It's Friday 20:00, which means an entire hour of certified silliness.
If you enjoy watching adults solve strange tasks, you've come to the right place.
Our test pilots, flying dangerously close to the sun, are:
The colorful culinarian, Linnéa Wikblad!
The mysterious musician, Henrik Nyblom!
The gregarious goofball, Nikki Amini!
And the friendly Finn Marko Lehtosalo!
And tonight, our guest is the competent clown, Evelyn Mok!
And once we take off, we'll see many things, up to and including this:
Here, David!
- Did you see?! - I just want to touch it.
- That went fine, right? - I don't get it at all.
Welcome, welcome, panel. And a very special welcome to you, Evelyn.
How does it feel? Do you think you'll be able to handle the competition?
Like, I think I'm going to do very well.
Good. You're entering with confidence.
Marko, how far are you actually prepared to go to win this?
Like, very far. Might end up in the hospital. That's how bad I want it.
Am I allowed to mention that you... actually threw up from exhaustion one day?
- Yeah, I did. - Because you'd, like, hit the wall way too hard...
Yeah, I don't have a 'medium' setting. I let go of the handbrake.
- Not to mention that my golden bust is very desirable. - It sure is.
Some gold to keep on hand in these dire times.
As the judge of this show, I sometimes need both VAR and a dutiful lineman--
--who's surrendered his own career. And here he is, David Sundin!
Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you, Babben. Lovely words.
I'm a true team player, as you know, Babben. And as we scouts say: "Be prepared."
Right, then. Are you prepared to start tonight's first test?
Yes, of course I am.
Any of you know where it was? Right. Here.
Now, it's time to iron things out.
- Hi! - Hello.
- Hey! - Good day.
Good day.
- Is this for me? - Correct and accurate.
Okay. "Land the iron on the ironing board from the largest possible distance."
"The ironing board must be completely unfolded when you land the iron."
"The iron must remain on the ironing board after it's landed."
"The person who lands the iron on the ironing board from the largest distance wins."
"You have 15 minutes. Your time starts on David's cue."
- Here's my cue. Toot-toot! - I'm gonna go think.
Right. So, the goal was to land the iron on the ironing board from the largest distance--
--and get it to remain on the board, which must be fully unfolded.
Now that sounds like a test. Which thrower's up first?
That'd be Nikki and Linnéa.
From the largest possible distance.
Well, there's no restrictions against throwing, and that feels like...
...the most effective way to transport an iron.
- So it's going to ride... - Yeah, a rollercoaster for the iron.
That's right. It's like boule.
- It's not exactly like boule. - No, it's not like boule.
- Woohoo! - It can work if it's tilted a bit.
The further I'm throwing it, the harder it is to get it to land.
I might need a brake system.
- There it is. - There it is. Not too far.
- I don't quite get it. - Don't you see my vision?
I'll stand on the chair.
And you'll lob it into the pipe with this?
- Yeah, it's going to work! - Eight minutes to go.
But you're pleased with the cable? That's not what's causing trouble?
- I had a lot of faith in that one. - Should I try to wrap this up?
Okay. You with me? No!
No!
- Am I safe here? - Yeah, yeah. You won't be injured.
Oh! Oh...
- Oh...! - You've gotta be quiet.
- Points for style. - Unexpected.
- It's misconstructed. - From the start.
It's because this tape isn't great. We'll have to run an emergency solution.
Go!
Yes!
- It's standing! - It's on the board. 50 seconds left.
Oh! Did you see that?!
Five, four, three...
Five, four, three, two...
If you'd done a long landing strip...
Do you think that would've been better than a short one?
- Size doesn't matter, David. - There you go.
- Girth does. - Oh. Right.
That was it for the short landing strip, Nikki. What was your plan with the rollercoaster?
Like, it was good in theory. I pictured the iron gliding a long way down the pipe.
But to me, a rollercoaster is more like this. You were maybe picturing a slide?
Yeah. Yeah, that might've been it.
Linnéa, of every method imaginable, you went for the Iron Toss.
I'm so good at keeping my feelings bottled up. I was furious here.
- But you can't tell. - You can't! I hated you, I hated the iron, everything.
- But I think it looks pretty chill, now. - Bright and cheery. Sunny.
Definitely sunny. David, what distances did all this add up to?
After 15 minutes, Nikki managed to land the iron on the ironing board--
--from a distance of 1 meter and 89 centimeters.
And Linnéa actually managed one good throw. 3 meters and 39 centimeters.
