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. It centers around a cartoon version of the Norwegian Hollywood makeup artist Jan Thomas Mørch Husby and his boyfriend Christoffer. The two have secret identities, as crime-fighting super heroes. In each episode the duo fights a new Norwegian celebrity, such as Anne Kat Hæland,

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, Eyvind Hellstrøm,

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and Petter Stordalen. Plots include Fanthomas being fed up with Alexander Rybak's song ''Fairytale'' and going as far as Siberia to get away from it; fighting over a role with Norwegian actor Aksel Hennie; and trying to save

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's ears from a very clumsy hair stylist right before the handing out of the

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. The show can be viewed by the public a
www.vgtv.no/fanthomas
As of 2010, the episodes have been viewed over 10 million times. The show's name is a play on the American comic

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. ''The Phantom'' in Norwegian is ''Fantomet''; and ''Fanthomas'' thereby is a merging of this comic's name and the name ''Jan Thomas''.

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