History Series / CameraCafe

* AnnoyingLaugh:
** [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Guido]] [[DissonantLaughter Geller]] [[SmallReferencePools used to provide]] the image for the trope. Hee-hee!
** The new secretary [[BrainlessBeauty Gloria's]] weird laugh is ''very'' annoying

-> '''Paolo:''' ''"Pippo, weren't ya goin' to the bathroom?"''
-> '''[[CampGay Pippo:]]''' ''"But I..."''
-> '''Paolo:''' '''''[[NoIndoorVoice "GO TO THE BATHROOM!"]]'''''
-> '''Pippo:''' ''[[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl "GOING RIGHT NOW!"]]''
-> ''[cue GirlyRun, [[RunningGag as always]]]''

** Anna can't catch a break. Her home life is horrible, she's a single mother of two kids who is always struggling with money. Her ex-husband was a DomesticAbuser and every man she meets turns out to be violent as well (PlayedForLaughs!) At work she gets no respect either, her boss constantly yells at her, and she's the butt of many jokes by the other colleagues who show NoSympathy towards her situation.

* TheEeyore: Anna, who combines this with TheWoobie and ProneToTears, but it's justified since her life seems pretty horrible.

* MsFanservice: Some of the girls are pretty damn sexy when they're wearing the right clothes. Case in point: Alex, Gaia, Ilaria, Jessica, Giovanna and after the company merged with its rival Digitex, Caterina and Maria Eleonora. Most blatant in the episode, "La più bella dell'ufficio", that is, "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The most beautiful one in the office]]", where even [[TheWoobie Anna]] goes sexy (while [[{{Gonk}} Patti]]... er, [[NoYay is trying to do her best]]). Season 5 has Lucrezia and Gloria.

* TheEeyore: Anna, who combines this with TheWoobie and FragileFlower, but it's justified since her life seems pretty horrible.

** Definitely Andrea, annoyingly so. ''Every single character'' (including Alex, Gaia, De Marinis, even ''Geller'') gets some humiliation or punishment in at least one episode. But there's basically no episode in which Andrea gets any sort of karmik comeuppance for being right-down sadistic and cruel. To be fair, there's at least one episode, in the earliest seasons, with a glimpse of punishment for him: Andrea, injured and limited in the movements, [[DirtyCoward is hardly beaten by Luca and Paolo]], for all the violent humiliations they had to suffer. It was a suicidal behaviour for the two, [[WorthIt and they were fully aware of that]]: once Andrea recovers, his revenge is obviously unavoidable, so he still gets back on top by the end of the episode.

** Definitely Andrea, annoyingly so. ''Every single character'' (including Alex, Gaia, De Marinis, even ''Geller'') gets some humiliation or punishment in at least one episode. But there's basically no episode in which Andrea gets any sort of karmik comeuppance for being right-down sadistic and cruel. To be fair, there's at least one episode, in the earliest seasons, with a sort of punishment for him: Andrea, injured and limited in the movements, [[DirtyCoward is hardly beaten by Luca and Paolo]], for all the previous violent humiliations. [[WorthIt It was a suicidal behaviour for the two, since once Andrea recovered, his revenge is obviously unavoidable]], so he still gets back on top by the end of the episode.

** Definitely Andrea, annoyingly so. ''Every single character'' (including Alex, Gaia, De Marinis, even ''Geller'') gets some humiliation or punishment in at least one episode. But there's basically no episode in which Andrea gets any sort of karmik comeuppance for being right-down sadistic and cruel. Although there's at least one episode, in the early seasons, with a sort of comeuppance for him: Andrea, injured and limited in the movements, [[DirtyCoward is hardly beaten by Luca and Paolo]], for all the previous violent humiliations. It was a suicidal WorthIt behaviour for the two, since once Andrea recovered, his revenge is obviously unavoidable, so he still gets back on top by the end of the episode.

* CatchPhrase: several.

* ShoutOut: several.

* TookALevelInDumbass: Paolo. In a lot of season 4 episodes he's dumber than [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] and [[WesternAnimationFamilyGuy Peter Griffin]] combined. It gets toned down in season 5 but only because they manage to introduce a character who is even dumber than him, Gloria.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Played straight with [[TheChewToy Patti]] (and sometimes Wanda) but averted with all the other female characters(with rare exceptions) who are rarely involved in slapstick unlike the male characters.

