A hearty welcome to Bäst i Test, the show where we put our guinea pigs through their paces--
--in terms of problem-solving, creativity and keeping a cool head.
We treat this with the utmost seriousness.
And in the end, one lone winner will get to lift my golden bust!
And this season, we're trying to learn to love: The merry maiden, Charlotta Björck!
The redheaded Icelander, Mauri Hermundsson!
The best bro, Behrouz Badreh!
Jesus' mom: Maria Lundqvist.
And lest we forget, Johan Petersson with one T!
One T! One T!
And in tonight's show we will, among other things, get to see this:
- No! - Down, down, down. Down!
- This is my peak. - Rock, paper, scissors!
- The fisher. - I didn't get it!
- That one, yeah. - It smells so good.
Down. Down, Mauri.
Well, hello again, panellists.
- Ready for a new episode? - Yeah!
Do you get any use out of the skills that we practice here?
In real life, that is. How about you, Berra?
No, last time I was standing in line at Ica I didn't feel I got any use out of it.
You didn't? How about you, Johan?
I thought I'd be able to get use out of my life experiences, bringing those into Bäst i Test.
31 years in the television business, wasted. Couldn't use anything. Just gotta start from scratch.
In all good households, there's a scale, a yardstick and a stopwatch from the 40s.
I have all of that and more, in a little doohickey which fits in my pocket.
It goes under the name of David Sundin.
Whoa! Wow. Lovely words. Thank you to the audience, and those at home.
Tonight's first test revolves around a pen and an eggplant.
Oh no!
- Hello! - Howdy.
- Hi! - Hey, hey.
Wonder what's in store...?
"Place a pen in the eggplant."
"Whoever spears the eggplant from the furthest distance wins."
"You have 15 minutes, and as many attempts as you want."
"Your time starts now."
- Alright. Where's the eggplant, then? - What eggplant, dammit? Oh, there it is.
Alright, there. Of course.
I'm gonna spear the eggplant with this?
Yes, the goal was to spear the eggplant with a pen from a long distance.
Let's take a look at Behrouz Badreh and Charlotta Björck.
- Do I throw it, or what? - That's one way, of course.
- Now you know it's sharp, at least. - But like--can I get stuff, too?
- Does the eggplant have to be there? - No.
If I assemble as many sticks as possible, it's gonna get far.
- We're already two sticks in. - Ugh, I'm so bad at taping!
- To the next level, which would be three sticks. - Yeah, exactly.
Faced with a little dilemma, here. Someone might've gone for four.
And when you're standing there with four sticks... well, maybe someone went for five.
I think one more is doable. I'm so sweaty now, David.
- That doesn't actually affect the outcome. - No, but it affects me.
Are you going to go for a horizontal or vertical spearing?
- Do you know the difference between horizontal and vertical? - Yeah, one's straight ahead, the other's to the side.
Is what I'm picturing. Just reasonably.
- Was I right? - No, not exactly.
Oh, my god.
I should've made it a bit...no!
I can support it on something, like a bridge with a pillar...
Ah!
- Three minutes left. - No! Right. We'll put it over there...
I can't see anything!
Some weather we're having.
So far it hasn't...
And we're off.
Yes, it's speared.
A minute and a half. We'll need more distance, here.
Alright, I'm gonna get it. Hah!
Ah, put it back! Quick!
- It's speared. - How much time?
One minute! You can do one more. Double-rake at the end.
- Come on, Charlotta! - There's 35 seconds to go.
- Time isn't such a huge deal... - Ah, please.
He's just weaving them, like fingers.
Speared.
Alright. Screw this, now.
- Ten... - This is what I'm gonna do.
- Five... - That's not a huge distance.
Three, two, one.
Zero.
There.
Rake, rake, stick, stick, stick, stick, stick, stick, pen. Yeah. That's pretty good.
I'm pleased. I never thought that'd hold up.
Yes, you've seen the show before. Tape and sticks is the way to go!
If there's tape, there's hope.
That's what I usually say, too. I think I coined it.
I think I said that first, and you picked up on it.
Charlotta, it tipping over all the time was a bit of bad luck.
- Slightly reminiscent of first coitus. - Yeah! Yeah.
- It just...doesn't want to go in. - How do you mean?
I was trying. Berra was smart, attaching it.
- You had supports, too. - Yeah, kind of like a bridge.
Berra speared the eggplant from a distance of 11,13 meters.
Charlotta speared the eggplant from...well, a distance of five centimeters.
- Yes! - And that's me being generous.
- Shall we take a look at the rest? - A tremendous choice, Babben. Exquisite.
Here comes Johan, Maria and mellifluous Mauri.
- There's a velvet rope here. - Yeah, that's right.
- Does that have anything to do with this? - No, it's too nice.
Is anyone really dumb enough to just obediently stand here? No.
I'll go for it. I'm there, now.
...Ah, this isn't gonna work.
- No one can be, right? - No one's that dumb.
- Whoa, you know--that was pretty close. - Was it?
- Oh, so close! - So close.
- I can't spear this just by...yeah. - It's that easy.
So right now, you're at zero. It'd be nice to hve something.
- I will to spear the eggplant. - That's a fact?
- Oh! Close, too. - This feels so damn stupid.
Wait here. Be back soon!
- Ten minutes to go. - Yes!
Whoa! What an enthusiastic audience.
