Isabelle, yes!
The coffee is ready!
No!
"I thought I liked Espen Eckbo"
A warm welcome to Kongen Befaler.
My weekly alone time,
which I am more than happy to share with my best friend, Olli Wermskog.
Wow! - Yes!
Thank you.
It's nice that you consider me your best friend.
It almost makes me feel proud, to be honest.
There's no need. It's only because I have many bad friends.
Such as Live Nelvik!
Espen Eckbo!
Martha Leivestad!
Kristoffer Olsen!
And Henriette Steenstrup!
And last but not least: A bust in gold... of me.
It's time for the prize task. Olli. Move your mouth,
and I will explain the task.
Now it's time for today's prize task.
Today, the eminent Atle Antonsen has asked the participants to bring something
you need on a Sunday morning.
That's quite interesting. It can be so much.
Follow closely. Here are hopefully some good tips.
Henriette. We'll start with you.
Yes. I have brought a...
It might look a bit boring right away.
It does look rather boring.
But it's a very good Thermos.
And you'll need my usual coffee strength on a Sunday morning.
And that is four times as strong as everyone else's.
Is that true?
And it's coffee from Sweden, so I'm not doing any advertising. [of brands available in Norway]
Oh, it's thick. - But that... You need that.
You need it on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday... - It's really good.
It is, isn't it? - Yes, it's good.
You would have liked to be served this in bed.
I would've had more, but I can't drink coffee this late. Then I can't sleep.
Kristoffer? What have you brought that you need on a Sunday morning?
In case it comes as a surprise to anyone...
What could it be?
It's a toilet! A toilet, yes.
Yes...
My partner and I have a tradition that we eat Indian food on Saturdays.
That's when we allow ourselves to drink the most beer during the week.
So Sunday... This is my breakfast table, in a way.
This is where I bring a good glass of orange juice.
A nice omelette. A good book. Some beautiful candles.
Then I enjoy myself for 1-1.5 hours.
Then the porcelain will be put through the wringer.
Martha? What do you have?
Yes? - Should I help you?
I can do it...
Have you stopped bending?
Sunday morning.
You don't see me on a Sunday morning without a good jog.
And a delicious kale, spinach, chilli, ginger, lemon-apple juice.
Where did you read about this?
I think... - It's a lie! Blatant lie!
It's not a lie! It's my Sunday.
If you want us to believe that,
you can start by managing to pick up your shoes yourself from the floor.
Live? What have you brought that you need on a Sunday morning?
Yes... I have brought...
Some Paralgin Forte. [codeine and paracetamol]
Some good, old triangle medicine, quite simply. [red triangle urges caution driving and using machines]
It's just the best. You become so... - Do you take it...
That's embarrassing. - Do you take this every Sunday?
No, I don't take this on Sunday mornings.
I put them in this.
[Pez dispenser]
And then... They [the kids] enjoy themselves so much on Sunday mornings.
Yes yes...
Now there are only three here, so some of it has been eaten.
But with three of these, you wake them up when it's time for children's TV.
But then you have to shake them a bit for them to wake up.
Thank you for the contribution. Espen? What do you have?
Every Sunday morning I love to just lie in bed,
and preferably use my phone,
but my partner gets very
angry if she sees that I'm on my phone.
Instead, I have found out that what I need is a big fat book,
which she can accept that I'm reading in bed.
So nowadays that is the biography of Barack Obama.
It makes you feel a bit proud when your boyfriend is reading a big fat book.
So I need that.
And what I have done with it is to tweak it so that...
In here, I have made room for my mobile phone.
Then I can lie like this in bed and read.
What a wonderful Petter Smart solution. [Norwegian name for Disney's Gyro Gearloose]
It works very well, until next Sunday.
Because then you have finished the book? - Then I expect...
Now the goal is to prevent my partner from seeing this.
You figure that no-one in your family is watching this show.
There are many reasons why no-one in your family should be watching.
I will cancel my Discovery+ [streaming service] subscription.
Yes, I think you should do that right away.
Well done, guys. - Points? One to five?
