1 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:06,580 it's Christmas, so what? 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:08,520 who is happy and why? 3 00:00:08,860 --> 00:00:12,000 does skiing make you happy? 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:14,540 Christmas is as good as it gets 5 00:00:14,740 --> 00:00:16,460 snow and sleat and sip and slush 6 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,620 so we look forward till it is over 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,180 everything goes down the hill at breakneck speed 8 00:00:24,380 --> 00:00:28,320 and soon the Christms pixie is starting to die out, so march 9 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:30,200 it's pure therapy 10 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,140 it's mass hysteria 11 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,660 we are so sad to mention it, but... 12 00:00:36,140 --> 00:00:39,280 now it's Christmas in the treadmill again 13 00:00:40,260 --> 00:00:41,940 it's Christmas, X-M-A-S 14 00:00:42,100 --> 00:00:43,940 God, how commercial it is 15 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,100 soon, the air will be filled with fraud and trickery 16 00:00:48,060 --> 00:00:51,900 Christmas is, as you know, always is an inconvenience 17 00:00:52,020 --> 00:00:55,280 because it sets the most extreme demands, 18 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,100 but in a time when no one really knows what they want 19 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,580 it is the last straw we can cling to 20 00:01:03,739 --> 00:01:07,480 has it first gotten through your joyous child-like mind, 21 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,920 you'll be mindlessly joyously sick, 22 00:01:11,460 --> 00:01:14,400 then it's Christmas in the treadmill yet again. 23 00:01:15,460 --> 00:01:18,400 CHRISTMAS IN THE OLD THREADMILL. 24 00:01:20,580 --> 00:01:21,780 God, Flemming. 25 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,040 Now it is again about a disparate mid-aged house owner, who 26 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:29,740 threw himself from the roof of his car port because of economic problems. 27 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:31,200 What's the matter? 28 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:34,180 Flemming, where are all your clothes? 29 00:01:34,860 --> 00:01:36,740 Berit, I can't get it to run at all. 30 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:37,820 I have tried everything. 31 00:01:37,940 --> 00:01:40,280 I just can't get it to churn around. 32 00:01:40,900 --> 00:01:41,920 I give up. 33 00:01:42,140 --> 00:01:43,420 Now there is only one way out. 34 00:01:43,540 --> 00:01:46,380 Stop, Flemming, you mustn't do anything rash. 35 00:01:47,420 --> 00:01:48,760 It churns around. 36 00:01:48,980 --> 00:01:50,740 It was just the lid that had to be slammed. 37 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:52,920 Flemming, so scared, you must never make me again. 38 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:56,640 I don't know at all how I would have been able to live without that dryer. 39 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,060 Relax Berit, I know how that feels. 40 00:01:59,300 --> 00:02:01,680 I myself feel the same way about the fridge. 41 00:02:03,020 --> 00:02:05,840 Oh no, it feels so empty inside. 42 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:07,560 That's because it's Monday. 43 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:09,820 Is it Monday? 44 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:11,760 Well, that was terrible. 45 00:02:12,140 --> 00:02:16,540 Oh no, I can't go out into the labor market at all without some proper sliced meat. 46 00:02:16,580 --> 00:02:19,840 That is, if you knew how much bread there is within the accounting industry. 47 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:20,880 But what should I do? 48 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:23,620 You can then try looking in your gift calendar. 49 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:25,920 Oh, you, what's the use, huh? 50 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:29,920 Yeah, it's, oh, it's just a long tube with 51 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:32,700 nothing inside, right? 52 00:02:32,980 --> 00:02:34,180 But Berit, what is that? 53 00:02:34,620 --> 00:02:36,560 It is a French lunch box. 54 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,740 Is it a French lunch box? 55 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,340 Yes, you take just a little piece of cracked flute here, 56 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,880 then you put just a little camembert cheese, like that, 57 00:02:44,940 --> 00:02:46,880 and then there is a little Gruyère cheese, and a little of each, 58 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:48,220 and then off to Val d'Isère. 59 00:02:48,420 --> 00:02:50,600 It's just completely spontaneous, isn't it? 60 00:02:50,940 --> 00:02:53,540 This is what is called savoir-vivre. 