1 00:00:05,180 --> 00:00:06,880 it's Christmas, so what? 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:08,720 who is happy and why? 3 00:00:08,860 --> 00:00:12,000 does skiing make you happy? 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:14,640 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 --> 00:00:42,140 it's Christmas, X-M-A-S 14 00:00:42,300 --> 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 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 00:01:20,890 --> 00:01:22,090 Hi Berit. 25 00:01:22,630 --> 00:01:24,990 Oh no, this is the last time I go down to that bakery. 26 00:01:25,250 --> 00:01:29,270 The entire Landowner Association stood around me with bared teeth and bloodshot eyes. 27 00:01:29,530 --> 00:01:31,910 There was a fight to the last one. But I got free of them, you! 28 00:01:32,070 --> 00:01:33,690 With a bag of zwieback-buns and the Jutland Gazette. 29 00:01:35,150 --> 00:01:38,390 So, now that Toyota Corolla is going to get such a turn. 30 00:01:39,010 --> 00:01:41,590 Well, Berit, what's wrong with you? 31 00:01:41,950 --> 00:01:43,470 Why are you standing there behind the laundry, 32 00:01:43,570 --> 00:01:45,650 crying into your wilting potted plants? 33 00:01:45,770 --> 00:01:47,250 Oh, Flemming. 34 00:01:48,130 --> 00:01:50,450 Suddenly I see everything very clearly. 35 00:01:51,010 --> 00:01:54,110 - Does that mean... - Yes, I have cleaned the windows. 36 00:01:54,730 --> 00:01:57,330 - Have you cleaned the windows? - Yes. 37 00:01:57,770 --> 00:02:00,910 And when I look out of them, I can see that all the other people, 38 00:02:01,110 --> 00:02:04,670 they are lying and having coffee on the bed. 39 00:02:04,770 --> 00:02:06,190 And multigrain buns. 40 00:02:07,449 --> 00:02:09,250 And multigrain buns? Well, Berit, my. 41 00:02:10,130 --> 00:02:13,230 Yes, here I stand with a husband who only dream 42 00:02:13,330 --> 00:02:16,410 of wearing rubber clothes and being with a Japanese. 43 00:02:16,490 --> 00:02:17,930 But oh my god, it's dirty. 44 00:02:18,030 --> 00:02:20,870 On top of it, even a dirty Japanese. 45 00:02:21,910 --> 00:02:24,290 Flemming, if you go out in that carport, 46 00:02:24,390 --> 00:02:26,810 then don't bother coming back. 47 00:02:26,810 --> 00:02:28,410 Berit, where should I go, then? 48 00:02:29,510 --> 00:02:31,010 You must go with me up to the bedroom. 49 00:02:31,850 --> 00:02:33,110 But what are we going to do up there? 50 00:02:33,330 --> 00:02:35,370 Flemming, we have to go up and try something new. 51 00:02:36,070 --> 00:02:38,670 Something we have never tried before. Come. 52 00:02:41,070 --> 00:02:43,390 Well, Flemming, what do you say? 53 00:02:43,770 --> 00:02:44,670 Isn't it delicious? 54 00:02:44,750 --> 00:02:46,590 I simply couldn't resist it. 55 00:02:46,770 --> 00:02:48,350 Well, it's going to be so expensive. 56 00:02:48,410 --> 00:02:50,210 Berit, where exactly are we going in that assembly? 57 00:02:50,530 --> 00:02:52,630 We just have to take a walk around the block. 58 00:02:52,850 --> 00:02:54,750 Shall we go around the block? 59 00:02:54,750 --> 00:02:59,150 Yes, Flemming, we must go out and be seen together, in public. 60 00:02:59,470 --> 00:03:01,650 Yes, out and stop all the rumours. 61 00:03:01,810 --> 00:03:03,750 Out in the snow and show the flag. 62 00:03:04,350 --> 00:03:05,970 No, Berit, I don't want to take part in that. 63 00:03:06,030 --> 00:03:07,770 - It's too embarrassing. - What's wrong now, now? 64 00:03:07,950 --> 00:03:10,250 - There is no snow. - There is a lot of snow. 65 00:03:10,410 --> 00:03:13,070 Where? Yes, somewhere out in Taastrup, right? 