Believe it or not, we've come to the finale of Bäst i Test 2023.
Tonight, we'll determine who gets to lift my golden bust over their head.
It's neck-and-neck between the top scorers--
--so the winner will truly be determined tonight. And the ones facing off are:
Linnéa "The Combine Harvester" Wikblad!
Henrik "Egg-Eater" Nyblom!
Nikki "Rapid Corn Woman" Amini!
Marko "No kidnapping!" Lehtosalo!
And here to represent this season's guests: The all-but-antique Anne Lundberg!
And when we get going with tonight's show you will, among other things, see this:
Letting the body weight do its thing.
What a resemblance!
They've been through a lot. Damn.
- Hold on. - Alcohol-free, too.
It'll be, like, la grand finale.
A warm, warm welcome to the finale of Bäst i Test.
I can tell you're excited. Welcome especially to you, Anne. How's the pre-contest jitters?
- They're well-constructed, actually. - You like competing?
Well, I think it's fun to compete and play.
When we played, that was...one of the most fun-- maybe the most fun day of my life.
And although it's the finale, it's business as usual. For example that we, of all the assistants in the world...
...have been shackled to a permanent plan B. Ladies and gentlemen, David Sundin.
Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you. Lovely, lovely.
Well, as we've said it's time for the finale, which I always think is a combination of--
--incredibly sad, and slightly exciting.
Someone's going to win, but at the same time I'm returning to my sad life without you, Babben.
- Don't get sappy on me now. Kick off a test instead. - Of course, of course. Here it comes.
This is, after all, a glamorous finale, so I think we should give it a touch of luxury--
--and pop open a bottle of champagne.
Howdy...doodely.
Some bubbly for me. "Launch the champagne cork from the bottle."
"The person who launches the champagne cork the furthest wins."
"You have 100 seconds to prepare and launch the champagne cork."
"Your time starts when David says 'Cheers'."
Cheers!
This is how you do it, right?
Furthest from what? From the bottle?
Do you need any props for that? Don't you just pop it and hope for the best?
No accidents, please.
Yeah, exactly.
- One minute left! - One minute?
- I need to launch it before the seconds have passed? - Yes.
Don't stand too close, David. Sometimes these things go wacky on you.
40 seconds left.
- Good angle. - Five, four...
Dammit, it hit the tree!
Oh! Pretty good, huh.
Five, four, three, two, one, zero.
- No, Linnéa! - Right. Good work.
- About how far do you think? - Could be...17 meters, maybe?
- ...Maybe. - Yeah.
- That was pretty far, huh? - Maybe.
- This...this is an impressive distance. - Good work.
So-so, I think. But...yeah. Can't be the best at everything.
Alcohol-free, too. Lose-lose for Wikblad.
Marko, that was by no means the first bottle you've ever popped.
- No, no. One of many. - One of many. Lovely. Looked very habitual.
Linnéa, was this perhaps one of your subpar openings?
Yeah. It was really...a failure. But it does make you wonder who got--I mean, we don't know.
- We haven't measured them all yet. - I want the centimeter count, put it that way.
- How long was each cork's journey? - Linnéa's cork travelled 52 centimeters.
- Wow! That's more than I thought. - Right?!
Anne shot her cork substantially further despite this tree: 5 meters, 90 centimeters.
But only two points, which brings us to the really long lengths.
Henrik: 12 meters and 3 centimeters - three points.
Nikki's cork went roughly one more meter: 13 meters, 40 centimeters, four points.
But the furthest was Marko: 15 meters and 96 centimeters. Five points!
- Wow, wow, wow! - Hyvä Suomi! [Long live Finland!]
We'll move on to the next test, and what could that possibly be?
Sometimes when I see these fossils, this sort of springs to mind:
"Don't they belong in a museum, huh?"
"Create a self-celebrating museum, and lead a two-minute guided tour."
"Most self-celebrating museum wins."
- "Your museum opens in 30 minutes." - "Your time starts now."
Self-celebrating museum, huh...
So, the goal was to create a museum about yourself, celebrating yourself, and after that--
--lead a guided tour through it yourself. You had an entire half hour and free reign.
- If Abba can do it, so can we. Who's up first? - Björn, Benny and Agneta, or to put it another way...
A narcissistic smorgasbord consisting of Marko, Henrik and Linnéa.
Hello, welcome. Welcome.