61 00:02:53,540 --> 00:02:56,100 Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch. 62 00:02:56,180 --> 00:02:58,040 What's wrong now, Flemming? 63 00:02:58,100 --> 00:02:59,760 We have to leave now. 64 00:02:59,980 --> 00:03:01,700 Just remember to wear some warm clothes. 65 00:03:01,820 --> 00:03:03,540 That's what I am doing. 66 00:03:06,020 --> 00:03:08,720 Oh, no, Berit, that's almost too much. 67 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,160 29.85, you shouldn't have done that. 68 00:03:11,260 --> 00:03:12,980 We don't have that much to route with. 69 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,280 Oh, Flemming, once in a while you just have to route to show your feelings. 70 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,620 And you know what, Flemming, when I saw it there in the window, 71 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:24,620 then there was just like an inner voice that said, Ruth, it said. 72 00:03:24,780 --> 00:03:27,100 - Did it say, Ruth? - Yes. 73 00:03:27,460 --> 00:03:29,920 It was strange, that's what my secretary's name is. 74 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:33,540 Flemming, now you haven't done anything stupid, have you? 75 00:03:33,620 --> 00:03:35,720 Ah Berit, one is only a human. 76 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:37,960 It is as if there is no contact at all. 77 00:03:38,540 --> 00:03:41,340 If you knew how it feels when someone you've known for ten years, 78 00:03:41,340 --> 00:03:44,780 and cared about so much, just suddenly dies, completely dead. 79 00:03:45,060 --> 00:03:47,380 Try to hear, yourself. 80 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,380 Oh, the little Toyota Corolla, say something! 81 00:03:50,460 --> 00:03:52,580 Well, couldn't we just ask the neighbor for help? 82 00:03:53,020 --> 00:03:55,560 - Yes, he's standing right over there. - Neighbor? 83 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,820 You must be crazy, it's just the kind of chance he's been waiting for. 84 00:03:59,100 --> 00:04:01,420 Do you think I want to be the laughing stock of the entire Landowners' Association? 85 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,000 - Av! What is that? - That, that's showgun. 86 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:06,640 Is it showgun? 87 00:04:17,100 --> 00:04:20,079 Just such a small thing like flowers and gifts, right? 88 00:04:20,079 --> 00:04:23,980 I get completely off there. All attention is not wanted. 89 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:29,140 My last three guys, they came forth 90 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,140 with red roses now and then, right? 91 00:04:31,140 --> 00:04:34,540 And then you have them hanging over you all evening, right? 92 00:04:34,540 --> 00:04:36,260 With their dirty ulterior motives. 93 00:04:36,660 --> 00:04:39,880 I mean that when you lie there on the couch, you just want to be allowed 94 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:41,500 to lie in peace for a bit, don't you? 95 00:04:41,660 --> 00:04:44,220 Do you know what they do? They pounce on one. 96 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:45,990 Do they really? 97 00:04:46,140 --> 00:04:47,460 What are you going to do tonight? 98 00:04:47,460 --> 00:04:50,360 I don't know. I don't care. As long as it's French. 99 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:54,280 I make leftovers. I still have a little bit of 'burning love' in the freezer. 100 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:56,120 Who doesn't have that, you? 101 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:08,680 So, Flemming, how can you figure out all those numbers? 102 00:05:08,900 --> 00:05:10,820 Well, it's a training hack, you. 103 00:05:11,300 --> 00:05:14,080 Now take this one for example. It is from 1985. 104 00:05:14,180 --> 00:05:15,700 It's says up there. 105 00:05:15,820 --> 00:05:18,160 Imagine, the flowers cost that, too. 106 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,620 - And I also made coffee. - Ruth! 107 00:05:22,340 --> 00:05:23,400 Do you know what I have? 108 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:24,900 I got a new lunch box, you. 109 00:05:25,340 --> 00:05:28,200 I look forward to seeing my conceited colleague's face when he walks through that door. 110 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:32,260 Well, there you are! 111 00:05:32,380 --> 00:05:33,960 What kind of time is it to arrive at? 112 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,600 So what do you say? Can you lick that? 113 00:05:36,740 --> 00:05:38,920 Bring on the clamps, you, so I can see what you're able to. 114 00:05:41,860 --> 00:05:42,940 Kvik isn't here. 115 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:44,600 Then it must be you, who is Flemming. 116 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:46,940 Yes, when their colleague is sick today. 117 00:05:47,340 --> 00:05:48,980 I am their client, Edvard. 118 00:05:49,380 --> 00:05:52,540 Flemming. Are you my client? 