''Se on siinä'' (Finnish for "That's it") was a Finnish humorous television sports

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shown on Sunday nights on YLE TV2 from 2001 to 2009. It was awarded the '' Venla''-award for the best entertainment program voted by TV-viewers. The host of ''Se on siinä'' was a popular sports commentator

Antero Mertaranta Lauri Antero Johannes Mertaranta (born 17 January 1956 in Hyvinkää, Finland) is a prominent Finland, Finnish sportscaster and television personality, TV personality and former elementary school teacher. Antero Mertaranta is best known for his e ...

. There were three contestants on the game. Two of them were regular: actor

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and comedian

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. The third contestant was a celebrity guest. There have been many well-known foreigner guests like sprinter Ben Johnson, basketball player

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and ice hockey player

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, but usually the guests were Finnish athletes or other celebrities. The show could also involve musical performances. Maybe the most renowned regular joke of the show was so called "rabbit gag", a video clip where a rabbit makes invasion to the piste during

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competition and runs a while above the group of skiers like an artificial rabbit in

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. The clip was shown sometimes when some of the competitor asks. The ending part of the show was a night tale by Mertaranta, a parody-style little story about current events and people told in the fairy tale way.

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