But that's not the last word on this matter, as Henrik and Evelyn are welcomed to the game.
- ...What's far away? - What is far away?
- I'm thinking that if I, like, attach it like this... - Oh god, so smart!
--you can make a zipline for the iron. So it'll come down sort of like this.
If I hang onto a zipline, and ride with it, and drop it down...
- It'll land. - Yeah, exactly.
- That was tricky. - And you know you shouldn't hurt yourself.
- That'll cause problems for me and the rest. - Yeah, yeah. Can I pull myself up the flagpole?
- Seven minutes and a half. - Yeah. No trial run, just...
- I just have to go. - Let's do this, now. We're doing the flagpole.
Four minutes and a half.
- You don't want to pull it to the side... - Have to pull carefully. Okay.
No...
Oh no...oh! Alright, I'm doing this now. One, two, three...!
That went fine, right? Okay, I'm heading down. This was super stressful!
One minute left! Here it comes.
Ten...three, two, one...
- Good work. - One last try.
- Are there any flaws you can see in this now? - A ton.
- Let's discover them together. - One, two, three!
Oh, oh...!
Right now, it's not on the ironing board.
- Five, four, three, two, one, zero. - Oh, look!
It's landed on the ironing board. The ironing board's upright. Which means...good job.
Can I get a hug, David? This was super rough.
- Right, Evelyn. You did vertical ironing, here. - Yeah, I thought it needed some elevation.
But, like, I was so stressed. I ran around like a panicked chicken.
And Henrik, that was so close to success.
Really. I got height and length mixed up a bit, there. I wanted to get up among the clouds...
...and then when I saw that gizmo, it was just... David explained to me "You use it for clothes"...
...I was just like "One of those?"
One of those, yeah. How'd this turn out?
Henrik's distance to the ironing board was 2 meters and 47 centimeters.
Better than Nikki, at least, and at the last second Evelyn struck--
--with 9 meters and 74 centimeters. Evelyn's currently in the lead.
The only one who can prevent Evelyn from claiming tonight's first five-pointer...well, that's Marko.
Come on, Marko.
Okay. So it goes down.
- I'm thinking and throwing simultaneously. - Yeah, that's good. That helps.
- We've got that one. - This is the only thing I can imagine, David.
Without any tools to help at all?
I'll throw again.
I don't need any goddamn tools. Like, I don't know any other way to do it than this.
- No, I've noticed. - Wait. Hang on, hang on...
- I'm allowed to move the ironing board. - You certainly are.
- Time?! - Seven minutes left. Easy, Marko, easy.
- MacGyver. - We all remember that episode.
When he boxed up an ironing board and escaped a sticky situation.
Yes! I can go further back, further back.
God damn, that's smart. God damn, that's good.
Yeah! No!
- Time?! - 4 minutes, 46 seconds left!
- It's on. It's on. - Make a note of this.
- We've got that one. - Pay attention, David. I can go further.
Here, David! Exactly here.
- It stayed? - Yeah, it stayed. Of course it stayed.
Shame this isn't an Olympic sport. Sweden would've won for sure.
- Here! - Yeah, yeah, yeah! Incredible.
- Time?! - 20 seconds, Marko! I'd say last attempt!
- It could've bounced up. - But, hey. This was still something, right?
- Good work. - Thanks.
- Wow! - Thanks. Thanks.
Excellent, Marko! You may not know it, but you throw an excellent varpa. Come down to Gotland.
You'll probably make the national team right away. Really excellent. How'd you get the idea to build...?
I start pretty slowly, I don't think outside the box at first. As time passes, I go "hm".
And I boxed it in with the oak, there, added some balls, and then wham!
And I've got a good knack for throwing things, such as irons--
--so I'm not surprised that I won that. I think I won that.
Yes, let no one say that Marko Lehtosalo can't chuck an iron a decent distance:
11 meters and 74 centimeters!
Which means the points are distributed like so:
One for Nikki, two for Henrik, three for Linnéa, four for Evelyn--
--and the five-pointer goes to Marko.
And we're off. What's next on the agenda?
A returning favorite, the goal of which is to collect points.
- Ah! - Finally! We'll finally find out.
- Time for PE in the morning, huh? - Yeah. Here's the note.
- Should I read? - Yeah, go ahead.
- Anything can happen, Marko. - Yes.
- "Get 11 points." - "The fastest team to get 11 points wins."
- "Your time starts now." - Okay, get 11 points.
- Wait, do we decide how to get points, or what? - No.
Yes, seasoned viewers know that this is a classic Bäst i Test-test--
--which revolves around getting 11 points as fast as possible, simple as that.
