rival TV station Antena 1 responded with a similar show from Divertis, a remarkably similar group, that inspired the formation of Vacanța Mare in the late 80s. The show format consisted of two parts - half an hour of comedic sketches such as Râdeţi cu oameni ca noi, ("Laugh with the likes of us"), Spectacol Vacanţa Mare, ("The Vacanţa Mare Show") and Stăpânii Manelelor, ("The Masters of Manele" - a pun on The Lord of the Rings translated in Romanian as Stăpânul Inelelor). This part of the show is somewhat similar to BBC's Little Britain show. The second half of the show it was reserved to a theatrical comedic series (Leana and Costel), featuring the life of their famous characters in the village of Sadova, Dolj. A few years in the collaboration with Pro TV, the show started to lose audience, being moved to a later time segment (10 PM). However, the group made two movies: Garcea si oltenii (2001) and Trei fraţi de belea (2006). Both movies where heavily promoted by Media Pro Pictures, a subsidiary of the company that also owns Pro TV, and "Garcea și oltenii" grossed the highest box office figures for a Romanian movie after 1989 (almost 290.000 spectators viewed the movie in Romania). At the beginning of 2007 the group left Pro TV for Kanal D for a salary of 300.000€. Characters The professor and his assistant - they were the main characters in their first comedy series "Pastila timpului" ("The time pill") which was the second half of their original PRO-TV show from 1999. The 2 characters would travel to a different time period every episode, get into trouble and barely escape using the "Time pill". Garcea - the stereotypical image of the Romanian traffic policeman, slow, stupid (he is barely literate) and always threatening people with his baton or with his ticket book. Leana and Costel - a peasant couple from Sadova, Dolj. Stereotypical rural idiots, with a stereotypical Oltenia accent, always drinking ţuică and fighting each other, they get themselves in all kinds of troubles while trying different get-rich-quick schemes. Other well-known characters from the "Leana and Costel" series are their stupid fat son Axinte, their mentally slow and horny daughter Lila, their greedy neighbor Mitică, the inn-keeper Romică and Frankfurt, a local gypsy. Boier Moflea si Voda - "Moflea the Noble and the King", an ironic image of a king