"Is it Jan Eggum?"
Welcome to Kongen Befaler, once again from Drammen Theatre,
the show that even after 11 seasons doesn't seem to be showing wear and tear.
One who's starting to wear at the edges and become threadbare
is my right hand on the left, Olli Wermskog!
Thank you for that.
Well, it's kind of your choice. You could've given me a new suit,
a new shoe, a watch, or something. - That's not gonna happen.
I've been spending an awful lot of money lately on the prize.
Of course, most people know that is a bust in gold of me.
Made of gold...
It holds up well.
As you can see, this isn't free.
From here, I can see one out of two holding up pretty good.
Did I mention gold?
I didn't get that. - Then we let it pass.
Joining us this season is a five-leaf clover
in which everyone's first name begins with an 'A', with a small exception.
Snorre Monsson!
Amalie Stuve.
Anne Marit Jacobsen.
Abu Hussain.
Alex Rosén.
Should we start the show? - Yeah, let's get started.
Yeah, and to put on a show, we need to start today's first task.
The prize task.
The contestants have been told to bring something in a category you've chosen.
What's today's category?
Funny you should ask. Today, I've been inspired by you.
The category is: Bring something you don't understand the point of.
Then I've misunderstood.
Yes, who do I want to start with?
Who do I want to start with?
The one who's misunderstood? - I'll start with Anne Marit.
You misunderstood the task?
I've misunderstood a little. - Then we'll start with you.
Something you don't understand the point of. What did you bring?
What is it? - You look like you're on the ball.
Are those castanets...?
Castanets? Is that flamenco equipment?
Are you asking me?
No, I'm not asking you. - Don't I look like a flamenco dancer?
I understand... - I thought you said "was beneficial".
But how to use them, it's... I want it to be like this...
Right? That's how they're supposed to be.
What's happening now? - They've come in handy now, though.
How you do it... - Somebody teach me how to use these.
We can say the answer is delivered.
Good!
Abu.
You know me, Atle.
And I love food, but I don't understand the point of...
...tapas.
No, but that was...
This meal cost 16,000 kroner. [£1,100 / US$1,400]
No exaggeration. - Tapas is less food for more money.
I could eat that on my own.
I don't like tapas, I hate tapas. - That brie gets chewy at the end.
It goes a bit stale at the end.
Unnecessary food. - Not a tapas fan?
If I'm going to buy meatballs to eat,
I would like more than three.
I see.
Also it takes a lot of time to make six dishes.
No. It doesn't.
It doesn't. - Okay.
I guess you just heat them. - It's simple.
There are many ways to do it.
Wow, Alex. What did you bring?
Then you have to stand up.
Do I have to? - Yeah, just stand up a little bit.
What I don't understand the point of is decorative pillows.
For example, if you're going to sit here...
And then you're supposed to have pillows everywhere.
Why don't you try to sit now?
Yeah, yeah. - Like, sit there.
It's not quite the same.
It's actually impossible.
Oh, pillows.
There it is.
And especially the ones that go into bed every morning.
And get taken out again every night. A nightmare. We know that.
And there's loads of them.
You are on the mark, mate!
Especially when you have them in your boat.
In your boat? I'll give them back.
You didn't have that many decorative pillows when you explored the pole?
No, not one thing was about decorations.
Yeah, good. Snorre?
I think you might relate to this, Atle.
Scarves...
For us neckless people.
My brother, my brother! - It's not much use.
The jacket is enough!
I can relate. No point trying it on. We know what it looks like.
It's the same with turtleneck shirts. I don't wear them much.
Because I can't see when I'll put one on.
But you're absolutely right.
Okay. Amalie, what have you brought that you don't understand the point of?
I brought a beach bag. - A beach bag?
My personal one. It's not the bag I don't understand the point of.
I love being at the beach.
What I don't understand the point of is what comes with a beach bag.
When I go swimming people will come and ask:
"Could you please look after my stuff while I go swimming?"
