Hello and welcome to yet another thrilling episode of Bäst i Test!
The show full of pratfalls, egg-drops and rubber duck-hurling.
Could you ask for anything more? No, I really don't think so.
And you also can't ask for more than this year's beautiful, permanent panel! Here they are:
The nail on the head, Charlotta Björck!
The wolf in sheep's clothing, Mauri Hermundsson!
The hot potato, Behrouz Badreh!
The cherry on top, Maria Lundqvist!
And the elephant in the room, Johan Petersson!
And once you've opened our goodie bag, you'll get to see this:
- Taste my foot! - No, it didn't break!
- Are you a pig? - No, dammit!
- Yeah! - I can't breathe, though.
- (Tuttugu svín.) - Stop talking about your swine.
- That's how it's done! - What a show.
Yes indeed! Here we are again.
Charlotta, when you're in the test house, what's your biggest strength?
Rage, frustration and hate, I think.
Johan, if you could give yourself any advice before you accepted our invitation, what would it be?
It's good to disconnect your brain during the tests--
--but you could've used a little bit of your brain.
It is what it is. That's my motto for my current situation.
Here I am, the eighth year in a row--
--forced to camp out alongside the garden gnome David Sundin!
Whoa, whoa. Righty-ho.
I've divided my life into a before and after...
- We're not doing that right now. Let's go. - Right, of course. Let's.
This test brings us into the fresh air, in order to "shoot some hoops".
- Hi! - Hello!
- Fun! - It is what it is.
- How're you doing? - In the mood for some basketball.
- Then you've come to the right place. - As it turns out.
- "Put the ball in the hoop." - "Don't walk into the house."
"The fastest person to put the ball in the hoop wins."
"You have 15 minutes. Your time starts now."
Which hoop?
Oh, that hoop.
Nothing out of the usual.
First, you had to locate the basket placed very, very high up...
And after that, let the ball go through the hoop without walking into the house.
Other than that, not a lot of rules.
With such a small amount of rules this should be over in a jiffy, shouldn't it?
One might think so. One might also think that being very, very tall is advantageous.
So let's just start there, shall we? First up: Johan Petersson and mellow Mauri.
- Oh, that's close! - Extremely.
But you're extremely tall, aren't you?
If it lands on the balcony, I've fucked up.
Would've loved to see it.
- You'll earn yourself half a meter doing that. - Yeah, and it's better angle-wise.
- Whoa! - ...Almost worse angle-wise, huh.
Oh, sure.
- Good air on that one, Mauri. - Thanks.
- Nice air on that. - It's close.
The faster you... ...that one almost went backwards, Mauri.
- Here it comes. - Oh!
I had faith in that one for a long time.
He makes the same mistake, over and over.
Ten minutes to go.
You've used 33% of the time. Throw yourself in there. Calibrate.
6.5 minutes have passed!
- No! - Yeah, that's what happens.
Man, that's lovely. Sometimes I think every shot's going to go in.
Always looks great at the start. Then you start thinking "No, not this one either".
Being friends with the ball, how about that? ...Not being mad at the ball.
The ball is, after all, just an extension of yourself.
Here it comes. Going for gold.
That's how it's done!
- Fun. Yes! - Good work.
Are you ever visualizing anything? Seeing it pass through beforehand?
How about...two minutes of you being quiet.
I'm sure you know what I would've said about that one.
Oh, no. Down the hill.
This isn't happening. Not when there was so little time left...
Believe in yourself once. Could that be it?
Is that it, Mauri? Don't you believe in yourself?
- Like...please. - 50 seconds.
Yeah! Yeah!
So good!
Merry Mauri ran away with David as though he was a little chess piece. It looked delightful.
- David babbling next to you, does that help? - Watching this show, I've always thought you're a bit harsh on him.
But then you ride out to the house, and realize how insufferable he is!
He's unbelievably annoying.
- How fast was this? - Right, let's see.
Johan nailed the ball in 6 minutes and 30 seconds.
- That's good. - It could be good.
And Mauri, as we saw here, needed a bit more time.
14 minutes and 24 seconds.
Who or which ballers will we be watching next?
Next to lace up their sneakers is: Maria R Lundqvist.
Put the ball in the basket... what do you call this, David?
A basket. But the basket.
Oh please, that's impossible.
- It's so high up, David. - Thanks.
Just a few more to go.
- The ball itself remains, too. Get that in the mix. - Yup.
You're so smart.
Do you see how focused I am? I think I'm going to handle this.
- I'm still unsure. - No, no.
Right now, I'm securing it so it doesn't fall off.
- Alright, David! - And we're off.
- Oh! Wow.
- Here comes the ball. - I got fiber in my eye.
- Feeling? - Fiber.
She's on her way, she's on her way. She's going up alongside...
She moves towards the basket. Three minutes to go.
No, dammit! No! Oh!
1.20. Here it comes.
- She's going up... - Oh, smart.
- You're through. - I'm through?
- Still, pretty good. - You were, still, pretty good.
