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** The aliens mentioned above is a parody of the cast Series/StarTrek.
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* UsefulNotes/FinnsWithFearsomeForests: Played straight, then subverted and double subverted. One skit involves a Finnish man drawing a knife in a game show after people fails to laugh at his joke. The program is then interrupted by a presenter who says that due to complaints about stereotypes about Finns they will send a program with sophisticated Finns discussing literature. Then their debate escalates into a knife fight and a man steps out to adress the camera saying: "''This is what happens when you try to redeem the Finns''".
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* ClipShow: "''Gone''" is mostly made up of recycled scenes shot for the pilot episode "''Grotesco Royale''".
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* DownerEnding: Played for laughs. Despite the New York lawyer being able to prove the black man's innocence and the corruption of the prosecutor the judge tells him that in [[DeepSouth the South]] they just can't let a black man goes and then bluntly orders the deputies to "''[[HighVoltageDeath fry him]]''". [[SoundtrackDissonance Cue]] [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Seinfeld-music]].
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* IntrepidReporter: The Bergren character.
* OncePerEpisode: In the first season, every episode features a scene were a character opens their mouth so the camera can fly into it for theintro.intro.
* OrphanedSetup: The "''Tord Greider''"-skit in "''Gone''" is lifted out of the pilot episode "''Grotesco Royale''", but you would not realize it because how funny it is on it's own. In the pilot, Tord and the Mad Scientist reappears at the end for the twist ending were it is revealed [[spoiler: [[BreakingTheFourthWall that all the characters are creations of the Mad Scientist]] in a bid to create [[RefugeInAudacity the best comedy show Sweden has ever seen]] which the protagonist realizes and starts to laugh as a maniac]].
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* OrphanedSetup: The "''Tord Greider''"-skit in "''Gone''" is lifted out of the pilot episode "''Grotesco Royale''", but you would not realize it because how funny it is on it's own. In the pilot, Tord and the Mad Scientist reappears at the end for the twist ending were it is revealed [[spoiler: [[BreakingTheFourthWall that all the characters are creations of the Mad Scientist]] in a bid to create [[RefugeInAudacity the best comedy show Sweden has ever seen]] which the protagonist realizes and starts to laugh as a maniac]].
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* SuddenDownerEnding: Played for laughs. Despite the New York lawyer being able to prove the black man's innocence and the corruption of the prosecutor the judge tells him that in [[DeepSouth the South]] they just can't let a black man go and then bluntly orders the deputies to "''[[HighVoltageDeath fry him]]''". [[SoundtrackDissonance Cue]] [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Seinfeld-music]].
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* BackFromTheDead: "''Long days journey to laughter''" features Creator/AstridLindgren being raised from the dead by a member of a writers' room. Her skeleton immediately starts to go around and [[CameBackWrong strangle people]].
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:The hero dies in the end. Murdered or manslaughtered by a (stray?) arrow from some random Indian.]]
* TheSavageIndian: See RedemptionEqualsDeath above.
* TheSavageIndian: See RedemptionEqualsDeath above.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: All of "''The Trial''" is done in fake English using mostly homophones giving us lines like: "''You onion, you can't be cereal!''" The dialogue that is not is complete southern-sounding gibberish.
** The aliens mentioned above is a parody of the cast Series/StarTrek.
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* RaceLift: In the stage version recreates "''The Trial''", but the accused is a poor white (mentally handicapped) man instead. Likely to avoid a controversy about racism and [[PragmaticAdaptation it would be financially unsound to hire a black actor for just one skit when the cast is already large as it is]].
* RaceLift: In the stage version recreates "''The Trial''", but the accused is a poor white (mentally handicapped) man instead. Likely to avoid a controversy about racism and [[PragmaticAdaptation it would be financially unsound to hire a black actor for just one skit when the cast is already large as it is]].
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* {{Blackface}}: In "''The Trial''", the black man accused for a crime he did not commit is played by one of the regular cast members in black face.
* CaptainErsatz: The episode "''The Trial''" features fictional actors called Mactew Maconahuloiduhewylewydu & Gene Hackencrack, blatant parodies of Creator/MatthewMcConaughey and Creator/GeneHackman. There is also an elderly wise southern man who is not named but obvious parody of Creator/SamElliott.
* CaptainErsatz: The episode "''The Trial''" features fictional actors called Mactew Maconahuloiduhewylewydu & Gene Hackencrack, blatant parodies of Creator/MatthewMcConaughey and Creator/GeneHackman. There is also an elderly wise southern man who is not named but obvious parody of Creator/SamElliott.
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* HappinessIsMandatory: Pretty much ''every'' clip ends with a message that this humor is national and approved by the government of Sweden, implying that it is your duty as a citizen to laugh at it.
