Romania's comedy chaos machine: time-travel pills and village idiots collide in pure anarchy.
Season 2 • Episode 83
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In 1999, the show originally featured only one segment titled Pastila Timpului ("The Time Pill"). It was a sitcom about a scientist named Professor Hărăbor, who invented a pill that allowed him to travel through time and embark on all kinds of adventures with his family, often portraying well-known characters throughout history. After the first season, the show expanded to include multiple segments: featuring Policeman Garcea, The Show of the Show, Boyar Moflea and the King and Leana and Costel — a rural couple from Sadova dealing with all sorts of shenanigans involving the other townsfolk.
Acting
Mugur Mihăescu playing half the damn cast himself
Writing
Garcea's police sketches are unhinged social commentary
Production
Zero-budget time travel that somehow works anyway
Creators
Mugur Mihăescu, Radu Pietreanu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This show is basically Romanian Saturday Night Live if everyone was exhausted and slightly drunk. It dominated 90s TV because it was literally the only thing on.
Mugur Mihăescu and Radu Pietreanu created this after their comedy troupe Vacanța Mare blew up — they basically built an entire TV empire on playing working-class archetypes that mocked everyone including themselves.
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