Crazy 1990s in Poland - transition from communism to capitalism - stories

@aywenhou625
This program's intro caused me to take exams for the Maritime Academy in Szczecin after graduating from high school in 1990. After getting in I studied navigation. After graduating I started working at sea. I sailed on seagoing vessels for 3 shipowners for 25 years. Ahoy.

@ESTYMANAGRANIATV
I feel 30 years younger now.

@BenyNukem
I see that everyone from my generation remembers it. Back then it was something!

@numbsliwa
I remember as a kid you only waited for the opening credits. I will never forget how the first time I came across it, I thought some great series/movie about pirates was starting. I literally pissed myself when I saw it. But, I was so disappointed and in disbelief that this epic, legendary, brain-destroying little bastard opening credits was the introduction to such a fekking boring and shytty program that I thought then that someone on that TV had made a mistake and they had mistakenly shown something else.

@corsiarz77
It seems to have been on Sundays during the chicken soup time. I don't remember the content of the program at all, but the opening with the music is stuck in my head as if I heard it yesterday.

Crazy 1990s are also known for English learning hype. Before, the main foreign language taught in Polish schools as compulsory subject from grade 5 primary school was Russian. But most students refused to learn it as the language of occupiers.
All of a sudden, after the Eastern Block collapsed, everybody desired to learn English. People resorted to various offers and probably the most popular ones were courses which could be addressed to a lot of students at a time. It was important due to the shortage of teachers of English in the edu market.

Less popular ways of acquiring English was private tutoring, but many people couldn`t afford it or again there weren`t enough teachers in the area.
That is why TV educational programmes were also used to learn the language. I remember the most famous one - about a funny monster from space called Muzzy who likes eating clocks on Earth. The series was liked by kids and we, teachers, also played it to our students during course classes or at language camps.

Here you are.

Crazy 1990s in Poland - transition from communism to capitalism - stories
Who come up with these stupid titles?

If Poland had communism I would have never left..."To each according to his needs"...what's not to like...

BTW, nobody ever lived under "communism" and nobody ever will - except as a child. Some like it so much that they stay with mom and dad till they are both gone.

That was an empty slogan and the reality was much greyer. E.g, you could afford buying only one shirt monthly while your dreamed of two or three. That is why you defected to the West.