119 00:05:52,620 --> 00:05:54,060 Well, they look like... 120 00:05:54,060 --> 00:05:56,260 Yes, we office workers, we all look alike. 121 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,720 Now they have to see. I have some papers for them. 122 00:06:00,140 --> 00:06:02,800 These are some that I have received back from the tax authorities over the past 12 years. 123 00:06:03,940 --> 00:06:07,440 The problem is that when you add the two numbers together, you do not get 432. 124 00:06:08,220 --> 00:06:10,900 Don't you? Well, I can't understand that. 125 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:16,020 I have also written that on all my own. 126 00:06:16,660 --> 00:06:17,720 What do you get, then? 127 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:19,960 You get 14 months in Horsered Prison. 128 00:06:20,780 --> 00:06:22,140 I just think they should know. 129 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:24,060 I have to be there in an hour. 130 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:26,940 Goodbye. 131 00:06:31,180 --> 00:06:32,900 In Horsered Prison? Oh God, no. 132 00:06:33,340 --> 00:06:34,980 Yes, Flemming, come now. 133 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:36,720 No, Berit, I don't want to go in there. 134 00:06:36,820 --> 00:06:38,080 Well, we must be able to talk about it. 135 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:39,620 We've talked long enough. 136 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:40,660 Now we have to do it! 137 00:06:45,730 --> 00:06:48,910 We shall not have it. Can you not soon understand that? 138 00:06:52,830 --> 00:06:54,210 What should it be? 139 00:06:54,410 --> 00:06:56,470 Um, yes, the usual, thanks. 140 00:06:56,550 --> 00:06:58,250 Just fill it up. 141 00:07:04,250 --> 00:07:06,810 Berit... Berit, there's something we need to talk about. 142 00:07:06,950 --> 00:07:08,930 If it's something to do with that Christmas, I don't want to hear any more about it. 143 00:07:09,030 --> 00:07:10,510 But today at the office. 144 00:07:10,630 --> 00:07:13,130 If it's something with Ruth, I'm not interested at all. 145 00:07:13,430 --> 00:07:14,250 She is a goose! 146 00:07:14,470 --> 00:07:16,550 - Is she a goose? - Yes. 147 00:07:17,370 --> 00:07:18,690 What does she have that I don't? 148 00:07:18,970 --> 00:07:21,870 She has shingles, and then she has such small eyes. 149 00:07:22,470 --> 00:07:25,670 Goose eyes. No, look at some beautiful potted plants. 150 00:07:25,710 --> 00:07:27,550 I think I'll just have a few. 151 00:07:27,650 --> 00:07:28,950 Well, try to look here, Berit. 152 00:07:29,190 --> 00:07:30,910 Here you get considerably more for the money. 153 00:07:32,650 --> 00:07:34,570 - Um, was that all? - Yes. 154 00:07:34,690 --> 00:07:36,850 Tell me, there's nothing wrong, right? 155 00:07:37,930 --> 00:07:40,290 They don't want to celebrate Christmas, this year. Shh. 156 00:07:41,670 --> 00:07:43,330 Uh, goodbye and thank you. 157 00:07:44,530 --> 00:07:46,190 Just wait. 158 00:07:46,350 --> 00:07:47,730 They'll come crawling. 159 00:07:48,090 --> 00:07:50,630 We have our methods. 160 00:07:51,410 --> 00:07:54,190 No, no, for God's sake, not that. 161 00:07:54,430 --> 00:07:56,210 They have asked for it themselves. 162 00:08:01,990 --> 00:08:05,010 Berit, why don't we let it lay and hang, 163 00:08:05,110 --> 00:08:09,730 and sit down on the sofa, and hoping that your friend Iben doesn't call? 164 00:08:15,850 --> 00:08:18,970 Goodness, it's you, Iben? I thought, it was funny you just called. 165 00:08:19,110 --> 00:08:21,750 I'm standing right here and about to give water in a saucer. 166 00:08:21,890 --> 00:08:25,490 Yes, Flemming, he is neither into one nor the other, so it is as it usually is. 167 00:08:26,290 --> 00:08:28,970 What do you say? Isn't it you, Iben? 168 00:08:29,630 --> 00:08:31,330 Who is it then? 169 00:08:31,830 --> 00:08:33,130 Are they sure about that? 170 00:08:34,929 --> 00:08:36,390 It's for you, Flemming. 171 00:08:36,630 --> 00:08:38,650 It's a woman. 172 00:08:38,770 --> 00:08:41,370 Hello? Is it a woman? 173 00:08:41,570 --> 00:08:43,049 Yes. 174 00:08:44,170 --> 00:08:47,850 What amount? No, but it's not that good right now. 175 00:08:49,230 --> 00:08:51,190 No, of course you don't get this kind of service for free. 176 00:08:52,170 --> 00:08:53,930 Yes, I am certainly satisfied. 177 00:08:54,090 --> 00:08:55,610 In fact, I can't do without it at all. 178 00:08:56,390 --> 00:08:58,630 No, of course we have to continue, yes, preferably every day. 179 00:08:59,310 --> 00:09:01,530 Hello? 180 00:09:01,710 --> 00:09:02,930 No, it's blackmailing. 181 00:09:03,010 --> 00:09:05,330 What type of a mess! 182 00:09:06,130 --> 00:09:08,570 Flemming, I think you owe me an explanation. 183 00:09:09,270 --> 00:09:10,830 I can bear to hear it. 184 00:09:10,830 --> 00:09:12,690 Oh well, but there might be others who can't… 185 00:09:12,690 --> 00:09:14,770 I don't care about them. 186 00:09:15,070 --> 00:09:17,530 Flemming, was it... 187 00:09:17,690 --> 00:09:18,890 Yes, Berit. 188 00:09:18,950 --> 00:09:20,410 It was from the daycare home. 189 00:09:25,950 --> 00:09:30,410 --- Subtitles by Essery. 2025. ---