- Oh! Look at that. - That one was damn good.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa... - Impressed you, there.
I'm just checking whether it's going to...
Take it easy. I'll solve it. Don't look at me like that.
- But this is a pen, right? - It's still a pen, yeah.
- It might... - What the hell? Ah, it's totally broken now.
- It's going to go in, and remain there. - Yeah, it'll remain there.
Pens...are these little bastards pointy?
- How many did you get? - Three.
- Could've brought the eggplant to the pens... - What?
...Still, let's go.
Need more tape.
There's nothing wrong with the idea. Just the amount of tape.
Can you imagine anyone...
- ...will settle for one stick? - Yeah.
- Who could be simple-minded enough to...? - A wuss. A wuss.
Johan, I think.
- He doesn't have the energy for more. - He doesn't have the energy for a lot of things.
Here he comes. Johan Petersson goes for the gold.
It's in. It's in.
- We have a result? - We have a result.
As you can see, it's not yet spearing.
- And it's in. - Is it speared?
- Can you go further than this? - This is my peak.
- That's the longest distance? - So mean--I still succeeded, didn't I?
Why're you like "can you go further"? I've... I put the effort in.
- Do you want to try to go a bit further? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can do that.
Two minutes to go.
And the person who spears it from the furthest distance is going to win this.
If someone threw it from over there and got it, that person wins.
Not going to happen. It's not going to happen.
This is a good result. Yeah, I'm satisfied.
Yes! It's in.
Nice! National record.
Right then, gentlemen. Some truly weak displays here.
Mauri, you made fun of the fact that some people would just stand behind the rope.
And then you did exactly that!
- But Maria, you got something together. - Didn't I?
- That's really good. - I could've gone into the bushes.
- You're in another county. - Yeah, I really am.
- I feel like the basic model. You know, the--"don't buy that"... - You just wanted a coffee.
- But he fought, bravely, to the last? - Well...
Johan chose to end the test with ten minutes remaining.
Looking at the others, Johan-- was this really your peak?
I'd like to claim that on that day, that was my peak achievement.
But it's still so simple--like, you got the whole "stick" thing.
It's not too hard to imagine that it could be a little bit longer.
How much time are we going to spend dissecting this in post-game commentary?
Can we try to work out who was furthest away?
We'll get to that. Maria stood out with 7 m and 93 cm.
Johan settled for a scant 3 m and 34 cm.
Mauri speared the eggplant from a distance of 2 m and 57 cm.
- Marginally taller than your own self. - Yeah, that's right. That's how it is.
One point for Charlotta, two for Mauri, three for Johan--
--four for Maria and the night's first five-pointer goes to Behrouz!
Yes, the quality's wobbling a bit here. Hope things turn around for the next test.
It's actually going to be a team test, which means we'll get to reunite--
--with Anders "Ankan" Johansson in Behrouz's and Maria's team.
The test itself revolves around bread. Toasted bread.
Whoa. Whoa!
You're supposed to toast things. Butter over there. I'm gonna be good at this.
- That's right. There you are, too. - Remember me?
David, can you grab my glasses? They're going to sabotage me here.
"Build the tallest possible crisp-tower."
"The tower may only consist of crispbread."
"You have until there isn't a slice of bread being toasted in the toaster to go."
- Wait, what'd you say? - You have until there isn't a slice of bread being toasted in the toaster to go.
"You may not change the toaster's settings or toast an already-toasted slice of bread."
"The same person may not push down two slices of bread in a row."
"Tallest crisp-tower wins."
"Your time starts when David pushes the first slice of bread into the toaster."
- We're going to make a tower. - Together?
As tall as possible.
- But why do we have to put them in both? - Something always needs to be toasting while we're building. Right?
If only there was someone in the room who could explain this to you.
Right. So, the goal was to build as tall of a crispbread tower as possible.
The team may keep going as long as a slice of bread is actively being toasted--
--in one of the toasters.
Which bread-builders shall begin?
We're going to watch the team consisting of Behrouz, Ankan and Maria.
But first, a short break. In the meantime, here's a test for those at home.
Everyone in the household -- hide your socks.
After that, look for the socks.
The person whose socks stay hidden for the longest amount of time wins.
Welcome back.
We're just about to watch a team test revolving around building a crispbread tower.
And there's an important detail regarding toasters.
The test continues as long as a slice of bread is located in one of the toasters--
--and being toasted actively.
So if you push down on a toaster here, then before it jumps up, you have to place a slice of bread here.
But not by the same person.
It has to be a different person, so you take turns.
One may think this is simple, but not everyone does.
Let's take a look, for example, at Ankan, Maria and Behrouz. Or 'The Rose', as he's called.
Then we begin in three, two, one. Go ahead.
I'm ready over here. Start building. Does this have a timer? No...
One...it's just on one! It's set to one. It'll be done toasting in a jiffy.
- Ten, eleven, twelve... - Nice and easy.
- ...18, 19, 20...I placed it on 20. - You placed it on 20?
39, 40, 41, 42...
Are you doing it right? Do we have this long?
Well, we've got two in there. We can afford one jumping up.
- Watch out so it doesn't tip over. - 54, 55...55 seconds!
You can't toast. Maria, Maria. Wait, wait, wait, easy, you have to be calm...
- Maria's placed hers down. - So as soon as one pops up...