The only complication is that the contestants don't know how to get 11 points.
As usual, this is a team test, so you, as the guest--
--can bet which of these teams will handle this task better.
Do you believe in Linnéa and Marko or Nikki and Henrik?
Well, Marko's got a bit of a running streak here, I feel.
But at the same time, I think that Nikki... you think things through very well.
And you're very creative. And Henke... in the chaos, I think he might find something.
- I believe in Nikki and Henke. - Nikki and Henke: stamped in.
Right, then. Let's start with Marko and Linnéa.
- That's a four-something. "Get 11 points." - How do you get 11 points?
- Let's get this up. Look, look. - This is probably easier than we think.
But we didn't get anything for that. There's things here with numbers on.
- I don't get it at all. - No. That's the point, Marko!
- I don't see any...it's dark. It's black. - It's black.
- How do we get points? Throwing darts at stuff... - We have to get 11 points in total.
11. No. That wasn't enough.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven.
Hey, give me that one with the three on. What if that's the ball for track three?
- Good, good, keep going. - Oh!
- That was one point. - Why'd we get one ding there?
I was just hitting... hit track four four times!
One, two, three, four.
A madman tries to do the same thing multiple times.
- One...two... - ...four.
- Something gave us a ding. Get 11 points. - You've got one.
And why?! Can I give you 11 points?
- "Get 11 points." - Yeah.
Exactly. But how'd we get...
Good. You got--did you say that I got it, then?
- Get 11... - What'd you say..."Good. Thanks, I got it."
- Got it. Good that I got it. - Good. Get.
Good that I got it, good that I got it...
- Good. I'm giving you a point. - Oh, thanks! Good. Good that I...
- I'm giving you another point. - Good that I got it. I don't know--something's happening.
- Give me a point. Say that I get something. - Yeah. I'm giving you a point.
Oh, thanks. Good that I got it.
I don't know why-- Drop everything and say that again.
- I'm giving you a point. - Good that I got it, then.
It's like we found gold!
- I'm giving you a point. - Good that I got it!
Cool. Let's go drink some water.
I hate this show. And love it. Kind of like myself.
- I don't know what happened, but we did something right. - We did. Panicked.
- Right. Marko, Linnéa, do you now understand... - No. I haven't slept since we recorded this.
What was the decisive, like, phrase, thing that we did?
It was like this. You got points if you gave your teammate or yourself--
--some type of praise. Being kind of nice, simple as that.
Is it clearer now? Yes. Right, then.
So it was, like, that you said "Good". "Good that I got it."
- You were great! - Look, that's a point.
Right. Okay.
Now that we know that, I think it'll be fun--
--to watch how praise-inclined Nikki and Henrik were out there on the track.
Here they come.
Have you seen there's numbers on these things? What does that mean, are they worth different points?
Are you supposed to shoot these with anything? Here you go. Shoot, shoot, shoot.
- Yes, four. Oh, see, I got it! - Yeah, that was good as hell.
- There! Why'd we get one point when we did that? - We completed a task.
If you hold, I'll throw.
- Are you sure about this? - Don't move the board.
Oh!
- 12 minutes have passed. - This stuff makes you actually insane.
If you can wear every object...
- There. Get 11 points. - We have to have missed something, here.
- Yeah! - Nice! That's it, okay!
We're supposed to do things together.
- Dumb and dumber. - 20 minutes have passed.
- That's one point. So, one point every ten minutes. - "Get 11 points..."
Sweetheart, it doesn't matter how many times we read that.
I'll hold up the bag, and you'll throw the clock in it. Nice, Henrik! Yes!
That was a point? I don't get it at all...
Good.
- Craziest thing I've ever been through. - If I throw this in this...
What number is that? Four plus seven is eleven.
- 33 minutes. - Is there any time limit to this?
- Unfortunately not. - I'll hold this and you throw, then?
"11 points" is a classic Bäst i Test-contest, and we may be approaching a record time.
Close. Close. Close--good!
- Okay! Both of us have to be doing... - The same thing.
We'll communicate at the same time. Are you catching that? Good, Nikki!
- And throw that over to me! - I saw that bird and thought of you.
Wow! Thank you very much! Oh, what a lovely bird!
Oh, what a magical bag. It suits you wonderfully. It matches your cowboy hat.
One, two, three. There it comes! Good, good!
There we have it! 11 points.
- Good as hell. - I've never felt so proud of anything in my life.
I've got no idea how that happened, but...somehow...
