Gustne Gensyn

Gustne Gensyn is a Danish humorous TV show running on the Danish TV channel TV 2 Zulu. The shows consists of small sketches, which are all connected by the theme that they are supposedly 20-50 years old shows, although they are created for the show itself.

As its subtitle reveals: "klip fra gamle tv-programmer der aldrig har eksisteret" (English: "clips from old tv-programs that never have existed"). The title translates to "yellowish or pale reruns", although "gensyn" in Danish means to see something again ("gen" works in Danish similar to "re" in English), in the case of TV shows it would mean rerun.

Overview

Each show starts with the host Glenn Thorsboe, played by Jonatan Spang, introduces the viewer to the program, often claiming how the old days were better than the modern. Soon a small sketch, which is supposedly an old TV show, but although the clip might seem real at first, something utterly odd or awkward soon happens.

In one of sketches under the title "Lørdags Halløj" (Danish: "Saturday Fun"), they play a game called "Ved De hvor De er?" (Danish: "Do you know where you are?", note that the formal singular version is used in Danish), where an actor playing a professor from the Odense University is hit in the head with a slegde hammer by the host, and forgets where he is.

The entire show repeats a bunch of these sketches, all the time the show's host direct the viewer to next one.

Cast

Although only one person plays a specific person, there are regulare people on the show playing different roles, even the host manages to pull of jokes in some of the sketches.

* Jonatan Spang
* Brian Mørk
* Michael Christiansen
* Carsten Eskelund
* Christian Tafdrup

Technical Features

According to the producer Thomas Glud, the show is actually recorded with equipment used during the era the sketches claim to be from. The purpose is to convey realism. Thus black-and-white and out of focus shots are common in some sketches.

References

* (Danish) [http://zulu.tv2.dk/programmer/article.php?id=3855074 TV 2 Zulu's own article about the program]