History Series / Boris2007

** Ada De Silvestri, who plays Stanis's mother for two episodes, is even worse than Corinna, and is only hired because of ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections (she is the senator's wife).

** HypercompetentSidekick: Arianna is well aware of being the only competent person in a highly dysfunctional TV crew. However, this leaves her to be taken for granted by everyone leading her to repress her feelings and needs.

* HypocriticalHumor: The scriptwriters claiming they really need an holiday. While sunbathing. Or fishing. Or doing anything but working.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The Count. To emphasize how bad he is, whenever there's something evil that he's made to the characters, it always include rape. In the end, The Writers have relied on this trope so much that it becomes hard to take seriously and René jokes that, by this point, The Count has basically raped the entire cast.

* SecondaryCharacterTitle: The eponymous Boris is René's pet goldfish, a LivingProp as best and just part of the scenery at worst.

* LeFilmArtistique: The educational short René creates in "Exit Strategy", ''The Red Ant'': filmed during breaks in a side-room, with voice-over narration by René himself, the FauxSymbolism of the card game, and a DownerEnding.

** On that note, a ton of episode titles are obvious or less-than-obvious citations from movies and other works, such as ''The Sky over Stanis'' (a pun on the original title of Wim Wenders' ''Film/WingsOfDesire'', "The Sky over Berlin"); ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Logo No Logo]]''; ''Use the Force, Ferretti''; ''[[Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest The Importance of Being Well-Liked by Lawyers]]''; ''Film/BackToTheFuture''; ''Stanis Must Not Die'' (riffing over the Italian title for ''Literature/{{Misery}}'', "Misery Must Not Die").

* {{Flanderization}}: Many characters get this. Starting in season 2, Stanis, Biascica, Itala, and Sergio become bigger jerks than they were in season 1, and Alessandro goes from a relatable everyman to a full-blown ButtMonkey.

Tropes that happen in the SoapWithinAShow:

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: After the female lead character Giulia is killed off (due to the actress leaving the series), the show introduces Giulia's cousin Sofia, another good-hearted, generic doctor who serves as a LoveInterest and co-worker to the male lead doctor Giorgio. In her second appearance, a jealous Sofia dramatically tells Giorgio "I will never be Giulia for you!", despite the fact that the character barely knows Giorgio in the story, as pointed out by Sofia's actress.

** The protagonists of the series, Giorgio and Giulia, are just bland good guys with no distinctive traits other than being doctors, to the point that Giulia's actress can't even find a word to describe her.

* GoshDangItToHeck: When the comedian Martellone tries to use his CatchPhrase as the notary, it's immediately censored because it contains a swear word. His line was later dubbed over by someone else and replaced with a family-friendly "how lucky!" (causing LipLock).

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** ''Dimension Six'', a show created to rival ''Medical Dimension''. [[spoiler: We find out, however, that they were never supposed to air together, they made both as quality fiction to show one at random and make it fail, to cancel the other.]] Foreshadowing: Season two (and three) shows the characters in an aquarium, with Lorenzo unwillingly breaking the glass in the end. In season three Lorenzo unwillingly breaks Renè's aquarium.

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Renè, after finding out the truth about ''Medical Dimension'' and losing the last bit of faith in television he had, decides to purposefully go back to ''The Eyes of the Heart''.

** Renè. Pannofino is good at doing that sort of characters.

** Renè himself: he started ''The Eyes of the Heart'' believing it would be something good, but then kept working on it only because he was payed to. However, he keeps feeling guilty about it and dreaming of doing something good again, and eventually moves out of it at the end of season two.
** Duccio was like Renè, except he's perfectly okay with it and doesn't move out.

* MusicVideoCreditsSequence: The main characters are shown around the set, with their name and job next to them, lip-syncing to Music/ElioELeStorieTese's song.

* RunningGag: The eral's ring is a main plot point in ''The Eyes of the Heart 2''. Despite no one knowing exactly why.

** In ''Caught by the network'', the network exec gives Lopez an empty blue box, recreating the same scene and subsequent fadeout from ''Film/MulhollandDrive''.

** Split-screen cuts in the episode ''Use the Force, Ferretti'' are an homage to [[Series/TwentyFour 24]]. Also obviously the name of he episode
** On that note, a ton of episode titles are obvious or less-than-obvious citations from movies, such as ''The Sky over Stanis'' (a pun on the original title of Wim Wender's "Wings of Desire", 'the sky over Berlin'); ''No Logo''; ''Use the Force, Ferretti''; ''The Importance of Being Well-Liked by Lawyers''; ''Back To The Future''; ''Stanis Must Not Die''.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Season three, in the last episodes, becomes a steep one for Renè.

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* GoshDangItToHeck: When the comedian Martellone tries to use his CatchPhrase as the notary, it's immediately censored because it contains a swear word. His line was later dubbed over by someone else and replaced with something more family-friendly.

