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Napakymppi is the most viewed show in Finnish television history. However, even today Finns retain strong dual relation to this show.
Show hosted by Kari Salmelainen was launched 1985 and was an immediate success. At viewer surveys it seemed that show was generally considered thrash-entertainment, it attracted repeated bashing from the press and critiques and generally nobody admitted viewing it. At the same time show regularly hoarded 2 million viewers in a country of 5 million.
Show was canceled 2002 when it still attracted over 1 million viewers almost every show. Reason being what the show presented: Napakymppi and it's host Kari Salmelainen are the icons of the kind of unforgiving sense of being utterly Finnish. Not the modern, highly educated, high-arts, hi-tech-Nokia-country that Finland want's to see itself but it's redneck antithesis.
Mr. Salmelainen once said that "There are no such a great artists in Finland that they perform anything. There are just singers who sing songs.*" This can be considered as the cornerstone of the kind of attitude that severely annoys those fostering the the image of urban, sophisticated and young Finland.
Thus it can be argued that Napakymppi belongs to the same continuum that Spede Pasanen's movies and "Rillumarei"-culture before that. Something that "is not posh" and does not give you any social respect but what is highly valued after persons involved are gone.
(*Word "tulkita" in Finnish can be translated as "perform" with strong high-arts connotation.)
Show hosted by Kari Salmelainen was launched 1985 and was an immediate success. At viewer surveys it seemed that show was generally considered thrash-entertainment, it attracted repeated bashing from the press and critiques and generally nobody admitted viewing it. At the same time show regularly hoarded 2 million viewers in a country of 5 million.
Show was canceled 2002 when it still attracted over 1 million viewers almost every show. Reason being what the show presented: Napakymppi and it's host Kari Salmelainen are the icons of the kind of unforgiving sense of being utterly Finnish. Not the modern, highly educated, high-arts, hi-tech-Nokia-country that Finland want's to see itself but it's redneck antithesis.
Mr. Salmelainen once said that "There are no such a great artists in Finland that they perform anything. There are just singers who sing songs.*" This can be considered as the cornerstone of the kind of attitude that severely annoys those fostering the the image of urban, sophisticated and young Finland.
Thus it can be argued that Napakymppi belongs to the same continuum that Spede Pasanen's movies and "Rillumarei"-culture before that. Something that "is not posh" and does not give you any social respect but what is highly valued after persons involved are gone.
(*Word "tulkita" in Finnish can be translated as "perform" with strong high-arts connotation.)
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