1 00:00:05,180 --> 00:00:06,880 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 00:01:21,740 --> 00:01:23,660 Hi Berit. 25 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:24,600 Hi, Flemming. 26 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:26,980 Today I fill up for everything. 27 00:01:27,220 --> 00:01:28,040 Is that right? 28 00:01:28,380 --> 00:01:30,240 - Couldn't you just hand me the butter? - No. 29 00:01:30,780 --> 00:01:33,360 Flemming, when it's Christmas, you shouldn't just have and have. 30 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:34,940 You must also be able to give. 31 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,160 You become a bigger person by giving. 32 00:01:37,660 --> 00:01:39,140 You also become that from eating butter. 33 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:40,980 Flemming, I've had a dream. 34 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:43,420 I imagined how we can feel safe 35 00:01:43,420 --> 00:01:45,780 and good and warm together again. 36 00:01:46,140 --> 00:01:47,960 Flemming, I want some thermal clothes. 37 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:49,980 Do you want some thermal clothing? 38 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:54,320 Yes, for when the two of us have to splash down the mountain together, hand in hand. 39 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,480 We could just ask my mother to knit some mittens. 40 00:01:57,680 --> 00:01:59,780 Savra vivre, Flemming. 41 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:01,040 How often do I have to say it? 42 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,400 After all, we can't step up into Val d'Is re with that type of crawl. 43 00:02:04,980 --> 00:02:06,620 Well, then we could just go somewhere else. 44 00:02:07,180 --> 00:02:08,580 What about Val Dis-count? 45 00:02:09,220 --> 00:02:10,760 Take it easy, Berit. 46 00:02:10,860 --> 00:02:12,680 Maybe a good offer will drop from the sky. 47 00:02:16,860 --> 00:02:18,480 Boo! 48 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:21,200 I was just in the neighborhood, and then I thought 49 00:02:21,260 --> 00:02:22,920 I would bring them the happy news. 50 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,840 Try looking here. 10 bottles for only DKK 80. 51 00:02:27,340 --> 00:02:29,160 And it is excellent if it is only for guests. 52 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:31,520 Don't worry. I also have something for them. 53 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,760 See here. An ugly one. From the public sector. 54 00:02:37,060 --> 00:02:40,260 What can it be? Let go. 55 00:02:40,940 --> 00:02:42,800 - It must be a late bill? - Bingo! 56 00:02:50,980 --> 00:02:52,780 Shut up! 57 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:54,360 How it'll be Christmas! 58 00:02:54,700 --> 00:02:56,700 Calm down, Berit. We must not get carried away. 59 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,700 Are you nutty! Bummelum, I say! 60 00:03:00,820 --> 00:03:02,540 Do you say bummelum? 61 00:03:02,540 --> 00:03:04,020 Some cucumbers. 62 00:03:04,140 --> 00:03:06,480 Are you really? My, my. 63 00:03:07,140 --> 00:03:09,480 "BECOME A MILLIONAIRE THE 12TH OF DECEMBER." 64 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:11,480 God. 65 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:14,400 Thank you, Flemming. 66 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:16,340 Now I want to go to work. 67 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:17,900 I want that too. 68 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:19,820 I'm just so worried about this one. 69 00:03:19,980 --> 00:03:22,320 I think I'll put it there, then I might forget it. 70 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,420 Flemming, do you remember what we learned as children? 71 00:03:24,780 --> 00:03:28,200 That when everything looked bleakest, there was always one last place to find solace. 72 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:29,980 Well, my God, Berit. 73 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:32,360 The pink club closed several years ago. 74 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:36,340 Flemming, I'm talking about the book of books. 75 00:03:40,900 --> 00:03:41,780 How much does it say? 76 00:03:41,940 --> 00:03:44,540 It says only 38,5. But you know what, Flemming? 77 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:46,160 Money is not everything. 78 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:47,180 Isn't it? 79 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,620 No, fortunately, there is also something called rubbersex. 80 00:03:53,060 --> 00:03:55,220 Now there is just such a small thing like the evening shifts, 81 00:03:55,220 --> 00:03:56,920 there I'm completely off. 82 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,220 But what is one to do with all those supplements? 