Next!
- So did you crack the code or were you just lucky? - No, we didn't understand anything.
But it was fun hanging out there for half the day.
Being nice pays off, it turns out, but now we ask: How long did it take for these two teams--
--to get 11 points? Evelyn, you placed your bet on Nikki and Henrik.
Nikki and Henrik went at it for a staggering 40 minutes and 2 seconds.
But Linnéa and Marko assembled their 11 points in merely 14 minutes and 22 seconds.
For your trouble, you'll get three points here in the studio.
- But Evelyn, unfortunately, you bet on the wrong team. - Yeah, she did. She did.
Right. That brings us to the middle of the show.
If you've ever tried to catch an egg that's about to roll over the edge--
--well, then you know how I feel as I hand it all over to David Sundin.
Thanks, Babben. Thank you greatly.
So, Evelyn, welcome to my little corner. My show in the show, if you would.
I was going to try out this new thing today, which I call "Quick questions"--
--which I've come up with, developed, and own the concept of.
- Question one: Duck or horse? - Duck.
Duck's your favorite animal. Then I'll check this right here: 'Duck'. Good.
- Jar or bag? - Bag.
- Jar or bag? - Jar.
So jar's your favorite container to keep things in. You prefer jar to other things.
I think it's interesting, Evelyn, that you're so into this whole ducks-and-jars thing--
--how those are your favorite things in life.
Because it's namely time to play "Most Ducks In The Jar Wins"!
♫Most ducks in the jar wins ♫ ♫ Most ducks in the jar wins ♫
It's time, then. Evelyn, there's a letter under the cushion you're sitting on.
Could you take it out and read it out loud to your co-contestants?
And Babben, and the audience, and those at home, and so on.
"Most ducks in the jar wins. When the test starts, you may peek in your jar--"
"--and call out the amount of ducks inside. You don't need to tell the truth."
"Taking turns, you may either keep your jar, or switch it with another contestant."
"If a switch occurs, both contestants must, again, call out the amount of ducks in their new jar."
"Most ducks in their jar when the test is over wins."
"You may peek in your jar on David's signal."
Taking turns, you'll peek into your jar. Don't show the others how many ducks you have.
Just take a little peek, and then you say how many ducks were in your jar.
And it's up to you: You can say the actual amount, or make up another number.
Then we've got a round where you can choose, taking turns, if you want to swap with someone.
And then we'll look, and the person who has the most ducks wins. So we'll start by...
- Marko, you get to peek in your jar. - Don't look, now.
- Wow, wow... - Marko, how many?
- I've got twenty...ducks. - You're such a terrible liar!
- Twenty ducks. - Twenty ducks?
- Twent-ish. Twent-ish. - Around twenty? If we were to name a number...
- Twenty. Yeah. - Nikki's turn to peek in the jar, then.
And then you'll say how many ducks you had.
- Are you sneaking a peek? - No, I'm not looking.
- No one's peeking, of course. - Okay. It's eight.
Evelyn, how many ducks did you have in your jar?
- I've got twelve, I think. - Twelve ducks? Okay.
Henrik's turn, then, to look in his jar.
- How many ducks do you have in your jar? - 23 or 24.
- If we were to decide...? - Let's go for 24, then.
- Linnéa left, then. How many ducks? - Three.
Three. That brings us to the swapping round.
Where you can swap once each, if you want to swap with anyone else.
Marko, would you like to swap your jar for someone else's, and if so, who?
- I'm going to swap my jar, David. - Right. Even though you had twenty ducks?
- I don't think it'll be enough. - Henrik had more, for instance.
I don't quite trust him, but this is what I'm thinking...
...that I want Evelyn's jar.
Then let's swap your jars like this, and now you get to check and see how many you have.
Well...
- Ten. - Ten ducks. Evelyn, how many are in your jar now?
- It's like ten. - Also ten. Unnecessary swap, if you both had ten.
Nikki, who do you want to swap with if any, or are you satisfied?
- Can you swap with someone who's already swapped? - I'm not going to take yours, Marko.
- I'll take Linnéa's. - Linnéa's? Of course.
Then let's swap your jars.
And then Nikki gets to see how many you've got now, and say that, or any number.
- How many? - Twelve.
And Linnéa looks.
- Eight. - Eight. Evelyn?
I'll take Linnéa's.
- Evelyn, how many ducks are in your jar now? - Eight.
- Linnéa, how many? - Four.
Henrik, do you want to swap, or are you satisfied?
- I'm satisfied. - Henrik's satisfied.
