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* LongTitle: The record produced by Torgny and Rigmor’s community association has the ”catchy” name ''My Father Is Dead And So Is My Mother However My Brother Is Still With Us.''

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* GoThroughMe: Axel tells Pastor Bror-Ivar Lunne that he won’t be able to turn his station into a church until he’s reserved a spot for him in heaven.



* YouHaveToGoThroughMe: Axel tells Pastor Bror-Ivar Lunne that he won’t be able to turn his station into a church until he’s reserved a spot for him in heaven.

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* LivingStatue: After being uncovered ([[NakedPeopleAreFunny in every sense of the word]]) Rudolf the statue comes to life and opens up the EleventhHourSong.

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* LivingStatue: After being uncovered ([[NakedPeopleAreFunny in every sense of the word]]) Rudolf the statue comes to life and opens up the EleventhHourSong.TheElevenOClockNumber.



* OneDialogTwoConversations: Ernst has an entirely one-sided argument with Harry, somehow getting it into his head that the latter’s conversation over the phone was both directed at him and actually spoken by Sören.

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* OneDialogTwoConversations: OneDialogueTwoConversations: Ernst has an entirely one-sided argument with Harry, somehow getting it into his head that the latter’s conversation over the phone was both directed at him and actually spoken by Sören.



* ScoobyDooChase: Between Gerhard (wearing Axel’s station master uniform), Axel (wearing Sören’s signalman uniform) and Sören (dressed as a wrestler.) Harry and Ernst get very confused by everybody’s identities.



* SpagettiAndGondolas: The Italians— Emilio and Angelo — are planning to turn the station into a pizzeria and get a song peppered full of GratuitousItalian.

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* SpagettiAndGondolas: SpaghettiAndGondolas: The Italians— Emilio and Angelo — are planning to turn the station into a pizzeria and get a song peppered full of GratuitousItalian.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Inevitable as the play has twenty-three characters, but only six main actors. The only one to play one single character throughout is Anders Eriksson as Axel. This was retained for the movie, which featured the same cast.[[note]] The sole exception being the BrattyTeenageDaughter, who is no longer played by Kerstin Granlund in an obvious case of DawsonCasting. She gets three additional smaller roles in exchange, though. [[/note]]
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* ScullyBox: ParodiedTrope. Harry puts down his suitcase and steps up on it purely to look down on Axel in what he likely intended to be an intimidating fashion.
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* ImagineSpot: PlayedWith. In the film,''Daddy I Want An Italian'' sees the eponymous Italians immediately transform the station into a pizzeria, complete with set dressing, staff and customers. However, the other characters are still around to watch it all unfold, and react to the temporary changes with fury and confusion.
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* SpagettiAndGondolas: The Italians— Emilio and Angelo — are planning to turn the station into a pizzeria and get a song peppered full of GratuitousItalian.
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* StupidCrooks: Jack and Göte, a pair of masked robbers who hold the station hostage, believing it to be a bank. They are so embarrassed to learn the truth that they just apologize and leave.
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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The film was shot at the Vedum train station in Vara, but renande them both ”Svedum.”
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* EverythingIsAnInstrument: During the ''Train Madness'' song, Sören [[RuleOfFunny somehow]] uses a dispatch baron in place of various musical instruments.

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Inevitable as the play has twenty-three characters, but only six main actors. The only one to play one single character throughout is Anders Eriksson as Axel. This was retained for the movie, which featured the same cast.[[note]] The sole exception being the BrattyTeenageDaughter, who is no longer played by Kerstin Granlund in an obvious case of DawsonCasting. She gets three additional smaller roles in exchange, though. [[/note]]


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* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Inevitable as the play has twenty-three characters, but only six main actors. The only one to play one single character throughout is Anders Eriksson as Axel. This was retained for the movie, which featured the same cast.[[note]] The sole exception being the BrattyTeenageDaughter, who is no longer played by Kerstin Granlund in an obvious case of DawsonCasting. She gets three additional smaller roles in exchange, though. [[/note]]
* LongTitle: The record produced by Torgny and Rigmor’s community association has the ”catchy” name ''My Father Is Dead And So Is My Mother However My Brother Is Still With Us.''
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* GoneHorriblyRight: In the film, Axel and Sören attempt to trap Harry in a ”magic” disappearing locker. They are very surprised when it actually seems to ''work'' and Harry casually re-enters the room from behind them.
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The Station Master Is On Fire (Stinsen Brinner) is a musical öby the comedy troupe Galenskaparna & After Shave. It was written by Claes Eriksson, and premiered in 1987. The show was a hit and adapted into a film ([[SelfAdaptation directed by Claes and his brother Anders Eriksson]]) after a run of 432 performances.