* RunningGag: several.

* {{Schemer}}: Paolo and Luca always a ZanyScheme that provides the plot of most episodes.

* StalkerWithACrush: Lucrezia towards Paolo.

* TooDumbToLive: Silvano, Paolo (more in the later seasons) and Gloria.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Paolo.

* {{Troperiffic}}: you've already seen the tropes not related to specific episodes. Keep in mind this is a sketch show. As a consequence, many and brief episodes means many subjects covered, with some episode being based about tropes themselves. You get the picture.

* TheUnfairSex: if the men are plotting a plan to get to have sex with any of the women, be sure that by the end of the sketch the plan will backfire and the women will react [[DisproportionateRetribution accordingly]].
* TheUnseen: several, mostly related to Paolo, the AntiRoleModel. Paolo's family (his wife Valeria and his sons, Brad and Jonathan) and criminal buddies (Pino, the one nicknamed Budello, as well as Maruska the hooker). There's also Lello, along with his restaurant; the President of the company (the first one and the new one after season 3); Silvano's mom and her old next-door neighbour, Mrs Bollini.

* WritingLines: Paolo once screwed with the women, and as a result they forced him to write several times the [[AnAesop supposed Aesop]] on a giant paper sheet that ''covered the entire floor''.
** The punishment is ''even worse'' than it seems since Paolo is an illiterate of epic proportions.
* XanatosPlannedThisIndex: basically ''everyone'' gets a moment in which he or she is plotting something. ''Everyone''. Except any ButtMonkey, maybe.

* OnlySaneMan: Luca. It can't be otherwise since he's always dealing with Paolo's antics and he and Paolo are 95% (if not more so) of the show.

* OppositesAttract: Luca and Alex.
* OutOfFocus: Gaia, Giovanna and Emma in season 4 before [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome totally disappearing]] in season 5.
* ThePerfectionist: Maria Eleonora.

* ReallyGetsAround: Alex, and damn proud of it. She'd have sex with almost AnythingThatMoves, much to her [[FromACertainPointOfView "boyfriend"]] Luca's chagrin.

* RedOniBlueOni: Paolo and Luca.
* ResetButton: nothing ever stays the way the sketch ends, [[StatusQuoIsGod but rather]] [[SnapBack the way]] [[NegativeContinuity the sketch begins]] (without counting major events such as [[JumpingTheShark the aforementioned merger]]).

* {{Schemer}}: Again, Paolo and Luca.

* SitcomArchNemesis: the whole [[NoNameGiven unnamed company]] has the Digitex Company in the same building; in season 4, with the union of the two companies Paolo sees Digitex worker Michele Carminati as this (being also his rival in his selling job) but Carminati doesn't hate Paolo back and wants him to join his working team instead.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: played straight with [[TheChewToy Patti]] (and sometimes Wanda) but averted with all the other female characters.
** There are exception though.
* TheSnarkKnight: Luca.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Luca defines himself "tall, charismatic, charming, honest, serious, socially conscious, idealist and a cinema expert". Oh well. He's ''really'' kind of a cinema expert anyway. About the rest...
** Paolo also qualifies.

* SpannerInTheWorks: any stupid character will ruin any plan at the worst moment possible.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Geller and Maria Eleonora in season 4.
** Patti in season 5, ''so much'': there are several episodes completely about Patti, her pregnancy and Silvano, in which Luca and Paolo don't even appear and they are supposed to be the main characters!

