History Film / OlsenBanden

* The Norwegian version sticks very closely to the Danish one, using the same plots, mostly the same characters and largely the same names. However, the gang name is written as one word, "Olsenbanden," as opposed to the Danish hyphenated "Olsen-banden". The films themselves also tend to be renamed in adaptation, with the exception of ''Olsen-bandens sidste bedrifter'' and ''Olsen-bandens sidste stik'' which were simply spelled differently to accomodate for spelling differences between Danish and Norwegian. In March 2022, a reboot for this version was announced.

The original concept was rebooted in Norway in 2022 with the movie ''Olsenbanden - Siste Skrik'' (a title referring to [[Art/TheScreamMunch Edvard Munch's The Scream]], which is central to the plot).

** While we're at villains, the TapOnTheHead also counts. In one movie Egon already anticipates it and hands over his NiceHat [[SkewedPriorities to prevent damage to it.]]

* 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).

* The Norwegian version sticks very closely to the Danish one, using the same plots, mostly the same characters and largely the same names. However, the gang name is written as one word, "Olsenbanden," as opposed to the Danish hyphenated "Olsen-banden". The films themselves also tend to have {{Completely Different Title}}s in adaptation, with the exception of ''Olsen-bandens sidste bedrifter'' and ''Olsen-bandens sidste stik'' which were simply spelled differently to accomodate for spelling differences between Danish and Norwegian.

In 1999, a SpinoffBabies version [[RecursiveAdaptation of the Swedish adaptation]] called ''Lilla Jönssonligan'' (''The little Jönsson Gang'') was released. This soon led to SpinoffBabies versions of both the Danish and Norwegian versions being created as well, both called ''Olsenbanden Jr.''

* BigGuyLittleGuy In ''Jönssonligan på Mallorca'', Wall-Enberg uses a team of criminals, siblings called "Ödlan"(Lizard) and "Brorsan"(Bro) - a dwarfish, pale man and a tall, brawny guy respectively - in his plan to steal the King's Cross from the Palma cathedral. They show up throughout the movie doing his bidding prior to that.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys:
** Two-man gangs shows up in two of the Danish movies: Kongen og Knægten in ''Olsen Bandens Store Kup'' (where they steal the money from the gang) and Archibald Hansen and Bøffen i ''Olsen Banden Deruda''' (where they work for Holm-Hansen and try to eliminate Egon).
** In ''Jönssonligan på Mallorca'', Wall-Enberg uses a team of criminals, siblings called "Ödlan"(Lizard) and "Brorsan"(Bro) - a dwarfish, pale man and a tall, brawny guy respectively - in his plan to steal the King's Cross from the Palma cathedral. They show up throughout the movie doing his bidding prior to that.

* The Norwegian version sticks very closely to the Danish one, using the same plots, mostly the same characters and largely the same names. However, the gang name is written as one word, "Olsenbanden," as opposed to the Danish hyphenated "Olsen-banden". The Norwegian series also has an arguably more well-known version called Olsenbanden Junior, which is about [[SpinoffBabies the trio during their childhood days]].
* The Swedish version -- whose ProtagonistTitle changed to ''Jönssonligan'' because almost all of the characters were renamed -- diverged from the others quite a bit. 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. Like the Norwegian version, it received a SpinOffBabies version called ''Lilla Jönssonligan'' ("The little Jönssongang"). 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.

The series has a [[Characters/OlsenBanden character page]] which goes into more detail on the central trio as well as other recurring characters.

* 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.")
* 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.
* AcidPool: [[spoiler: In movie 12, Bøffen tries to kill Egon by putting him into a boiling [[TechnicolorScience green]] vat of HollywoodAcid.]]
* ActionPrologue: Most of the Danish and Norwegian movies have a pre-title sequence consisting of a small heist which fails and lands Egon in prison. While early entries used these to provide an EstablishingCharacterMoment for Egon with his friends escaping and him pretending to be part of scenery while police arrives, later ones started to make these heists funny. Interestingly, in movie 7, Bøffen pulls a heist on Egon.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the six Norwegian ''Olsenbanden Jr'' movies, the junior version of the gang appear to be straight-up heroic. They might occasionally cheat on a few tests or pull off some harmless pranks, which tend to earn them the ire of authority figures, and the younger Egon is still a schemer primarily motivated by self-interest... but the elaborate heists and schemes are generally employed to catch and expose criminals, not to commit crimes. This could also be why the ''Jr'' stories tend to have happier endings for the protagonists.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: The second Swedish reboot from 2020 is, being a comedy, closer in tone to the original movies than the 2015 one (see In Name Only). But apart from Sickan, the members of the gang share almost no traits with their original counterparts, making them seem a lot more generic. Most notably, the Harry in the movie doesn't do anything that involves explosives, and only drinks alcohol in one scene as part of a meal; he has hints of the original Harry's personality, but ends up being more similar to the original Rocky than Dynamit-Harry.

* 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 the third movie on.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Rocky and his wife Eivor in the first Swedish movie. She's a bit of a ballbuster and he's very meek, but any time Sickan insults one in front of the other, he ends up on the receiving end of a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness It's especially scary when Rocky does this.]]
* BadToTheLastDrop: Movie 13 features Egon replacing the beers of some security guards with raspberry lemonade. The guards find it so awful that they quit their job over it.

** Surprisingly enough, averted in the last Swedish movie: A Sicilian mafia boss and his son speak a horribly mangled Italian with half the words being italianised versions of Swedish words that somehow ends up being harder to understand with any knowledge of Italian.

* BreakingOutTheBoss: Never happens in the original series, surprisingly enough - Egon can break his way into pretty much everywhere but never even once tries to break out of Vridsløse prison. The Swedish movies do this twice, however:
** ''Jönssonligan på Mallorca'' downplays this when Vanheden and Harry conspire to free Sickan while he is being transferred from one prison to the other.
** ''Jönssonligans största kupp'' starts with one of these as Vanheden and Harry attempt to break Busé (who replaced Sickan in the sixth movie and was arrested at the end of it) out. As he had written his new plan on his cellmate Herman Melvin's back, he brings him too and lets him go over the prison wall first, but Busé is caught before he can escape as well... Thus leaving the gang with a new leader once again.

** At the end of the last movie in the Norwegian series, Egon has finally got the money and proclaims he has a plan, whereupon the camera zooms out to reveal the movie crew and the director yelling: "No Egon, not another plan!"
** The Danish version ends both the sixth and thirteenth movies with Benny, Kjeld and Yvonne waving goodbye to the audience. Egon salutes the audience at the end of several other movies as well.

** The first three Swedish ''Lilla Jönssonligan'' movies have the same issue with taking place during the wrong decade, but at least still take place in the past. The fourth, final one doesn't even try, instead taking place in the modern day ( as in, the 2000's). On another note, the ''Lilla Jönssonligan'' series stars Harry even though one of Rocky's lines in the first Swedish film implies he should have been there instead.

** In the 8th Swedish Movie from 2000, actor Johan Ulveson plays Sickan's younger brother Sven-Ingvar "Sivan" Jönsson. What makes this a gag is that in the Swedish movie ''Ogifta Par'', which came out three years before the 8th ''Jönssonligan'' movie, Ulveson played a character who encountered Sickan's actor Gösta Ekman (playing himself) and Ulveson's ''character'' suggested to Ekman that he could play Sickan's younger brother, should another movie be made. The character of Sivan himself had been introduced a year earlier in the first Swedish SpinoffBabies movie, though.

* ChekhovsGun: The [[spoiler:coffee machine]] in ''Jönssonligan spelar högt''.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Unlike his Danish counterpart, Wall-Enberg is always shown as being the same character from movie to movie, and hires or agrees to buy something from Sickan and the gang on several occasions. Despite stabbing them in the back every single time, Sickan keeps taking him up on his offers or offering something himself, [[NoHonorAmongThieves often hoping to do the same to Wall-Enberg]] [[CycleOfRevenge for all the times]] [[ItsPersonal he's betrayed Sickan or his team.]]

* CoatFullOfContraband: A coat stolen as a side-effect of a plan in movie 12 turns out to [[spoiler: contain the five million they were originally after at the end of movie 13]].

* ConMenHateGuns: Discounting the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness that's the pre-credit scene of movie 2 (and that's a water pistol), the gang never uses a weapon. The Swedish version lampshades this when M.A.Busé joins them in the sixth movie and asks why they don't use any weaponry, prompting Vanheden to demonstrate why they don't need it.

** The fifth and sixth movies in the Danish series end with the gang actually going to Mallorca. Therefore the sixth and the seventh movies open on Mallorca.
** At the end of the third movie the gang discovers that [[spoiler: the money they retrieved from an old Nazi bunker is forged]]. In the fourth movie, as Egon is counting the money from their heist, Yvonne suddenly exclaims: "Oh, my God! [[spoiler: They are not forged, are they??]] Because I'll never forget that other time, when ..."
* ConvenientlyCellmates: From movie 5 on, Egon gets his next plan from his cellmate, usually an attorney who [[HeKnowsTooMuch knew too much]].

* CoolTrain: First, there was a small train that was used in the 3rd movie. Then, the production team went crazy and made movie 7'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.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The Swedish remake from 2015. Mainly because it's a thriller, not a comedy. See InNameOnly.
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: In the fifth movie, Benny and Kjeld get to the backside of the police-infested bank by posing as drivers of a beer delivery truck.