Points, yes...
One point to Martha, because she's lying.
That's fine.
You get two points for the coffee. - Just two?
Because it was very simple, but the coffee was so good. You get two points for it.
Shall we see... The three-pointer.
Live? Didn't you...
I had a little Petter Smart solution.
Yes, that was good.
You get three for the toilet, and you get four.
And five points to Espen. - Really? Yes!
Olli? A little intimacy. - Yes.
I'm not talking about between you and me, god forbid.
I'm talking about you needing some intimacy. We all see that.
Yes... Okay. You have created a task where the participants have to hug me.
"Give Olli the third longest hug."
"If you give the shortest or longest hug,"
"you get zero points." Oi, oi, oi.
Exciting. When does the time start?
When the hug begins. - Yes, that makes sense.
That makes sense, Kristoffer.
It's about giving me the third longest hug.
The longest and shortest hugs get zero points. Should we just start?
Yes, I'm all aboard watching people hugging you, Olli.
Okay, good. Here are the hugs from Martha,
Henriette, Live and Kristoffer. Then we'll save Espen.
Who are the long-huggers in our group?
Henriette gives the longest.
Espen hates hugging.
When he has hugged you for three or four seconds, he'll think:
"Ugh. Yuck. Long hug."
How long has Henriette lasted?
Yes, I need this!
I should just get started. - Yes.
Why is there so much... It's like I have an aversion to hugging you.
It feels like we're going to kiss or something. Hang on.
Sorry. I have a bit of a cold.
That's the kind of hug you like? - One two three.
I think some have lasted a bit longer...
but I'll stop there.
Oh, this is…
This isn't...
It's looking at you that is the worst part.
When I'm getting out of the hug,
I'll have to look at you again, and then...
Now I'm more comfortable just standing here
and not thinking about you being so close.
Sorry, I'm a little giggly today.
But you know... Laughing is better than crying,
as you usually say...
Laughing is better... - Yes, it is better.
I'll stop now. There you go.
Now I think I'll stop soon.
Let's do a proper one first. Hug me, hug me, hug me.
And I'll stop there.
OK. I'm stopping there.
Goodbye! - Goodbye!
How long did they last? - I have some times here.
We have one left, but so far Live has the shortest time
with 8 seconds and 30 hundredths. - Oh that short. Shit, Espen.
Then it's a little jump up to Kristoffer,
who hugged for 1 minute and 10 seconds.
In front of him, Martha, with 2:45. - Oi, oi.
Then it's Henriette at 4:20.
So it was that much? - No.
It was 6 minutes and 53 seconds. - That much?
That's quite a long time.
It's a long hug. - Yes, it is.
Now Espen is the only one left. - We'll see what Espen does.
Yes, we need to see Espen to settle it.
Let's take a look at it now. - We have time for that.
One, two... There.
That might have been a little short. I got a feeling that it's a bit too short.
There was no reason to drag it out unnecessarily long.
You lasted as long as 1 second and 62 hundredths.
That's not bad. This means that Henriette and Espen get zero.
And it's a third place for Martha.
And a second place for Live. Kristoffer, you ended up in the middle.
That's five points to you. Congratulations.
Then we can see that the total score is like this.
Kristoffer leads in front of Live. At the bottom, Henriette.
Not a great start. We're going to take a little break. Time for some adverts.
Now we need some quality.
Now I feel that we need something that
the participants have spent a lot of time on,
to do their very best.
You think maybe 100 days is enough to do a good job?
100 days is enough to do a good job. - One hundred days.
Hubba hubba!
Yeah...
Oh my god, is it my birthday?
I'm not taking it out of there. You have to take it out yourself.
"Dress up..." Fuck.
I can't stand this. This is the worst thing I know.
When I was little, I cried every time there was a 'carnival'. [dress-up party in school]
Dressing up is the absolute worst thing I know.
I have trauma about it from when I was a kid.
What is my job? Actor.
I dress up all the time. But that's just to...
fix something that is broken in me.
I get mad just thinking about it, Olli.
