History WebVideo / TheChairmansEar

* MetaphoricMetamorphosis: Almost every character appearing in episode 11 is shown like that at some point. In particular, father Tadeusz is shown as a voting urn, representing his influence over the potential voters, and the chairman is represented by an ATM, as Tadeusz wants to fund another moneymaking scheme.

** The Prime Minister Beata isn't that much better. She's a meek woman KickedUpstairs and pushed around by her higher-ups.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The series can be seen as an informal sequel to a series of cabaret skits which satirized then-incumbent Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his cabinet; Robert Górski co-created the skits and played the role of Tusk himself. He eventually reprised the role in ''[=The Chairman's Ear=]''.

Four seasons were produced. The first three seasons, sans special episodes produced for a video-streaming service Showmax, used to be available on the [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggq3qvOrrM2u9gRL7oMOfA official YT channel]] with English subtitles, but they were removed in February 2019, and were aired in syndication after Showmax's closure.

* MultitaskedConversation: See rant-inducing slight.

* MultitaskedConversation: See RantInducingSlight.

* RantInducingSlight: After having to deal with Antoni pushing her around in episode 9, [[ExtremeDoormat Beata, the prime minister,]] receives a call from her husband, way out of his depth when it comes to housework, and snaps at him. Luckily for her, her rant gets [[MultitaskedConversation misinterpreted by the [=MoD=]]].

Four seasons were produced. The first three seasons, sans special episodes produced for a video-streaming service Showmax, used to be available on the [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggq3qvOrrM2u9gRL7oMOfA official YT channel]] with English subtitles, but they were removed in February 2019 - it's been aired on Polish Comedy Central and a niche WP.tv channel, and there's a DVD release. Time will tell if it'll be available on Netflix after Showmax's closure.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Adrian from Together Party tears Chairman a new one, calling him out on embezzling funds for a propaganda campaign and declaring him NotSoDifferent to all the people he criticized over the years when his party was in the opposition.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: [[https://youtu.be/d3ONkQ48KWY?t=8m53s Mariusz's expression]] when seeing the environment minister looking at the Chairman's cat and grabbing his hunting rifle.

Four seasons were produced. The first three seasons, sans special episodes produced for a video-streaming service Showmax, used to be available on the [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggq3qvOrrM2u9gRL7oMOfA official YT channel]] with English subtitles, but they were removed in February 2019. With Showmax's closure, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes torrent sites are your best bet if you want to watch the show.]]

Watch it with English subtitles on the official Youtube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggq3qvOrrM2u9gRL7oMOfA here]].

* HopelessWithTech: Even the Chairman himself acknowledges that when it comes to the knowledge of technology he is stuck in TheSeventies. He thinks that a moving electric car would eventually pull its plug out the socket, and that if there were many such cars their cables would get entangled. In the second season it is shown that he "browses" the internet by reading web pages which were printed for him.

** The Prime Minister isn't that much better. She's a meek woman KickedUpstairs and pushed around by her higher-ups.

* GunNut: The environment minister enters the office carrying a hunting rifle, which he uses ''on reflex'' to try and shoot the Chairman's cat. He also carries a S&W revolver.

* TheKlutz: The episode where the Minister of Foreign Affairs is introduced starts with him tripping over a ladder and breaking a fish bowl and ends with him dropping a chandelier and causing a blackout in the Chairman's office.

* OpenMouthInsertFoot: The Minister of Foreign Affairs' attempt to compliment Mrs. Basia leads to him unwittingly implying that she looks old. His attempt to clarify what he meant only results in him [[DiggingYourselfDeeper digging himself deeper]].

* RantInducingSlight: After having to deal with the minister of defense pushing her around in episode 9, [[ExtremeDoormat Beata, the prime minister,]] receives a call from her husband, way out of his depth when it comes to housework, and snaps at him. Luckily for her, her rant gets [[MultitaskedConversation misinterpreted by the [=MoD=]]].

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Adrian from Together Party tears Chairman a new one, calling him out on embezzling funds for a propaganda campaign and declaring him NotSoDifferent to all the people he criticized over the years in the opposition.

* MetaphoricMetamorphosis: Almost every character appearing in episode 11 is shown like that at some point. In particular, father Tadeusz is shown as a voting urn, representing his influence over the potential voters]], and the chairman is represented by an ATM, as Tadeusz wants to fund another moneymaking scheme.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: [[Mariusz's expression https://youtu.be/d3ONkQ48KWY?t=8m53s]] when seeing the environment minister looking at the Chairman's cat and grabbing his hunting rifle.

* AesopCollateralDamage: [[spoiler:Mariusz got wounded during the masquerade in episode 15, because one of the bullets he was shot by was a live round.]]
* AesopEnforcer: [[spoiler:Adam the PR guy arranged the events of episode 15 to teach the Chairman a lesson to not trust anyone.]]

* BrawnHilda: Krystyna, from episode 8. She manages to [[spoiler:tackle the German Chancellor's bodyguard, ''after'' getting thrown into a reception desk by him.]] She's also loud, petty and rude.

