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Here in Denmark, it's new years tradition to watch this on NYE, it's about as important as the Queens new years address. Also, it _NEVER_ stops being fun* [*]
by dusted 4y ago
Here in Denmark, it's new years tradition to watch this on NYE, it's about as important as the Queens new years address.
Also, it _NEVER_ stops being fun*
[*] Legally required to hold this opinion.
- erk__ 4y agoSome yeas back a DR2 made a satirical parody of it called the 80 years birthday (in Danish it is called "the 90 years birthday") where all the characters was played by a series of Danish comedians https://youtu.be/H07O6j6-6vQ https://youtu.be/H07O6j6-6vQ
- Simran-B 4y agoThanks for sharing! I didn't know Dinner for One is a thing elsewhere in Europe, and even had parodies. There are also some German adaptations, like the one with Anette Frier and Ralf Schmitz (two well-known comedians). It's in _kölsch_, the dialect spoken in the Cologne area - which is quite fun to listen to, at least for Germans: https://youtu.be/yGUo9VfbxnE https://youtu.be/yGUo9VfbxnE
- brazzy 4y agoI prefer the "Dinner für Brot" adaption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smgbPO0KaZw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smgbPO0KaZw
- cycomanic 4y agoA lot of famous comedians have played one version of it (often live ans Theater plays, which I believe is also true for the original). Here is a version with Otto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4iCGdURpd4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4iCGdURpd4 There are also several platt versions (a dialekt spoken in the north which is actually more like a separate language)
- antihero 4y agoDo people drink along with it? Is it on TV or is a vaguely good copy available.
- vlz 4y agoI‘m sure some people are drinking along with James the Butler (quite a feat) but that is not widespread. It is on TV each year but I would be surprised if many people aren‘t watching via YouTube.
- Sharlin 4y agoSeveral years ago, some friends at my then uni started organizing a special sittning [1] on the New Year's Eve, where the idea is simply to watch Dinner for One when it's broadcast and to drink the four served drinks in sync with Miss Sophie. For added challenge one can decide to go either "half" or "full James". It's something of a hilarious deconstruction of the entire concept of sittning, normally a three-course dinner party lasting several hours and featuring plenty of drinking songs and often other entertainment. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sittning#Student_sittning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sittning#Student_sittning
- interfixus 4y agoAnd lest we forget: The hackneyed Disney Christmas Show at 1600 hours sharp on the 24th of December. In this household, Christmas officially starts when the mouse from Cinderilla squints and runs the thread through the giant needle's eye. These are generally the only two times of the year I have anything to do with live TV. Godt nytår!
- TazeTSchnitzel 4y agoWhereas in Sweden it starts at 15 and, for some reason[0], is titled “Donald Duck and his friends wish you Merry Christmas”, despite Jiminy Cricket being the presenter. [0] The reason is obviously his popularity in Sweden
- goto11 4y agoI was surprised to discover that Mickey Mouse was more popular and well-known in the US than Donald Duck. Come on, Donald Duck is a much more fun and interesting character!
- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoIs it due to the US being prudes and Donald Duck doesn't wear any trousers/underwear?
- thebooktocome 4y agoNo, most Americans don’t perceive him as naked, any more than they do Bugs Bunny or other anthro mascots. I think it’s the accent. His voice actors are pretty hard to understand sometimes.
- ygra 4y agoInterestingly, having only ever introduced to those characters through comics, I never pictured any particular accent and instead imagined them speaking normally.
- hnarn 4y agoDon’t forget that while this is broadcast on NYE in Denmark and Sweden, in Norway it’s broadcast on Christmas which is something you should definitely bring up on a mixed Scandinavian family dinner. It’s also quite fun since there’s a joke relationship between Swedes and Norwegians calling each other stupid, so it’s quite fun to insinuate that Norwegians simply do not understand that the movie is set on NYE.
- kristofferR 4y agoHere in Norway every year on Christmas eve we also show Karl-Bertil Jonssons jul, a Swedish cartoon from 1975, where a underage postage worker steals packages from the rich and gives it to the poor. It's hard to imagine it would be well received in most other countries, especially as a tradition.
- Mizza 4y agoDon't forget Tre nøtter til Askepott, an old communist Czech movie that's somehow so critical to Norwegian heritage they had to send a Norwegian team to another country to make sure it was preserved and restored.
- kristofferR 4y agoYup, and a remake was released last year, featuring one of our main pop stars. It is apparently an annual Christmas movie in 14 other countries too though, unlike Karl-Bertils, which likely due to the political subject matter is only tradition in the Nordic countries.
- flohofwoe 4y agoTo be pedantic, it was an East German / Czechoslovakian coproduction (called "Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel" here), and it's still huge in Germany too (browse German TV channels at any time between Christmas and New Year, and it's very likely that the movie is running on at least one of them). The 'movie castle' is Schloss Moritzburg btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritzburg_Castle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritzburg_Castle
- sureglymop 4y agoIn Switzerland too and it's also shown on national television! And on christmas morning it's tradition that the movie "Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel" (Cinderella) is broadcast on national television.
- martinclayton 4y agoFirst time I (Brit) saw it was Christmas at my mother-in-laws in Denmark in about 1998. They couldn’t believe I didn’t know it.
- n1b0m 4y agoIt’s going to be getting a prequel https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/30/european-new-years-eve-tv-staple-dinner-for-one-prequel https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/30/european-new-y...
- dataking 4y agoCan confirm; couldn’t have said it better myself!
- zxcvbn4038 4y agoThe same procedure as last year?
- Msurrow 4y agoSame procedure as every year, James
- zubairq 4y agoI have watched it in Denmark too for many years. Until I read this article I had no idea that it is watched in other countries as well :)