Hjälp!
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Hjälp! is a Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 situation comedy
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...

 television series. It revolves around a professional therapist, Jeanette Placzycks, played by Stina Ekblad
Stina Ekblad
Stina Ekblad ) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish actress. She received a Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in 1987 for her performances in Amorosa and Ormens väg på hälleberget and was nominated again in 1996 for her performance in Pensionat Oskar.Ekblad was born in the Ostrobothnian village of Solf in...

. She treats several patients in need of urgent help, hence the name of the series. There are many more characters than those listed here.

Cast

  • Stina Ekblad
    Stina Ekblad
    Stina Ekblad ) is a Swedish-speaking Finnish actress. She received a Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in 1987 for her performances in Amorosa and Ormens väg på hälleberget and was nominated again in 1996 for her performance in Pensionat Oskar.Ekblad was born in the Ostrobothnian village of Solf in...

     as Jeanette Placzycks, professional therapist and the show's protagonist.
  • Johan Rheborg
    Johan Rheborg
    Carl Johan Rheborg is a Swedish comedian, actor and script writer, born on June 5, 1963, in Täby, Sweden. He is a member of the Swedish comedy group Killinggänget....

     as Örjan Lax. He has problems controlling his temper on daily basis, often known to go ballistic whenever he's annoyed.
  • Felix Herngren
    Felix Herngren
    Felix Tobias Herngren, born on 4 February 1967, in Stockholm, is a Swedish director, actor and comedian. He is the younger brother of director and actor Måns Herngren...

     as Benjamin Turesson. Turesson is mortally afraid of conflicts and lacks all sorts of dismissal behaviour. Due to his lack of ability to say no, he goes through several events such as joining a robber's gang, becoming a Nazi, getting married to a Muslim extremist's daughter (while being a Nazi), getting a sex-change and being together with a man even though he was attracted to women.
  • Hassan Brijany as Tito, Benjamin's boyfriend in season 1 who makes a short appearance in season 3, where we find out that he is the uncle of the Muslim girl who Benjamin marries. He's very disgusting towards his boyfriend, who doesn't like him back.
  • Johan Glans
    Johan Glans
    Johan Magnus Glans is a Swedish stand up comedian and TV actor. He started doing stand up comedy in 1994 and has worked on Swedish TV with David Batra. He is often featured in SVT's Stockholm Live and TV4's Parlamentet. He has at numerous times been called "Sveriges Roligaste Man", in English...

     as Reine Bok. Reine is a control-freak and because of that he is suicidal. All he wants is to die but he always screws up because he's a control freak. Notable attempts of suicide are jumping from buildings, getting hit by a train and having someone decapitate him with an axe, all ending in failure. Reine only appeared in the first two seasons so we can all assume that he's diseased in season 3.
  • Morgan Alling
    Morgan Alling
    Sven Robert Morgan Alling is a Swedish actor, scriptwriter and director.Alling finished Malmö Theatre Academy 1990. He become famous in when he was a host for a children's show for television....

     as Lars Magnus Ericsson. In season 1, Lars Magnus are suffering from an extreme case of premature ejaculation caused by sexual thoughts, causing him to ejaculate a lot. He has been told to not think sexual thoughts, with no success. In season 3, his ejaculations have stopped, but he has a constant erection instead. He works on a plastic surgery clinic with his wife, Viviann (Played by Petra Mede
    Petra Mede
    Petra Mede is a Swedish comedian and television host. She grew up in Partille outside of Gothenburg. Mede is known for her roles in comic shows like Morgonsoffan and Parlamentet. She has also tried stand-up comedy on Stockholm Live. In 2009 she hosted Melodifestivalen 2009, where the Swedish entry...

    ), who is always eager to try new medicines on Lars Magnus that will make his erection go down.
  • Anna Blomberg as Marina Huge. Marina is obsessed with breaking records, which she never manages to do. It's everything from reading the Bible on one breath-take to eating as much onions as she can.
  • Gustaf Hammarsten
    Gustaf Hammarsten
    Gustaf Hammarsten is a Swedish film, television and theatre actor.-Film:He has appeared in more than ten films starting with his first appearance in a small role in The Best Intentions directed by Bille August...

     and Anna Petersson as Mats and Therese Bolling. This couple has despite many years of marriage never had sex. They're always trying different things such as electric shocks and masks.
  • Per Andersson as Dagmar. Dagmar has gone through a lobotomy which limits his everyday life to just sitting in a chair while smoking numerous amounts of cigarettes and uttering nonsensical interjections. He receives mails from the viewers that his lobotomy prevent him from answering.
  • Chevy Chase
    Chevy Chase
    Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase is an American comedian, writer, and television and film actor, born into a prominent entertainment industry family. Chase worked a plethora of odd jobs before moving into comedy acting with National Lampoon...

     as Dan Carter. Carter is an international journalist working for American television, after a few days of harassing his crew, assistant and people around him, he gets a video from his wife, where she graphically displays how she's together with another man, and tells him that she sold all of his property. In a state of depression, Carter quits his job and in the process loses his credit card and passport. Stuck in Sweden with no money or roof over his head, he's forced to survive through witty street-smarts and cunning deception.
  • Robert Gustavsson as Papa Papadopolous, Placzycks' receptionist. Papadopolous is known for his extreme stuttering
    Stuttering
    Stuttering , also known as stammering , is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the stutterer is unable to produce sounds...

    problem, usually lacking the ability to carry out a simple response to a sentence. Although he is not a patient of Placzycks, she still feels obligated to help him from time to time.

External links

  • Swedish TV4 (Channel 4) Website: http://www.tv4.se/1.708242/2008/11/06/om_hjalp
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