History Series / Pistvakt

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Gudrun and Beng-Ha have a kinda-sorta romance subplot throughout the series; they are both attracted to the other and Gudrun has long since moved on from Stor-Erik, who hasn't been seen for decades, even though they are still legally married, but Beng-Ha is still hamstrung by his loyalty towards Stor-Erik. In the film, after Stor-Erik's funeral, Beng-Ha is still reluctant, but shortly afterwards finally [[TheyDo proposes to Gudrun]] and they take a trip to Spain together.

* ShoutOut: In the christmas episode, Sven-E and Jan-E start quoting movies featured in the Swedish Disney christmas specials like WesternAnimation/RobinHood and WesternAnimation/{{Ferdinand}}, then finishing off with all of them humming Santa's Workshop in lieu of the usual dance party.
** In ''Personalfestan'', Olle and Eva-Lena reenact the famous climactic scene in Film/DirtyDancing to the best of their abilities while "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" plays.

''Pistvakt''[[labelnote:translated title]]"Ski Patrol", literally "Piste Guard"[[/labelnote]] was originally a Swedish stage play set up in 1996. It then ran on TV [[BritishBrevity for two six-episode seasons]] in 1998 and 2000, with [[TheMovie a movie]] being made to wrap up the story in 2005. While no other film or TV media have been produced since, the setting and characters have often been revisited in the form of stage shows, and the TV series remains something of a cult classic.

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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Gudrun and Beng-Ha have a kinda-sorta romance subplot throughout the series; they are both attracted to the other and Gudrun has long since moved on from Stor-Erik, who hasn't been seen for decades, even though they are still legally married, but Beng-Ha is still hamstrung by his loyalty towards Stor-Erik. In the film, after Stor-Erik's funeral, Beng-Ha is still reluctant, but shortly afterwards finally [[TheyDo proposes to Gudrun]] and they take a trip to Spain together.

* ThatCloudLooksLike: A very awkward version happens when Olle and Eva-Lena talk on their own for the first time, with Olle describing a cloud as looking like "a teat, but not a cow teat". He also suggests the cloud shapes will change if you look at them for long enough.

''Pistvakt'' was a Swedish comedy TV series. Originating as a stage play set up in 1996, [[BritishBrevity it only ran for two six-episode seasons]] in 1998 and 2000, with [[TheMovie a movie]] being made to wrap up the story in 2005. While no other film or TV media have been produced since, the setting and characters have often been revisited in the form of stage shows, and the TV series remains something of a cult classic.

The show is about the three Marklund brothers, the oldest, Sven-Erik, or "Sven-E" (played by Lennart Jähkel), the middle brother, Jan-Erik, or "Jan-E" (Jacob Nordenson), and the youngest, Olle (Thomas Norström), who work as piste watchmen at a modest, seldom visited ski resort in Svartlien, a fictional Lapland location described as "the darkest piste-marked bear cave and icy pit in the North". The place was previously overseen by their father, the legendary piste watchman Erik "Stor-Erik" Marklund. They live together with their mother, Gudrun (Barbro Oborg), and often spend time with their family friend and local bodega owner, Beng-Ha (Pierre Lindstedt), with few connections to the outside world. Other recurring characters include Yngve (Carl Magnus Dellow), a local policeman who befriends the brothers, and Eva-Lena (Margareta Stone), Beng-Ha's niece. The plots of the episodes usually center around something out of the ordinary happening, such as guests visiting the resort, often at the same time as some potentially dangerous natural event looms in the distance.

''Pistvakt'' was a Swedish comedy TV series. Originating as a stage play set up in 1996, [[BritishBrevity it only ran for two six-episode seasons]] in 1998 and 2000, with [[TheMovie a movie]] being made to wrap up the story in 2005. While no other film or TV media have been produced since, the setting and characters are often revisited in the form of stage shows to this day and the TV series remains something of a cult classic.

The show is about the three Marklund brothers, the oldest, Sven-Erik, or "Sven-E" (played by Lennart Jähkel), the middle brother, Jan-Erik, or "Jan-E" (Jacob Nordenson), and the youngest, Olle (Thomas Norström), who work as piste watchmen at a modest, seldom visited ski resort in Svartlien, a fictional Lapland location described as "the darkest piste-marked bear cave and cold pit in the North". The place was previously overseen by their father, the legendary piste watchman Erik "Stor-Erik" Marklund. They live together with their mother, Gudrun (Barbro Oborg), and often spend time with their family friend and local bodega owner, Beng-Ha (Pierre Lindstedt), with few connections to the outside world. Other recurring characters include Yngve (Carl Magnus Dellow), a local policeman who befriends the brothers, and Eva-Lena (Margareta Stone), Beng-Ha's niece. The plots of the episodes usually center around something out of the ordinary happening, such as guests visiting the resort, often at the same time as some potentially dangerous natural event looms in the distance.

