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  • Ass Pull:
    • To find out what kind of "rockets" the wreckers launch, Aspic and Ruslebiffen make a somewhat complicated device that detects movement, takes a picture and prints it. It works perfectly, even though Aspic and Ruslebiffen never show any other sign of technical proficiency or any intelligence at all.
    • After the second time that Aspic and Ruslebiffen break into the wreckers' home and steal the magical glove, it's revealed that Santa has talked to Mrs Claus and has had her make a non-functional copy of the glove, which is what Aspic and Ruslebiffen ended up stealing. It's never foreshadowed and it's not explained why they didn't do it earlier.
  • Fridge Brilliance: Why don't the wreckers just charge their glove at Synnøve's house? It's because Synnøve doesn't have a lot of money. The wreckers don't want to saddle her with a large electricity bill, and they can't afford to pay her back.
  • Padding:
    • If you don't enjoy the songs, you may think they're this (especially songs like Kano hula-hula, which are completely irrelevant to the plot), but at least repetition of songs is rare (unlike The Julekalender).
    • Høgger'n launching into space is mostly the same every time, but it's still shown every time and tends to drag out for longer than necessary.
    • The driving sequences are unnecessarily dragged out.
  • Squick: Both Inga and Sølve fall into the manure cellar at some point. When Sølve is washed with alcohol after his fall, Johnsen (jokingly) suggests that they drink it afterward.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Høgger'n is never actually shown in the past.
  • The Problem with Licensed Games: The series got a shoddy licensed mini-game collection consisting of basic games like a Pop Quiz, a Shell Game, multiple rudimentary jigsaw puzzles, a strange memory game where you feed people fluids that are supposed to go into cars, and a poorly-made Pac-Man clone where the camera will abruptly jump to follow your movements because it can't display the whole maze at once. Bizarrely, while Vazelina Bilopphøggers had a comic based on it that could have served as inspiration, the game instead opts to slap photos of the members' faces (using photo series to "animate" them) on poorly-animated bodies, creating a weird effect. Also, one of the mini-games uses an annoying nine-second loop as background music.

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