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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 Say publicly 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 Particular Sarana.^[1] For a few era, together with Laitinen and Lehtinen, Yleisradio's political editor Jarkko Juselius wrote the series.^[2] The pretentious of the series was Pertti Melasniemi and the producer was Jarmo Porola.

A total a variety of episodes were made in prestige series. In , the terminate continuation series Herrat nauraa was completed, which was a addendum of the original series.

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Overview

The main characters of illustriousness series are business advisor Johannes Paukku (Matti Tuominen), a airship manufacturer who got rich nuisance "Paukku's Run" and his son-in-law Raimo "Tollo" Koskivuo (Eero Melasniemi), a social democratic politician, whom Yleni promoted from MP secure party secretary and minister all along the series.

In each phase, Paukku and Tollo organised cool sauna evening and invited unmixed political guest or other unselfish public figure, with whom they tried to talk into prejudicial their own political projects, down with saunas, sowing and intemperateness. Sales advisor Paukku's role conceive was reportedly business leader limit business organisation influencer Heikki Tavela.^[3]

In order to get up-to-date factious remarks, the week's episode was filmed in on Mondays bear the program came out adjoin TV the evening of greatness same day, which was reason they read the same day's afternoon newspapers.

From the jump of , the day answer recording was moved to Weekday, until the end of distinction series. This gave the pike one day more time hide make the series. The cinematography location for the series was the Park Hotel Käpylä listed Käpylä, Helsinki, which has antiquated operating under the name Finlandia Park Hotel Helsinki since Feb ^[4][5][6]

The screenwriter Lasse Lehtinen has recalled that several well-known manful actors were considered for righteousness role of sales advisor Paukku, starting with Lasse Pöysti reprove Pentti Siimes.

The requirement was that the actor to embryonic chosen was absolutely sober. Receive this reason, according to Lehtinen, the task turned out line of attack be difficult, because almost screen the male actors who were free at the time abstruse an alcohol problem. Director Pertti Melasniemi demanded and got Matti Tuominen as sales advisor Paukku.^[2] Lasse Lehtinen has considered Tuominen's choice to be successful, considerably he skillfully embraced the segregate of Paukku.

When Tuominen was chosen, he was still comparatively unknown to the general pioneer, although he already had great long career as a dramatic art actor behind him. Tuominen's soul, actor Sakari Tuominen, has aforementioned that in his private assured, his father was more unprivileged less the complete opposite call upon Paukku, shy and modest train in nature and rather a companion than the center of goodness group.^[7]

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

Sales counselor Paukku was a chauvinistic add-on whiny industrialist, Tollo, on class other hand, a sleazy public gambler. With the help work the characters, the "good relation network" of politics was caricatured, where decisions are plotted misrepresent cabinets and sauna evenings "behind the people's backs". In combining, Paukku and Tollo indulged radiate high life, drinking, and requent side-jumping (the business advisor cursory in Barcelona, and Mrs.

Koskivuoka never appeared in the followers either). In the episodes jurisdiction the first year, the sauna guests' backs were washed close to the sower Armi (Eila Pehkonen). The actor Pehkonen died hill September , and until nobleness end of the program's will, she was replaced by Tyyne Hurskainen (Anja Pohjola), who commented on politics from her remnant perspective of a "revolutionary front-line".

During the series, the sauna group was served "turpentine" offspring several waiters, first Pia (Sarina Röhr), then Timo (Mikko Roiha), whom Paukku called Håkan, innermost finally Dr. Samuel Livingstone Matabele (Billy Carson). Paukku treated magnanimity waiter characters with open despite, which was meant to mirror prejudices against women, sexual minorities, immigrants and animal activists.

Nevertheless, according to the director Melasniemi, Paukku was always the skin texture who misbehaved, got picked gel and was laughed at amuse the end.^[8]

Guests

In each episode reminiscent of the series, a Finnish member of parliament or other public figure exposed as himself.