- I don't get any of this. - I'll push another one down, then.
- No, the Rose needs to place the new one. - Now! Now.
Calm down. Calm down. You're making me so stressed.
- Careful, careful, careful... - Sure, sure. I think you have to...
So, Maria's placed two in a row. Let's stop building.
- Why? - Toasting two in a row wasn't...
Well, I didn't get it!
Look, though, it's super tall.
Good work, everyone.
- Ah, ugh! I thought it was... - But come on, it's...
But Maria, just look! It's tall as hell!
Ankan's plans are always interesting to behold, since they only really work in his own head.
Yeah, actually.
- Maria, you didn't grasp the rulebook. - No.
Ankan was in my head. I was trying to understand him.
The tower looked great, though.
- Yeah, my god. How tall was it? - 62.5 centimeters.
Not bad for such a slapdash approach. I'd like to see the other team, now.
What a coincidence. That's precisely the team we've still got.
Then let's took a look at how things went when they were going to keep track of two toasters.
Bread's toasting. First slice is in the toaster.
Where do I have to start from, though?
- 14...go. Toast now. - What? Now? There.
17...are you counting that one, then? Dammit, this whole thing collapses when we don't know how long...
- We're likely to notice... - Dammit! I had a plan and everything.
It hasn't popped up yet, so this is a huge stretch of time. Hey, the actual toasting phase is pretty long.
- You've started a parallell tower over there? - Mauri, we don't have to build two.
- I have a foundation, right? - Which is incredibly wobbly.
- Did one pop up yet? - No.
- Good. - Just double-checking, if I hand over responsibility to Johan...
- No, we're supposed to take turns. - I'll be there soon.
- Do both toasters work the same way? - The actual question might be, are you three working the same way?
- Of course we are. - But Mauri's building his own tower.
- You'll be in charge of toasting after. I haven't toasted yet. - Sure. Then you can keep working on the guy tower I started.
You've got to be very fast, Johan. Down, down, down. Down! Push it down.
- Is this going onto this later? Or are we building a sibling tower? - Johan pushed that one down, then.
Mauri's got his own project going on. Let's place the next one, then.
- I've got a pretty good technique down. - And I'm just here going: "Go! Go!"
And Mauri goes for the next one.
- Are you still supposed to toast them? - Yeah, it's me now.
You haven't pushed down any yet. ...Or? Or did you?!
You did, didn't you?! You can't just stand around eating and losing track!
- Johan put it in! - Do I put it in? Did you? Can't you--don't you have any muscle memory?!
- Answer me! - Why doesn't Charlotta do it?
I've put it in. You're the one who should put it in, then.
- What happened? - They didn't manage to...
And I asked if these were the two you'd picked.
- Can I take one? - Yeah, of course.
- But this counts, doesn't it? - We do have the tower.
Charlotta had nothing to do with this. She did her part.
- Let's move on. - Come on, boys.
- It was totally... - You have to remember if you've put it in.
Like, such an incredibly incompetent duo.
It--I--no, I get so upset watching this.
- I'm sorry. - I get it.
You start building your own damn tower.
"Your tower doesn't look too good." See? It's a super nice tower!
It's pure misogyny. That's all it is.
- You had two towers, Mauri. You'll have to choose. - Ah, the girl tower.
- Alright! Yeah, that's good. - Let's see, then.
As we can remember Ankan's, Berra's and Maria's tower was 62,5 cm.
And Johan's, Mauri's but mainly Charlotta's tower was sixty...
...five!
Get out of town! Stop it!
You did great. You were so good.
- Where do we find these people? - Yeah, that's on me.
Either way, it's three points to the dysfunctional family consisting of Charlotta, Mauri and Johan.
And zero points for Maria and Behrouz.
And what are we competing for tonight?
Tonight the winners will receive not one, not three, but two toasters.
And not just any toasters: The original toasters.
The ones you saw just now in the test. Bit of memorabilia. Wow!
Wow! Wouldn't mind getting your hands on those.
Let's move on with the next test.
It's time for H-O-C-K-E-Y. Hockey.
Yeah, that's right.
- Craziest thing I've ever seen. - Is that David?
I just spotted his eyes!
- You look lovely. - Certified hockey-dude.
- "Score a goal against David from the furthest distance." - "Furthest distance wins."
"You must perform a spectacular goal celebration after each attempt--"
"--regardless of whether you've successfully scored or not."
- "You must perform a new goal celebration after each attempt." - Yeah, that'll be tough.
"There may be a bonus point for most spectacular goal celebration."
"If you fail, you're disqualified."
"You have 10 minutes, and your time starts now."
Ah, the geezer! Such an old geezer.
Yes, the aim was to score a hockey goal with a hockey puck into the hockey goal.
To aid you, you had a hockey club.
And after each attempt, you had to perform a new hockey goal celebration.
- Who are we taking a look at? - Johan "The Sledgehammer" Petersson...
Mauri "The Murderer" Hermundsson and Maria "Lanky" Lundqvist.
Should I try it from around here?
- Right. That's a goal, huh. - So good, Mauri.
- That's a goal. - That's right!
That's right.
- Was that the goal celebration? - That was the goal celebration.
That was on purpose.
I'll go further.
- What a long goal celebration. - Yeah, it's still going.
That's so far!
Yeah! The fisherman.