* StatusQuoIsGod: the trope is generally in full effect, as the only thing remotely resembling a coherent continuity is the change of said status quo between seasons.
** However, the trope is [[MediumAwareness acknowledged]] and [[DeconstructedTrope sort of deconstructed]] by Luca in a Season 5 sketch, where Silvano [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity being fired for the nth time]] invokes in the former an... ''unusual'' reaction. Luca spends the whole time of the sketch in front of the coffee vending machine, constantly ranting in CreepyMonotone about how "it's always the same story, nothing ever changes, nothing ever happens", etc. This creeps out De Marinis so much, that he thinks it's another strategy of Luca to help Silvano keeping his job (and it ''isn't''); Silvano then hugs Luca in gratitude, and he replies [[CreepyMonotone "You see? Nothing happened."]] After Luca acknowledged the never-changing status quo, he basically took advantage of it to help Silvano by ''doing absolutely nothing.'' At the end of the sketch, Paolo remarks that "You've been there since this morning... I can't see you like this, let's go home". As soon as they leave, ''the coffee machine falls over''. Considering it could have ''crushed'' Luca, he snaps out of his depression and says in a surprised voice, [[MoodWhiplash "Oh well, so something DOES happen!"]]

** Anna, definitely. Even Olmo, who is love with her, admits that she's rather dumb.

** Silvano is by far the biggest Butt Monkey due to being Luca's and Paolo's favorite target. He gets all kids of abuse, beatings, and cruel pranks in any given episode. Basically everyone in the company considers him the office's punching bag.

* TheEeyore: Anna, who combined with with TheWoobie and FragileFlower, but it's justified since her life seems pretty horrible.

** Anna can't catch a break. Her home life is horrible, she's a single mother of two kids who is always struggling with money. Her ex-husband was a DomesticAbuser and every man she meets him turns out to be violent as well (PlayedForLaughs!). At work she gets no respect either, her boss constantly yells at her, and she's the butt of many jokes by the other colleagues who show NoSympathy towards her situation.

* {{Jerkass}}: ''Everyone'' in this show is a complete and shameless jerk. Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, Vittorio, and Alex are the most obvious examples, the women are all bitchy and manipulative who abuse of TheUnfairSex trope, and the others, while not openly mean, are BitchInSheepsClothing who would TakeALevelInJerkass any time they have a chance.

* ManipulativeBastard: The director, Mr. De Marinis embodies this trope wholeheartedly, but two characters are [[UpToEleven even better
than him]] at this, namely his daughter Chiara, and that in-universe NightmareFuelStationAttendant that is Guido Geller.

** Anna in the first two seasons, DependingOnTheWriter. She's a very good-looking woman and men hit on her frequently but due to her ButtMonkey status, she sometimes gets the HollywoodHomely treatment. How much she's stupid also varies depending on the episode.

* CasanovaWannabe: Paolo. He ''wishes'' he had sex with the women listed under Ms Fanservice below. Poor thing, he always [[WhatAnIdiot ruins everything right when he's close to the point to get one of them to date him]]. Out of his co-workers he only slept with his best friend's "girlfriend" [[ReallyGetsAround Alex]], his stalker Lucrezia and 60 years old Wanda.
** He actually ''gets'' many girls outside his workplace, mostly hookers and sluts, but still. It has been mentioned that he has an intense sex life unlike Luca.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Patti, Alex and Paolo's wife Valeria.

* ComedicSociopathy: ''everyone.''

* ComicTrio: Between Paolo, Luca and Silvano. Also, less frequently, Paolo, Luca and Olmo.
* ControlFreak: Maria Eleonora.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: De Marinis, the director.

* [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Relax Area]]: Let's just put it this way. Out of all the characters played by the guest stars, almost ''nobody'' liked the company in any way. [[TraumaCongaLine For good reason.]]
* CrypticBackgroundReference: the company produces something called C-14. It's never said what it is. In an episode, Patti is going to say what they are, but the episode ends [[SmashCut in the middle]] [[LostInTransmission of the phrase]].

* DiabolusExMachina: Regularly.

* TheDitz: Anna, definitely. Patti is this at times with some CloudCuckoolander tendencies as well.

* DumbIsGood: All the stupid characters (like Patti, Silvano, Anna, Wanda, Gloria...) tend to be way too naive and innocent to be as mean and cynical as others. Patti in the later seasons is far less naive and more and more shrill and bossy.

* TheEeyore: Anna.
* EnemyMine: Arch enemies Ilaria and Gaia on a few occasions teamed up against Luca and Paolo.
** This is the point of the whole relationship between Luca and De Marinis. They are openly hostile to each other, the former being a "Communist" who claims the director his natural enemy [[BlatantLies because of their opposite political leanings]], but actually they are always making secret agreements and plotting together against the other workers for their own personal profit (and everyone knows it, as lampshaded in season 4 episode "Il blog di Patti").

