"If you're naked, honk three times." [a quote from the previous episode, for some reason]
Welcome to Drammen's theatre and Kongen Befaler,
a drama filled with schemes, tragedies, and a comedy in 10 acts.
We've reached Act 9, where it's time to hone in on the final act.
Joining us are skilled stage artists who portray five complex characters
in the battle to win the heart of the ugliest main character,
a bust in gold of me.
Neither Shakespeare nor [Henrik] Ibsen created works without writing in
a distance gauge, timekeeper, or weighmaster, and so have we.
It's Olli Wermskog!
Much obliged for your wonderful introduction, Merchant Antonsen.
I wonder how the competition will play out in this great hall.
The stage is not yours, Olli. It does, however, belong to these five,
who will battle, fight and trip: County Governor Snorre Monsson...
Mother Amalie Stuve,
master builder Anne Marit Jacobsen,
Doctor Abu Hussain,
and housemate Alex Rosén!
There we are.
Yes! We're here as usual, and we'll see five items this lot brought along
in a category I've given you.
And what's that category? - Today, I've asked you
to bring in something that you find very beautiful!
Right? That's a nice task.
Let's start with you, Alex. What do you find beautiful?
I've brought a mirror.
Here you'll see... - Yes.
That helped!
And that one too. - That helped a lot.
Alright!
That's brilliant. Bloody great!
It helped a lot when you started sharing it.
You became beautiful too. - Yes, it worked out.
It was effective.
And I'll give you that. You are efficient.
Snorre, what have you brought that's beautiful?
I could've brought so much.
I could've brought a poem, a song,
the sound of rain, the laughter of children.
But there's nothing so beautiful, Atle, nothing!
Like the female body.
Right, I see.
Oh... - Look at this!
Look at this! - Yes. Yes, it's great.
I feel like you've kind of switched prizes with Alex.
Alex woke up all of a sudden. He's like, "ha-ha-ha".
Amalie, what have you got?
I found this really hard. I think a lot of things are beautiful.
I'm easily pleased.
My girlfriends have to go backpacking to get a buzz.
For me, a trip to Storo Storsenter will have me bubbling on the inside. [shopping centre in Oslo]
So I've brought along the prettiest thing I know.
And that's my sourdough starter.
Yes. - Wow.
Sourdough starter.
Just look at that! - Very nice.
Your sourdough starter? Fantastic.
That's a small community in itself. - It brings out my maternal instinct.
Because it's not that pretty at first sight, but it can turn
into the most beautiful breads and buns, and whatnot.
"The Ugly Duckling" for now, though.
It's like a baby. If you take good care of this little ugly one,
it might turn into something nice.
And you have to feed it too? - I do. And it like I always say,
"When the sourdough starter starts bubbling, I'm bubbling too."
That's a good summary. - End quote.
Anne Marit, what have you brought that's beautiful?
Oh god...
It's so beautiful, I'm shaking. - What is it?
It's a sculpture by someone called Aaron Lee.
This helped me through Covid,
because I think it resembles a coronavirus.
During Covid... I've probably had Covid around 34 times.
Every time I got infected, I thought,
"No wonder this is hell. It's painful to have inside."
Imagine having 34,000 of these inside of you. Of course it hurts.
But the coronavirus is beautiful, and so is this.
It's cool, I agree.
Abu, you're here too.
As you know, I'm not very fond of beautiful things.
Not into pretty things?
I tried to do what he did with the mirror, but...
I actually didn't know that.
I try to like things that are pretty and stuff, but I never felt it
until I had my cats.
This is Billy and Lucy.
You conniving bastard!
They're the most beautiful, gentlest cats.
When I come home, they cuddle with me. It's a beautiful sight.
It's beautiful to be around them. - But you have a girlfriend and kids?
I'm talking about...
We're not talking about them right now.
I wanted to bring the cats, but that was too much.
You don't get how beautiful they are. If you look at this...
Oh, yes... - It was really cute, though.
Trying to get into my cynical, ironic heart of stone using cats.
And it's working.
They're beautiful. - Yes.
We've seen five completely different things.
It's a somewhat charged thing to score,
particularly the lower scores, when someone thinks it's beautiful.
But I will be stone cold, here. Cynical.