** Kjeld does this in movie 2, even introducing himself as „the young girl who cleans the room“.
** Movie 13 provides us with Egon assuming the identity of Egonne in order to pass as a maid in a hotel. He also does this in one of the ''Olsenbanden Jr'' movies at the age of twelve, spending a short while disguised as a girl... and pulling it off quite well, after a couple of false starts.
** In the Swedish movies, Sickan does it a total of three times - in ''Jönssonligan får guldfeber'', in ''Jönssonligan på Mallorca'', and the the first game. The latter two are relatively convincing apart from the LarynxDissonance, although it is implied that the first attempt only succeeded because their mark had very bad eyesight. Harry joins in on it in ''Mallorca'' as well (using the nickname "Harriet"), [[IncrediblyConspicuousDrag with slightly less convincing results.]]

** A lesser example happens in the fourth movie, where a competing trio of thieves utilizes their human resources to steal just stolen money that Egon for whatever reason decided to [[HiddenInPlainSight hide in plain sight]].
** The first Swedish movie features two instances ''immediately'' after each other. First Vanheden spots a woman on the sidewalk and gently crashes his car into another as a result. Then Sickan is shown accepting a plate with drinks from a stewardess on his flight, turns his head to watch her walk down the plane... And tips the plate over as a result.

* DownerEnding: At the end of the 13th movie, [[spoiler: Egon is put into the psychiatric division of the prison as an incurable criminal. While it's common for Egon to end up in prison at the end of a movie, not only is it implied to not be temporary this time, but it was also supposed to be the last movie (and was for 17 years). If a 14th movie hadn't eventually been made, Egon would canonically have spent the rest of his life in prison.]]
* DrunkDriver: PlayedForLaughs in the Danish and Norwegian versions of ''Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry''. Harry tries to drive while heavily intoxicated. He insists that he's fine, but...[[note]]Quoted from the Norwegian version[[/note]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first movie, Kjeld and Yvonne have three children, of which Børge is the middle-child. The oldest and the youngest, a boy and a girl, are gone by the next movie and never as much as alluded to again. Benny has a pregnant girlfriend and, by the end of the movie, at least one child. This is also never mentioned again. A group of prostitutes, who the gang happily frequents, figures into the plot, something which would not have happened later. The series would not really resemble what it became [[GrowingTheBeard until the third movie]], with the formula complete by movie 5, with the introduction of Inspector Jensen, Sergeant Holm, Bøffen and the capitalist villain that would figure into most of the sequels.

*** The early movies don't feature Jensen, bringing us TheKlutz Mortensen instead (or him and his clones, given the series' loads of similar characters). He gets suspended in the fourth movie due to the chief getting the mistaken impression that he has gone insane, so Jensen's appearance is not that sudden.

* FakingAndEntering: The gang are hired to do just that by Baron Løvenvold in the 8th movie.
* FiveFingerDiscount: Melvin from the 7th Swedish movie is an improbably skilled and possibly cleptomaniac pickpocket, leading to a number of funny moments. At the end, [[spoiler: he pickpockets the chief of police's wallet and the key to the handcuffs he's currently wearing, without even knowing what it is.]]
* ForeignQueasine: [[SelfDeprecation Danish brown gravy]] in movie 13, which Egon replaces another sauce with in an establishment in France to cause mass fainting and thus provide a distraction.

* FunWithAcronyms: Movie 13 features security company KBG, whose full name can be translated to Kopenhagen Body Guards. The company features a red star in their logo, in case of somebody missing the reference.

* GambitRoulette: Egon's plans often heavily rely on second-accurate timing and exactly predicting the actions of certain characters. For example, in movie 9, managing to put exactly the amount of fuel into a car to make it stop right in the middle of a busy intersection and then precisely timing it with the arrival of the police.
* GameChanger: By the beginning of the movie 12, Egon is actually scared of returning to the jail; a change in prison management means that he won't be sent to his old room to conceive the next plan, the next time he gets caught doing something, he'll probably end up in insane asylum. [[spoiler: And by the end of movie 13, this actually happens.]]
* {{Gaslighting}}: Egon's plans sometimes utilize a very short-term form of this. For example, in movie 6, he replaces a huge dog of a security guard with a tiny one to incapacitate him for a moment.

* GiveMeBackMyWallet: During a heist in the 7th Swedish movie, Harry cannot find a tool. Vanheden turns to Melvin (a possibly compulsive pickpocket) asking for it. When he gets it, he follows it up with "And the wallet", which Melvin hands him immediately.

* GoMadFromTheIsolation: [[spoiler: Sometime between the 4th and 5th Swedish movie, Vanheden, Harry and Doris move to Spain. Sickan can't join them because there is a warrant for his arrest, so he can't travel and stays behind in Stockholm... Where we see him, explaining his next plan to his absent companions. He even returns Vanheden's catchphrase to himself and corrects him about the use of his nickname.]]
* GrayRainOfDepression: It only rains once in all 14 (Danish) movies, [[spoiler: when, at the end of movie 13, Egon has been arrested and faces life imprisonment, Yvonne has left Kjeld and the gang didn't get the money. However, it's due to the rain that Benny discovers something important...]]
** Downplayed at the beginning of the 5th Swedish movie, see GoMadFromTheIsolation, just above; it's still raining in the next scene taking place in Stockholm, which is far more mundane (the police are just informed of Sickan being out of the country).

* HighAltitudeInterrogation: Done by Bøffen to Egon in the tenth movie.

** Benny and Kjeld have obviously fallen for this one in movie 7, although it is ultimately averted. Had they known how much 90 million crowns in gold ingots weighed, they would certainly not have volunteered to do the loading. Also, Benny might have gotten a sturdier truck.
* HypocriticalHumor:
** In the first Swedish movie, the gang robs Wall-Enberg while disguised as police with uniforms and a cop car they stole from the police station. When they run out, Sickan yells at Vanheden for leaving their car unlocked, and Vanheden replies "Nobody would steal a cop car, right?" Cue the trio looking up into the air in realisation for a moment.
** The fifth Swedish movie does this fairly subtly early on; Sickan is seen telling his compatriots (who he is pretty cross with at the time) that he prefers working "on his own without any help"... Minutes after the beginning of the movie showed that [[spoiler:he will still plan imaginary heists and act like his compatriots are there when they aren't (see Go Mad From the Isolation above).]]

** In movie 3, Bøffen and Harry's actors play very different characters than they usually do.

*** The Holm of the ''Olsenbanden Jr'' series is also an example, since his actor, Johannes Joner, also played Holm's partner Gran in the fourteenth movie. The Hermansen and Holm duo of the ''Jr'' movies play off each other in a very similar way to Holm and Gran, though they're notably sillier and less competent. Hermansen Senior in particular is a pompous KnowNothingKnowItAll, while Holm is his inexperienced and often bumbling assistant who nevertheless is far more likely to grab the SmartBall.

* 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).

* InstitutionalApparel: The prison band at the end of movie 10 wears black and white stripes, while Egon wears a grey and blue striped variant at the beginning of movie 14.

* IronicEcho: In the fifth movie, when he shows up for the first time, Jensen echoes one of Egon's rants to his technicians nearly verbatim.
* ItsPersonal: In the 8th Swedish movie, it's Sickan's grandmother who's the driving force behind getting the gang (joined by Sickan's younger brother Sivan) to do one more heist against Wall-Enberg, since she blames him for having been the cause of Sickan's nervous breakdown.
* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: In movie 12, Egon and Yvonne infiltrate a hotel by posing as cleaning ladies.

** In movie 5, Yvonne tells Egon [[spoiler: to go and turn himself in to get Kjeld and Benny out of prison,]] because he's always the only one to get arrested.

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Subverted with Bøffen, Bang-Johansen and Holm; they were all introduced in the sixth movie ''Olsen Bandens sidste bedrifter'', which was intended to be the last one[[note]]As implied by the title, which translates to "The Olsen Gang's Last Archievements"[[/note]], but all became regular characters after the series was confirmed to be uncancelled.
* LastNameBasis[=/=]FirstNameBasis: The Swedish protagonists have an odd case of using both tropes at the same time. Ragnar Vanheden generally calls everyone else by their first name or [[TheNicknamer nicknames]], but most other characters - even his cousin in his first appearance - call him Vanheden in return. That said, Harry starts calling him Ragnar when he formally joins the gang, and in the video games the only one calling Vanheden that is [[ThirdPersonPerson himself]].
* LaughingMad: In the third Swedish movie Biffen tries to suffocate Sickan by gassing him. Sickan survives, but appears to get high off of the gas and can be heard laughing and singing hysterically for [[OverlyLongGag almost 3 minutes straight]].

* LockedInAFreezer: In the fifth film, Egon gets locked in a freezer by an unaware worker and has to be rescued by his friends, who hire a guy who bombs out the back wall of the freezer.
%%* LockedInTheDungeon: Egon in movie 14. ((Commented out because Administrivia/ZeroContextExample))
* LuckyCharmsTitle:
** ''Varning för Jönssonligan'', the first movie of the Swedish series, has the first word stylised as "Varn!ng" in promotional material and on IMDB (although this often gets ignored by third-party sources for simplicity).
** ''Jönssonligan och [=DynamitHarry=]'' also does this, with official posters and the film's titlecard replacing the "i" in Dynamit with a red stick of dynamite.

