"Swedish Radio presents" "Villervalle in the South Pacific" "Episode 1 Family Council" "Boo!" "I'm not surprised everyone calls you Villervalle, for there's always a huge amount of confusion up there." "Don't try and get smart, kid." "Vilhelm and Valdemar are my first names, so that's why they call me Villervalle." "It's no more surprising than that they call you Nisse Nasse." "Villervalle, where does that "r" in the middle come from, then?" "It's for the sake of harmony, dummy." "Ah, don't talk crap." "Hey, do you want to play?" "Well then guys, may I join in and play football?" "Sure, sir." "I haven't done it since I was your age." "Goal!" "Him there, he can't have been much of a player." "Ah, he's probably just out of shape." " Reach out." " I can't any more." "Reach out." " What about your books, then?" " Oh." "Look, exactly what we want for Friday." "Friday?" "It's Thursday." "How stupid you are." "Have you already forgotten that you'll play the role of Friday in our new play?" "I have been stupid, like Robinson Crusoe." "Come on, let's go aboard!" "It's exactly right." "We'll raise the sail and have the flood lights on the quay." "It's a very good open-air theater." "Yes, spectators can sit on benches which we can borrow somewhere." "But don't you think someone owns the boat." "Most things usually belong to someone." "Oh, not this old boat." "Worn out ships like this, are simply left to rot to pieces." "It's much cheaper than to chop them up." "Friday, run home as fast as you can." "Bring as many guns and pistols as you can." "Gunpowder, we must have." "We must try to rescue the prisoners from the bandits." "Just run!" "Hey there!" "What are you doing here, rascals?" "We're rehearsing a play, please, constable." "Don't come here and talk about your play!" "Get off the boat immediately." "For it's not yours, I think, right?" " No." " So, Hurry up, hurry up." "Come on, quick, quick." "I'm going to be lenient and let you off this time." "If you run fast." "Off with you!" "If it's like this at rehearsals I decline the honour of participating." "If you don't want to be Friday, there's plenty of people who'll take your place." "Do you think the time is already five to six." "There are three clocks in this window, I've counted them." "And all show five to six." "So what do you think?" "Then I must be off, as I don't want to miss dinner, especially today, when we have family council." "Family council?" "What's that?" " You don't know what family council is?" " No." "Well, you see, every time an important decision is to be made at home with us, we sit down at the large dining table." "My dad, my mom, my sister and me." "Any person may submit their proposals." "We live in a democratic country, right?" "You're lucky, you are." "My dad commands like a general." "The only thing my brother and I can say is "yes, Dad" or "no, Dad."" "And sometimes we don't even get to say that." "Give your dad a book called..." ""Psychological guidance for parents." It's superb." "And there are several chapters in it, about how important it is to let the children's personality be allowed to develop freely." "What a Christmas book for Dad." "But he just reads the newspaper and detective stories." "Two... three... four... five... six." "Six!" "Then I have to run." "Bye!" "Goodbye, Krushchev!" "I mean Crusoe of course." "Well, it's strange that Villervalle can never learn to get to meals on time." "Don't think you can avoid drying the dishes, just because you're late for dinner." "What?" "Have you already eaten?" "Is that the time?" "Are you still hungry?" "No, we've had enough, more than enough, especially in waiting for you." "Now we'll have the family council." "Can't you eat a little quieter, so we can hear what Dad says?" "It's not my fault, that there's crisp bread on the table." "As you know, I've always been interested in nutrition problems." "And recently I've actually regretted I left my position at the public health Institute, and opened my own practice." "You know there is hunger and starvation in the world, because people don't have money." " Mmm." "But there are of course in many countries awful deficiency diseases." "It's so stupid, that the inhabitants have the foods they need, but they don't choose those that they need." "They are malnourished, simply." "For example scurvy." "In the past, long distance travellers were more afraid