Tråkis

Day 23: Virus

Ki-chi-chi-chi-chi, katta-ta-ta-ta

Ok let's go!

First off, the difference between the swedish cover of the movie vs the english cover is kinda hilarious to me

Anyway, the plot:

Tommy and Annika, Pippi's best friends and her biggest fans, have been hanging out at her house until 23:00, making their parents very upset when they return home. They tell them that they're not allowed to go to Pippi if they can't come home in time.

Annika thinks their parents are unfair, while Tommy is into this book about running away. Annika is like "maybe we should run away so that our parents stop nagging at us"

Next day at breakfast, Pippi comes over and asks what Tommy and Annika are up to today. Their mom answers for them: "They need to pick weeds from the strawberry field". Tommy and Annika do NOT like this because it's such a nice weather, and Annika throws a tantrum over how unfair this is.

She then notices Tommy's book about running away and is like "That's it! I'm running away!" Their mom does not really believe it, so Annika is like "ok bet" and runs off. Tommy runs after, literally shouting "BYE, MOM!! WE'RE RUNNING AWAY!!!"

Their parents are left with Pippi and look at her like "... you don't think they were serious?" and Pippi is like "I think they were lol. Maybe I should run away with them", and their mom exclaims "OH PLEASE PIPPI DO!!! I KNOW YOU TAKE CARE OF THEM SO WELL!!!"

This is not the first time Pippi is put on babysitting duty. The last time they left Tommy and Annika in her house for 3 weeks, causing the three of them to travel to the south seas to rescue Pippi's dad from pirates.

I also want to add that Pippi is 9 years old.

Anyway the three are now on the run! And they sing a song called "Mors lilla lathund" ("Mother's little lazy dog"). It's not about a literal dog, but about someone's child who does not want to do the work today, "I'll do it another day". I personally think it's a bop.

Especially the "tycker du som jag, tycker som jag så gör jag det en annan dag"

They reach a pond to rest a little, and here we get to one of the most MEMEABLE moments in swedish cinema. "Tommy laughs"

You don't understand how much people meme this. It became a SPARTA REMIX and everything.

Anyway, it starts raining and thus they find an abandoned house. Except, nope, it's not abandoned, and a vagabond lives in there!

His name is Konrad and he's chill. He sells glue called "Konrad's party glue" and apparently it can stick to anything. So Pippi tries it on her shoes and starts to dance upside down on the ceiling.

She does this for a while until Tommy and Annika go "but Pippi! You can't dance on the ceiling!" and Pippi answers "That's right, it's impossible!" and immediately stops doing it.

It's a running theme with Pippi in this film that she keeps doing magical and impossible things and then Tommy and Annika go "but wait you can't do that" and she immediately stops.

Anyway they continue on their runaway adventure. I don't recall the details rn as I'm just going from memories, they find a barrel and Pippi tells a story about how she's ridden in one before. Annika is like "nah you're making it up" and Pippi says "Don't believe me? Ok I'm gonna climb inside this barrel and you're gonna roll me down to the water". So they do that. And Pippi floats away in the river.

Tommy and Annika get super worried and are like "oh no she's dead I'm sure :(" Pippi meanwhile is like "oh look a waterfall nearby! Neat!"

Pippi gets up from the river and finds a bike without wheels, and decides to ride it around. She's just vibing.

Then she finds Tommy and Annika again! Happy reunion! Sadly they don't have any money, so they decide to go around singing to the locals. But, one of the locals is an angry man who doesn't like noise... so they glue his shoes to the ground with Konrad's party glue that they took from Konrad earlier.

Then the kids jump on the roof of a train to travel faster. Here they start singing "the summer song" which we literally sometimes sing on the last day of summer holidays in Sweden. That, and "Ida's summer song" from Emil.

I've always kinda giggled when Annika is like "And I have brown legs, just like it should be" (referring that she's gotten tanned in the sun) and Tommy replies "And that's why I wanna sing that brown legs are good"

After a while however, they notice a man with a wagon of hay passing by, and decide to jump off the train and down in the hay.

They come to his farm, and he's like "hey hitchhikers! Leave!" - but he's kind enough to let them sleep in the barn for the night.

I don't recall if it's before or after they sleep in the barn, but Pippi battles with a bull on the farm. That happens. Anyway.

Anyway the farmer's kids come into the barn to chat with them in the evening, and they start to share swear words they know. Annika apparently knows the WORST swear word... which is... *drum rolls*... "SHIT BULLOCK"

Pippi screams shit bullock into the night and the farmer, who had taken in the animals for the night, turns around like "tf was that sound"

The next day Pippi decides to fix up a broken car so that it can work again. She pours Konrad's glue into the gas tank, thinking this'll surely help. The three then head off in the car, with the farmer screaming after them that THEY CAN'T DRIVE!!! THEY'RE KIDS!!! and Pippi is like "yeah sure but I'm Pippi Longstocking and I can drive with my feet"

The car starts to FLY IN THE SKY because Konrad's glue just was magical or something. So they fly around for a bit before they crash in the water.

They take this opportunity to swim around a bit... BUT, a cow comes and eats Tommy and Annika's clothes. And Pippi is like "you should have swam with your clothes on like me"

Anyway now they have to wear sacks as they try to get money for new clothes. They sing for locals again, to no success. So Pippi gets an idea to dance on a rope in town. Tommy and Annika go around telling people if they wanna watch they need to pay one crown - everyone who doesn't pay has to close their eyes.

As Pippi is doing her acrobatics, a cop shows up and is like "it's illegal to do these circus tricks without permission..." so they have to stop. But it's ok, because they got enough money to buy some new clothes!

However, the police catches them. He says he needs to know where their parents are. He gives them some juice and then tells them that sadly he needs to lock them in for the night before he finds out where they're coming from and where they might go.

Pippi however, the second he leaves is like "yeah sadly we can't stay" and breaks out of prison with Tommy and Annika.

They meet up with Konrad again! He's not doing much, he's just chilling as per usual. Also their horse, who had ran away earlier. Now with their horse back, they decide to head home.

Tommy and Annika's parents are super happy to have them back, and the funniest part is that their mother, out of everything that happened to them on the runaway trip, was the most shocked that a cow ate their clothes.

In the middle of the night, Pippi wakes Tommy and Annika up. She is outside of their window, and has started flying around with a broom. She found the broom in an earlier scene and it didn't lead to a payoff until now.

Tommy and Annika a final time go "Pippi! You can't do that! That's impossible!"

And Pippi almost is about to give up. But, then she goes "Can't? I can! I can every-every-EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!" as she flies around on her broom.

That's where the movie ends.

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carson said:

All Star but it’s in a minor key so it makes you question life and realize the years start comin and they don’t stop comin

aka, the theme song to Shrek 9: Shrek’s Third Divorce