You can look around a bit, the guided tour will start soon.
Welcome to the Linnéa Wikblad-museum.
It's great to see so many of you here.
Some hors d'ouevres for the premiere. There'll be just one tour of the Markoolio-museum.
There's a children's corner here, where you can place your child--
--where the children can kind of do their own thing.
- Where they can draw...their very own portrait of me. - I'll get right on that.
Here, you can see the painting where I met His Majesty the King. "Claim the throne, why don't you" he said.
But I don't have time for all that. I've gotta save the world, more or less.
Here, in Lahtis, Markoolio was born -- the first of January, 1975.
This is his first cuddly toy, which he received when he was born.
Many claim that it's obvious, even at this point in time, that it'll fall short in the nose department.
Here's a cozy little image. An exact replica of me as a fetus.
Here, you can see an original shirt from the recording--
--which also includes the damage from when I fell down the cliff.
Linnéa!
My favorite dish before I went vegetarian: Spaghetti bolognese.
Here's his first untaxed paycheck, 1998. 400 smackers.
And here's a piece of snuff, frequently taken and removed.
During a recording you usually don't have the time to do snuff for a long time, but you still want to save it.
Here's his undies, worn to every gig of his 24-year-long career without ever being washed.
That's why they're locked, because there's such an odor if you open them.
There's a couple of headphones next to you, where you can listen to various bodily noises.
Some snoring, some hacking. [coughing]
He's not only artist, he was also a celebrated actor. Created a famous character, Dr. Mugg, who laughed like this:
Mo-ha-ha-ha.
[panting] We can move on, over here.
Here's some harvest, from the actual Combine Harvester scene--
--from this season of Bäst i test.
This one's actually very interesting. I was out taking a walk around Norrmalmstorg--
--which is where I saw a mom who, like, couldn't get her breast milk going.
- I had to hop in and help. - Double breastfeeding, then?
Yeah. They were twins.
- They actually called me 'mom' afterwards. - Ah, it's so out there!
But his career hasn't been all roses and rainbows. Some scandals, too.
At Fångarna På Fortet, he was accused of breaking down doors with a fire extinguisher--
--but it's not true! ...Yeah.
Tour's over, then, but feel free to linger in the area--
--taking part in the flourishes of history. Small goodie bag, there.
Ah, what a resemblance.
You're welcome.
- Thanks. - Thank you for coming.
A few people did show up to this tour. Very nice.
That was me and my culture-enjoying friends, Kerstin and Lena, visiting the contestants' museums--
--and they'll be the ones to ultimately rank these experiences.
Henrik, seemed a bit too... visceral for the elderly ladies.
Yeah, some things...but the life I've had, Babben.
All of that was just from that very day.
I'm ready to see the rest of the museums.
Two free tickets, then, to Nikki and Anne's exhibits about themselves.
My first guests have arrived! Go ahead, you can advance gently.
- Gently, gently. This is a grand event. - Yes.
So this is a guided tour by car, "Nikstar tours".
- So we haven't started yet? - No, no, no.
Now, you can remove your blindfolds and proceed down the red carpet to the champagne.
Today, there's a vernissage at the museum which celebrates me.
Welcome. Do you have enough room? Strongly recommend the wearing of seatbelts.
I'll just go...
- Has the tour started? - No.
We'll start with the personal parts, which not everyone might know about me.
So, I've run three marathons in these shoes. Can you feel the warmth of history? And that sheen, huh!
Which one's the clutch...?
Know what I think? For this tour to even begin, I probably need some help driving.
- I'll drive. - I'll start, then.
Now, we enter the profession. This is a hosting dress, and this dress has interviewed the Dalai Lama--
--pope Francis. It's met presidents, the King on the National Day--
--even won På spåret.
- Is it borrowed? - No, it's mine.
- It's kind of like one of those car safaris. - Yeah, exactly.
Here, you see a replica of Nikki when she was a baby.
In just a bit, we're going to meet Nikki's very, very best friend in her whole life:
- The yellow cat Freddie. - It's white.
- Yeah, but it's supposed to be yellow. - It's supposed to be yellow.
Oxygen tank--needed it for Kilimanjaro.
This one, very necessary when I was going to climb Mount Kosciuszko, Australia's biggest mountain.
- Yeah, she found her dream prince. - Is that the wedding bouquet?
No, it's a replica. They're living happily to this day.