I'm a pretty anxious person. - Is that so?
So if a thief comes along when I'm supposed to
look after someone's beach bag, is it my responsibility
to get up from my beach towel to tell that thief: "No"?
"Oh, ho! No. No, you just don't."
"That's where I draw the line. Yeah."
The bag just makes it easier for the thief to grab everything.
What I don't understand the point of is that question.
Because I won't risk my life if a thief wants someone's panties.
And I'm sure you wouldn't dare say no to looking after it, either.
I don't. I say "Yes, of course."
The opposite happens to me. They think I'm the thief.
No-one asks me. - They say "Whoa, whoa."
The tasks are solved. Five out of five.
What are you thinking? - I've been thinking while talking.
Not everyone can do that.
Now I'll think while being quiet. - So that's what it looks like.
Oh, my gosh. It's pretty close here. I have a winner.
You're saving that one? - For last.
No-one deserves to lose entirely.
Everyone starts at 2. No-one will get just 1 point.
There are 2 for everyone so far.
Of course, I love the support
of someone else without a neck. That's 3 points for you.
The beach bag moves up to 3 as well.
You misunderstood, but charmed your way to 3 points, Anne Marit.
Who's left on 2 now? Hardly anyone.
Abu and Alex. - You get 3 for the tapas.
That just leaves Alex on 2 points, and he's getting 5.
Yeah. - Alright!
A five, and four threes.
I have such an indescribable hatred of decorative pillows
that it's absolutely bang on. It just hit me right in the heart.
Now, I'm going to try to shake off my anger.
Now it's off.
I can't get enough of letters. Letters. I'm so fond of letters.
Letters, letters, letters... Can never be enough letters.
You want a task with a bunch of letters?
At least three. Three letters. Mustn't get carried away.
Hello! - Hey!
Wow! Yes.
Pretzel sticks, pat of butter, jelly lump.
Letter.
- And?
Letter.
You can choose one of them. - One of them...
That one. - That one?
"Throw one item in the bucket. Don't move the bucket or rope."
"Eat one of the items before you open the next letter."
This one, then. - Okay.
"Balance one of the items on your head. The fastest wins."
"Your time starts when you open the first letter,"
"and ends when all three tasks are completed."
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Three things to do and three things to do it with.
There are three letters and tasks that must be completed.
The fastest to complete all three tasks wins.
Let's see how it went. - We'll start with Snorre and Abu.
"Balance one of the things on your head."
It's best to take the heaviest thing. I have good hair.
Okay?
"Throw one of the things in the bucket."
I'll start with this.
No!
Come on. Okay.
What's that on the butter? - A little cinnamon stick...
Now you're wasting time.
"Eat one of the things."
What was that?
"Balance one of the things on your head." I'll take the pretzel.
Put it in the hair a little bit.
"Eat one of the things."
Well, that's you, little jelly lump.
Oh...
Do you regret your choices?
Oh!
There. - Okay. Thanks for dessert!
Yeah.
Not so fond of jelly, Snorre? - No, it was a little sickening.
It got a little stale at the end. - Stale? That's good.
Looks like you finished pretty fast. Abu?
Very fast. Was it thought out?
No.
You laugh when I accuse you of doing something well-thought-out.
It's not possible to do that in a well-thought-out way.
Just gut feeling? - Yes.
How long did it take them to finish?
It took Snorre a while to finish his jelly.
He ended up at 4 minutes 57 seconds.
Abu, 2 minutes 2 seconds. That's good! - Good. Three more to go on the list.
Absolutely. - Oh, I can't bear it.
We'll see. Maybe it'll be okay.
"Eat one of the items before opening the next letter."
"Balance one of the items on your head."
So I'm supposed to just balance it on my head? I'll go with that one.
"Throw one of the items in the bucket."
That was a hit.
Oh!
"Balance one of the items on your head." Oh...
Done. - Yeah.
That's it.
