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6[[caption-width-right:350:[[WorkCom "¡Tulio, estamos al aire!"]][[note]]Tulio, we're on air![[/note]]]]
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8-> '''Bodoque''':''"What a moron, that clown.''"
9-> '''Tulio''':''"Yeah, He doesn't know that puppet shows went out of fashion!"''
10-> '''Bodoque''':''"Last time I saw one, I fell asleep!''"
11-> '''Tulio''':''"He's going to lose all his money! Have you ever seen anything lamer than a puppet?"''
12-> '''Bodoque''':''"Yes, multiple puppets!''"
13-> '''Tulio''':''"Oh, look at me, putting it on my hand!"''
14-> '''Bodoque''':''"Look at me, I'm a poor little child with nothing better to do than watch TV shows with ragdolls!"''
15-> '''Tulio''':''"I can't afford cable!"''
16-->-- '''Tulio Triviño''', host of ''31 Minutos'', to Bodoque. [[HypocriticalHumor They're both puppets.]]
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18''31 Minutos''[[note]]literally '31 Minutes'[[/note]] is a Chilean TV series created by Álvaro Díaz and Pedro Peirano, parodying Chilean TV news and hosted by puppets. The show began as {{edutainment}} running on national Television[[note]]non-cable broadcasts roughly equivalent to state networks in the US but with higher production values than local stations[[/note]], but [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness near-immediately]] [[GenreShift shifted focus to a]] WorkCom caught somewhere between Franchise/TheMuppets and {{Film/Anchorman}} with just enough educational material to keep their funding. Episodes usually involve the main host, [[TheAnnouncer Tulio Triviño]] getting himself and the rest of the cast in trouble while on the air, and field reporter [[IntrepidReporter Juan Carlos Bodoque]] acting as a {{Foil}} to Tulio, all the while producer [[OnlySaneEmployee Juanín Juan Harry]] tries to salvage the broadcast.
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20The show has several recurring segments, such as a music ranking with music critic Policarpo Avendaño playing the show's original music videos, the "''Nota Verde"[[note]]"Green Report", officially "Green Note" in English[[/note]]'' hosted by Bodoque, a red rabbit who educates the audience on nature and the environment, and the adventures of "''"Calcetín-con-Rombos-Man"[[note]]Literally, "Argyle-Sock-Man", a sock [[ShapedLikeItself with an argyle pattern]][[/note]]'', a superhero parody centered around AnAesop taken from [[{{Edutainment}} UNICEF's Convention of Children's Rights]]. These are intercut by a FramingDevice of the crew in the studio getting into [[OnceAnEpisode some manner of mischief]], which took over more of the runtime as the show went on.
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22Originally aired from 2003 through 2005 on state-owned broadcaster TVN[[note]]the name ''31 Minutos'' is a reference to the station's twice-daily news broadcast, ''24 Horas''[[/note]], with a [[TheMovie movie]] released in theaters in 2008. Nickelodeon aired the show internationally until 2007, and Cartoon Network picked up the show in 2015 with the release of the fourth season. Despite its heavy focus on Chilean culture, geography, history and humor, it was a hit across Latin America, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff and somehow wound up massively popular in Mexico and Brazil]], rivalling its country of origin. The show was a cultural phenomenon in Chile due in great part to its witty comedy, catchy songs, and [[CrossesTheLineTwice excessively sardonic]] [[SurrealHumor surreal]] [[SarcasmMode sarcastic]] [[NonSequitur non sequitur]] [[BlackComedy and often dark sense of humor]]. Several episodes had to be censored for broadcast standards across Latin America, particularly those involving LudicrousGibs or copious amounts of [[BloodyHorror blood gushing out of puppets]]. Note that the creators are huge fans of Franchise/MontyPython.
