Bibin svijet
# Bibin svijet

Bibin svijet (literal translation "Biba's World") is Croatian humorous series that was broadcast from April 18, 2006 until January 15, 2011, on the RTL. Later it was played on RTL Kockica, during summer break and weekends. It is also available on Dailymotion. Before it was published to YouTube. Bibin svijet was directed by Aldo Tardozzi. It is one of the few Croatian series that was aired long after it was shot. According to ABG Plus's research, Bibin World is the most watched Croatian humorist series. It is still popular, predominantly because of nostalgia, durability of shown situations and because of language.

## About

A small grocery store is a place where Biba Fruk, Đurđa Hrković, Milivoj Babić, Vlado Krunčić and their boss Janko Piškorić work. Despite the great effort, something always goes wrong, at home or in the market. Although Biba's life does not differ from the life of other people (house-work-house), her days are full of comic situations and troubles that come down because of her language and free spirit. But in the end it all ends well. One thing is for sure - Bibin's world is a series full of ordinary people who find themselves in unusual situations. Series mainly focus on work in supermarkert in comic and even in a bit unreal way, but also shows problems that supermarkert's employers face in general. Other main part is showing how average life looked like: cooking, cleaning and relationships.

## Characters

Biserka "Biba" Fruk is the main character of the series. She lives in an apartment with her husband Martin and children Darko and Sandra. At home, she mostly cleans and cooks, sometimes watching television and resting, mainly sleeping on sofa or kissing with her husband. At work she works with her best friend Đurđa, she is only who understands she, but partially. They often talk together and visit each other. She is sarcastic to customers, sometimes she roasts them. Biba has no neighbours, except in one episode, when she was not in good relations with him. She successfully solves the problems.

Đurđa Hrković is Biba's best friend and they work together in the market. Her relationship with Vlado and Milivoj is friendly, although they sometimes tell her that she is old. She lives with her mother in the apartment. Her mom is very protective because Đurđa's father wasn't good by her opinion, so she doesn't want Đurđa to experience same problem. Biba was only twice in Đurđa's house for dinner, and once at sleepover, and Đurđa was at Bibe several times. At the end, she married Goran. Her relationship with him was from very good to very low, but they still decided to marry.

Milivoj Babić works in a supermarket. He is mostly in a sarcastic relationship with Biba and Đurđa, but they collaborated in an episode when they were striking and they do not have big issues. He was obsessed with women, so he meet with Tamara, who was supposed to marry Biba's brother, so Biba did not respect her. His relation with Tamara broke very fast. Đurđa sent flowers to Tamara marking herself as a Tamara's lover, what destroyed Tamara and Milivoj romance.

Vlado Krunčić also works in supermarket. He once talked to her mom about the dying cat, so Biba realized that his mom was dying, and that news spread to Piškorić, Đurđa and Milivoj. Later, they gathered in the Vlado's yard and there they realized that it was not his mom but her cat. Then, Biba was shocked, also Đurđa and Milivoj because they were sure that she said mother. Several times he was reading some newspaper featuring women and football.

Janko Piškorić is a supermarket manager who is spending most of his time in his office and calculates salaries and makes the order in the supermarket and plans to improve earnings (introducing a child's corner). He had a wife, but got divorced. He was originally not a manager, even though he appeared in the first episode when he replaced the old boss, and he was snooping on a jar of garbage dumped at the supermarket floor. Although his workers sometimes are doing everything except work, he is not strict. In last episode he said he has a crush on Biba.

Martin Fruk is Biba's husband who works as an auto mechanic with his best friend Goran. Two actors acted for him. He likes Biba very much, he likes playing football with Darko, and he is often angry at Sandra for her puberty behaviour, but he has never been strict to her or punished her. One day at his workshop were Milivoj and his girlfriend, and while two of them were acting on a motorcycle, he went in to check if everything was okay with the workshop and he got angry, but showed it calmly. Although Biba is in good relations with Đurđa, Đurđa sometimes irritates Martin, but once enabled her to meet famous motorists.

Sandra Fruk is the only Biba's daughter and oldest child. She often wants to find boyfriends. Once she found one from Iceland, one of them helped her get 5 (A) in the math test. The Darko is often angry because she wants to be the main one, although they are not always in conflict. She often says that her parents are shameful, and once thex sent her to work at the supermarket to see her. Virtually, she helped supermarket introducing english phrases "hot" and "cool", and installing icd cream machine.

Darko Fruk is the only Biba's son and youngest child. He often watches football with his dad, mainly calmly with few exceptions. For example, when Đurđa lived shortly at their home because her was floded, she invited her potential boyfriend for a dinner in Biba's home, but Darko and Martin interrupet the night, and they were described as a "wild and undisturbed".

## Seasons and episode by dates of airdate in Croatia

| Season | Number of episodes | First episode of season | Last episode of season |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 11 | April 18, 2006 | June 27, 2006 |
| 2 | 20 | December 5, 2006 | April 17, 2007 |
| 3 | 25 | April 24, 2007 | December 11, 2007 |
| 4 | 16 | September 18, 2010 | January 15, 2011 |

## Sources

* Bibin svijet at RTL.hr (in Croatian)
* Epizode at RTL.hr (in Croatian)
* 'Bibin svijet': Povratak Bibe Fruk u dućan (in Croatian)
