YMMV / Świat według Kiepskich

• Broken Base:
  • The fans are heavily divided on which episodes are good or bad, dividing them into eras and using the same or similar arguments:
    • early Okił^Explanation episodes directed by Okił Khamidow, episodes 1-circa 170 - Early-Installment Weirdness and Ferdek's ideas for earning money;
    • new episodes aka middle-late Yoka and Drabiński^Explanation episodes directed by Patrick Yoka and Adek Drabiński, episodes ~290-588 - changing the format to 16:9, reusing/repeating old ideas, Ferdek's change into grumpy man, heavy use of greenscreen.
  • Is the second special episode - Wieczna kwarantanna^Translation Eternal Quarantine - actually honoring the memory of Gnatowski and Kotys, or is it just an advertisement of COVID-19 vaccines?
• Fan Nickname: The show's name gets often shortened to "Kiepscy" (The Kiepskis).
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In episode 246, Paździoch tells Halina that Ferdek sang a song insulting "head of state's authority", which had a line "bites in the ass furious duck". Although the word "duck" is not heard (Paździoch whispers it to Halina), it's obvious that it meant then-President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński. Three years and two weeks after the premiere of said episode, the President would die in an air crash.
  • In episode 384, Paździoch paraphrases famous Jan Twardowski's quote, saying to love the characters of TV series as long as we can since they leave too fast. Ryszard Kotys died nine years after this scene, with his character being confirmed dead in-universe in 2023.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Laughing Waldek ^Explanation  Bartosz Żukowski managed to make Waldek's laugh so characteristic, it became a meme and a reaction macro.
  • The general pattern of speech of various characters and their Catchphrases and Verbal Tics are memes on their own, routinely used for parodies of some serious speech delivered by politicians.
  • I can't understand, why Paździoch is such an old louse.^Explanation One of Ferdek's night talks with Halina is about Paździoch being a menda (lit. English "an old louse"). It evolved into a copypasta with subject of Ferdek's complaining being literally everything. Including why Paździoch doesn't knock anymore.
  • In this country, there are no jobs for people with my education^Explanation Said by Ferdek usually when Halina asks him if he's going to get any job.
  • Has anyone ever kicked your ass?^Explanation When Ferdek loses an argument, he's going to use these words.
  • Erosoman^Explanation Mispronunciation of erotoman (sex maniac). It Makes Sense in Context, though, as Eros was the Greek god of love and sex.
• No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: The series managed to turn all the initial controversies surrounding it as a trampoline to fame - the louder it was called "idiotic" and "brain-damaging", the more people were curious to check out what's all the fuss about. When it won its first audience award as the most popular series of that year, the creators congratulated their own haters for making it possible.
• Once Original, Now Common: Back in the early 2000s the series was rather controversial; it was one of the first depictions of working-class folks in Polish TV that dared to show them as Lower Class Louts, and there was a lot of hand-wringing about the low-brow humour and the characters being idiots. With both local and imported programming pushing the boundaries much further than Kiepscy ever dared to do over the years, the criticisms from two decades before seem ridiculously overblown.
• Sacred Cow: Early Okił era. The quality of episodes varies greatly, but they are all seen as eternal classics.
• Seasonal Rot: It's hard to point exactly where it started, but anything past initial 100-150 episodes is considered to just not being the same. And the final season, due to lack of Boczek and Paździoch, got stone cold reception, with fans openly asking to simply end the series, rather than dragging it without two people of the Power Trio.
• Values Dissonance:
  • One episode involves the cast putting on Blackface and unironically acting like a bunch of tribals from Darkest Africa; nobody considered that in poor taste at the time, especially with the racial issues being nonexistent in Polish public perception at the time the episode was made.
  • A lot of jokes, and often entire episodes, depend on racial and national stereotypes that were seen as completely harmless when it was filmed (and, again, those types of issues are rarely seen as a big deal in Poland in the first place).
  • The very first episode created a massive outcry from both lay people and the Catholic Church in Poland, since it was based around devotees taking a water leak and resulting damp pattern on a wall for the wonderous picture of the Virgin Mary. The episode and thus the series was treated as downright sacrilegious. Compared with later seasons religious jokes, the reaction seems just misplaced over a pretty tame plot device.

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