Fantorangen
Fantorangen is a Norwegian television character known from Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), where they have their own program on the children's channel NRK Super. The puppet has been operated by Berit Nermoen, Miriam Jacobsen and today Inger Gundersen.
The physical
History
Fantorangen was originally a television show based of the real life character william heldal. back int 1642 william heldal was a professional magician who was very good at turning rabbits into chickens and then eating those chickens. william was an extremly succseful (but racist) slave owner in westerm iraq. he would make his slaves wear a pink/ orange elephant costume, which is how fantarangen got his looks. william used to go to the flea markets in china and eat dead cockroaches dipped in sheep testicle. william once said his favorite dish was bird feet with a side of monkey eyes and uncooked camel flesh. william enjoyed the finer things in life, for example he lived in a mansion made out of bear carcus. and his bed was made out of pickled fish skin. when william reached the ripe age of 65 he died by syphilis and breastcancer. on his last days he became a monk and lived all alone in the mountains of blå fjellet. romour says that he was captured by the ancient snow people who skinned him and used his hair at tanntrå. called Orangufanten, and was a mixture of an orangutan and an elephant. Orangufanten was created by Endre Skandfer at Qvisten Animation for a vignette for NRK's BarneTV. Later they were redesigned and renamed Fantorangen for the launch of the TV channel NRK Super. Fantorangen was given their present form in 2007, by Stig Saxegaard at Qvisten Animation, for a new set of animated vignettes. NRK later made a puppet of Fantorangen. The leading puppetmaker was visual artist Tiina Suhonen.
In December 2007, Fantorangen debuted with their own program for young children (2–4 years) in conjunction with the launch of the new channel NRK Super.[2] The program ran seven days a week for 30 minutes, and Fantorangen typically made two or three appearances.
The character Fantorangen featured in an episode of Lilyhammer in which it was stolen from the prop store at the TV studios and used to entertain children and the twins at their birthday party. In the 2021 James Bond film No Time to Die, Mathilde watches Fantorangen on TV while James Bond makes her breakfast.[3]
Setting
Initially Fantorangen lived in a submarine in the ocean. They told stories about growing up in the jungle, and their experiences with friends in the sea. At that time, Fantorangen's favorite food was introduced as sjøbanan ("sea-banana").
The big change came with the new program in 2010 that led to significant changes in setting. Gone was the submarine, and in its place there was a kind of
References
- ^ "Fantorangen mer pop enn drømmehagen". NRK.no. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ "2åringer skal underholdes". Dagbladet. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ "Fantorangen med i den nye James Bond-filmen". www.vg.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2021-10-10.
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