of scurvy than of pirates." "Pirates!" "What was it you said about pirates, Dad?" "Pirates must always be on guard and never slack off." "What does UNESCO mean, Villervalle?" "That's..." "I know now, it's the United Nations Scientific Advisory Board." "And what is its role, Lenalisa?" "It helps underdeveloped countries by sending specialists." "Correct." "And currently, they need a nutrition specialist in the South Pacific, more specifically on a group of islands near Tahiti." "Somewhere near Robinson Crusoe's island." "Are you going to apply for it, Dad?" "Well, apply..." "I've already got it." "I haven't said that you can come." "What?" "Why wouldn't we go along?" "Yes, there is as far as we know no Swedish schools in the South Pacific Islands." "So we don't really know what to do with you children." "Mom has previously helped me in my work, so I'd like to have her with me on this expedition." "I presume there isn't a clause in your contract that prohibits Grandmas to participate." "No, there isn't, but I thought that you'd like to stay home considering your age." "My age?" "60 isn't old." "I should also defend you against all the savages and scoundrels." "If you don't take me with you." "I'm the only one in the family who has a rifle." "And I can shoot." "See here." "And I know the South Seas a bit." "I was there with Karl." "He was the captain of the Southern Cross." "I feel sufficiently resilient to throw myself against the sharks and savages." "That's precisely why I'm afraid to take you." "Yes, I see no other way than that I stay at home with the kids." "Yes, unless we're able to board them with Aunt Gerda, of course." "At Aunt Gerda's!" "Not on your life!" "There, you only get soft-boiled eggs and porridge for breakfast." "And sometimes when you go in, you have to put on slippers." "And Oskar, he goes bonkers when you just break a single little vase." "Though there are millions of vases on the floor." "Mom and Dad, have you never heard of the existence of something called correspondence studies." "Anyone can become a member of Parliament or Nobel Prize winner, just by studying a little bit in their free time." "Yes, and I just know that we can do so many courses, we can skip a class when we come back." "There's nobody who can help you with your correspondence studies." "Therefore, the only solution is to take me." "Remember that it was me who taught you to read." "I give up." "Hooray for our class mistress!" "Grandma, do we get time off to pack?" "Speaking of packing, I don't want you taking little packages like last holiday." "You should use sturdy suitcases." "And if there's any items which won't fit in, you can assume that they're redundant." "Are you there again?" "Dad, we're taking Kvick with us, of course?" " Kvick?" " Yes." "We're going to live among pirates and cannibals, we must have a good guard dog." "Impossible." "Anyway, he's always bitten the wrong people every time he's played guard dog." "Don't worry, Villervalle, Aunt Gerda will be very happy to take care of Kvick." "Now, let's see here." "The boat goes from here, Southampton in a few weeks." "So we won't have long preparation time." "But then we get to rest properly." "We sail across the Atlantic, to Panama, across the Pacific Ocean to Tahiti." "And the journey takes about a month." "Therefore, no small packages, no unnecessary things, and no dogs." "Family Council's first South Sea conference is over." "Yeah!" "(Medical Chest)" "Say, you wouldn't happen to have space for these little things?" "You're crazy!" "I don't even have space for my own things." "Maybe I'll have to leave the typewriter and guitar at home." "How stupid you are." "You carry them in your hands, of course." "If you don't wrap them in paper then there'll be no package." "I intend to take my fishing rod under my arm." "Okay." "You may put a few books in my bag." "But no tools." "Don't try putting in any tools." " Hello." "What on earth is the point?" "There are 11 cases instead of 9." "Hello!" "There are two cases too many." "Where, for example did that strange crate come from?" "That's marked "This side up" on all sides." "Might you happen to know where this box came from, Villervalle?" " This box?" " Precisely." "I found it in the basement." "And kvick like he does... he crawled in all by himself." "And so I thought..." "My goodness." "Are you saying that you've sealed Kvick