* EvilVersusEvil: Luca vs. De Marinis, Luca/Paolo vs. Andrea are the most frequent.
** One episode puts the two office's resident psychopaths (Andrea and Vittorio) against each other. Aside from that episode they don't have other scenes together though.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: basically the plot of every episode.
* FatBestFriend: Olmo to both Luca and Paolo.
* {{Flanderization}}: Patti, big time. She was already considered a [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] (because of her ugliness. ''Seriously.'') and the fact that she TookALevelInJerkass in season 5 didn't help either.
** Also Paolo. In season 1, with all his flaws, he still had a common sense, he was just less book smart than Luca. In later seasons, [[TookALevelInDumbass he was really dumbed down]], to the point he never gets the simplest thing and Luca has to explain ''anything'' to him multiple times. His idiocy reached its peak in season 4 though, it was a bit toned down in season 5.
** Silvano was less of a wimpy doormat in the very first episodes. He was still a ButtMonkey but he was actually able to react to people and in one episode after being insulted by Luca, he loudly yells back at him. In later episodes, apart from very rare BerserkButton moments of unexpected violence, (possibly SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome) he was a total ExtremeDoormat.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: [[TheUnseen Paolo's sons]] Brad (foolish) and Jonathan (responsible). Interestingly, in the beginning they are both shown as EnfantTerrible, but at some point, to [[AntiRoleModel Paolo's]] absolute dismay, the oldest son Jonathan started reading, studying and getting good grades. Obviously Paolo is often mad at him because of it and favours little criminal Brad instead.
* FriendVersusLover: There are quite a few episodes with Paolo and Alex fighting over Luca. That inevitably ended up with Luca having a rare PetTheDog moment trying to make happy both of them at the same time...only to discover that they actually don't care about him at all and that decided to spend time with each other instead. Leaving him alone, as usual.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: all the time. We often get to see... ''stuff'' randomly happening in the background; more often than not, it's likely to involve [[RunningGag Andrea and his baseball bat]]. And some poor guy running away from him.
* GenkiGirl: Patti.

* GoodWithNumbers: Silvano.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: The two main characters, Luca and Paolo.
** Arguably also Paolo and his friends Pino and Budello, although [[TheGhost they never appeared on the show]].
* HilarityEnsues: the very premise of the series. Everything can happen in front of the coffee vending machine, every character may appear at any given [[DiabolusExMachina (and least appropriate)]] moment, and most notably, every plan [[strike: can]] ''will'' [[HoistByHisOwnPetard backfire]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: while Luca is a Communist, he doesn't exactly always stick to the ideals and values that Communism would imply.
** InNameOnly: Communism as a whole.
* IdiotBall: Very common.
* ItMakesSenseInContext: after seeing "Il portafoglio" ("The wallet"), whistling will become the [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound most hilarious thing you'll ever hear]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: Luca, Luca, Luca. Patti, also. As well as most of the other characters.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: about a ShowWithinAShow with the same premise.

* {{Jerkass}}: ''Everyone'', with Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, and Vittorio being the best examples. Also Alex who is a big {{Jerkass}} to Luca (she gets better in season 5 though) and Geller, the MagnificentBastard.
** Even the supposedly "nice" Patti is evolving into this more and more.

* KarmaHoudini: it doesn't matter [[ReallyGetsAround how much of a slut]] Alex is, she never pays for it. Likewise, anyone who acts as the "villain" of the sketch equally never pays for it.
** Definitely Andrea, annoyingly so. ''Every single character'' (including Alex, Gaia, De Marinis, even ''Geller'') gets some humiliation or punishment in at least one episode. But there's basically no episode in which Andrea gets any sort of karmik comeuppance for being right-down sadistic and cruel.
*** Actually, there's at least one episode, in the early seasons, with a sort of comeuppance for him: Andrea, injured and limited in the movements, [[DirtyCoward is hardly beaten by Luca and Paolo]], for all the previous violent humiliations. It was a suicidal WorthIt behaviour for the two, since once Andrea recovered, his revenge is obviously unavoidable.

