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Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)

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Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)

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Post by Nihei »

We have the same tradition in Denmark. We exchange presents on December 24th in the evening and during that morning and day the tv is filled with the same cartoons every year. We also have "Disneys Store Juleshow" (Disneys grand Christmas show) with lots of old short cartoons (Donald and his nephews in the snowball fight) and some new clips from Disneys movies. (Cinderellas dress creation, lady and the tramp spaghetti scene, snow white and the party in the hut, and this year; let it go from frozen). That's usually the thing that gets me in the Christmas mood on the 24th :)

Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)

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Post by mjklin »

probably_wrong wrote: post #23

If we are talking about holiday traditions, I should point out Germany's "Dinner for one" sketch. Although that's for New year, not Christmas. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_One

Bernd das Brot did a parody called "Dinner für Brot", also worth a watch.

Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)

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Post by geon »

asmosoinio wrote: post #38
glaze wrote: post #14

I live in Finland and we do the same thing here.

You happen to speak Swedish? My mother tongue is Finnish, and I had never heard of the Kalle Anka thing, but all my Swedish speaking friends said they have always watched it (and still do).

Perhaps Swedish speaking finns used to watch Swedish TV? I suppose that would have a very strong cultural influence.
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