in the box?" "Kvick..." " No!" " Yes." "Release the poor dog." "No, is it really Misse and Mosse?" "Oh yes, if only you knew how many rats there are in the South Pacific." "And Misse and Mosse received first prize in the last cat show in rat catching class." "No dogs and no cats." "It's four months quarantine in Tahiti." "Villervalle and Lenalisa, remove Kvick and the cats." "It's easier for Aunt Gerda to take care of the animals, if they're left in the boxes." "What if I hadn't discovered this menagerie in time." "I think it's best that I examine the rest of your luggage too." "Go and get everything you're intending to take with you." "Everyone." "No, have you already forgotten what I said?" "Yes, yes, yes, but not a single thing more." "What are you doing with all these briefcases?" "5 of them are a little too much, I think." "Briefcases are not cases." "They contain all my papers and valuables." "Such as tobacco, pipes, pipe cleaners..." "The most important thing is to organize everything... in an efficient and rational manner." "Like I said." "Come in!" " Good day, there." " Hello." "Good of you to come." "Yes, all this is going to the station, I understand." "Yes." "Well, it's just the tickets, then." "Yeah." "Tickets, yes." "Sure, yes." "But Ernst, the tickets." " Haven't you seen the tickets?" " But it's you who were looking after them." "Yes, I have them." "I thought I had them in my hand a while ago." "It's extraordinary." "You've searched this one already." "Come on Ernst, calm down now." "Where have you been sitting?" "Where was I?" "Yes, I was sitting over here on the sofa," " On the sofa" " No... yes... no..." "Help me search, then!" " What's the matter?" " Dad can't find the tickets." "Typical." "Where are they?" " Here they are!" " Well done, Mom!" " In the book you just sat and read." " Yes, that's what I did." "Like you said, the most important thing is to... organize everything in an efficient and rational manner." "What's up with the porter now?" "# Yes, may they live, yes, may they live, May they live for a hundred years." "Yes, we came round with some coffee." "Now let's give a round of cheers for the South Sea travelers." "Ready?" "Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!" "Well, you should arrange the queue properly now." "Yes, these crates are going too, as I understand." "Yes, it's really..." "Oh dear, the train goes in exactly 20 minutes." "We'll see you down at the Central Station." "A small farewell gift from all of us in the class, so you can find your way home to Stockholm, in case you get lost." "Hey, what about the Robinson Crusoe play, then?" "Nisse can certainly finish writing it." "I promise to come up with ideas, now I'm getting to experience a real South Seas adventure." " Don't forget to send us shark teeth!" " Yeah!" " Let's hoist him!" " Heave-ho, heave-ho!" "Goodbye, Karin dear." "And try to write to me now." "Do it, really." "I should say goodbye..." "Goodbye, goodbye." "Likewise, likewise." " Now I have to register the bags and boxes." " That's fine." "If you come with me now, then I'll show in which compartment," "I've put the other bags and boxes with the animals." "The animals?" "Well, weren't they supposed to come too?" "They stood among the other cases in the hall." " And now take care of Kvick and the cats." " Don't worry, I'll take care of them." "Oh, Kvicke!" "Grandma?" " Yes." "No, it's not possible to hide them in the toilet." "It's better that Aunt Gerda takes care of them." "Bye then, Kvick!" "Goodbye then, byebye!" "Brief... briefcase!" "Like you said, the key is to... organize everything in an efficient and rational manner." "Episode 2 Atomic Spies" "Here he comes!" " Thank you." " Thanks." "This is the life." "Think of the other poor guys crouching over their homework books now." "I've also thought about them." "If you don't start reading soon, you'll be repeating a year." "But Dad, there's so many knots and nautical terms that Grandma wants us to learn." "That's right!" "On board a ship you have to know what everything is called." "But as soon as we're through the Panama Canal, start cracking down on your reading." "And you, Mother, make sure that they do their homework." "Don't worry, Ernst, Grandma even succeeded in teaching you how to read." "Quick march to the bridge." "Now, I think you should go and take a little dip." "Yes, I will." "Good