** The 8th Swedish movie borrows from this plot; Harry uses a jackhammer to drill into a vault, camouflaged by [[Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung Das Rheingold]] going on above them. Sivan literally conducts the drilling by reading the notes at the same time.

** In the 2015 Swedish movie, Charles-Ingvar's uncle and original partner in crime Ralf is clearly designed to resemble the Charles-Ingvar of the original movies, although older.
** Another possible example from the Swedish series happens in the fifth movie, in which Harry suddenly throws out a line in [[SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage surprisingly good Finnish]]; perhaps not coincidentally, his role in the gang was originally taken by a native Finnish speaker.

* NeverGoingBackToPrison: After 20-30 stints in Vridsløse, Egon decides this at the beginning of movie 12, even though he is usually not unhappy there. Benny's and Kjeld's reaction: „What, never again?“ It's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as [[spoiler: Egon risks being put into the prison's psychiatric ward.]]
* NoodleIncident: The Swedish films have two specific instances of this:
** In ''Varning för Jönssonligan'', Vanheden immediately tenses up when a police woman says "cars" and claims that "That's all behind me now, not my area anymore, my bro Leopold did it!", possibly relating to a past as a used car salesman which never gets elaborated on.
** Early on in ''Jönssonligan och Dynamit-Harry'', Sickan remarks that Harry "hasn't been sober since he blew up that parking meter on Valhallavägen!" Once again, this incident never gets elaborated on.
** More generally, while the Danish and Norwegian series usually show what event landed Egon in jail at the beginning of the movie, ''Jönssonligan får guldfeber'' and ''VideoGame/JonssonliganJaktenPaMjolner'' does not follow this pattern, leaving whatever heists landed Sickan there those times up to imagination.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The recurring villain in the Swedish films, CorruptCorporateExecutive Wall-Enberg, is a ''very'' un-subtle jab at the Wallenberg family, one of Sweden's most influential "old money"-families. He may also possibly be a jab at Anders Wall, a very famous corporate raider at the time.
* NonActionGuy: None of the Jönssonligan members are much in the way of fighters. Sickan is short and scrawny and relies on his brains, Vanheden is a petty thief, lockpick and charmer, and Harry, despite his predeliction for explosives, is a bit of a CowardlyLion. Their former member, Rocky, was TheBigGuy in the first two movies, but was also [[GentleGiant sweet and childlike in nature.]]

* TheOldConvict: Although the movies are never set in prison, Egon shows traits of this. The entire staff knows him, he knows them, they know his tics, and the only people to know more about prisoner transport than Egon are the police. Egon's address in police files is Kjeld's house and movie 2 heavily implies that Egon, apart from Vridsløse prison, has no other place to sleep but with the Jensens. Finally, while it is left to other people to point this out, Egon occasionally does lose track of the outside world while in prison.

* PricelessMingVase: Subverted with a literal vase in eighth movie. 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...]] ]]

* PunnyTitle: The fourth Swedish film, ''Jönssonligan dyker upp igen'', has one. To elaborate, while "dyka upp" idiomatically means "to show up", "dyka" on its own means "dive"; fitting for a film with the cover showing the protagonists underwater and the climax featuring several divers.

** Børge after movie 8, as mentioned under PutOnABus on the main page. Sources differ about the reasons (alternatively drug problems or Jes Holtsø feeling that he hadn't gotten his fair share of the success).

* ReadTheFinePrint: What Egon fails to do when taking out a life insurance as a bargaining chip in the 12th movie. In his defense, it's VERY fine print and hidden in the ornamentation...
* RedHerring: When Egon lays out the plan in the 12th movie, he goes into detail about the shady dealings of the insurance company and its CEO, only to then say "But that doesn't interest us at all" and start expositing about a different character instead.

* RemovableSteeringWheel:
** In the Norwegian version of ''Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry'', Harry tries to drive while heavily intoxicated. After realizing that he's failing miserably, he removes the steering wheel and tells Benny to TakeTheWheel.
** Taken further in the Swedish ''Jönssonligan på Mallorca'', where the gang tries to escape by car in the narrow city streets. When they get cornered, they quickly remove the steering wheel and pass it to Harry in the back, who attaches it there ''and drives away in the other direction''. The mechanical intricacies of said car has not been brought up until then, so it all comes as a big surprise.

** Egon says to have been born on March 12, 1925 in movie 2, but his entry in Mortensen's rogues' gallery in movie 4 claims May 3rd, 1927. The actor is even older, having been born on December 21st, 1919. To make it weirder, Egon starts displaying signs of old age by movie 9 (forgetfulness), when the character would only have been around 50.
** A propos of Egon's forgetfulness: Both this and his decreasing vision in movie 8 are used for gags in one movie and then dropped. Even the very old Egon from the last movie reads without glasses and seems to have an excellent memory. Instead, he has become hard of hearing.
** In movie 2, Egon celebrates having been released from prison for the tenth time. But then, in movie 10, he is welcomed in Vridsløse prison for the tenth time, when even on-screen he's been there nearly twice as often.
** Børge's girlfriend Fie is already pregnant when they get married in the 8th movie. Not only is their son not born until three movies later, but Egon is explicitely said to have served nine months at the beginning of the movie and this is given as the reason why he didn't know about the impending birth.

** In the first Swedish film, Vanheden gives Sickan a thumbs up and tells him "Gröna sidan upp, va?" ("Green side up, alright?") which references a (then popular) radio comedy act by Hans "Hasse" Alfredson. On a similar note, the nickname Sickan was apparently given to Charles-Ingvar as a tribute to the contemporary actress Sickan Karlsson.

* StoryArc: Movies 12 and 13 have one. Danish movie 12 follows with preview of movie 13; meanwhile movie 13 begins with some kind of summary of events in movie 12, and its ending makes sense only if you remember plot details of the 12th one. Specifically: [[spoiler: when Egon gets caught, he gets sent to an insane asylum instead of jail, which is foreshadowed at the beginning of the previous movie; meanwhile, Benny and Kjeld take care of a coat which was swapped with the coat of the subject of a minor plan at the end of the previous movie, and turns out the money which they wanted to steal in first place]].

* TakeThat: The Swedish series brings up contemporary politicians twice in a clearly derisive manner:
** ''Jönssonligan får guldfeber'' features a scene where Vanheden directly mentions following in politican Ove Rainer's footsteps while discussing what tax plans to make for the millions they are trying to earn. This is a direct reference to Rainer having been accused of making investments with the purpose of lowering his own taxes as much as possible.
** ''Jönssonligan på Mallorca'' has a line where Vanheden is comparing despotic figures with a NapoleonComplex, with his full list being "Napoleon, Hitler, Lenin and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Feldt]]." The last one presumably refers to Kjell-Olof Feldt, the Minister of Finance and Trade at the time the movie was recorded.

* ThatsWhatSheSaid: In ''Jönssonligan dyker upp igen'', Biffen uses the trope name verbatim about something he just said himself and burst out in laughter at his own joke... [[{{Beat}} As the other present characters just look at each other in unamused silence]].[[labelnote:Explanation]]He specifically said "Nu börjar det dra ihop sig. ... Som flickan sade!" - the first sentence would idiomatically translate to "It's almost time," but literally means "It's starting to pull together"...)[[/labelnote]]

* VillainousBSOD: Wall-Enberg in the first Jönssonligan movie when he realizes that [[spoiler: the Jönsson gang left the Bedford Diamonds in his safe after stealing the money he got for them, and the police he called about it just discovered them.]]
* WardensAreEvil: The new warden of Vridsløse in the 12th movie, at least from Egon's perspective. The old one is a subversion.

** German/English is rarely subtitled in either the Danish or Swedish original, despite often using [[InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike misunderstandings over lingual false friends]] for comedy. Instances of this include such as „Köstliche Instrumente“ („delicious instruments“ instead of kostbar/valuable) or a misunderstanding about "möglich/mögligt" (the former German for "possible", the latter Swedish for "moldy").

* FakeShemp: Poul Bundgaard, who played Kjeld, died in the middle of filming of ''Olsen-bandens sidste stik''. His replacement was always filmed from behind. The replacement actor, Tommy Kenter, is 17 years younger and by the time of production was a middle-aged man.

* ForeignRemake: The Norwegian series in its entirety and the Swedish series to a lesser extent. The Norwegian movies were sometimes even made in parallel with their Danish counterparts so they could reuse some of the sets.

* GiveMeBackMyWallet: Not quite a textbook example in the 7th Swedish movie. Herman Melvin is an incredibly skilled and possibly compulsive pickpocket. During a heist, Harry cannot find a tool. Vanheden turns to Melvin, asking for it. When he gets it, he follows it up with "And the wallet", which Melvin hands him immediately.

** During one of their break-ins the gang blocks a security camera with a picture of the queen and her two sons, and the old watchman just smile happily when he sees it, and nods off again.

* InTheHood: Tried twice in [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the first two movies]], but it doesn't help a bit.