As we reach Linnéa, and she makes the final choice on whether to swap or not.
Wonder if I shouldn't get mine back from Nikki.
- Why don't you take Henrik's? - Or mine!
- Who's it going to be? - I'll take Nikki's.
But he's got 24!
- This was, so to speak... - This was Marko's jar.
- It may very well be Marko's jar over there. - Around twenty, then.
Presentation time! Marko, how many ducks are in your jar? One, two, three...
Three ducks.
Well played. Nikki, how many ducks?
I got Marko's jar, which had twenty.
Allegedly twenty, but only one. Evelyn?
I'm just glad I didn't get Marko's.
- Two ducks. Two. - No, it was...
Two ducks.
Marko's in the lead so far, bringing us to Henrik's presentation.
- Alright, let's go, then. - One, two, three, four!
- Wow! - Four ducks.
Time for Linnéa's jar. Presentation time.
One, two, three, four, five ducks!
And that's how we play "Most Ducks In The Jar Wins"!
Right. Time to distribute some points, then. So...
You get points depending on how many ducks were in your jar. Very simple math, this.
Nikki, one point, Evelyn, two points, Marko, three points--three ducks, three points--
Henrik four points and Linnéa, five ducks/points!
- Interesting. Think it's about time to start a new test. - Personally, I can do nothing but agree.
Schedule says: Document destruction.
- Howdy! - Cozy.
Letter! Okay.
"Render this letter unreadable in a spectacular way."
- "Most spectacular way wins." - "You have 20 minutes."
"Your time staaaaaarts..."
"...now!" Thought I'd stall for some time there--
--but it was hard to think at the same time.
- Do I have to stay here? - God, no. Please don't.
Okay. In a spectacular way?
Right. So, the goal was to render the letter unreadable in a spectacular way.
I think this crew can handle that. Which saboteurs are we watching first?
That'd be Nikki, Henrik and Evelyn.
I feel like "spectacular" is fireworks, flames and stuff.
- There weren't any fireworks. - We're going to turn the letter into an art piece.
So you're going to light the letter on fire, then jump on it.
Come on, burn! Yeah, he's burning!
Hello and welcome to today's episode of "Bäst i Test: The Kitchen".
We're going to make some lovely, refreshing popsicles.
Is there anything more summery than a refreshing lettersicle? No.
It does feel very similar to fireworks.
- It's not gonna--I'm not on fire, right? - I'll tell you if you are.
Look! Look at this!
But it's impossible!
- You see what I see, I presume? - That it's still faintly legible?
Wow! That one had some kick to it, for sure.
- How does one make this? - Just use what's around the house. Today: Princess cake.
- Just use that in its entirety. - Yeah. Yoghurt. Plenty of yoghurt.
- But the fire's out now, too! - Yeah, that's right.
This is salad from our lunch. There's olives in it.
- Ketchup's good with everything, I think. - That's sweet, too.
Get some carbonated water in there.
Oh, you got some white in your hair, there. You've got some gray hairs, kind of.
- No, I've got to burn the last bit. - Okay.
- There! Can't read that, right? - No. Spectacular. Good work.
It's best frozen, but it might be nice to try what it's going to taste like.
- It smells very...olive-y. - ...Mhm.
- Tastes a bit like a health-smoothie, I think. - Despite including an entire princess cake.
Fun to bring a little health twist to that.
So then that's going in here...no! I've forgotten this!
- You were forgetting the actual letter. - I was forgetting the actual letter.
The letter's blended. Now it's time to fill up the popsicle molds.
There!
Oh, howdy! Howdy, howdy. Hi.
Three, two, one, zero.
- Lovely, isn't it? - Yes. Unreadable.
Well, it's like...you have to determine yourself what you read into art.
Good work.
Yes, Henrik. You took the artistic path. Probably the best David's ever looked, but was it spectacular?
Yeah, it was. It really was. Creativity in its loveliest form, being able to...
Yeah. There's various interpretations you can place in that word.
- Nikki, the firework didn't quite go off. - No, there weren't any. Hopped it to shreds instead.
- That's spectacular. Ever tried it? - No, I'm no good at jumping.
- But it's spectacular. - Yeah. The firework of the body.
- Evelyn, how'd the popsicle taste? - It mostly tasted of princess cake.
Babben, we--we do have Evelyn's popsicles here.
If you need to have a taste to properly grade this, then...
Thanks, but I'm allergic to letter paper.
Your loss, I say, because that means I'm the one who's...going to...
You can have some, if you'd like. Oh--Henke's going for it.