A display of feminine cunning.
You chose not to hurl it over and over, stubborn as a mule.
How'd you come up with this idea?
This was compensating for throwing like a girl. Couldn't do it.
Right. What was your observed time, here?
Maria scored her basketball goal after 13 minutes and 14 seconds--
--thus placing her between Johan and Mauri.
But Johan's still in the lead. Shall we tear through the rest?
We shall. Here comes the dream team, Behrouz Badreh and Charlotta Björck.
Put it in the basket?
But alright. Wait. I can't walk into the house.
- I can't walk into the house? - No.
If I'm on the balcony, I'm not in the house, right? But I can't walk into the house.
Could you please go up, then? And...
- ...I'll be down here, cheering. - Then you're not the one placing it. I can go up, though.
Can you lower it? It's angled like that, so you might be able to...check that, if it works.
No...no.
Can it be lowered? Could you try that?
Four and a half minutes have passed.
- Somewhere around there? - Yeah.
- I'll be here, checking if it goes through. - Ah, how nice.
- Ah, what the hell-- - This has to stay in one piece, or I'm toast.
No! Could you throw the ball up?
- Don't feel like it. - Dammit!
No, no, no, no...
Here, it should just kind of... this is a bit more like real basketball.
- Now! - There it is.
- Good work. - Thanks.
I'm in a great position to tell if it goes in.
- It's sink or swim. - Four minutes left!
- I'm checking if it goes through. - Right. Great.
Two and a half minutes to go!
- There! - There, yeah.
- Good work. - Thanks.
Terrific guy.
Yes, Berra dragged his way up the stairs like a wildly pregnant first-time mother.
A real struggle!
Yeah, it wasn't particularly ergonomic. My arms and calves went numb.
Berra did actually follow the rules, and Charlotta asked David to enter the house.
You're both approved. No doubts about it.
But were Berra or Charlotta faster than the others--
--and, most importantly, faster than Johan's time of 6 minutes and 30 seconds?
Behrouz had a good strategy, but it was costly in terms of time.
Especially after dropping the ball. 12 minutes and 30 seconds.
Charlotta solved this with some high-quality help--
--in 8 minutes and 24 seconds.
One point for Mauri, två for Maria, three for Berra, four for Charlotta--
--and he may have just stood there, throwing over and over like a mule--
--but he gets five precious points. Johan Petersson!
Hard work pays off!
Congratulations, Johan, on the pivotal first five.
We'll move right on to the next test, with some good old art forgery--
--while we bid a warm welcome-back to a dear old friend.
- Blessadur. - Gesundheit.
- Blessadur. - ...For sure.
- Doing good? - (Já, bara fínt.)
Hi! Sorry, I didn't see you there.
- "Recreate the fireman's still life." -"Recreate the fireman's still life."
"Recreate the fireman's style-life." What's that? Oh, okay.
"You may not, in any way, look at the fireman's still life."
"Best recreation of the still life wins."
"You have 30 minutes. Your time starts now."
- Alright. - How do I do it,then?
- (Ég get sagt hvad er á malverkinu.) - Oh, my god.
- Are you speaking Norwegian? - (Nei, íslenskur.)
- Islenskur?! - (Hæ menn.)
I presume we'll have some difficulties communicating.
Yes, indeed! Trausti, the Icelandic fireman, is back.
And he's painted a still life, or a style-life, according to Berra.
Our contestants are now tasked with recreating this still life.
But first, a small break. For those at home: A little test.
Everyone in the household is now going to guess how many rolls of toilet paper--
--is currently in your nearest bathroom.
Closest guess wins.
Welcome back. Our contestants have just met Trausti from Iceland.
Their goal now is to try and recreate a still life they're not allowed to see.
Who are we starting with?
Well, if it's up to the sidekick, it's Mauri and Berra.
But since I'm in charge, we'll take Charlotta, Maria and Johan.
I don't know what your still life depicts, though!
If you could just...describe your subject, in one sentence.
- (Lengst nidur...) - Furthest down? Right.
- (...eur tuttugu svín.) - Turtle pigs?
- Oh, hippo! - (Nei, svín.)
Is this a 'svin'? This is a 'svin'?
- Is it two pigs? - (Tuttugu.)
- Is it an amount? - Can you count for me, 1-20?
(Einn, tveir, thrír...)
Nineteen, twenty...twenty pigs!
Boom! Okay, it's twenty.
We've got pigs in droves here. This is twenty pigs.
Right, let's get back to working on the middle.
- (Fuglinn er efst og fíllinn er...) - It works better with fewer words.
- (Mörgaes í midjunni.) - Darkness?
- (Annad dýr.) - Other animal?
- Is mörgæs something you eat? - (Ef thú vilt.)
If I yell, I'm sorry. It's not you. It's the task.
- Is it a hare? - (Nei.)
As a human, do you shoot and eat it yourself? Yeah, you can.
Owl. Someone's had that for lunch, right?
