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Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)
- yebyen 12y agoAlright, so now it's time for weird Christmas things and things about weird Christmas traditions from Scandinavia, here's a (joke? yeah probably) video about some from Norway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50fA_7TbSI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50fA_7TbSI I won't spoil it by saying anything more... enjoy
- percept 12y agoI prefer the simple pleasures of Daffy Dook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTJdmmSTvw8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTJdmmSTvw8
- revelation 12y agoIn Japan, they eat KFC: http://www.fastcompany.com/3040263/its-not-christmas-in-japan-without-kfc http://www.fastcompany.com/3040263/its-not-christmas-in-japa...
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- kbody 12y ago[2009] Corrected [2011]
- riffraff 12y agofor some unexpicable reasons, in italy we get 80's movies (Trading Places (1983) is the top) and asterix cartoons. I used to wait eagerly for those, to be frank.
- kl4m 12y agoAstérix, Lucky Luke and Tintin cartoons are a holiday tradition of many years in the province of Quebec, Canada, as well.
- ezequiel-garzon 12y agoI recently read [1, in Spanish] that you guys were into a different 1983 movie: Vacanze di Natale. Is it indeed popular as well? [1] http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/11/20/icon/1416504630_403302.html http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/11/20/icon/1416504630_403302.h...
- berdario 12y agoThose films in Italy are like Justin Bieber in the music world: almost everyone loves to hate them, I never perused neither of the two (nor I know anyone who does), and they evidently have captured a certain market segment. Trading Places otoh is broadcasted every single year, so given how it's hard to grow up without a television at home I definitely agree how that's a staple for italian broadcast programming that's part of popculture
- sam_lowry_ 12y agoIn Russia and most of the former Soviet Union (even in Ukraine, Georgia and Baltics), they watch one and the same film for 25 years, now. Here's the film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073179/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073179/
- happyscrappy 12y agoI watch this every New Year's eve, do Russians watch it on Christmas Eve?
- sologoub 12y agoGood point, it's New Year's Eve, not Christmas.
- sologoub 12y agoI'm pretty sure it's more like 35+ years. Soviet Union has been gone for 23 years now. It's a Soviet love story where a guy gets so drunk with his buddies that he ends up getting on the plane instead of his friend and goes to another city. Wakes up in the airport, calls a cab, gives him his street address and is dropped off at an identical street with identical apartment building and opens the door with his key, to someone else's apartment. Unless you lived during those times, it's hard to understand how everything could be nearly identical, but the equality of that was a key soviet ideal. The movie pokes fun at how ridiculous that really is, but at the same time has a love story form in those conditions. I doubt that narrative would have been allowed even a decade earlier.
- Zikes 12y agoI find it no more bizarre than A Charlie Brown Christmas.
- phamilton 12y agoThe content isn't what's bizarre to me, it's the synchronicity. Everyone watches it together at the same time all around the country. Sort of like a cross between the Macy's parade and A Charle Brown Christmas. That said, it's a lot of fun. Source: Lived in Sweden for a few years, watched Kalle Anka with Swedish friends every year.
- belorn 12y agoKalle Anka provides a excellent time where the parents can take a break after eating the Christmas dinner, drink coffee, and prepare for the event of delivering and opening presents with the children. A break, where everyone is expected lean back, to sit still and be calm.
- atwebb 12y ago>where everyone is expected lean back, to sit still and be calm. Now that's Christmas magic
- glaze 12y agoI live in Finland and we do the same thing here.
- kiiski 12y agoDo you live in western Finland? I live in the east, and I don't remember ever seeing that.
- glaze 12y agoI live in Espoo, but spent my childhood/adolescence in Turku.
- asmosoinio 12y agoYou happen to speak Swedish? My mother tongue is Finnish, and I had never heard of the Kalle Anka thing, but all my Swedish speaking friends said they have always watched it (and still do).
- geon 12y agoPerhaps Swedish speaking finns used to watch Swedish TV? I suppose that would have a very strong cultural influence.
- givan 12y agoThe most bizarre thing is cutting down trees
- tonyedgecombe 12y agoand bringing hem indoors
- lamuerteflaca 12y agoFreaky. It would be even stranger if they started planting trees.
- cgriswald 12y agoReminds me of one of my favorite Xmas vids: Treevenge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kicdSI_-XpE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kicdSI_-XpE
- maaaats 12y agoMy favorite part of the show is at Santa, where they paint a chess board using chess-board-patterned paint.
- digi_owl 12y agoNow thats efficiency.
- chillax 12y agoThis is the traditional movie shown before noon here in Norway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%99i_o%C5%99%C3%AD%C5%A1ky_pro_Popelku http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%99i_o%C5%99%C3%AD%C5%A1ky_... (voices are dubbed to Norwegian). I think it has been shown every christmas eve since the 70s.
- legulere 12y agoI prefer this swedish christmas cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnM4hswopgs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnM4hswopgs
- probably_wrong 12y agoIf we are talking about holiday traditions, I should point out Germany's "Dinner for one" sketch. Although that's for New year, not Christmas. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_One
- mjklin 12y agoBernd das Brot did a parody called "Dinner für Brot", also worth a watch.