But what's a museum without a shop? Here's where you can shop away wildly, some personal items.
We're talking stuff that's been really close to the body. A pair of glasses, Dav--no, you're getting the panties!
They've been through a lot. Damn.
C-cup? Does that work? And you get the lipstick.
- Not to mention, I can also...I've never done this on TV before! - Three, two, one...
- Come on, girls. - Thank you for coming!
- Thank you very much. - Please come again. Have a nice day.
And maybe...help me drive the car back. Who's going to do that?
Nikki, your museum was big enough that you had to go through it by car.
- It doesn't seem like--I can drive a car, but this was manual. - Oh god, what a pain.
And I haven't driven manual transmission since I took my driving test. But I can drive a car.
- You have to explain why I'm not driving the car. - A ton of people are going to say "then you can't drive" now.
We saw you asking for help, so we understood what it was about.
- Anne, you even had a gift shop. - Yeah. I love gift shops.
But you can tell from my voice that I'm not used to quick time slots. I'm speaking super quickly.
Both underpants and lipstick available. Definitely a very personal experience.
Who's bringing this home, then?
To find out, we have to get to Kerstin and Lena's surveys. They're very experienced in their field, of course.
And Kerstin's actually sitting here in the audience. Round of applause.
Thank you greatly.
Then let's take a look.
They've assigned grades to a series of different categories.
Linnéa, for example, did well regarding interactivity, interactive experiences.
Nikki scored very high when it came to the "wow-factor".
- Anne, nicest atmosphere. - Wow, wow, wow!
If I assemble your grades from the respective categories, it's clear that--
--it's a shared second place for Marko, Linnéa and Henrik, who still get four points.
And then a split first place with five points each for Nikki and Anne!
Deepest thanks to our cultured madames for their assistance, and we'll move on to the next test.
Now, it's time for finesse to excess--
--as it's time to place an egg in a glass.
Thank you.
Okay. "Put the egg in the glass."
- "If the egg breaks, you're disqualified." - "If the glass breaks, you're disqualified."
"If the egg touches something for more than one second, you're disqualified."
- "You may not move the glass." - "You have 7-8 minutes."
"Fastest wins. Your time starts now."
One second?
So, the goal was to put the egg in the glass.
You're disqualified if you break the egg or the glass--
--or if you let the egg touch something, or someone, for more than one second.
The glass has to remain in its location, and as usual, the fastest solution wins.
It sounds very complicated when you explain it, but don't you just put the egg in the glass?
Yeah, it may just be as simple as that. We'll start by looking at Henrik.
- One second's both a long and a short time. - One thousand and one...
I'm going to run some tests. How long did I have?
- Seven and a half. - Seven and a half. Okay.
I can have that in there, to cushion the egg's landing.
One thousand and one...
- I think that's less than a second. - Three minutes have passed.
- Yeah. With the risk being that you might miss. - Yeah, I'll go for this one. Bruce Lee.
The egg may not break, the glass may not break, nothing may touch the egg for more than one second.
You with me? You hyped? Oh, this is...
- That was less than one second. - Looked fast.
- Less than one second? - Don't know.
That's the craziest... Thank you! Goodbye! God damn!
That was...
That was the craziest...I've been thinking about that since we recorded it.
- This did look simple, but you thought about it beforehand. - No. ...Did I?
- You put down cushioning... - And practiced the actual transfer.
Visualized how it was going to happen, I built up the scene in my head before I just did it.
- Doing it on the last episode, too... - That's how it goes sometimes.
But if it's this easy, could we watch as the others place their eggs in their glasses?
Not everyone thought it was this easy, as a matter of fact. For example, Anne and Nikki.
"You may not move the glass."
- Do you know how long one second is? - One...
- ...was that a long second? - Sounded like a pretty long second, yeah.
- One second. That's very short, isn't it? - Yeah, but also pretty long.
- It's kind of the start and end of the second. - ...that are the shortest parts?
- One second. - It's customary to say 'one thousand and one'...
- When it touches something... - Oh. Then what happens?
- ...for more than one second. - Like, the paper too?
...something. Touches something...
- It sounded like it broke. - No, don't think so. Just the glass clinking.
- If I place it here with my hand for a second... - Ready, set, go!
No!
The egg's whole. The glass broke. But the egg was in the glass before it did, so, well...
Did everything work as intended, do you think?
