That Pippi dub is weird

[kattahj]

I've bought Göran Everdahl's new book Kom nu'rå!, about children's TV shows. It's not as good as his book on soaps - mostly, he just mentions various shows that used to air on TV, describes what they're about, and move on to the next one. But it does have its funny points, such as "Sigrid, where are you now? Eat fibres" and the description of

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[archbishopm]

Awesome.

I was a major Pippi follower in my pre-reading days
(hence pre any and all films about her, I am old). I knew her as "Peepee" and would do physical violence to whomever dared disagree (unrelated but coincidental, shortly thereafter we relocated to a community that had major Swedish roots and so everyone insisted on calling me Keeeersten. SO MUCH BLOOD). Also had a homemade doll of her, and in addition to traditional Pippi getup she got a velvet dress made up to match a velvet dress I had to wear to some formal gig. Good times, Pippi, good times. :-D

[kattahj]

Aw, that's adorable! Though I fear to think what Pippi would do with a velvet dress.

[therru]

Pippi was my first idol. And last, possibly!

I'm not sure, but I heard that they used to dub over the voices all the time in old movies, because filming outdoors made the lines too hard to hear. I may have got that wrong, though.

Fascinating to see that the classic Pippi movies are known outside of the Homeland! I was afraid they meant the animated American version that came out a few years back.

Also, Idas sommarvisa never replaces Den blomstertid! Possibly supplements it as a standard, but nothing can replace Den blomstertid. Um. Can it?

[kattahj]

Pippi was my first idol. And last, possibly!

I was mostly into Ronja and Madicken. (Madicken doesn't get half the credit she deserves, IMO.) Pippi was so far detached from any kind of reality that I didn't appreciate her until much later. Also, as a kid I vastly preferred Ilon Wikland to Ingrid Vang Nyman. But Pippi is definitely an iconic figure, hence my icon. :-)

I'm not sure, but I heard that they used to dub over the voices all the time in old movies, because filming outdoors made the lines too hard to hear. I may have got that wrong, though.

Sounds reasonable. I'm not sure if the German actors spoke their lines in Swedish or German, truth be told.

Also, Idas sommarvisa never replaces Den blomstertid! Possibly supplements it as a standard, but nothing can replace Den blomstertid. Um. Can it?I don't know, actually. At the school where I worked before, they sang both. I'll have to see what they sing here... Of course, Ida is a safer card in that it's not openly religious, but then, any atheist or non-Christian can solve the

[therru]

Well, at that point in time, neither Ronja nor Madicken existed yet

[kattahj]

Yeah. I was brought up religious, and it bothers me to see a minister saying vaguely neutral things in a church while kids are encouraged to sing things they don't believe. They're bound to get a very strange idea of what a religious service is like. If they're in a choir or Lucia procession or something and want to sing hymns despite not believing in them, that's another thing, but it shouldn't be part of a compulsory school-wide thing.