Four minutes to go. You need a long shot here.
Alright, the furthest blue line--
Oh!
- Ah! Travolta. - This is far away.
It's so good!
- That's the goal celebration? - Yeah.
- The surgeon. - It's a classic.
Ugh! Goddammit!
The angry chimney sweep.
Happy carpenter.
Quiet! It's time for a fruit snack! Kindergarten teacher.
- Two minutes to go! - No, stop.
But I need something to do in this scene! The actor.
- Is that the boxer? - Yeah, the 360 degree boxer.
Three, two, one, zero.
- Good work. - I'm holding out for points for style.
Johan, you almost put more time into the goal celebrations than the goals.
Yeah, it got me going. The fisherman's a good one.
And the happy carpenter. The time was right.
Mauri, when you see this, is there anything that doesn't seem right to you?
- ...Is it the jacket? Is it ugly? - No, no...
- Not the outfits. - Goal celebrations?
We've analyzed your performance with VAR technology, and you don't celebrate after every attempt.
You were supposed to josh around, even when you failed.
Which distances did they manage?
Well, Mauri hit his shot from a whopping 51,9 meters.
That's really far, Mauri. An incredible shot.
- That could've been a fiver. - Yeah, it probably would've been.
Maria nailed it from a distance of 20,5 meters.
Johan whacked it in from a distance of 25,9 meters.
Johan in the lead so far. Who's taking to the ice next?
Ah, ah, ah! Just like in hockey, there's a few breaks interspersed.
We're about to take one of those, but we'll soon be back for the next face-off.
Welcome back. We're neck-deep in hockey.
Yes, you were supposed to score a goal against me from as large a distance as possible.
Then, after every attempt, come up with a new and snazzy goal celebration.
Yes indeed. Which Zambonis shall take to the rink now?
Two real pros. Someone who's played hockey, and someone who's heard of hockey.
Behrouz and Charlotta.
- Furthest distance? - Yeah.
- Alright, we'll try it from here, then. - Here he comes. Behrouz Badreh.
- You've played hockey? You have?! - Yeah.
Yeah...
That one, yeah.
- I think that one was new to hockey. - Good!
No, it's...dammit, it's hard when you're wearing shoes!
That was a goal celebration.
No!
No.
- No! Dammit! - That was close.
- Oh! - Ah, you're kidding!
- That was a good goal celebration. - There it is!
- I got it. - You're even lifting it!
- Think anyone can beat that? - Yeah, if someone mulls it over.
Can I move the goal a bit? 'Cause you're in the way.
- Now what? - One minute to go. Come on!
Uh! Yeah, yeah, yeah!
- Good work. - Thanks.
- I'll be joining you. - Oh, so exciting.
Good on you, Charlotta. You realized that you could move the goal.
- Did that make it easier? - A bit easier.
Your goal celebrations were almost a bit balletesque.
- I did figure skating as a kid. - Oh!
Maybe...two lessons or so.
- But I think it shows. - Absolutely.
Berra, a decent amount of misses here. Did you bite off more than you could chew?
- I don't understand why my goal celebrations weren't included. - You may not entirely have done them after each attempt.
Yeah, look at that. Hand in the pocket. That's a classic.
Charlotta's best shot was made from a distance of 13,8 meters.
But Behrouz, he slammed it in from a magnificient distance of 58,3 meters!
- Excellent work, Behrouz. - Which is what makes it all so tragic.
Just like Mauri, you failed to do goal celebrations when you didn't score a goal.
One point for Behrouz and Mauri.
Three for Charlotta, four for Maria and five points for Johan.
And you also get the bonus point. For which gesture? The angry chimney sweep.
- Garbage chimney! What are you burning in here?! - There he is. There he is.
But don't despair, we have a host of other point opportunities.
We are, after all, only in the... well, middle of the show.
Yes, I hoped you'd miss that, but we've reached the middle of the show.
- Whoa! Well, well! - I suppose I'll hand it over to David Sundin.
Oh! Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you, Babben.
Your voice is like music to my ears.
So this is the segment, the middle of the show--
--which has become incredibly celebrated, and won awards.
It has?
As a part of this show.
This is probably the part they meant by awarding those prizes, I'm guessing.
Tonight I'll be spending some extra time with Behrouz "Berra" Badreh!
As we've just learned, you've played hockey.
- That didn't work out. - No, that's why I'm here.
- Just a...that's how all of that turned out. - Exactly.
You've got incredible breadth. You're off doing both one thing and the other. If you had to choose...?
Oh. I'd pick one thing. Yeah, I don't like the other as much.
I'll check that. You sing a lot in your spare time.
- Uh, no. - But it happens occasionally, right? Sometimes?
In the shower, for example. Could you share a snippet?
- Nah. - No?
Well, how funny, Behrouz, that you're so into this whole 'singing' thing.
Because it's namely time to play "Sing a celebrity"!
Woo! My favorite contest.
Alright, it's time to play "Sing a celebrity".
Behrouz, you've got a letter behind you. Take it out and read it to the others.
"You're going to sing the name of a famous person."
"Fictional or real."
"The name must start with the last letter of the previous name."
"Do not sing a name that's already been mentioned."
"If you haven't sung a name after ten seconds, you're out."
"If Babben's never heard of the celebrity, you have 10 seconds--"
"--to convince her that the person's famous."