I hadn't thought it through or planned it too well, but--
--definitely, I didn't move the glass and the egg didn't break, so a-okay.
We'll have to run it by Babben. Yeah, she's the one who judges these little details.
Could it have been on the table tennis racket for longer than one second?
- No. No, no, no. - We'll have to check in slow-motion.
Hang on a minute...
No!
- Everything here was perfect. - Good work.
Right. Nikki, how's your second sense, regarding the length of it?
- I've already proven that I have a good sense for time. - Yes, but not when you get down to seconds.
- I'm thinking the bigger picture. - Slightly too long seconds.
Both of you are disqualified because of, in your case, glass-moving--
--and you had a "suprasecondal touching", as we call it.
Will Marko or Linnéa be able to challenge Henrik?
We'll see about that. Going for the bust, it's Marko and Linnéa.
How am I going to get it over there without touching something, even if it's something from the shed?
- I'd need some force field. That's not in the shed, right? - No. No, no, no.
Oh, damn.
Oh...
It's a bit windy today, too.
No, no...
I'm disappointed, too.
I was thinking about putting something in there, so it wouldn't break...eh.
That was more than a second. I forgot that part.
I also sensed it may have been more. Good work.
This is the worst test of this entire season. That I managed to lift this piedestal--
--with a balanced egg, maintain that focus, get all the way there--
--with every possible opportunity to wipe the floor with these chumps--
--but being knuckleheaded enough to forget the actual reason--
--for why I need to move the piedestal. I forget that part.
And then I take it easy, because I don't want the egg to break. I take it easy.
And Henrik had proved that it was possible from the maximum distance. And yours was so short.
Exactly, exactly. I just wanted to rub it in.
- Marko, your degree of disappointment from 1-10? - Ah, I'm very disappointed.
The egg was constantly in motion there, so... ...move on.
- David, final result? - Well, in case you expected different...
Linnéa did hold this egg in her hand for longer than one second. She did, actually.
Henrik practiced his Bruce Lee-moves for 5 minutes and 45 seconds.
Which might've been a tad too long, but that didn't matter, since he was the only one who managed this.
This isn't the most common occurrence, but: Five points for Henrik Nyblom!
And zero points for the rest. Oh, the sights we get to see, Babben.
Totally insane. It's totally insane.
Unfortunately, I have to put a damper on the mood here, since we've reached the middle of the show--
--the point where David gets to perform a small "interview" with this week's guest, which seamlessly transitions--
--into the next test. He's done it 54 times.
And now, for the 55th and hopefully last time: Go ahead, David Sundin.
Thank you, thank you. Well, practice makes perfect, as the saying goes.
And I've done this so much that this isn't a big deal to me, interviewing Anne Lundberg...
"Lund" [glade] and "berg" [mountain]. About half-and-half-- half lund, half berg.
- Some woods and a hill. - That's right. Divided your surname into that.
- So a lot of highs in your days? - Yeah, but also some lows.
How funny, Anne Lundberg, that you mention this whole high-and-low thing--
--and that that's how your life's been so far, high and low--
--because it's namely time to play "Higher or lower"!
♫ Higher or lower? ♫
Right, then, let's see. Anne Lundberg, please read the instructions--
--for your co-contestants, Babben, the audience and those at home.
"Predict whether Babben's noise--"
"--will yield a higher or lower decibel level--"
"--than the previous noise."
"If you're wrong, you're eliminated. Last one remaining wins."
"Your time starts when Babben produces the first noise."
Babben will make a noise, after which you guess if her next noise will be higher or lower.
If you guess wrong, you take a bow and back off. Otherwise, you stay in the game.
Understood? In that case, may I ask Babben to produce her first noise.
A horn. [honking]
That brings us to a decibel level of 114.
We move on to the next noise, which is a cereal package--
--which will be dropped onto the desk from a one-meter height.
Everyone thinks "lower". Babben, I beseech you-- drop the cereal.
The honk was 114 decibels--
--the cereal was 70 decibels. Everyone stays.
Then this is the latest noise, and we move on to the next noise--
--where Babben will grab an electric toothbrush.
I'm going to rummage around these glass marbles.
- You'll go down with the head of the toothbrush? - Of course. What else would I go down with?
The toothbrush head, stirring a sauce, not whisking. Present your guesses.
One, two, three. Which makes it three louder, two quieter.
This'll split the gang up. I ask you, Babben, to invade the marbles.