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* HappinessIsMandatory: Pretty much ''every'' clip ends with a message that this humor is national and approved by the government of Sweden, implying that it is your duty as a citizen to laugh at it. This is a jab at the fact that the channel that ran the series is SVT, Sweden's tax funded tv-channel.
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* RaceLift: In the stage version recreates "''The Trial''", but the accused is a
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: The preacher claims that God does not object, as long as you don't turn it into a competetive game.
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I was going to add a description of the rules but that may be a bit too disgusting for the site. Let's hope the title is self explanatory enough that only the people with strong stomachs look it up.
* ComedicSpanking: Studio version only has the female journalist getting spanked by the pastor. He uses a book for this, probably supposed to be a bible or book of psalms.
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This video is about a troubled young man who gets Saved by an encounter with a preacher who is holding a sermon about a social/moral problem relevant to the young man's life. Strictly formula. Unlike ordinary gospel tracts, however, the problem handled is of the juvenile kind. A game called ”Runka Bulle”. This game is an old JerkJock stereotype. It has homoerotic as well as homophobic undertones: The winners get their dominance and manlieness reinforced, while the loser is implied to be a disgusting faggot. The preacher is preaching that you must never play this game with Jesus Christ – because Jesus is Thy Lord, so he always win.
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This video is about a troubled young man who gets Saved by an encounter with a preacher who is holding a sermon about a social/moral problem relevant to the young man's life. Strictly formula. Unlike ordinary gospel tracts, however, the problem handled is of the juvenile kind. A kind: a game called ”Runka Bulle”. Bulle” (the phrase could roughly be translated as "Jerk the bun off"). This game is an old JerkJock stereotype. It has stereotype with homoerotic as well as homophobic undertones: The winners get their dominance and manlieness manliness reinforced, while the loser is implied to be a disgusting faggot. The preacher is preaching that you must never play this game with Jesus Christ – because Jesus is Thy Lord, so he always win.
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* ComedicSpanking: Studio version only has the female journalist getting spanked by the pastor. He uses a book for this, probably supposed to be a bible or book of psalms.
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: The match between Jesus and Satan follow the traditional pattern where the bad guy (Satan) cheats, but the good guy (Jesus) wins anyway.
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* GoodVersusEvil: The match between Jesus and Satan follow the traditional pattern where the bad guy (Satan) cheats, but the good guy (Jesus) wins anyway.
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* JerkJock: It is implied that while regular ThisLoserIsYou character have no chance against a regular JerkJock, no JerkJock would ever have a chance against JesusChrist. Rejoice!
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* JerkJock: It is implied that while regular ThisLoserIsYou character have no chance against a regular JerkJock, no JerkJock would ever have a chance against JesusChrist.UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}. Rejoice!
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* HilariousInHindsight: One of the things that the song blames gays for is the fact that Schlagerfestivalen ("The Schlager Festival," a competition held to chose the swedish contestent in EurovisionSongContest.) just keeps on going. Måns Zelmerlöv, who hosted Allsång På Skansen at the time, would later go on to win not just Schlagerfestivalen but the entire EurovisionSongContest in 2015.
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The video exists in two versions. One [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmlhUn8TvT0 takes place during a staged political debate]], the other [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l45MhPfOyGk is a part of a very popular singalong show]]. (Both versions has subtitles, but for the second version you need to click the subtitle button at the bottom right.)
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The video exists in two versions. One [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmlhUn8TvT0 takes place during a staged political debate]], the other [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l45MhPfOyGk is a part of Allsång på Skansen, a very popular singalong show]]. (Both versions has subtitles, but for the second version you need to click the subtitle button at the bottom right.)
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* ConspiracyTheorist: One episode claims that AdolfHitler never existed as an individual person, he was simply the supervillain alter ego of the previous king of Sweden. And thus, the current king is the son of the real Adolf Hitler.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: One episode claims that AdolfHitler UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler never existed as an individual person, he was simply the supervillain alter ego of the previous king of Sweden. And thus, the current king is the son of the real Adolf Hitler.
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'''Grotesco''' is a group of Swedish comedians, with their own television series of the same name. Famous for the song "Bögarnas Fel" (The Gay Men's Fault,) which was included not only in their series but also in the TV show Allsång På Skansen ("Singalong at Skansen"). Lots of clips from the series can be found on Website/YouTube.
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'''Grotesco''' is a group of Swedish [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] comedians, with their own television series of the same name. Famous for the song "Bögarnas Fel" (The Gay Men's Fault,) which was included not only in their series but also in the TV show Allsång På Skansen ("Singalong at Skansen"). Lots of clips from the series can be found on Website/YouTube.
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Examples are split among individual songs/clips that have at least four tropes. Examples from songs/clips that don't yet meet that requirement go into their own generic category at the bottom.