- Does it have wings? 'Is'--is that ice cream? - (Ís og vatn.)
- Does it live in the ocean? - (Stundum.)
Sometimes, it lives in the ocean?
So mörgæs is a lousy seagull? There. We've got mörgæs, there.
- Is it a seal? -(Nei.)
- Is it a penguin? - (Thad er rétt.)
- Penguin? - I can't find a penguin.
- Have you seen any penguins in here? - (Nei.)
Lot of birds here, but no penguin.
Ah! Found it.
There! I found a penguin!
A penguin? Oh, you could've just told me, couldn't you? Penguin altar...
- And then? - (Til vinstri er einn fugl.)
(Einn fugl á fíl. Hér er fugl á fíl.)
- Is it a bird? - Birds?
What birds!? And again, I'm not yelling at you.
- Fil? What's that in... - (Fíl er ekki fugl.)
- What'd you say? - (Fíl er annad dyr.)
- Fil is another animal? - But I've been looking for birds.
- Fish? - (Nei, stórt dýr.)
It's a large animal?
- Elephant? - (Já, thad er rétt.)
Look, there's an elephant over there.
- (Fuglinn stendur á.) - I'll put a bird on a bird. There.
- What've you got on this side? - (Diskur med gódgaeti.)
- (ìslenskt gódgaeti. Mjög gott.) - It's very good.
- A dish? - (Já.)
- But where does "koldkeity" live? - (Í vatni.)
This animal lives in the water.
Is it a fish burger? Is it a salmon...?
- Is it a pike? - (Nei.)
Is there a tradition connected to it? Yeah? In Iceland, you...let it rot!
Yeah? Huh?! Maybe!
I'll take this fish, now. Because we've agreed that it's a fish.
A fish that you've let rot for a bit, and then you cut it up and you can eat it!
-Johan! - Like herring!
Oh, apple! And this.
Here we go.
- Not bad? - (Gleis rétt.)
- Should it be over here? - (Já.)
Let's run through this again. We've got pigs at the bottom.
- (Tuttugu grisar.) - Mmm! It's not you.
It's the task. Am I missing something?
- (Fuglinn.) - The fukle?
- (Fugl á fíl.) - On fil?
(Já.)
- Fil? - (Fíl á islenskur er ekki êetta.)
No, what the hell. It's in that direction...
You understand the situation I'm in. We're close. Yeah?
No, no, no. Hang on. I'm almost done.
Three, two, one, zero.
- Very beautiful. I'm just checking, in case it looks like... - You're doing your thing.
If there's a resemblance.
Johan, you got so mad. You'd prefer it if Trausti didn't speak at all.
Well, you know, when you're on the brink of a wonderful conversation...
And it could've been so easy, if he spoke something else.
A bit less Icelandic? Of course.
- And you started speaking in English. - It just happens. Drives you insane.
Yes, this was no easy feat. How well did they recreate the subject?
To be completely accurate, you need to have twenty paintings at the bottom.
A penguin in the middle.
To the left, a bird on top of an elephant...
And to the right, we see a plate of the Icelandic delicacy.
We'll start with Johan. He used an owl instead of an elephant.
You take what you get.
He had seven pigs instead of twenty.
Maria had no bird and elephant at all, but the rest was all accounted for.
Charlotta, full marks! Except for having an owl instead of a penguin...
And a mounted pike instead of an Icelandic delicacy.
Missing the plate, also.
In that case, we've just got two stylish lifers to go.
That's right! We've got Behrouz Badreh and Mauri Hermundsson.
And what we didn't know is that Hermundsson is, apparently...an Icelandic name.
No! That's cheating.
- Oh, hi! - (Blessadur.)
Trausti! Hi.
- Not too long since we last saw each other, huh? - (Nei, ekki.)
We're...we're, uh, we're related.
Had a great time last time. Wonderful food.
Could you speak slowly?
- (Ég get sagt hvad er á malverkinu.) - What's "kesacht örredö"?
So weird when it's a member of your family. You're going to sit there and trick me?
- (Thad eru tuttugu svín.) - Are you starting to explain what the still life is?
I can't recreate it yet.
- (Tuttugu svín.) - Pigs? You're a pig?
It's also so annoying that I don't know Icelandic.
- (Tuttugu svín.) - Stop talking about your swine, Trausti.
Is it multiple pigs? Then what happens?
(Fugl à fíl.)
- Moisture and files? - (Fugl à fíl.)
Wait a minute, my dad's Icelandic. Yeah, I can just call dad!
- Hi dad, it's Mauri. - Hi, Mauri.
Now, describe to dad...or, wait, you can say hi to each other first.
(Blessadur, Hermundur. Thad eru tuttugu svín.)
(Og fyrir ofan svínin er ég med mörgæs.)
Yeah, he's painted twenty pigs.
And there's a penguin.
- (Einn mörgaes.) - A marquise?
- (Einn stór fugl.) - What color is its fur?
- (Hvítan.) - Is it white?
- (Og svart.) - Penguin?