Very close with the device...
Thank you. We had three louder, and two quieter.
The cereal gave off a noise of 70 dB, and the toothbrush in the marbles gave 95 dB.
Meaning louder.
- Alright. - Tricky.
- Exciting. - Heave-ho!
A small mixer filled with bananas. Louder or quieter than the marbles?
- How powerful is it? - It's a small mixer, and about a banana and a half.
All three say louder.
Thank you.
This gives off 92 dB, which is lower than 95 dB.
Which means that everyone's eliminated!
And that's how we play "Higher or lower?"!
Good work! Quick work, too, I have to say.
So, everyone who lasted the longest get five points each--
--and the ones who were eliminated earlier get four points each.
Which brings us on to the next test.
It's time to pick and pack a backpack.
- Hello! - Hola!
You've emptied out my apartment?
"Pack the tarp, in its entirety, in one of the containers in front of you."
"Choose container before you touch the tarp."
- The tarp...? I don't know what--this blue carpet. - Either's fine.
"You have to clean up any mess you may create."
"The one who packs the tarp, in its entirety, into the smallest container wins."
"Your time starts when you've picked your container."
"You have 30 seconds to pick your container, and you've got 20 minutes to pack."
- "Your time starts now." - Organized from small to large.
So, the goal was to get the tarp into what you felt was the most appropriate container.
The person who manages to pack the tarp into the smallest container wins.
And just in case anyone's picked the same one, time's the determining factor.
Tricky, but not impossible, and there were a lot of containers to choose from.
- Who will we be watching first? - Currently serving: Marko and Linnéa.
- I...I... - Fifteen.
It can't fit in these. There's gonna be a lot.
Ten seconds left. Yellow garbage can.
- Five, four, three, two, one... - That barrel!
- The big barrel? - Yeah, I know, but...
Why didn't I remove the porcelain from the case?
- No use crying over spilled milk, Marko. - God dammit.
In that case, Linnéa, your time starts now.
- I just realized now I could've done it differently. - Yeah, but, well...someone might fail completely.
Going for the gold: Marko Lehtosalo! Wow!
Corner to corner, and then, in a flash, all that's left is one tiny envelope.
Hello?
- Yeah, I'm thinking! - Still?
- Two minutes have passed! - I messed up, I messed up--
I've got a negative attitude to this entire test because I messed up. Can I pour the ducks in this?
Do I look like I care?
We're approaching a critical point where it's important to squeeze out...
And we're off again, Marko. Going for the gold, Marko Lehtosalo. It's bigger than you'd think, too.
- There's some length to work with, too. - Yeah.
- You're picking it up again? Was there a duck left? - Ah, I tried to take a shortcut here.
- Time? - Sixteen minutes left, Marko!
Oh, oh...
Here he comes. For the gold. For the fourth time.
- This is what happens when you're sloppy. - We want as little air as possible, Marko.
- 'Cause this isn't, like...approved. - Not down in its entirety, no.
- Oh, oh, oh, Marko... - [gentle Finnish swearing]
Alright. Like that. Get that man in leg-first.
I didn't know that's how messy it was.
- Good work. - Twist, goddammit!
- Should we pull it out one more itme? - No! Hold onto the barrel, super hard. Barrel, not the lid.
Hold on!
There.
- Good work. - Simple.
Oh, it was simple, Marko? Didn't seem too simple.
I turned it very strangely at the end, there. I don't remember being this bad.
I should've done it like Linnéa did right away, nice and easy, but I've been like this all my life.
Have to get more organized, like Linnéa.
You had a tough start which you never really recovered from.
And your name's not Wikblad [fold-leaf] for nothing.
From the few open-air and festival experiences I've got--
--I know that something that feels that thin becomes huge when it's going into a container--
--so I thought "I'll be generous to myself", and it worked out well.
Yes, it certainly did. Splendid! Congratulations.
- Which tarp-packers are up next? - None other than Nikki and Henrik!
- Twenty seconds left. - Alright then, choose!
Five, four--
--three, two, one, zero.
- The backpack. - No, you can't be serious!
- Your time starts now. This'll be fun. - Ah, why'd I pick this?!
- You're already regretting it? - Yeah, you can say that again.
- I'll get this later. - You're supposed to clean up later!
- It's better to do this right from the get-go. - Fold this up here...
- What's your strategy like there? - Fold it up as much as possible.