"Most surprising outfit wins. The costume must be completely"
"concealed under your stage outfit in the studio."
In the studio? "You have 100 days."
I have to carry this with me for 100 days?!
100 days? There is plenty of opportunity to choke properly over time.
I'm going to win this.
Do you already have an idea? - No.
"Your time starts now."
Aggressive!
Yes...
Here I am very unsure about
whether I want to start with Kristoffer or Live.
They were complete opposites.
Kristoffer! - It's nice to be able to reveal
why you're all sitting this way and looking like this.
What do you mean?
I have just started with a very cool style.
That you have. Is that what Martha has done too?
Well... We've talked about Kristoffer and Live, but shall we start
with Henriette, then?
Why not? - We'll do that. Henriette, you can start.
Okay. I'm not just wearing a very hip and cool hat today.
What I'm turning into, if I take off my hat...
Yes...
and try to do a relatively quick costume change...
Look now. Now I'm turning into... Any second now...
Quite simply... a Christmas tree.
That was... How lovely. - It was a bit early, maybe.
It was a very lovely thought. It's still a bit early,
but a very nice thought. - Thank you.
Then it's... The next one is... Now we can go to you, Live.
Okay...
Oh, damn. - Oops, hold on tight.
Finished!
[not regretting this at all...]
You had Britney Spears under there.
That's what's called 'giving it all you've got'.
There's no way back now. - It's called 'wanting to win'.
Wonderful. Espen?
Speaking of a pop...
From one pop queen we can build a bridge over to another.
Lady Gaga surprised everyone...
when she went onto the red carpet in a meat dress.
Yes... - So I thought that...
We should make a vegan alternative to Lady Gaga's meat dress.
So here is Espen Eckbo's aubergine vest.
Very nice!
Very well solved, Espen. - Who do you want to see now?
We'll go to Kristoffer. - Yes.
This is a big reason why I don't like dressing up.
I honestly think it really hurts.
I don't know if you've noticed, but I don't have a big wardrobe.
You have used that sweater quite a lot.
I've been wearing these trousers and this sweater
throughout all the tasks and all these episodes.
I thought you had a set. That you had ten of each.
No, god, no.
But it's the same? - Just one of each?
When we got this task, I decided that I would not budge from this.
That I would wear the same outfit throughout the whole series.
So what I have done now, is that I have...
taught myself to sew and reuse clothes.
So... the second set of jeans
I have turned into dress shorts with press.
Like that. And then... - Nice.
Very adult way to take off your trousers.
A very drunk way to take them off.
Then I turned the other sweater into a slightly more...
formal shirt.
With ruffles.
I also learned how to make a little bow tie,
which I have made from my trouser legs.
This is very good.
I think you look really nice. - Thank you so much.
Yes. It's wonderful.
I was about to say that we have gone through them all,
but we're still missing one, aren't we?
Go ahead. The floor is yours, Martha.
Thank you very much.
I'll just get started. - Oi!
Elegantier.
At three knight strikes, you are ready. There you go.
I really have to say that…
It's... It's a complete knight.
A complete knight with a crown. Basically, a complete king.
I like that you're breathing like an athlete who has finished
a long, long ordeal.
Yes yes yes.
Then everyone has... The task was "The most surprising outfit".
I have to remind you of that. And they also had to hide it.
Yes. It's possible to score well on one part and badly on the other.
I have to admit that
when I saw Martha earlier, there was something fishy going on.
Something was a bit off, but that's okay.
Are you going to start at the bottom? Isn't that the easiest?
Yes, that's the easiest.
I'll start at the bottom.
I will be generous and give one point to Kristoffer.
And not only that. Henriette gets two.
Imagine that. - Weren't you surprised?
A Christmas tree.
She's so cute that I just want to take her home, of course,
but there must be a limit.
The stupidest thing is that I'll give three points to Espen's aubergine vest.
He gets three points for it.
Yes, you can see the hope.
I just forgot to look at you for a bit. The most hopeful knight
I have seen in my whole life.
I'll make a baba ganoush out of you later, Espen. Don't worry about that.
