Gustne Gensyn is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 humorous TV show running on the Danish TV channel TV 2 Zulu

TV 2 Zulu

TV 2 Zulu is a Danish television station which started broadcasting on 15 October 2000. It is primarily aimed at viewers between 15 and 30 years of age....

. The shows consists of small sketch

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

es, 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 (clips from old tv-programs that never have existed). The title translates to yellowish or pale reruns, although gensyn in Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

 means to see something again (gen works in Danish similar to re in English), in the case of TV shows it would mean rerun

Rerun

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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

Odense University

Odense University, now Syddansk Universitet Odense , has been part of the University of Southern Denmark since 1998 of which it forms the biggest campus. It is the university of Odense, Denmark's third largest city, and the island of Funen. When abbreviated, the university motto becomes FIONIA, the...

 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 regular 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.