The group also participated as break entertainment in Melodifestivalen 2009 ("The Melody Festival 2009"), a Swedish festival to determine the 49th song to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest, and released a CD with different variants of the hit song "Tingeling", which headlined in the break entertainment.
[1] The pilot episode of the group’s TV series aired in 2006 on SVT as part of Humorlabbet, "The Humor Lab", a showcase of new Swedish humor where various comedy groups competed.
Grotesco won the competition, and the prize was to have a full series of eight episodes produced.
In the spring of 2010 the second season was recorded under the direction of Michael Lindgren, and it was broadcast in November and December of 2010.
A complaint was maid to police when the group performed Bögarnas Fel ("[It’s] The Gay’s Fault”) on Allsång på Skansen, a long-running sing-along program broadcast live from Skansen in Stockholm, but the Chancellor of Justice ruled that no crime had been committed and added that the song was clearly intended as satire.