Alex, I'm coming to you. I'll give you 1 point.
The same goes for Snorre.
1 point? Okay.
He looks so scary when he gets a low score. I'm going to miss this.
This is as high as I can go with the cats. 3 points.
4 points for the sculpture, and 5 points for the starter.
It's just... - Girl power! Right?
It's us girls, right? We're at the top?
Yes, in this particular task. - We'll see from one task to the next.
Oh, sorry. - Enjoy it while it lasts, you two.
We've had shelfing tasks before. It's been a while.
Time for another one. - It's high time.
Or high shelf. - Or to be more precise,
it's high time for a high shelf. - Yes!
Hello. - Hello.
Oh, shit.
What? - Is there's something up there.
"Put the letter back on the shelf."
"Fastest one wins. Your time starts now."
What a pity you took that down. - Yes!
What?!
"What" indeed.
Is it an impossible task? - Well...
If you're 5 metres tall, you can put it back in the normal way.
But of course, they're not.
But there are other ways besides the traditional and doltish way
of putting the letter on the shelf.
And we've got this lot, who never do anything doltish.
Say no more! Let's see all of them.
You're going out on the roof? - Yes.
I don't think we're allowed to send you on the roof.
Why not? - You're not secured.
Secured? I'm not going to fall down.
No, but I don't think... Alex.
Alex?
I'll secure myself to this.
He said no. - Yes.
Granny knot or reef knot, Hi-De-Ho, that's what we've got.
Are you good at throwing? - Really good.
Watch out now. Watch out! Go away!
Missed.
What's the plan?
To throw this one over, and then raise the letter up.
Whoa!
Extreme basketball? - Yes. Whoa!
Not the best way, perhaps, but the least dangerous one.
You got it? - It's too dangerous. You'll die.
Die? I won't die.
Oh! I probably won't be the fastest.
No...
It's not that far away. - No, but it's too far away!
I've never been this angry at anyone before.
It's just so stupid.
That's it. I've stopped the clock.
Anne Marit Jacobsen probably has her head out of that window. Hello!
Yes!
Holy crap!
Oh god! It worked! - It worked!
The letter is on the shelf. - Yes.
You know what? That was it. You can stop the clock.
Okay. - It was on the shelf. Thank you!
There's a window. - Yes.
I stopped the clock.
I'm proud of myself. That was good.
You never take the long way, Abu? - Why bother?
Efficient. - It was pretty quick.
You solved the task with panache. - Yes, you were by far the fastest.
Your time was 2 minutes 36 seconds. That's very good.
Alex was up to something dangerous, as usual.
Have you never been to a house with a high roof before?
Not that steep. - You were still going out there.
I'd tie myself to the chimney, lower myself down, and put it in the box.
Luckily, Olli's in charge of health and safety.
He said I wasn't allowed. - Yes, he's authorised to do that.
I don't say no that often, but I did that then.
Couldn't bear to have that on my conscience.
For Snorre, it was a matter of "bringing the shelf to me".
It wasn't a bad idea. - No.
Eventually, that is. It took a bit of time.
Anne Marit, the window was clever.
You just thought of it a bit late. - Yes.
Have you thrown a lot of lifelines? - I touched it on my first throw.
Yes, we saw that. We didn't cut anything out.
Amalie, is the letter on the shelf? Is it on the shelf?
That'll be exciting to see, won't it?
It happened so fast. Did it actually touch the shelf?
Let's have a look. We have a close-up.
Let's see if it's on the shelf or not?
That's dramatic.
Yes, it is! - Yeah!
Yes. We'll approve that one too, of course.
It was a close call. - Yes, close.
Your task was to get the letter back on the shelf as quickly as possible.
Yours was approved, Amalie, but it was the slowest. 11 minutes 30 seconds.
That's 1 point. Anne Marit was 5 seconds faster than Amalie.
Snorre, it took you 7 minutes 3 seconds.
Alex, 6 minutes 17 seconds.
And Abu, as mentioned, 2 minutes 36 seconds.
5 points to Abu. We can see the score here.
Overall, the scores look like this.
Look at that, Abu! It's very close, but Abu holds the top spot.
We won't fail to mention that.
It's time for a commercial break.
