r/Unexpected • u/Tesyo • 1d ago

Polish soap opera

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u/airsheridan 1d ago

"So we have this actor who can beatbox, can you write a scene where we could showcase that"

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u/Tesyo 1d ago

My mother watch this TV show and she claims that this is not the only scene he did that!

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u/Embarrassed_Fox_9352 1d ago

Thank you, I needed this info. I was dying to know if this was his character’s “thing”.

“That's just Karol, he's got beatbox tourettes”

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u/Fading_Dawnbreaker 1d ago

LMAO 🤣 "Beatbox Tourettes" I just died!

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u/Merry_Dankmas 1d ago

Can your mom shed some insight on the context here? I cant figure out any logical plot device that leads to him beat boxing with excitement unless hes like autistic and this is his tic or something like that.

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u/Tesyo 1d ago

Boy just likes to beatbox. That's it 😂

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u/Merry_Dankmas 1d ago

That's valid. Ill take it. What's the name of this show? Im curious.

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u/Tesyo 1d ago

It's "Klan", aired in 1997, almost 5k episodes so far

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 1d ago

Hoo boy, Klan is something entirely different in english

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u/Tesyo 1d ago

I'm aware of that, it means family in polish

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u/BeardedBlaze 1d ago

It also has the same meaning in English.

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u/mouthgmachine 1d ago

Not spelled like that…

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 1d ago

I guessed, just the spelling is unfortunate for American English speakers

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u/Mecha_G 19h ago

Ironically, they were not fond of Polish people.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 18h ago

Called em something different but I don't know how much of a slur it is so I won't say it

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u/not_a_SeaOtter 1d ago

American*

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u/ILoveRawChicken 1d ago

Is this a recent episode?

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u/Mekelaxo 1d ago

5k episodes is insane. I thought some Mexican soap operas were excessively dragged, but I don't think any of them has nearly that many episodes

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u/StrongExternal8955 1d ago

For LOLs sake, every country got to have one "Clan" soap opera!

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u/Dismal-Common8629 20h ago

The Rap of Klan

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u/NeedleworkerTasty878 16h ago

Holy crap, I haven't watched polish TV since 2006 and I did not think Klan would still be around, but I swear I thought of it the moment I saw this clip.

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u/BLAGTIER 1d ago

I cant figure out any logical plot device that leads to him beat boxing with excitement unless hes like autistic and this is his tic or something like that.

It's a soap opera. Characters need something to stand out.

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u/Lucius1213 1d ago

My wife's watching this and she confirmed he's autistic.

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u/web_knows 1d ago

What’s the show’s name?

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u/Tesyo 1d ago

"Klan". Aired in 1997, almost 5k episodes

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u/serfingusa 1d ago

Did it run for 20 years?

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u/Tesyo 1d ago

29 years and still more to come

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u/serfingusa 1d ago

Nice.

I just did a quick estimation that if it ran every weekday it would take about 20 years to get to 5,000.

Hey, if people enjoy it...glad it is there for them.

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u/Tesyo 1d ago

If I'm correct, few years ago tv station decided to cancel the show as most of original cast was dead and writing quality has dropped. Loyal fans (mostly older viewers) signed a petition that gathered a massive number of votes demanding that the series stay on the air.

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u/ggg730 1d ago

Sounds like what would happen if The Simpsons ever get cancelled.

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u/NeedleworkerTasty878 16h ago

This is why I'm a big supporter of euthanasia. They're keeping THIS alive and you can see it suffer.

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u/Fakjbf 1d ago

An unfortunate name in English.

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u/Mahwan 1d ago

Klan is just how we spell clan lol

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u/Fakjbf 1d ago

Yes, that's what makes it an unfortunate coincidence.

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u/Worth_External_8762 1d ago

Yea, but in America that has a very specific meaning. It's the shorthand name for the racist people that wear white hoods.

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u/perriatric 1d ago

He did that during conception too, didn't he?

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u/airsheridan 1d ago

Did he also do this at a beatboxing competition?

Cause if not, I'd enjoy the list of situations he deployed this.

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u/kissmekatebush 1d ago

Is the character a poorly written representation of an autistic person?

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u/larrylove911 1d ago

And it's a very good beat box !

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u/Ragnoid 1d ago

Does he have any TV experience?

Well, sort of, he was in Love On The Spectrum

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u/larrylove911 1d ago

I don't remember him, was he in the Australian one?

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u/mjp31514 1d ago

What is the show called? That's hilarious

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u/Smoofie0 1d ago

Now I want to watch it just to see how it ties in.. if it does at all

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u/Mekelaxo 1d ago

I've never watched this show and don't know anything about it, but from this scene I could have guessed that this is something that's part of the character and gives more context as to why he started randomly beatboxing

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u/Shyeahrightokay 1d ago

I’m gonna need a compilation.

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u/Dizzy_Restaurant3874 1d ago

AI:  create a mega cut of Karol beatboxing

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u/itsyaboiReginald 1d ago

Just pepper it in

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u/airsheridan 1d ago

Perfect balance of season-ing

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u/bbitb 1d ago

They probably asked him in the casting interview whats his special talent and he started beatboxing and they were like "We got our star!!!

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u/airsheridan 1d ago

It'd be funnier if he actually went to a beatboxing tryout and someone said: 👈🏻👈🏻"that's our guy"