The Swedish Chef and Scandinavian Languages
- A guide to learning Swedish by Urban Sikeborg states that special care should be given to pronunciation, otherwise "...you might end up sounding disquietingly like the Swedish Chef in The Muppet Show."
- In the German synchronization of the Muppet Show, the Swedish Chef is actually Danish and his song is "Smørrebrød, Smørrebrød røm, pøm, pøm, pøm". However, in the Swedish edition, he is still Swedish.
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