History Series / TheJulekalender

* StockPhrases; The narrator uses a few:
** "OnceUponATime"
** "A long, long time ago"
** "In a faraway place..."
** "...at the edge of the world"
** "FindOutNextTime"

* BerserkButton: Losing the Nisses' book is one for [[spoiler: Benny]].

* BilingualBonus: As well as the numerous cases of the Nisses' terrible English causing them to say something completely different from what they tried to say, there are also a couple episodes in which Günther thinks he's a German tracker dog that only speaks German. He then says silly things such as [[spoiler: "I am a Wiener Schnitzel."]].

* BrickJoke: When Fritz heard a phrase that he likes, he writes it down in a book. [[spoiler: In the last episode, the Nisses read the book and repeat the phrases.]]

* ComicTrio: Fritz comes up with an overly simple and undetailed plan, Günther supports it right away, and Hansi criticizes it. Becomes subverted, as [[spoiler: the plan eventually works.]]

* EndOfSeriesAwareness: In the final episode, [[spoiler: Gammel Nok insists he must read his lines from the script. The rest of the Nisses say it's too late for that since The Julekalender is almost over]].
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: The series ends with all on-screen characters [[spoiler: Fritz, Günther, Hansi, and Gammel Nok]] laughing.
* EvilDetectingDog: {{Subverted|Trope}}. The dog may initially look at [[spoiler: Benny]] in a suspecting way, but the two will soon get along and even [[spoiler: end up sharing the bed]].

** In episode 9, when Benny sees a map Oluf found, he makes a creepy face and some unsettling music is played. [[spoiler: He makes a similar face and the same music is played a few episodes later when his true form is shown.]]

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** In the end of episode 4, the narrator asks if we ever find out who the mysterious stranger in the dark is. [[spoiler: The stranger is revealed in the next episode.]] [[note]]The Julekalender is partly satirical, and one of the traits of satire is subtle aggravation of things. Here, the target of satire is the slow unfolding of plots in traditional {{julekalender}}s, which is made even a little slower especially in the first episodes of The Julekalender. The narrator's question can also be seen as lampshade-hanging to this. [[/note]]

* MediumAwareness: [[spoiler: Gammel Nok]] in the last episode [[spoiler: demands to read his lines and says he's a famous actor who hasn't come to the series just to lie in bed for 24 episodes.]]

* ScareChord: The dramatic music played in the end of all episodes except the last one and [[spoiler: when Benny's true form is revealed]] begins with this.

* ShadowDiscretionShot: When Günther is [[spoiler: knocked unconscious by Benny]].

* TriumphantReprise: The song "It's hard to be a nissemand" is played a lot in the series. Its lyrics consists of the Nisses complaining about how much they have to work and that they never get any free time. [[spoiler: When Gammel Nok is saved, a remix of the song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipC3TIzlV3w "It's good to be a nissemand"]] is played. The lyrics now describe a nice Christmas night and how great it is to have some time off.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] in the final episode, [[spoiler: when Benny notices he took a wrong book and completely loses his temper as a result]].

** In the Danish version, there is a running gag of the news broadcasts on radio reporting on more and more outlandish bridge building prjects being passed in the Folketing. Culminating in a project bulding a bridge from Grenå to Anholt (a distance o 49 kilometers), with an extension connecting Anholt to Læsø (another 65 kilometers). Anholt has a population of 136, while Læsø has 1793 inhabitants. This is reference to lengthy and quite heated debate over the Great Belt Fixed Link which began construction in 1991.

** In the Danish version, there is a running gag of the news broadcasts on radio reporting on more and more outlandish bridge building prjects being passed in the Folketing. Culminating in a project bulding a bridge from Grenå to anholt (a distance o 49 kilometers), with an extension connecting Anholt to Læsø (another 65 kilometers). Anholt has a poluation of 136, while Læsø has 1793 inhabitants. This is reference to lengthy and quite heated debate over the Great Belt Fixed Link which began construction in 1991.

* PowerTrio: Fritz, Günther and Hansi.

* ThemeTuneCameo: The melody of Gammel Nok's life, which a music box plays, is the same as the melody of the series theme.