66 00:03:15,170 --> 00:03:17,850 Yes, and here somewhere out in Taastrup, 67 00:03:17,850 --> 00:03:20,510 the situation is now completely unmanageable. 68 00:03:20,850 --> 00:03:23,830 At the moment it happens that the snow flock comes in droves. 69 00:03:23,830 --> 00:03:27,590 And from here, where I stand, I can see a sparrow sitting mutely behind a twig. 70 00:03:28,010 --> 00:03:30,930 But how long will it stay there and when will the authorities take action, 71 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:35,000 and why the invisible gentleman here in the background 72 00:03:35,150 --> 00:03:39,130 keeps stealing strangers' garden gates, well, we can only speculate on that for now. 73 00:03:39,450 --> 00:03:41,930 Gerda Lassen, Taastrup, back to the sidewalk. 74 00:03:57,030 --> 00:04:00,790 Berit, we've been around the block four times now, aren't we done anytime soon? 75 00:04:00,930 --> 00:04:02,550 It seems so pointless. 76 00:04:03,850 --> 00:04:04,910 Shouldn't we go back in? 77 00:04:05,770 --> 00:04:06,530 Go on in with you. 78 00:04:07,330 --> 00:04:09,050 Berit, there's just one thing I don't understand. 79 00:04:09,150 --> 00:04:10,370 Why should we bring red wine? 80 00:04:10,470 --> 00:04:12,190 Because we don't live here. 81 00:04:12,470 --> 00:04:13,750 Isn't it? 82 00:04:13,870 --> 00:04:17,190 - Who would it be then? - It's Susse and Kurt. Hello. 83 00:04:17,709 --> 00:04:19,770 Hello. Is it you all? 84 00:04:19,870 --> 00:04:21,290 - Yes. - I must certainly say. 85 00:04:21,370 --> 00:04:24,150 I sure will. Now I never have. 86 00:04:24,750 --> 00:04:27,090 And then on a Sunday. 87 00:04:27,310 --> 00:04:29,290 Is it Susser and Kurt? 88 00:04:30,010 --> 00:04:31,730 Yes, it is. 89 00:04:33,850 --> 00:04:37,090 And that's Flemming, and that's Berit. 90 00:04:37,650 --> 00:04:40,210 You, you know, him with the car. 91 00:04:41,110 --> 00:04:43,010 Is that Flemming? 92 00:04:43,290 --> 00:04:45,310 God, it's splendid. 93 00:04:45,890 --> 00:04:47,710 And then that one, it might be the red wine? 94 00:04:48,610 --> 00:04:50,730 Have you seen Susser mouse? 95 00:04:50,970 --> 00:04:53,070 It is completely grotesque. 96 00:04:56,230 --> 00:04:57,970 But you know what? 97 00:04:57,970 --> 00:04:59,530 Oh well. 98 00:04:59,850 --> 00:05:01,770 We just make mulled wine. 99 00:05:04,170 --> 00:05:05,350 Oh yes. 100 00:05:05,450 --> 00:05:09,230 And then I just remove this black underwear 101 00:05:09,930 --> 00:05:12,610 from our new chandelier sofa. 102 00:05:12,870 --> 00:05:14,610 So you can sit there and 103 00:05:14,710 --> 00:05:17,990 look at all that modern art. 104 00:05:19,470 --> 00:05:22,390 You surely have spark in the fireplace, huh? 105 00:05:23,090 --> 00:05:26,570 We all have so much, don't we, Kurt? 106 00:05:27,210 --> 00:05:28,250 Yes. 107 00:05:28,310 --> 00:05:31,910 But that's not why we're so happy, right Susser-mouse? 108 00:05:33,170 --> 00:05:34,210 No, no. 109 00:05:34,650 --> 00:05:37,190 It's because we laugh so much together. 110 00:05:37,310 --> 00:05:39,230 We laugh almost all day. 111 00:05:39,610 --> 00:05:41,270 Yes, there is not much wrong. 112 00:05:41,710 --> 00:05:43,430 Now, for example, yesterday, we 113 00:05:43,430 --> 00:05:46,710 were lying for 12-14 hours. 114 00:05:46,870 --> 00:05:50,930 But now we don't have any children either, do we, Kurt? 115 00:05:51,390 --> 00:05:53,090 But we do have some confetti. 116 00:05:54,290 --> 00:05:56,510 Have you seen, Berit? 