The well known stand up comedian Anders Matthesen made a Christmas series, containing 24 episodes in 2003.
It evolves around a family that consists of a father (Stewart Stardust) who seems to be a ex sailor that has left his life as a sailor behind but at the same time forgot to leave his bad manners out on the ocean. He shouts and yell like the infamous Captain Haddock with a deep felt love for strong, tepid beer. We are told that his wife is in the bedroom with a chronic menses that makes no contact possible except for a shout "get out of here", that can be felt on the Richter scale, every time somebody tries to open the door to her bedroom. His son (Danny) has just left prison on parole and has brought with him a parole officer (Arne) that is a reminiscent of the hippie culture with such an undeniable trust in Danny that it beats the law of physics. Danny could be a distant relative to Chong (from Cheech and Chong) with his drooling voice and a mind that is so intoxicated that everything, and I mean everything, is funny.
Stewart needs money for the rent and has a plan of selling sausages from this mobile sausage wagon that by the way is a very unique danish culture product. The terror organization "the yellow half- moon " lead by the immigrant Kefir has deceived Mr. Stardust into believing that it needs a repair and we know for sure that dark and sinister plans are being made
As with other "Christmas calendars " some elements are repeated in each episode but with different luck. The supposedly effect that this have is "the moment of recognition " that can feel so cozy and Christmas like.
For instance we have the present he gives to himself each day that consists of a beer he drinks and we have the mother shouting in her bedroom when Steward tries to make contact with her.
Stewart has apparently been brought up by a sadistic father and in every episode he has a flashback that lasts approx 10 seconds where this father says something educative and then raises his arm with a tool in it and starts to hit him. As this Christmas Calender is a comedy I have tried to figure out how this in any way can be funny but must admit that my mind is too limited to understand this.
The force of the episodes is partly that Anders is so brilliant in spotting cultural stereotypes and making them come alive on the television and then making a dialogue that starts out pretty normal but then escalates into something strange and weird either because everybody misunderstands each other or because the ability to think straight is very reduced.
Regards Simon
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