* CastingGag:
** The lovesick Danish tourist who pursues a reluctant Benny in the prologue to ''Olsen Bandens Sidste Bedrifter'' is played by Lily Weiding, Morten Grunwald's longtime girlfriend (and later wife).
** In the Danish Olsenbanden Jr. movie, Egon's father is played by Henning Sprogøe, the son of Ove Sprogøe, who of course played Egon in all 14 original movies.

* CastingGag: In the 8th Swedish Movie from 2000, actor Johan Ulveson plays Sickan's younger brother Sven-Ingvar "Sivan" Jönsson. What makes this a gag is that in the Swedish movie ''Ogifta Par'', which came out three years before the 8th ''Jönssonligan'' movie, Ulveson played a character who encountered Sickan's actor Gösta Ekman (playing himself) and Ulveson's ''character'' suggested to Ekman that he could play Sickan's younger brother, should another movie be made. The character of Sivan himself had been introduced a year earlier in the first Swedish SpinoffBabies movie, though.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The Swedish remake from 2015. Mainly because it's a thriller, not a comedy. See InNameOnly

* LastNameBasis[=/=]FirstNameBasis: Ragnar Vanheden and Charles-Ingvar Jönsson from the Swedish series have an odd case of using both tropes at once. Vanheden almost always calls Charles-Ingvar either [[InSeriesNickname Sickan or (more rarely) Charlie]]. Meanwhile, Charles-Ingvar ''nearly'' always calls Vanheden that in the films, apart from one single instance of calling him Ragnar[[note]]In film 5 when he is in full cordial, barely-contained fury mode[[/note]]... Then he suddenly switches to only calling him Ragnar in the games, with no other changes in their dynamic.

* LuckyCharmsTitle: ''Varning för Jönssonligan'', the first movie of the Swedish series, has the first word stylised as "Varn!ng" in promotional material and on IMDB (although this often gets ignored by third-party sources for simplicity).

*** ''Lilla Jönssonligan och cornflakeskuppen'' gives us the in-series explanation for Charles-Ingvar Jönsson always getting called "Sickan": there was a mixup between him and his twin sister in school once. Oddly enough, the credits then list them as "Sickan Jönsson" and "[[SpellmyNameWithAnS Si''k''kan]] Jönsson" respectively.

** To ''StarWars'', of all things. In ''Olsen Banden - deruda'''(1977) the Gang breaks into a bank disguised as three boxes on wheels. When Kjeld is separated from the others at one point, his box starts bopping up and down and squeaking like an agitated R2-D2.
** In the first Swedish film, Vanheden gives Sickan a thumbs up and tells him "Gröna sidan upp, va?" ("Green side up, alright?") which references a (then popular) radio comedy act by Hans "Hasse" Alfredson. In a similar note, the nickname Sickan was apparently given to Charles-Ingvar as a tribute to the contemporary actress Sickan Karlsson.

** In ''Jönssonligan på Mallorca'', Wall-Enberg uses a team of criminals, siblings called "Ödlan"(Lizard) and "Brorsan"(Bro/Big Brother) - a dwarfish, pale man and a tall, brawny guy respectively - in his plan to steal the King's Cross from the Palma cathedral. They show up throughout the movie doing his bidding prior to that.

* The Swedish version -- whose ProtagonistTitle changed to ''Jönssonligan'' because almost all of the characters were renamed -- diverged from the others quite a bit. 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. Like the Norwegian version, it received a SpinOffBabies version called ''Lilla Jönssonligan'' ("The little Jönssongang"). It was also rebooted ''twice'' (to date) in 2015 and 2020. This version also spawned a few comics drawn and written by Per Demervall, as well as 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.

*** Dynamit-Harry in the Swedish version: "What a friggin' blast!"[[labelnote:Swedish]]"Vilken jädra smäll!"[[/labelnote]]

** In the Swedish movies, Sickan does it a total of three times - in ''Jönssonligan får guldfeber'', in ''Jönssonligan på Mallorca'', and the the first game - with fairly convincing results apart from the LarynxDissonance. Harry joins in on it in ''Mallorca'' as well (using the nickname "Harriet"), [[IncrediblyConspicuousDrag with slightly less convincing results.]]

** In ''Jönssonligan Dyker Upp Igen'', the gang utilizes an unknowing Doris for this purpose (the only time in the Swedish movies they do) to distract Wall-Enberg while they infiltrate his illegal casino.

* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: The Jr films, especially the Swedish ones, downplay this. While they don't necessarily go to the same school (and mostly meet up during summer vacation), nearly all the eventual characters are there, even future villains Wall-Enberg and Biffen.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: The reason that people want to get rid of Egon OnceAnEpisode, even if they had originally hired him. It doesn't help that Egon can never resist showing off what he knows...

** The second Swedish reboot from 2020 is, being a comedy, closer in tone to the original movies. But apart from Sickan, the members of the gang share almost no traits with their original counterparts, making them seem a lot more generic. Most notably, the Harry in the movie doesn't do anything that involves explosives, and only drinks alcohol in one scene as part of a meal. He has hints of the original Harry's personality, but ends up being more similar to the original Rocky than Dynamit-Harry.

** In the 2020 Swedish reboot ''Se upp för Jönssonligan'', this has become an integral part ot Sickan's main heist gimmick—every heist in the movie is timed and planned around a specific piece of music.

* PrecisionFStrike: Interestingly enough, the movies are quite full of swearing, especially from Benny and Egon. Might not qualify as a full example as the swearwords mainly used („før fanden“ - „for the devil('s sake)“ and „pokker“ - „damn“) are considered fairly harmless in Danish.

** Subverted in ''Jönssonligan på Mallorca'', the fifth Swedish movie. Considering that the previous movies usually ended with them earning a lot of money yet being out of money in the next,[[note]]which is especially jarring when the first movie ends with them earning 55 million dollars yet seemingly not having any of it left by the second[[/note]] the movie does give an explanation for where their loot from the last film went: they ended up investing their funds from the 4th in stocks that tanked, and may also have used some of it to finance Doris' new business in Mallorca.

* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Two parallel scenes from the first and 13th Danish movies, with Ulla and Parisian prostitute Suzanne respectively. Both women appear like this in the front of Benny and in the both cases it's heavily implied [[SexyDiscretionShot it ended very nicely for him]].

* CoolCar: ''Jönssonligan får guldfeber'' has a heavily armed truck used to transport a goverment data chip between military bases. Part of the plan to steal the chip involves damaging the car's side with a sledge hammer so they can tinker with it while it is in the repair shop.

* InNameOnly: The 2015 movie „Jönssonligan – den perfekta stöten“ is about car-thief Charles-Ingvar Jönsson wanting to avenge his uncle's death with the help of Dynamit-Harry, con man Ragnar Vanheden and safecracker Rocky (who happens to be Charles-Ingvar's former [[UnresolvedSexualTension girlfriend]]), taking it out on CorruptCorporateExecutive [[DistaffCounterpart Wallentin]]. %%Phrasing? Haven't watched it so 'taking out on' may be odd

** The first three Swedish ''Lilla Jönssonligan'' movies have the same issue with taking place during the wrong decade, but at least still take place in the past. The fourth, final one doesn't even try, instead taking place in the modern day ( as in, the 2000's). On another note, the ''Lilla Jönssonligan'' series stars Harry even though one of Rocky's lines in the first Swedish film implies he should have been there
instead.

** The first three Swedish ''Lilla Jönssonligan'' movies have the same issue with taking place during the wrong decade, but at least still take place in the past. The fourth, final one doesn't even try, instead taking place in the modern day ( as in, the 2000's). On another note, the ''Lilla Jönssonligan'' series stars Harry even though one of Rocky's lines in the first Swedish film implies he should have been there instead.

%%* LockedInTheDungeon: Egon in movie 14. ((Commented out because ZeroContextExample))

** German/English is also not usually subtitled in either the Danish or Swedish original despite often using [[InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike misunderstandings over lingual false friends]] for comedy, such as „Köstliche Instrumente“ („delicious instruments“ instead of kostbar/valuable) or a misunderstanding about "möglich/mögligt" (the former German for "possible", the latter Swedish for "moldy"). There is a fansub of the third Swedish movie which ends up with

** In the Swedish movies, Rocky and his family is this. Since Harry is considered a mainstay of the group in popular culture, most people tend to forget that he wasn't even in the first movie, and only had a supporting role in the second.

The gang consists of:
* Egon Olsen: Criminal mastermind and [[SafeCracking expert safe-cracker]] [[ClockKing whose plans often rely heavily on correct timing and scheduling]]. Named "Charles-Ingvar '[[InSeriesNickname Sickan]]' Jönsson" in Sweden.
* Benny Frandsen: Small-time [[ConMan thief and swindler]]. The more competent of Egon's accomplices and the driver of whatever vehicle which may be at hand. Named "Ragnar Vanheden" in Sweden.
* Kjeld Jensen: The [[TheDitz stupid]] and [[LovableCoward nervous]] guy. By far the less competent of Egon's accomplices. In Norway the name is spelled "Kjell", and in Sweden he is a Finn named "Rocky" who gets PutOnABus after the second movie.

