First Reaction to GROTESCO - Portal To Gothenburg (Swedish Comedy)

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First Reaction to GROTESCO - Portal To Gothenburg (Swedish Comedy)

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7 ай бұрын

We are a married Thai-Canadian couple Learning about Sweden!
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Original video: • Swedish Comedy - Grote...
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@MaxSujyNorden 7 ай бұрын

This was epic on every level! I wonder what the budget was for this.

@Noobs343 6 ай бұрын

You must look at more clips from them, they are amazing. Great songs and genial acts.

@niklasekelof7319 6 ай бұрын

I can't imagine how strange this is if you can't understand the regional in-jokes, language and dialects lol.

@RobertClaeson 6 ай бұрын

"Have a beer SOMETIME" = never going to happen. They poke fun at so many typical Swedish idioms and behaviours.

@nocturne7371 7 ай бұрын

There is a A LOT of jokes in this that are very local to Sweden, but even more, to the rivality between Stockholm and Göteborg. I'm sure A LOT went over your head.

@ebg13 6 ай бұрын

17:00 She's got it right, we're alot like the japanese in our politeness in some ways.

@gr8zongz 7 ай бұрын

It's really hard to understand the humor in this episode of Grotesco when you don't know the huge rivality between Stockholm and Gothenburg. You nailed it a little bit in the end. Stockholm makes alot of fun with Gothenburg because of our (I'm from Gothenburg) dialect, humor and culture. Gothenburg makes fun of Stockholm for their obnoxius ways of just being and for the stressful city it is. Gothenburg is the old bigger city in Sweden that really love their culture and proud of how friendly the people are. Gothenburg is famous for fish and the harbor that connect Sweden with the world with imports/exports. We also love the dialect and our beers. keep reacting to our jewels :)

@MaxSujyNorden 7 ай бұрын

I got there as the video progressed, but still impossible to get the reference without being Swedish, hehe!

@RobertClaeson 6 ай бұрын

Ahem... Gothenburg was founded by the Dutch. It was originally a village of Dutch settlers. Gothenburg is too friendly to be truly Swedish.

@mikaelhultberg9543 7 ай бұрын

Mackerel is very common along the Swedish west coast where Gothenburg is.

@johankaewberg8162 7 ай бұрын

A great comic in Sweden was Gothenburgh-man. Kal El, the son of Ada and Osborn was sent to the planet Stockholm. There he was found and raised by the pop band Kent. During his puberty he found his Gothenburg powers, which are mostly humour based

@kjelledbom1728 5 ай бұрын

A guy in a sausage costume answer the phone "yes the defence minister" not with his name

@bewing77 3 ай бұрын

I can’t imagine watching this without any sort of connection to Swedish culture. I’ve been living here for a decade and been visiting here since I was a child and I still don’t get everything, literally every scene makes fun of very specific Swedish ideoms, traditions, dialects and regional stereotypes.

@matshjalmarsson3008 7 ай бұрын

As someone who grew up in Stockholm and spent most of my childhood summers in Gothenburg, most of the jokes flied right over my head. It must be near impossible for you guys to get them

@Sylphina1 6 ай бұрын

And I'am from Dalarna region and get all of it

@matshjalmarsson3008 6 ай бұрын

@@Sylphina1 Sure. You do know about Dunning-Kreuger?

@Sylphina1 6 ай бұрын

@@matshjalmarsson3008 yes, but the jokes are simple if you know basic swedish history and culture.

@matshjalmarsson3008 6 ай бұрын

@@Sylphina1 Well, I know a fair bit more than the basics, I know more than enough to understand that I missed a couple of jokes inbetween the jokes. This is, however, besides the point that a Canadian and a Thai probably missed quite a lot of them. Throw shit on me all you want, it won't stick

@Sylphina1 6 ай бұрын

@@matshjalmarsson3008 Are you a snowflake? There has been no shit throwing, only statement about understandings. I must correct the statement I made earlier also, you need basic swedish understanding of culture and history but also lots of pop culture knowledge as they mix all of these together (like the obvious Aliens reference with Jenette Vasquez) etc. Knowledge is power, peace! ✌️

@kjelledbom1728 5 ай бұрын

Lol the french ambassador is speaking food recipies and shit trying to sound french.

@johnnyjohansson16 4 ай бұрын

Gothenburg used to be the town of hard working people, and the harbour made us more open than most Swedes. Now it is lost to wine drinking marxsists and migrants.😢

@olsa76 7 ай бұрын

This one contained far too many inside jokes that non-Swedes cannot understand. It was sometimes difficult to keep up as a Swede, and I guess that all Swedes also missed something. Easiest to understand, however, should have been the stingy guy. He did not speak in riddles at all, but said exactly what he meant. The funny thing was that normal people don't say things like that. First it was a girl in the office who was having a birthday and had ordered a cake for the next day (it's a Swedish thing,smörgåstårta, which isn't actually a cake but rather a sandwich on steroids that looks like a cake. No cake in it. The translations was wrong. It's bread inside, not cake) . The guy wouldn't be in the office the next day and didn't think it was fair that he wouldn't get his piece of the "cake", so he basically forced her to buy him one today. Later at the funeral, he talked to a guy about being invited to a barbecue at his place. The stingy guy couldn't come to the party, but he still wanted the beer he would have drunk if he had come. At the end, when the Globe smashed all of Stockholm (because that's what happens when Gothenburgers are let loose there) he wanted the money back for the hockey tickets he said he had bought (the Globe is an arena in Stockholm).