''Pistvakt'' was a Swedish comedy TV series. Originating as a stage play set up in 1996, [[BritishBrevity it only ran for two six-episode seasons]] in 1998 and 2000, with [[TheMovie a movie]] being made to wrap up the story in 2005. While no other film or TV media have been produced since, the setting and characters are often revisited in the form of stage shows to this day.

* RealSongThemeTune: "Blue And Alone" by Music/WeepingWillows. A notable case, since the version used is the original, not a cover, and the song wasn't written for the show.

The show is about the three Marklund brothers, the oldest, Sven-Erik, or "Sven-E" (played by Lennart Jähkel), the middle brother, Jan-Erik, or "Jan-E" (Jacob Nordenson), and the youngest, Olle (Thomas Norström), who work as piste watchmen at a modest, seldom visited ski resort in Svartlien, a fictional Lapland location described as "the darkest piste-marked bear cave and cold pit in the North". The place was previously overseen by their father, the legendary piste watchman Erik "Stor-Erik" Marklund. They live together with their mother, Gudrun (Barbro Oborg), and often spend time with their family friend and local bodega owner, Beng-Ha (Pierre Lindstedt), with few connections to the outside world. Other recurring characters include Yngve (Carl Magnus Dellow), a local policeman who befriends the brothers, and Eva-Lena (Margareta Stone), Beng-Ha's niece. The plots of the episodes usually center around something out of the ordinary happening, such as guests visiting the resort, often at the same time as some potentially dangerous natural event hangs overhead.

[[spoiler:'''Stor-Erik:''']] Sven-Erik... It's me. Don't you see-\\

* ConMan: [[spoiler:Dwight, the Norweigan pilot; he comes to Svartlien with the intention of seducing Gudrun into a quick marriage so he can rob her off the land she owns]].

* CallingTheOldManOut: Sven-E does this to [[spoiler:Stor-Erik]] in the last episode, "Jakten på en dräpare", in a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
-->'''Sven-E:''' [[spoiler:...[w]hoever the hell you might be calling yourself, because you sure aren't my father. You disappeared 27 years ago, and promoted me to shoulder a mantle of lead and drudgery, with two younger brothers to care for, and a mother so corroded by grief that her shadow left stains on the wallpaper. That's what you did. But my father doesn't do that. My father, he saved peoples' lives, he was spoken of as a hero. He killed bears, and climbed mountains, and said good night to us every night. ''[now in tears]'' Then he disappeared. Haven't seen him since.]]\\

'''Sven-E:''' [[spoiler:You're not my father. You hear that?! You're not our father!]]

* LimitedWardrobe: The main cast are rarely seen in anything other than their usual outfits.

* InstantExpert: Despite never having flown a plane in his life, in "Lusekoftanovan", Sven-E is able to not only fly a plane, he is able to not only pilot it expertly and save Jan-E and Olle from a snowstorm by [[spoiler:using the hard winds to ''stop the plane mid-air'']].

* ChekhovsGun: The map from Norway to Svartlien drawn on a frozen cod filet packaging from episode 2 of season 2. The map was [[spoiler:drawn by Stor-Erik and given to Dwight when they met some time ago]]. In the season 2 finale two-parter, it [[spoiler:proves that the skeleton found in the mountains obviously predates the drawing of the map, meaning it can't be Stor-Erik's body]].
* ContinuitySnarl: While most revelations about Stor-Erik made in the movie was consistent with what Sven-E had known but kept secret from the others, there is a major inconcistency about the Avalanche of 1972 mentioned in the second episode of season 2. In that episode, the avalanche was said to have trapped dozens of people that Stor-Erik dug out with his bare hands; the guest characters of the episode, the Näslund brothers, lost their father in the avalanche, despite Stor-Erik's best efforts. In the film, Sven-E admits to Olle that [[spoiler:the "avalanche" was really just a single person being buried under some snow that fell off the bodega's roof. Also, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Stor-Erik used a shovel]]]].

** Sven-E, either directly or indirectly, takes charge and saves the day.

''Pistvakt'' was a Swedish comedy TV series. Originating as a stage play set up in 1996, it only ran for two six-episode seasons in 1998 and 2000, with [[TheMovie a movie]] being made to wrap up the story in 2005. While no other film or TV media have been produced since, the setting and characters are often revisited in the form of stage shows to this day.