morning Madam, can I help you?" "Do you mind Captain, if I show the children around the ship?" "Of course you can." "If only you keep yourself and your family within the area allowed for the passengers." "Thank you, Captain." "We're now on the command bridge, as you know very well, but the topmost bridge over our heads, what is it called it?" "The Top Bridge, of course." "Just below is the lifeboat deck where the lifeboats are hanging in their davits." "Captain, may I steer the ship?" "Of course, you could hold the wheel for a while." "Come on, boy." "Let him have a go." "Valdemar, come on over here." "Have a look and see who's there." "Grandma!" "Ah look, it's a Swedish sandwich." "Captain?" "Ladders, which are not called ladders but companionways." "But what's that strange device?" "It's radar, of course." "Now you know what it is." "What in the world?" "The big dish up there is the wrong way round." "But Villervalle, you don't know any more than us about radar." "But it's not me." "It was in Mechanics magazine, that the dish angle..." " Officer?" " Yes." "I think the big radar up there is facing back to front." "Really." "I'll have to go and see what's wrong." "Oh, how nice to be really, really lazy without having a bad conscience." "Yes, sit down and rest a while too." "At your age, then..." "Oh, don't start talking about my age again." " Where's Villervalle?" " Villervalle?" "Villervalle, he may well never have..." " Take him down." " Aye, aye, sir." "Stop, stop, stop!" "I will do it myself." "Alright, Ma'am" "Don't look down, look up at the mast!" "What was it you said about her age?" "Now let this be a lesson." "Think before you act next time." "Thanks a lot, Mother." "Just a little training for climbing palm trees in the future." " Ouch!" " Ha, ha, that serves you right." "I've a feeling that there's something fishy about them." ""Fishy", just because we're at sea, and they look a bit strange." "Alright, let's bet I reveal the Sjussov's are up to no good before we arrive." "What are you doing?" "Oh, If you're going to get your nose wet, it's something you should do properly." "Oh, how childish you are." "But I've a feeling they're shady characters." "It sends shivers down my spine when they come near." "I get the same feeling when you're nearby." "I'm sure they belong to some international criminal gang or something." " I could of course expose them myself, but..." " Ha!" "You?" "If I give you some of my pocket money, could you at least dance with the guy?" "Okay." "Hey!" "you know how to flirt, don't you?" "This is how you do it." "Oh, how silly you are." "Bye, then." "Hey, don't forget to flirt." "Idiot." "Would you like to dance?" "Oh, are you crazy?" "Not with me." "No, the girl." "Lenalisa!" " Did you learn anything?" " Yes, that he's dumb and can't dance." "Even if I get all your pocket money, I won't dance one more dance with him," "So there!" "You can play detective by yourself." "That's just what I intend to do." "But you'll thank me one day for everything I've done for you." " Panama!" " Panama!" "Nope!" "Not until we've passed through the Panama Canal." "Let's study the map, so you can track the points of the compass, as we go through the canal." "There's no art to keeping track anyway." "We go through from the east and continue due west until we reach the Pacific Ocean." "Yes, that's what most people think." "But come here, and you'll see." "Let's see." "The Panama Canal makes a sharp turn right here, where the channel is dug." "Therefore, you enter the canal from the north, and when we come out on the Pacific side, we do it to the east of Cristobal Colon, that's the city where we leave the canal." " How weird!" " Yes, of course it is." "Dad!" "Can you buy tame monkeys in Stomatol or whatever the city is called?" "Why do we need a tame monkey, when we have you?" " Hey, you!" " Don't fight now." "Cristobal Colon is the Spanish name of Christopher Columbus." " It was he who discovered America." " Fantastic." " Hey, you." " Trouble makers!" "Hey!" "I think the captain's gone astray." "Where are we anyway?" "It's the first lock." "If you look up, you can see the locomotive that pulls us through the lock." "Hey!" "Can you tell me if the canal has come from the Pacific or the Atlantic?" "From both oceans, of course." "The entire channel is full of fresh water, which has been dammed up." " How long is the