We're nearing the end, Olli. I'm a bit fed up.
Tired of making rules and deciding things.
We did let the contestants make the rules for this task.
That's great! - Let's have a look, while you relax.
Is this it?
Where's the entrance? - It's right there.
Egg. Egg cup.
"Make a rule for a Kongen Befaler task"
"which involves putting an egg in an egg cup as quickly as possible."
You have to be clever about this. It could hurt the others, I imagine.
Or I have to do it myself.
You won't say.
"Use your mouth. Regards, Alex." - Yes.
What if I'm the one doing the task afterwards?
Maybe it's best to keep it simple.
I'll make a nice rule so that it'll go well either way.
You have to... sing while you do it.
Abu's not that fond of singing.
The egg cup needs to be on top of the egg.
So an upside-down egg cup.
Maintain eye contact with the camera throughout.
While performing the task? - Huh?
Yes. - Yes.
Good luck! - Yes.
I'll go for distance, but in case I'm doing it myself,
it won't be that far.
"Start at the lab. Carry the egg to the egg cup on the balcony."
There you go. - Thank you!
That's it? - That's it.
You weren't sure at the end there, Abu.
Yes, I didn't understand if that was the whole task.
You were puzzled.
The contestants had to make a typical rule for a classic task.
Put an egg in an egg cup as quick as you can.
Then all five rules were put together into the same task.
Then everyone had to perform the task with all the rules they made.
Then what? - Let's have a look.
The egg.
There's that egg again.
Now I remember the task I wrote for myself.
"Put this egg in the egg cup. You must follow these rules."
"Use your mouth to move the egg."
So we got the rules that everyone wrote. Got it.
"Sing while performing the task."
"Maintain eye contact with the camera throughout."
That's your rule. - Did I come up with that?
When have I ever done that? - The last time you were here.
I did not.
"The egg cup must be on top of the egg."
"Start at the lab. The egg cup is on the balcony."
"Fastest one wins. Your time starts now."
♪ I come from the sea, I flap with the wind ♪
♪ I'm looking into the camera, I will get it up ♪
♪ Let's see if there's an egg cup here? ♪
♪ I'll put it on top of the egg! ♪
Thoughts? - I think I did a decent job.
I've stopped the clock. - That was mean.
How cruel to make a girl to this.
I did it! - Do you think you'll win?
Of course. My mum was a singer.
How nice. - Bye!
Yes. Very good.
Too bad it wasn't a singing contest, Anne Marit. This was lovely.
It was so much fun! - Yes!
Really lovely.
But they didn't just have to sing. - That's right.
You didn't look very clever doing it.
That's always fun to watch. - You're used to it.
How was your head, Alex? You really took a hit.
It happened every single time. Every day.
I had wounds all over my head.
It looked like it hurt like hell.
But that was comedic perfection. - Yes.
That's where I score the highest. - It is.
Snorre, you went backwards
instead of letting the camera go backwards. It was tactful.
But did it pay off? That depends. - Yes. We can mention one more thing.
You all broke one rule. We've checked it thoroughly.
You all looked away from the camera during the task.
We're going to strike that rule, instead of disqualifying everyone.
Do you object? - Do you want to get zero points?
I like that you'd rather have everyone disqualified.
Including you.
Would you like some results? - Absolutely.
The one who took the longest was you, Snorre: 2 minutes 28 seconds.
Then there's Amalie: 1 minute 38 seconds.
Anne Marit: 1 minute 33 seconds. - Number three. Yes!
Abu: 1 minute 24 seconds.
The fastest, even though he knocked his head, was Alex: 1 minute 12 seconds.
Whoa! - Wow!
Yes. - I'm back in third place.
Things are flowing nicely now, so let's just keep going.
It's been a while since we've had a rubber duck task.
At least four or five episodes ago. - We're going to rectify that.
Hello.
Oh, I don't like heights. I get like... You know?
My stomach drops. - It drops?
It's both nice and scary at the same time.
Here we go.
I'm a flamingo. - Yes.
This is supposed to be on your hip.
Like this? Oh, yes. There you go.
"Make the rubber duck hit the ground in the garden. You have one try."
"Your time starts when the rubber duck leaves the balcony."
"The second longest time from the balcony to the ground wins."
