The Dudesons
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| Created by | Jarno Laasala, Tuukka Tiensuu, Jukka Hildén |
| Starring |
Jukka Hildén Jarno "Jarppi" Leppälä Hannu-Pekka "HP" Parviainen Jarno Laasala |
| Opening theme | "In the Hall of the Mountain King" by Edvard Grieg |
| No. of seasons | 6 (Original series) 5 (English series) |
| No. of episodes | 46 |
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| Running time | 25 minutes |
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| Original network | MoonTV (FIN), Nelonen (FIN), Sub (FIN), Spike (USA), Channel V (AUS) TV 2 Zebra (NOR), MTV, OLN(CAN) |
| Original release | January 2001-present |
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| Website | |
The Dudesons (Finnish: Duudsonit) are a four-man stunt group from Finland. The Dudesons are best known from their TV shows and live performances. Their TV shows are combination of stunts, comedy and reality.
The Dudesons consists of "four dudes from the Arctic Circle": Jukka Hildén (b. 1980), Jarno "Jarppi" Leppälä (b. 1979), Jarno Laasala (b. 1979) and Hannu-Pekka "HP" Parviainen (b. 1981). All were born in the town of Seinäjoki, Finland, where Hildén, Leppälä, and Laasala became close friends while attending elementary school together, where they later met Parviainen and George Hutton who makes brief cameos in the videos
As teenagers, the four became quite interested in snowboarding, skateboarding and downhill mountain biking. In the early 1990s, when Laasala got his first video camera, the group began filming their activities which eventually led to further pranks and extreme stunts. They created and sold VHS tapes which were filmed and edited by Laasala and subsequently their reputation began to grow in Seinäjoki.
In January 2000, Jarno Laasala obtained a job as an editor for a small Finnish cable TV-channel called MoonTV. He saw a possibility to make his own show out of all the stunts the Dudesons had filmed. After finishing high school, the Dudesons set up their own production company called Rabbit Films. The group immediately began shooting a self-financed pilot episode of their own show.
This pilot was finished in August 2000 and the channel immediately green lit the first season, titled as "Maailmankiertue" (Worldtour). The episodes began airing in January 2001, and the series became the most popular show on MoonTV. In September, 2001, The Dudesons moved from MoonTV to a nationwide TV-channel Nelonen.
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