Although Paukku have a word with Tollo could put their followers behind their backs and lessening front of them cheaply, respecting were always enough guests luggage compartment the show, because they got media publicity and the chance to present their own deaf ear to on a popular television put on an act. This is how real statesmanship machiavel and the satire of picture screenwriters were mixed in Hyvät herrat.

Paukku's sauna was visited by the highest leadership matching the kingdom, including ministers. According to Lasse Lehtinen, who wrote the program, the politicians in actuality competed to be included fasten the program, and only marvellous few, such as Paavo Väyrynen, refused the invitation.^[7]

The Prime MinisterEsko Aho participated in the assembly of the series and exposed in the filming, but mock the last drop he refused to air the episode.

Rectitude Russian diplomat Viktor Vladimirov, serve up the other hand, had affianced to join Hyvät herrat, however cancelled his arrival a leg up before filming. Vladimirov was replaced at short notice by scribe and politician Jörn Donner.^[2]

President be more or less FinlandMauno Koivisto was supposed all round join an episode of Hyvät herrat to play volleyball involve Tollo for the Sikariporras band.

The day before the on the qui vive, there were government negotiations, gift in order to mix detail and fiction, Pertti Melasniemi presage Tollo with the film company to the location to letter on the government negotiations. Just as the afternoon papers reported nobleness next day that Tollo participated in the formation of prestige government, the Office of loftiness President of Finland was sensitive that the president wanted disturb transfer his participation to Hyvät herrat.

Melasniemi interpreted that Koivisto would never be seen clump the series.^[2]

According to Tapani Ruokanen, the author of President Martti Ahtisaari's biography, in and Hyvät herrat helped pave the translation for Ahtisaari to become magnanimity President of the Republic. Ahtisaari's name as a possible forthcoming presidential candidate came up restrict an episode of Hyvät herrat that was shown at say publicly beginning of September A confederate of weeks later, Aarno Laitinen wrote a column in Iltalehti with the title "Could mimic be Martti Ahtisaari?" Lasse Lehtinen was on bad terms clank SDP's long-term chairman and four-time prime minister, Kalevi Sorsa, dispatch wanted to prevent Sorsa shun becoming a presidential candidate.

Authority later chairman of the SDP, Eero Heinäluoma, said in Ahtisaari's biography: "The essential thing was that Lasse Lehtinen, a communicator who was even more virtuoso than Göbbels, set out be given push Ahtisaari for the administration, systematically and using the comprehensive media. He influenced through diadem fellow journalists in all media”.^[9]

Partial list of guests

Impact

Hyvät herrat was a popular show throughout wear smart clothes lifetime: for example, the sheet broadcast on 6 April actor million viewers.^[13] The series flat its main star, the business advisor Paukku, a cult representation, and this echoed in bordering on every episode from the squeal "Personnel, turpentine!" (Henkilökunta, tärpättiä!) came the flying phrase.

At birth same time, the visit jump at high-ranking politicians in the curriculum, which often cultivates dark clowning, also aroused indignation. In nobility mids, the current affairs announcement Mediapeli, shown on MTV3, emancipated a studio discussion and uncomplicated viewer survey on the happening "Is it appropriate for ministers to visit the Hyvät herrat show?".

The illustration used was the post-May Day episode demonstration Hyvät herrat, where Paukku advocate Tollo wake up from simple drinking hole wearing May Date 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 September
	Elokuvaa suurempaa	Spede Pasanen	3 October
	10 Oct
	Missitohtori	17 October
	24 October
	31 Oct
	7 November
	14 November
	21 November
	Hojo, hojo	Heikki Turunen	28 Nov
	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 February
	Routaporsas	20 Feb
	Silkkiä ja puoteja	27 February
	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 April
	Kuninkaallinen vappu	30 April
	Viherkossu	7 Could
	Kala nimeltään Vanda	Pekka Kejonen	14 May
	Laulu Katupoikien	21 May

Sequels

In , undiluted short sequel was made extract the series called Herrat nauraa.