Don't laugh! - No.
This is hard enough as it is.
"Eat one of the items."
Stops time there.
"Throw one of the items in the bucket."
Should I stop time? - Yes, stop time.
Bye! - Bye!
Alex, it wasn't hard to get you to eat the jelly. That was quick.
I'm very fond of jelly.
But did you eat all the jelly?
We didn't see that I dropped any.
Wait, should we... - Do you know what we did? Filmed it.
Look at that now.
It wasn't just a mouthful that disappeared, either.
I didn't catch that. - No.
Then you would have eaten it. - Yes.
Now I'm playing a guy who's sad to say "Disqualified!"
Wow! - You are disqualified for this.
It bothers me to do it, because you ate with panache.
You only ate half of it.
How sad this turned out.
One man's loss... You'll get more points out of this.
But I didn't win? - No. Do you want to know your time?
Because that would be wrong.
Do you feel oppressed? - No...
Do it with Olli. - Yes, your time was 4 minutes 2 seconds.
Snorre used 4 minutes 57 seconds, Amalie 2 minutes 35 seconds, and Abu 2 minutes 2 seconds.
What about me?
2 minutes 8 seconds. So you'd come second.
But you get zero points, I'm afraid.
But then you remember this as a second place.
It's so right!
Okay, well, let's take a look at the scores here.
Today's total is like this.
Wow! It's close. - It's close now.
We're going to have some advertising. I'll be right back.
Is it simply time for a little homemade Olympiad?
Yes, I think it's the time for now. Without an opening ceremony?
Without an opening ceremony, yes. Just get on with it.
Hi. - Hi.
Hello.
Good day. - Good day.
Not at all. No. Let's see.
"Invent an entirely new sport."
"Invent an entirely new sport you believe you can assert yourself in."
"The sport can't already exist."
"It must be measured in time, and have a maximum of three rules."
"You must also name the sport."
"You have 30 minutes. Your time starts now."
What can I do? I can tie...
I can braid a basket. No, I can braid my hair.
Hair braiding. One braid in the shortest time possible.
The sport is called bucket ball. - Bucket ball? Yes.
You have one minute to throw five balls.
Skipping is something I'm pretty good at.
Skipping with a ball. 60 metre skip with a ball.
Maybe you have to bounce the ball at least 20 times.
One point for white.
That's two points. Three points. That makes five.
Six. - Six? And...
Four points. And blue is 10 points.
Water wrestling.
What matters is how to bring in the most tricks.
I'm a fan of wrestling since it's a combination of violence and cuddles.
If you and I were wrestling, we'd have to wear Borat swimsuits.
50 metres of rapping. Ideal time, one minute. You have to freestyle.
Wow! - Wow. Okay.
Yeah. This was an interesting mix.
For those of us who love sports, this is a real bag of candy.
I don't know where to start.
You can choose water wrestling, 50 metres rapping,
50-60 metre skipping, and bucketballing. And then there's
hair braiding with Anne Marit.
So stupid. It's so damned boring.
It's so boring. - We'll see. Don't say that.
I think we should start with a triathlon.
A threesome? - Triathlon!
A triathlon with Amalie, Abu, and Anne Marit.
That's better.
Once I've taken the first ball, we'll start.
Go!
Zero.
No. Almost.
Last one. - Yes.
Holy shit, close!
It took you 27 seconds. Zero points. - Zero points.
Then we're all ready for the braid sprint. Ready, set, go!
You see, I think this is going to work. I think... There.
Thank you.
It took me 27 seconds? You took 49. I won.
Thank you for the match. - Thank you.
Are you ready? - Yes!
Three, two...
One. There!
And there!
I thought I'd be able to skip faster.
The marathon.
Abu, can I just repeat the task?
"Invent an entirely new sport you believe you can assert yourself in."
I won.
Yes, you won. You did.
You mean you won because you missed faster than Olli?
Yeah.
It wasn't in the rules. - It felt right at the time.