@johankaewberg8162 7 ай бұрын

Five ants are more than four elephants of course they are and we loved the show! It is basically a Swedish rip off of Sesame Street, with three extremely likable human hosts.

@stoferb876 3 ай бұрын

Most of the "foreign" languages were fake too. They mostly said really weird and absurd stuff in swedish but with an accent to make it sound like french and other languages.

@PencilaPaper 3 ай бұрын

If you liked this one there’s more, tell me if you want some more of Grotesco.

@nibel13 4 ай бұрын

Max was 90% wrong in what he talked about when watching this :P I think if you had just watched it with less talking or fooling around from Max (Scaring or tickling) I think it would be easier to get it. This ep of Grotesco was alot about social awkward people/situations. Its a type of dry and sometimes gloomy satire that is reminiscent of British humour.

@d95mback 6 ай бұрын

It's making fun of very specific topics in Sweden, which is pretty hard to get, I guess. Perhaps you will have more enjoyment of "The trial", episode 6 of this season, that makes fun of American movies, specifically "Runaway Jury" by John Grisham.

@freewill8218 2 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@Bawamba 6 ай бұрын

Haha I swear you need to be Swedish to get all the sarcasm and irony in this and all the inside jokes about Swedes 😂

@johnnyrosenberg9522 4 ай бұрын

There's so much more than translating to English needed to make sense of most of the jokes in that video. It's a Swedish show for a Swedish audience, so they assume everyone is familiar with all the references. If you didn't live here for at least a couple of years I completely understand why you didn't get most of the jokes.

@FecayDuncan 5 ай бұрын

Way too advanced for foreign YTers. You should start with something simpler. This is black belt humour!

@kjelledbom1728 5 ай бұрын

u didnt get the joke about the children working in a tech factory, making sex toys.

@KimOfDrac 4 ай бұрын

I want a portal back to 1972's Gothenburg😂

@sauliaalto2835 2 ай бұрын

That was really funny guys I actually never saw that (I live in Sweden) 😆

@Nubbe999 7 ай бұрын

Grotesco has done a lot of different good comedy. But this must be some of their worst and I think it could be hard to follow along if you do not fully understand the background to some of the jokes. Other examples of Grotesco is: "Blame the gay people": kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNOcm7ifnbrahGQ.htmlsi=kMdfds_3T3P39MR_ "Tingeliin song" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m5efraaI3rvQc5s.htmlsi=BcqHrrWtHlcxgEte

@MaxSujyNorden 7 ай бұрын

These are songs without context and also copyrighted. It's much better if the song is part of some sort of episode.

@stiglarsson8405 7 ай бұрын

At first.. Im frome Gothenburg my self, and its Stockholm/Grotesco version/take on Gothenburg humor and traditions! On top of that, they mixed in typical US sceneries, kinda those we see on film! The od guy, inbetween asking for favours.. its the one swedes dont like to be, he is totaly out of context.. its just this, its our feeelings put in a od mans mind! Makerel is a pelagish fish.. it means Atlantic, big thing in Gothenburg, close to Atlantic, in Stockholm they dont know about it.. soo close to makerel, closer to Gothenburg, in this sketch! I think it was an expensive production.. and it come out right!. One probaly probably need to be a swede to understand all the jokes.. or even from Gothenburg.. (littel London) for some historical reasons!

@Hannabanana96 7 ай бұрын

Makrillarna is also the name of the suporters of Gais(football team in Gothenburg)

@stiglarsson8405 7 ай бұрын

@@Hannabanana96 Exactly, but as a Göteborgare I dont think that message gone that north as to Stockholm? Mayby they know about it in Borås!?

@Gurumediatationgamer 6 ай бұрын

Globen is the most famous arena i Stockholm (shaped as a golf ball) so the hole in one joke was about that indeed 🙂

@tntfreddan3138 6 ай бұрын

First called The Ericsson Globe, then just Globen, and now Avicii Arena.

@kingvii7250 7 ай бұрын

Omg you can not look at a whole nationalitys way of being, bassed om a comedy show!!!

@MaxSujyNorden 7 ай бұрын

What are you talking about? You just saw the thumbnail and commented, lol?

@kingvii7250 7 ай бұрын

@@MaxSujyNorden I looked at it all, so please don't asume I did not. You questioned several times about a swedes are... that's all I was talking about.

@MaxSujyNorden 7 ай бұрын

@@kingvii7250 I'm not assuming. It's a fact that you did not watch the video. Do you know how I know? Because of your comment, which can only be written if you haven't listen. I've expressed multiple time during the videos, but mostly after, how this was a satire expressing how Gothenburg and Stockholm probably viewed each other. You also failed to recognize that we obv know (from our commenting) that this is a satire video. Or, it could be that you do not understand our accent. In either way, you are incorrect, and a few of you only have commented similar non sense. Most people understood that we knew about the video purpose.

@MaxSujyNorden 7 ай бұрын

In brief, I can't cure stupidity. And sorry to be harsh, but expressing that we are mocking Swedes is basically telling us that we are too stupid to understand what we were watching. Ofc we didn't get the banter, but the overall satirical of the video is easy to understand, and frankly insulting that you think that 2 grown adult didn't understand that the characters were portrayed as satire.