I originally uploaded this video (Grotesco - Portal to Gothenburg Reaction) on Monday, however I was not happy with the final edit I made. Originally I had to remove the Gothenburg song due to copyright (when I uploaded it, it said it was Blocked but only in Sweden - which is not ideal considering anybody watching it would be in Sweden). I really didn’t want to remove it as it seemed an interesting and integral part of the whole episode. However, I then removed it and uploaded the rest of the episode. However, not being happy with doing it, I decided to put the video in Private after a couple of hours and work on trying to get it accepted by KZfaq with the song included. I have now been able to do that, so this is the full version with the song included. I believe this will be better for anybody watching in that they will get to appreciate a brilliant song and piece of work from Grotesco. I also wasn’t happy with the lighting on the video (from my camera) so in the meantime I adjusted the brightness to make it more palatable for anyone watching. I hope this is better for anyone watching. Anyway, while I am here, I just want to thank anyone who has been watching my videos. It has been an awesome journey exploring Swedish comedy, satire and just Swedish culture in general. Most of all I have loved reading all your comments and furthering my understanding of your great country. If you have any reaction requests that you would like to see, please drop them underneath but in the meantime, thanks again and have a good one. Cheers!!

The building is Globen (nowadays known as Avicii Arena, yet everyone calls it Globen still), originally an ice hockey arena, but is nowadays multipurpose, mostly used for concerts, horse shows, etc. Up until 2023 it was the largest spherical building in the world, until the Sphere in Las Vegas was finished.

Funny thing concerning Crazy Frog at 20:30 - The animation was done by Erik Wernquist, one of the members of Grotesco (The guy playing Schwartzengrover I believe)

This is pretty much a standard Grotesco episode (they are all different, but the weirdness and absurdity is a staple Grotesco thing). Just watch all of it, everything is gold!

7:55 The joke is actually about how he bought a Dodge. Then he asks how he could afford it. And he says "The colors were skew". Skeva (skew) is pronounced the same as Cheva (Swedish slang for Chevrolet).

It was a great episode when Per Andersson talked about his life in "Stjärnorna på slottet". He's always been a showman, he and his friends started making shows when they were very young and invited people in the neighborhood. He also told a story that sounds like it's from a movie but heclaims it really happened. When on the tram in Gothenburg someone saw Per and started to sing the song from this episode and it spread to the whole tram.

As someone from Gothenburg with generations of my family having lived and died there, I wish there really was a portal back to the good ol' days. I was born 20 years too late😂 Gothenburg has changed so much since I left in the 90's it no longer feels like home :/

Small correction. You cannot smell the sea from Gamlestan. It's too far away. But from Gamlestan you can take tram 11 to Saltholmen where you can go by ferry out into the archipelago.

Love Grotesco and this one is just hilarious. It just perfectly shows the different times and atmospheres and also the difference between the poshy Stockholm and at that time the industrial, working class city of Gothenburg. Gothenburg was called "Little London" in the days, and the songs refers to a TV-show in the 70´s that was a swedish version of brittish sing along shows.

To REALLY understand this satire you have to know the "siblingship" of Stockholm VS Gothenburg, especially between 70s Gothenburg and their special TV-shows that is very much like Englands "Musichalltheatre" with Slapstichumor and the "uptight" Stockholmers aversion of this.

This is an accurate depiction of Gothenburg. Goa gubbar!

My favorite snus (moistered tobaco) is acutally named ' Göteborg's Rape'. Google that! Yes, you do know that we hate each other, but its like Glasgow contra Edinburgh. The makaril thing is about the ever losing football team, black and green stripes on their shirts, named GAIS, the team stockholmers hate the most! But, I am a GAISare, from Hisingen Island [suburb of Gothenburg, duck, quick]. Keep up your channel. Greetings from Jonas Gothenburg Sweden. ❤😊

You asked about snus. I'd wager it's more common than smoking, and yes I use it!

Actually all original Grotesco sketches were these thematically bundled minimovies put into a series. There were orinally 2 seasons, but in the ends 3 seasons were made. Except this one, which was the first episode of season 1, the other two most famous episodes are "Kaffe" (Coffee) and "Sossezombies" (Socialdemocratzombies) from season 2. 24 episodes all in all, 8 in each season.