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!! The Gay Men's Fault
-> ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l45MhPfOyGk Bögarnas Fel]]''
The song is about how everything is the gay men's fault. And by everything we mean ''everything''. More to the point, the song is about a cult preaching this message. The cult is a strange mix between Westboro Babtist Church and certain Swedish organizations and politicians. One of the singers is the cult leader, a pastor named ”Krister From” -- his name means ”pious”, and probably referring to a conservative religious politician named Sacredeus.
The video exists in two versions. One [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmlhUn8TvT0 takes place during a staged political debate]], the other [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l45MhPfOyGk is a part of a very popular singalong show]]. (Both versions has subtitles, but for the second version you need to click the subtitle button at the bottom right.)
* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: Interupting the debate/show to start singing about how they blame the gay men for everything.
* AggressiveCategorism: Everything bad is caused by the gays. Even when it's not.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The gays caused the war in Afghanistan and are tempting people to steal office supplies.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: The pastor doesn't know what line, verse, chapter or part of Literature/TheBible it is that says that everything is the gays' fault, but he's ''sure'' that it's in there somewhere.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Averted, since they don't bother to give any arguments for ''why'' everything is the gay men's fault.
* EasyEvangelism: Studio version only has the female journalist getting convinced and joining the cult.
* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Religious fundamentalists of various faiths, singing together in unison about how none of them are to blame for the fact that they keep murdering each other and others in the name of religion. Nope, it's all the gay men's fault.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: Parodied.
* PrideParade: Singalong version only -- the event takes place during the pride festival, and there are people waving pride flags in the video.
* {{Scapegoat}}: All gay men.
* WindmillCrusader: The protagonists.
* WindmillPolitical: The imaginary gay problem, imagined to cause all real and imagined problems of the world.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: In both videos, the pastor is implied to be gay himself. This is done in different ways:
** The debate video uses AllGaysArePedophiles / PedophilePriest, with the pastor being a little bit too frienly to a young boy.
** ArmoredClosetGay: In the show version, the pastor boldly accuses the male host of turning him on.
!! Thou Shalt Never [untranslatable] With Thy Lord Jesus Christ
->''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y05loouqsAY Du Skall Aldrig Runka Bulle Med Herren Jesus Krist]]''
This video is about a troubled young man who gets Saved by an encounter with a preacher who is holding a sermon about a social/moral problem relevant to the young man's life. Strictly formula. Unlike ordinary gospel tracts, however, the problem handled is of the juvenile kind. A game called ”Runka Bulle”. This game is an old JerkJock stereotype. It has homoerotic as well as homophobic undertones: The winners get their dominance and manlieness reinforced, while the loser is implied to be a disgusting faggot. The preacher is preaching that you must never play this game with Jesus Christ – because Jesus is Thy Lord, so he always win.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: The preacher claims that God does not object, as long as you don't turn it into a competetive game.
* AuthorTract: Parodied - The video follow the formula of ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'' and similar gospel tracts.
* EasyEvangelism: The hero gets saved very quickly.
* GoodVersusEvil: The match between Jesus and Satan follow the traditional pattern where the bad guy (Satan) cheats, but the good guy (Jesus) wins anyway.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Passionately ''averted'' with Jesus Christ.
* InvincibleHero: JESUS IS LORD!!!
* JerkJock: It is implied that while regular ThisLoserIsYou character have no chance against a regular JerkJock, no JerkJock would ever have a chance against JesusChrist. Rejoice!
* JesusWasWayCool: Much cooler (and jockier) than any of the apostles (especially Judas), much cooler than Satan, and much cooler than ''you''.
* MoralGuardians: Of a narrow kind; they are only against the game, not against masturbation otherwise.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:The hero dies in the end. Murdered or manslaughtered by a (stray?) arrow from some random Indian.]]
* TheSavageIndian: See RedemptionEqualsDeath above.
* ShapedLikeItself: The preacher warns the listeners that he don't want them to be tempted to fall into the traps that it is so easy to be tempted to fall into.
* TheSoulsaver: The preacher, whose charismatic speach manages to get the hero saved.
!!Other songs/clips
* AlienAbduction: In one episode, the hero is on his way home with some cheese for his wife's birthday (knowing that she'll be very upset if he doesn't give her any this year) when he suddenly gets beamed up and drafted to save the galaxy.
* ComedicSpanking: Studio version only has the female journalist getting spanked by the pastor. He uses a book for this, probably supposed to be a bible or book of psalms.
* ConspiracyTheorist: One episode claims that AdolfHitler never existed as an individual person, he was simply the supervillain alter ego of the previous king of Sweden. And thus, the current king is the son of the real Adolf Hitler.
* HappinessIsMandatory: Pretty much ''every'' clip ends with a message that this humor is national and approved by the government of Sweden, implying that it is your duty as a citizen to laugh at it.
* ThoseWackyNazis: Featured in the conspiracy theory clip, as well as the clip about Hitler's bachelor party.
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