The second longest time? It's about spending the most time?
That's right.
Anne Marit, you've summed it up beautifully.
Take the second longest time to get the rubber duck down to the garden.
The contestant with the second longest gets 5 points.
The who takes the second, second longest gets 4 points, and so on.
The person with the longest time only gets 1 point.
Alex, you looked absolutely beautiful.
If we'd been generous, you would've gotten extra points for dressing up.
You had a reason for doing it.
When wearing that costume, you get double the amount of points.
You get one shot at that in 10 shows.
Did I have the second longest time?
We'll see if it paid off. - We haven't gotten that far yet.
You're getting ahead of yourself. You're a restless bastard.
Well see if using the costume paid off in the task
involving getting the duck down in the second longest time.
I'm going to press play. - Press play, Olli.
I'm going to be tactical about this. What I think... Someone...
Abu, for example, will read this and just throw it right away.
If I just take a little more time than a stupid person would...
It's so good. Why am I so good at this?
You tell me?
It leaves the balcony when I pick it up.
I'll start now, and I'll just carry it down.
Yes, so it leaves... - The balcony now.
What do you think the others did? - They've picked it up like this.
I'll start the clock now, then. - Go ahead.
I have one try. That's what I'm doing now.
Second longest.
Alex Rosén and Abu are impatient.
Snorre is quite patient, actually. Maybe he's sitting like this, too.
I'll just go for it.
The danger here is that if no-one has considered that you don't have to
get it directly from the balcony down to the garden...
If the others aren't sitting around waiting, I'm by far the slowest.
There! That landed in the garden? - Yes.
You threw it down there. - I panicked.
Like this.
And then we'll go out here.
Yes. I stopped the clock.
It's time for a commercial break. We'll see you in a bit.
Yes.
Long live creativity.
Three boys did the same thing in a very short space of time.
Thank you very much for your efforts, gentlemen.
I don't know about gentlemen... - It was well below par.
Only the girls managed to think a bit further than the tip of their noses.
A solid execution it was not, but we did take some times.
We did. I'll just get straight to it. Or does anyone want to say something?
Yes. You're saying that the women here are only slightly more intelligent.
Just a tiny bit more!
That's not very generous.
I don't know if we're opening up a debate right now.
I'd also like to say a something...
Boys, boys, boys...
Yes, Snorre... - Charming.
Snorre, 2.054 seconds.
That's the fastest.
Abu, 2.068 seconds.
Alex, 2.088 seconds.
So there's that.
Boys, boys, boys...
Yours was better. - The second longest.
And then there's Anne Marit, with whopping 55 seconds.
We saw earlier, Amalie,
that you were the slowest, with a total of 3 minutes 44 seconds.
Anne Marit was the second slowest, and gets 5 points.
Amalie gets 1 point, Snorre 2, Abu 3.
Alex came in second, but you get 8 points.
Anne Marit gets 5 points in this task.
The total scores today are these. - Alright, Alex!
But it's still possible to improve your score.
It's time for our studio task. Up you go!
It's time for a quiz! Yes, that's fun.
Throughout the series, our audience have answered a questionnaire
about how they perceive you.
You need to guess what you think the majority of our audience answered.
If you answer correctly, take a step forward. If not, you must stay where you are.
The first person to break the grid will get 5 points,
and then we'll count backwards.
Okay. Are you ready? - Yes.
Which contestant will most likely say yes to nude modelling?
Which one of you would most likely say yes to nude modelling?
It looks like everyone's ready. You can turn your answers around.
Alex, Alex, Alex, Alex, Alex.
I can tell you that 53.3% of our audience have said Alex.
Everyone can take a step forward.
Yes. Next question.
Which contestant finds him or herself the funniest?
You can all turn around.
Let's see. Snorre, Alex... Is that you? AM, Anne Marit.
Snorre and Alex.
38.9% said Snorre.
Yes! - Hey!
Which contestant would lose their temper first
in a red vs. yellow juice discussion?
What does the audience think? Who will lose their temper first?
Is it difficult, Amalie? - Yes.
I'm trying to imagine discussing it with the others. It's hard.
Just take a chance. - Yes.
Done? Turn your boards around.
Abu, Abu, Abu, Abu, and Amalie.