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The Station Master Is On Fire (Stinsen Brinner) is a musical öby by the comedy troupe Galenskaparna & After Shave. It was written by Claes Eriksson, and premiered in 1987. The show was a hit and adapted into a film ([[SelfAdaptation directed by Claes and his brother Anders Eriksson]]) after a run of 432 performances.

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The Station Master Is On Fire (Stinsen Brinner) is a musical by the comedy troupe Galenskaparna & After Shave. It was written by Claes Eriksson, and premiered in 1987. The show was a hit and adapted into a film ([[SelfAdaptation directed by Claes and his brother Anders Eriksson]]) after a run of 432 performances.

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The Station Master Is On Fire (Stinsen Brinner) is a musical by öby the comedy troupe Galenskaparna & After Shave. It was written by Claes Eriksson, and premiered in 1987. The show was a hit and adapted into a film ([[SelfAdaptation directed by Claes and his brother Anders Eriksson]]) after a run of 432 performances.


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* SwallowTheKey: Axel does this after locking Gerhard in a storage room. Given that it’s an old, large key, he has to uncomfortably chew it down first.
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* LivingStatue: After being uncovered ([[NakedPeopleAreFunny in every sense of the word]]) Rudolf the statue comes to life and opens up the EleventhHourSong.
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* MoneyFetish: Gerhard has one, to the point of dedicating his big love song to his mastercard.
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* ScoobyDooChase: Between Gerhard (wearing Axel’s station master uniform), Axel (wearing Sören’s signalman uniform) and Sören (dressed as a wrestler.) Harry and Ernst get very confused by everybody’s identities.
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* YouHaveToGoThroughMe: Axel tells Pastor Bror-Ivar Lunne that he won’t be able to turn his station into a church until he’s reserved a spot for him in heaven.
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* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: Jerry Kopp artiges to the station hoping to become this, describing Svedum as ”a dump, which is molding piece by piece” along with a series of other increasingly strange metaphors in his ”heavy song.”
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* OneDialogTwoConversations: Ernst has an entirely one-sided argument with Harry, somehow getting it into his head that the latter’s conversation over the phone was both directed at him and actually spoken by Sören.
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* MusicalNumberAnnoyance: Many of the songs count, not helped by the already present animosity between the characters.
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The Station Master Is On Fire (Stinsen Brinner) is a musical by the comedy troupe Galenskaparna & After Shave. It was written by Claes Eriksson, and premiered in 1987. The show was a hit and adapted into a film ([[SelfAdaptation directed by Claes and his brother Anders Eriksson]]) after a run of 432 performances.

After receiving news that his beloved train station is to be shut down, Station Master Axel Hansson (Anders Eriksson) decides to take matters into his own hands, [[ShootTheMessenger kidnap Gerhard Vilén (Claes Eriksson) -- the bureau chief who gave him the unfortunate news]] -- and try to run things as normal while hiding the truth from the passengers. This ZanyScheme is made far more difficult by the news having already spread, and potential buyers have started flocking to the station building in the hopes of getting to use it for their own ends. Not to mention the simple fact that unless something changes fast, no more trains will ever come there...

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* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title is mostly an allusion to Axel's burning passion for his job. However he -- or at least the podium he stands on -- ''does'' actually catch on fire during the ending song, forcing the fire brigade to come to the rescue.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Inevitable as the play has twenty-three characters, but only six main actors. The only one to play one single character throughout is Anders Eriksson as Axel. This was retained for the movie, which featured the same cast.[[note]] The sole exception being the BrattyTeenageDaughter, who is no longer played by Kerstin Granlund in an obvious case of DawsonCasting. She gets three additional smaller roles in exchange, though. [[/note]]
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: As it seems all hope is lost, [[spoiler: Gerhard Vilén arrives with a train to the station, having reevaluated the situation and decided that it can stay open after all.]] Cue celebratory ending number.
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