Other major characters include:
* Yvonne Jensen: Kjeld's wife, who often inadvertently screws up their schemes. Fans often consider her Egon's true nemesis; indeed, the death of her actress back in 1987 was the reason why the series was originally cancelled. (She was named "Valborg" in Norway and "Eivor" in Sweden.)
* Børge Jensen: Kjeld and Yvonne's son. Sometimes assists the gang in their schemes. (Named "Basse" in Norway and "Bill" in Sweden.)
* "Dynamit"-Harry: Benny's brother (or cousin in the Swedish version), an alcoholic demolitions expert who occasionally helps the gang out. In the original Danish series he only appears in two movies, but he got a much larger role in both the Norwegian and Swedish versions; in the Norwegian series he appears, and usually plays a major role, in seven of the fourteen movies (and is at least a supporting character, if not a main one, in all six ''Olsenbanden Jr.'' movies), and in the Swedish series he becomes a full-time member of the gang, replacing Rocky from the third movie on.
** The Swedish version also introduces the nurse Doris, Harry's girlfriend. Their home seems to become the gang's main base of operations from the third movie on. She tends to get roped into the gang's schemes, seemingly without either noticing or caring about the illegal aspects of it.
* Detective constable Jensen: A policeman who is often tasked with tracking down the gang. He has grown unenthusiastic and disillusioned after realising that he can only deal with minor criminals, while the greater injustices taking place in the higher echelons of society are beyond any reach. In times of great agitation however, he will display zealous dedication to justice. Despite being an enforcer of the law, he has great respect for Egon due to his skills, and because Egon sticks to what Jensen call "illegal crimes", in contrast to the "legal crimes" of powerful people like Bang-Johansen who can not be put behind bars without causing a lot of problems, such as pulling several ministers down with him. (Named "Hermansen" in Norway and "Persson" in Sweden.)
* Detective assistant Holm: Constable Jensens [[TheWatson eager, but bumbling assistant]], to whom Jensen often have to explain key plot points and why they can only arrest the small fish. He and Jensen usually have a bare minimum of influence on the plot, but they are highly important to the exposition of background details.
* Bang-Johansen/Hallandsen/Holm Hansen: The recurring BigBad in many of the movies. A corrupt authority figure with villainous schemes of his own. This character is subject to an unusual and confusing gag. In most of the movies where he appears he has one of those three names and is supposedly a new character who has nothing to do with any of the previous incarnations. To further add to the confusion, they are all played by the same actor and have the same personality. None of the other characters have ever made any comments on this - however, in Danish film series at the time it was normal for actors to return in different roles, and there is a number of other recurring actors in Olsen-Banden too. Most frequently, he takes on the role of a CorruptCorporateExecutive, but he has also been a corrupt civil servant and a criminal nobleman.[[note]]''Jönssonligan'' did not follow this, instead opting to have the equivalent - only using the name Wall-Enberg - be the same character, a shady executive, in all his appearances[[/note]] He frequently hires the gang to help him just to betray them later, with the help of:
* Bøffen (literally: The Steak): Bang-Johansen's [[TheDragon dragon]] whose complicated plans to eliminate Egon usually backfires onto himself. He is a very large and fat man, usually armed with a blunt weapon such as a monkey wrench. Interestingly, he is never referred to as "Bøffen" within the movies, where he's just called "Him" and notably "Det dumme svin/The bastard" by Benny.[[note]]This last point is ''also'' averted for the Swedish version of the character, who occasionally gets called "Biffen" (same meaning) by other characters and [[NamedByTheAdaptation also gained the last name Johansson in the comics and games.]][[/note]] He is the only character to have been played by the same actor in both the Danish and Norwegian versions of the movies, namely Ove Verner Hansen.

* TheAlcoholic: Harry, in all three versions. At one point, he decides to stop drinking. At the end of that movie, when he's needed to blow up a wall, it turns out that [[INeedAFreakingDrink he needs to drink a beer]] to do that reliably. In the various SpinoffBabies versions, he has similar, more kid-friendly addictions as a child; in the Danish and Norwegian versions, he's addicted to liquorice, while the Swedish version is addicted to fruit juice. They're still treated [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything very similar to his alcoholic tendencies in the parent series, especially when he's getting abstinences.]] To ''really'' drive the point home, in the Norwegian movies he eventually gives up liquorice and starts a "new and better life." He is on the verge of "relapsing" a few times, but Benny manages to talk him down by reminding him how proud everyone is of Harry for having beat his addiction.

* AwesomeByAnalysis: Egon seems to know exactly how characters will react and his plans rely heavily on being able to predict the time such a reaction takes, occasionally down to the second.
* AxCrazy: Bøffen is often ''very'' enthusiastic about his work, seeing his instructions to kill Egon as an opportunity to try out new and interesting ways to off someone.

* BerserkButton:
** Egon has two of these. On one hand, Yvonne accusing him of not knowing how the world works because he spends all his time in prison. On the other, the incompetence of his two underlings inevitably triggers an angry rant from him.
--> '''Egon:''' Mangy dogs! Jaywalkers! ''Lousy amateurs!'' I come up with the ''greatest'' plan yet, and this is how you thank me! How can you be so ungrateful?!
** Occasionally, these rants crosses the line with Kjeld, usually when insulting Yvonne, triggering his own rant or a very threatening TheReasonYouSuckSpeech directed towards Egon. While Kjeld doesn't get angry often, [[BewareTheNiceOnes it usually shuts Egon right up when he does.]]

** Slips into GratuitousGerman in the Danish and Swedish movies when Egon/Sickan pretend to be Germans at different points, leading to gems like „Köstliche Instrumente“ („delicious instruments“ instead of kostbar/valuable) or a misunderstanding about "möglich/mögligt" (the former German for "possible", the latter Swedish for "moldy").
** German/English is also not usually subtitled in either the Danish or Swedish original.

* BrotherChuck: Børge's siblings, who vanish into thin air after the first movie.

*** Kjeld: "I knew it, I knew it!", "What am I going to tell Yvonne?", and "Is it dangerous?"[[labelnote:Danish]]"Jeg vidste det, jeg vidste det!", "Hvad skal jeg sige til Yvonne?" and "Er det farligt?"[[/labelnote]]

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Unlike his Danish counterpart, Wall-Enberg is always shown as being the same character from movie to movie, and hires or agrees to buy something from Sickan and the gang on several occasions. Despite stabbing them in the back every single time, Sickan keeps taking him up on his offers, [[NoHonorAmongThieves often hoping to do the same to Wall-Enberg]] [[CycleOfRevenge for all the times]] [[ItsPersonal he's betrayed Sickan or his team.]]

* ClockKing: Egon is famous for memorizing the schedules, shifts, routines and routes of guards and other people standing between the gang and the thing they want to steal so that they can elude their attention. Consequently his catch-phrase is "Det hele er timet og tilrettelagt." ("It's all timed and organized.")[[note]]Naturally, his Swedish counterpart Charles "Sickan" Ingvar Jönsson is similar, with the catch phrase "Tajmad/Tajmat och klar i minsta detalj!" (timed and prepared down to the last detail).[[/note]]

* CompositeCharacter:
** In the original Danish movies, the main cop character was the bumbling Mortensen, who was replaced with the far smarter but more cynical Jensen from the fifth movie on. In the Norwegian version, however, the switch never happens and the original cop, here named Hermansen, remains in the series. Interestingly enough, it actually works very well... Because it simply comes across as him undergoing a lot of CharacterDevelopment. He starts out eager and bumbling, but as the years (and the movies) go by he starts losing his enthusiasm and naivete, growing increasingly smarter, more experienced and more cynical.
** Also in the Norwegian movies, Harry appearing in more movies and getting larger roles means he often takes over the roles and functions of other characters from the Danish movies. Most notably, Yvonne's computer-savvy nephew Georg from the Danish movies doesn't exist in the Norwegian remake, with his role and function in the story being taken over by Harry, who after an unplanned trip to the US (he fell asleep in a container that shipped to America) has gotten an education and discovered that he has a talent with computers. He even briefly renames himself from "Dynamitt-Harry" to "Data-Harry," to Egon's great annoyance.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Wall-Enberg from the Swedish films, whose crimes range from money laundering and smuggling to ''treason''. He's only arrested and punished in the first movie, however; in the others the evidence of his wrongdoings is either stolen by the Jönssons or vanishes.
* CouchGag: The movies always opens with a scene where Egon is released from prison and is met by Benny and Kjeld, but with slight variations in each movie (Benny and Kjeld are late or do not show up, Egon does not want to leave prison because his plan is not finished, etc.)

* DistractedByTheSexy: While in Paris, Egon decides to hire a prostitute as an additional helping hand. However, interlanguage communication problems leads Benny to stop helping Egon with a heist, thus forcing the team to make another one.

* TheDitz: Harry's girlfriend Doris in the Swedish version. Though she is good-natured, she has a tendency to overlook the incredibly obvious signs of what Harry's friends are dragging him into, and thinks the loot in the fifth movie is from a settlement Sickan got for wrongful arrest. (Although the fourth film seems to play with it in that she does manage to talk the police out of the building when they visit her looking for the gang.)
* DoorstopBaby: The last ''Olsenbanden Jr'' movie reveals that Egon was one of these and that's why he lives at an orphanage.

* EmbarrassingNickname: Downplayed with Charles-Ingvar's nickname from the Swedish movies, "Sickan"[[note]]Which happens to be [[GenderBlenderName a traditionally female name]], possibly derived from Sigun, [[MeaningfulName meaning "The one who brings success"]][[/note]]. At least OnceAnEpisode he will responds to other characters calling him that with an annoyed "[It's] 'Charles-Ingvar'!" -- but does not take any further action when his compatriots inevitably go back to using it soon afterwards.

