History Series / SixteenSeventy

* BlatantLies: An entire series of those is used as a blatantly forged "Letter from the King" to justify increasing corvee from four days to five per week.

* BlatantLies: An entire series of those is used as a blatantly forged "Letter from the Kang" to justify increasing corvee from four days to five per week.

* AristocratsAreEvil: Henryk Lubopolski, a magnate's son is one of the most villainous characters to the point that [[spoiler: [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing the one who killed him]] [[PriceOnTheirHead is rewanded]]]].

* AccidentalMurder: Henryk Lubopolski gets his head blown up during a hunt. Ironically, when a BountyHunter shows up and starts sniffing, he thinks it was an [[HuntingAccident "accident"]] rather than a genuine mistake.

* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Priest investigating Henryk Lubopolski's death after finding guilty [[TheScapegoat which was blamed on Bohdan]] reveals that [[spoiler: he was to reward the one who killed him as Henryk was [[PriceOnTheirHead wanted]]]].

* AristocratsAreEvil: Henryk Lubopolski, magnat's son is one of the most villainous characters to the point that [[spoiler: [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing the one who killed him]] [[PriceOnTheirHead is rewanded]]]].

* CharacterCatchphrase: Jan Paweł Adamczewski often calls himself [[ForegoneConclusion „Most famous Jan Paweł in Polish history"]].

* DemocracyIsFlawed: Or rather, the style of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth noble's republic is ''deeply'' flawed with its voting system, as a single vote against a motion is enough to prevent its passage, until the person voting against is convinced otherwise. The system is portrayed in all of its "glory" - with Andrzej intentionally preventing a reform he doesn't even understand just to ''spite his neighbour''.

* FakingTheDead: Bohdan survived in this way most of battles.

* HappinessInSlavery: When Bohdan is captured by Tatars and locked is contens because his [[MundaneLuxury straw bed is twice as big as his one in Adamczycha]] with same amount of rats.
* HiddenDepths: Zofia looks like [[TheFundamentalist religious fanatic]], but actually she has some secrets about her feelings.

* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: When Jan Paweł proposes Henryk Lubopolski a hunt in the local woods, without betting an eye, Henry asks if they can hunt some humans. [[EveryoneHasStandards When Jan Paweł gets startled]] by such a suggestion, Henryk starts laughing and [[JustJokingJustification says he was just kidding]].

* MagicMushroom: One episode has Bogdan, the deadbeat brother-in-law of the main character, grabbing fistfuls of magic mushrooms and becoming convinced he's inherited the Sultanate from a goat.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: The BountyHunter searching for the killer of Henryk [[spoiler: is there to reward the killer, not haul them to face justice]].

* OverlyLongGag: The (barely literate) Jan Paweł spends an inordinately long time reading the single sentence of a letter that was sent to him - all shown to the viewer in real time.

* PrideParade: Quite LostInTranslation as in Poland term Pride Parade is Equality March and the one is organised to celebrate other religions [[{{Hypocrite}} while presenting non-catholic faiths as inferior]] and [[IllegalReligion threating with death to atheists]].

** The last episode has a priest solving crime cases from Sandomierz, which is a reference to the Polish [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Matthew_(TV_series) criminal series]].

* SinglePreceptReligion: Religion of Hatter. [[ShapedLikeItself He wears a hat]], after death he gives to good people potatoes and bad people pushes into a puddle. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as this religion was made by atheist peasant, [[IllegalReligion who in other case would be killed]].

* SissyVillain: Henryk Lubopolski, a rich, French-styled bon-vivant with a bad case of AnnoyingLaugh and needing a servant for everything he does. None of which makes him any less of a monster, who, unlike [[ObliviouslyEvil Jan Paweł]], takes great pleasure from bullying, beating, fucking and killing people.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Andrzej, Adamczewski's neighbor and owner of other half of village [[note]] [[RunningGag bigger half]] [[/note]], which Jan Paweł considers his main enemy.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Jan Paweł Adamczewski who consider himself the most famous Jan Paweł in Polish history despite a fact that his own subjects don't know his name.

* NotSoDifferent: For the first half of the show Andrzej, Jan Paweł's SitcomArchNemesis, is practically a saint: he is willing to introduce and pay additional taxes for the sake of Polish economy, he runs his estate so that peasants get their share of the profit and is [[NiceToTheWaiter somewhat friendly to his servants]]. Then in episode 4 he reveals that his main reason for agreeing to a demonstration of religious equality is [[EvilIsPetty because it would infuriate Jan Paweł]], showing he shares some of his neighbour's mean-spiritedness. And then he proves himself Jan Paweł's equal in scheming when seeking to wed his daughter with [[AristocratsAreEvil magnate's son]] and [[spoiler: trying to hide the fact that they accidentally killed him.]]

** Most of the plot in episode 4 comes from „celebration" of various faiths and Jan Paweł's attempts to not show his blatant favouritism for Catholicism. Religious freedom was in fact enshrined in Polish law since 1596, but by late 1600's constant wars with Sweden (Protestant), Moscow (Orthodox) and Ottoman Empire (Muslim) resulted in tolerance slowly disappearing.

* IllegalReligion: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] as in this case atheism is punished with death, while every other religion is not [[SinglePreceptReligion even made up quickly]].

* ALighterShadeOfGrey: Andrzej isn't a saint nor even a really good person. However, for all his personal flaws, he is still a reasonable statesman and industrious, hard-working businessman.

* PresentDayPast: A large chunk of the jokes boil down to putting contemporary concepts in a vaguely historical setting. To name a few from the first episode alone: Jan Paweł's (mis)management of his serfs is a parody of a certain type of incompetent [[PointyHairedBoss Pointy-Haired Bosses]] typically associated with small Polish companies, Stanisław, his older son, has a garage band that, since garages don't exist yet, plays in a barn, and Jakub, the younger son and a priest, is introduced speaking like an overly demanding middle-manager from an international MegaCorp, only to reveal he's "praying".

* VisualPun: In one scene Jan Paweł and others are comparing how well hung their are by... comparing part of their suits called „kutas" [[HaveAGayOldTime which is now slang term for penis]].

* AccidentalMurder: Henryk Lubopolski gets his head blown up during a hunt. Ironically, when a BountyHunter shows up and starts sniffing, he thinks it was an "[[HuntingAccident accident]]" rather than a genuine mistake.

* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: Priest investigating Henryk Lubopolski's death after finding guilty [[TheScapegoat which was blamed on Bohdan]] reveals that [[spoiler: he was to rewand the one who killed him as he was [[PriceOnTheirHead wanted]]]].

* AristocratsAreEvil: Henryk Lubopolski, magnat's son is one of the most villanous characters to the point that [[spoiler: [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing the one who killed him]] [[PriceOnTheirHead is rewanded]]]].

* ComicallyIneptHealing: The medic combines genuine anatomical knowledge and ''some'' treatments with utterly ridiculous (but period-fitting) advice in tune of "smoke more, especially in winter, to not get sick, as this warms the innards".

* SmallNameBigEgo: Jan Paweł Adamczewski who consider himself the most famous Jan Paweł in Polish history despite a fact that his own subjects doesn't know his name.