YMMV / Brødrene Dal

• Awesome Music: The music in the series is always amazing. The Eye of Wendor, which is played over the end credits is particularly beautiful.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The Narrator.
• Fridge Brilliance: In Karl den XIIs Gamasjer, the brothers often travel back in time and return with time having passed in the present. Which seems silly, since they're time traveling, and could easily arrive seconds after they left. However, the Quantum Wheel is based on a relative view of time (AKA Napoleon is still alive, but in his relative time period), so any time they spend in the past will have to pass in the present as well.
• Funny Moments: The last episode of the second series, where the brothers hear a voice in their house and find the Narrator sitting in the closet. His expression really sells it.
• Growing the Beard: The first series is still seen as a classic, but it is little more than a set of loosely-connected absurd skits that pretends to have an overarching plot. As a result of viewer reactions (younger viewers had missed that it wasn't supposed to be taken seriously and thought of it as an exciting, occasionally scary, action-adventure series), the second series onward is a lot more plot-oriented and — while the absurdist comedy remains a huge part of the series, with tons of digressions and goofy side-plots — a lot more effort is put into telling an actual story.
  • Ironically, Lars Mjøen/Gaus sports a beard in the first series, but in the second series and onward he's clean-shaven. So the series Grew The Beard, but he shaved his off.
• Parody Sue: The nephews and niece, being beautiful young people, kinda forced into the story, they are not very funny either.
• Recycled Premise: Spektralsteinene: Time travel. Karl XII's gamasjer? Time travel. Vikingsverdets forbannelse? TIME TRAVEL! (And each instance even has a different time machine and slightly different premises for how the time travel works.)
  • It's to parody Doctor Who although most Norwegians didn't have BBC when any of the seasons or movie started making most not catch it. One can even see and hear it in Vikingsverdets Forbannelse, complete with having space travel and aliens in Spektralsteinene.
• The Scrappy: Like so many Cousin Oliver characters, the nephews and niece aren't very popular with the fans. While their inclusion seems to be parly because KLM themselves were getting a little old to do a lot of physical comedy anymore and they needed some younger major characters to run around and do the pratfalls, the problem is that they just aren't very funny.
• So Okay, It's Average: Seems to be the general opinion of Vikingsverdets Forbannelse. Being a filmed stage play means that the acting style is different, the action is confined to one place, and there just aren't as many humorous digressions as in the TV series. Though fan opinion is divided on whether or not the traditional rapid-fire punslinging delivered by the brothers is enough to save the movie, everyone agrees that it's not as good as any of the TV series.