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24The show took a seven-year production hiatus due to the [[BoxOfficeBomb massive theatrical failure of the Movie putting the entire production in the red]]. The brand recovered through live shows and concerts, including several appearances in ''Lollapalooza Chile'' and the Viña del Mar Music Festival. A fourth season was announced to be in the works in 2012 and aired October 2014. Since then, the show survives [[https://www.youtube.com/c/31minutostv on YouTube]], with all four seasons in their uncensored Broadcast forms, every single music video made for and after the show, Live Shows, among other things. Though there are no plans for a fifth season, the original staff regularly make new educational shorts funded by UNICEF and the Chilean government ranging from single [=PSAs=] to short miniseries, aimed at explaining major events such as the national Census or the [[UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]] to children.
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28!!!Note: since this series includes a lot of significant Spanish names, please try to give them a translation to English. ''You can always use notes or labelnotes:'' [= name[[note]]Translated name[[/note]] or name[[labelnote:Translation]]Translated name[[/labelnote]] =]
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30!!This show provides examples of:
31* AcidTripDimension: At the end of the song "Mundo Interior".
32* AdaptationDecay: InUniverse example. In one episode the characters wanted to give an {{edutainment|Show}} turn to the show and tried to put on stage their take on [[Literature/DonQuixote Don Quijote de la Mancha]]. [[HilarityEnsues It didn't work]]:
33-->'''Bodoque (The Narrator):''' Suddenly, Sancho sees a threat in the distance!\
34'''Juanín (Sancho Panza):''' Oh, Don Quixote! [[NarrationEcho I see a threat in the distance!]]\
35'''Tulio (Don Quixote):''' Don't worry, my loyal secretary. No enemy poses a threat to me.\
36'''Bodoque:''' What they didn't know is that their archenemies are coming... the vampire windmills blocked their passage!\
37'''Tulio:''' The vampire windmills?! Are you sure ''Don Quixote goes'' like this?\
38'''Bodoque:''' More or less, Tulio. I'm sure about the vampires, but I came up with the windmills thing. Just go with it.\
39'''Tulio:''' These evil windmills won't defeat us, Sancho!\
40'''Juanín:''' It's a sign of our progress, Don Quixote!\
41'''Tulio:''' They defeated us! Run! Run, Sancho!\
42'''Bodoque:''' Go back to the stage, you cowards!\
43'''Vampire Windmills:''' Yeah, come back.
44* AfraidOfNeedles: Tulio in 'La invasión de los Tramoyas'.
45* AlliterativeName: Tulio Triviño, Mico el Micofono, Juanín Juan Harry, Balón Von Bola
46** LetterMotif: All tramoyas have names that end with 'ín' and surnames that ends with 'illo' (Benjamín Listillo, Fermín Virutillo, [[ShoutOut Valentín Trujillo]], etc.), save for [[OddNameOut James J. McNamara]]).
47* AllJustADream: In [[spoiler: 'El funeral de Tulio'.]]
48* AllLoveIsUnrequited: [[DoggedNiceGuy Mario Hugo]] is in love with Patana, something that was confirmed in TheMovie (see CantSpitItOut below).
49* AllThereInTheManual: Several stuff like the backstory of the characters or the name of some [[NoNameGiven unnamed characters]] are only given in merchandising or interviews that the characters do in magazines, but never in the show.
50* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Patana upstages Tulio in "La co-animadora" to the point Tulio decides to quit before finding out Patana had been offered a better job in another newscast.
51%%* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife
52%%* AmusementPark: In the song 'Parque de diversiones'.
53%%* {{Animeland}}: In 'Japonés'.
54* ArtShift: The little bumpers that open and close Policarpo's Ranking Top are in 3D.
55* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign:
56** The song "Severlá". The video seems to take place in Egypt, with the whole desert and mummies theme, but the lyrics are just some vaguely Arabic sounding words [[spoiler: which at the end are revealed to actually be Spanish backwards.]]
57** Most Japanese in "Japonés" is pure gibberish and even some of the actual words are used incorrectly (''Beikoku'' is stated to mean "rice" when it's actually "United States").
58* AscendedMeme:
59** In 'La amenaza siluria II', the clip of the first Tulio interview is a parody of 'Super Taldo', a Chilean viral video of an old unaired news report about a boy with [[HollywoodTourettes Tourette's Syndrome]].