- stcredzero 12y agoI was walking down "Christmas Tree Lane" in Alameda a couple days ago and remarking to my mates on how popular culture turns into "Christmas Tradition". Many "Christmas Standards" are merely popular music from days past. There was a very impressive "Nightmare Before Christmas" display synced to music. (The song "What's This?") Some smart alec walking by commented "someone sure loves their arduino." If anything should become a new Christmas tradition, I think it should be this David Sedaris essay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYdpte1W0vk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYdpte1W0vk It's also a nice commentary on how traditions change and can become bizarre. EDIT: I sometimes ask people, "You know that way you feel when you do the Donald Duck voice? Do you think ducks feel like that all the time?" I'm pretty convinced that most people who can do that voice can't do it without a smile in their eyes. When I looked up the definition of "ducky," I found that one of the meanings was, "charming; delightful."
- nly 12y agoIn the UK 'The Snowman' has become a bit of an institution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snowman#Animated_film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snowman#Animated_film
- stevekemp 12y agoWhich is one reason why I particularly love this Irn Bru advert (soft drink, popular in Scotland): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfiqrkV_ZqI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfiqrkV_ZqI
- walshemj 12y agoand several European country's put on a 1963 German version of a 1920's British comedy sketch "Dinner for one" on new years eve.
- zelos 12y agoThe fact that it ends with the boy kneeling, sobbing over the melted remains of his magical snowman friend explains a lot about why Britons are so cynical I think.
- BrindsleyQuives 12y agoWhen I was a lad [mid to late 1970s] the BBC Christmas Day movie, every year was The Wizard of Oz. I don't think you've had that kind of 'fixture' in the schedules for a long time now.
- tyronepalmer 12y agoMy wife and I are in Barcelona at the moment, and yesterday we learned about Caga tió, or "Shitting log", Catalan's version of Santa Claus. It's literally a log with a smiley face. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%C3%B3_de_Nadal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%C3%B3_de_Nadal Each family buys or makes their log and covers the rear with a blanket. Children then hit the log with sticks until it poos presents, often while singing one of several songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB_N7-HXTlI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB_N7-HXTlI Certainly one of the highlights of our trip.
- DerKommissar 12y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer Spain seems to have multiple poop based Christmas traditions.
- personlurking 12y agoAnd for Iceland, via NPR... Iceland publishes more books per capita than any other country in the world, with five titles published for every 1,000 Icelanders. But what's really unusual is the timing: Historically, a majority of books in Iceland are sold from late September to early November. It's a national tradition, and it has a name: Jolabokaflod, or the "Christmas Book Flood." "The culture of giving books as presents is very deeply rooted in how families perceive Christmas as a holiday," says Kristjan B. Jonasson, president of the Iceland Publishers Association. "Normally, we give the presents on the night of the 24th and people spend the night reading. In many ways, it's the backbone of the publishing sector here in Iceland." http://www.npr.org/2012/12/25/167537939/literary-iceland-revels-in-its-annual-christmas-book-flood http://www.npr.org/2012/12/25/167537939/literary-iceland-rev...
- mhomde 12y agoIt's also interesting that the segment has become a point of heavy discussion of political correctness and genderification and at this point has been censored in many parts
- draugadrotten 12y agoYes, indeed. Last year a bl*ck doll was cut, as the stereotype was frowned upon (the airhead blonde doll was kept, and the fat white men) http://www.thelocal.se/20121214/45080 http://www.thelocal.se/20121214/45080 and this year a feminist gender consulting agency counted 293 male vs 22 female characters in the cartoon, and the twitterati went through the roof. http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2014/12/24/hejdlos-mansdominans-da-kalle-anka-firar-jul http://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2014/12/24/hejdlos-mansdominan...
- mhomde 12y agoThey cut the blonde this year too, and the jewish stereotype. But that particular scene is so full of political incorrectness, besides being a big sweat shop, I think if they cut all of it there would be nothing left :) How many years until the chinese dolls go?
- mhomde 12y agoDon't forget the fine Swedish tradition of setting the christmas bock on fire. So many gems in its rich history http://dynamic.hs.fi/arkku/tiedostot/236485051591abb0d7c02352f6_Gavle%20Goat%20Timeline%20UPDATED%20%281%29.jpg http://dynamic.hs.fi/arkku/tiedostot/236485051591abb0d7c0235...
- yetihehe 12y agoIn Poland for every Christmas we're watching "Home Alone". People were filling online petitions when one of main TV stations threatened to drop it last year.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoDoes it have that horrible Lector dubbing?
- yetihehe 12y agoOf course. Like almost all of the films in tv. But almost everyone is already used to this, we don't even notice it.
- Nihei 12y agoWe have the same tradition in Denmark. We exchange presents on December 24th in the evening and during that morning and day the tv is filled with the same cartoons every year. We also have "Disneys Store Juleshow" (Disneys grand Christmas show) with lots of old short cartoons (Donald and his nephews in the snowball fight) and some new clips from Disneys movies. (Cinderellas dress creation, lady and the tramp spaghetti scene, snow white and the party in the hut, and this year; let it go from frozen). That's usually the thing that gets me in the Christmas mood on the 24th :)
- mkal_tsr 12y agoMy tradition is watching "The Muppet Christmas Carol" every Christmas
- geon 12y agoWhile the article is mostly true, the commitment to this tradition is very exaggerated. Few of the people I know gather around the TV show. Source: Being a swede.
- fit2rule 12y agoSame procedure every year. Europeans love their traditions and customs.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoNot only Europeans.