* LastNameBasis: De Marinis, Geller and Carminati.

* LoveRedeems: parodied in the episode "La Bella e la Bestia" ("The Beauty and the Beast") where Andrea, after a one-night stand with Gaia, claims to be madly in love with her and tells Luca and Paolo that he wants to be a better, nicer person just for love. Luca and Paolo obviously take advantage of the situation and start to pick on the new nice Andrea, who doesn't react violently anymore and he's basically become another Silvano. When Gaia arrives, she's seriously disgusted by Andrea being a pathetic doormat and tells him that [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys it was his tough badass attitude what made him appealing]]. So end of their "love story". Andrea of course immediately went back to his old self and you can imagine [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown what he did to Luca and Paolo]].

* MagnificentBastard: The director, Mr. De Marinis embodies this trope wholeheartedly, but two characters are [[UpToEleven even better than him]] at this, namely his daughter Chiara, and that in-universe NightmareFuelStationAttendant that is Guido Geller.

** Paolo, to a lesser extent.

* MsFanservice: some of the girls are pretty damn sexy when they're wearing the right clothes. Case in point: Alex, Gaia, Ilaria, Jessica, Giovanna and after the company merged with its rival Digitex, Caterina and Maria Eleonora. Most blatant in the episode, "La più bella dell'ufficio", that is, "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The most beautiful one in the office]]", where even [[TheWoobie Anna]] goes sexy (while [[{{Gonk}} Patti]]... er, [[NoYay is trying to do her best]]).
** Season 5 has Lucrezia and Gloria.

* NiceGuy: Michele Carminati, Paolo's nemesis, is usually a friendly and good-natured person.
** Silvano can be seen as this, although his kindness is mostly due to his shy and naive nature. And when he [[BerserkButton really gets mad ]] can be as violent as Andrea.

* OddFriendship: Luca and Paolo. The first time they met they hated each other: now they're best friends.
** Patti and Alex. Also Paolo and Patti in the episode "Momento d'intesa".
* OhCrap: whenever a sketch ends with a BolivianArmyEnding, the last shot shows whoever gets a DownerEnding ([[CrapsackWorld at the time]]) either [[StepfordSmiler trying to smile]] (see image above) screaming or [[HeroicBSOD stuck with a moronic yet horrified expression]].

** Patti, Silvano's "girlfriend", is regularly made fun and ridiculed by everyone, especially for her physical appearance.

** Wanda is an old woman and the lowest-level employee with the most tiresome job. Everyone take advantage of her and treats her like crap.

* BrainyBrunette: Ilaria and Maria Eleonora.

* TheBully: Luca and Paolo are two bullies picked on by another bully (Andrea, of course).

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Paolo. Actually many characters could qualify.
* ButtMonkey / TheChewToy: Silvano is by far the biggest one being also Luca's and Paolo's favorite target. Basically everyone in the company considers him the official ButtMonkey.
** Also Patti, Pippo, Anna and Wanda. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And Olmo to a lesser extent.]]
** Patti kept this status even in Season 5, ''[[UpToEleven despite being pregnant.]]''
* CameraAbuse: expect it anytime [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Andrea draws near]].

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Patti is a self-proclaimed animal lover who also does volunteering with older people. She comes off as naive homely woman who is bullied by the other jerks on the show...except that she's often revealed to be a {{Jerkass}} just as much as everyone else and she treats her pseudo-boyfriend Silvano like dirt.

* AllMenArePerverts: With Paolo being easily the worst offender.
** Subverted with [[ChasteHero Silvano]], who is much more naive and innocent than his girlfriend [[CovertPervert Patti]].

