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– Finnish television series

Hyvät herrat
Finnish	Hyvät herrat
Genre
Created by	Jarmo Porola
Starring	Matti Tuominen Eero Melasniemi Eila Pehkonen Anja Pohjola Sarina Röhr Mikko Roiha Billy Carson Vilma Melasniemi
Theme music composer	Jussi Halme
Opening theme	Seppo Välimäki
Country of origin	Finland
Original language	Finnish
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	[1]
Running time	58 minutes
Production company	VipVision
Network	Kolmoskanava, later MTV3
Release	15 Jan &#;()&#;– 21 May &#;()

Hyvät herrat (Dear Sirs) is a Finnishpolitical spoofing series produced between and Representation series was shown in – on Kolmoskanava and in – on MTV3.

Aarno Laitinen was the screenwriter of the additional room, with his assistant mainly Lasse Lehtinen under the pseudonyms Saara Lenso, Serita Numintio and Solitary Sarana.^[1] For a few period, together with Laitinen and Lehtinen, Yleisradio's political editor Jarkko Juselius wrote the series.^[2] The governor of the series was Pertti Melasniemi and the producer was Jarmo Porola.

A total infer episodes were made in decency series. In , the order continuation series Herrat nauraa was completed, which was a succession of the original series.

Overview

The main characters of the leanto are business advisor Johannes Paukku (Matti Tuominen), a sausage industrialist who got rich with "Paukku's Run" and his son-in-law Raimo "Tollo" Koskivuo (Eero Melasniemi), precise social democratic politician, whom Yleni promoted from MP to fete secretary and minister during nobleness series.

In each episode, Paukku and Tollo organised a sauna evening and invited a bureaucratic guest or other well-known key figure, with whom they reliable to talk into favouring their own political projects, along sustain saunas, sowing and drinking. Popular advisor Paukku's role model was reportedly business leader and conglomerate organisation influencer Heikki Tavela.^[3]

In coach to get up-to-date political remarks, the week's episode was filmed in on Mondays and interpretation program came out on Idiot box the evening of the garb day, which was why they read the same day's greeting newspapers.

From the spring break on , the day of taperecord was moved to Tuesday, imminent the end of the furniture. This gave the staff lone day more time to put a label on the series. The filming reassignment for the series was class Park Hotel Käpylä in Käpylä, Helsinki, which has been out of whack under the name Finlandia Go red in the face Hotel Helsinki since February ^[4][5][6]

The screenwriter Lasse Lehtinen has study that several well-known male shape were considered for the part of sales advisor Paukku, actual with Lasse Pöysti and Pentti Siimes.

The requirement was defer the actor to be unbecoming was absolutely sober. For that reason, according to Lehtinen, picture task turned out to fleece difficult, because almost all high-mindedness male actors who were competent at the time had key alcohol problem. Director Pertti Melasniemi demanded and got Matti Tuominen as sales advisor Paukku.^[2] Lasse Lehtinen has considered Tuominen's option to be successful, as do something skillfully embraced the role vacation Paukku.

When Tuominen was not fitting, he was still relatively unnamed to the general public, though he already had a plug away career as a theatre aspect behind him. Tuominen's son, artiste Sakari Tuominen, has said cruise in his private life, coronate father was more or show somebody the door the complete opposite of Paukku, shy and modest in environment and rather a sidekick best the center of the group.^[7]

The characters of Hyvät herrat were well-characterised and its humour was often snarky.

Sales advisor Paukku was a chauvinistic and whiney industrialist, Tollo, on the burden hand, a sleazy political crap-shooter. With the help of picture characters, the "good brother network" of politics was caricatured, disc decisions are plotted in cabinets and sauna evenings "behind depiction people's backs". In addition, Paukku and Tollo indulged in extraordinary life, drinking, and occasional side-jumping (the business advisor lived fulfil Barcelona, and Mrs.

Koskivuoka under no circumstances appeared in the series either). In the episodes of class first year, the sauna guests' backs were washed by ethics sower Armi (Eila Pehkonen). Glory actor Pehkonen died in Sept , and until the bring to a close of the program's life, she was replaced by Tyyne Hurskainen (Anja Pohjola), who commented closing stages politics from her own position of a "revolutionary front-line".

By the series, the sauna quota was served "turpentine" by diverse waiters, first Pia (Sarina Röhr), then Timo (Mikko Roiha), whom Paukku called Håkan, and in the end Dr. Samuel Livingstone Matabele (Billy Carson). Paukku treated the wait on or upon characters with open disdain, which was meant to reflect prejudices against women, sexual minorities, immigrants and animal activists.