117 00:05:57,230 --> 00:05:59,850 So what? Are you celebrating anything this year? 118 00:06:00,450 --> 00:06:02,030 Yes, we have to slip off to... 119 00:06:02,190 --> 00:06:03,570 What do you think, Susser-mouse? 120 00:06:03,650 --> 00:06:05,010 Don't you think we should? 121 00:06:05,290 --> 00:06:07,210 Yes, come on. 122 00:06:07,350 --> 00:06:11,410 We take with is us straight up into our large hot tub. 123 00:06:11,910 --> 00:06:14,450 And then we will... 124 00:06:20,050 --> 00:06:22,570 Shut up, Flemming. 125 00:06:22,970 --> 00:06:24,750 Did you watch that home? 126 00:06:25,110 --> 00:06:29,030 That's what I call a bloody cohabitation, you. 127 00:06:30,310 --> 00:06:35,170 Did you see how they were laying and touching each other, huh? 128 00:06:35,470 --> 00:06:37,590 When was the last time we did? 129 00:06:37,690 --> 00:06:40,310 Why do we never lay, Flemming? 130 00:06:40,810 --> 00:06:42,190 Say something though. 131 00:06:42,730 --> 00:06:46,230 Say something funny, Flemming. 132 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,510 He probably just left me in... 133 00:06:51,510 --> 00:06:53,390 in favor of someone else. 134 00:06:54,850 --> 00:06:56,010 Come now. 135 00:06:56,230 --> 00:06:57,110 Come now. 136 00:06:57,270 --> 00:06:58,710 Just a little more. So. 137 00:06:59,250 --> 00:07:01,870 Yes, so. Now it's there. 138 00:07:02,490 --> 00:07:03,790 20. 139 00:07:03,870 --> 00:07:05,470 It's enough for a sticker. 140 00:07:06,250 --> 00:07:10,730 You'd probably like to win that white Toyota, wouldn't you? 141 00:07:10,730 --> 00:07:13,170 You're probably a bad one. 142 00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:15,310 God, one is just a man. 143 00:07:15,750 --> 00:07:17,190 You won't get it. 144 00:07:17,490 --> 00:07:18,630 Come with it! 145 00:07:18,650 --> 00:07:19,810 Now give me that sticker. 146 00:07:19,890 --> 00:07:21,670 No, I don't want to. 147 00:07:21,770 --> 00:07:22,950 Why not? 148 00:07:24,050 --> 00:07:25,850 Well, big, stupid boy. 149 00:07:25,950 --> 00:07:27,150 I can't. 150 00:07:27,290 --> 00:07:28,570 I must not. 151 00:07:28,610 --> 00:07:30,190 Not yet. Not before. 152 00:07:30,390 --> 00:07:32,230 Not until what? So say it. 153 00:07:32,830 --> 00:07:34,950 Not until you've paid. 154 00:07:35,730 --> 00:07:37,770 I haven't paid? 155 00:07:38,170 --> 00:07:40,770 Well, yes, but I just do that with my little Dancard here. 156 00:07:40,770 --> 00:07:41,990 Peacefully and quiet. 157 00:07:42,290 --> 00:07:44,030 Yes, unless the account is blocked. 158 00:07:45,290 --> 00:07:47,030 "ACCOUNT BLOCKED." 159 00:07:57,210 --> 00:07:59,050 Well, God, is it you, Flemming? 160 00:07:59,830 --> 00:08:01,350 Well, damn it. 161 00:08:01,490 --> 00:08:02,910 You must have been out to get 162 00:08:02,910 --> 00:08:06,090 yourself some decent suction marks, huh? Where do they come from? 163 00:08:06,670 --> 00:08:09,890 It isn't because it concerns me, but it could well be that there were others... 164 00:08:09,930 --> 00:08:11,270 From a rubber hose. 165 00:08:11,270 --> 00:08:12,950 Well, yes, yes, yes. 166 00:08:13,070 --> 00:08:16,670 The normal that is knowing your borders, as they say. 167 00:08:16,990 --> 00:08:19,430 Oh, Berit. You can't suck up 20 liters of lead-free from a 168 00:08:19,790 --> 00:08:22,190 Toyota Corolla without asking yourself certain questions. 169 00:08:22,610 --> 00:08:25,290 How many humiliations can a registered accountant handle? 170 00:08:25,570 --> 00:08:27,350 How much does a house cost in the province? 171 00:08:27,530 --> 00:08:30,810 What do we humans do with packed lunches at this time of the night? 