* AnnoyingLaugh: [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Guido]] [[DissonantLaughter Geller]] [[SmallReferencePools used to provide]] the image for the trope. Hee-hee!
** The new secretary [[BrainlessBeauty Gloria's]] weird laugh definitely fits this trope.
* AntiRoleModel: Paolo. His defining traits are: almost illiterate by choice, proud of it, can't spell a single word right, he's BookDumb enough to be [[RunningGag unable to end a proverb without simply repeating twice the first half of it]], drinks [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grappa Grappa]] (imagine something similar to Whisky) regularly even while driving, DrivesLikeCrazy even while being sober, he ''only'' wants to drive either campers or Alfa Romeos, he's a LoonyFan of Italian band [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooh_(band) Pooh]] (that last one not actually being a flaw by itself, obviously, but purchasing campers, Alfas and discographies [[CrackIsCheaper may be too much of an expensive hobby for a father]]), he can't [[HollywoodToneDeaf sing his idols' songs right]], he's a full-fledged CasanovaWannabe, only able to betray his wife with [[TheUnseen Maruska the hooker]], argues with his wife almost as regularly as how often he's drunk, he's proud of his two sons ''because'' of their criminal habits, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and on top of that, he has only one testicle]]!

* BasementDweller: Silvano's relationship with his mom reminds us of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Seymour and Agnes Skinner]].

* BigEater: Olmo.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Patti.
* BlackComedy: subverted in that nobody makes jokes about certain subjects. This doesn't mean the character just ''won't stop'' [[CrapsackWorld being complete assholes to each other]]. Their mistreatment of Wanda, an old employee, counts as this trope.
* BrainlessBeauty: Gloria. Anna was a milder example.
* BookDumb: Paolo, to ridiculous levels.

** Another episode parodied FinalDestination, and Patti avoided a scripted death several times (although this ended up causing chaos). She eventually died by the end of the sketch when the vending machine fell on top of her (a rare case of the view moving).

* {{Badass}}: Andrea, full stop.

[[caption-width-right:350: From left to right, Paolo, Andrea and Luca. Paolo and Luca [[StepfordSmiler try to smile]] as Andrea (in the middle) prepares to do [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown what he does best]].]]

* TheDanza: Luca Nervi and Paolo Bitta are played by Luca Bizzarri and Paolo Kessisoglu respectively.

* NamesTheSame: Pippo is also [[{{Disney}} Goofy's]] Italian name. It should be noted, though, that [[{{Pun}} they're both goofy]], [[CampGay one way]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} or another]].

*** Actually, there's at least one episode, in the early seasons, with a sort of comeuppance for him: Andrea, limited in the movements, is hardly beaten by Luca and Paolo, for all the previous violent humiliations. It was a suicidal "worth it" behaviour for the two, since once Andrea recovered, his revenge is obviously unavoidable.

** Definitely Andrea, annoyingly so. ''Every single character'' (including Alex, Gaia, De Marinis, even ''Geller'') gets some humiliation or punishment in at least one episode. But there's basically no episode in which Andrea gets any sort of karmik comeuppance for being right-down sadistic and cruel.

** Subverted with [[ChasteHero Silvano]], who is much more naive and innocent than his gilfriend [[CovertPervert Patti]].

* AnnoyingLaugh: [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Guido]] [[DissonantLaughter Geller]] [[strike: currently provides]] [[SmallReferencePools used to provide]] the image for the trope. Hee-hee!

* AntiRoleModel: Paolo. His defining traits are: almost illiterate by choice, proud of it, can't spell a single word right, he's BookDumb enough to be [[RunningGag unable to end a proverb without simply repeating twice the first half of it]], drinks [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grappa Grappa]] (imagine something similar to Whisky) regularly even while driving, DrivesLikeCrazy even while being sober, he ''only'' wants to drive either campers or Alfa Romeos, he's a LoonyFan of Italian band [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooh_(band) Pooh]] (that last one not actually being a flaw by itself, obviously, but purchasing campers, Alfas and discographies [[CrackIsCheaper may be too much of an expensive hobby for a father]]), he can't [[HollywoodToneDeaf sing his idols' songs right]], he's a full-fledged CasanovaWannabe, only able to betray his wife with [[TheUnseen Maruska the hooker]], argues with his wife almost as regularly as how often he's drunk, he's proud of his two sons ''because'' of their criminal habits, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and on top of that, he has only one testicle!]]

* BasementDweller: Silvano's relationship with his mom reminds us of [[TheSimpsons Seymour and Agnes Skinner]].

* BerserkButton: Andrea has ''a whole [[IncrediblyLamePun keyboard]]'' made of these.

** Also Patti, Pippo, Anna and Wanda. [[AndZoidberg And Olmo to a lesser extent]].

* CloudCuckoolander: Paolo. The following exchange pretty much sums everything up.