canal then?" " 77 km." "You're hopeless." "The quay is high up on land!" "The boats are on dry land." "Whoever constructed this port must have been really drunk." "You are silly, it's low tide." "And so all the Central American ports on the Pacific Coast are drained." "The difference between high and low tide is never less than 5 meters." "Why are there tides?" "That, you of course learned in school, right?" "The geography teacher must have talked about tides, when I played hookie last spring." "Really, is this the right place for a geography lesson, do you think?" "You know that the earth is round." "Stockholm is located directly below us." "Here!" "Hey!" "You're crazy." "Watch out!" "What are you up to?" "Hey!" "Do you want to join in and play canasta?" "Canasta?" "Who do you think has time for that?" "Come on now!" "I'd really like to know what it is you're doing." "Ow!" "There it is." "Do you think I'm scared?" "It wasn't what I thought!" "A dismantled aircraft." "Look there!" "A secret radio transmitter." "But look!" "This also says Sjussov." "Don't touch it!" "It's sure to be a time bomb." "This box?" "It's a motor." "It's not a crime to take a motor, an aircraft and a radio transmitter, is it?" "Criminal?" "They're no ordinary criminals, you understand?" "They're atomic spies." " Atomic Spies!" "Haven't you heard of the atom bomb experiments, the Americans are about to do in the Pacific?" "Shussov, of course, intends to reveal all their secrets, even if they don't try to steal the bomb." "What if they blow up this ship." "Oh, how silly you are." "I have a feeling that they're going to do something fishy." "But if you're so sure, then it's probably best that we talk to the captain immediately." " No, don't." " Why shouldn't we?" "Because we need to catch them in the act." "But I think you should examine the boxes a little closer first." "Now I'm going to play canasta." "Bye!" "Girls!" "I give up." " What a guy!" " What a guy." " What's your name?" " Kaoko." "My Papa is the chief on our little island" "Not far from Tahiti." "A real chief?" "Where, how are you be hiding?" "Me?" "I live together with my sister, father, mother and Gran in a cabin." "Do you know, there are atom spies on board!" "Atom spies?" "The thing is only to catch them in the right minute." "Hide!" "Yes, we catch them like fish." "The rope!" "Let us out, you crazy boys!" "You atom spies!" "Kaoko, I'm going to get the Captain." " Yeah." "Captain..." "Captain!" "We have captured the atom spies!" " Which atom spies?" " The Shussov's of course." "Yes, Mister." "We have tied them up with thick ropes, so they cannot escape." " What nonsense is this?" "Mr Shussov got my permission to put some very fragile cases in the baggage room." "But he has a secret radio transmitter in one of the cases, and a timebomb!" "The whole ship may be blown up." "Now, you take it easy, young man." "All he has got in his cases, are a wind machine and an ordinary wireless set." "And don't you read so many detective stories." "Stop there!" "Now, come here!" "Come up here." ""We", you said." "Who are, "we"." " Kaoko and me." " Cocoa?" "Now, be fair Captain." "Kaoko has helped me to capture the spy." "Excuse me, the gentleman Shussov, I mean." "And he is on his way home to his island." "In other words, he's a stowaway." "And besides that, he attacked innocent passengers." "Good Lord, the prisoners!" "Now, you listen to me, Valdemar." "Go down in your cabin and stay there, and don't mention a word about what's been happening here." "And in the meantime, I'll go and release your prisoners." "Are you looking at the Tuamotu Islands?" "Dangerous islands, beautiful islands." "Their natives are cannibals and the lagoon is full of man eating sharks." "Just a paradise for a boy of your adventurous sort." "Don't you feel like jumping into the water and swimming ashore?" "Oh well, I'm going to Tahiti." "Boy!" "You look gloomy." "I've just been informed that we're arriving in Tahiti tomorrow morning." "Tahiti, already?" "Kaoko!" "Kaoko!" "I have good news for you." "We arrive Tahiti, already tomorrow." "Good news for you, maybe." "But they send me back again." "Episode 3 Tahiti" "(Customs)" "Well, now just listen." "This patent pending field chest contains almost a small field hospital." "If we start from the bottom up." " Wait a moment" " Dr Botman, it's okay." "Everything is already