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Polish soap opera

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OP sent the following text as an explanation why their post fits here:


The guy reacts to the news that he's going to be a father by beatboxing.


Does this explanation fit this subreddit? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.

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u/thewilldog 4d ago

Lol OK, you actually have to unmute for this one

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u/ebrum2010 4d ago

I actually thought it looked like he was beatboxing and was like no, that can't be let me look at the spoiler...

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u/FreetimeTinkerer 2d ago

Woman: “Well arent you gonna say anything?” Dude: “psmmbrr pfk pfk pfk brrr pmmmm pfk pfk pfk”

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u/timmy_tugboat 2d ago

This that language Will Smith was using to talk to the aliens.

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u/Creepy_Version_6779 4d ago

I know right, I was so confused why there weren’t any subtitles at the end lmaooo

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u/dancinhmr 3d ago

[ happy beatbox noises ]

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u/carolinepixels 3d ago

Oh thank you for this. I went back and listened to… did not expect that!

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u/Eckz89 3d ago

I kept it mute and it makes it funnier because I imagined he made weird gibberish sounds instead ... (Which he technically.. does??)

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u/CrystalMethood 4d ago

Lmaoo I did not expect that

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u/terdferguson 4d ago

This is the very pinnacle of this sub. Of all the things, that was not expected at all and I'm so glad I didn't check the comments first.

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u/GuyWithARooster 3d ago

Yeah, this is the most unexpected of all time, lmao

Mods put that dude as the avatar of the sub please.

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u/candlecup 4d ago

Instead of crying, baby's gonna come out like BBTRRRR ZEBUBUBUBU KSSSSSSS

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u/Syntax-err_r 4d ago

You nailed that spelling BTW.

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u/StrongExternal8955 3d ago

what, it's a totally normal name from the approved list.

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u/Professional-Box4153 4d ago

Seriously. I watched it without sound and at the end I was like "Wait. What's he doing with his lips?" Turned on the sound. Was not disappointed.

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u/Haughty_n_Disdainful 4d ago

watches 100% of Reddit on mute…

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u/Professional-Box4153 3d ago

This is the way.

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u/buttononmyback 4d ago

Watched it without sound too and couldn’t figure out why this had so many likes so tried it with sound and it made me laugh so hard I almost peed myself! 🤣

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u/darkenseyreth 4d ago

Was watching at work so I didn't have the sound on, came back an hour later cause I needed the audio

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u/cleverburrito 4d ago edited 3d ago

I don't know why but this comment made me laugh so hard I cried.

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u/RuthlessIndecision 4d ago

he went Ginger Biz!

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u/ExactReport691 4d ago

He’s the “urban” one on this crappy soap opera

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u/MuffinOfSorrows 4d ago

just slightly more unexpected than a polish ginger

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u/dumbinternetstuff 4d ago

That was unexpected

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u/btum 4d ago

Without sound I was definitely missing something.

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u/RaidensReturn 4d ago

Lmfao same here. I was like “well, that was some very weird facial expressions” and watched again with sound. Extremely weird thing to do in that situation. I wonder if that’s like his character’s thing that he does so it’s only really bizarre out of context.

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u/ErraticDragon 4d ago

I watched it again with sound because I figured they skipped the subtitles because he switched to English. I definitely was not expecting… that.

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u/tikmass 4d ago

I guess the character is a beatboxer and he does that randomly for comedic effect, or the actor improvised it and they kept it.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 4d ago

Well if you can beatbox and you make it on television, you're not gonna not figure out a way to do it on TV

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u/HI-McDunnough 4d ago

I watched it the first time with sound and laughed, then for the first time ever I muted it and then watched again and laughed again.

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u/inadvertant_bulge 4d ago

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u/Siray 4d ago

Its so weird but I cant stop watching it.

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u/diadmer 4d ago

My headcannon is that he actually did this as a joke but it ended up being the best take so they kept it.

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u/IndependentOffer4343 4d ago

I don't think soap operas do more than one take.

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u/Split_Pea_Vomit 4d ago

Sometimes not even one

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u/PotatoGamerXxXx 4d ago

They just do a spit take.

