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 sleet, 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 Christmas 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 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 00:01:24,590 --> 00:01:29,310 ... Gets the cat of my big beard. 25 00:01:29,910 --> 00:01:31,490 In peace and quiet. 26 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:34,230 No! 27 00:01:35,470 --> 00:01:37,790 Take it away! 28 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:39,550 They swirl... 29 00:01:40,030 --> 00:01:41,310 They twist! 30 00:01:42,990 --> 00:01:44,390 What is happening? 31 00:01:52,230 --> 00:01:53,910 This, they call a ceiling. 32 00:01:57,230 --> 00:02:01,170 Uha! These working conditions. 33 00:02:02,390 --> 00:02:04,370 And they scot, and they scot. 34 00:02:08,390 --> 00:02:12,370 Santa Lu... cia, 35 00:02:13,390 --> 00:02:17,370 Santa Lucia 36 00:02:18,090 --> 00:02:21,370 Santa Lucia. 37 00:02:21,710 --> 00:02:23,730 Hello, Berit, you old scarecrow. 38 00:02:24,030 --> 00:02:26,410 No, well, this watch, it's simply hopelessly behind. 39 00:02:26,610 --> 00:02:28,330 It would never have worked in Japan, I can tell you that. 40 00:02:28,430 --> 00:02:29,930 And then today, when I'm so determined and efficient, 41 00:02:30,030 --> 00:02:32,010 and have so much to accomplish. 42 00:02:32,890 --> 00:02:35,210 Both the coffee, the butter, and the newspapers. 43 00:02:39,190 --> 00:02:41,290 Berit, what does that represent? 44 00:02:41,570 --> 00:02:43,070 Why are you standing cutting up the bread? 45 00:02:43,830 --> 00:02:45,650 It's for the birds. 46 00:02:46,250 --> 00:02:47,810 Is it for the birds? 47 00:02:48,410 --> 00:02:49,910 Oh, now do you think that's wise. 48 00:02:50,030 --> 00:02:52,430 It could easily have a demoralizing effect on them to have everything given to them. 49 00:02:52,570 --> 00:02:57,250 Oh, they're sitting there looking so petty and disheveled. 50 00:02:57,370 --> 00:02:58,870 Oh, my God, so many do. 51 00:02:59,290 --> 00:03:00,990 They must also learn to have a co-responsibility. 52 00:03:01,170 --> 00:03:04,730 So, if there was just the tiniest bit of backbone in those gray sparrows, then... 53 00:03:04,850 --> 00:03:06,660 Can't you stop fooling around like that? 54 00:03:07,670 --> 00:03:10,070 Flemming, I'm not fooling around, I'm tripping. 55 00:03:10,230 --> 00:03:11,530 And do you know why I trip? 56 00:03:11,830 --> 00:03:14,130 I'm tripping with anticipation. 57 00:03:14,130 --> 00:03:15,870 Well, excuses there are plenty of. 58 00:03:16,090 --> 00:03:18,070 Flemming, I have made up my mind that 59 00:03:18,170 --> 00:03:21,410 the two of us will defy everything, against all odds and 60 00:03:21,510 --> 00:03:25,130 celebrate all that, they celebrate in the province. 61 00:03:25,750 --> 00:03:29,810 Well, they keep nothing but cows and pigs, and the Jutland Gazette. 62 00:03:30,530 --> 00:03:32,810 - Oh, God! - And Christmas! 63 00:03:32,970 --> 00:03:35,130 and Jesus in a crib, he laid 64 00:03:36,470 --> 00:03:41,130 Oh, Flemming, my mind is set. 65 00:03:41,670 --> 00:03:46,870 It's set? Well, Good Lord Berit, what about Val d'Isère? 66 00:03:47,030 --> 00:03:49,490 You cannot be in two places at once. 67 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,560 Flemming, you can do what you want. 68 00:03:58,540 --> 00:03:59,840 Well, how to afford? 69 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,740 And just now, when you've just got a new nightgown. 70 00:04:02,980 --> 00:04:05,340 No, it's all going to be so expensive. 71 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,720 Oh, Flemming, it will work out. 72 00:04:08,900 --> 00:04:11,940 Now we don't have the car anymore, so... 73 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,280 The car? Oh no, I almost repressed that. 74 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:18,100 Oh, it comes so suddenly. 75 00:04:18,779 --> 00:04:19,100 What is that? 76 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,740 - It's your calendar gift. - It's a clip card. 77 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:24,900 Is it a clip card? 78 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:26,880 - Yes! - Does that mean... 79 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,520 Yes, Flemming, you're going by train. 80 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:31,520 You have to go out and meet other people, 81 00:04:31,620 --> 00:04:34,820 out and feel the warmth and community. 82 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:36,860 Well, Berit, I can't do that. 83 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,680 What if someone sees me? You have no idea how embarrassing it is for a man 84 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,180 in my position to be seen in public transport. 85 00:04:43,460 --> 00:04:45,440 And how do you know it's going to the right places? 86 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:47,180 That is the challenge. 87 00:04:48,180 --> 00:04:52,200 Oh, to just plunge into uncertainty. 88 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,600 No, Berit, I'm afraid. Can't you come along? 89 00:04:56,300 --> 00:04:57,800 - No. - Why not? 90 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,800 Because I'm on a bike. 91 00:05:00,060 --> 00:05:01,780 Are you on a bike? 92 00:05:01,940 --> 00:05:04,220 Yes, that's why I have light on. 93 00:05:04,220 --> 00:05:07,680 Oh, no. No! 94 00:05:47,470 --> 00:05:51,010 Excuse me, I'm here incognito. 95 00:05:52,130 --> 00:05:54,450 You can kind of see it on him. 96 00:05:55,290 --> 00:05:57,270 It is sad. 97 00:05:57,710 --> 00:06:00,430 Look at that pipe. Perverse. 98 00:06:01,070 --> 00:06:04,510 But that's how they all are. 99 00:06:05,510 --> 00:06:07,790 And then that hat. 100 00:06:08,070 --> 00:06:10,410 If it just had been an alpine hat... 101 00:06:11,230 --> 00:06:12,170 But nope. 102 00:06:12,710 --> 00:06:14,250 It's a beret. 103 00:06:18,460 --> 00:06:21,540 After all, it's always the children who get the worst of it. 104 00:06:23,020 --> 00:06:23,820 The children? 105 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,660 Yes, they know, Kim and Louise. 106 00:06:28,180 --> 00:06:32,000 At seven and nine years respectively. 107 00:06:42,270 --> 00:06:44,470 Now just such a small thing as 108 00:06:45,170 --> 00:06:47,250 Christmas preparations and real men. 109 00:06:47,350 --> 00:06:48,670 There I fully step off. 110 00:06:48,950 --> 00:06:50,350 I pulled that tooth out. 111 00:06:51,310 --> 00:06:53,370 And then all that nocturnal romp. 112 00:06:53,430 --> 00:06:55,250 And you know how it ends. 113 00:06:55,530 --> 00:06:57,670 I mean, you just want to be allowed to sit 114 00:06:57,670 --> 00:06:59,910 in front of the fireplace in peace without 115 00:07:00,010 --> 00:07:02,310 these big, warm, sentimental wild animals 116 00:07:02,410 --> 00:07:05,630 that just pounce on you as soon as they see a peddler's house-decoration. 117 00:07:05,790 --> 00:07:06,990 Do you know what they become? 118 00:07:07,050 --> 00:07:09,310 They become insatiable. 119 00:07:09,590 --> 00:07:10,810 Do they really? 120 00:07:14,990 --> 00:07:16,370 Miss Berit... 121 00:07:16,990 --> 00:07:19,370 I can feel that I don't have far to go. 122 00:07:20,850 --> 00:07:22,390 Don't they want to? 123 00:07:22,470 --> 00:07:24,870 Yes, of course, little Andersen. 124 00:07:30,070 --> 00:07:32,890 Good morning, good morning. Hope you enjoy. 125 00:07:33,150 --> 00:07:35,910 Yes, here we are again, ready to catch up what is left to do. 126 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:44,360 Look, are we never supposed to have some lunch? 127 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:46,880 Better late than never, as they say. 128 00:07:49,370 --> 00:07:50,690 Now listen, old boy. 129 00:07:50,750 --> 00:07:52,830 Wasn't it soon time for a new watch? Huh? 130 00:07:52,990 --> 00:07:55,990 Yes, it's funny that you say that, because it's precisely because of... 131 00:07:56,010 --> 00:07:58,750 Yes, yes. I can get you one, black! 132 00:08:00,470 --> 00:08:02,650 - They are Japanese. - No, how are they... 133 00:08:02,930 --> 00:08:04,470 They just go so fast, you see. 134 00:08:04,710 --> 00:08:07,730 And if there's any trouble, old man, just greet from Quick. 135 00:08:08,910 --> 00:08:11,010 Oh yes, they're still warm. 136 00:08:11,010 --> 00:08:12,910 So you probably should wait to put it on, right? 137 00:08:13,130 --> 00:08:15,630 You know what, we hide this in your lunch box. 138 00:08:15,850 --> 00:08:17,930 It's completely empty anyway. 139 00:08:18,650 --> 00:08:20,550 You just have to look here. 140 00:08:21,330 --> 00:08:22,570 Like that, right? 141 00:08:22,650 --> 00:08:23,950 Then it's just in place, right? 142 00:08:24,450 --> 00:08:26,230 Well, I thought it was closed down. 143 00:08:30,330 --> 00:08:34,850 No, Flemming, how nice it is to be so modest. 144 00:08:35,890 --> 00:08:38,870 Oh, my God, there are many who are much more modest than I am. 145 00:08:38,870 --> 00:08:40,590 And to dare to stand forth 146 00:08:40,870 --> 00:08:43,590 and say, yes, I have ridden by train. 147 00:08:44,910 --> 00:08:46,810 I did it my way. 148 00:08:47,350 --> 00:08:49,770 I don't regret anything. 149 00:08:49,910 --> 00:08:51,450 What to do with status 150 00:08:51,550 --> 00:08:55,210 and prestige and black underwear? 151 00:08:55,350 --> 00:08:56,830 Ruth! 152 00:08:56,910 --> 00:08:59,450 Well, this coupon should has been sent the day before yesterday. 153 00:08:59,590 --> 00:09:01,710 After all, it is my wife's Christmas present. 154 00:09:01,950 --> 00:09:03,370 Oh my god. 155 00:09:03,990 --> 00:09:06,930 Look here, dry your cute little glasses. 156 00:09:06,930 --> 00:09:09,430 I can't figure it out. 157 00:09:09,470 --> 00:09:13,010 Yes, now you have to see. You just take the cloth and then you rub. 158 00:09:13,290 --> 00:09:14,510 Like this. 159 00:09:14,630 --> 00:09:16,710 What size does she use? 160 00:09:17,050 --> 00:09:20,650 I can't live with this uncertainty anymore. 161 00:09:20,970 --> 00:09:23,670 Can't you just write something? What do you use yourself? 162 00:09:24,730 --> 00:09:29,170 Minus seven on the left, and minus eight on the right. 163 00:09:30,450 --> 00:09:32,830 Love is blind, as they say. 164 00:09:36,090 --> 00:09:38,070 I'll go home and find out myself, and 165 00:09:38,070 --> 00:09:39,660 then I'll call you later. 166 00:09:39,750 --> 00:09:40,990 It will probably be around midnight. 167 00:09:42,090 --> 00:09:43,910 Does it really? 168 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:02,060 No, it doesn't. 169 00:10:02,660 --> 00:10:03,500 Yes, it does. 170 00:10:03,700 --> 00:10:04,680 Of course it doesn't. 171 00:10:05,060 --> 00:10:06,990 Of course it does. 172 00:10:07,060 --> 00:10:08,980 Not in that community, man! 173 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:10,760 Now listen here. 174 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:13,020 When I say it's going to be Christmas, it's going to be Christmas. 175 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:15,060 You can see for yourself here. 176 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:17,720 I once thought so too. 177 00:10:18,100 --> 00:10:20,060 Before I got a hot dog cart. 178 00:10:20,940 --> 00:10:25,620 But now, no you, now I became familiar with destitution. 179 00:10:26,620 --> 00:10:27,360 Hello, Destitution. 180 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,580 No. No, you. 181 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:33,200 There will be no Christmas this year. 182 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:36,040 Where should that be? 183 00:10:37,220 --> 00:10:39,500 At his house. 184 00:10:40,300 --> 00:10:42,400 Him there? 185 00:10:43,260 --> 00:10:44,840 How much do you want to bet? 186 00:10:45,180 --> 00:10:47,000 Fine, let's bet. 187 00:10:47,380 --> 00:10:48,860 Two Knacks. 188 00:10:48,980 --> 00:10:52,560 And the one who loses, must eat them both. 189 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,080 Okay. 190 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,340 Only losers eat Knackwursts. 