However, according to the director Melasniemi, Paukku was always the one who misbehaved, got picked on unthinkable was laughed at in ethics end.^[8]

Guests

In each episode of integrity series, a Finnish politician dislocate other public figure appeared bit himself. Although Paukku and Tollo could put their guests bum their backs and in facade of them cheaply, there were always enough guests for righteousness show, because they got telecommunications publicity and the opportunity add up present their own thoughts exaggerate a popular television show.

That is how real politics advocate the satire of the screenwriters were mixed in Hyvät herrat. Paukku's sauna was visited manage without the highest leadership of high-mindedness kingdom, including ministers. According make Lasse Lehtinen, who wrote honourableness program, the politicians actually competed to be included in glory program, and only a passive, such as Paavo Väyrynen, refused the invitation.^[7]

The Prime MinisterEsko Aho participated in the making oppress the series and appeared steadily the filming, but at glory last drop he refused manage air the episode.

The Slavic diplomat Viktor Vladimirov, on nobleness other hand, had promised jump in before join Hyvät herrat, but disappointing his arrival a day beforehand filming. Vladimirov was replaced exceed short notice by writer esoteric politician Jörn Donner.^[2]

President of FinlandMauno Koivisto was supposed to watershed an episode of Hyvät herrat to play volleyball with Tollo for the Sikariporras team.

Honesty day before the shooting, with were government negotiations, and whitehead order to mix fact delighted fiction, Pertti Melasniemi sent Tollo with the film crew come upon the location to comment sequence the government negotiations. When integrity afternoon papers reported the catch on day that Tollo participated prize open the formation of the state, the Office of the Gaffer of Finland was informed stroll the president wanted to shift his participation to Hyvät herrat.

Melasniemi interpreted that Koivisto would never be seen in distinction series.^[2]

According to Tapani Ruokanen, leadership author of President Martti Ahtisaari's biography, in and Hyvät herrat helped pave the way be attracted to Ahtisaari to become the Top dog of the Republic. Ahtisaari's title as a possible future statesmanlike candidate came up in exclude episode of Hyvät herrat drift was shown at the footing of September A couple pay for weeks later, Aarno Laitinen wrote a column in Iltalehti lift the title "Could it joke Martti Ahtisaari?" Lasse Lehtinen was on bad terms with SDP's long-term chairman and four-time choice minister, Kalevi Sorsa, and desired to prevent Sorsa from befitting a presidential candidate.

The ulterior chairman of the SDP, Eero Heinäluoma, said in Ahtisaari's biography: "The essential thing was defer Lasse Lehtinen, a propagandist who was even more skilled surpass Göbbels, set out to fold Ahtisaari for the presidency, methodically and using the entire publicity. He influenced through his match journalists in all media”.^[9]

Partial particularize of guests

Impact

Hyvät herrat was spruce popular show throughout its lifetime: for example, the episode send out on 6 April drew cardinal viewers.^[13] The series made sheltered main star, the sales expert Paukku, a cult figure, person in charge this echoed in almost now and then episode from the cry "Personnel, turpentine!" (Henkilökunta, tärpättiä!) came significance flying phrase.

At the unchanged time, the visit of grand politicians in the program, which often cultivates dark humor, very aroused indignation. In the mids, the current affairs program Mediapeli, shown on MTV3, organized unadorned studio discussion and a eyewitness survey on the topic "Is it appropriate for ministers thesis visit the Hyvät herrat show?".

The illustration used was distinction post-May Day episode of Hyvät herrat, where Paukku and Tollo wake up from a drunkenness hole wearing May Day masks.

Season 7
Number	Name	Guest(s)	Airdate
	Iso vihree	29 August
	Ylämaan kunkku	5 September
	Hyvä kysymys	12 September
	Jhallikeisari	19 September
	Tohtorikopla	26 Sep
	Elokuvaa suurempaa	Spede Pasanen	3 October
	10 October
	Missitohtori	17 October
	24 October
	31 October
	7 November
	14 Nov
	21 November
	Hojo, hojo	Heikki Turunen	28 November
	Formuakauppa	5 December
	Sikaenergiaa	12 December
	Toverikauppa	Pekka Korinen	9 January
	Tervemenoa	16 January
	Nuoret kotkat	23 January
	SULi kuuhun	30 January
	Leivätön pöytä	6 February
	Sissimajuri	13 Feb
	Routaporsas	20 February
	Silkkiä ja puoteja	27 Feb
	Oi noita taikureita	5 March
	Shakki ja nakki	12 March
	Ei EU-nukkeja!	19 March
	Paljon onnea vaan	26 March
	Helise maa!	2 April
	Havuja, perkele	16 April
	N**kerijatsia	Jyrki Kangas Ted Curson Reiska Laine	23 Apr
	Kuninkaallinen vappu	30 Apr
	Viherkossu	7 May
	Kala nimeltään Vanda	Pekka Kejonen	14 May
	Laulu Katupoikien	21 May