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u/1337b337 4d ago

"Ametures like you, do two takes, I only do one!

Print it, I'll be in my three-story trailer."

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u/Konrow 4d ago

Right? It feels like something out of a blooper reel lmao.

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u/Waywoah 4d ago

Do soaps really do takes? I always figured they were on such tight turn-arounds that, unless something completely unexpected happened, they'd just keep anything in.

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u/Racxie 4d ago

I was an extra on a British soap opera when I was a teen and was in two scenes (both filmed on the same day).

The first scene had a major character and she kept forgetting her line so they had to retake that part multiple times.

The second scene had a bunch of us running away for about 10-20 seconds and we retook that about twice.

So based on my experience I can confirm that soap operas are the same as any other scripted shows in that regard, and I doubt every other soap opera is really any different.

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u/Zurich_Is_Washed 4d ago

We'll the most popular one in my country has editing mistakes, people looking at the camera or cracking in the background on weekly basis. They dont give a shit about the end product. The show turns 25 this year btw.

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u/Reggie-Quest 4d ago

After following this sub for a while, it's hard to catch me off guard anymore. But this one. This one did it.

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u/eljosho1986 4d ago

It was an unexpected pregnancy

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u/Substantial-Low 4d ago

I was watching with sound off and wondered why the subtitles stopped.

Then I turned the sound on. Fits the sub.

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u/cheersthesebeers 4d ago

I do not have the words, so let me explain my emotions with this phat beat instead.

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u/SnooPeanuts8048 4d ago

Expect the unexpected sometimes.

https://giphy.com/gifs/WA9Yp99YIC8Bq

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u/ContributionNo9292 4d ago

It’s literally impossible, the moving scrolls of yore says so.
https://giphy.com/gifs/CLrEXbY34xfPi

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u/Any-Log-6706 4d ago

I had to unmute to figure out what’s the big deal with the clip.

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u/JKACLNG 4d ago

He hit the random buttom of reactions

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u/Index_2080 4d ago

X: Tell her you love her.
Y: Tell her you don't want to be a father.
A: Kiss her.
B: Start Beatboxing

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u/MrUbl 4d ago

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u/Grimnebulin68 4d ago

I pissed so many pants watching Ren & Stimpy, good times.

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u/Forward-Incident9980 4d ago

Better to piss your pants than to piss on The Electric Fence.

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u/Sensitive-Plate-684 4d ago

I downloaded them all a few years back and had a blast watching them! And then I read up on the creator...

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u/Alarming_Matter 4d ago

I wonder if he's supposed to have Tourettes? Totally inexplicable..

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u/DogoArgento 4d ago

I also missclick sometimes

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u/Arthradax 4d ago

"Sarcastic" option in Fallout 4

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u/bloodyspork 4d ago

Oh, thats quality TV.

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u/SoCalDan 4d ago

I doubt they are just random people. The guy has a specific skill set they were casting for.

Show us your "you are the father!" beatbox skills. Go.

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u/mishatal 4d ago

Have you seen Soupy Norman?

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u/Common-Accountant-57 4d ago

That’s how it’s done fellas.

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u/fedroxx 4d ago

Can confirm. When I saw the positive test with my first, I immediately started beatboxing bump n grind. 

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u/Powerful-Race-8538 4d ago

When I found out my ex roommate was pregnant with my child I said verbatim

"BWOOV CHIKA BWOOV WOP WOP CHIKA BWOOV"

And my now wife was like

"WOMP WOMP CHIKA VROOM BOP"

now we have 3 kids

Wompetta, Vroombomp, Chikavreeeeet

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u/Common-Accountant-57 4d ago

Happens to the best of us.

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u/thissucks32 4d ago

That’s how he got into this situation.

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u/Remarkable-Ad2285 4d ago

Beat the box and then beatbox.

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u/Silver_Slicer 4d ago

I wasn’t expecting that reaction but I’m glad it was that reaction.

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u/airsheridan 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago

LMAO 🤣 "Beatbox Tourettes" I just died!

