Terkel in Trouble
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Terkel in Trouble (Terkel i knibe) is a Danish animated film directed at an adult audience. The film has been translated to Norwegian and Swedish
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Terkel is a normal boy who's attending 6A at a primary school together with his best friend Jason, who is signified with always carrying an iron bar with him at all times. Terkel and Jason plays gameboy in the schoolyard one day when a man in a green panda sweater approach them. The man, Gunnar, tells Terkel that he has sat down on a spider. "Nothing to worry about. It's just jeans. They can be washed." Terkel says and after that the nightmare starts. Terkel's teacher is ran over by a car, and the class's new teacher is Gunnar. Terkel's parents gets married and the two "bad boys" in his class, Sten and Saki, manipulate Terkel to steal beer for them. When Terkel's uncle, Stuart, notices and beat up Sten and Saki, Terkel is the one to pay the price. Sten and Saki begins bullying him, and noone seems to want to help him. One day the fat girl in the class, Doris, approaches Terkel with a love letter. When Sten and Saki notices they starts teaing the two of them, calling them a couple. Terkel wants to defend Doris, but instead he says "I'm certainly not in love with a fat cow like that!" Doris gets so upset that she jumps out the window in the fourth floor and dies. After that Terkel starts receiving deathtreats; on his desk, painted on the ceiling of his room, on a stone which breaks his window, in his notebook... His parents is not of any help; his mother tells him about all the diseases he might develop and his father only seem capable of one word: "No". Gunnar decides to arrange a school trip to study lizards and Terkel doesn't want to go. He begs his parents to let him stay at home, but they refuses. On the bus he is about to sit down with Jason, when Sten and Saki invites him to sit down with them instead. Terkel does so, and Jason seems angry. When they get to the forest where they are going to study the lizards Sten and Saki wants him to sleep in their tents as well, and he does. He does however get a shock when Saki comes to the tent with one black eye, telling him that Jason has beaten him up. Terkel thinks that Jason is acting strange, and Sten tells him that Doris was Jason's sister. Terkel is terrified, and thinks that all the death treats were from Jason. When they're going to bed Terkel finds a dead cat in his sleeping bag and he receives a message from Jason on the phone which says "I'm coming to kill you." Sten and Saki advices Terkel to tell Gunnar, and he does. He forces Gunnar to come with him into the woods where he explains everything. Then he says "I'm gonna call Jason right now and say that I have told you everything." Gunnar protests but Terkel does so and to his horro the ringing sounds come from Gunnar's pocket. All the death treats and messages had been from Gunnar as a revenge for when Terkel had sat on a spider. A thrilling race in the woods start and doesn't end before Terkel is helped out by his real friend.