Penguin! Is that--huh, is that a bird?
Is that a bird? No. Penguin...that's not a bird, is it?
Thanks, dad. Had a bit of a family reunion, here.
(Já, og svo er thad íslenskt gódgaeti.)
Is it crawfish, perch, pollock, cod? Can't we just call it cod?
- Alright, twenty small pigs. - Do I paint?
- (Bara ef thú vilt.) - What'd you say?
- (Gerdu thad ef thú vilt.) - Should I park a sous vide?
Painting pigs takes longer than you'd think. You must've noticed that, too.
What a damn palaver. My god.
One penguin. There.
- Alright, did the penguin. - And to the right?
- (Gódgæti.) - Dishies? Dishies with fishies?
Is it just a fish? On a plate?
This is going well, huh.
There. Fish. And it's on a plate.
Well, hey, this was really nice. We should do this again sometime.
David! Howdy. Know what? No one's done this better than me.
You think so?
No, not like that, but-- I got everything in there.
- Good work. - Thank you very much.
Right, Mauri. What a coincidence. You and Trausti are related?
- Maybe everyone from Iceland is, huh? - Yeah, that might be the case.
- You've got the same arrangement in Gotland, don't you? - And who gave you permission to speak?
But you did actually get help from your dad on the phone.
And he's here today. Hermundur Eidsson!
Right. Both of you chose to recreate the painting by drawing it, which is, of course, totally approved--
--although I might've hoped for slightly higher quality than a pre-school arts and crafts corner. But it is what it is.
- Care to sum up the results, David? - Yes, indeed.
Behrouz included every object, but slanted slightly to the left.
So not totally perfect, but very good.
And then we have Mauri. All the objects, in all the right places--full marks!
Yeah!
Right, then. One point to Johan...
Two points for Charlotta, three for Maria and four for Behrouz.
And five Icelandic points for Mauri and his Icelandic pappi.
- Mauri! - And take a look at this.
Tonight's prize is nothing less than Trausti's still life--
--which has actually also been signed by Mauri and Trausti's whole family.
It's (tuttugu svín, fugl à fíl) in addition to (mörgæs) and...
...and the other stuff. What a prize, huh?
Yes, there's certainly a lot at stake.
But to crown a winner, we have to go through every test.
It's time for a team test, where the goal was to fill the constant need for high-octane Friday entertainment.
Right...right...okay! We're gonna be good at this!
Whoa! Damn! "Choreograph a slow-motion action scene."
- Slow-motion? - "You have 20 minutes..."
"...to prepare the five-minute action scene."
"The scene will be sped up to be 30 seconds."
- Super slow-motion. - Ah!
"The scene must contain at least one line from each team member."
- Alright, let's take a look at this. - There's different weapons, knives, blood...
Yes, Behrouz and Maria will keep being helped--
--for good or ill by Anders "Ankan" Johansson.
The actual test revolved around creating the best action scene.
Recording a well-made action scene requires a great deal of preparation.
It certainly does, but we're dealing with professionals. Maria Lundqvist's won the Goldbagge twice.
Johan here's acted in the feature film "Monky"--
--and many critics have said that they've seen it.
This shouldn't be an issue.
But we'll get to see how these action films turned out after this short break.
Welcome back. I've been promised sped-up action scenes.
Correctamundo, Babbovich.
The teams are going to record one action sequence each--
--for five minutes, which will then be sped up to thirty seconds.
So the goal is to record it in slow-motion, to later have it look completely normal.
We'll start by watching the entire gang's behind-the-scenes work.
I think we need to split up into roles. Who's who?
- You're bad. - Yeah! I get to be bad?
- And... - No.
- ...So we can't use that. - No!
You can be a sniper if you want to. But we need to have more stuff happening.
- I'm tied up. - Like, naked.
No, certainly not. I'm fully dressed.
- And you do it in English. Like--"Ah, ah! Getting cold!" Like that. - Yeah, that's good.
Why're you directing her? She's a damn actress!
- Can you put this in your mouth? - I get that question so often.
Look at that. There. Perfect. Then we show up and...
- Get it in there. - I have to be able to breathe.
There.
You shoot Maria.
- It's hard to breathe. - So maybe I've got more of a gun...
- But why am I crawling? - Because you're a sniper. [krypskytt -- crawl-shooter]
It's hard to breathe.
- Get his nose. - Should we remove that for now?
We put that in too soon.
- "I'm sneaking up on ya." - That's good.
- I go: "Taste my foot." - Then I go: "Capisce?"
- Wait, how are we going to do this for five minutes? - Right, let's get Johan properly gagged--
I'm noticing there's some sort of...pleasure.
From your side.
- Why do you think it turned out like this, Johan? - I don't know.
- I think something's lurking in Mauri's brain. - It was my fault. I don't know why I went for the ballgag that soon.
It's time for you, and everyone else, to get to see the completed action scenes.
May be appropriate to give a slight warning for graphic content.
- Popcorn? - Yes, of course. Thank you.