That didn't go very well. Amalie, you lost your spark along the way.
It looks like halfway down the line you start regretting your own idea.
No, it's because...
It's tactics. I thought we'd be doing each other's sports.
That's why I finish the bouncing fast,
then skipped over the finish line.
So you fell victim to your own tactics that you didn't need to have.
If you could come up with the rules, that would be a good idea. I see.
Anne Marit, braid sprint. You get credit for the name.
Braid sprint is fun. - I'm glad we edited it.
We didn't see everything. Lot's could have happened that we didn't see.
Yes, it did. - Alright!
Agreed! - I was there. Not much happened.
Three sports down, though. We got two more to go.
I reckon we're watching Snorre with his 50 metres of rapping.
Yeah.
50 metres of rapping. The starting line is between these trees,
and the finish line at the outhouse.
DJ, kick that shit. - On your mark, get set, go!
I'm race walking. You're walking with your flag at half-mast
Don't talk to me if I don't answer.
I can't give you more than a chin.
I can't be bothered to talk to you. You look so ugly.
If I'm a pillow, you're a quilt, I'll smash you with the pillow.
Put it on top of your face. Make you not breathe a thing.
I forgot to look at the clock. I got another half a minute.
Don't bother rushing. I'm walking here on the grass.
What time is it now? I wonder what time it is.
It's almost a minute. And now we're over the line!
Proud?
Very good.
Really great. Is it a sport with a lot of potential, you think?
At least for people like me.
Extend to a marathon, it would be a lot of hassle.
It would be a hassle with 400 athletes walking and rapping
for four hours. But it wasn't bad, this.
It's successful to a certain extent. Alex, you're left. You're left.
You've been dying to see this.
Yeah, but I was looking forward to seeing you, too.
Takes two to wrestle, say. - Two, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. True.
We'll see about that? - Absolutely! I'm can't wait.
Olli, pink corner.
Round one.
There!
I'll grab you there.
And then I'll jump up here. Then you have to stand there.
Like this. Bend forward.
Like this. And then... One, two, three. Down, down, down!
And then I hold you down. Like this.
And that's when it has to be counted. One, two, three.
Yes, yes! I won. Very good.
I think this will be a very good sport.
Yes... - Water wrestling.
Many impressions to digest.
Yes. - Are you okay?
Yeah, I'm okay now. - Now I feel sorry for you.
Right now, I think you're safer here with me.
You know what I'd call those wrestling moves there, Alex?
There were several: head to chest...
No, it was assault.
That's what it was.
It was so flattering with that Borat suit.
There's no underwear? - There's no insert.
Not at all. - We forgot about the swimsuits.
There were five very different sports.
How would you rate and score it?
It's both easy and hard. Let's start from the bottom.
Here. - No, Anne Marit.
Abu scores worse. You get even worse than Anne Marit.
I hope you don't mind, Abu.
You did not master the sport very well.
You mastered this to 2 points, Anne Marit. I'll give you that.
I'll give the skipping 3.
Then there's not a lot to wonder about
after the reactions. That's 5 to Alex. 4 to Snorre.
That's amazing.
No, should we see some commercials? - Yeah.
Yes, we should.
I want the best that cardboard boxes have to offer,
coupled with the best parodies have to offer.
In other words, cardboard box parody.
Not in other words.
That's exactly what it is, cardboard box parody.
Noted!
There's an awful lot of stuff here. - Thank you.
Shall I read? - Yes... I mean Abu.
I can read.
There you go.
Are we a team now? - I don't know.
Very good. - Haven't heard anything.
No!
Sorry, I picked that for the wrong task.
You picked it now?
"Make the tallest tower of cardboard boxes."
"To use a cardboard box to build the tower..."
"One of you must parody the person written in the letter"
"on the cardboard box."
"The team with the tallest cardboard box tower after five minutes wins."
Oh, holy shit. - Yeah.