Somewhere around here is where you usually start cheating, when you run out of energy.
Babben's sheets.
I started doing this one way, because something about it felt right.
That's right. That's good. Get the air out.
- It's getting exciting, Nikki. Really exciting. - Yeah, yeah...
- This is probably as small as it gets. - I don't think so.
- Do you, yourself, think this'll work? - I think there's a chance.
One idea which you mentioned earlier was 'folding it up, so that it's very small'.
- That was also an idea of yours. I heard you mention. - Yeah. But maybe if I roll it up...?
Do you think the others have chosen smaller or larger containers for their tarp?
I don't think it'll work.
This may be the first time I feel resignation.
I don't know. Is it only in the movies that those, like, shrink devices exist?
- Is this removable? - Two and a half minutes left.
When you see them at the same time, it looks tough, but crazier things have happened.
- Have they really? - ...Not off the top of my head.
- Oh, oh, oh... - Yeah!
Five, four, three...
--two, one, zero, Ah, that was close, Henke.
Five, four, three, two, one, zero.
- It's in, now. - Holy moly.
Wow! God, you're amazing!
So, you were in the exact same circumstances, with two very different results.
You worked very systematically, folding and folding, squeezing, getting all the air out. Good work, Nikki.
Henrik, on the other hand, folded in the metaphorical sense.
Regarding the comment about my sheets, I'll hide it in the furthest recesses of my heart--
--and extract it at an appropriate moment.
Marko, Nikki and Linnéa have, at least, completed this test.
- Can Anne put a spanner in their works? - Hold on to your seats! Here's Anne Lundberg.
- I choose this. - The white garbage can. 20 minutes, starting now.
That's a really long time. I think this test seems a bit too easy.
Let us know if you discover that it wasn't too easy.
- How does it look, do you think? - Fairly flat.
Kind of letting the body weight do its thing.
- It's getting slightly narrower here. - Yeah, I can see that.
- I might've made too small a choice. - A common mistake, playing this game.
Now it's all down to the squeeze. It does feel possible.
I might have to just puncture it a bit, there.
That's right, that makes it a bit thinner--oh, oh...
Ah, what the hell...but you must've made sure it can fit into all of these, right?
- Seven minutes left. - Exactly. Not about the length now, right?
- No, it's the width, now. - The width.
And I don't think the length matters much. Might as well be short. Prefer it to be too short.
- Thank you, thank you. - It's what's inside that matters.
- That's also going in there. - It's kind of like...giving birth, but in reverse.
- Putting the child back? - Putting it back. I'm just telling you this'll work, David.
Shit pommes frites! I'd like to say...slightly too easy.
The results are in.
Fun to see. Good work.
- Did anyone else manage this trash can? - No, I don't know.
- Good on you! - Jeez, how crazy was...
You'll have to come up with trickier tests than that, David!
Wow, Anne. I have to say, that really seemed easy for you. How did you get so good at this?
Maybe I got good while the test was going. I haven't exactly practiced tarp-folding.
But maybe when SVT goes bankrupt, I can get into the tarp business.
May be a new career, but David, how about the points?
Obviously Anne, with this impressive display, brings home the five-pointer.
In descending order: Four for Nikki, who packed the backpack--
three for Linnéa, the yellow barrel, two for Marko, packing the biggest container available--
--and Henrik, well, he failed entirely, but he gets one point for dutiful attendance.
Yes, that's how we do it. The excitement's starting to build, now.
Which means we need to use our remaining time here in a legendary way.
- Anne Lundberg. - Hi.
- Marko, my friend. - Yes indeed.
Go ahead.
"This is your last test of the season."
- "This is your last chance." - "It's now or never. Become a legend."
- "You have 10 minutes." - "Best use of 10 minutes wins."
"Thank you for the time spent together. Your last 10 minutes of Bäst i Test start now."
- This is the last test? - Yeah.
- What? - Emotional.
- I might come up with something I'm good at for once. - And showcase it.
Yeah. This is my chance, now.
We're heading to the shed, David! Come on!
This is gonna be the best thing ever! Hot damn! Ten minutes!
Yes, this is the last test of the house this season, where the goal was--
--to use your time well, and do anything to become a legend.
And it's very nice to give all of you a chance to go out on top. Who's up first?
The man, the myth, the potential legend: Henrik Nyblom.
This is gonna be cozy. Our last party together. Let's get the party hats out.
