'''Terkel In Trouble''' (''Terkel i knibe'') is Denmark's very first [[AllCGICartoon all-CG animated feature]]. Terkel is a sixth-grader who lives with a dysfunctional family, and other townspeople are no better, from his foul-mouthed best friend, Jason, who always brings around an iron bar, to resident school bullies Sten and Saki.

One day Terkel starts receiving death threats. Could they be from Sten and Saki, who were beaten by Terkel's abusive, alcoholic Uncle Stewart? Or from Jason, whose fat, ugly sister committed suicide after being rejected and mocked by Terkel, who didn't know she and Jason were relatives? Or maybe the new teacher, nature-loving hippie Gunnar, has something to do with it...

''Terkel In Trouble'' features a cast of mostly kids, provides dark and cynical humour, as well as unpleasant character designs, and thus is often compared with ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''; however, ''Terkel'' is not satirical and is far less surreal than ''South Park''.

The film is based on a radio show created by comedian AndersMatthesen, who does ''all'' voice acting for both the radio show and the film.
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!!The film provides examples of:
* AdultsAreUseless
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Played with. Johanna likes Jason who in turn dosn't fall for her until she tells him to "Fuck off and die".
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: For some reason one of the two bullies has greenish skin.
* AnimatedActors: The scenes during the end credits show that the characters are just actors playing a part, even if it seems that someone takes this too seriously... Most of them are also PlayingAgainstType.
* AnimatedAdaptation: of a long-running radio drama/comedy
* ArtShift: Gunnar's song about a poor Thai boy is visualized in a "paper cut-out" style vaguely reminiscent of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.
* CameraAbuse: For a brief moment Terkel involuntarily pisses over the camera "lens".
* CanonImmigrant: StewartStardust, Terkel's uncle, was a character created by comedian Anders Matthesen several years before this film.
* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:Gunnar]] wants to kill Terkel because he [[spoiler:sat upon a spider, squashing it]].
* DubNameChange: Barry is called Arne in Denmark.
* EyeScream: Rita is eventually blinded... by forks.
* FingerTwitchingRevival: [[spoiler:Gunnar]]
* GranolaGirl: Gunnar can be considered a male example.
* HilariousOuttakes
* LimitedWardrobe: Every character has always the same outfit, except for Arne, who appears as several characters during the whole film. Terkel's father also reads the same newspaper every day!
* LostAesop / SpoofAesop: At the end, Arne tries to come up with AnAesop, but fails (saying a lot of weird things) and simply goes away.
** All of them are proverbs that he's got mixed up.
* MarySue: An in-universe example. We discover at the end that Arne is also the director of the film, so it makes sense that he cast himself as the narrator, the character with most screentime (except Terkel, of course) and the only one who isn't some kind of jerk/moron/psycho.
* {{Narrator}}: Arne. He's also the music teacher and appears as many other bit roles, always addressing the audience.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Many clues hint that Jason is the one out to get Terkel.]]
* ShoutOut: to ''Film/TheShining'' and ''Film/TheGodfather'', among others.
** The creepy opening credits are inspired by ''{{Se7en}}'''s opening credits.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Or age as poor Rita finds out.
* SplitScreenPhoneCall: When Terkel phones to uncle Stewart. Near the end, Terkel also phones to his parents, who were apparently involved in some kind of sex act (father dressed as a baby and mother as a dominatrix).
* TalkingToHimself: To the extreme - in the original Danish version, stand-up comedian Anders Matthesen voices ''every single'' character in the film.
** The Norwegian, Swedish and German translations were also each voiced by one guy.
* TheUnintelligible: Leon, Terkel's father, is able to communicate just by saying "No" over and over with various tones.
** Parodied during the HilariousOuttakes, when Leon can't remember what he's supposed to say.
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