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The Andersen family is
the most Christmas hostile family, -

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- as the world of Christmas
has known its 672-year history.

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Santa Claus 39 must ensure, -

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- the Andersen family is
celebrating Christmas this year.

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Or he will be fired from the
Santa Claus Council and demoted to elf.

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Canta Claus 39 has succeeded
to place his assistant, Frits, -

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- with the family, -

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- but Frits met his great
love in the house, the daughter Putte, -

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- which he had to leave again.

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With him back he has the first
clue in the case, a mouse trap.

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You have to be very
careful every time you cut.

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But first you have to be
fully quiet to try hearing, -

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- if the little Bonsai tree
will tell you something.

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Nah, try to see him there.

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He completely looks like
our gas and water plumber.

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Quiet, Putte!

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Yes, the tree says it's okay.
I can trim.

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No, how he resembles.

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Look, Putte.
It is to be one with nature.

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- So it's completely unbelievable.
- Yeah right?

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You understand
a lot of things, -

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- when one
sits with such a tree.

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Life, why we are here, why
we suddenly are not here, -

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- who came first: the
branch or the tree?

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You feel so little.

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On the other hand, one has
a lot of responsibility as a trimmer.

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You can't just put the
branch on the tree again.

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(plays 'White Christmas')

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But, dad! It sounded exactly like
the gas and water plumber.

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- I want to hear him sing!
- Not when he sings like that.

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It was unbelievable that they should
send something like that at this time.

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They could wait until ordinary
people have gone to bed.

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- Try to notice the silence, Putte.
- Nah!

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It may be, if we are silent,
that we can get the tree to tell us, -

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- if we can trim a little one.

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It's a utterly low that I can't
hear the gas and water plumber sing.

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I can sing for you then.

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I would still argue that the
task is too difficult for 39.

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Wouldn't it be reasonable to
transfer him to someone else, -

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- less hostile family?
He is still an old man.

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Nonsense, 393 years is no age.

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Now take my brother-in-law, for example, -

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- young, promising, with an
unblemished pixie certificate, -

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- has completed his
Santa's degree for two years, -

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- and what can he use it for?
Nothing.

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The Santa posts
are not under the trees.

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Especially not the good routes.

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But if I'm not too wrong,
it'll only be a few days will pass, -

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- before a route becomes available,
if you understand what I mean.

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- You don't mean, don't you?
- The death of one, the others porridge.

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Are we having porridge?

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That's when Bing starts
singing the terrible...

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Thanks, I'm following.

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But why is Putte's transistor not
disabled a long time ago?

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Tage, we have a perfect
agreement about that kind of thing.

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She is a young girl.
It doesn't take that much.

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You are absolutely right. We must
take care of each other during this time.

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- Tage, it's going in the basement.
- Of course, Aase-girl.

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- To the basement!
- Of course, Aase.

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- Aase, what are you going to do?
- In the basement with this one.

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I'll do that. I also put
the radio and the TV down there.

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It's nice of you,
but now I'm on my way.

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Going down the
basement is a man's job.

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- I think I can handle...
- Don't talk about.

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Shouldn't I be used to
going down into the cellar, -

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- why should you want me?

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Well, there might be something to it.

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Look, Aase, now I'm
already on my way.

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I'm almost down there.

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A man and his basement.

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Mother, look at him here. He
resembles the gas and water plumber, right?

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The mouth and the eyes.
See here...

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Did you see that?
The picture, I mean.

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It is weird that they have
padlocks on the staircase.

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It's also fun with the
mouse staircase I found.

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It must be one in the family
that made it.

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Do you think it's Putte?

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It was probably the most
obvious, but we don't know yet.

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- It could be that we become smarter.
- Yes.

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There, Aase. Now I'm almost done.

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Mother, I could better like the red one.
The one you gave me first.

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Nonsense. You have a
dress until you get a new one.

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There, now I'm all set.
Isn't it amazing?

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Yes, you are amazing.
Have you really made all that yourself?

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- Every single branch.
- What does one do with it now?

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Yes, Putte.
That is the question.

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Should you place it in a
place where you can enjoy it, -

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- then you could
prune even the trunk, -

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- start new projects,
new Bonsai trees.

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But it is very important
not to start with a new tree, -

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- before one has taken
the old one out of the body.

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(the doorbell rings)

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Then I am here with today's mail.
Have you seen the nice weather?

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And then here in the month of December.
I wonder if we'll get snow soon.

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- We were supposed to have white chri...
- LIE!

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It must be a white lie,
the weather is so nice.

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I didn't notice it, -

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- I have sat all day and
pruned this small tree.

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Well? I probably
don't know that species.

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It looks nice and simple. Will there be
branches and leaves at some point?

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Well, no... You should also
see how to get the mail here.

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It's such a problem...
How can I say it?

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It some cards that
you tend to send out, -

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- when you should wish each other a
really merry chr... and happy new year.

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But they goes out into the shaft?

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Are you quite sure?
It's almost a shame.

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I think we understand each other now.

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There is a really nice
one with glitter on it.

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And this is from aunt
Karen, who writes, -

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- that she is looking forward to
come and celebrate a...

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Can we get it out!

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We forget all about it.
So, gone with it.

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- Tage, what are you talking about?
- Absolutely nothing.

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There was a time,
you celebrated chris...

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- And where....
- Pssst.

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It has all been a
very long time ago.

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19 years ago to be exact.

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We didn't know what we were
doing, just going with the flow.

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Only later did we find out what it
was for something, hidous, -

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- we had been victims of.

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Oh? I would have had difficulty
avoiding it for so many years.

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Well, but each to his own taste.

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No. Hell and tits, I'm
the one who went.

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Could I ask you to -

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- a second time don't
put on that scarf, -

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- when you visit us.

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Yeah... Yeah. Fuddly-fudd.

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Yes, thank you very much... fuddly.

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- Did you hear that, Frits?
- What?

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Tage said it had been 19 years
since they last had a meeting.

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So what?

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- The Santa Council says 20 years.
- A year from or to...

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Yes, perhaps it is an insignificance, -

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- but on the other hand, it's
not entirely safe to know, -

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- when the family
lost the desire to celebrate Christmas.

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No, and why.

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Exactly.
The two things could be connected.

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19 or 20 years... Now I know.

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the Christmas annals.
They are over in the coffin.

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You see, Frits.

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In this book is a complete
record of all Christmas evenings, -

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- the Andersen family has kept.

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Who was there, where did they
keep it, who was the Santa Claus, etc.

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What are they scheming about
on the Santa Claus Council?

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How many shutters are there
on the inside of the front door?

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Was Gary Cooper ever
a gas and water plumber?

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Has it been 19 or 20 years since the
Andersen family last celebrated Christmas.

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Will Santa Claus 39 find
new traces in the annals?

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Follow up with the Christmas
crime drama comedy.

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The next chapter comes
tomorrow on this channel.

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