"If you fail, you're out. Babben sings the first name."
So, Babben's going to sing the name of a famous person.
- You'll start with the last letter. - So I can say David Sundin, and then...
- Really famous, really popular guy. - Never heard of him.
And then he gets N, and we keep going like that.
Stand up.
Let's go, then. Babben's serve. Then it's your turn, Berra. Let's go.
Madonna!
Ariana Grande!
Elvis Presley!
- Yoncé! - No, no.
People call her that. That's her nickname. Beyoncé's.
I don't buy Yoncé. Take a seat, Charlotta.
Let's keep going with the letter Y, with Johan Petersson.
- Yngve...Gamlin! - Approved. We know him.
- Nils Poppe! - E?
- And that's Berra's... - Dammit!
Take a seat. The E moves on. Go ahead.
Eskil Erlandsson!
- Nilla Fischer! - Yeah, approved.
Ralf Edström!
Mellow Mauri!
Mauri was good enough on its own, wasn't it? I.
- Isaac Kiese Thelin! - Excuse me?
- You may not know who that is. - I don't, actually.
- Plays for Malmö. Most goals... - Approved.
Nanne Grönvall!
Lucas Simonsson!
- And who is that? - He's in the group of humorists, JLC.
- Johan sits down. - Naprapath-Janne...
- The N moves on. Maria? - Naprapath-Janne?!
- Niklas, Niklas... - Källner!
Källner!
I shouldn't have said anything.
- Ralf Edström! - I said that.
- No, then you're out. - Robin Bengtsson!
Dug your own grave.
- I'm sorry, you're out. - We have a winner!
And that's how we play "Sing a celebrity".
Right, let's see. What fun we had. Such an exciting time.
Charlotta got to sit down early. One point for you.
Two for Behrouz, three for Johan, four for Mauri and five for Maria!
Time for the next test, isn't it?
I'll check my protocol here. Yes, that's right.
It's time for the next test.
It revolves around one of the universe's most complicated and enigmatic organisms.
- The teenager. - Åh!
- Hi? - Hi.
Hi. My name's Maria.
- Astrid. - Hi, Astrid.
- How are you? - Good.
What's going on, then? Looking at TikTok, maybe? ...No.
So this is what it's like, parenting a teenager.
Is there a letter in here? You've got it. Thank you.
You've really got the same energy as David.
Just as difficult...I say this with love and respect.
"Make this teenager think you're cool."
"You have ten minutes to speak to the teenager, then ten minutes to be cool."
"Coolest wins."
"Your time starts now."
Oh, god! All this pressure...
- Hello! - Hi.
- How old are you? - 14.
- What do you think is cool? - I don't know.
What sort of cool things do you do, when you're 14?
...I'm trying to make something good of this. But I need you to give me something, here.
- What do you watch on TV? - I don't watch TV.
- Alright. More TikTok and YouTube? - Yeah.
- Do you watch me on YouTube? - Sometimes.
I think I've got a slight advantage against all the other boomers I'm competing against.
Was that the mom-look?
How much time has passed?
I've had two kids. That's pretty cool. Out of there.
Look at this. It's gone viral on TikTok.
Look at all those views.
- That's a lot, right? - Yeah, that's about normal.
- Do you live around here? - No, I live in Ystad.
You live in Ystad? Boom, girl! I live in Malmö!
What else is there? ...You ever gotten billed for something?
Do you know what an OCR-number is? Nevermind. That's not that cool.
- You ever been to Malmö? - Yeah, I'm born there.
- Why'd you move to Ystad? - Five, four, three...
- ...two, one, zero. - Are you participating, too?
- You think he's cool? What?! - What?
Am I supposed to be cool now?
- You've got ten minutes to be cool. - I am cool.
- Astrid! - Yes.
We'd called in a genuine teenager, namely Astrid.
The test revolved around doing something which Astrid finds cool.
Am I the right person to judge what a teenager finds cool?
You? What? Babbisaurus rex.
You're the coolest of the cool. You, Babbedabb...
...are very cool. But Astrid's going to be the judge of this.
We'll continue after a short break. See you then.
We're currently watching grown adults trying to impress a teenager.
- Might be one of our toughest tests. - Yeah, I actually think so.
- Who do you want to see first? - The ones who think they're the coolest.
- In that case, Behrouz and Mauri coming up. - Ah!
I've got ten minutes to talk, and ten minutes to be cool.
You usually check out TikTok, right?
- What kind of cool trends are on there? - Well...
You seen this MPC thing? They're like "Ah, it smells so good".
- It's super weird. - Weird? Not funny, then?
- No. - No?
- Am I "lame"? - You're kind of just sitting there.
Yeah! Well, alright. I don't really know what to do.
- Should I do magic for you? - Sure, if you can.
- Do you know how to do the shuffle? - No.
- Should I teach you? - Alright.
You've got ten minutes to be cool, Mauri.
- Your time starts now. - Okay.
Now, I'd like you to put your hand out like this.
Remember, it's the king of diamonds. That's important. I'll put that there.
There.
Uh...hang on, hang on.
I'm gonna teach you how to shuffle. Lift up one leg, like that.
Then you do this motion. There, yeah.
There.
Did you show her that you're big on TikTok? You did, right?
- Can you do this, then? - No thanks.
- What are you doing?! - Pathetic uncle.
I don't have a goddamn clue what I'm doing!
