• Crni Gruja - the (unsubbed) Serbian Blackadder
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In the 2000s, the Serbian television channel RTV BK (Radio Television Brothers Karić) began producing its own programming, among which was the hugely popular at the time period comedy [B]Crni Gruja[/B]. Inspired by Blackadder (to the point where the name of the series was a play-on-words of the Serbian name for the original Black Adder, "Crna Guja", changing the adder to a name), it centers around the [I]gazda[/I] Gruja, a merchant who sells pigs to the Ottomans, who attempts to increase the success of his own business while attempting to avoid the suggestions of his uncle, Karađorđe. With his own Baldrick in the form of Bole, and another lackey in the form of Čeda Velja, the series itself is set in the lead up to the First Serbian Uprising. The series was incredibly popular, in spite of its comparatively lower budget to the original Blackadder, and its jokes, references and parodies of historical figures and pop culture were unmatched in domestic shows of the time. It was popular enough to receive a direct sequel - Crni Gruja II, set during the Uprising itself (though the actor playing Gruja himself was replaced, due to attempting to make it big in America) - and a movie in the form of Crni Gruja i kamen mudrosti (Black Gruja and the Stone of Wisdom - the title being a parody of Harry Potter). It had a less successful continuation in the form of Drug Crni u Narodnooslobodilačkoj borbi (Comrade Black/Swarthy in the National Liberation Movement), a movie-turned-series set in World War 2-era Yugoslavia, dealing with Gruja's descendant Života Grujić. The episodes of all three mentioned series are available on YouTube, seemingly by one of the production companies, the [URL="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRM_IvQ5NK-J0rUnJs8TEVQ"]BS Group[/URL], though the second episode of the first series and the first of the second seem to be missing, though they are on Dailymotion too. Unfortunately, however, as indicated by the title, this series remains largely unsubbed in English. You can find subs online for the movie, but otherwise you're shit out of luck, which I find a tad shameful. Sure, the references may go over the heads of those that aren't Serbs themselves, but it can be pretty funny, especially in its delivery. [video=youtube;4-aN0orMxOA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-aN0orMxOA[/video] [video=youtube;Gz43vLBqq5k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz43vLBqq5k[/video] [video=youtube;0Rge3zlYyT4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rge3zlYyT4[/video] [video=youtube;DbED8IUaTns]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbED8IUaTns[/video] [video=youtube;8wpSOWc7zN0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wpSOWc7zN0[/video] [video=youtube;zdG4rr_GJDc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdG4rr_GJDc[/video] [video=youtube;kgj9L2CCbhs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgj9L2CCbhs[/video] [video=youtube;WyeyekFE3e8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyeyekFE3e8[/video] [video=youtube;dgRa2bZZCkg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgRa2bZZCkg[/video] [video=youtube;42Wi6Mx9Qa8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Wi6Mx9Qa8[/video] Have a bunch of random out-of-context clips to compensate for my ramblings.
Was that a fucken "YOOOOOOOO" in the last clip
I'm surprised that I'm hearing about this the first time considering there were plenty of serbian and croatian tv shows that were airing back then when i was a kid (alongside a fuckton of telenovelas of course).
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