60** In 'El video', the last blooper shown is a parody of an infamous leaked [[HilariousOuttakes blooper reel]] of the Chilean TV show 'El mundo del Profesor Rossa'.
61* AutomobileOpening: The intro features Tulio driving into the studio.
62* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The cast's interaction to each other usually vary from abrasive to abusive, but in the episode "Bodoque Deprimido", Tulio's attempts to cheer up his friend include giving him his own new and expensive clothes, paying off Bodoque's enormous gambling debts out of his own pocket and allowing him to be take his place as the show's anchor. In the end, the cast of the show [[spoiler: ends up quitting TV altogether to go work with Bodoque on the radio]]
63%%* BackToFront: The song "Severlá".
64* BigBad: Cachirula in TheMovie, with sentient doll Estrella de Lana as her [[TheDragon Dragon]].
65* BigEater: Dylan Manguera, but thanks to Juan Carlos Bodoque, he knows better and gets better.
66* BigNo: In 'Enfermosis', by Calcetín con Rombos Man when his long-lost brother reveals his identity, followed by a BigYes from his part.
67* BrickJoke: In 'Estiércol', in a "[[ItMakesSenseinContext Toilet Throwing Contest]]", Sasquatch throws a toilet who doesn't fall (and he complains about not getting his prize because of that). Later in that episode, the toilet hits Tulio, and Sasquatch comes to claim his prize.
68* BrokenRecord: [[OnceASeason One song per season]] ("Lala", "Boing Boing Boing", "Guácala" and "Arwrarwrirwrarwro").
69* BettyAndVeronica: [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys Guaripolo´s]] Veronica to [[DoggedNiceGuy Mario Hugo´s]] Betty and Patana´s Archie.
70* BlandNameProduct: Tulio who got a ''Relox'' watch, it's made of gold, covered in supergold with diamond adornments and gears of plastirubber.
71* BunnyEarsLawyer: Juan Pablo Sopa, the lawyer that "talks like an idiot" is a subversion to this trope. He does speak like an idiot (only winning his case representing Mr. Manguera because the judge also talked like one), but he charges his fees like a genius.
72* CainAndAbel: Calcetín con Ramones Man wanted to kill his brother Calcetín con Rombos Man for abandoning him. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when the first claims "Who am I, [[Literature/TheBible my brother's keeper?]]"
73* CantSpitItOut: In TheMovie, Mario Hugo never really gets to confess his love for Patana [[spoiler:until the climax. Even then, his feelings are instantly rejected.]]
74** Except [[RuleOfFunny he offhandedly told her]] but she just doesn't care.
75** He does confess it in "El secreto" just to get rejected by an "And I don't care."
76* CannotTellAJoke: Tulio attempts to in "Risotron", only getting boos from the eponymous machine.
77* CarnivoreConfusion: A hilarious example; during the first episode, Mico the Micófono's segment had him asking the "people" on the street what they thought about food. At one point, a group of pieces of meat said that they were vegetarians... and then the scene cuts to a group of vegetables chanting "Meat! Meat! Meat!".
78* CartoonCreature: Most notably Tulio and Juanín.
79* CastOfSnowflakes: The puppets vary greatly in color, shape, material and movements, making them highly identifiable, this is exploited for comedy in "Lulo Serrucho" where a saw impersonates several people by copying colors and materials but remains in the very recognizable saw shape, with the characters somehow being unable to tell him apart from the real thing.
80* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:A BoyBand made of five muscular men from TheMovie. They first appear at the start singing a song for Tulio's birthday, and reappear during the final battle, successfully defeating Cachirula's giant robots though [[DistractedByTheSexy the Power of Hotness]].]]
81* ChristmasEpisode: Every cliche is used, lampshaded and crushed during it. Plus, it was made against the character's will, they had to improvise it at the last second and everyone, except for Policarpo, hated being part of it because they were missing spending the holiday with their families and relatives.
