problems making decisions. Puppeteers: Klaus Naeve, Lorenz Claussen. Karl-Otto has a blue nose. In the original, he stutters. Puppeteers: Matthias Hirth, Lothar Kreutzer, Jürgen Meuter. Mona and Lisa Twin girls who live on a houseboat and are usually found arguing. Mona and Lisa are not identical twins. They can be identified by their different hairstyles. Mona has her hair tied in two pigtails, while Lisa has a single ponytail. Lisa was in a relationship with Lexi for most of the series. The twins first appeared in Episode 6. Puppeteers: Petra Zieser, Sabine Steincke, Karime Vakilzadeh, Andrea Bongers (Mona), Eva Behrmann (Lisa). US voice artist: Lara Cody Galaktika (Galactica) Galaktika is an alien from Andromeda. The villagers can summon her by singing. However, in some early episodes, Galaktika appears without the need for a song. Puppeteer: Maria Ilic. US voice artist: Barbara Goodson Nero Nero is a demon. He appeared only in several early episodes to cause trouble for Spencer and the others, being quickly dropped from the show when it became clear that young viewers were afraid of him. Puppeteers: Friedrich Wollweber, Matthias Hirth, Joachim Hall. The series abroad In the early 1990s, after many years of success in its homeland and in other countries that broadcast a dubbed version of the original series including Mexico, Saban International bought the foreign rights to Hallo Spencer. The show was soon translated and broadcast in many countries around the world, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, China, Israel, Spain, Singapore, Russia, most countries in Scandinavia and the Netherlands. However, the rushed translations and changes made to the show were often for the worse. The European style of characters speaking over one another worked very badly in other regions, making scenes unintelligible and worse, laughable. This was not helped by the comparatively low budget of the programme. The North American version was retitled The Hallo Spencer Show and heavily edited by translating and rewriting scripts, cutting seven minutes from each episode in order to fit the American broadcast schedule during its first-run syndication on local networks around 3:00 PM EST/2:00 PM Central Time Zone, and to accommodate the inclusion of a rap at the end, summarizing the events of the episode. The scenes were also rearranged which resulted in continuity errors. The title character, Spencer, was renamed Hello Spencer (Hello an English version of the name instead of the original German