cleared." "You can go now." "# And sorrows we have none, Our merry songs echo," "# As we go over dew-sprinkled mountains." "What luck that Uncle Bengt Danielsson helped us." "Märta!" "Mother!" " What on earth is this?" " Villervalle!" "What is this?" "Quick!" "We'll go directly to my home district, where we've arranged a Tahitian feast for you." "We'll drive directly there, but of course we'll stop at the hotel, so you can get rid of the baggage and freshen up." "But remember that we're in a hurry." "The mountain there in the background is as high as Mount Kebnekaise." "That island away on the horizon, it's called Moorea." "What a fine hotel!" "Look, a wreck!" "There's sure to be lots of fish!" "It's very possible." "But now we'll freshen up for Bengts welcome party." "Come on, hurry up!" "Find your bags!" "Hurry up!" " There are fish here too!" " Are there?" "Villervalle!" " Where!" " There." "Argh!" "Now I begin to understand why they call you for Villervalle." "You never watch what you're doing." "This time it wasn't my fault." "Not much, anyway." "This heavyweight champion takes up almost the entire courtyard." "No, wait, wait!" "So!" " But what are you up to, Ernst?" " It's not me who did it." "Have you never heard of how Alexander solved the Gordian knot?" "Tell him we'll pay him for the trousers." "They won't be cheap." "Of course." "Listen, we've lost a lot of time, so now we have to really hurry on." "Here we have the whole reception committee." "No, kiss me!" "Yes, that's probably just what they plan to do." "Hello." "He says that the food will be ready no earlier than half an hour." "You must be extremely thirsty, Villervalle." "Come with me and we'll get you a drinking nut." "And you, Lenalisa." "Pardon?" "Yes, of course." "For you." "For you." "How delicious coconut milk is." "Yes, but it's not coconut milk you're drinking now, but coconut water." "If you turn around, then you'll see how to make coconut milk." "When you press the shredded flakes, out comes a liquid called coconut milk." "But they don't drink it, it's only used as a sauce for food." "It looks just like real milk." "What's that weird fruit?" "That's breadfruit." "What, bread grows on the trees?" "What fun!" " Villervalle!" "No, Villervalle, calm yourself." "You can't eat them raw." "If you just wait a little, then you'll get the baked breadfruits." "Wait?" "I think I've waited long enough now." "Argh!" "No, what's this?" " Can't you stay on the ground, boy?" " You didn't hurt yourself?" " No" "Villervalle, Villervalle!" "Was it a banana you wanted?" " Yes please." " Here you go!" "Wasn't it good?" "Good!" "?" "No, it's an unripe banana and it's as tough and bitter as a bicycle tyre." "But now you'll get a little better reward for your labours," "Villervalle and Lenalisa, if you follow me to the kitchen area." "Come now." " Where is the kitchen area?" " Well, it's here." " But where's the food, then?" " It's here." " Do they cook the food in the ground?" " How strange!" "Yes, and the food has actually been here for a couple hours now." "This is a Tahitian earth oven." "It's time to open it now." "A Tahitian earth oven is simply a hole in the ground." "In the bottom of the pit you put a layer of stones." "On top of the stones you light a fire." "When the stones are hot, they spread out the food on top." "Then cover it over with large palm leaves, and then fill the pit with earth." "One or two hours later, the food is ready and baked." "How long you keep the food in the pit, depends on how big the pit is and, of course, on how much food you're cooking." "There you have your Tahitian bread, Villervalle." "that's to say, baked breadfruit, as I promised a while ago." "Come here Mom, so you'll see!" "In addition, we have sweet potatoes," "Fehi bananas that can't be eaten raw, but must be baked, taro roots, freshwater shrimp," "who live in the interior of the island, starch pudding, excellent and invigorating by the way." "Today's main course consists of course of roast pork." "Here's how we cook food in Tahiti." "It's just the men who are working!" "Yes, in Tahiti it's mostly the men who take care of the housework." "What a great idea, Ernst." "What about:" ""When in Rome do as the Romans do?"" "Now it's time to sit down to dinner." "Have they no knives and forks here?" ""In Rome, do as the Romans"" "To think there are worse gluttons than Villervalle," "I'd