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Swedish-chef

The world's best known Swedish Chef.

Sweden is a European country and is the largest of the Nordic countries. Sweden is the first country most people think of when Scandinavia is mentioned. Sweden borders Norway in the west, and Finland in the northeast. The Swedish language is of the Northern branch of the Germanic languages of the Indo-European family.

In 1976, Sveriges Television showed a dubbed version of Sesame Street called Sesam. In 1981, Sweden got its own, short lived, co-production of Sesame Street, called Svenska Sesam. One thing about the show that differed from other Sesame Street co-productions was that all the local-produced segments did not contain any puppets.

In 1980, several inserts by animator Owe Gustafson for the Swedish children's TV series Fem myror Àr fler Àn fyra elefanter began airing on the American Sesame Street.

The 2012 Swedish documentary series Programmen som förÀndrade TV included an episode on children's and youth targeted series. There was a heavy emphasis on the making of Sesame Street, interviewing Joan Ganz Cooney and others.

References[]

  • Ingmar Bergman was Sweden's foremost filmmaker, who became an international influence. As a result, the Swedish Chef has been associated with Bergman movies more than once, acting in Silent Strawberries in The Muppets Go to the Movies (with the entire cast speaking the Chef's mock Swedish) and proposing a version of Bergman's The Seventh Seal in Muppets Most Wanted.
  • The gypsy curse in The Muppet Show Episode 416 culminates in all of the English-speaking Muppets (save the Newsman) "turning Swedish" (speaking in mock Swedish).
  • An indirect reference was made in The Muppet Show Episode 524 where Kermit introduced the Viking number In the Navy, calling the Vikings "cruel, heartless Scandinavian marauders" and "worst human beings in history" (and is physically chastised by the Swedish Chef as a result).

Dubs[]

Only productions aimed at young children are dubbed in Sweden. The Muppet Show, Dinosaurs, and other Henson productions aimed more specifically at adult viewers have never been dubbed, but instead have been shown with Swedish subtitles.

Dubs of Muppet/Henson productions include the following:

TV Stations[]

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