Come on, David!
- What've you made? - A little spa resort for you and me. Mostly me.
I'm going to jump down this tower, here, and you'll rank my jump using these.
- You with me on the last jump? - Become a legend.
Okay, here's the bath. One, two, three!
Not a good jump. We'll test another jump. You with me?
One, two, and three!
- Four. - Oh...oh, ow...
Could you just pass me some bubbles?
Three, two, one, zero!
Thank you for this time together. It's been a real honor. Good work.
- Henrik, it was time for your annual bath, quite simply. - Yes indeedy. Fake-tooth, there.
- That was real blood, huh? - Yup.
Looked pretty dramatic. Decent chance at becoming a legend. Who's up next?
Here comes -- unfortunately, I must say -- Anne Lundberg.
Stand up. We'll just place you here. Got ten minutes, we'll start with the jacket.
- There. - Where...is this going?
The viewers might think it's fun to see the bare-faced truth.
- Maybe not entirely... - Why not? I can do whatever I like for 10 minutes.
- It'll be, like, la grande finale. - Yeah. Well, yeah, yeah, it will be.
- It's now or never, yes. - Yeah, now or never! You'll be a legend, right?
- Ready, David? - Mhm.
Get out here on the red carpet!
David Sundin! The people cheer!
- Good work. - Legendary!
Talk about ending this season on top, or with a balloon on top of your...
- And now? - Right, we don't need to stay here, I think--
It's time for Linnéa Wikblad.
Time to be a legend in ten minutes? I can do this, and I can like, talk while I do this.
Do you want to push it? Just push my nose.
- That's not good enough. - Still, it was something. Hadn't seen that before.
But I do have a party trick. Come with me.
You can stay there.
I'm going to be completely honest: I didn't see that coming. Very surprising.
- What a legendary finale. - You could say that, right?
- My god. Who's the next legend in the making? - None other than: Nikki Amini.
- Stay here, and I'll just do some preparations. - Sure. One minute's passed, nine are left.
I'll be right back. Stay there.
♫ Short Monday, short Tuesday, bop-be-bop-be-bop... ♫
Seven minutes left! ♫ It's too cold, it's too cold... ♫
Five minutes left!
What are we waiting for?
Yeah, sure, great time to put discounts on barbecues...
One minute! She won't get more than ten. If she can't make it back, she's only got herself to blame.
...Is she leaving?
- Bye, David! It was so fun. - ...Bye.
Right, just have to close up shop, then.
Right. You called it there, quite simply.
It was up to me to decide, and finishing in a legendary way is taking your bow and leaving.
- Yeah, you've been hanging around David all summer. - I felt enough was enough.
Right, this was definitely different, but we do have one fella left, don't we?
We do. Here he is. The final aspiring legend: Marko Lehtosalo.
Here's what I'm thinking, David. I think I've done pretty well in Bäst i test.
And I'd like you to take my highlights, and cut together one hell of a college.
- Successes? Could it be highs and lows? - Yeah! Exactly, to get some dynamism in it.
And I want it to be good enough that my kids almost shed a tear and go: "We're lucky to have you as a father."
- "He did it. He's doing it again." - "For us."
Here it comes. A little stroll down memory lane-- Marko's best moments of Bäst i Test. Here you are.
- Yes! Can you see them? - Yeah! It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen!
- Here! - Yeah, yeah, yeah--
Yes! MacGyver.
Marrrko.
Fish! No one's beating this.
Nettan!
What is this? Time? Time? Time? Time?
- I don't get it at all. - No!
Let's go drink some water.
- We've had so much fun, huh? - We really have.
But I have, after all, been... one of the best contestants in Bäst i Test history.
- Eh, we don't know yet. We'll sum up. - Are you going to call me next season?
- Will be the first one to, like, be on two seasons in a row? - That's enough, now.
- What a lovely college. Did you get a bit touched, here? - Definitely. Like, we've had so much fun--like, for real, so...
So, I'm going to rank this now. In my book, you're all legends, I have to say.
Thank you so much for being here, and showing so much of yourselves...and David.
So I give everyone five points.
- What's our total rankings, then? - Tonight, this is how it looks...
We've got Linnéa with 17 points. We've got Anne and Marko, shared second place, 21 points each.
Then we've got Nikki and Henrik with a shared first place, 23 points.