It was pretty much a tie, but 22.6% answered Snorre.
You can all stay put.
A different kind of question now.
Which contestant is the best kisser?
Oh my god! - Yes.
I'll be disappointed if it's not me. - No-one will say it's me.
Oh my god!
Did you all answer? Turn your boards around.
Alex, Amalie, Amalie, Alex, and Alex.
The others guessed it was them, and so did they. Nice!
48.1% answered Amalie. So to those who answered that...
Me too. - Thank you!
Next.
Which contestant spends the least amount of money on their appearance?
Wow!
You're looking around at each other.
It's not really who's doing it, but what the audience think.
No! - It's hard. I don't know
what they're thinking. - It's a little hard to guess.
Are you done? Turn your boards around.
Snorre, Abu, Abu, Abu, and Anne Marit.
Anne Marit for you as well. Sorry.
It was almost the same here, but 26.7% went with Anne Marit.
Yes. Yes, yes.
Okay. Here comes the next one.
Which contestant is the most intelligent?
According to the audience, that is.
Did they answer before or after seeing the show?
I won't answer that.
All done? Turn your boards around.
Anne Marit, Snorre, Snorre, Anne Marit, and Anne Marit.
You voted for me? That's awesome!
But 30.7% of the audience answered Alex.
Before, then.
And now...
Which contestant is most into their celebrity status?
Turn them around.
Abu, Alex, Alex, Abu, Abu.
With 37% of the votes, Snorre.
What?!
I don't give a shit about that! - What kind of an audience is this?
Which contestant would most likely buy beer for underage teens?
Could be anybody.
All done? Good! Turn them around.
Alex, Abu, Alex, Abu, Snorre.
37.3% of the people in the audience think it's Alex.
Yes! - Wow.
Bloody hell.
I haven't moved up once.
Which contestant is the most stingy?
Wow! - Bloody hell.
The most stingy.
I don't know them that well! - That may be.
Maybe the audience knows them better than I do.
All done? Turn your boards around.
Abu, Anne Marit, Anne Marit, Abu, and what's that?
Amalie? - Amalie. Sorry.
Hello!
With 28.9% of the votes, Abu.
Yes!
Which contestant has the most untidy home?
What does the audience think?
Did you all answer? Turn them around.
Alex, Alex, Abu, Alex, Abu.
You're all wrong. 34.6% think it's Snorre.
Yup. You're a messy mess.
The people are always right, remember that.
Which contestant is the dumbest?
No, wait... - I can't.
You'd better write my name now!
All done? - Yes.
Okay. Turn them around.
Snorre, Alex... What did you write, Anne Marit? Anne Marit, Abu, and Abu.
The correct answer, with 38% of the votes...
That's Snorre.
What a great character!
Which contestant spends the most amount of money on their appearance?
Have you all answered? Turn them around.
Let's see...
Alex, Amalie. What have you written? Snorre.
Amalie and Abu.
With 53.2% of the votes, Amalie.
Aliens come to earth and ask to be brought to your leader.
Which contestant would you take them to?
Very well put. - Thank you very much!
Did you all answer? Turn them around.
What does that say? Alex, Anne Marit...
"Me"? Meaning you. Anne Marit and Abu.
44.7% have answered Alex!
We have a winner.
Congratulations! We'll do a recap when we're back in our seats.
It was both a fun and interesting task.
People aren't always right, but surprisingly often, Snorre.
The insights were impeccable. There can only be one winner.
Let's hear the scores, Olli. - Yes. We know who won.
You were awarded points based on your positions.
At the back, Alex, 1 point. Amalie, 2.
Anne Marit and Abu, 4 points. - Yes!
Snorre, 5 points. Congratulations!
Here it is.
There are the scores. Then let's see who won today's show,
the penultimate one of the season. It was...
It's a tie between Abu and Alex!
How very nice. Congratulations!
Now you can share these five beautiful things like brothers.
The battle for the bust is heating up.
We'll be back next time with a finale.
Remember, if you hang a shelf too high up your outer wall,
make sure it's near a window. Thank you for watching!
So long. - Bye!
Original English subtitles: Eli Bjanes (LinQ Media Group)
Additions and adjustments: u/taskmastermaster