** At the end of season 2, a MsFanservice (with political connections) is called to appear on the WhamEpisode of the soap... She wasn't even able to say ''one'' line.

** It must also be noted that Mariano, between season one and two, have some kind of epiphany that makes him a nicer and softer person. The quote above takes place ''after'' that epiphany. We only see a glimpse of him before it, and it's him burning down the stage.

* 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

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Dimension Six'', a show created to rival ''Medical Dimension''. [[spoiler: We find out, however, that they were never supposed to air together, they made both as quality fiction to show one at random and make it fail, to cancel the other.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Renè, after finding out the truth about ''Medical Dimension'' and losing the last bit of faith in television he had, decides to purposefully go back to ''The Eyes of the Heart''.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Renè''': We are fucking done with quality! We want ''shit''!]]

* HopeSpot: Curiously, when it looks like Renè will lose the job. Not being tied to ''The Eyes of the Heart 2'' makes him consider doing some quality work again, but in the end the show is succesful, so he keeps the job and the money. He eventually leaves for ''Machiavelli'', but season three shows it's just another one of those. The season itself turns in yet another one with ''Medical Dimension''.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Invoked by Lopez as the reason ''The Eyes of the Heart'' was so poorly received and cancelled. It might or might not be true: it ''was'' that bad, however the sequel is just as bad and it's however quite succesfull.

* WhamShot: Claudio telling Renè he's leaving and that "''Medical Dimension'' is a trap."
** Also, 3x13 ("Back to the Future- Part 1"), we already saw Renè [[spoiler: asking the screenwriters for "their usual shit", but we only get the true extent of his HeelFaceTurn when he tells what they are about to shot: ''The Eyes of the Heart 3''.]]

* GoshDangItToHeck: When the comedian Martellone tries to use his CatchPhrase as the notary, it's immediately censored because it contains a swear word. His line was later dubbed over by someone else and replaced with something more family-friendly. Apparently, this soap may explore topics like rape, murder, and (apparently) incest, but swear words are not allowed.

* BackFromTheDead: All the time, including characters who are apparently killed off but then they are seen perfectly alive in later episodes with no explanation.

* DescendedCreator: Unintentionally: Arianna reveals that crew members routinely have to portray roles, because the contracted actors are either unavailable or unsuitable. Since even Duccio and ''Biascica'' have already appeared in front of the cameras in different roles, Alessandro is forced to portray a homosexual social worker, but when his acting proves atrocious it's [[spoiler:René]] who plays the part.

* AmbiguouslyGay: While gossiping about Orlando Serpentieri, René mentions there are rumors about him being gay [[AmbiguouslyBi or at least bisexual]], although Orlando hasn't shown any hint of his sexuality or attraction to anyone. After learning Orlando has been recommended by a senator, René thinks said senator might be bisexual as well.

* SeriesContinuityError: All the time, including characters who are apparently killed off but then they are seen perfectly alive in later episodes with no explanation.

* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: InUniverse. The notary, the comic relief of the show, doesn't have any lines in the script, and instead the actor has to improvise them. This is not because Martellone is good at improvising, but because The Writers can't come up with something actually funny and decide to leave the work to the actor, resulting in very clumsy jokes.

* CoitusEnsues: At some point, the screenwriters are working on the script of an episode and can't think of anything to advance the plot involving Stanis and Corinna, until one of them suggests to let them have sex, out of nowhere.

* EvilTwin: In ''The Eyes of the Heart'' Corelli has one.

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!!Tropes that happen in the series ''[[SoapWithinAShow The Eyes of the Heart]]'':

** HarpoDoesSomethingFunny. InUniverse. The notary, the comic relief of ''The Eyes of the Heart'', doesn't have any lines in the script, and instead the actor has to improvise them. This is not because Martellone is good at improvising, but because The Writers can't come up with something actually funny and decide to leave the work to the actor, resulting in very clumsy jokes.
** RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: InUniverse. The main antagonist of ''The Eyes of the Heart'' is "The Count" and, to emphasize how bad he is, whenever there's something evil that he's made to the characters, it always include rape. In the end, The Writers have relied on this trope so much that it becomes hard to take seriously and René jokes that, by this point, The Count has basically raped the entire cast.

** VagueAge: InUniverse, When Giulia, Corinna's character, says how old she is, she says "Io ho gli anni che ho" [[note]]Translated: "[[ShapedLikeItself I am as old as I am]]"[[/note]], leaving her age unclear, since Corinna refuses to say that her character is 34 years old because her teen fans could be turned off if they hear that she's too old.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: After the female lead character Giulia is killed off (due to the actress leaving the series), the show introduces Giulia's cousin Sofia, another good-hearted, generic doctor who serves as a LoveInterest and co-worker to the male lead doctor Giorgio. In her second appearance, a jealous Sofia angrily tells Giorgio "I will never be Giulia for you!", despite the fact that the character barely knows Giorgio in the story, as pointed out by Sofia's actress.