It's nice to see you two together. Isn't it fun working together?
It's super fun. - It's especially nice. Cute bunch.
It's not often I use the word cute, but with you guys, I can.
Cute task.
They have to build the tallest tower of cardboard boxes, but first,
they'll have to parody the name of the one written on the cardboard box.
If they succeed, they can use the box. Otherwise, they can't use it.
There should be several good parodist here.
Amalie, you've built your whole image that you're amazing at parodying.
Aren't I right about that? - Yeah.
What stroke of luck!
That you put on the flamingo suit for this task.
The suit that allows you to double your points if you win.
Amalie's flamingo costume is on. The parody muscles are tightened.
Roll in the parody boxes.
Then we'll start with a big one. - Grab a big box.
Oh...
Olli, you're stupid.
Atle. - Yes!
Here we go. - I'll take one.
The king, the queen?
I am from Harstad.
Sophie Elise. - Yeah. [blogger, podcaster]
Ha-ha-ha-ha!
Alex Rosén? - Yeah. Sick.
Yeah. No, you have to take the letter, then, and read it.
Olli. - Yeah.
When you walk up the street there... - Alex Rosén?
...you'll find that...
The Oslo guide? - Yes. [Harald Eia comedy character]
I've been Prime Minister of Norway. - Kjell Magne Bondevik!
I eat sushi in Geilo. I'm Prime Minister.
I'm a lady, and I've been
Prime Minister of Norway. - Erna Solberg?
Oh, yeah, you...
I'm a Prime Minister from Bergen. - Yeah...
Former Prime Minister from Bergen. A woman!
Erna Solberg? I thought it was a rapper.
Not a rapper.
Shall we do those little boxes? - Yeah, I think it's just as well now.
It's Monday! It's Monday! It's Monday.
Huh? - It's Monday!
And I'm just gonna go... - Petter Stordalen. [Norwegian businessman]
Shit.
No, it has to be perfectly clear that when I was a politician...
Gro Harlem Brundtland. - Yeah. [former Prime Minister]
I just don't give a shit about it, and I go like this.
Okay, then we don't much time left.
I'm from Bergen.
Lars Vaular. [Norwegian rapper and singer]
I'm also from Bosnia.
Leo Ajkic [season 7 contestant]. - Jan Eggum [singer-songwriter].
Jan Eggum. - Leo Ajkic?
Let me think... - Was it Jan Eggum?
No. - Oh, my God.
Hey, baby baby...
Thank you very much.
Kjell Elvis? [Norwegian elvis impersonator] - No.
It's not that far away.
Wise men...
Elvis. - Yes!
You have 30 seconds...
Aah!
30 seconds left.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
A singer? - No.
Ho-ho-ho-ho! - Bird?
Three billion, ho-ho-ho!
Tara Lina [season 10 contestant]. - No.
Five seconds left. - Hi-hi-hi.
We have to eat meat. Hi-hi-hi.
I want to know who it is. - Time's up.
Who is it? - Trygve Slagsvold Vedum. [now former Minister of Finance]
Girls who like girls, boys who like boys...
King Harald! [current monarch]
Five, four, three, two...
One. - That was good!
Oh my goodness!
Okay, we're done with the tower.
Thank you for today. - Bye!
Doesn't get much more boyish than that, does it?
No.
Here we had two alphas.
It was a good tower. A lot of fumbling along the way.
It got a bit up and down.
You put the smaller ones at the bottom. That's funny.
We didn't have a lot of time. - I got that impression.
What about his parodies?
Very good. - Thank you.
I particularly liked when he did Elvis and you said Kjell Elvis.
He had such a loud voice. - He had a bit of wiggle room.
It's a niche of its own. - Yeah, parodying the parody.
It's a niche. - Kjell Elvis...
Anne Marit, I liked when Abu did a character from Bergen
and Bosnia, and then you guessed Jan Eggum.
There's a lot here I don't know.
