Klovn (2005)
Klovn is a Danish sitcom, which first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It focuses on the life of the main character Frank and Casper. The show builds its comedy around quiet everyday situations, social awkwardness, uncomfortable silences and general faux pas. Klovn usually gets compared to the American sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm by Larry David. It’s also shot handheld, in a pseudo-realistic style. Some have also mistakenly compared the theme to Curb Your Enthusiasm’s, despite it being a direct reference to Jacques Tati’s Mr. Hulot movies. The poster for the first film can be seen in Casper and Frank’s offices throughout the series. Klovn initially ran 6 seasons on TV2 Zulu from 2005-2009 and was renewed with an additional 3 seasons that aired from 2018-2022.
- Casper Christensen
- Frank Hvam
- Neel Feldstedt
Stars:
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Episode 1 - Yummy
Release Date: 2009-02-23Frank and Mia's lives have stalled, and Casper has buried himself under the covers of depression. Frank buys a video camera, but Casper does not understand what he wants to film when something exciting is no longer happening in their lives. But then a snow-white drama ensues in Mia's trade. Allegations, friendships and alibis are investigated, and in an evocative way, Frank's camera becomes the center of the redemption of it all.
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Episode 2 - Shut Up
Release Date: 2009-03-02Mia is appointed Fair Trade dealer. It involves an attractive Ethiopian woman who has Frank's full attention, and soon he's caught in a whirlwind of charity and horniness. Casper continues to struggle with his severe depression and believes that Lars Hjortshøj owes him thanks for his success. There are divided opinions about this. Everyone wanders into painful unreasonableness, leaving behind a shattered friendship, a displaced Tibetan monk and Frank's ardent interest in the black woman's bright.
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Episode 3 - Rush Shoes and the Egg
Release Date: 2009-03-09Mia wants a new chair, but Frank sees no reason to invest in expensive furniture. He believes the money has been spent better on a shared lawn mower with the neighbor. But the contents of Frank's bird box come across the good neighborhood, and Frank starts the sweet revenge. Among other things, he will pretend to be one of the Muhammad cartoonists. Before long, a life-threatening situation arises in the home, and Mia curses Frank's reed shoes far away.
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Episode 4 - Mrs. Once-in-a-while
Release Date: 2009-03-16Mia and Frank have moved in with Mia's parents. They are trying to find ways to cultivate the joys of privacy anyway. Casper's depression is now so severe that he has been hospitalized and Frank is in a dilemma, should he prioritize sex or his sick friend? Persistent attempts on the part of Frank and Mia to find "alone time" are wasted, and Frank admits that the father-in-law gets more sex than he does.
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Episode 5 - Monsieur Le Boss
Release Date: 2009-03-23Mia has invited Frank on a weekend stay at Skodsborg Hotel. Something gets in the way and to complete the trip, they become "partners in crime". Casper gets lost on Zealand, and Frank has to get him hospitalized again. It seems like things are in order, but a table tennis match, the Kama Sutra and a German gut flush are more than Mia wants to be a part of.
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Episode 6 - The Castle of Deceit
Release Date: 2009-03-30Frank, Mia, Iben and Casper go on a weekend trip to Dragsholm Castle with Lars Hjorthøj and his wife Tina. The girls are looking forward to fun and the boys are looking forward to men's talk, hunting and a little "vuf". But already on arrival, Frank makes himself unlucky, and before long, the alluring waitress Louise is the center of sexual fantasies and mutual accusations of murder. But everything is overshadowed when an unprecedented connection between Lars Hjortshøj and Vibeke Hartkorn comes to light.
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Episode 7 - The Bispebjerg Trick
Release Date: 2009-04-06Frank and Mia are looking at houses. The previous owner's wife is dead, but the body has never been found. Frank finds a bone in the garden, and his stubborn eagerness for the bone to be checked leads to shards in the joy of him and Mia. This is how it goes when Niels Hausgaard inaugurates Frank and Casper in the secret behind the "Bispebjerg trick", which is the closest you can get to having sex with someone other than your partner, without being unfaithful.
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Episode 8 - A Mug for a Hug
Release Date: 2009-04-13Casper is still struggling with his bad mood and is unable to work. While Frank impatiently waits for his colleague to come to terms, he wearily joins Mia in the tea shop. To his great delight, he receives an offer from the Angora boys but still refuses when Casper suddenly wakes up and launches plans for them to do the project "Copenhagen Showboat" together. Casper is back in the fight and Frank is happy. Mia does not care, she is more concerned with having a visit from her 12-year-old nephew. Frank thinks there is "something wrong" with the nephew and Mia's dealings with each other, and Frank's attempt to make Mia understand it sends him straight back into the trade.
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Episode 9 - The Amateurs
Release Date: 2009-04-20Frank and Mia have moved to the countryside, and together with Casper they go to an animal show. Mia goes home before the boys, and the next morning she meets the sight of a cow tied to a tree in her garden. Frank and Mia want a circle of friends among the locals in the city, and they say yes to participating in the city's annual dilettante show. Frank is not entirely happy with her, he has to play opposite, and his attempts to get things the way he wants them have consequences for who become the new friends in the country.
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Episode 10 - False S*** Alert
Release Date: 2009-04-27Frank, Mia, Casper and Iben have gone on a ski holiday over the New Year, and quite by chance they meet Pivert and Bodil. During a pleasant moment, the talk falls on orgasm, and it dawns on everyone that Mia has never had an orgasm with Frank. Casper thinks Frank needs to be free for Mia so she can get really comfortable with him. The courtship is planned down to the smallest detail, but Frank gets to create a shitty situation, and that is not the best starting point for a happy ending.