Bäst i Test Worldwide Pictures presents "Don Maria"!
I'm sneaking up on ya.
Oh, I'm so slow.
- Oh, god. - Ah!
No! No! No! You!
Nooo!
Damn you!
What the fuck have you done?!
You killed me!
It can't be.
I'll do the worm over here now, to get some action going!
Maria! Maria!
- Oh! Oh, my god! - Yes, Maria.
What's the plot of this epic?
So, Don Maria was a bodyguard-woman. She's the, like, pop artist.
Berra was the bodyguard, as well as the lover, and the sniper was pursuing my body.
- I smell another Guldbagge. - Right?
I'd like to see some more action, now.
Then I'll serve up the other team, featuring Charlotta, Mauri and Johan.
Bäst i Test Worldwide Pictures presents "Taste my Foot"!
Wait. Charlotta! Like, that...fuck!
It's payday, bitch!
Taste my foot!
- Yeah. - What happened?
Time to grade this. Now, I'm not the right person to do that...
But I did bring in someone who's a journalist. She's a pop culture-expert...
And on top of that, a former Bäst i Test-contestant!
Parisa Amiri, welcome!
It's an honor to be back. We'll start with "Don Maria".
We do have a classic premise. It's a global superstar...
Singing in the woods, with a bodyguard.
And a sniper comes in, doing the worm.
It's clear that it's "Bodyguard".
- To the extent of plagiarism? - I wear the same perfume as Costner.
Right, now. The ruthless "Taste my Foot".
An Icelandic man is out to liberate a burly, unexpectedly nimble, male lead--
--who's gotten trapped in the talons of an evil matriarch.
It's amazing.
Which one was the best? Was it "Don Maria" or was it "Taste my Foot"?
It's "Taste my Foot".
- The ballgag clinches it. - Yeah, it does.
Round of applause for Parisa Amiri!
Right, then. I'll note down the score in my all-important paperwork.
Three points each for Johan, Charlotta and Mauri.
- Zero points to the rest. - Yes, that's how it is sometimes.
Dear viewers, I have both good news and bad news.
The good is that we've still got half the show to go!
The bad is that we've reached the middle of the show...
...which means it's time to chitchat with the panelists without substance or reason.
A point on the agenda owned by Mr. Sundin.
Whoa! Well, then! Thank you, thank you! Lovely words, as usual.
Yes, when it comes to chitchatting and substance-- well, I'm your guy. That's how it is.
And on this particular day, we're going to get to know...Johan Petersson a bit better!
- What's up? - Doing really great.
- And you're called 'The Parrot'. - What?
- By who? - By me, right now.
Right. I buy that.
You do mimicry. You're a good copycat.
- I've been doing that for a while. - You can sound like almost anyone.
If someone says something, you can say the same thing.
Yeah, but maybe not in exactly the same way...
No, Johan's built his career off of this. That's what it seems like.
But Johan--god, that's interesting.
Your passion for this whole 'repeating sounds and noises' thing.
Because it's namely time to play 'Sound like the sound'!
Then may I ask you, Johan...
If you feel the small of your back, you've got a letter.
- You've been sitting on that for a long time? - Apparently.
And you can read it to the others, to Babben, the audience, and those at home.
"Pick an object, listen to it, and recreate the object's sound."
"Best recreation wins."
We have, for example, a bottle of sparkling--
--which I'm going to open and pour into the glass.
- Then we've got a balloon pump. - That noise, yeah.
And we've got a classic monkey with cymbals.
And we've got a basket of crispbread.
I'm going to put my foot into this and press down on it fairly hard.
And we've got the secret box, the contents of which are secret.
You don't know what it is. Have you understood the rules?
- Maria? - I'll take the bottle!
In that case you will, of course, first get to hear the sound.
Right, Maria.
It's not timed?
It was just a tiny one.
Then we move on to Behrouz. What's your pleasure?
I'm thinking about what's physically possible for me to imitate.
That's a great start, Behrouz.
Do the...balloon!
- The balloon? - Good!
Here comes your sound, so listen carefully.
Right, Behrouz.
What the hell was I doing?
Mauri's next up, in terms of points.
We still have the monkey, the secret box, and crispbread.
- Go for the secret box. - Secret box? Here it comes.
Here's your sound.
You've got this, Mauri.
- It was super similar. - Was it good?
- Next up, Charlotta? - I'll go for the monkeyman.
Here comes the monkeyman.
He's starting to wind down, now.
He's tired too, of course.
He's just got a bit left.
This is going to be good.
That's right.
- Man, that one was tough. - We've got Johan to go.
- There's one more noise. - Right. Go.
Here comes your sound.
May I ask you to step up and recreate the sound?
- Johan Petersson! - Absolutely incredible.
Yes, this was a lovely experience, and the time has come for me to judge this.
Johan, you're a prominent voice actor, but not today.
- You end up with one point. - Oh, so bad.
- I thought Johan was incredible.