No hesitation. Let's try it out right away.
Just one bite. There is some paper... oh, wow. Henke's hesitating.
- It tastes like salad. - Ketchup, salad -- hamburger.
- Right. Let's move on, then, but with who? - Oh, sorry.
- Time for Marko "Marko Lehtosalo" Lehtosalo. - Yes.
I've got an idea, immediately.
So the whole letter's confetti. Unreadable. And what happens now? Time for the spectacle.
We go onto stage, I do half a verse of "Millennium 2", and you dance like crazy in the chorus.
- And then I take the letter, throw it on you... - And that's the finale?
- And then I just... - Yeah, yeah. You love it. You love it all.
/"MILLENNIUM 2" I BAKGRUNDEN/
♫ I've been building a rocket, hammering every day ♫
♫ Like a comet, they'll all see it from far away ♫
♫ Anxiety, longing, are both in my mind ♫
♫ Is there no peace for this poor Finn to find? ♫
♫ Oh, millennium two! You're coming through ♫
♫ Oh, we're all waiting for you ♫
♫ Millennium two! And then what will we do? ♫
Thank you, thank you.
Right. Think the slightly subpar construction of the stage led to a bit of a grand anticlimax.
Yeah, it was kind of rickety, but David. Like...
- Round of applause. My god. - Whenever you want, you're in my next tour.
I thought you only danced like that for me in the green room, but...
No, no, it's for everyone.
I don't know how I'll ever be happy again after this. I'm peaking.
- Only Linnéa left now, unless I'm mistaken? - And you never are.
Linnéa, here she comes.
Do I hear a combine harvester?
- Wow. - Whoa!
Can I join you there? Hang on, then.
Yes. Good.
Ready? Let's go, then.
Whoa, whoa, whoa...
- We've harvested it, now. - We sure have!
- I found a few, but... - Can't read that.
Don't think you could. So...
Good work. Yeah, some got on...
- Good work. - Wow, wow, wow!
- What was it like, riding a combine harvester? - It was really fun.
But the odds that he was exactly there, right in that moment...
On this huge field. I had tremendous luck...
...but also creativity, intelligence... and luck as well, of course.
- No, it was a huge moment in my life. - Right, then. I'll make an evaluation of this.
But can I just say that Marko's been talking to me for three months now...
...about the destroying-the-letter challenge... that no one's going to beat him.
It doesn't matter, I just--"Mine's pretty cool. I'm not going to say it, but it's pretty cool."
- And Marko's just like: "No, no, no..." - He's terrorized you in private? Just called, and...
"Marko here. You're not beating that letter."
Did he beat my combine harvester? It's gonna be fun to see.
- Did you not think it was cool, or...? - We'll see! We'll see.
We'll see who beat who. Let's start with the easy one.
One point for Nikki. Didn't burn well, and the firework wasn't quite what you pictured.
Two for Henrik. The artwork was very nice, but it wasn't super spectacular.
The actual destruction was quite peaceful. Three points for Evelyn. Also lacking--
--the final edge of the spectacular. Which leaves us with the thrilling conclusion.
We have history, Babben. We know each other. Remember that.
We do have history. ...Which is why you get four points.
You gave 200%, I'll give you that.
But Linnéa harvests five crystal-clear points, and thus scores the highest in mail demolition.
- Yes indeed! And we've got one more test, don't we? - We most certainly do.
And now, it's time to touch the pig. But not in an inappropriate way.
- Howdy. - This seems a bit impractical.
- It's just nature. - Nice to visit your place.
- Some weather we're having. - Wonderful.
- "Touch the pig." - "Touch the pig."
"First person to touch the pig is disqualified."
"Second person to touch the pig is in third place."
- "Third person comes in second place." - "The fifth person to touch the pig is disqualified."
"The fourth person to touch the pig wins. Your time starts now."
- I don't want to be first, but I don't want to be last. - No. Somewhere in between.
That means you kind of have to think about how the others were thinking.
Right. So, it's exactly as Marko deduced. The important part is not to be first or last--
--because that means you're entirely disqualified.
The three to touch the pig in the middle, so to speak, temporally, score--
--and you get the five-pointer if you wait the second-longest to touch the pig.
Finally time for some strategy and slyness. Which pig's first to the slaughter?
It's time for a pig party for everyone except Nikki. And as we start--
--I'd like to remind you that right now, it's neck-and-neck and incredibly exciting.
So far, I think most of them haven't touched it.
- I'm still, like...relatively sure of that. - Could be...yeah.