Live gets five. - Yes!
It was deserved, with such a great effort.
You get four for the knight armour. Great job.
"I'm going to win this", you said, and you won!
Thank you so much! - Now we're taking a break.
We can calm down a bit, and you can go change.
Yes, Olli, now I think it's time for a new team task.
Yes, I've been looking forward to that. The teams are carefully planned.
We have Knoll and Tott [Norwegian title of The Katzenjammer Kids],
Also known as Martha and Henriette, on one team.
And Espen, Live and Kristoffer are
Plipp, Plopp and Plomma on the other team. [German claymation TV series Plonsters]
And you get to decide yourselves who is who.
This is quite the duo.
Stripes? - Yes. We have coordinated.
Can't you... - Yes, I can.
"Build the tallest tower of cans on this table."
"You must, at all times, have half of the team's hands"
"on half of the team's hips."
"Before you can pick up a can, you have to say a country to Olli."
"You can't say the same country twice."
"You have seven minutes. Your time starts now."
Then we must at all times have half of
the team's hands on each other's hips.
No, not on each other's hips, on half the team's hips.
We can put one hand each on our own hip.
Should I just hold here? - On both.
The time has started. - Come on.
Can you go faster?
Yes, this one is actually a bit complicated.
As is written in the letter... the participants have to...
I still don't get it.
You still don't get it?
It's that smart Petter Smart, there.
"You should have just gone like this".
If I hadn't been on this team, I would have walked as a train with you.
I can repeat, because it is a bit complicated.
It says that they must build
the tallest tower of cans on the table.
The cans can be found down on the lawn. Before a can is picked up,
they must say a country to me that has not already been said.
If they drop one, they have to name a new country before they pick it up again.
And as if that wasn't enough to think about, they must also have half
of the team's hands on half of the team's hips.
I love such complicated rules. They must keep their hands, hips
and tongues in check. - Yes, you could say that.
Shall we look at the striped [shirt] gang first?
We can do that. Here is Martha and Henriette's
attempt at building a can tower.
OK. Finland, Olli!
Then we'll take Denmark next.
Denmark! - Come on, baby.
No. - Wait. Hang on.
Spain! - Spain!
Wait. We can pick up more and say more countries.
Uruguay.
Paraguay. - One more.
England. - Oh, fuck.
OK... France.
Can I try stacking? - Yes. If it falls over, I'll kill you.
You're kidding. - No.
Say a country. Germany. Iceland. - Should I say a country? Andorra.
No, you said it. This doesn't work. We can't get it any higher.
I think we have to stop here. - Yes, we'll do that.
Alright, but... This wasn't so bad.
It wasn't bad. - Very good.
We could've went like this... - You could have been more "gazelle-like".
But it was quite tall.
It was decently done. Are you satisfied? - Not until we see the others.
The tower was five cans tall. You can get the height right away.
It corresponds to 82 centimetres.
Then we'll take a look at how the others did it.
But before we look at that, there's another clip we have to show.
Oh yes, I know what you mean. - Yes.
"Build the tallest tower of cans."
"15 minutes earlier..."
Take a seat.
OK...
"Make your team lose."
"If your team loses the task, you get five points."
"If the team wins, you get zero points."
"If someone suspects you of sabotaging on purpose, you get two minus points."
This is very good.
This is fun! This is fun! - I have to say this.
You have been skeptical of all the tasks in the whole series,
until you are told to be a quisling and a traitor.
Then you are purely optimistic.
Yes! There it is.
There's no point in delaying this. - No, there's not.
We can take a look at how the mole Espen copes with the extra pressure.
Let's run and get cans.
Are we sure that this is the hips? I'm not sure...
We don't have time to discuss where your hips are.
Espen, just put it there.
Are you sure? Shouldn't we google "what are hips"?
Wait.
Don't take any until we have found out if we're right about the hips.
We will soon run out of time!
Okay, then we don't need to google hips.
Now I'll start. Japan!
China!
Japan!
What did you say? - Japan.
