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* HarsherInHindsight: Season 2's Christmas episode, released in 2018, has a character that was forced to leave Ukraine because of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war. The situation of Ukraine has gotten worse since the episode was released; with the 2022 Russian offensive, ''millions'' more Ukrainians were displaced and forced to relocate, a large chunk of them staying in Poland.
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* DiscreditedMeme: All of the memes spawned by the show ended up discredited rather soon, due to overuse or real-world cabinet reshuffles.

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* DiscreditedMeme: All of the memes spawned by the show ended up discredited rather soon, quickly, due to overuse or real-world cabinet reshuffles.
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* DiscreditedMeme: All of the memes spawned by the show ended up discredited rather soon, due to overuse or real-world cabinet reshuffles.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Episode 15's finale. The Chairman shoots Mariusz, who falls down on the floor. Then, after the Chairman says he did that because he believed Mariusz is a spy, the officer currently present in the room, without flinching, grabs the Chairman's gun and fires at him FOUR MORE TIMES. Made slightly less disturbing by the reveal the gun was (mostly) filled with blanks.

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Episode 15's finale. The Chairman shoots Mariusz, who falls down on the floor. Then, after the Chairman says he did that because he believed Mariusz is a spy, the officer currently present in the room, without flinching, grabs the Chairman's gun and fires at him FOUR MORE TIMES. Made slightly less disturbing by the reveal the gun was (mostly) filled with blanks.''four more times''.

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome:
** Mariusz stopping the env'ment minister from shooting the Chairman's cat.
** The Chairman effortlessly playing the opposition politicians against themselves, then going upstairs to his bed and listening to their squabbling like a bedtime story.
** Adrian from Together Party, who manages to get into the Chairman's office and call him out on the most recent misdeeds. Even if you don't agree with his monologue, keep in mind very few people in the series have the gall to explicitly tell the Chairman off.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: In the ChristmasEpisode of the second season, the President invites the high-ranking Catholic Church official, the Chairman and the opposition leaders for a symbolic Christmas dinner. [[spoiler:When nobody arrives, the President and the First Lady end up inviting the cleaning ladies (one of them an Ukrainian immigrant, forced to left her homeland by the Crimean War) to dine with them.]]



* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: In the ChristmasEpisode of the second season, the President invites the high-ranking Catholic Church official, the Chairman and the opposition leaders for a symbolic Christmas dinner. [[spoiler:When nobody arrives, the President and the First Lady end up inviting the cleaning ladies (one of them an Ukrainian immigrant, forced to left her homeland by the Crimean War) to dine with them.]]



* RewatchBonus: The new office of the Chairman was designed by Mariusz, as a surprise for the Chairman. He also ends up staring down the barrel of a (loaded) handgun, to see if it's silenced. After episode 15, those scenes are put in a new light...

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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
** Mariusz stopping the env'ment minister from shooting the Chairman's cat.
** The Chairman effortlessly playing the opposition politicians against themselves, then going upstairs to his bed and listening to their squabbling like a bedtime story.
** Adrian from Together Party, who manages to get into the Chairman's office and call him out on the most recent misdeeds. Even if you don't agree with his monologue, keep in mind very few people in the series have the gall to explicitly tell the Chairman off.
* RewatchBonus: The new office of the Chairman was designed by Mariusz, as a surprise for the Chairman. He also ends up staring down the barrel of a (loaded) handgun, to see if it's silenced. After episode 15, those scenes are put in a new light...light...
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* GeniusBonus: Even if you're aware of the ins and outs of Polish politics, you might be surprised to know that Basia, the Chairman's secretary, is loosely based on Barbara Skrzypek, the secretary of real-life Chairman.

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Episode 15's finale. The Chairman shoots Mariusz, and he falls down on the floor. Then, after he says he did that because he's a spy, the officer currently present in the room, without flinching, grabs the Chairman's gun and fires at him FOUR MORE TIMES. Made slightly less disturbing by the reveal the gun was (mostly) filled with blanks.