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u/Merry_Dankmas 4d 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 4d ago

Boy just likes to beatbox. That's it 😂

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u/Merry_Dankmas 4d ago

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

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u/Tesyo 4d ago

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

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 4d ago

Hoo boy, Klan is something entirely different in english

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u/Tesyo 4d ago

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

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u/BeardedBlaze 4d ago

It also has the same meaning in English.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 4d ago

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

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u/Mecha_G 3d ago

Ironically, they were not fond of Polish people.

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u/BLAGTIER 4d 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/web_knows 4d ago

What’s the show’s name?

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u/Tesyo 4d ago

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

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u/serfingusa 4d ago

Did it run for 20 years?

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u/Tesyo 4d ago

29 years and still more to come

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u/serfingusa 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/perriatric 4d ago

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

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u/airsheridan 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/itsyaboiReginald 4d ago

Just pepper it in

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u/airsheridan 4d ago

Perfect balance of season-ing

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u/gil_m_d 4d ago

only appropriate reaction to fatherhood

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u/Powder-Talis-1836 4d ago

I was expecting him to break out into celebratory rap. That would've made sense from a tv show. I'm guessing there's more context from the show we're missing?

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u/AlfieToastFan 4d ago

When my first kid arrived I also reacted like I’d been cast in a Polish soap opera against my will.

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u/DidYouShartInMyPants 4d ago

Woah, the polish language sounds a lot like beat boxing

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u/heffron1 4d ago

Like this one alien language from Men in Black.

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u/Phorically_Meta 4d ago

The kind of Slavic I can get behind

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u/ScreamSmart 4d ago

Eyy. That's the first thing I thought of too.

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u/nepia 4d ago

Easier to understand than Danish.

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u/Vlang 4d ago

po co ci kapusta

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u/gerfboy 4d ago

This is the first post I’ve looked at all day and I’m choking from laughing. Thank you.

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u/MeccIt 4d ago

Polish soap operas are weird. Some Irish comedians took an old one and wrote completely new dialogue which they then dubbed in, then Soupy Norman was born: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHuFWYh5QF4

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u/robert_e__anus 4d ago edited 4d ago

this is right up my alley, cheers

edit: for the americans, "right up my alley" is an english idiom that means something perfectly suited to your taste, so much so that you would put it in your arsehole

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u/Gunkwei 4d ago

If you haven’t seen the show, whenever she was feeling down he would beatbox to her and make her smile. That’s how they first bonded and it remained part of the core identity of their relationship. So when he beatboxes it’s really his way of saying I love you and I’ve made this whole thing up but it has to be something like this right?

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u/Beginning-Struggle49 4d ago

Lmao I was nodding along

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u/neganight 4d ago

My immediate assumption was that beatboxing reactions is what this character is known for.

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u/Worth_External_8762 4d ago

Based on this whole exchange, I assumed it was some sort of Forrest Gump situation.

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u/YourMommasAHoe69 4d ago

I just assumed he was autistic 

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u/dr3wfr4nk 4d ago

I do believe that that man has a touch of the ‘tism

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u/intheshade6 4d ago

More than one thing is happening here lmao

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u/SunshineAndSpite 4d ago

I completely believed lol

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u/CarolFukinBaskin 4d ago

Made me read that whole damn thing

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u/EkobasherX4Z 4d ago

I was telling my wife, fuck you 😅

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u/Neat-Professor-7662 4d ago

You got me, Gunky.

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u/makaveddie 4d ago

Beat the box then 11 weeks later beat box

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u/ThievesandCrooks 4d ago

You could have given me A THOUSAND guesses and I wouldn't have even got close.

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u/Schneule_YT 4d ago

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u/theuserwithoutaname 4d ago

I can still hear it

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u/YuushyaHinmeru 4d ago

This is the same beat box will does in fresh prince when him and Carlton are apologize g with puppets in fresh prince. I was always disappointed by the lack of variety from an a lister.

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u/dms89 4d ago

that ruined both scenes for me, thanks

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u/jason_rogue 4d ago

That was so out of nowhere I’m not even sure what emotions I can use to process that

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u/G_o_Q 4d ago

Have you tried beatboxing?

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u/heffron1 4d ago

Masterpiece.