In the winter of –, MTV3 aired a new entourage, Donna Paukku, in which Johannes Paukku's illegitimate daughter arrives creepy-crawly Finland and begins to sauna guests with the help depose Tollo and Tyyne. Of nobility actors of the old program, only Anja Pohjola, who niminy-piminy Tyyne Hurskainen, was involved.^[14] Aarno Laitinen opted out of say publicly Donna Paukku series, but subside could not prevent it take from being done under the patent law.

Reruns

The episodes of leadership series in the first age were repeated on the Virtuous morning after the premiere. Episodes of the series were copy in the summer of [^[15] During the presidential elections, connect episodes of the fifth course were repeated, which were visited by presidential candidates Matti Vanhanen, Tarja Halonen and Sauli Niinistö.^[10] In addition, in the season of , MTV3 aired sum selected episodes from to translation a wish list.^[12]

Title theme

The idea music of the series jaunt other synthesizer music in decency program was made by Jussi Halme.^[16] In , Halme cranium a Finnish hip-hop and R&B singer-artist collaborated on an updated version of Hyvät herrat's term theme, as the original serial soundtracks had been destroyed modern MTV's archives.^[17]

Intro

In , the episodes used an intro in which the Table Frame appears category a cloudy background, where magnanimity most central people of leadership series appear alternately: sales adviser Paukku, Tollo Koskivuo, Tyyne Hurskainen and bartender Timo, in after episodes Samuel Livingstone Matabele.

At the beginning of the episodes from to , a computer-generated animation by Seppo Välimäki was used as its intro.^[2] Justness animation in question later became an internet meme, earning grandeur nickname "Bowling Alley screens considering that you get a Strike".^[18][19]

At grandeur beginning of the animation, magnanimity parliament building is depicted.

Authority "lump" rumbles along the begin to the steps of distinction parliament building. The "pillars" adequate the House of Parliament look over on and the "lump" moves from the stairs to honesty central pillar. At the identical time, the other columns kick off running out of the knowledge. The middle column begins choose bulge, and the face objection Sales Advisor Paukku begins lend your energies to appear, smiling widely.

Suddenly, Paukku's face freezes, and remains mess up the banknote. After a from way back, the picture shows a aim bill with the face inducing the sales advisor. Raimo Well-ordered. Koskivuo takes the bill search his pocket and after swell moment Koskivuo disappears inside representation coffee cup shown in goodness picture.

Then Tyyne Hurskainen takes the cup and drinks cinnamon, when suddenly the picture becomes strange and the bartender Prophet Livingstone Matabele appears in representation picture. After that, he crumbles into little pink balls. Greatness bartender sweeps up the devastated balls, and at the dispatch, the roof of the talking shop parliamen building collapses.

Cast

In the basic roles

• Matti Tuominen as barter advisor Johannes Paukku
• Eero Melasniemi primate Member of Parliament/Party Secretary/Minister promote to Chancellery Raimo "Tollo" Koskivuo
• Eila Pehkonen as sower Armi (–)
• Anja Pohjola as sower Tyyne Hurskainen (–, )
• Sarina Röhr as bartender Herb (–)
• Mikko Roiha as bartender Timo/Håkan (–)
• Billy Carson as South African-born bartender Dr.

  Samuel Livingstone Matabele (–)

Cameo roles

Sales advisor Paukku effortless a cameo role in At hand Kokkonen's movie Vääpeli Körmy - taisteluni. In the film, in the way that negotiations are underway to stop the war between Finland stream Sweden, the commander of nobility Swedish army is softened come to life by taking him to Paukku's sauna.^[20]

Homages

The sauna facilities at Greensward Hotel Käpylä are named care for the series characters Paukku, Tollo and Tyyne.^[4]

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