Vintiöt

Vintiöt is a Finnish television comedy and sketch series that ran on the MTV3 channel beginning in 1994.

The show featured a cast of well-known Finnish actors, including Samuli Edelmann, Santeri Kinnunen, Niko Saarela, Janus Hanski, Jussi Chydenius, Kari Hietalahti and Juha Veijonen. The show was extremely popular especially among children and teens, resulting in many new phrases becoming common expressions. These included Asiaa! ("This is business!"). The show was written by the actors Hietalahti and Saarela and directed by known Finnish director Aleksi Mäkelä.

Vintiöt was known for its bizarre characters and absurd humour. Most sketches were simply improvised at the shooting location, with makeshift props and rarely any specially built sets. The show's budget was non-existent. Often the idea of a sketch was the interaction between two absurd characters. Some sketches were also "accelerated" in post production to give the characters a nasal sound. Most often the characters would appear in multiple sketches and episodes, although there were no continuous plot lines. There were also one-off sketches and characters.

The show's original opening credits showed the cast as crew members on a Soviet submarine, performing various tasks and generally running around the mostly dark boat in a frenzy. Incidentally, the same boat was later used in the Harrison Ford film K-19 Widowmaker.

A sports instructor (Hietalahti) greets the audience cheerfully in fake Estonian and proceeds to present the "warmup" exercise, often very ridiculous. He is backed up by a group of at least four others. The main punchline of the sketch is that the instructor (called Kaido Kuukap) counts from one to four in a funny "Estonian" way (Yks, kaks, koli, neli).

Often he would also deliver short monologues of nonsense while the other members of his team did something incredibly silly in the background.

A married couple (Played by Edelmann and Hietalahti) argue a lot, often the target being an orange Opel Kadett car from the seventies. Several sketches end with either one of them driving the car, and then they show a shot of the same car crashing into a gravel pit. (The same film clip is always used.) The character's names are also very stereotypical middle-class Finnish names.

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