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Episode 10: Impressive spinning top

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, 'Imponerende snurrebass' ['Impressive spinning top'], 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:

16/11/2023

Original title:

Imponerende snurrebass

Episode synopsis

In this season finale, the contestants must bring in something suitable for an ending, make the largest spinning top, carry a cake through as many doorways as possible, perform an impressive robotic lawn mower agility show, and be the second-to-last person to jump out of their box.

Episode notes

This is the only episode where Tuva does not wear sparkly shoes; instead, she wears a sparkly top.
Unusually, during the title sequence and at several other points in the show, text is displayed on screen to indicate that the episode contains product placement. This warning has not been seen on Kongen Befaler before. Presumably it is in reference to the brand names shown on both Marte’s toilet paper and Stian’s candles during the prize task (though it could potentially also refer to the robotic lawnmower).

Title context

“Impressive spinning top” is not a direct quote from anyone or anything that happens during the episode. Instead, it is a reference to the euphemistic nature of the ‘Make the largest spinning top’ task (while the Norwegian word ‘snurrebass’ means ‘spinning top’, it is also a euphemism for ‘penis’).

Taskmaster Intro

[Narrated by Olli: 'We are already underway on the finale of Kongen Befaler from the Drammen Theatre, and we enter the scene just as Atle Antonsen is about to unveil the season's prize: a bust in gold of him'] A bust in gold... of me! And the people who didn't get any sleep last night, because of butterflies in their stomachs, are our wonderful participants...