But you beat him. Two points. You did, unfortunately, get the short end of the stick.
This isn't an easy monkey.
Berra, you get three points. It was passable, but mediocre.
After that, I'd like to separate Maria and Mauri here. I actually give five points to Maria!
For the bubbly. Congratulations.
Right, then. Let's move on, and how about with a test?
Excellent idea, Babben. Our next test is something of a mystery.
Whoa!
- Hello. - Hi.
Go ahead and take your seat.
"Pick a room and a weapon and await further instruction."
Going to choose something. What do we have? The hall, the lab, the kitchen, and Babben's office.
- And the shed, of course. - And the shed.
- Is this the weapons? - Those are the weapons.
Belt, shoe, stapler, frying pan, cactus.
I almost think I'll go for...belt.
And I'll take it in...Babben's office.
- A belt in Babben's office? - Yeah.
- The hallway. - Hallway and...frying pan.
And a cactus.
Shoe sounds fun.
- A shoe and the lab. - Shoe in the lab?
- Mm. - Good work.
- Was that it? - Yeah.
- What happens now? - You can go.
- Alright.
Good!
Or--David, you don't need to go, because... I don't know what to do, now.
Yes, you were supposed to pick a weapon and a room.
And what you're going to do with them... we'll find out, in just a moment. See you soon.
Welcome back! Before the break, we got started with a cryptic test.
Our contestants have picked weapons and rooms, without knowing what they're going to do.
And it's finally time to get the answer to this riddle.
We'll start with Mauri and Berra.
- What's going on here, then? - Party.
- Balloons? - Oh, no. I know what I'm going to do.
Ooh, it¨s a belt!
"Pop 99 red balloons."
"You must use your weapon to pop 99 red balloons."
"Yell 'Stop the timer!' when you think you've popped 99 red balloons."
Alright, have to pop 99 red balloons. Do we have 99 red balloons in the room?
- Hope so. - What was I supposed to yell?
Stop the timer.
Ow!
Yeah! Nice, Mauri!
- Three. - Jeez, that's good.
- Is there any other way? - Yeah, there is.
That's almost better, huh.
20, 20, 20, 20, 20...
It's important that you don't lose steam now.
And the count, of course.
25, 26...
26, 26, 26, 26, 26...
- Are you pleased with your choice? - Yeah. Ow!
27, 27, 27, 27.
- Ah! - We've gotta get that one.
47, 47, 47...
47...
What're you at now?
73, 74, 75...
- It's important to make it 99, because otherwise... - Yeah, 49.
78, 79...
66, 66, 66, 66...
84.
How many have you got? ...What'd you say?
97. Two left. 98, 99. Stop the timer!
- Stop it. Was that 99? - It could definitely have been.
97, 98, 99!
Alright.
- Good work. - Thanks.
No! You didn't say 'Stop the timer'!
No!
"Yell 'stop the timer'."
- Stop the timer! - It is what it is.
Yes, so, this was neunundneunzig Luftballons--
--which were going to be popped in their chosen room, with their chosen weapon.
After that, you had to yell 'Stop the timer' after popping 99 balloons.
Berra popped all his balloons in 5 minutes and 53 seconds--
But he didn't stop the timer, so the clock kept ticking--
--until the allotted time was up, which is to say ten minutes.
Mauri popped his balloons in 2 minutes and 50 seconds.
- Wow! Quick, huh. - That was fast.
Alright...but that's the times. Was it the right amount?
Well, slightly close but no cigar...
Mauri popped 98 balloons.
- Just one off. Darn. - No, that's such a shame.
And Berra popped...
...exactly 99 balloons.
- Good work! - Exciting.
Let's keep popping along, and with who?
It's as the old saying goes: Rather have a shoe in the lab than a frying pan in the hallway.
Here come Maria and Johan.
Frying pan. Hallway.
"Pop 99 red balloons."
That's pretty hard.
You like this, huh? Writhing for you like this.
That's right. That's right.
It's impressive that they're this resilient.
I can feel my energy starting to fade.
- Are you pleased with your murder weapon? - I'm very pleased.
Are you starting to think along the lines of how things would look if you went for the...
- Cactus. - For example. It'd just go...
- You forgot to say it was "pop balloons". - That one's on me.
Can't lose focus, either, in all of this.
Why don't they make shows where you just go have a drink?
- And chitchat? - Chitchat a bit.
Oh damn.
- What're you at now, then? - 86, 87...
It's coming together.
Gamechanger.
He's off. He's back!
- 97, 98, 99! - Alright.
That was tricky. I'm getting super insecure.
No!
- How many have you done now? - 74.
In that case, you need to reach 99 before-- 40 seconds to go!
There, yeah! Whoa! Gamechanger again.
30 seconds!
Ten...
Five, four, three, two, one.
Zero! Stop, stop, stop...
Johan, could you tell David was enjoying himself as you crawled around on the floor?
Yeah, I was thinking I could pop other things than balloons--for a while...
...but I do like David.