* {{Flanderization}}: Bøffen goes from being a mere PunchClockVillain to full AxCrazy sadist as the Danish series progresses.

* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Implied with Doris and Harry; she works as a nurse and, at one point, casually states that "broken bones and explosion injuries, ''that's'' my area!" while looking lovingly at him.

* GenreSavvy: Detective constable Jensen knows only too well that he is not the hero of the story, and has resigned himself to the fact that, unless the criminal drops into his lap, he can't do anything. The best he can do is sit back and explain how the world works. Contrast Holm, who is, seemingly, WrongGenreSavvy, thinking himself the cop in some action-movie about gangsters.

* HenpeckedHusband: Kjeld is close to being the most triumphant example of this in Danish film.
* HeroicBSOD: Egon's reaction when his plans go wrong, and the police sirens are getting closer.

* ImpersonationGambit

* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: It is never fully explained if Bøffen is the same thug who happens to work for different villains, on one occasion as the private chauffeur for a count, or as a variety of thugs who happens to look like each other (since he is said to have been said chauffeur from the 8th movie for twenty years, it's probably the latter). Likewise his usual employer(s), Hallandsen/Holm-Hansen/Bang-Johansen, usually played by the same actor. Played straight with a lot of minor characters, as actors were often reused, sometimes in similar roles.
** In movie 3, Bøffen and Harry actors play very different characters than they usually do.

** Anders Hatlo, the fourth and final actor to play Holm in the Norwegian movies, showed up in the ''Olsenbanden Jr'' series as Hermansen Senior, father of Hermansen (the Norwegian Jensen). Funnily enough, Hermansen Senior also has a partner named Holm, though it's never made clear if this Holm is related to the Holm of the original movies or not.

* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: In movie 12, Egon and Yvonne infiltrate a hotel by posing as cleaning ladies...

* KarmicThief: Egon occasionally steals from people who have committed much worse crimes than he ever will.

** A few times Egon leaves prison and Benny and Kjeld are not there (yet). As Egon wonders what's going on, we get a brief shot of what the scene should look like, before snapping back to reality. Occasionally made even funnier by soundeffects, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRxFBqYJn5c
* LargeHam: Egon in particular, but everybody gets their scenery chewing moments - which is part of the movies' charm. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] at one point, where Egon hides from some policemen by pretending to be a mannequin holding a sign saying "Gamle krukker" ("Old jars"); "krukke" (jar) is Danish slang for a LargeHam.

* LockedInAFreezer: In the fifth film, Egon gets locked in a freezer by an unaware worker and has to be rescued by his friends who hire a guy who bombs out the back wall of the freezer.

* LovableCoward: Kjeld/Rocky, who have a tendency to ask other characters whether whatever they are about to do is dangerous but can still pull through in an emergency.

* MeaningfulName:
** Ragnar Vanheden. "Vanheder" is Swedish for "Dishonor", which is rather fitting for a crook.
** His cousin "Dynamite-Harry" Kruth, whose last name (unlike Vanheden's) is a genuine Swedish last name that also happens to be a homophone with a word which can be translated as either gunpowder or ''explosive'' powders in general.

* MythologyGag: In the 2015 Swedish movie, Charles-Ingvar's uncle and original partner in crime Ralf is clearly designed to resemble the Charles-Ingvar of the original movies, although older.

* NiceHat: Egon's bowler hat, to the point where it has become a symbol of the series itself. (Sickan wears a beret at all times instead, to the point where in the third Swedish movie Harry realises Sickan is in danger when he sees the beret on the ground.)

* NonFatalExplosions: Harry's specialty. He often ends up taking the brunt of them himself.

* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Vanheden in the Swedish version. He has a tendency to stand very close to other characters, casually pats his cousin Harry on the butt several times, and can't seem to stop patting Sickan when talking to him (even patting him on the cheek right after he's out of jail in the third movie).

* OralFixationFixation: Unlike Egon, Charles-Ingvar's smoking habit veers into this due to his tendency to talk with it still in his mouth and chewing on it when agitated.

* ParentalAbandonment: It doesn't really come up in the original movies, but in the ''Olsenbanden Jr'' version Egon is revealed to be an orphan, and he's depicted as living at an orphanage, while Benny and Harry have a MissingMom and their father is a traveling salesman who is away a lot. Only Kjeld/Kjell has both a mother and a father, and his parents are the only ones who actually show up on screen.

* PutOnABus:
** Børge after the eighth movie, ''Olsenbanden ser rødt,'' at the end of which he gets married. He's absent for most of the rest of the series, but [[TheBusCameBack does appear in the eleventh and fourteenth movies.]] Actually an example of RealLifeWritesThePlot. The actor had problems with drugs and real crimes and ended up hiding from the producers. He was, however, clean when fourteenth movie was made.
** Rocky (the Swedish Kjeld) vanished from the Swedish movies after the second one. In the third movie, he was revealed to have moved "back home" to Finland, taking his family with him and removing their characters as well, and his place in the gang was taken over by Dynamit-Harry. Even before then, his wife Eivor only showed up in the first movie and was absent from the second, justified in-universe as her having gone on a trip to Mallorca.
** Even "Sickan" Jönsson (the Swedish Egon) vanished from the series after the fifth one, when his actor quit the movies. In-universe, he's had a nervous breakdown, leaving the gang leaderless and prone to getting led by {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}s.

** In the first Swedish film, Vanheden gives Sickan a thumbs up and tells him "Gröna sidan upp, va?" ("Green side up, alright?") which references a (then popular) radio comedy act by Hans "Hasse" Alfredson. In a similar note, the nickname Sickan was apparently given as a tribute to actress Sickan Karlsson.
* SmokingIsCool: In the first movies Egon is smoking cigars. It was however changed so he was usually seen with just a cigar stub without smoking (the actor, Ove Sprogøe didn't smoke in real life).
* SpannerInTheWorks: Someone will inevitably bring down Egon's cabal -- Yvonne often plays this role.
* SpinoffBabies: All three versions have had spinoffs with the gang as children, set in TheFifties (apart from the final Swedish spinoff which throws all continuity out, as it takes place in the early 2000s, decades after the adult films took place).

* StatusQuoIsGod: Things do develop in small ways, such as Børge getting older and eventually [[PutOnABus going off to get married]], but on the whole, status quo usually ends up reasserting itself. Even on the very few occasions when the gang ''do'' succeed with their coup, they will either at the very end of the movie or the beginning of the next one wind up losing everything, and Egon will wind up in jail for crimes that may or may not have been connected to the coup.

* SurroundedByIdiots: Egon often claim to be this.

* ThirdPersonPerson: In the Swedish version both Harry and Vanheden occasionally slip into this, which is especially odd in Vanheden's case as he refers to himself by his ''last'' name.

* UglyGuyHotWife: In the Swedish version, Harry and his girlfriend Doris.
* UniversalDriversLicense: Benny drives whatever vehicle which may be at hand, ranging from his old car, a forklift and a brewer's dray to a little train. The actor, Morten Grunwald, later noted that the only thing he didn't get to drive was a plane, although that may have been due to budget constraints.
** Perhaps as a ShoutOut to this, in the second one of the Norwegian ''Olsenbanden Junior'' movies, a twelve-year-old Benny ''does'' get to fly a small plane, claiming to have learned how from reading the ''Literature/{{Biggles}}'' books. (He gets it in the air but doesn't know how to get it down again, needing [[CrashCourseLanding instructions over the radio on how to land.]])
* VerbalTic: Vanheden from the Swedish version ends a lot of his lines with "vet du", usually shortened to "vettu", or "va?"[[labelnote:Translated]]The former "y'know", the latter literally "what?" but idiomatically closer to "... Right?"[[/labelnote]]. This gets downplayed as the series progresses, however.

* WeNeedADistraction: Kjeld will often do the task of distracting people. For example, by telling a guard that he has an appointment at twelve o'clock just before midnight. And when the guard tells him to come again tomorrow he does so... A few minutes after midnight!
* YesMan: Benny frequently plays this role to Egon. One exchange between their Swedish counterparts in ''Varning för Jönssonligan'' demonstrates this succinctly:
-->'''Vanheden''': Eat a pig and calm down [Rocky], we're hitting the road! ''[Starts tapping on his calculator]''\\
'''Charles-Ingvar''': Not at all! [''Vanheden ''immediately'' looks up from his calculator in the background''] We will wait and let the others handle the hard part.\\
'''Vanheden''': [Taps Charles' shoulder] Oh, ''that's'' more like it. Treat them with the silk gloves first, that's how you get them.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: [[spoiler: In the sixth movie, Kjeld and Benny disguise themselves as police officers to take Egon, supposedly their prisoner to [[BigBad Holm-Hansen]], the CorruptCorporateExecutive of the week. While explaining that Egon supposedly confessed having committed a break-in for Holm-Hansen,]] Benny keeps refering to [[spoiler: Egon]] as „dilettanten“ (the amateur), instead of „delinkventen“ (the delinquent). Egon is not amused. In the Swedish version, Vanheden gets it wrong even after Sickan already corrected him once.