* [[strike: CrapsackWorld]] [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Relax Area]]: let's just put it this way. Out of all the characters played by the guest stars, almost ''nobody'' liked the company in any way. [[TraumaCongaLine For good reason.]]

** Many [[PreAssKickingOneLiner pre-ass kicking one-liners]] provided by Andrea may count.

--> '''Paolo:''' ''[[DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm "Whew, that's fine then."]]''

* EpicFail: most characters are prone to this. Mostly noticeable in a sketch beginning with Luca screws up and gets tea instead of coffee; instead of simply throwing it away, he tries to give it to someone else[[note]](the former would be a solution, but [[SeriousBusiness his strong Communist beliefs keep him from "wasting" tea, as it would be "an instance of Capitalism"]])[[/note]]. By the end of the sketch, he ends up with ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext even more tea.]]''

** Silvano was less of a wimpy doormat in the very first episodes. He was still a ButtMonkey but he was actually able to react to people and in one episode after being insulted by Luca, he loudly yells back at him. In later episodes, apart from very rare BerserkButton moments of unexpected violence, (possibly CrowningMomentOfAwesome) he was a total ExtremeDoormat.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: all the time. We often get to see... ''stuff'' randomly happening in the background; more often than not, it's likely to involve [[RunningGag Andrea and his baseball bat.]] And some poor guy running away from him.

* GoldfishPoopGang: Michele Carminati [[AndZoidberg and]] [[TrueCompanions his co-workers]].

* ItMakesSenseInContext: after seeing "Il portafoglio" ("The wallet"), whistling will become the [[MostWonderfulSound most hilarious thing you'll ever hear.]]

--> '''De Marinis:''' ''"Filming people talking in front of a vending machine? [[HypocriticalHumor What a]] [[CatchPhrase moronic]] [[HypocriticalHumor idea!]] [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs It will never work!"]]''

* JerkAss: ''Everyone'', with Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, and Vittorio being the best examples. Also Alex who is a big {{Jerkass}} to Luca (she gets better in season 5 though) and Geller, the MagnificentBastard.

* NamesTheSame: Pippo is also [[{{Disney}} Goofy's]] Italian name. It should be noted, though, that [[IncrediblyLamePun they're both goofy]], [[CampGay one way]] [[CloudCuckoolander or another]].

** In Season 5, it's revealed that Olmo's mom picked the former's name [[Anime/DragonBallZ from a list of vegetables.]]
** In the episode [[UglyBetty Ugly Bitta]] Paolo, forced to wear braces and red glasses after a car accident, is ridiculized and made fun of by the other workers including [[ButtMonkey Patti, Pippo and Wanda]] because of his "ugliness". At the end of the same episode there's a reference to another American TV show when Paolo (now without braces and glasses) starts dressing and acting like ''[[Series/{{House}} Gregory House]]''.

** However, the trope is [[MediumAwareness acknowledged]] and [[DeconstructedTrope sort of deconstructed]] by Luca in a Season 5 sketch, where Silvano [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity being fired for the nth time]] invokes in the former an... ''unusual'' reaction. Luca spends the whole time of the sketch in front of the coffee vending machine, constantly ranting in CreepyMonotone about how "it's always the same story, nothing ever changes, nothing ever happens", etc. This creeps out De Marinis so much, that he thinks it's another strategy of Luca to help Silvano keeping his job (and it ''isn't''); Silvano then hugs Luca in gratitude, and he replies [[CreepyMonotone "You see? Nothing happened".]] After Luca acknowledged the never-changing status quo, he basically took advantage of it to help Silvano by ''doing absolutely nothing.'' At the end of the sketch, Paolo remarks that "You've been there since this morning... I can't see you like this, let's go home". As soon as they leave, ''the coffee machine falls over''. Considering it could have ''crushed'' Luca, he snaps out of his depression and says in a surprised voice, [[MoodWhiplash "Oh well, so something DOES happen!"]].

** While not at the same level, this is also true for the nameless company. If you are harrassing a colleague of Luca and Paolo, ''they will get you''.

* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Silvano and Patti; Luca and Alex.