Swedish political debate accidentally ran a children's show's subtitles

 By 
Kelly Diamond
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Now this is how to make politics more interesting to children.

A Swedish television station recently aired a political debate and, while all appeared normal, viewers who turned on closed captioning noticed something a little different.

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Instead of matching the subtitles to what was playing out on screen, lines from the children's television show Dinosaur Train came up instead.

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Various Imgur users have posted a series of photos showing the debate, the captions and their subsequent translations. One album in particular, posted by TheBlondeSwede, is currently reigning in terms of popularity.

Some of the subtitles are particularly hilarious.

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Honestly, the station is lucky the mix-up was with a children's show and not something more controversial.

In fact, the snafu is probably garnering this political debate far more attention than there would have been otherwise.

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Wise words from Sweden's politicians. Inspired.

[h/t Distractify]

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