". He has on several occasions shown self-consciousness and actual thought capabilities; as an in-joke, he thinks in a German accent. The German Shepherd Dog (known also as the Alsatian, Schäfer or Schäferhund) is a breed of dog. ... Stephen Kings Kingdom Hospital was a thirteen-episode miniseries based on Lars von Triers Riget, which was developed by horror writer Stephen King in 2004 for American television. ... An in joke is a joke whose humour is clear only to those people who are in a group that has some prior knowledge (not known by the whole population) that makes the joke humorous. ... German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ...