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In Christmas 1991, a strange phenomenon occurred
on Danish television.
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The Christmas calendar fever raged over the Danish country,
and has not yet completely subsided.
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Oh shit. It is in Danish.
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Olof, I'm standing under the mistletoe.
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Why is it always me?
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Because you are the one with biggest
teeth and the ugliest clothes, Hansi!
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Bob, bob, bob.
That's a good phrase!
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It's just lovely.
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TV2 goes behind the lid of 'The Julekalender.'
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We'll see amongst others a few of the clips,
that never made it to the screen in December.
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My name is Brian, right?
I see.
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What is wrong?
My name is Benny.
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My name is Benny, darnit.
My name is Benny, man!
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The TV commentators' reactions
were strange contradictions.
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The absolute strangest creation, wrote the politician.
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Ridiculously funny TV entertainment was
the reaction from Berlinsk.
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Aarhus Magazine said adoringly stupid.
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The Extra Gazette reported that Christmas at the toilet.
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The most uplifting renewal of Danish
television entertainment in a long time, wrote Christian Gazette.
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It was cozy being at Ejanr's.
Yes, that...
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What is that? A la gas root,
is that...
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It sure as heck Gudrun, man!
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Ugly people in ugly surroundings.
It's a lot of fun.
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Once, twice, three times.
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If you've seen it too many times, it will
become tiring.
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I also think in that form of humour
lies a social stigma.
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We, who watches are not ugly,
itinerant people in a middle-class home in dark Jutland.
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I also don't know how funny it is, that people go
to the bathroom and women have periods.
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And then, the ugly woman, which really is
a man who is dressed as a woman.
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The Julkalender's humor could probably go once,
and then a little break.
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But since you have to be funny every day 24 times
in the month of December, it is tiring.
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And in the last instance, I think that you are
laughing more at yourself and your own prejudice.
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The English-Danish language, the pixies and
the whole ugly, ugly environment.
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More than laughing at the humor in the series itself.
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The humor of the series became accumulative,
self-accumulating and became a cult.
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It has also become a cult series,
where you have a fan club
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that still goes around quoting for the Christmas calendar.
The Julekalender.
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I simply cannot understand where the big box is.
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I've looked all over.
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I simply cannot understand where it is.
It's just lovely.
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It's almost like back then with the transistor radio.
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Yes, it was... Well.
Shit.
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I bloody didn't know you made that kind of noise.
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I just thought it was something. Well.
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Well, it's someone who vomits somewhere.
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Isn't that good enough?
Yes, yes.
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It might be a little gross, but...
He is gross.
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The nightingales understood both mimically,
musically and linguistically...
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to make the most of their actually rather
modest means of action maximal.
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It was exciting to follow.
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After the first 15 episodes, I had to burst into
jubilation over an enthusiastic review in Christian Gazette.
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I carved way too little, but I carved by the book.
I did my best.
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Now the book is gone and I have to carve a new one,
but I can't cut it without the book. Does my story bore you?
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It was charitable because it was done by
what I call 'mainland's humour.'
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Meaning, with that special humour
we got
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unlimited good examples on
for the last few years.
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And it was done with talent and energy and great imagination.
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But the viewers had no doubts.
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Over two million people eventually followed
the nightingales's mad exploits.
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Sky rocket viewer counts got the series
right at the top of the various TV charts.
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Good grades were also the verdict of the viewers.
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On a scale of 1 to 5, the series was rated an average of 4 to 5.
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Can't you see, I've got Guéland up?
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Yes, now it's called Guélande, isn't it?
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Yes, it's French, right?
Yes, yes.
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Yes, so France, right? Paris, right?
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Yes, yes, well, we know very well
where France is located.
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I'm just saying that because...
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uh... Yeah, what? Why did you say that?
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Why that?
Why? Why, Benny?
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Why, huh? Why, Benny?
Why that? Why that, Benny?
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I got fully blank.
Why is that, Benny?
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The nightingales and scissors film and TV
have had a wonderful collaboration over many years.
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We have done quite a few TV productions together.
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We go for the same odd angles, and laugh at the same things.
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And it is in continuation of our
collaboration that we came up with making The Julekalender.
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After all, I think it was a film for B&O, which really gave
the first impetus to the Oluf and Gertrud characters.
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Well, the lid opens up and closes. Well then it can...
Hello. It's going well?
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Yes, it goes well.
Yes, it runs fine.
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This model, it is Roll's Royce from BMW.
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Can we try a ride, then?
Yes, not just today.
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Oh?
Well, no.
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Because that's how it is with this model, that the
wheels, they've gone in backorder.
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Backorder?
Yes, it is such a technical term.
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How do you get out from in here?
Keep your trap down, Gudrun.
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Yes, because we have inherited some money, right?
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Can't she get out of there?
Uh, yeah, yeah.
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Now you just have to look here, then.
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Now you just have to look here.
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It's just the way it is. Well, like that.
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Then we can get missus out of the cart.
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I don't want to buy such a car that can't be opened from within.
Oh, shut up, Gudrun!
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Yes, now even the mattress thing hasn't come
home from the factory, yet.
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But you can probably imagine what it's like to rock in that.
To rock?
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Yes, it is such a technical term.
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I think it's a little hard.
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There's no mattress in the bed, Gudrun.
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Does that mean we can't get to try a bed?
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Yes, now even the mattress hasn't
come home from the factory, yet.
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But you can probably imagine what it's like
to rock in such.
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To rock?
Yes, it is such a technical term.
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I think it's a little hard?
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Shut up Gudrun.
There is no mattress in the bed.
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Does that mean we can't get to try it, then?
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No, I've thought about that Maldivian.
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The neighbor, they wandered, it should have been a woohoo.
Maldivian?
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Yes, Maldivians.
Yes, Maldivians.
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So, fingers off, Gudrun.
Oh, Maldivians.
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Yes, where is it? My pleasure.
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Now I just have to find a leaflet.
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Aalborg, Aarhus, Main or Hong Kong.
Legoland. No, unfortunately.
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We have no more leaflets, just today.
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Shut up, he says so.
Now!
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Now!
No, now.
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Okay, let's go.
Jeez. Is the tape running or what?
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Yes.
Is that right? Shut up.
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So, once we agree to do something,
and agree that this is fun, then
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we do it, and then we stand behind it 100 percent.
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After all, we also know that there are
some who don't think this is funny.
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But that's how it will always be.
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In reality, we can't help but be a little
amused that there is a certain
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type of TV reviewers, who to that extent
come out of the recliner-chair and go yell.
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And then, of course, we can't help being
happy that the numbers show that
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it is a series that viewers have liked
and thought was well made.
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That's a good phrase.
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Maybe we can use it in another episode.
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He began his work with the fact that he earned a lot.
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He had balled in it, so…
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To achieve a very special atmosphere on
the picture side of the Julekalender, consists
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many of the movie sequences actually of
several different images copied together in layers.
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The model for Oluf and Gertrud Sand's home
lies in Bjergager.
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The storming trees are recorded elsewhere and copied in.
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After computer processing, the bushes
in the foreground are copied into the studio.
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Mr. and Mrs. Rasmussen in Sandager know nothing about all this.
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Yes, they just live near the film company.
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My father was a serious and famous tracker.
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That's a good phrase,
do you think you can repeat it?
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No, I'm not sure.
Shit! We could've used that in another episode.
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You think so?
Yes!
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Cheers on that.
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After all, they called one day and asked if
they could come and take some pictures for a Christmas calendar.
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I thought so, what could that hurt?
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Maybe it was just for a Christmas calendar.
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Such a front cover for a Christmas calendar.
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Just like you get from the store.
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But then there is the day, and then there were parked no
less than 8 vehicles beyond the grass patch.
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It was just rough enough just to come and take a few pictures.
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They were no less than 15 people.
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They had to have some coffee though.
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Then they got into the house and they started
rolling the one cord out, followed by the next.
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They put up lamps and they took
over the power from the oven.
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And I was just about to fry some meatballs,
but they would have to use an insane amount of power.
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And the worst thing is this, and they ran it through the wall.
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Yes, it's kind of gross.
Yes, it's something gross.
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I was dead in coffee. It was.
Yes, they could drink coffee, no doubt.
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Yes, we know the one a little.
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That is, we don't know him himself,
but we know his parents.
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They are on the board of the Brugsen association.
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Then it happened that they wanted all these old
books that are inside the bookcase.
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Yes, we don't use them for anytrhing anymore.
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They're just standing in there collecting dust.
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And I simply can't even remember what's in them.
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I probably can't.
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So I said to these boys here. Oh, boys.
Listen right here, boys. Do you have control of the camera?
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Peasants, piss in my ear.
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You can't even bang a nail in a piece of turd
without ruining both, man.
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You do this, and you do that.
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You do this, and you do that.
I'm surely worn out soon
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It hurts in my shoulder, it hurts in my bones.
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I shall do the full thing,
completely, all alone.
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It's a day on fire, I'll save our universe.
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The nightingales released the music for
the Julekalender on a record.
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It became a gold record with over 40,000 copies sold.
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I need a chiropractor check
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Shouldn't we be packing or what?
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Yes, Are you not done
with that polishing any time soon.
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So long time that cannot take.
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I should really look nice when I'm coming home for Christmas.
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TV2 and Party Food Snack Time present...
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Traditionally, a sponsor is a company that is
allowed to pay a lot of money, and then gets
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their logo on before and after the broadcast.
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In this case, it was part of the agreement that we
promised to help the sponsor get something out of his sponsorship.
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We therefore developed a concept for a marketing campaign,
which ran alongside the show.
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But the sponsor was at no time involved in the program content.
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Our goal was to make Party Food Snack Time's logo and
name known, and at the same time create a positive image.
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Both gallop tests and the reactions in
general show that we achieved this goal.
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The fact that we saw, as an extra small side
benefit, doubled our sales, that's just wonderful.
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Shouldn't we be packing or what?
Yes, we should. Aren't you done with that polishing, soon?
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could it be you, my girl
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some folks are waiting all their lives
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The Julekalender is finished.
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The nightingales are on vacation and relaxing.
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Will there perhaps be a follow-up?
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Tune in again next Christmas. Or next Christmas.
Or next Christmas.
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Tell her I will be,
will she wait for me, I wonder?
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Yes, yes, will she wait
for me, I wonder?
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for me?
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