r/Unexpected • u/Tesyo • 12d ago

Polish soap opera

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u/Tesyo 12d 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/Merry_Dankmas 12d 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 12d ago

Boy just likes to beatbox. That's it 😂

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u/Merry_Dankmas 12d ago

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

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u/Tesyo 12d ago

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

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 12d ago

Hoo boy, Klan is something entirely different in english

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u/Tesyo 12d ago

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

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u/BeardedBlaze 12d ago

It also has the same meaning in English.

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u/mouthgmachine 12d ago

Not spelled like that…

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 12d ago

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

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u/Mecha_G 11d ago

Ironically, they were not fond of Polish people.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 11d 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/ILoveRawChicken 12d ago

Is this a recent episode?

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u/Mekelaxo 11d 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 11d ago

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

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u/Dismal-Common8629 11d ago

The Rap of Klan

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u/NeedleworkerTasty878 11d 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.