never have believed it." "But when it comes to eating noisily, then you win every time by far." "That looks mysterious." "I'd better ask Maria Danielsson." " What's this?" " Raw fish." " It's raw fish." " It's good." "Right." "It's very good, this!" "Ernst, I think you should give thanks for the food." " Come on!" " Well, thank you for the food." "A nice little photo for the medical journal back home in Sweden." ""The renowned nutrition expert, Dr. Botman, is currently in the South Pacific,"" ""where he's totally engrossed in his new, fascinating research tasks."" "Did you see, Dad, I nearly got a coconut right on my head." "Yes, I saw right enough." "There's one thing you must learn once and for all, Villervalle." "Never lie under a coconut palm." "One of those nuts weighs several kilos." "For sure." "And if one lands on your head, then it's probably not the nut which will break." "I'm not so sure." "Anyone more thick headed than Villervalle, doesn't exist." " Hey, you!" " Kids, don't fight!" "No, kids, don't fight." "I think you'd prefer to go back to the hotel and rest now." "Dad, can we go in one of those funny native buses, I've seen?" " Well, what do you say?" " Yes, that's fine." "Yeah!" " Mother!" " Oh, that's very nice." "We're going back now." "Yes, I'm coming." "Goodbye, then." "Hey, Villervalle, you can stand there." "If they drove this way..." "If they drove this way back home in Sweden, they'd lose their license." "What makes you think he has a license?" "Hold on tight at the bends." "Ask him to drive a bit slower going downhill." "He says the brakes aren't working." "What's happening?" "Where are they off to now?" "They're going to bathe in the waterfall over there." "I think we also need a refreshing bath, so let's follow their example!" "Well, this ends our first day in Tahiti." "I have a feeling that I'll like the South Seas." "Episode 4 Noah's Ark" "While I was waiting for the fish to bite," "Dad was waiting for the Governor to decide whether we should stay in Tahiti, or travel on to the coral islands of the Tuamotu group." "Argh!" "How scared you were!" "I certainly was not!" "It just tickled a little." " Tickled!" " Yeah." "How long will we stay here in Papeete before the governor decides where to send Dad?" "Now, now, calm down Villervalle, then you'll hear something good." "Luckily it was the Tuamotu Islands, because life there is very primitive and wilder than in Tahiti." "The island we were going to was Kontiki Raroia island, 490 nautical miles east of Tahiti." " Hello!" " Hurry up, the schooner is casting off!" "No, it's not until this evening." "Here in Tahiti, schooners leave when they're fully loaded." "I happened to walk past the Harbour, and I can assure you, that the captain intends to leave straight away." "No, but..." "Mother!" "Help a little bit here now, eh!" "Märta, Lenalisa, Villervalle!" "Well, is that everything, now?" "You haven't forgotten anything?" "Forgotten?" "When you organize everything in a rational and effective way, you forget nothing." "Anyhow, I have a list of all our luggage." " Where is it, then?" "Where do I have it, then?" "No no no." "It belongs to the hotel, the hotel." "Now we'll jump into my car." "No, not our luggage now, but we'll go in this car everyone." "Then it's best that I come along, too." "Everyone ready!" "No, stop!" ""It's important to organize everything in an efficient and rational manner"." "When is the next schooner?" "No one knows with certainty." "It might take several months, so it's best we don't miss this schooner." "Should I go ahead and tell the captain to wait for us?" "Carburetor?" "A match?" "Yes, I have it." "Here." "Yes, okay." "Hey, the car is actually moving!" "Look, there goes our schooner!" "Hurry now, Grandma!" "What are you waiting for?" "For once, you get to wolf whistle as much as you want." "Go ahead!" "Now they heard me." "Watch out for the pig, Lenalisa!" "It almost seems as if we've landed on Noah's ark." "I hope that the captain can navigate better than old man Noah." " You, there." " Thank you." "You, there." "You, there." "You, there." "You, there." " And there?" " There." "From what I can understand, they're berths occupied by passengers, who are seasick." "No, Villervalle, come here." "They're certain to be just as tired as we are." "Now, I think we should go to bed." "Yes." "Here one will probably not get anything