We can't say the same country twice. - Are you completely...
OK...
How were you chosen to participate in this show?
He said Japan.
What did you say? I was so concerned about the hips.
Japan and Japan must go back. - What? Do both have to go back?
Japan and Japan need to go back. Live, you can keep going.
Now I have said China, Espen.
Sweden! - Japan!
What? - Japan has been said.
But we started over. - Japan must go back.
Can't we just do our thing, and Espen does his thing?
Azerbaijan. Espen!
I can't think of anything.
Armenia.
That's what I was going to say.
Now I have to think of a different country.
Ethiopia.
Sudan.
Are they going on top, or what?
Are we building up? - Yes.
No, fuck!
You're kidding.
OK. - OK. If you stand there…
Like that. Stand completely still.
This is not happening. Sorry.
Mongolia.
Do you know why I came up with that, Espen?
Are... Are you like this?
Are you really like this, Espen?
I am not good at practical stuff.
Why are you building it so wide?
Mexico! Because you'll knock it over.
You must have your hand on your hip. - Yes. Oi, oi, oi.
Now I have a brilliant idea.
Help me with this table. I have a brilliant idea.
I'm afraid this isn't a very brilliant idea, but that's okay.
Like this. Then this will be higher than... Let's get his help too.
Antigua and Barbuda. - Get it up there.
France? Has that been said? - Before the time is up.
Tell us when there are ten seconds left.
I don't want this in my face. It'll fall...
Then we'll lift it. How much time is left?
You have 30 seconds. - Three two one! Stable.
Careful. - Come on. No.
There! No! There. And then...
Ten seconds left.
Portugal! - No, you know what... We'll...
No! - Time's up.
I think we have reason to be satisfied. At least...
some of us.
You look very upset.
Yes, but that's because...
I thought I liked Espen Eckbo.
That was...
Be careful. - Oh, a hug.
How nice. - I've been telling...
I've been telling everyone I know that you're a fucking idiot.
Honestly, I've told everyone I know that you're
definitely going to end up in last place,
and that you are a fool like no other.
I am very happy that you have disproved that.
That's nice...
That was... You went out really hard, Espen.
I have to say, you didn't try to camouflage it all that much.
It wasn't necessary either. - No, it was...
You just had to play "the fool".
There was something about not being exposed.
It looked like you could do anything without arousing suspicion.
Excuse me. This was the first time I'd met Espen.
Like, ever. - What a first impression.
What a wonderful first impression.
That might explain the weird chemistry
we have had since...
Yes, that explains it.
I was furious after that task.
I saw that there were real feelings.
Wonderful. - It was amazing.
How did the team actually do?
The team? They got two towers... Or rather, two cans.
But none of the cans were on the correct table.
Zero centimetres. No tower.
Espen. You managed to sabotage so that your team lost. You get five points.
Live and Kristoffer, you get zero points.
Henriette and Martha, the five-pointer is already taken.
So you get the highest you can get: four points.
Yes, that's good. - We got four!
Four! - These are the scores.
And in total, we can see that today, the standings are like this.
Oi, oi, oi. Look at that. Espen and Live at the very top.
But now we have been sitting in these very comfortable chairs for far too long.
Let's move up on to the stage. Last task!
Hello, and welcome to "Don't run out of macaroons!"
Yes, the participants have macaroons in front of them.
They must always put forward the same amount of macaroons,
or more, than the previous participant,
and the last one to run out of macaroons wins.
But this makes it a bit interesting:
Each participant must say how many they have put forward, but they can lie.
If they are caught lying, they must give the number they reported in their lie
to the person who exposed them.
If a participant wrongly accuses someone of lying,
they must give up the same number to the accused.
When someone is checked for lying, we start from scratch.
Then the next person can put forward as many macaroons
as they want. Alright.
Henriette. You are the closest. You get the honour of starting.
Then I put forward three macaroons. Done.
Oh, great.
Thank you, Henriette. Then it's my turn.
I choose to put forward...
Three macaroons. I'm done.
Thank you, Kristoffer.