I should also mention that neither Nikki or Henrik have won a single episode this season--
--so if you hold onto this, one of you might nab it, but also anyone else--
--and looking at the total scores before the finale, I can tell you it's absolutely still undecided.
This is where it all goes down.
That's right. Anything can happen and everything can change, because it's time for the finale.
It's time for the finale of the seventh season of Bäst i test.
Nikki Amini, please read the last test's letter.
"Stand up after 100 seconds. The test starts on David's signal."
So, this has been our finale test for these past seven seasons.
And the scores are even enough that this'll decide everything. Are you ready?
And we're off. Exciting, huh. What a season we've had. Wow!
It's been incredible, hasn't it. Right, Marko? The caravan--
It's been all japes and merriment for seven seasons, as mentioned.
Anne, you entered just now but they've all been fighting, here.
Nikki - what a gal, I think. Great at counting and all that.
Marko has turned out to be slightly excitable when push comes to shove, and such.
Linnéa's doing some sort of ear massage here, of ambiguous intent. Does she not want to hear me--
--or is there some uneven pressure in her ears she'd like to redistribute?
Various strategies are possible. Janne Andersson went with his gut.
Just feeling in your body, in your skeleton, that it might be three, four, seven, eight...
He entered at six minutes and exited on twelve. Difference of twelve seconds. Incredible stuff.
The question also becomes: Do you acknowledge the others? "How are they doing this"--
--or do you play your own game, thinking "I'll stand up when I think 100 seconds have passed."
...one thousand and one, one thousand and two, one thousand and three, one thousand and four...
Henrik, also known for sabotaging Janne Andersson when he was counting his tin cans...
...which he was going to put in-- we have one person who's stood up.
...one thousand and nine, one thousand and ten...
Two people have stood up. Linnéa and Henrik. But this is risky business, all we know is...
We've got Anne, we've got Nikki, and there he goes as well, exactly.
In order. They got up in their assigned order.
Right, then! Come on down to the couches and we'll add this up, and see--
--who won the entire season, and who's won tonight.
Soon, we'll get to find out who wins this season. But while David's counting...
...I can remind you that we'll be back next week with our annual bonus episode.
Where we show tests that, for a variety of reasons, didn't fit into our regular episodes.
But now, David: Who's won the episode, and who's won the season?
All we needed were a few last points from the finale, here.
As we mentioned, we've done this exact test before, getting up after 100 seconds on the dot...
Seventh time we're doing this. And I've never seen anyone be so bad at it.
It was slightly cool, and somehow impressive.
So, this was the result: Marko got up after 139 seconds.
That's 40 seconds more than we decided. That's pretty long.
Nikki: 129 seconds.
Anne: 126 seconds. Henrik: 116 seconds.
Linnéa: Not very good either, 110 seconds. If this was a normal finale, even that would've been considered pretty bad.
But at this moment, against these people, that was the best. Five points for Linnéa--
--four for Henrik, three for Anne, two for Nikki and one point for Marko.
And if we sum this up, we can see that Marko and Linnéa end up with 22 points--
--Anne with 24 points, we've got Nikki, 25 points--
--but Henrik: 27 points! Tonight's winner is Henrik Nyblom!
What an incredible turnabout! Didn't see that one coming at all!
Hearty congratulations, Henrik!
She's my teammate. My teammate.
But we've also got an entire season to consider, here.
And there's two particular people--
--who have been at the peak of the pack every time we've summed up, and up, and up.
- They've been neck-and-neck this show, huh? - I'd say so, yeah. Occasional speed bursts.
And that's Marko and Linnéa.
And as a matter of fact, when we entered this finale test and got seated--
--the both of you had exactly 182 points.
But then we all saw how it went. Linnéa was pretty bad, but Marko was...even worse.
Which means, as we sum it all up, Linnéa Wikblad wins this season!
- What?! - Congratulations!
- Damn, so good. - She approaches Babben's bust!
Linnéa, wow! She lifts it! She lifts it!
So, what have we learned tonight? Well, a large tarp can turn incredibly tiny.
You can become a legend in 10 minutes, or 100 seconds--
--and Linnéa Wikblad is Bäst i Test 2023!
We'll see you in a week on the bonus episode 20:00, or any time at all on SVT Play!
Come on, let's go congratulate her.
Swedish text: Linda Eriksson, Iyuno för SVT Translation: DangBream for r/panelshow, April 2023