- Maria, you must've been pleased. - Yeah, I love it.
I was mute!
None of you said 'Stop the timer'. You get the same time as Behrouz.
- But did they pop their 99 balloons? - That actually varies a bit, too.
Maria reached 97 balloons. Off by two, unfortunately.
Johan, on the other hand, reached 99...
...plus a bonus balloon, too.
Which, in total, is 100 balloons.
- But that's amazing! - It's an incredible shame.
As the task was to pop 99, Johan. You remember that, right? We said.
What's interesting is that we have a potential winner right now.
Despite using ten minutes, Behrouz nailed the correct amount.
That's how it is. That's how it is. But we do have Charlotta left. The question is:
Can Charlotta Björck count to 99?
And will she say 'Stop the timer'?
Oh!
Yeah!
Your time starts now!
- No, no, no, no! - I haven't been counting.
Do you know how many balloons this is? Are there 99 in here?
- It's happening so fast. - I don't know, Charlotta.
- Can't you tell me? - I don't know.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa. - It's so fast.
No, stop there!
It's a cool feeling. How many, though?
That was 99. Or that, maybe.
No!
Stop the timer!
Accept the crowd's adulation, Charlotta.
Nicely done. You lost count immediately, but still got 99 balloons.
- Craziest thing I've ever seen. - How'd you manage?
I didn't manage. I just popped.
At some point I reach 99, and then have to stop, at some point--because you probably didn't add 99 balloons.
- You added a few more. - Correct.
Charlotta managed this task in 1 minute and 43 seconds!
More than eight minutes faster than the time she had to beat.
Fem points for Charlotta, four for Behrouz, and the rest?
- Well, one point each for participation. - Right. But before the finale, don't we have time for another test?
Of course we can manage that, Babben.
You and me are known for our speed. We just...okay!
Time to crush porcelain.
- Look at that. - Yup.
Lunkan.
- Pomp and circumstance. Add some music there. - We will.
- "Break the vases." - "Break the vases."
"Fastest person to break all five vases wins."
"Your time touches when you st..." No, sorry. "Your time starts when you touch or break the first vase."
Right, then.
You were fiddling with your watch. Good thing someone's keeping you in check.
All five?
Yes, the goal here was to break the five vases in a burst of speed. But:
The timer doesn't start until the first vase is broken or touched.
Mm. Who's the first person to smash?
It'd be interesting to see the clever solutions--
--devised by experienced seniors, Johan and Maria--
--now that they had infinite prep time.
"Your time starts when you touch or destroy the first vase."
- Do you--can you use attributes? - Yeah.
Alright? Ready, set...
- But I'm supposed to destroy them? - One.
Ah, what the hell!
That one's broken!
- Oh! - Five.
- One, two, three, four, five. - Yeah.
- Good work. - Very strange.
Usually, we talk about thinking outside the box.
You preferred to go into the box and stay there.
Are there more efficient ways to do this in terms of time?
Babben, without giving too much away--
--there's better solutions for breaking five vases in the fastest way.
But first, we're going to take a tiny, tiny break. See you on the other side.
Before the break, we saw Maria and Johan breaking vases in the primetime slot.
The goal was to break five vases as fast as possible.
But your time doesn't start until you touched or broke the first vase.
So you had infinite prep time. Right, Johan and Maria?
- That's right. - Now I get...now!
- I see what I should've done. - That's how it goes sometimes.
Then let's take a look at how Charlotta and Behrouz solved this task.
- What's the plan? - I'll pull them all into the middle simultaneously.
The time doesn't start until I touch the vase.
- Or if it would...? - Or if it'd break.
When I'm touching?
- I'm not touching them like this, right? - No.
David, do you know something about me?
- I don't really think so. - Exactly.
- What's the plan now? - Uh, I'll go throw them from up there.
Let's go, then.
Let's go.
No! No!
They didn't break!
- Dammit! - Oh, my god.
- Break, then-- - Three.
Break, then!
That doesn't sound good.
- It's broken on the edges, there. - You touched it, now...
- You saw. - Timer's running.
Five.
No, this is crazy-- ah, what the hell?!
- And you had such a good start. - Dammit, I had such a good start!
- There! - Cool to see.
Good work.
Two very good concepts here, I have to say.
But the execution was slightly... help me out here, David.
- Crap? - Crap. That's good. I'll take that.
Charlotta, did you think you had a hand of steel?
I thought I'd get them all down and they'd just die.
- You were dealing with powerful ceramics. - Powerful ceramics.
You should've thought about the surfaces you were working with.
You even padded the bag.
I just thought, there's no way in the world these don't break.
- I threw it off the second floor. - Babben, would you like the times?
I'd like to wait a little.
We've got Mauri left, after all. Maybe his dad will help him.
Technically, he did have time to call daddy and ask for help, as usual.
But believe it or not, Mauri chose to solve this himself-- because he's a big boy now.
In the fastest time? I'd like to compress it to, like...a second or two.
- One second would be great. - That'd make Babben proud.