I know I recommended this to you ages ago, but others might have too. So glad you got to it! This is pure brilliance! Hope you'll watch more Grotesco!

"Its game over, game over man!" Thats a line from Alien.

That song is stuck in my head now 🤣 Göteborg är staden på g 😂 Hjälp! 😂😂😂

I think it's okay that you often pause the video and talk. It's your reaction that I'm here for ☺️

Göteborg is the capital of puns. Some of it got lost in the translation. Haha

So good, a classic!

Gothenburger here! Literally ate smoked mackerel as a snack earlier today…

If you havent seen "ett kilo mjöl" (one kilo of flour) you really should its one of my favorite Grotesco sketches

I love you, Mert Swe! I like your irish dialect. You are welcome to Sweden. ❤❤❤

Their best sketch by far is Sossezombies. :D

This was out way before the show Dark.

I can recommend Varanteatern.

If you want some more short movie style comedy, poesi för fiskar makes some hilarious cinematic social commentary. De Arbetslösa, for example, is great. You should give it a watch

The city of laughter… It is!

That’s funny because i literally dreamt about a portal from Florence to Gothenburgh around 2008. Like dreamt while I was sleeping. It consisted of stairways, up and down and up again and down, up, downs and so on..

wow full episode nice

"have you evee used snus?" well, everyday for like 15 years. I believe its more common than smoking in sweden. Source, just me and the people i know.

I am from Göteborg (Gothenburg) and yes it was the dialect from here he spoken. The man that come up in the hole

To understand it 100% you need to know the realation between Stockholm and Gothenbourg. Guess you need to be swede to get some of the jokes. Grotesco always high class

14:00 it’s not a blackface, it’s face camouflage.

The Tage Danielsson quote could be translated to "Without a doubt you're not very smart"

You should look up some of Carl Stanley’s standups I don’t know if you can find them with subtitles though.

I hope whoever is translating these grotesco episodes would also translate some episodes of Hipp Hipp

Thank's 😂😂😂😂

The amount of references and puns in this sketch is insanely high, as a foreigner you miss about 90% of the good stuff. But the remaining 10% are pretty damn funny!

Fun with a full video reaction! Sadly the translator took a bit too much freedom in the translation. Like the song was not "Come on and go tenburg" wtf? they are singing "Gothenburg is the city on G" translator changed it only because "To be on G" in Swedish means "on their/its way" "Example: Are you coming soon? I'm on G I'll be there in 10"

Oh no, they opend the portal TO GOTHENBURG

Gothenburgians are sometimes called sillstrypare. Sill is a fish species and strypare means strangler. Sorry I don't know the whole lore 🎣

Think of the Gothenburg/Stockholm relationship as Glasgow/Edinburgh (only the population size is reversed)

In Stockholm we hate Gothenburg LOL this is so funny,,,,,,,,LOVE FROM SWEDEN🤣🤣🤣

Vem känner till detta = TUP MAMMA= HELA VÄRLDEN

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kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gsiYZthyv5q7hYE.html If you ever seen anything about Swedish traditional midsummer festivities I guess you will appriciate this. No subtitles required!! Just a short explanation on the strange dance: "små grodorna, små grodorna är lustiga att se, ej öron, ej öron, ej svansar hava de" is a traditional children's song and dance common on midsummer even among grownups. The lyrics is roughly "little frogs, little frogs are so funny to watch,, no ears, no ears, nor tails to be seen". enjoy! 😀👹🤠🤡👺 (these are the merry men you will find on the brightest night of the year)

No,fika is not crabfisch 😊

In Stockholm, snus is niche. In Gothenburg, snus is in everyone's pockets and lips

14:03 Black faces or othe couours give you scores, axiom!

This is black belt satire. Just a fraction of native swedes watching this will understand it.

Really hard to get it because of the language barrier (and lacking subs) and when it's making fun of the second biggest city in Sweden. You haven't seen the Little Britain American pastor skit? You don't know about Globen yet?! Now called Avicii arena. orz