History Film / OlsenBanden

* CoolTrain: First, there was a small train used in '''Olsen-banden i Jylland''. Then, the production team went crazy and made ''Olsen-banden på sporet'''s plot revolve around trains. Oh, and when Kjeld dreams about what he's going to get with his share of the millions, it's a model railway.

*** Benny: "Bloody good, Egon!"[[labelnote:Danish]]"Skidegodt, Egon!"[[/labelnote]] The Norwegian Benny, who swears less, says "Brilliant, Egon!"[[labelnote:Norwegian]]"Helmaks, Egon!"[[/labelnote]] instead, and generally uses the word "helmaks"/"brilliant" whenever he's satisfied about something. Likewise, his Swedish counterpart Vanheden uses "Brilliant/Splendid, Sickan!" depending on the translator.[[labelnote:Swedish]]"Lysande, Sickan!"[[/labelnote]]

*** Dynamit-Harry in the Swedish version has two: "What a friggin' blast!"[[labelnote:Swedish]]"Vilken jädra smäll!", although he will occasionally go with "vilken jävla smäll" [[PrecisionFStrike if the situation warrants it]][[/labelnote]] and a nonsense phrase along the lines of "Haderajan" (although the beer which was named after this phrase spells it "Hadiraja").

** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] for Harry, who's never called "Dynamit-Harry" in the movie, but he's even more adept with explosives than the original. Charles-Ingvar is never called "Sickan" either.

* The Swedish version diverged from the others quite a bit, starting with its title, ''Jönssonligan''. For one, they did not remake all of the Danish movies; rather, eight films were made in its first run, of which the first three were straight remakes and the last five used mostly original plots that only borrowed certain plot points from the Danish series. Further, some of the characters were either DemotedToExtra or became {{Ascended Extra}}s. It was also rebooted ''twice'' (to date) in 2015 and 2020. Other than the films, there are also two {{Licensed Game}}s: ''VideoGame/JonssonliganJaktenPaMjolner'' and ''Jönssonligan går på djupet''[[labelnote:Translated]]"The Jönsson Gang: The search for Mjolnir" and "The Jönsson Gang Plunges the Depths" respectively[[/labelnote]]) released in 1999 and 2000. Both of the games were written by Per Demervall, who also drew some comics about the gang beforehand.

* InNameOnly: The 2015 movie „Jönssonligan – Den perfekta stöten" is about car-thief Charles-Ingvar Jönsson wanting to avenge his uncle Ralf's murder with the help of the alcoholic former miner Dynamit-Harry, con man Ragnar Vanheden, and safecracker Rocky (who happens to be Charles-Ingvar's former [[UnresolvedSexualTension girlfriend]]). The target is CorruptCorporateExecutive [[DistaffCounterpart Wallentin]], who had her DirtyCop accomplice kill Ralf when trying to recover her laptop (which was in a car that Ralf stole).

* ActorAllusion: Both Gösta Ekman (Sickan) and Peter Haber (Dr. Busé) would later play Literature/MartinBeck in the two TV series made after the books. In the last movie, a prison guard is shown watching an episode of {{Film/Beck}}, with only some spoken lines heard ("This is Martin Beck. We know you are in there. You are surrounded.")

* PricelessMingVase: Subverted with a literal vase in ''Olsen-banden ser rødt''. The first time, it slides out of palms of Børge's fiancee (her shaky hands were already [[ForeShadowing hinted at]]). The Gang decides to play with it as with a jigsaw puzzle, and then they notice it's a MadeInChina knockoff. [[spoiler:Then, the knockoff vase gets broken by the vase merchant. He does it to show it's a knockoff though. And then played straight when Egon [[TooDumbToLive gives the genuine vase to Børge's fiancee to hold for a moment...]] ]]

* SirSwearsALot: Interestingly enough, the movies are quite full of swearing, especially from Benny and Egon. That said, the swearwords they use the most („før fanden“ - „for the devil('s sake)“ and „pokker“ - „damn“) are considered fairly harmless in Danish.

* {{Cameo}}: Many small roles were played by well known Danish actors, sometimes even after having played other major roles earlier in the series:

* AscendedExtra: While Harry only appears in two of the danish movies (his actor, Preben Kaas, also appeared in one additional movie, in a different role), in the Norwegian and Swedish series, possibly thanks to the fact that both their versions had the role played by a popular and beloved comedian (Harald Heide-Steen Jr in Norway and Björn Gustafson in Sweden), Harry is a mainstay of the series. As such, in the Norwegian series the movies featuring him usually upgrade him to titular character, and in the Swedish series he's a permanent member of the gang from ''Jönssonligan får guldfeber'' on.

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*** In ''Jönssonligan på Mallorca'', Harry suddenly utters a line in [[SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage surprisingly good Finnish]]; this may be a reference to that his role in the gang was originally taken by a native Finnish speaker.

** A particularly strange and roundabout one in Norway with ''Dickie Dick Dickens.'' Since the Norwegian translations of the ''Dickie Dick Dickens'' audio drama was such a hit, the Norwegian director of the audio drama got the original authors' permission to write a few new adventures for Norwegian radio where the infamous Chicago gangster Dickie Dick Dickens visited Norway. The last and most obscure of these had Dickens team up with the Norwegian Egon Olsen for a minor coup.

* AscendedExtra: Harry in the Norwegian and Swedish series, possibly thanks to the fact that both their versions had the role played by a popular and beloved comedian (Harald Heide-Steen Jr in Norway and Björn Gustafson in Sweden). As such, in the Norwegian series the movies featuring him usually upgrade him to titular character, and in the Swedish series he's a permanent member of the gang from ''Jönssonligan får guldfeber'' on.

* AbsoluteCleavage: In ''Jönssonligan Dyker Upp Igen'', Doris wears a ''very'' low cut dress specifically for this trope (see DistractedByTheSexy below), which is unusual since the series didn't really use sex appeal otherwise. The [[MaleGaze camera]] isn't shy about focusing on her cleavage during these scenes, either.