Alright... brief strategy meeting.
- Mm. - ...You're such a damn sourpuss.
- Like, explosives. Do we have that? - No.
That'd have been so damn cool.
It's just so damn...this feels like Formula 1 A. Just like...of course you can do that.
- Yeah. - There has to be something better.
What type of vase is it?
No!
- And the timer's running. - What?! No, stop. Fuck--fuck!
Ow, dammit! Fuck!
That was a show. Is everyone alright? Are you alright?
Yeah, or--I think I got some...
I don't know what got into me. Did I cause all of this?
A madness erupting.
We did talk for a bit about idea versus execution. You had an excellent idea going...
You were going to blow everything up, and I'd be proud.
But I'm not all that proud.
But I do think that it's slightly, like... like, kind of sexy.
- It was cool, I think! - You're allowed to make that call yourself?
I don't know. If you look like that, I think you do.
- How about it, David, did we have bonus points for sexiness? - No, not in this test.
It's time to go through the times and scores for this test.
I can tell you this: It was pretty even between all the contestants, except Berra with the bag.
- What?! - He was at it for 52 seconds.
Charlotta managed this in 25 seconds.
Mauri in 20 seconds.
After that, there was just a two-second difference between Maria and Johan.
Remember their simple solutions, which we made so much fun of earlier?
Maria, 14 seconds. And Johan...
- 12? - 16 seconds!
Which means one point for Berra, two for Charlotta...
Mediocre Mauri gets three points, Johan gets four points...
And Maria, a crushing five!
Getting very curious about the total standings so far, now.
In last place, we find Johan and Behrouz with 15 points.
We find Maria with 16 points.
Mauri with 17 points.
But barely taking the lead, we have Charlotta, with 18 points!
But anything can happen and everything can change, because now, it's time for the finale.
Yes, the time has come for the finale.
Charlotta, could you be so kind as to read the letter?
"Transform your faces into a Swedish classic--"
"--using the contents of your bag."
"Your bag must be kept open until you present your face."
"Best transformation wins. You have 100 seconds."
What's a Swedish classic? It can be something definitively Swedish.
Meatballs and mashed potatoes, the Kaknäs tower, Gunde Svan and so on.
And your time starts now.
And we're off. Charlotta has no inspiration.
It's going to be incredibly exciting to get to see the Swedish classics.
Three, two, one.
In that case, let's go through this one turn at a time.
Johan Petersson, please close your lid.
Wait, wait--you have to wear this around your neck.
- Christmas tree, off the top of my... - No!
Wait! You need to wear this around your neck when you win.
- Oh, it's a kranskulla. [hands out medals at sporting events] - Yeah! Great!
Next up: Charlotta Björck.
Howdy. God damn!
I'm Ronny, and that rat bastard's Ragge.
I get a strong feeling that she, herself, explained what she was.
Behrouz Badreh, please close your lid.
I'm guessing 'Anslagstavlan' on TV.
- I'm supposed to be a Swedish flag. - A Swedish flag. I can tell now, but not immediately.
Alright. Moving on to Mauri. Please close your lid.
Is that Vomit-Eva from...?
What's he got? Is it Gustav Vasa?
There's no reason, Mauri, to put so much pasta in your mouth.
It was more of an artistic depiction of the Swedish overconsumption.
Ah! Obvious.
- Yeah, it was captured nicely. It really was. - Alright.
Just Maria Lundqvist to go. Maria, please close your lid.
Here I come, Babben.
I can talk a bit, too. I'm from Malmö.
Is it Anita Ekland? No, what was her name? Ekberg.
- Yeah. - I'm slightly scared of Maria.
- Hard to judge, Babben. - Yeah, it's hard to judge.
Come on down, then, and we'll assign some points.
Yes, this certainly wasn't the easiest test.
You did what you could. It's time for me to distribute the points.
I'm sorry, Charlotta. A grape under your lip at least got you one point.
- I'm happy with that. Very happy with that. - Moving on to your couchmate, Mauri.
The Swedish overconsumption is a fact, but I can't say it's a classic. Two points.
Maria, wonderful enthusiasm and make-up.
But it could've been basically anyone under the make-up.
Johan, who I mistook for a Christmas tree, you're absolutely worth four points.
Behrouz, what beats a Swedish flag? You made the best of your post-it notes.
Five points! Congratulations.
Which means it, quite simply, turned out like this:
We have a shared second place with 19 points.
Charlotta, Mauri, Johan Petersson and Maria in a shared second place.
With 20 points: Behrouz Badreh! He wins tonight's show!
Behrouz, come on up!
- You won the painting! - No!
Do I win this? Oh, no.
Well, what have we learned tonight? Thinking inside the box can pay off.
In Icelandic, an elephant is called a fil.
And when Maria Lundqvist comes around, hide your porcelain.
See you again next week, 20:00 on TV4.
Or on TV4 Play whenever you want. Thank you for watching.
Original text: Johanna Svensson, Iyuno Translation: DangBream