No one's going to go first, because they don't want to be the first.
- I do want to be the fourth person. - But if you wait too long, it's 0 points.
I think someone's going to wait a really long time, so someone's already number five and disqualified.
- So we don't need to care about them. - Markoolio's still waiting around somewhere.
Evelyn Mok, she's also got a waiting game going on.
Probably most of them are doing this exact line of reasoning right now.
- In these parallell universes. - Markoolio might be a bit later.
- The others have also been sitting around, debating. - Maybe thinking "Marko, he's excitable".
- Marko is...stressed. - Think I'll...I'll go for it in minute four.
- Four exactly? Only two minutes have passed. - Two minutes left, then.
So that...I think that feels good. Might not quite win, but scoring's the important part.
The only risk is if that puts you in first. Which would mean zero points.
- Don't want to end up there. - No.
I think everyone reasons like me, which means waiting a really long time.
But that raises the question: How long is long?
- Could 'long' be now? - No, it's not now.
- But an hour? - No. No, not risking that.
- God, has anyone done an hour? - That's one of those unknowable things.
I think Nyblom might've done an hour.
Evelyn might have a tough time with this, social awkward...what's the Swedish word?
Awkward silence? She wants to get it over with?
I really want to touch it. It's kind of like, you know, being at the Louvre when they say you can't...
- ...touch the pig? - It's a pig that's craving to be touched.
If this was just a piece of furniture, I would've touched it a long time ago.
- When you touch the pig later, where are you going to...? - Maybe behind the ear, a bit.
- Where will you touch the pig? - I'll probably touch its snout.
Just a little prod, or...? Yeah, that's enough. You don't need to go around and...
- I'm tempted to touch the pig. - It's craving it. See that snout?
- Mhm-mhm-mhm. - Never do that again. There have to be boundaries.
- I mean, I get to touch the pig. - You're nice to not tempt me with it.
- Time? - 3:40 have passed.
I think things started to get a bit awkward between you and Evelyn, here.
"Anything else...?" "Oh, doing fine."
I think Nyblom, like, feinted, and pretended to do a bunch of stuff.
I'll give it another 15 seconds. Dammit. I've got a feeling I'll be first.
4:15? Oof...
- No. Now. - 4:30.
I'll touch it on minute five.
You think that it's more about how long we can keep a conversation going than...
Than touching the...yeah. Enjoying this atmosphere, so that you kind of forget about touching the pig.
Three, two, one...
Five minutes. Thank you greatly. Good work.
A completely normal touch. Didn't make a big deal of it.
I'm thinking that Marko's touched it, now. He hasn't been able to contain himself.
So there's three touches, now, and you may be one of them.
- Can I leave and come back? - That's fine. We'll wait here for you.
- I think this is a good idea. - Alright. Let's do this.
This is how I feel: It's up to fate, now.
There. There it is.
- I think it's between me and one more, now. - In that case...
Now, it's all down to someone deciding not to touch the pig...
...for longer than eight minutes.
Twelve minutes and a half!
Do you think anyone else waited this long?
Yeah. ...Right? But I think it's better to be disqualified as fifth than as first--
--because that means you at least tried a bit.
- ...But there's no difference. - No, there's no actual difference.
- There we are. - You're free to go, then.
- So, Evelyn. Was taking a nap the right strategy? - Well, like, I thought so...
"I'm going to leave and distract myself and not think about this."
I really thought that Henke was going to take a lot longer.
Linnéa, you have to be clairvoyant. You saw exactly how the others had reasoned. Spooky.
Yeah, I'm getting unnerved myself.
And Henrik, for you, it was more about getting into the mood with the pig and David.
I really got to know David. For example, I didn't know that you had a moustache.
- These are the things you learn about each other. - Right. How's it looking in terms of time?
Right. Marko grabbed the pig after five minutes, on the dot. He was precise.
Henrik: 7:33. Linnéa: 8:02.
And Evelyn: 15:04.
So that means Nikki can't be faster than 5 minutes or slower than 15.
It's entirely up to Nikki when she wants to touch the pig--
--so I definitely think she should be able to manage. Here she is: The pig-toucher Nikki Amini.
- "Your time starts now." - So then you have to wonder if the others...
- Someone's been super fast. - And just...and they're disqualified.
Then there's points for whoever comes in second, third, and fourth. A minute's passed.
- I think that's pretty common. - That a minute passes?
But when talking to you gets awkward, you have to take the hit.
- Do I even have to touch the pig? - Sooner or later, you'll have to touch the pig.