Are you going to keep this formal tone throughout?
I also put forward three macaroons. Espen?
Then I also put forward three macaroons.
Lie!
You reported a lie.
Okay. Then I'll go over and have a look.
It wasn't a lie. You lose... - Fuck!
Oi! - Darn.
No, you can just say "fuck". Here you go.
It's Live's turn.
You can take one, or as many as you like.
Yes.
Then I put forward one macaroon.
Henriette?
I'll raise you one and put forward two. Done.
Yes...
Then I have to take two macaroons too. Done.
I put forward three macaroons. Done.
Lie! - A lie?
Then we can go and see.
Yes, it was a lie! You reported three.
Then you lose three. There you go. - Cool.
Espen. You can set the standard. How do you choose to set it?
Then I'll put forward three.
Lie! And cursed poetry.
"Lie and cursed poetry"? A nice sentence, but...
It was a lie. - It was a lie.
What are you whining about down there?
What does this have to do with you, Henriette?
I'm here too... in this game.
Are you going to start meddling?
Yes, sorry. - Live! Go ahead.
I go for…
I play low and go for one.
Lie! - Yes?
Yes, it's...
It's a lie. Here you go.
That's okay. - Henriette?
I put forward two macaroons, and I'm done.
Lie! - Unfortunately, it's not a lie.
But you only have one left, so you are out.
You can go sit over there.
Martha. Your turn.
I'll start by putting forward one macaroon.
Lies, lies and more lies.
A clever lie-call.
Martha put forward zero because she has zero.
You should have been out already. Sit down.
I was waiting for it.
Espen?
Go ahead.
I have so few left that I have to lie and say one.
Done, then.
Live?
I don't have the balls to do more, so I'll do the same. One.
That's a lie.
I keep forgetting that she's still here, the little one behind that curtain.
It's a lie. - Unfortunately, it's not a lie.
I'm here too. - Here you go, Live.
Henriette? - I have put forward...
two macaroons. Done.
Lie! - Yes?
It wasn't a lie? - It wasn't a lie. I'm here too!
Espen. Your turn. - One macaroon.
Three macaroons. Done.
Liar.
Liar? That is correct.
You can thank Martha, Live.
Martha! You... - No no!
Fucking... - No!
Thank Martha? For what? - She sitting there commenting!
What are we going to laugh at if we can't comment a little?
Then you lost yours, Live, because you lied. Your three.
Now it's getting really exciting!
I put forward one lemon and one chocolate. Done.
I... OK.
Then I put forward... two.
That's one mango and one...
wheat.
Wheat? - Live?
I think it's a lie.
I think it's pistachios.
She didn't... she's kidding. - No, I said "lie".
He didn't put any. You can go and sit down. You are out.
Here you get those two. - You haven't won yet! I'm here too!
Yes, but we got rid of Espen!
Then we are in a kind of final. - We are.
Live? - Yes, then it will be...
Two.
She reports two? - Yes.
Then I raise. - You're not accusing her of lying.
So you get a clean slate. - Yes.
Then I put forward three pistachios. I am done.
No, I'm going to say lie.
That was clever of you...
Yes!
...because that means that Henriette...
you have none left!
You can go and sit on the loser's bench.
We'll take an ever-so-small summary down in our seats.
Yes... complicated rules make for complicated scores.
The one who came last...
You've all seen it, but I'll say it anyway.
Kristoffer in last place. Martha, second last.
Espen, three points, in the middle. Henriette, four points, second place.
And Live, you won this task. Five points. Congratulations.
The scores are like this.
Then we'll take a look at the overall standings in today's programme.
It is Live Nelvik who runs away with the victory.
Come up on stage and receive all these things,
which are needed on a Sunday morning.
It's getting closer at the top. In two weeks we'll know
who runs away with the bust and lots of congratulatory messages on Instagram.
See you in a week for a new episode filled with spectacle and fun.
Goodbye!
Original Norwegian subs: Mille Marie Myhre (Iyuno-SDI Group)
English translation: u/msbtvxq
Proofreading: u/taskmastermaster