** In 2010, the Gang appeared in a Danish-written [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Donald Duck comic]], in which Donald heard about Egon Olsen on the radio, and after accidentally locking himself out of Scrooge's office when he was supposed to be watching it, got the idea of hiring the Olsen Gang to help him break back in.

** In 2010, the Gang appeared in the DisneyDuckComics, in a story where Donald was supposed to be watching Scrooge's office, but managed to get himself locked out, and hired the Olsen Gang (whom he'd just heard about on the radio) to help him break back in without anyone noticing he'd left his post.

* IntercontinuityCrossover: 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.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** In ''Olsen Banden Ser Rødt'', when the gang is sneaking around in the basements of a wealthy baron's estate, Egon remarks that one of the halls was the secret entrance to an ancestor's lovers, but that said ancestor's great-grandmother had it walled up.
** Doubling as BilingualBonus: when Egon at one point is posing as an arrogant German businessman, he introduces himself as "Generaldirektor von Arschloch," meaning "Chairman von Asshole".
** When it is suggested to Jensen that he could be transferred to vice, he mutters that all he has ever experienced in that field is defeat, humiliation and heat flushes.
** In the seventh movie, Jensen and his boss, wearing masks, stand next to each other taking a leak from a train platform after the police excursion got derailed into a beer brewery. Each of them recognising the other is preceded by a clear look downwards.

Norway and Sweden both made their own version of the series. These series vary somewhat:

* The Swedish version diverged from the others quite a bit. All the characters were renamed, and consequently the ProtagonistTitle had to change to ''Jönssonligan''. Further, while the first three movies recreated earlier entries of the Danish series (albeit taking place in Stockholm instead), the last five movies used mostly original plots and changed several of the characters. This version also spawned a few comics drawn and written by Per Demervall, as well as two {{Point And Click Game}}s (called ''Jönssonligan: Jakten på Mjölner''[[labelnote:Translated]]The Jönsson Gang: The Search/Hunt for Mjölner[[/labelnote]] and ''Jönssonligan går på djupet''[[labelnote:Translated]]The Jönsson Gang Plunges the Depths[[/labelnote]]) released in 1999 and 2000. Like the Norwegian version, it received a SpinOffBabies version called ''Lilla Jönssonligan'' ("The little Jönssongang"). It was also rebooted ''twice'' (to date), in 2015 and 2020.

* Egon Olsen: Criminal mastermind and [[SafeCracking expert safe-cracker]] [[ClockKing whose plans often relies heavily on correct timing and scheduling]]. Named "Charles-Ingvar '[[GenderBlenderName Sickan]]' Jönsson" in Sweden.

* Kjeld Jensen: The [[TheDitz stupid]] and [[LovableCoward nervous]] guy. By far the less competent of Egon's accomplices. In Norway the name is spelled "Kjell," and in Sweden he is a Finn named "Rocky" who gets PutOnABus after the second movie.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the six Norwegian ''Olsenbanden Jr'' movies, the junior version of the gang emerge as straight-up heroic. They might occasionally cheat on a few tests or pull off some harmless pranks, which tend to earn them the ire of authority figures, and the younger Egon is still a schemer primarily motivated by self-interest... but the elaborate heists and schemes are generally employed to catch and expose criminals, not to commit crimes... which may be why the junior version of the gang tend to have happy endings.
* AirVentPassageway: Subverted. Egon makes it sound as though they were going to use this trope to gain access to a [[spoiler: vault in the Brussels HQ of the EG]], but as the vent is tiny, they just feed their distraction through it and enter by the door.

* TheAlcoholic: Harry, in all three versions. At one point, he decides to stop drinking. At the end of that movie, when he's needed to blow up a wall, it turns out that [[INeedAFreakingDrink he needs to drink a beer]] to do that reliably.
** In the various SpinoffBabies versions, Harry-as-a-kid has similar, more kid-friendly addictions -- in the Danish and Norwegian versions, he's addicted to liquorice, while the Swedish version is addicted to fruit juice -- but they're still treated [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything very similar to his alcoholic tendencies in the parent series, especially when he's getting abstinences.]] To ''really'' drive the point home, in the Norwegian movies he eventually gives up liquorice and starts a "new and better life." He is on the verge of "relapsing" a few times, but Benny manages to talk him down by reminding him how proud everyone is of Harry for having beat his addiction.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Rocky and his wife Eivor in the Swedish movie. She's a bit of a ballbuster and he's very meek, but any time Sickan insults one in front of the other, he ends up on the receiving end of a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness It's especially scary when Rocky does this.]]

--> '''Egon:''' Mangy dogs! Jaywalkers! ''Lousy amateurs!'' I come up with the ''greatest'' plan yet, and this is how you thank me! How can you be so ungrateful!?

** A corrupt oil sheik's crest carry the motto "Pecunia non olet" (Money has no smell).

** Two French {{CorruptCorporateExecutive}}s are named „Vilain“ and „Canaille“ („villain“ and „crook“ respectively)

** At the end of the last movie in the Norwegian series, Egon has finally got the money, and proclaim he has a plan, whereupon the camera zooms out to reveal the movie crew and the director yelling. "No Egon, not another plan."
** The Danish version ends both their sixth thirteenth and supposed last movies with Benny, Kjeld and Yvonne waving goodbye to the audience during the latter two's 25-year anniversary.
** Egon salutes the audience at the end of several other movies as well.

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

** In ''Olsen-bandens sidste stik'' ("The Olsen Gang's last trick") Egon accidentally opens a door to a room where two old men are writing on typewrites: Erik Balling and Henning Bahs, the creators of the series (director and special effects creator, respectively).

** The first three Swedish ''Lilla Jönssonligan'' movies have the same issue with taking place during the wrong decade, but at least still take place in the past. The fourth, final one doesn't even try, instead taking place in the modern day ( as in, the 2000's). On another note, the. ''Lilla Jönssonligan'' series stars Harry even though one of Rocky's lines in the first Swedish film implies he should have been there instead.
* CastingGag: Of sorts. In the 8th Swedish Movie from 2000, actor Johan Ulveson plays Sickan's younger brother Sven-Ingvar "Sivan" Jönsson. What makes this a gag is that in the Swedish movie ''Ogifta Par'', which came out three years before the 8th ''Jönssonligan'' movie, Ulveson played a character who encountered Sickan's actor Gösta Ekman (playing himself) and Ulveson's ''character'' suggested to Ekman that he could play Sickan's younger brother, should another movie be made. The character of Sivan himself had been introduced a year earlier in the first Swedish SpinoffBabies movie, though.

** The regular characters all have a few:
*** Egon: "Jeg har en plan." ("I have a plan."), "Nej, nej, nej!" ("No, no, no!") "Det hele er timet og tilrettelagt." ("It's all timed and organized.")
*** Benny: "Skidegodt, Egon!" ("Bloody good, Egon!") The Norwegian Benny, who swears less, says "Helmaks, Egon!" ("Brilliant, Egon!") instead, and generally uses the word "helmaks" whenever he's satisfied about something.
*** Kjeld: "Jeg vidste det, jeg vidste det!“ ("I knew it, I knew it!"), "Hvad skal jeg sige til Yvonne?“ ("What am I going to tell Yvonne?") "Er det farligt?" ("Is it dangerous?")
*** Yvonne: "Meget har du budt mig gennem alle disse år..." ("You've put me through a lot during all these years...")
** The Swedish versions have similar ones, except Rocky (Kjeld) who only lasted two movies.
*** Sickan: "Jag har en plan, tajmad och klar in i minsta detalj" ("I have a plan, timed and prepared down to the last detail"), "Charles Ingvar Jönsson!"
*** Vanheden: "Lysande, Sickan!" ("Brilliant, Sickan!" Sickan's reply also counts as one: "Självklart." ("Of course."))
*** Dynamit-Harry: "Vilken jädra smäll!" ("What a friggin' blast!")

*** Benny: "Der må jeg være enig med'n Kjell/Egon." ("I've got to agree with Kjell/Egon there.") Usually said when Kjell and Egon are in a conflict and Benny tries to be reasonable about taking one of their sides.
*** Hermansen Sr: "Det kan De godt notere Dem, Holm." ("You can make a note of that, Holm.") "Holm, Holm, Holm! Hva skal jeg gjøre med Dem?!" ("Holm, Holm, Holm! What am I going to do about you?!")
*** Ingrid: "Det sier tanta mi, og hu veit hva hu snakker om!" ("That's what my aunt says, and she knows what she's talking about!") Generally following some negative opinion on men in general. She'll also without fail say "Det gjelder deg óg, Benny!" ("The same goes for you too, Benny!") whenever Valborg either tells Kjell off, or invites him along somewhere.

* ClockTower: One of the most memorable scenes in the series happens in ''Olsen-banden går i krig'' (''The Olsen Gang Goes To War''). Bøffen places Egon in front of the clock on the Copenhagen Town Hall Tower, waiting for the big clock hand to come down and send Egon more than 70 meters down to his death. [[spoiler: Kjeld and Benny discover him in the nick of time, but when they try to free him, all three end up hanging on the clock hands, which in turn creates chaos in the mechanism knocking out Bøffen and fellow criminal The Black Baron.]] This scene is also famously recreated in the Swedish version, ''Jönssonligan får guldfeber'' (''The Jönsson Gang gets Gold Fever'').