83 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:03,180 And you know, the chief of medicine, him Ditlev, 84 00:04:03,180 --> 00:04:05,940 who just has his big baby hairy hands all over the place. 85 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,080 It is absolutely un... It's fully unbearable. 86 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,100 Well, it's one thing you get rich from overworking. 87 00:04:12,220 --> 00:04:14,820 Do you know what you become too? You get sought after. 88 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:16,060 Do you really? 89 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,000 Miss Berit. 90 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,100 I have a little thing for them. 91 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:23,760 Oh, you shouldn't have. 92 00:04:23,860 --> 00:04:26,320 How you are... old. 93 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,360 Yes, and life wise. 94 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:30,740 I hope they will use it. 95 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:32,340 It's the ash tray. 96 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:34,400 Oh, thank you little Andersen. 97 00:04:34,620 --> 00:04:36,600 Just say HC. 98 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:38,260 Miss Berit. 99 00:04:39,690 --> 00:04:41,740 When I have to leave soon. 100 00:04:42,690 --> 00:04:44,740 Yeah, yeah... Yeah, yeah... 101 00:04:45,620 --> 00:04:50,000 Do they think I'm going to the right place? 102 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:52,800 I'm sure they do. 103 00:04:54,020 --> 00:04:55,720 I doubt it. 104 00:04:55,860 --> 00:04:58,220 Last time there I ended up in a 105 00:04:58,220 --> 00:05:01,300 wildly foreign apartment in Bronshigh. 106 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,680 Oh yes, it can miss. 107 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,300 Well, it does give 432. Try to see for yourself. 108 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,980 Oh yes, imagine, 432. 109 00:05:18,660 --> 00:05:21,300 - Oh, it's quite dizzying for one, isn't it? - Yes. 110 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,260 Well, Ruth, we have to do some work. 111 00:05:23,780 --> 00:05:25,800 These coupons must be handed in this week. 112 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:27,360 Ruth. 113 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:30,220 Now if you were my wife. 114 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:33,660 Yes, it could have been fun. 115 00:05:33,820 --> 00:05:37,780 Yes, or if you were me, and I was your wife. 116 00:05:38,860 --> 00:05:41,880 Would you prefer to give me this enameled cleaning kit, or the electric toothbrush? 117 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:44,920 It's hard. 118 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,000 Can I sleep on it? 119 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:55,460 I'm telling you, you, I can get you some underwear under the table. 120 00:05:55,620 --> 00:05:56,800 Black. 121 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:58,060 It's just so delicious. 122 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:00,760 The wife never walks in anything else. Never. 123 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:03,080 120% raw silk. 124 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,780 Can handle steamed washing. Not to wear out. 125 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:07,940 Should there be trouble, just say hello from Kvik. 126 00:06:08,060 --> 00:06:10,360 They all know me. 127 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,820 Well, old man, shall we not soon have some lunch? 128 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,160 Are you fresh? 129 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,080 You play out. 130 00:06:19,980 --> 00:06:22,120 New lunchbox. French. 131 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:25,700 New lunchbox. 132 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:26,520 Half price. 133 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:27,700 Know the importer. 134 00:06:31,380 --> 00:06:32,900 35 centimeters. 135 00:06:33,780 --> 00:06:34,480 With it all. 136 00:06:45,310 --> 00:06:46,810 Oh, Ruth. 137 00:06:46,970 --> 00:06:49,810 Once in a while I wished I wasn't a registered accountant. 138 00:06:50,930 --> 00:06:53,110 I could just settle for being registered. 139 00:06:56,330 --> 00:06:57,710 Yes, hello? 140 00:06:57,950 --> 00:06:59,250 It is the public sector. 141 00:07:00,210 --> 00:07:01,990 Still nothing new. 142 00:07:02,110 --> 00:07:04,670 Fine. If he wants it that way... 143 00:07:10,980 --> 00:07:15,100 Want to search how to spell 'Flemming'? 