172 00:08:31,070 --> 00:08:32,110 Flemming, look there. 173 00:08:32,950 --> 00:08:36,409 Oh, look at all the little lights twinkling in the dark. 174 00:08:36,870 --> 00:08:38,390 Do you think it's a box of brewskies? 175 00:08:38,390 --> 00:08:40,750 No, it's the neighbor's electric Christmas tree. 176 00:08:41,130 --> 00:08:44,070 Oh well, I meant with that fluff above. 177 00:08:44,610 --> 00:08:46,710 To the right of the dish satellite. 178 00:08:47,030 --> 00:08:48,990 Those are damn stars. 179 00:08:49,210 --> 00:08:52,130 - And what do they do? - My God, Berit, they don't do anything. 180 00:08:52,210 --> 00:08:53,830 Yes, they do, Flemming. 181 00:08:54,230 --> 00:08:56,110 They look down on us. 182 00:08:56,170 --> 00:08:58,150 After all, there are so many people who do that by now. 183 00:08:58,910 --> 00:09:00,330 Flemming. 184 00:09:00,610 --> 00:09:04,430 I decided to give you one more chance. Come on. 185 00:09:04,510 --> 00:09:07,330 Berit, if it's something about us going upstairs, I can hardly handle it. 186 00:09:07,550 --> 00:09:08,970 Just relax, Flemming. 187 00:09:09,030 --> 00:09:11,630 It will be a long time before the two of us go back upstairs. 188 00:09:12,430 --> 00:09:13,990 - Go ahead. - What is it? 189 00:09:15,050 --> 00:09:18,110 Flemming, there comes a time in every marriage 190 00:09:18,210 --> 00:09:23,890 when you have to make use of certain technical aids. 191 00:09:24,370 --> 00:09:25,590 But Berit. 192 00:09:25,970 --> 00:09:29,010 Even if you live in a terraced house, you can have a certain form of modesty. 193 00:09:30,210 --> 00:09:32,370 Does this mean that this... 194 00:09:32,370 --> 00:09:35,650 - It's a shovel. - Is it a shovel? 195 00:09:36,070 --> 00:09:36,910 Well, Berit. 196 00:09:36,950 --> 00:09:39,070 It's perverted. You don't want to... 197 00:09:39,150 --> 00:09:40,410 Yes, Flemming. 198 00:09:40,650 --> 00:09:42,830 You want to dig out for 199 00:09:42,930 --> 00:09:45,050 that hot tub in the virtual cellar. 200 00:09:45,230 --> 00:09:46,030 Oh no, Berit. 201 00:09:46,050 --> 00:09:47,150 It will be so expensive. 202 00:09:47,390 --> 00:09:50,870 Flemming. There's something I'd like to ask you, you. 203 00:09:51,470 --> 00:09:56,370 Why do we humans have to suffer, huh? 204 00:09:56,370 --> 00:09:59,030 Is less worth sick jealousy? 205 00:10:00,430 --> 00:10:02,690 Try to look on the bright side. 206 00:10:02,690 --> 00:10:06,650 by the whole grotesque pig pen we live in 207 00:10:08,150 --> 00:10:10,870 that summer in which, we sit, la-la-lu 208 00:10:11,630 --> 00:10:14,290 holds a thousand possibilities, la-la-lu 209 00:10:15,150 --> 00:10:18,770 if your room is filled with candy, and you lack challenges, 210 00:10:18,970 --> 00:10:20,300 and you need to do some remodels, 211 00:10:20,430 --> 00:10:21,890 we haven't moved a finger, 212 00:10:21,990 --> 00:10:24,670 we have no small rooms and jacuzzi 213 00:10:25,450 --> 00:10:28,690 but much would be happier if we had… 214 00:10:29,690 --> 00:10:32,970 time to dig for better times, la-la-lu 215 00:10:33,990 --> 00:10:37,590 straight to the foundation collapses, la-la-lu 216 00:10:38,950 --> 00:10:43,610 and while a thousand stars light up, you need to use your dark winter 217 00:10:43,670 --> 00:10:48,170 on trying to prevent your self respect become less 218 00:10:48,310 --> 00:10:52,570 let's chip, let's chop, la-la-lu 219 00:10:53,170 --> 00:10:55,550 just an inch can 220 00:10:55,550 --> 00:10:57,710 get you in a hole. 221 00:10:57,850 --> 00:10:59,770 BASEMENT 222 00:11:02,150 --> 00:11:07,770 --- Subtitles by Essery. 2025. ---