He's spent a lot of time in Bosnia. - He might have been there.
Yeah. - Yes. I have measured the towers.
One team got a 3 metre tower. The other team got a 4 metre tower.
The winning team is...
Anne Marit, Abu, and Amalie. Congratulations.
That means you get a total of 5 points.
But Amalie was wearing the costume, which gives 10 points.
So that's 2 for Alex and Snorre.
Let's take a look at the totals so far today. Very interesting...
You're the high scorers on 20! The rest are evenly down.
It's hard to catch up, but we'll try. We have a studio task.
Everyone, get on the stage.
We've taken our seats and have arrived
to the final task. And this is about outsmarting Atle.
If you can do that, you are through to the next round.
If you can't outsmart Atle, you're gonna have to...
Then you have to sit on the loser's bench. [To Atle] Will you keep doing that?
Fun. You have to shout out a word. One word at a time.
You can make it up yourself.
Or read what it says behind on the board behind Atle.
It's Atle's job to guess if you said
the word that's written there or the one you came up with yourselves.
He has to guess.
If he gets it wrong, you're through. If he's right, you have to sit there.
Understood, Alex?
Yes! - Good. Here we go.
You're getting a word up here now.
Angry.
You made that up.
No, he didn't. It says 'angry'.
So you're through.
But you forgot to shout.
I yelled. - You said "Angry". You didn't shout.
I yelled. That's how I shout.
No, you don't! - I've heard you shout!
It's hard to argue, but we have a lot of evidence from earlier today,
in water wrestling and such, that you have a stronger voice.
Fine for now. Then I'll remind the rest of you. Abu! Ready?
Ready.
Do you say the word or are you making it up? The word comes now.
Alpha.
It's written there!
Yes, he's trying to trick the system. It says 'Alpha male'.
So he's actually through, as well.
No, no, no.
Wow.
Anne Marit, I remind you to shout. Unlike the other two.
I've got it now! - Yeah, good.
I did shout. - No, neither did you.
It's nice to have professionals. - Yes!
Anne Marit, the word... - Yes!
The word you can choose to use comes here.
Naked bathing!
You made that up!
No, it's right there!
You're through as well. - Yes!
Yeah. Amalie, you're next. Remind you of shouting.
Here comes the word you can use. It comes there!
Glue stick!
You made that up. - Yeah. Unfortunately, Amalie.
You can go and have a seat. There it says 'golden frame'.
Snorre, are you ready? Here comes the word.
There!
Fax machine!
You made it up. - No, it's right there.
Alex, are you ready? - Is it me again?
Here comes the word.
Idiot!
You made it up! - Yes.
Abu, remember to shout. The word you can use is right there.
Incognito!
Yes, it's... It's right there.
No, it isn't. It says 'penis pump'.
Anne Marit, here comes your word.
Remember to shout.
Funnel malt!
I think you made up "funnel-malt".
You can go and have a seat. It says 'mousetrap'.
Are you ready, Snorre? Here is the word you can use.
Mousetrap!
It's loud, but you made it up.
Yes, that's right. That means, Abu, we have a winner. Congratulations.
Let's take a recap and find out who the winner is.
Yes! Yes, Olli. - That was fun.
Yes. Can you summarise?
The first to be eliminated gets 1 point,
the second, 3, and the winner, 5.
At the bottom, it was Amalie. You get 1 point.
Snorre, Anne Marit, and Alex get 3.
You love those threes? - I'm happy today.
And Abu, you get 5 points. Congratulations!
We can see the scores here. - This is how it stands. Nice!
We'll see who wins the total of tonight's show. No surprise.
It's Amalie who wins this show. Many congratulations
on your victory!
I hope you understand the point of what no-one else understands the point of.
Thank you for today! We've seen new sides of our contestants.
We'll be back next week. See you then. Goodbye.
Original English subtitles: Kornelius Jelsnes (LinQ Media Group)
Adjustments and additions: u/taskmastermaster