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* AssPull:
** [[WhamEpisode Episode 15]] got all-but-retconned in the intro of the very next episode with a half-arsed explanation about how it was all just a setup to make Chairman less trusting.
** Episode 16's finale qualifies as well.
* CrossesTheLineTwice: Episode 15's finale. The Chairman shoots Mariusz, and he who falls down on the floor. Then, after he the Chairman says he did that because he's he believed Mariusz is a spy, the officer currently present in the room, without flinching, grabs the Chairman's gun and fires at him FOUR MORE TIMES. Made slightly less disturbing by the reveal the gun was (mostly) filled with blanks.

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Episode 15's finale. [[spoiler: The Chairman shoots Mariusz, and he falls down on the floor. Then, after he says he did that because he's a spy, the officer currently present in the room, without flinching, grabs the Chairman's gun and fires at him FOUR MORE TIMES. Made slightly less disturbing by the reveal the gun was (mostly) filled with blanks.]]

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Episode 15's finale. [[spoiler: The Chairman shoots Mariusz, and he falls down on the floor. Then, after he says he did that because he's a spy, the officer currently present in the room, without flinching, grabs the Chairman's gun and fires at him FOUR MORE TIMES. Made slightly less disturbing by the reveal the gun was (mostly) filled with blanks.]]



** Mariusz [[spoiler:stopping the env'ment minister from shooting the Chairman's cat.]]
** The Chairman effortlessly [[spoiler:playing the opposition politicians against themselves, then going upstairs to his bed and listening to their squabbling like a bedtime story.]]

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** Mariusz [[spoiler:stopping stopping the env'ment minister from shooting the Chairman's cat.]]
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** The Chairman effortlessly [[spoiler:playing playing the opposition politicians against themselves, then going upstairs to his bed and listening to their squabbling like a bedtime story.]]



* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:The new office of the Chairman was designed by Mariusz, as a surprise for the Chairman. He also ends up staring down the barrel of a (loaded) handgun, to see if it's silenced. After episode 15, those scenes are put in a new light...]]

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* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:The The new office of the Chairman was designed by Mariusz, as a surprise for the Chairman. He also ends up staring down the barrel of a (loaded) handgun, to see if it's silenced. After episode 15, those scenes are put in a new light...]]

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* HoYay: Antoni's rather intense fondness for his assistant Misio does raise a few eyebrows in-universe.



** "For the past eight years..." - the first words of PM's SurvivalMantra have reached that status as well.

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** "For the past eight years..." - ", the first words of PM's SurvivalMantra PM Beata's SurvivalMantra, have reached that status as well.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Episode 10 ends with the Chairman deciding to get rid of the Minister of Environment eventually. A few months after the episode aired, the real-life politician that the Minister was based on did end up dismissed as a result of a cabinet reshuffle.

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* HilariousInHindsight: Episode 10 (aired in March 2017) ends with the Chairman deciding to get rid of the Minister of Environment eventually. A few months after eventually, which back then seemed rather unlikely (for a variety of reasons beyond the episode aired, scope of this page). Fast forward to January 2018, and the real-life politician that the Minister was based on did end up dismissed as a result of a cabinet reshuffle.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Episode 10 ends with the Chairman deciding to get rid of the Minister of Environment eventually. A few months after the episode aired, the real-life politician that the Minister was based on did end up dismissed as a result of a cabinet reshuffle.
* HoYay: Antoni's rather intense fondness for his assistant Misio does raise a few eyebrows in-universe.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Adrian, "woodsman from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razem Together Party]]" for being possibly only character who was [[CrazyAwesome brave]] enough to give Chairman TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

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** Adrian from Together Party, who manages to get into the Chairman's office and call him out on the most recent misdeeds. Even if you don't agree with his monologue, keep in mind very few people in the series have the gall to explicitly tell the Chairman off.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: In the ChristmasEpisode of the second season, the President invites the high-ranking Catholic Church official, the Chairman and the opposition leaders for a symbolic Christmas dinner. [[spoiler:When nobody arrives, the President and the First Lady end up inviting the cleaning ladies (one of them an Ukrainian immigrant, forced to left her homeland by the Crimean War) to dine with them.]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Adrian, "woodsman from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razem Together Party]]" for being possibly the only character who was [[CrazyAwesome brave]] character brave enough to confidently give the Chairman TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech as of Season 2.