144 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,040 The next thing will probably be his wife robbing a bank. 145 00:07:48,850 --> 00:07:50,070 A cheque? 146 00:07:50,710 --> 00:07:51,670 Exactly. 147 00:07:51,870 --> 00:07:53,070 And let it go a little swift. 148 00:07:53,170 --> 00:07:55,530 The shops close in 10 minutes. 149 00:07:55,610 --> 00:07:56,890 Is it now, really that smart? 150 00:07:56,930 --> 00:07:58,110 Hand on the heart. 151 00:07:58,270 --> 00:08:00,290 Have they ever had a Christmas, they didn't regret? 152 00:08:01,290 --> 00:08:02,930 Well, of course I have. 153 00:08:03,290 --> 00:08:04,350 At my grandmother's. 154 00:08:04,770 --> 00:08:05,630 On Laessoe. 155 00:08:05,950 --> 00:08:07,690 In 1964. 156 00:08:08,630 --> 00:08:10,290 I got such a small soft, 157 00:08:10,510 --> 00:08:13,770 warm puppy with big, brown eyes. 158 00:08:14,470 --> 00:08:17,510 Tell me, do they have real estate? 159 00:08:20,310 --> 00:08:22,750 Is there anything at home that needs 160 00:08:22,850 --> 00:08:25,890 - improvement, replacement, and maintenance? - Yes. 161 00:08:26,930 --> 00:08:28,630 My husband, his name is Flemming. 162 00:08:29,270 --> 00:08:31,930 Is he the one with the slightly distinctive hair? 163 00:08:33,470 --> 00:08:35,530 Now they have to see. 164 00:08:36,650 --> 00:08:40,430 Does their man come under heavy usage items? 165 00:08:40,909 --> 00:08:43,610 Yes, that means something they wouldn't take with them if they had to move. 166 00:08:52,390 --> 00:08:54,030 Yoohoo, Flemming! 167 00:08:54,670 --> 00:08:56,570 Imagine, I got a loan, 168 00:08:56,570 --> 00:08:59,290 without so much as the slightest fuss. 169 00:08:59,550 --> 00:09:01,510 Yes, the only condition is just that you stay sitting there 170 00:09:01,550 --> 00:09:03,870 the next 20 years, and that I'm getting a small raise. 171 00:09:03,950 --> 00:09:05,470 But we've talked about that so often, haven't we? 172 00:09:06,630 --> 00:09:08,810 What is that, Flemming? 173 00:09:09,830 --> 00:09:12,690 It's my stuff... paper. 174 00:09:13,290 --> 00:09:14,890 I cut with scissors. 175 00:09:16,410 --> 00:09:20,490 Flemming, and when I come home, he is 176 00:09:20,490 --> 00:09:21,750 immediately joyous. 177 00:09:22,050 --> 00:09:26,090 Oh, Flemming, I'm so dying to show you what I've bought. 178 00:09:26,210 --> 00:09:28,390 Come on. 179 00:09:30,410 --> 00:09:31,510 What is it? 180 00:09:31,650 --> 00:09:32,790 Oh no, Berit. 181 00:09:32,870 --> 00:09:34,790 Are we now also going to eat Chinese? 182 00:09:34,810 --> 00:09:36,550 They are knitting needles. 183 00:09:36,870 --> 00:09:39,290 - Is it knitting needles? - Yes. 184 00:09:39,350 --> 00:09:40,750 But then, Berit, if you're pregnant, 185 00:09:40,750 --> 00:09:41,950 then it won't be with me as Mother Karen. 186 00:09:42,070 --> 00:09:45,310 Flemming, I'm in Christmas spirits. 187 00:09:45,770 --> 00:09:47,650 Are you in... Oh. 188 00:09:48,050 --> 00:09:50,610 Berit, can't I be allowed to enter one of these lotteries? 189 00:09:50,870 --> 00:09:53,130 You can win such a white Toyota. 190 00:09:53,510 --> 00:09:55,630 Flemming, there is always a flip side of the coin. 191 00:09:56,510 --> 00:09:57,550 Try to look there. 192 00:09:57,610 --> 00:09:59,890 The names of the winners will be published. 193 00:10:00,010 --> 00:10:02,710 I can probably live with your name being Flemming, but it's not certain 194 00:10:02,850 --> 00:10:05,050 that it should be personified, is it? 195 00:10:05,150 --> 00:10:08,390 Flemming, can't you feel something spreading 196 00:10:08,390 --> 00:10:10,930 in the air in cabins and in Vraa? 197 00:10:12,990 --> 00:10:15,470 Yes, and not just in Vraa, but the whole of North 198 00:10:15,570 --> 00:10:19,010 Jutland has been marked by unrest in the past few days. 199 00:10:19,430 --> 00:10:21,050 But what is actually happening? 200 00:10:21,470 --> 00:10:23,170 Is it a work of vandalism? Is it sabotage? 201 00:10:23,350 --> 00:10:25,250 Are the locals deeply shaken? 202 00:10:25,490 --> 00:10:26,550 Yes, that they are. 203 00:10:26,690 --> 00:10:30,210 People feel uncomfortable, generous, and warm-hearted. 204 00:10:30,210 --> 00:10:33,130 And from the building back there, 205 00:10:33,230 --> 00:10:35,450 it has even started to smell brown and burned. 206 00:10:35,770 --> 00:10:39,310 But how long can it last and when will the authorities intervene? 207 00:10:39,530 --> 00:10:41,970 Gerda Lassen, Vraa, back to the bedroom. 208 00:10:43,030 --> 00:10:44,050 Berit! 209 00:10:44,150 --> 00:10:46,550 I sometimes feel so tied. 210 00:10:47,390 --> 00:10:49,650 Every time I try to grab the happiness 211 00:10:49,650 --> 00:10:52,650 and grasp on, it slips between my hands. 212 00:10:52,830 --> 00:10:57,410 Oh Flemming, one day it will also be your turn to win. 213 00:10:59,830 --> 00:11:01,410 Ouch, look... 214 00:11:05,830 --> 00:11:10,410 --- Subtitles by Essery. 2025. ---