to eat." " Well, good night then!" " Good night, Dad." "Good night!" "What's that strange smell?" "Rotten copra." "It always smells of rotten copra on any South Sea boats." "And then there are cockroaches." "Right." "I've already killed 23." "No, 24 of them." "If they just stayed away from my face, I wouldn't say anything." "Isn't that what I've always said, that girls don't have any inventiveness." "You stick out your snorkel through the vent, so you won't have the smell of copra either." "It's the brightest thing you've said for several days, Villervalle." "Now then." "Come on." "Don't you remember that I warned you about all the hardships before we left home." "Don't be silly now." "Show that you're a worthy successor to Sven Hedin." "Well, Villervalle." "It's a shame the others, can't be part of this wonderment." "Yes, they're just too tired for us to dare to wake them." "We have to take into account the weaker sex." "Yes, certainly." "Hey Dad, how disappointed they'll be tomorrow." "Well, isn't it those worthy successors to Sven Hedin?" " Hey!" " Hi!" "Where on earth is the fishing line?" "Hook number 5." "They're on board!" " Who are?" " Atomic spies." "Sjussov you mean." "Come on, try something new, eh." "By the way, it's with those so-called atomic spies that we're playing football." "Where are you going to set up the goal?" "A stowaway." "No, no, no, no." "Me, Mr. Moule, no stowaway..." "Speak very little English." "What's he doing in the ship's boat, if he's not a stowaway?" "The ship's boat is the best place on this ship." "What?" "You call the head and stomach the same thing?" "Hey, kids, don't fight." "We're having a lesson." "Repeat now." "We should monitor them." "Huh?" "Nonsense." "They've told everyone who'd listen, they plan to start a coconut plantation... on one of the easternmost islands." " And do you believe it?" "I don't understand what they have against you, Villervalle." "After a few weeks there was a dead calm and it was terribly hot." "It seems the captain has given sailors the order to disembark and collect firewood." "Firewood?" "Yes, the cook prepares the food on a regular wood stove." " Shall we go with them?" " Yeah!" "Come on Grandma." " Get my rifle, Villervalle!" " Okay Grandma." "What are you doing here so far away?" "But please, Tarzan understands neither French nor English." "And not Swedish either, for that matter." "But, Ernst, you're surely not jealous?" "Jealous, ridiculous, no." " Where did the sailors go?" " Yes, they've disappeared." "Yes, I can see that myself." "But which way, this way or that way?" "Tarzan ran in that direction." "So what are we waiting for?" "We have to try to get hold of them." " What was that?" " Did you hear?" "Who could be howling like that?" " Cannibals course." " No... the last cannibals were converted 50 years ago." "But didn't you hear it yourselves?" "Well, what if there are cannibals?" "For safety's sake, we'll spread ourselves along the shooting line." "Space yourselves out." "Go to it!" "Well, you forget that I'm the only one of us who's armed." "Move out on the right flank." "Forward march!" "The cannibals are coming!" "I daren't look." "Though this makes it even scarier." "Well, it was a wild bunch of football cannibals." "Hello, Father." "Let me introduce myself," "Dr Botman, from Sweden." "This is my wife." " You're very welcome." " My mother." " Hello." " And my daughter, Lenalisa" " Hello, young lady." "And my son, Villervalle." "Where on earth has he..." "Excuse me!" "Oh, but that's fine." "Let him have a little fun." "Would you like to sit down?" "He says that it was thanks to football, it was so easy to convert the natives of this island." "They were given something other than war to be interested in." "In the beginning, the mortality rate was great in the games." "But nowadays they play more gracefully, he says." "And peacefully." "Good evening." " Who won?" " No one." "It was a draw." "It's always a draw here on the island." "It's a good thing." "No need to be unhappy." "A draw?" "What did we play for, then?" "I'm sure that we who are from the schooner would have won, if the monk hadn't gone home with the ball." "On the schooner they weren't happy." "Not the cook anyway, who had no wood left to burn in the stove." "Oh, we forgot the wood!" "But that's also the only thing we've forgotten." "Subtitles by Faxeholm and Squashy Hat"