** Misnaming Andrzej Duda, the then-current President of Poland, which originated in the show as a RunningGag.

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** Misnaming Calling Andrzej Duda, the then-current President of Poland, which originated in the show "Adrian", as a RunningGag.way to mock him as completely subservient to the gov't (and the real-life Chairman).
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Adrian, "woodsman from Together Party" for being possibly only character who was [[CrazyAwesome brave]] enough to give Chairman TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Adrian, "woodsman from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razem Together Party" Party]]" for being possibly only character who was [[CrazyAwesome brave]] enough to give Chairman TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Adrian, "woodsman from Together Party" for being possibly only character who was brave enough to give Chairman TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Adrian, "woodsman from Together Party" for being possibly only character who was brave [[CrazyAwesome brave]] enough to give Chairman TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Adrian, "woodsman from Together Party" for being possibly only character who was brave enough to give Chairman TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Episode 15's finale. [[spoiler: The Chairman shoots Mariusz, and he falls down on the floor. Then, after he says he did that because he's a spy, the officer currently present in the room, without flinching, grabs the Chairman's gun and fires at him FOUR MORE TIMES.]]

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Episode 15's finale. [[spoiler: The Chairman shoots Mariusz, and he falls down on the floor. Then, after he says he did that because he's a spy, the officer currently present in the room, without flinching, grabs the Chairman's gun and fires at him FOUR MORE TIMES. Made slightly less disturbing by the reveal the gun was (mostly) filled with blanks.]]
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Episode 15's finale. [[spoiler: The Chairman shoots Mariusz, and he falls down on the floor. Then, after he says he did that because he's a spy, the officer currently in the room, without flinching, grabs the Chairman's gun and fires at him FOUR MORE TIMES.]]

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Episode 15's finale. [[spoiler: The Chairman shoots Mariusz, and he falls down on the floor. Then, after he says he did that because he's a spy, the officer currently present in the room, without flinching, grabs the Chairman's gun and fires at him FOUR MORE TIMES.]]

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Episode 15's finale. [[spoiler: The Chairman shoots Mariusz, and he falls down on the floor. Then, after he says he did that because he's a spy, the officer currently in the room, without flinching, grabs the Chairman's gun and fires at him FOUR MORE TIMES.]]



** "For the past eight years..." - the first words of PM's SurvivalMantra have reached that status as well

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** "For the past eight years..." - the first words of PM's SurvivalMantra have reached that status as wellwell.
* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:The new office of the Chairman was designed by Mariusz, as a surprise for the Chairman. He also ends up staring down the barrel of a (loaded) handgun, to see if it's silenced. After episode 15, those scenes are put in a new light...]]

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Mariusz [[spoiler:stopping the env'ment minister from shooting the Chairman's cat.]]
* MemeticMutation: Misnaming Andrzej Duda, the then-current President of Poland, which originated in the show as a RunningGag.

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: CrowningMomentOfAwesome:
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Mariusz [[spoiler:stopping the env'ment minister from shooting the Chairman's cat.]]
** The Chairman effortlessly [[spoiler:playing the opposition politicians against themselves, then going upstairs to his bed and listening to their squabbling like a bedtime story.]]
* MemeticMutation: MemeticMutation:
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Misnaming Andrzej Duda, the then-current President of Poland, which originated in the show as a RunningGag.RunningGag.
** "For the past eight years..." - the first words of PM's SurvivalMantra have reached that status as well
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Mariusz [[spoiler:stopping the env'ment minister from shooting the Chairman's cat.]]
* MemeticMutation: Misnaming Andrzej Duda, the then-current President of Poland, which originated in the show as a RunningGag.

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