I've done the shuffle in front of 15 000 people.
- What do you have to say to that, huh? - But you didn't do this.
No, I didn't do that one.
- You booked an appointment for a test drive? - No, I'm daydreaming.
Watch the lacquer, please!
- He starred in an ad. - I've seen that one.
That's me! Watch the lacquer-Berra. What the hell am I talking about?
Hang on, hang on. I have to think. It was a long time since I did this.
Behrouz. Have you told her about OCR-numbers?
- Yeah, but it didn't feel like... - It wasn't that cool?
No...yeah.
If you just say stop, we'll see if you can find the king of diamonds.
There? Was that the king of diamonds?
- That actually was kind of cool. - Kind of cool, you heard her!
What else am I supposed to do?
...Do you think she's five, or what?
What do you even do that's cool? No.
- They're grand words, coming from her. - Actually kind of cool.
Mm, it smells so good.
- Is this what's called 'cringe'? It is? Alright. - Oh, my god...
30 seconds. Any cool finishers?
I was thinking I'd do a rap.
No, wait.
Three, two, one, zero.
Well, if you've got it by nature, you don't need to put in the effort.
Good work.
- Didn't say anything special, right? - No.
That was so sweaty to watch. Oh my god...
How cool do you feel now?
She locks you out. That's really our best effort.
It is. And that's how it turns out.
- "I'm watch the lacquer-Berra". - Why'd I ask about OCR-numbers?
That's what I'm wondering, too. What's so cool about OCR-numbers?
I was thinking "what was it like, getting my first bill"? It was nice. I felt independent.
Mauri, you had a good start and then went downhill from there.
It's three minutes. You're stressed. I can't even rap.
- Why am I rapping? I don't know. - You should've stopped after the card trick.
And now, it's Charlotta and Maria's turn to be down with the kids.
"Ten minutes to be the most cool."
- Got music on those headphones? - No.
- Do you like music? - I do. Definitely.
I can show you my fave. A fantastic singer named Barbra Streisand.
What's that? You've got some sort of cool greeting.
Should we do a cool greeting? Boom, boom, boom!
You do your swirl. And I do...
Malmö!
- And then... - There it is.
I'm going to play a song for Astrid.
- Barbra Streisand. - Whoa.
Come on, put your foot here. Hold my hands.
Hup. Good!
And you lean back...trust me.
- And we let go, there. Hup! - Whoa.
And back. And down you go.
Dang, we were so cool!
Barbra Streisand is a girl. Jewish.
Lives with a father who lets her study, which, by the turn of the century, was not done.
This is an old movie.
- Five minutes to go. - David?
- I'm not too damn cool. - As it turns out.
- Do you like fika? - Yeah.
- Should we go get some fika? - Definitely.
We don't have any condoms, do we? Like, is that...no. Okay.
You just did an acrobat trick!
- Think David can do that? - Uh, yeah.
Oh, you can? Come over here. Let's get going.
No!
- Ow... - Tailbone, huh?
Why'd you throw yourself backwards, David Sundin?
Come here, little guy. You just laid down on the floor, David.
First one to laugh!
20 seconds.
- Recognize that? - No.
Two, one, zero. Time is up. You can't be cool anymore.
- Do I leave here? Alright, I'm going, then. - My god. Cringe, mother.
- Good girl. Great. - Wonderful, Maria.
Bye, Astrid! Don't forget Barbra Streisand.
Astrid... David, I'm sorry. I found some balloons.
- Alright? - This is what you do.
You put it up your nose...
And then you pull it through here.
It's actually supposed to be condoms. Don't try it with these small ones.
Yeah, that worked.
I've got one left.
This isn't any fun for Astrid. Why are you doing this?
That's not a TikTok-trend.
No, this was no good. I'm sorry, Astrid. Goodbye.
Yes, I don't quite know where to begin. Barbra Streisand? Really?
We were laying there for a while, listening.
And she whispered this: "This is cool."
"Super cool. I love Barbra Streisand."
- She said it multiple times? - Yeah, yeah.
Still, think about all she's been through. Poor girl, having to watch all of this.
My personal favorite, as you may suspect, was David's acrobatic work.
Can't we get a little rerun? It'd be so fun.
Yeah...yeah, yeah. That's the tailbone.
No, come on, let's move on. We've got one Daddy Cool to go.
Last one out to enchant us with his coolness, Johan Petersson.
- Astrid, you got any idols? - No.
- Know who Markoolio is? - Mhm.
- You think he's good? - Yeah.
- Should we call him? - Okay.
Let's see if he picks up.
Bit of a shame if he doesn't answer. But you can see that I'm calling Marko.
Not Markoolio. To me, it's Marko.
Nah. But that was cool, wasn't it, the fact that I called Markoolio.
Um...right. Well, I've started buying dividend shares.
- What's that? - It's cool.
It's companies that are doing so well that they don't really need to invest for the future, they just keep on rolling.
Banks are like that.
And they distribute it to everyone who owns a share of the company.
If you've got a share of the company, that is, a piece of the stocks--
--they're going to hand you a pretty penny.
"Know what, Johan? We're doing so dang well. Here you go."
A pretty penny.
That's kind of cool. Um...
Hang on, Marko's calling me here. Hey, Marko. It's Johan.
I'm sitting here with a dilemma. You're the only person that can help me.