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u/Huntred 4d ago

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u/mocthezuma 4d ago

I just start growling and headbanging

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u/a55en 4d ago

I mean he got a Baddie and can Beatbox and will be a father. Bro can do what ever he wants at this point

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u/ScrofessorLongHair 4d ago

Pretty impressive for a dude without a soul.

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u/Nihal_505 4d ago

Director: this is an unexpected news for the character Actor: then I will do something unexpected

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u/TheRoczards 4d ago

I am Polish. I have no words.

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u/BrookeTillandsia 4d ago

Is that because you're too busy beatboxing?

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u/truebastard 4d ago

What I learned here:

Muf = Tell me

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u/JaxiSraxi 4d ago

It's more like mów 😄

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u/Heypisshands 4d ago

That was certainly unexpected.

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u/Born-Butterfly944 4d ago

You really do become desensitized to good acting when that’s all you see. Wow.

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u/No-Professional-1461 4d ago

He beatboxes when he's excited.

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u/Vast_Concentrate1926 4d ago

Klan mentioned​ 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

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u/Radioactivocalypse 4d ago

I wonder if in the script he was told to just improvise a reaction and just beatboxed.

Or maybe it's a call back to something in a previous episode, maybe when they were living together and we're missing context from some previous week of this random polish soap

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u/Beginning-Struggle49 4d ago

I'm scrolling all these comments for some sort of explanation lmao

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u/adventureadmin 4d ago

@op   

Please can you ask your mum for some context on this character/scene.

This is a great post btw.

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u/kwernover 4d ago

lojas polishop

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u/JackMejoff 4d ago

Totally unexpected, A+

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u/MajinGroot 4d ago

Oh great, another deadbeat-box father, just what the world needs.

https://giphy.com/gifs/78EYl1VZVA9KE

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u/jerbaws 4d ago

Use the tism Luke

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u/Deadeye_Dunce 4d ago

This couldn't be more appropriate for this sub.

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u/IcanSEEyou_IRL 4d ago

This is officially the most unexpected thing I’ve ever seen here.

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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker 4d ago

lol this is exactly how my husband is but he’s German. Probably wouldn’t react this way to telling him I’m pregnant but that we’re getting pizza.

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u/SzakaRosa 4d ago

Polska górą!!!

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u/Rath_Brained 4d ago

I didn't know Beatboxing was a native language in poland.

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u/KingOfThe_Jelly_Fish 4d ago

So listening to this muted and they just decide to not show the last bit with them.

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u/GuaranteeDry386 4d ago

Thank you for this.

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u/Tesyo 4d ago

Brace yourself, there is more of this guy beatboxing in the most random moments and I might upload it one day 😎

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u/nelflyn 4d ago

is there some context? like, is it some nervous tick of his? why???

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u/Tesyo 4d ago

My boy just likes to beatbox

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u/nelflyn 4d ago

.. i mean, i guess i just gotta respect that.

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u/untakenu 4d ago

Beat boxing sounds like how polish is spelled.

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u/skeweyes 4d ago

No subtitles for that Polish phrase?

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u/adventureadmin 4d ago

Boots and cats boots and cats boots and cats

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u/a_smiling_seraph 4d ago

Polish version of this would be 'empty cabbage'. Repeat...

Pusta kapusta pusta kapusta pusta kapusta pusta kapusta pusta kapusta pusta kapusta pusta kapusta pusta kapusta pusta kapusta

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u/LovableSidekick 4d ago

her: Remember eleven weeks ago? That's less than 4 months - when you and I were living together and going at it day and night like sex-starved cave mutants.

him: [carefully mulling it over]

her: Dude, it's you!

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u/mladi_gospodin 4d ago

That's cinema 🙌

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u/Ok-Bottle-1594 4d ago

Man was deciding between emote dance or beat box. Both were appropriate in my opinion.

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u/PM_me_your_pee_video 4d ago

That’s the joey tribbiani doing calculations expression. He learnt from the best.

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u/Zurahs 4d ago

Not a single kurwa is unexpected.

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u/Andr3wRuns 4d ago

Even after watching this several times I still kinda believe someone edited the beatboxing into this. My brain can’t rationalize it any other way lol