No idea what is going on in this one...
this post was submitted on 04 May 2026
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Back in the day TV program ended at night.
They continue fighting once it ends.
Even when arguing with a loved one, they can still make peace with each other over a common interest. Once the show's over, they get back to their argument
For extra context: szünet is Hungarian for intermission
damn, I thought it was advert. But it makes sense since it's communist hungary
Intermissions were common, the TV studio often experienced telecine jams or blown tubes, cutting to a "sorry, it's not your TV" card or similar.
They did have adverts, too. Most were for normal products and services, but longer, milder than Western ones (e.g. products slowly rotating on a tray) annd almost never mentioned prices. There was little risk of litigation so overpromising with phrases like "ensure", "indestructible" and "only at" was common even though many things required frequent repairs (especially TVs) or were easily beat by gray market imports or underhanded services. I saw a Czechoslovak 80s ad collection and two stood out:
- one presented TNS, Eastern Bloc's objectively best computer terminal system by JZD Agrokombinát Slušovice (the Asianometry video is good except it's pronounced Slew-sho-vi-tzeh), of course nobody could just buy a terminal, they were installed at farms and factories. The ad featured basic 3D graphics and synthesized speech.
- 288p:
- "Introducing new technology, new possibilities, programs and connectivity, with the new TNS microcomputer from JZD Agrokombinát Slušovice, distributed by ZZN Brno, Gottwaldov branch.
TNS JZD Agrokombinát Slušovice. ZZN Gottwaldov." (JZD means Collective Farm. Slušovice was by far the most "capitalist". ZZN means Agricultural Distribution Center. Gottwaldov is a town named after our worst Stalinist president, now bearing its original name Zlín (Eviltown). Slušovice (Politeville) is a random village near Zlín.)
- 288p:
- one had surreal music and showed Brutalist architecture. After a while, a well-paced documentary presenter voice talked about how concrete is the stone of the 20ᵗʰ century and mentioned its advantages over one whole minute. Then it showed the dirty process of concrete being poured into the rebar cage and the voiceover thanked concrete workers, none of which are seen in the video, for their contributions to society. (What do you mean it's not selling anything specific? It's the most concrete ad you'll ever see!)
- 288p:
- "Mankind seems to have an insatiable yearning to build and rise. Across ever broader areas, over ever deeper valleys, to ever taller heights. These daring engineering challenges are possible thanks to a material contemporary in every way: malleable, hard and flexible. Artificial stone, stone of today: concrete. This material is shaped by concrete construction professionals. Our society needs and is grateful for the hard work of concrete construction experts."
- 288p:
I wonder if there was also more blatant propaganda they cut from the collection, or if adverts were just like that.
And ads they were never expected to make money, they had bottom-of-the-barrel budget. Which is not bad, considering they don't create value. An example of a low-budget technique was in the ad for Rekord chewing gum, where rapid zoom in/out on 12 people chanting in an empty stadium was presumably employed to make them seem like a crowd...
Like dude, I get you didn't have compositing tools, but you could have used a shot from an old newsreel (TV alternative from back then), not like anybody cared about copyright...
By the way, the comic appears to show a cartoon, many of which (Slovak Pat a Mat, Polish Bolki i Lolki, Hungarian Mézga család) beat current production because acclaimed film creators who didn't quite ideologically align with the party were delegated to children's programming, and many of the resulting productions were enjoyed by all ages. Also, dubs of Western films/shows were uncommon but very good.
Of course, nobody but party cadres had a VCR so people were very careful not to miss episodes. (By the way, top Czech singer Karel Gott was shown using a VCR in his luxury home in a 1984 TV film but I think it was staged, there are mechanical keys but he is also seen operating it with a remote control in another shot (which is pointed at the TV, not the VCR on the cupboard), he also pronounces "video" the German way despite the West German version of the TV film not featuring the VCR scene. At that time, only about 20 % of households had a color TV, about the same ratio as US households with VCRs...)
By the way, the comic appears to show a cartoon, many of which (Slovak Pat a Mat, Polish Bolki i Lolki, Hungarian Mézga csálád) beat current production because acclaimed film creators who didn’t quite ideologically align with the party were delegated to children’s programming, and many of the resulting productions were enjoyed by all ages
wow, that's surprisingly deep for that picture of the pig in the hat next to the plant. Thank you for your in depth message
I shared this thread with !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/post/46434177
An example of a low-budget technique was in the ad for Rekord chewing gum, where rapid zoom in/out on 12 people chanting in an empty stadium was presumably employed to make them seem like a crowd...
every time I look back at this you add more stuff. I'm getting motion sickness
To be honest, such shot only appears 2x in the entire ad but I was simply too far into making it into an automatically looping embeddable image (GIF is the only cross-platform option despite the awful lack of compression) to pass up on it even after the annoyance became apparent. After all, that's how I remember the shot because it was looped in a Czech YouTuber's critique of the ad 10 years ago.
Then it showed the dirty process of concrete being poured into the rebar cage and the voiceover thanked concrete workers, none of which are seen in the video, for their contributions to society. (What do you mean it’s not selling anything specific? It’s the most concrete ad you’ll ever see!)
That video was fucking hilarious. Especially when the pipe started moving backwards. Very suggestive
I love that a show about a hat-wearing pig looking at plants is long enough to have an intermission.
I suppose she just found the fish
Ah thank you.
So the title seems to be “Jucika is watching tv”, the first th screen is a test image that was often transmitted before and after actual transmission, “szünet” is a break… so my guess is they take a break from fighting to watch tv, after which the tv takes a break and fighting continues.
Edit: gosh darn, everyone already mentioned this. Sorry.
Jucika is glassing someone.
In the first panel, Jucika is attempting to extol the brilliance of an inverted orientation of glass bottle to her husband. He, however, is insisting that it’s only holding liquid due to the cork, and her fallacy is being brought on by coded instructions to her brain encoded in the TV signal.
The second panel is a flashback to better times, when the two ran observation studies of Peppa Pig in order to collude in her eventual assassination, their minds free from coded corruption.
In the third panel, the Enlightened Obeliorate have initiated their code signal, Szünet, the Eskimo word for “glassy frost”, which activates a signal in Jucika’s brain. She sees her husband as a local representative of the Unconditioned Collective, and attacks him. The codeword also conveniently activates voice controls on the home’s chairs to cause them to collapse into nonvisible particles.
Just in case it wasn’t clear to anyone. I laughed
"Szunet" is hungarian for "intermission"
I'm sure someone's asked, so I guess it's my turn - how do you pronounce "Jucika"?
I'm sure it's not "juice-ika" like my brain says.
My brain also still says "Juice-ika", but someone who spoke Hungarian commented on a post the other day saying it's pronounced more like "Yucika"
It's a double diminutive: Julia (YooLeeAh) -> Juca (YooTsa) -> Jucika (YooTsiKah).
Hungarian is supposed to be pronounced like Finnish, IIUC, so yeah. That's how I read it anyway.
From Wikipedia
Jucika (Hungarian: [ˈju.tsi.kɒ], YUT-sik-ah)