The Norwegian butter crisis of 2011, when Norway ran out of butter.
In this video essay, I explore how a bizarre shortage turned into an international media spectacle, and what the coverage tells us about how the world sees Norway.
What happened during the Norwegian butter crisis, and how did international media cover the story?
These are the funniest Harry Potter character names from the Norwegian translation of the Harry Potter book series. And here’s the full list of all 488 character names in the Norwegian Harry Potter books.
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Hot Fuzz may be the best movie ever. It’s certainly my favorite film of all time.
So I decided to make a video about why I think it’s so great.
The Devil and Dr. Phil is not a horrible episode of Frasier overall, but it’s use of Phil McGraw as a guest star left so much to be desired that it almost ruined the entire episode.
I figured it could be fun to have a look at why Frasier fans dislike Phil’s appearance on the show so much, and what could have been changed to fix it.
There used to be a phenomenon in Norway where the title of a lot of American and other international comedy films were translated into Norwegian as “Help, Something Something”. I thought it might be funny if I translated these titles back into English.
In my The Worst Episode of Frasier video, I briefly mentioned my love for the farcical Halloween episode from season 5 of Frasier.
I figured that after making a video about my least favorite episode of Frasier, I should make a positive video about one of my favorites as well.
In the video I refer to the Halloween episode as a comedy of errors, which was originally a William Shakespeare play. The term is now the name of a subgenre of farces which focuses more on misunderstandings and less on slapstick than a typical farce.
Douglas Adams is my favorite author. His brand of comedy has inspired and delighted me ever since I discovered The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy science fiction books in my early teens.
Indie folk rock musician Jonathan Coulton turns 50 today, so here’s a 30-minute documentary I made about his career.
We’re now three days into the Kickstarter for Issue #2 of Anubis: Dog of Death. And we’ve reached 25% of our funding goal!
In this episode of the Geekare Humanum podcast, Sindre and Renate discuss: Professional wrestling, Seinfeld, the 1927 silent movie Metropolis.
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