I've got Astrid here, who's a teenager. And I'm gonna do something to make her think I'm cool.
♫ Bring in the goals, goals, goals! Let's get goals! ♫
♫ I can be your casanova-nova! ♫
♫ Oh, millenium... Let's go to the mountains! ♫
♫ Get that ball to the goal! Get that ball to the goal! ♫
David's coming, here. I think my time's up, Marko.
- Alright, love you. - And I love you too. Thanks a bunch. Bye, bye.
Right, Johan. You have ten minutes to be cool.
What...? Oh, so first it was talking, and then it was being cool.
And that's now.
...Remember that time I called Markoolio? That was cool, right?
Sometimes, it's like that.
- You burn all your cool. - All your attempts to be cool.
- Nine minutes to go. - I think I can think of something.
I've got a smartphone!
You just swipe...cool! Do I have any cool apps?
I was Jan Johansen's neighbor for a while.
- Who's that? - Jan Johansen.
- Did you tell her about stocks? - Yeah, I have.
Well, there's one thing, but it's not all that cool.
But I can give you a small fact to carry with you.
That you're equally tall from your toes to your head--
--as you are between the tips of your fingers. Knowledge is cool.
- You holding it? - Of course.
There.
Exactly the same spot. That's kind of cool, right?
- Yeah. - Great to meet you. Bye.
Right, Johan. This has spread across the schools like a raging wildfire.
The teachers can't round up the kids at all. They're out there, measuring wingspan and height.
But I can't let go of this thing--a mini-concert with Markoolio. That has to count for something, right?
How'd Astrid distribute her points, here?
Astrid has texted me her judgements--
--and ranked these goons from least cool to most cool.
So I wrote: "Hi, it's David. Can you send me the scores?"
And she wrote: "David who?" And, you know, we had to sort that out.
Johan: "Cool stocks, man." One point.
Maria: "If only she pulled that balloon through her nose earlier." Two points.
Watch the lacquer-Berra: "Does OCR stand for odiously cringe reklamstatist?" [ad-extra]
Three points for Berra.
Mauri: "I thought he was cool until he started rapping." Four points.
Charlotta: "Still, it was pretty cool when she dumped David on the floor.
Five points for Charlotta.
Let's leave this behind us, shall we, and move on to another test?
We certainly shall. Place your bets. Here it comes.
Whoa!
This put me in a good mood.
- Are we going to play poker? - Exciting.
- You look lovely. - Thank you.
"Place bets against David and win."
"The person who gathers the most chips wins."
- "If you go bust, you're out." - "You have 15 minutes."
Yes, the goal was to strike a pact with the gamblin' devil and place bets against me.
You're allowed to bet whatever you want, as long as both parties accept.
And the person who has the most chips by the end of the test wins.
Gambling and games of chance airing in primetime. Would you look at that!
- Which casino aficionados shall we start with? - That would be the gambler Johan Petersson.
Who knows how long this table is? Closest wins.
From here to this? Oh, exciting!
- How much are you betting? - Two thirds, or three...two...
Betting 60? Currently there's 120 chips in the pot.
- I'd like to hear your guess, then. - 1 meter, 35 centimeters.
In that case, I say 1 meter and 36 centimeters. I'll get the measuring tape.
110, 120, 130...
- God dammit! 139. - Oh!
Who can get closest to the edge without it tipping over?
- Are you ready? - I'm ready. No!
You've got about 20 chips left, then.
- Who can get it to spin the longest? - One, two, three.
- No, it hit that thing! - You keep that, of course.
Who can flip a chip and land it in the pig?
- Whoa! Just 20 seconds. - Go, then.
No! Oh!
- Yup! You get to keep that. - Nice of you.
Since I won all of that. Time's up. Good work.
- Boy, what fun we had. - Yeah.
Didn't pay off much, here. What happened?
Good confidence, bad performance. The worst combination at a casino.
Went downhill pretty fast. How many chips did he have by then?
Merely one solitary marker, but he's still in the game.
Some of you may be wondering how many chips the others got...
A fine and well-deserved question which we'll answer after the break.
Hola, compañeros! The current test revolves around betting against David.
And David? That's me. Let's take a look at Behrouz, Maria and Mauri.
Ready, set, go.
- The blood really goes to your head. - Yeah.
Any bet you feel like making?
You get 80 chips if I get to tousle your hair.
No, that's not happening.
You get all my chips except for one if I just get to...
No!
- Are you touching the wall now? - No. Ow!
Fastest to get to the shed?
Ready, set, go.
Okay...okay. Wow.
No, this isn't good.
Oh, damn...
Come on, then...you raised it! You raised it! He raised his--like, he raised it.
- Sending it into the goal? - Yeah.
- And now, if you get this one... - It'll be sudden death.
What the hell kind of...? Turning.
I could stop here. It undeniably looks good.
Everyone else might have struck the jackpot.
Very hard to picture Maria Lundqvist with the jackpot.
There. Thank you.
- Russia. - Denmark.
- Cameroon. - The Netherlands.
Andorra... ...and you lost.
A wrestling match to settle the last one. I'll start on all fours.
- And now I get to stand up. - No, you have to start...it's...
You can't stand up. Three, two, one, zero--oh.
Down. Down, Mauri. Good work.
- You can say that again. - Someone might've gotten the jackpot.
