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Every episode follows quite a strict template. Starting with a voice-over describing the basic plot of the series, the camera pans from a crude model of the mountaintop near the brothers' home to their little house. During the pan, the audience appears for the first (and sometimes only) time in the
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The series was a success and had a follow-up second series, aired in 2000, and a movie (Taglined, roughly translated, "An Albino
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