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Episode 9: Who is Mats?

Image of the title card at the start of this episode, showing a task brief with the show title, 'Kongen Befaler', and the episode title, 'Hvem er Mats?' ['Who is Mats?'], on a wooden desk. At the edges of the image, part of a typewriter keyboard and a stack of leather-bound books can be seen.
Air date:
09/11/2023
Original title:
Hvem er Mats?
Title coined by:

Episode synopsis

In this episode, the contestants must bring in something they would take to their graves, greet Olli while wearing a big hat, swap the contents of a bucket of nectarines and a bucket of marbles, beat a child at Yatzy, and make the tallest tower out of bars of soap.

Atle jokes during his traditional “bust in gold of me” introduction that the prize for the winner of the series is a “bust in gold of Christian Skolmen”. The bust does, in fact, bear more than a passing resemblance to Christian.

Title context

“Who is Mats?” was asked directly to the camera by Tete Lidbom, immediately after reading the task brief for the ‘Win against a child’ task.

Assistant Intro

By my side is the man who has measured more metres than the Norwegian Mapping Authority and the Swedish Adjustment Agency combined: Olli Wermskog!

Episode stats

Points Awarded
75
Disquals
0
Assignment Type
Solo
5
100%
Team
0
0%
Special
0
0%
Split
0
0%
Tie-Break
0
0%
Task Format
Prize
1
20%
Filmed
3
60%
Homework
0
0%
Live
1
20%
Judgment Type
Objective
4
80%
Subjective
1
20%
Combination
0
0%
Unjudged
0
0%
No. of Task Briefs
Single
5
100%
Multiple
0
0%
Task Originality
Original
3
60%
Adapted
2
40%

Subtitles

The following episode subtitle files are available for download.