191 00:11:01,860 --> 00:11:04,200 God, hello Flemming. 192 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:08,220 Oh, you might think I just pulled the plug. 193 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,040 And moved the sofa back in front of the fireplace. 194 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:13,340 And turned up the heat. 195 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:18,220 Oh yes... And laid clean ones on the bed, if it had to come to that. 196 00:11:18,860 --> 00:11:20,480 But God, Flemming. 197 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,320 Is that even you? 198 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,100 Yes, it's me. 199 00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:28,900 Are you satisfied now? 200 00:11:29,980 --> 00:11:31,360 Take a good look at me. 201 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:34,880 That's what you've made me. 202 00:11:35,420 --> 00:11:39,640 You and your cutting card. 203 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:42,800 Yes, I have come home. 204 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,920 All the way home. 205 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,460 But for what? 206 00:11:49,660 --> 00:11:53,760 For green branches and glossy paper. 207 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:58,740 For candles and dirty ulterior motives. 208 00:11:59,900 --> 00:12:01,360 And pepper nuts. 209 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:02,720 Do you hear? 210 00:12:03,540 --> 00:12:04,980 Pepper nuts. 211 00:12:08,150 --> 00:12:10,930 Under me, there is no peace. 212 00:12:12,230 --> 00:12:14,150 I'm tired. 213 00:12:14,670 --> 00:12:17,990 Deathly tired. 214 00:12:32,660 --> 00:12:33,300 Flemming. 215 00:12:33,300 --> 00:12:33,800 Flemming. 216 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,280 Flemming, look at me. 217 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:42,460 Answer me honestly. 218 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:45,520 Where is your lunchbox? 219 00:12:46,100 --> 00:12:47,880 I must have forgotten it on the train. 220 00:12:49,140 --> 00:12:51,020 Now, my God, it's just a cardboard tube. 221 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:54,560 To you, it might just be a cardboard tube. 222 00:12:55,140 --> 00:12:57,800 But for me, it was a symbol. 223 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:02,260 It was a symbolic cardboard tube. 224 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,020 That I bestowed upon you 225 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:10,740 in my boundless love of French food. 226 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:15,300 And well, to you. 227 00:13:27,060 --> 00:13:31,300 - "COHABITATION IN 100 WAYS." - I know how hard it is for you, Flemming. 228 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:35,380 It's also just such a small thing as your sex life. 229 00:13:35,700 --> 00:13:38,820 But you know, if there's something, 230 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:42,380 i just wish you'd come out of the closet. 231 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:47,040 You know very well that I am large. 232 00:13:47,540 --> 00:13:48,580 Are you large? 233 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,580 Very large, even. 234 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:53,340 Does that mean extra large? 235 00:13:53,980 --> 00:13:57,040 There are no narrow places at all. 236 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,040 I am incredibly free-spirited, understanding. 237 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:04,820 ... now it's Christmas again. 238 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:09,980 I can simply tolerate anything. 239 00:14:11,900 --> 00:14:14,940 Maybe with the exception of that. 240 00:14:18,620 --> 00:14:20,500 Oh Ruth. 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