Okay.
- Wow. - Was I the last one, or...?
- Was this the task? - Good work.
Poor pig.
Nikki, two minutes and a half. Was it that hard, talking to David?
I've got no patience. Especially not for this sort of thing.
You can't wait to touch. David, sum this up. How'd it go?
Well, Nikki prodded everyone up a notch, since she's now the first--
--so Marko's suddenly in the zone. She couldn't keep her fingers off the pig.
Which also meant that Evelyn's suddenly last. So zero points for Nikki and Evelyn.
Then we've got three points for Marko, four for Henrik and five clairvoyant points--
--straight into Linnéa's account. Which means I can tell you that the total score--
--now only has a one-point difference between Marko and Linnéa. It's all down to this.
And what are we competing for tonight? We didn't say, did we?
Well, our competitors might've gotten an acquired taste for touching pigs--
--so tonight's winner gets a small, small pig of their own, to be touched to their heart's content.
Free touching isn't bad, almost pearls before swine. But anything can happen and everything can change--
--because it's time for the finale.
Right. It's finale time.
May I ask Marko and Nikki to come up to either side of the table?
- I don't want to play against him. - Why not? This seems like a hoot.
Marko? The first letter, if you would.
"Grab the marshmallow on the table with your tongs."
"When Babben says '0-1-2, smash or grab', you've got 10 seconds to grab the marshmallow."
"As soon as your tong is over the table, you must fulfill your attempt to grab the marshmallow."
"If you grab the marshmallow on the table with your tongs, you win."
So I'm going to put a marshmallow here for you to grab with your tongs. Nikki, read the other letter.
"Smash away the marshmallow on the table with your hand."
"When Babben says '0-1-2, smash or grab, you have 10 seconds to smash the marshmallow away."
"Your hands may not be above the table until your opponent's tongs are above the table."
"If you smash the marshmallow away with your hand, you win." So, me.
So Marko, you try to grab the marshmallow with your tongs. Nikki tries to smash it away.
And we've got multiple rounds, so everyone will face everyone in some manner of advanced system.
One point for each time you manage to smash or grab. Are you ready?
0-1-2, smash or grab.
- No! - Yes!
Nikki's hand breached the edge of the table before Marko was in, so that's a point for Marko.
Then I'll call Henrik up for "grab" and Linnéa for "smash".
Come on, now!
Remember: You saw what happened just now. Don't go over the edge before it's time.
- Go ahead, Babben. - 0-1-2, smash or grab.
But, like...?
Point for Henrik. Nikki on "grab", Evelyn on "smash".
0-1-2...
...smash...or grab.
Incredible! What a heist. Point for Nikki.
Evelyn on "grab", and Henrik on "smash".
- Babben. - 0-1-2, smash or grab.
As long as no one has it and it's down, it's a point for the smasher. Point for Henrik.
Getting exciting, now. Linnéa on "grab", Marko on "smash".
As I said before we entered this, there's just a one-point difference between you.
The evening may be decided here and now. Who goes home with a tiny, tiny pig?
- Marko, not above the table's edge. - No, I'm outside! I'm outside!
- Go ahead, Babben. - 0-1-2...
...smash or grab.
No!
- I think Marko may have been over the edge. - You pulled a Marko.
Let's check.
As we can see. Even Marko admits that he was over the table's edge...
...which means that Linnéa gets a point.
Right, then. Sit down in the couch and we'll figure out the totals.
Excitement in the air, now. It'd be nice to know how this all plays out.
It's actually pretty cool to see.
If we sum this up here, we see that Marko, Nikki and Linnéa all won one match each.
So they get one point each. Evelyn won no matches, so zero points.
And Henrik, he won two games. All his two games. Two points for Henrik.
If we sum this up into tonight's total standings...
...Nikki ends up with 8 points. Starting from the back.
Evelyn, 11 points. Henrik, 17 points.
And finally, those that remained...
...both got one point each, so there's still just a one-point difference between them.
We've got Linnéa with 23 points and Marko with...
...24 points!
One more point! Marko brings it home! Come on up! Come on up and touch the pig, champ!
Here's the pig! Touch to your heart's content.
So what have we learned from tonight's show? Size doesn't matter, but girth does.
If you're nice, you can get 11 points. And always touch a pig at the right time.
We'll see you again next week, Friday 20:00 and always on SVT Play.
Come on, let's head up and congratulate Marko.
Swedish text: Linda Eriksson, Iyuno for SVT Translation: DangBream for r/panelshow, April 2023