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: In the most literal sense - Mariusz put a gun in the desk of the Chairman in the first episode, and in the fifteenth one the Chairman shoots him with it, believing he's a secret agent.]]

** The thirteenth episode ends with [[spoiler: the entire parliamentary opposition squabbling with each other, while the Chairman walks upstairs and heads to bed.]]
* DramaBombFinale: [[spoiler: Episode 15, the first part of a two-parter. Mariusz is believed to be a secret agent, and gets shot by the Chairman. The last shot of the episode is him dead on the floor with the words 'to be continued'. During the climax all the comedy goes out of the window, barring a single Crosses The Line Twice moment.]] Subverted in the next episode, [[spoiler:when it turned out it was all a set-up by Adam the PR guy.]]

** Mariusz also qualifies. The Chairman described him as "his most loyal eunuch" once. [[spoiler:Played for drama when it's revealed his spineless might've made him easy enough to be recruited by the StateSec back in the eighties. It turned out to be a ruse, but still...]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: In the first episode, when asked if the handgun he gave the Chairman was loaded, Mariusz stares down the barrel to check. In the 15th episode, he gets shot by the very same gun.]]
* GunNut: The environment minister enters the office carrying a hunting rifle, which he [[spoiler:uses ''on reflex'' to try and shoot the Chairman's cat. He also carries a S&W revolver]].

* TheKlutz: The episode where the Minister of Foreign Affairs is introduced starts with him tripping over a ladder and breaking a fish bowl [[spoiler:and ends with him dropping a chandelier and causing a blackout in the Chairman's office.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: The Chairman himself manipulates his underlings, and, in some cases, [[spoiler:the parliamentary opposition.]]
* MetaphoricMetamorphosis: Almost every character appearing in episode 11 is shown like that at some point. In particular, father Tadeusz is shown as [[spoiler:a voting urn, representing his influence over the potential voters]], and the chairman is represented by [[spoiler: an ATM, as Tadeusz wants to fund another moneymaking scheme.]]

* NoKillLikeOverkill: Killing a spider [[spoiler:with a Smith and Wesson revolver meant to finish off moose]] definitely qualifies. The environment minister likes his guns.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The series can be seen as an informal sequel to a series of cabaret skits which satirized then-incumbent Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his cabinet; Robert Górski co-created the skits and played the role of Tusk himself. [[spoiler:He eventually reprised the role in ''[=The Chairman's Ear=]''.]]

* StatusQuoIsGod: [[spoiler: Double subverted: the episode 15 ends on a cliffhanger, with Mariusz bleeding on the floor, shot by the Chairman for being a traitor, only for the next episode to get back to status quo with everything handwaved by "it was all the PR guy's job; he wanted to make the Chairman less trusting".]]

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

[[caption-width-right:300:Left to right, the Chairman and Mariusz.]]

** As of episode 13, the President of Poland still waits to be invited to the chairman's office. Any time he tries to get in behind someone, the door gets closed in his face. Not even slammed, gently closed.

* FirstNameBasis: Even though it's pretty obvious who the characters are meant to represent, none of them are referred to by their last name, with the exception of the Chairman's assistant, who got the last name "Płaszczak". Episode 11 gives another exception, where the character introduces himself as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Penderecki Krzysztof Penderecki]]

* HumbleHero: Parodied in the second season. Mariusz refuses to accept an order of merit for his hard work... which he [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext awarded to himself beforehand]].

* NotHelpingYourCase: In the second episode of the second season Misio pays the Chairman a visit to apologize for being a troublemaker, but ends up spending most of the time bragging how much Antoni likes him, and suggesting that the Chairman is afraid of Antoni. [[spoiler:Played with, as it turns out that the Chairman's main beef with all of this is that Misio is apologizing at all; the Chairman lectures Misio to [[NeverMyFault never apologize for anything]].]]
* OneSteveLimit: Averted, as both the Chairman's [[TheRival rival]] and the POTUS are named Donald. It's because they're representing real-life politicians bearing that name, Donald Tusk and Donald Trump respectively. Also, in addition to the Chairman's assistant there is another Mariusz (the coordinator of the secret services). Starting with the second season there is also another Jarosław (the Deputy Prime Minister) in addition to the Chairman himself.

* TakeThat: It's political satire explicitly based on real life people, it's a given. To briefly sum it up: The Chairman is depicted as a ManipulativeBastard, his party colleagues are shown as universally spineless, with exception of the [=MoD=], and [[spoiler:the opposition is too busy fighting with other parties and themselves to stand up to the Chairman.]] Episode 16 takes a few potshots at UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.

'''''[=The Chairman's Ear=]''''' (Polish: ''Ucho Prezesa'') is a Polish political comedy web-series, created by Robert Górski. The show is a satire of the then-current Polish government, and the chairman of the ruling party, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaros%C5%82aw_Kaczy%C5%84ski Jaroslaw Kaczynski]].