I challenge you to lift this table without using your hands.
- Three, two, one, zero. - You watching?
I'm lifting it! I'm lifting it, David!
- Wow, Maria. - Yes...
Maria, I did raise my elbow. For this, I'd like to apologize.
I owe you 20 chips. Fair is fair.
Really? David!
That was noble of you, you old cheater.
Right, let's see. Mauri, you went for physical challenges.
The funny thing is, he's got a gambling devil in him.
So you just have to say something like that. "Alright, let's go." And then he runs out of gas.
- It was a good strategy. - How many chips did they end up with?
Maria got 62. With the 20, you stop at 82.
- Wow, that's good. - Behrouz, 160.
- But the best so far -- Mauri, with 179! - God, that's good!
And to beat Mauri's 179 chips, Charlotta has to go all in. Here she comes.
- Anything off the top of your head you think you're good at? - How much do you work out, David?
Work out? Not at all.
Alright. In that case, I think I can beat you at arm wrestling.
- Arm wrestling. How much are you ready to bet? - I'm thinking 30.
- Let's go, then. - Ready, set, go.
Alright. Do you have any ideas?
- No, that's if you... - Well, we have to do a--we go all in.
Rock, paper, scissors.
No.
One bet. Best out of three. Here it comes.
- Are you ready? - I'm actually in pain...I'm nauseous, now.
Well, that's the way it is sometimes.
Rock, paper, scissors!
- That's one. - Wait!
- What...? - I have to breathe. I'm so nervous.
Rock, paper, scissors!
I'm sorry, I'm yelling.
- Rock, paper, scissors! - It's one to one, now.
Which means the winner takes home the entire pot.
We go all in. Oh, god!
- Let's go. Rock, paper, scissors. - I'm nauseous, now.
Rock, paper, scissors! Rock, paper, scissors! Rock, paper, scissors!
- Incredible. - Charlotta!
We got to see a new side of you, Charlotta. You're no coward, that's for sure.
- No. God, that's good. - You bet the farm and won.
I'm so damn pleased!
Yeah, that's good! Your bet struck true, and you won the test with 180 chips.
One point for Johan, two for Maria, three for Behrouz, four for Mauri--
--and a new, well-deserved five for Charlotta!
In that case, I'm curious to see the total standings.
- Yeah, it's...wacky, I'd say. - Wacky?
- Behrouz is in third place. - You're starting with me?
- But also last. - Oh.
We've got a shared second place with Maria and Johan, with 17 points each.
And we have a shared first place between Mauri and Charlotta, at 18 points each.
Only one point separating them.
But anything can happen and everything can change, because it's time for the finale.
Yes, the time has come for the finale.
Johan, kindly read the letter for your co-contestants.
"Make Babben think you're standing in ice when you're actually not."
"...or make her think you're not standing in ice when you actually are."
"If Babben guesses correctly, you're out. Last person standing wins."
You're faced with a choice. Either enter the tub of ice.
Or stand outside the tub of ice.
Babben, put your headphones on so you can't hear the clinking.
But by all means, look, and scrutinize their faces.
Three, two, one. Alright, Babben. You can take your headphones off.
- I'm going to start with Behrouz. - Mm...I'd say he's standing in ice.
He wasn't. Behrouz is still in it. We'll move on to Maria Lundqvist.
- Is she breathing heavily? - No, she's not standing in ice.
Dammit, Babben! I was trying to shiver and everything.
- Johan? - That is the question. I'd say no ice.
That's correct. He's out, then.
And we've come to Charlotta.
I think Charlotta isn't standing in ice.
She's standing in ice. An ice cold queen! You can exit the tub.
Then we've got Mauri, playing it cool. He's standing with his back turned.
Yeah. I think he's not standing in ice.
And he isn't. Your guess was correct.
Mauri's out. It's the finale of the finale. Charlotta and Behrouz remain.
You have 30 seconds to stand, or not stand, in the ice.
It's funny that Behrouz disappears completely. We don't know what he's doing down there.
Alright. Babben, we'll start with Behrouz.
I think Behrouz isn't standing in ice.
And he isn't doing it now, either.
And then there's Björcken. The moment of truth.
- Babben? - This is tough.
Yeah, she was standing in ice before and didn't move a muscle.
I think she's standing in ice now, too.
- But she isn't. - No!
Charlotta Björck wins!
Alright. Come on back to the couches and we'll run some math on this.
Right. How'd the finals go?
What happened was that Johan, Maria and Mauri were eliminated in the first round.
You get two points each. Behrouz got four points.
Charlotta fooled Babben twice. She got three fives in a row!
Charlotta Björck herself. Look at that.
And now, as I sum all this up, Behrouz ends up with 18 points.
I'm still in last place?
Johan and Maria have 19 points each. Then we've got Mauri, with 20 points.
And the person who brings it home, with a whole 23 points -- Charlotta Björck!
Charlotta Björck, come on up! Come on up.
Double toasters. It's one. It's two. Look at that!
And what have we learned today? Don't rap to teenagers.
Don't bicker at the toaster.
And David's bad at many things, but worst at arm wrestling.
See you again in a week on TV4. Or, if you're so inclined, TV4 Play.
- Come on, let's congratulate Charlotta! - Wow! Charlotta Björck!
Original subtitles: Johanna Svensson, Iyuno Translation: DangBream