* ConveyorBeltODoom: Bøffen places an unconscious Egon on one in ''Olsen-bandens flugt over plankeværket'' ("The Olsen Gang's Escape over the Fence")
* CoolCar: The third Swedish movie has a heavily armed truck used to transport a goverment data chip between military bases. Part of the plan to steal the chip involves damaging the car's side with a sledge hammer so they can tinker with it while it's in the repair shop.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Wall-Enberg from the Swedish films, who's crimes range from money laundering and smuggling to ''treason''. He's only arrested and punished in the first movie, however; in the others the evidence of his wrongdoings is either stolen by the Jönssons or vanishes.[[note]]While he does get arrested in one of the comics, their canon status is questionable.[[/note]]

* DrunkDriver: PlayedForLaughs in the Norwegian version of ''Olsenbanden og Dynamitt-Harry''. Harry tries to drive while heavily intoxicated. He insists that he's fine, but...

** The second Danish movie has a similar scene.

* ForeignQueasine: [[SelfDeprecation Danish Remoulade]] in movie 13, which Egon replaces another sauce with in an establishment in France to cause mass fainting and thus provide a distraction.

** In ''Olsen Banden Ser Rødt'' (''The Olsen Gang Sees Red''), when the gang is sneaking around in the basements of a wealthy baron's estate, Egon remarks that one of the halls was the secret entrance to an ancestor's lovers, but that said ancestor's great-grandmother had it walled up.
** When Egon at one point is posing as an arrogant German businessman, he introduces himself as "Generaldirektor von Arschloch." [[labelnote:note]]Loch is German for "hole" and "Arsch" is German for ... exactly what you think it is.[[/labelnote]]

** Wall-Enberg from the Swedish movies only gets arrested once, at the end of the first movie.

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Bøffen, Bang-Johansen and Holm were all introduced in the sixth movie ''Olsen Bandens sidste bedrifter'' ("The Olsen Gang's Last Archievements) which as the name suggest should have been the last. The series was however continued and they all became regular characters.
* LastNameBasis[=/=]FirstNameBasis: Ragnar Vanheden and Charles-Ingvar Jönsson from the Swedish series have an odd case of using both tropes at once. Vanheden always calls Charles-Ingvar either [[InSeriesNickname Sickan or (more rarely) Charlie]]. Meanwhile, Charles-Ingvar ''nearly'' always calls Vanheden that in the films, apart from one single instance of calling him Ragnar[[note]]In film 5 when he is in full cordial, barely-contained fury mode[[/note]]... Then he suddenly switches to only calling him Ragnar in the games, with no other changes in their dynamic.

* MakesSenseInContext: Rare sentences are uttered often, but the stand-out example would be: "We've got to get there unnoticed. Therefore, we're gonna get a tank."
* MeaningfulName: Ragnar Vanheden. "Vanheder" is Swedish for "Dishonor", which is rather fitting for a crook.
* MickeyMousing: One of the most famous scenes of the series is in "Olsen Banden Ser Rødt" (The Olsen Gang Sees Red) when the gang break into the royal theater of Copenhagen while the orchestra is playing (a rearranged version of) the Overture to the Danish national play "Elverhøj". It's even Mickey Mousing in-universe as well, as the break-in requires many noisy tools and explosives, and Egon has brought a note sheet so that he can time the crime perfectly to the music so they won't be heard. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuAevxbgjc8 It's quite brilliantly done]]. (At last, a [[IncrediblyLamePun literal]] case of OrchestralBombing!)
** The 8th Swedish movie borrows from this plot, and has Harry use a jackhammer to drill into a vault, camouflaged by [[Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung Das Rheingold]] going on above them. Sivan literally conducts the drilling by reading the notes at the same time.

* NiceHat: Egon's bowler hat, to the point where it has become a symbol of the series itself. (His Swedish counterpart wears a beret at all times, to the point where in the third Swedish movie Harry realises Charles is in danger when he sees the beret on the ground.)
* NoodleIncident: In the first Swedish film, a policewoman talking with Vanheden says: "Cars." (As in, "I'd like to buy '[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahlgrens cars]]', please.)" He immediately tenses up and claims that "That's all behind me now, not my area anymore, my bro Leopold did it!" with the films never clarifying what event he is talking about. (Considering that he also claims that his own car has good bang for its buck [[TheAllegedCar even though the trunk won't close properly and the front falls apart at the slightest provocation]], he may just have "worked" as a used car salesman.)

* TheOldConvict: Although the movies are never set in prison, Egon shows traits of this. The entire staff knows him, he knows them, they know what little ticks he has and the only people to know more about prisoner transport than Egon are the police. Egon's address in police files is Kjeld's house and movie 2 heavily implies that Egon, apart from Vridsløse prison, has no other place to sleep but with the Jensens. Finally, while it is left to other people to point this out, Egon occasionally does lose track of the outside world while in prison.
* OneLastJob: In a way, the gang plan to retire to Mallorca after pretty much every caper.

* PetTheDog: The first Swedish movie's plan requires a city bus, meaning that the gang needs to steal one, which they do when the driver needs to stop for a bathroom break. However, Sickan and Vanheden are nice enough to leave the driver a lunch by the side of the road. After the initial shock wears off, the driver shrugs and sits down to eat. (One of the Danish movies has a similar scene.)%%Which one - the sixth Danish one?

** Rocky (the Swedish Kjeld) vanished from the Swedish movies after the second one. In the third movie, he was revealed to have moved "back home" to Finland, taking his family with him and removing their characters as well, and his place in the gang was taken over by Dynamit-Harry.

* RedHerring: When Egon lays out the plan in the 12th movie, he goes into detail about the shady dealings of the insurance company and its CEO, only to then say „But that doesn't interest us at all“ and focuses on a different character instead.

** Taken further in the Swedish ''Jönssonligan på Mallorca'', where the gang tries to escape by car in the narrow city streets, but get cornered. So they quickly remove the steering wheel and pass it to Harry in the back, who attaches it there ''and drives away in the other direction''. The mechanical intricacies of said car has not been brought up until then, so it all comes as a big surprise.

** Any vehicle Benny drives will invariably run out of gas. He will then, without fail, exclaim that he's ''just'' filled the tank.
*** Parodied in a couple of the ''Olsenbanden Jr'' movies, where Benny generally rides a bike, which doesn't need gas... but it ''can'' get a flat tire, or lose a wheel, which is what happens.

** While we're at Egon's releases: These also follow a standard pattern. Becomes {{Lampshaded|Trope}} when, each time there's something not looking quite as it should, we get a brief shot of what the scene should look like.

** The Swedish movies features the gang's Chevrolet Impala which [[TheAllegedCar should probably have been taken to the repair man a few years ago and often ends up damaged somehow]], with Vanheden often telling people to "Watch the paint!". In the first movie it's also a running gag for Rocky to simply mutter "Skitbil" ("shitcar") whenever it acts up.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Someone will inevitably bring down Egon's cabal. Yvonne often plays this role.

** Most of the Swedish movies subvert this. While their heists tend to be succesful, they usually end up frittering the money away on the high life between movies (or in the case of the 5th movie, ended up investing their funds from the 4th in stocks that tanked), which is why they're always up for another coup.
* StoryArc: Movies 12 and 13 have one. Danish movie 12 follows with preview of movie 13; meanwhile movie 13 begins with some kind of summary of events in movie 12, and its ending makes sense only if you remember plot details of the 12th one.
** Specifically: [[spoiler: when Egon gets caught, he gets sent to an insane asylum instead of jail, which is foreshadowed at the beginning of the previous movie; meanwhile, Benny and Kjeld take care of a coat which was swapped with the coat of the subject of a minor plan at the end of the previous movie, and turns out the money which they wanted to steal in first place]].

* TakeThat: The third ''Jönssonligan'' film features a scene where Vanheden directly mentions following in politican Ove Rainer's footsteps while discussing what tax plans to make for the millions they are trying to earn; a direct reference to Rainer having been accused of making investments with the purpose of lowering his own taxes as much as possible.
* TakeThatUs: In a teaser trailer for the 2010 animated movie, they take great care to separate the 13 original movies from the 14th, calling it the "senior citizen movie".
** Also, most of the third movie towards Copenhageners. To elaborate: The crew go to Jylland, expecting to have an easy time cheating the local „peasants“ and ending up being cheated themselves repeatedly.

* ThatsWhatSheSaid: Biffen uses the trope name verbatim about something he just said himself in the fourth Swedish movie. As he keeps laughing at his own joke, [[{{Beat}} the other present characters just look at each other in unamused silence]].[[labelnote:Explanation]]He specifically said "Nu börjar det dra ihop sig. ... Som flickan sade!" - the first sentence would idiomatically translate to "It's almost time," but literally means "It's starting to pull together"...)[[/labelnote]]

** In the fifth Jönssonligan movie, Wall-Enberg uses a team of criminals, siblings called "Ödlan"(Lizard) and "Brorsan"(Bro/Big Brother) - a dwarfish, pale man and a tall, brawny guy respectively - in his plan to steal the King's Cross from the Palma cathedral. They show up throughout the movie doing his bidding prior to that.

* YesMan: Benny frequently plays this role to Egon. One scene in the first Swedish movie (which is a remake of the sixth Danish one) demonstrates this succintly in this exchange: