History Series / Boris2007

** Also, in the last episode, characters tell Lorenzo "wax on, wax off" to remember his role as a slave (a case of BeamMeUpScotty, since the phrase used, "metti la cera, togli la cera", is not the actual translation in the movies, "dai la cera, togli la cera").

** ''My Africa (part 1)'' includes a parody of {{Lost}}'s iconic eye-opening season 1 shoot.

** Again in ''My Africa (part 1)'', Corinna's arrival on the set has numerous elements that recall Kate Winslet's arrival on the titular ship of {{Titanic}}.
** The beating of Lorenzo in ''The Daughter of Mazinga'' is a recreation of "Gomer Pyle"'s beating in FullMetalJacket.

* CastingGag: Stanis is known for playing Corelli in ''The Eyes of the Heart''. Is actor, Pietro Sermonti, is known for playing a doctor in another italian series, ''A Doctor in the Family''.

* Foil: ''Dimension Six''

** Which is in itself another brilliant foreshadowing: Federer (the goldfish Renè bought for the new series) is lost and replaced with another random one [[spoiler: as ''Medical Dimension'', we will find out, loses is purpose and becomes just a series like any other. That the replacement turns out to be Boris, the fish bought for ''The Eyes of the Heart'', only makes it more brilliant.]]

* BigBad: Dr. Cane might count as this. He doesn't want to stop the protagonists, but causes all the meddling that trobules them [[spoiler: fits the trope in season three, when he's actively planning to make Renè's work a disaster, see ScrewedByTheNetwork below]]. However, he only does that to please the

** A quite heavier one: in season three a repented scriptwriter advises, to do a good job, to never make more than three season. It hinted that it would the series' last season (may count as LeaningOnTheFourthWall).

* AffablyEvil: Claudio, the young, nice and enthusiast network delegate that keeps supporting Renè and his idea of quality for ''Medical Dimension''. However, it was chosen by Cane to lure Renè into it and making him just do another ''The Eyes of the Heart''.

* BigBad: Dr. Cane might count as this. He doesn't want to stop the protagonists, but causes all the meddling that trobules them (also, in season three he is the one luring Renè lying to him about the importance and quality of his new fiction). However, he only does that to please the

* TitleDrop: Both ''Use the Force, Ferretti'' and ''Quality isn't enough''.

* MoneyDearBoy: Orlando Serpentieri, a renowned actor, joins the cast. When Alessandro asks him why, after playing Shakespear, would he do that, he answers honestly that between Shakespeare and ''The Eyes of the Heart 2'' there's something called "loan".

* Catchphrase: Stanis's "very italian", his way to complain about anything he doesn't like, and "not italian" (for a short while, in season two, "anglosaxon") is how he says something is good. It gives us the hylarious line
-->'''Stanis''': I don't know, I think that Shakespeare... Is a bit too much italian...-

* MoneyDearBoy:
** Orlando Serpentieri, a renowned actor, joins the cast. When Alessandro asks him why, after playing Shakespear, would he do that, he answers honestly that between Shakespeare and ''The Eyes of the Heart 2'' there's something called "loan".

* SelfDeprecation: "The Eyes of the Heart" has three male screeptwriters, just like "Boris". They do not come out in a good light, let's put it this way.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: In-Universe with "Medical Dimension". One of the screeptwriters hears random sentences from the other two talking about anything (except, of course, "Medical Dimension") and writes them verbatim.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Played with: Stanis actually is the biggest name in the cast, but that still makes him not even nearly as important as he thinks he is.

* BigBad: Dr. Cane might count as this. He doesn't want to stop the protagonists, but causes all the meddling that trobules them (also, in season three he is the one luring Renè lying to him about the importance and quality of his new fiction). However, he only does that to appraise the
* BiggerBad: The audience.

* GilliganCut: Whenever René, Stanis or someone else is praising the scriptwriters' work (it must be noted that, in the first case, said praises are BlatantLies), we immediately get to see how they wrote that. See RealLifeWritesThePlot for an example.

* EarWorm: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65vj-dCqLq8 the opening]], from comedic rock group [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elio_e_le_storie_tese Elio e le Storie Tese]]. Also notable since, even while the whole song is sung by Elio, each line is in-character dialogue for one of the characters above (and lip-sync'd by them in the opening).

* HeyItsThatVoice: René's actor, Francesco Pannofino, is the Italian voice of many Hollywood actors, including George Clooney, Denzel Washington, Antonio Banderas, Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump and CSI's William L. Petersen (Gil Grissom).

** In ''The Deaf-mute, the Senator and the Future of Our Country'', the ghosts of René's mentors appear in much the same way as the Force ghosts do in [[StarWars Return of the Jedi]].

Boris is an Italian comedic TV series produced by FOX. It's a {{Dilbert}}esque satire of the Italian TV series production process revolving around an awful melodrama named ''Eyes of the Heart 2'' (the sequel of another equally awful series which was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork cut off after only two episodes, but which the network execs believe was only penalized due to its time slot]]) and the unlucky, [[DysfunctionJunction disfunctional]] troupe of the same — a neurotic director, self-serving and self-centered stars, an incompetent and coke-addicted photography director, a dishonest executive producer, slave interns and more. It parodies much that's wrong with the production process of the mainstream networks: politics, blatantly dishonest product placement, [[ClicheStorm cut-and-paste cliché plots]], extreme ExecutiveMeddling and worse, but even when it's not actively making fun of something, the quirky cast manages to keep the funny coming.

* {{AxCrazy}}: Mariano Giusti, a (InUniverse) recurring guest star who has the villain role of The Count in ''Eyes of the Heart'', is certifiably insane and destructively violent (a fact the troupe tries to defuse by leaving Alessandro to keep him calm — a thing he does under Mariano's threat of death by baseball bat mauling).

* MeaningfulName: Biascica's last name literally means 'slurs' (as in 'to slur', the speech impediment) — a thing he does liberally.

** Split-screen cuts in the episode ''Use the Force, Ferretti'' are an homage to [[TwentyFour 24]]. Also obviously the name of he episode

* Itala, the [[BottleFairy wino]] log secretary.

The show is in its third season, having followed the production of the two seasons of ''Eyes of the Heart 2'' and later of the [[FollowTheReaper blatant ripoff]] of American {{MedicalDrama}}s ''Medical Dimension''.

* ThePrimaDonna: ''all'' actors in ''all'' of the in the InUniverse series.