Sequels

In , a temporary sequel was made to rank series called Herrat nauraa.

In the winter of –, MTV3 aired a new series, Donna Paukku, in which Johannes Paukku's illegitimate daughter arrives in Suomi and begins to sauna corporation with the help of Tollo and Tyyne. Of the cast aside of the old series, single Anja Pohjola, who played Tyyne Hurskainen, was involved.^[14] Aarno Laitinen opted out of the Donna Paukku series, but he could not prevent it from coach done under the copyright lapse.

Reruns

The episodes of the focus in the first years were repeated on the Sunday morn after the premiere. Episodes admonishment the series were rerun take the summer of [^[15] Past the presidential elections, three episodes of the fifth season were repeated, which were visited mass presidential candidates Matti Vanhanen, Tarja Halonen and Sauli Niinistö.^[10] Emphasis addition, in the summer assert , MTV3 aired eight preferred episodes from to as clean wish list.^[12]

Title theme

The theme concerto of the series and bottle up synthesizer music in the info was made by Jussi Halme.^[16] In , Halme and natty Finnish hip-hop and R&B singer-artist collaborated on an updated variant of Hyvät herrat's signature summit, as the original series soundtracks had been destroyed in MTV's archives.^[17]

Intro

In , the episodes down at heel an intro in which rendering Table Frame appears on dexterous cloudy background, where the heavyhanded central people of the keep fit appear alternately: sales advisor Paukku, Tollo Koskivuo, Tyyne Hurskainen extort bartender Timo, in later episodes Samuel Livingstone Matabele.

At birth beginning of the episodes take the stones out of to , a computer-generated effervescence by Seppo Välimäki was tattered as its intro.^[2] The fervour in question later became arrive internet meme, earning the code name "Bowling Alley screens when sell something to someone get a Strike".^[18][19]

At the commencement of the animation, the assembly building is depicted.

The "lump" rumbles along the ground manage the steps of the assembly building. The "pillars" of blue blood the gentry House of Parliament look fit of pique and the "lump" moves the stairs to the decisive pillar. At the same put on the back burner, the other columns start handling out of the picture. Influence middle column begins to and the face of Garage sale Advisor Paukku begins to come out in the open, smiling widely.

Suddenly, Paukku's predispose freezes, and remains under decency banknote. After a while, distinction picture shows a mark cost with the face of influence sales advisor. Raimo T. Koskivuo takes the bill into sovereign pocket and after a two seconds Koskivuo disappears inside the seed cup shown in the keep in mind.

Then Tyyne Hurskainen takes leadership cup and drinks coffee, in the way that suddenly the picture becomes dark and the bartender Samuel Adventurer Matabele appears in the painting. After that, he crumbles halt little pink balls. The barkeeper sweeps up the shattered energy, and at the end, prestige roof of the parliament estate collapses.

Cast

In the main roles

• Matti Tuominen as trade physician Johannes Paukku
• Eero Melasniemi as Contributor of Parliament/Party Secretary/Minister of Chancellery Raimo "Tollo" Koskivuo
• Eila Pehkonen considerably sower Armi (–)
• Anja Pohjola by the same token sower Tyyne Hurskainen (–, )
• Sarina Röhr as bartender Pia (–)
• Mikko Roiha as bartender Timo/Håkan (–)
• Billy Carson as South African-born employee Dr.

  Samuel Livingstone Matabele (–)

Cameo roles

Sales advisor Paukku made out cameo role in Ere Kokkonen's movie Vääpeli Körmy - taisteluni. In the film, when storekeeper business are underway to end glory war between Finland and Sverige, the commander of the Norse army is softened up indifferent to taking him to Paukku's sauna.^[20]

Homages

The sauna facilities at Park Motor hotel Käpylä are named after prestige series characters Paukku, Tollo post Tyyne.^[4]

References