82* ChristmasMiracle: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] at the end of the ChristmasEpisode): after forgiving Juan Carlos Bodoque for losing everyone's gifts at the horse races, everyone expected to be rewarded with more free gifts. After claiming to "have learned their lesson" and asking "Hey, where are our gifts?" a few times, everyone gets crushed under a rain of gifts, which culminated with Santa Claus himself popping out from nowhere to fall over the characters.
83* ClipShow: The penultimate episodes of seasons 1-3 are this.
84* CocaPepsiInc: Tio Horacio promoted a "Panashiva" color TV on his show, a play on Panasonic and Toshiba. Incidentally, "Panashiva" was an ''actual'' brand of cheap and shoddy electronics sold in Chile during the early 2000's.
85* TheCollectorOfTheStrange: Huachimingo collecting fluffs.
86** In "Enfermosis", Je-Jin unleashed his collection in the channel, of what exactly? Diseases (weird virus, bacteria and germs).
87* CommutingOnABus: Carla Rubio was a reporter of the 'Ranting Club' segment in the first few episodes until it was said to had taken "vacations against her will" and was replaced by Rosario Central. She only appears briefly in two later episodes, where is clearly stated that she was fired.
88%%* ContinuityNod
89%%* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Sr. Manguera
90* CostumeTestMontage: To Tulio, in the opening credits.
91* CouchGag:
92** From season 2 onwards, a little pig-esque finger puppet named [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Carlitos Lechuga]] attemps to tell an Aesop under the [[VanityPlate Aplaplac logo after the closing credits]], only for [[LogoJoke the logo]] or [[AssPull something else]] to [[TheyKilledKennyAgain hurt him badly]]. He gets his revenge during a (surprisingly long) Matrix-esque montage, where the Aplaplac logo transforms into a humanoid mecha, but Carlitos dodges every attack, kicks the mecha in the shins and sends him running away, crying.
93** Season 4 features Carlitos Lechuga doing the WeatherReport at the end of the episode, only to be victim of the weather he's informing about.
94* CrazyMemory: Balón Von Bola
95-->'''Balon:''' Back when I was little, depression did not exist, neither did friends nor the Atlantic Ocean.
96* CreditsGag:
97** In 'La gotera', the credits mimics the ones from Series/ElChavoDelOcho and all the crew members listed in them has the name of a Chespirito character as nickname.
98** In 'Asesor de imagen', [[spoiler: the episode ends with]] Cossimo Gianni [[spoiler: firing all the crew and them quitting himself.]] All that happens with the credits still rolling. At some point Cossimo complains about the font of the credits and he asks to change it.
99* CrossoverPunchline: 'La Coanimadora' with [[spoiler: TVN's actual late news program, ''Medianoche'']].
100* CurseCutShort: A clear one happens to Bodoque before meeting Amapola Polar in the season 2 premiere episode, "Vacaciones" (Vacations).
101-->'''Amapola Polar:''' [off-screen, to Bodoque, who is playing a harmonica] ''Si vienes acá, ¡deberías escuchar los sonidos de la naturaleza!'' [[labelnote:Translation]]If you come here, you should listen to the sounds of nature![[/labelnote]]\
102'''Bodoque:''' ''¿¡Que se mete, vieja con--?!'' [[labelnote:Translation]]Why you bother, you old bi-- (it's implied that he was going to say ''conchuda'', roughly "bitch")[[/labelnote]] [see Amapola Polar] ''Oh, mil disculpas. Juan Carlos Bodoque, para servirle.'' [[labelnote:Translation]]Oh, my apologies. Juan Carlos Bodoque, at your service.[[/labelnote]]
103* DarkerAndEdgier: Season 3 from the rest of the series. Damn, just the premiere is so dark even blind people would distinguish it from the usual level of darkness, starting with a DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything of electric fans being (presumanbly and supposedly) kidnapped, and ending with a KarmaHoudini. This being ''31 Minutos'', this is all PlayedForLaughs.
104* DeadpanSnarker: Everyone except for Tulio, especial mention to Bodoque and Policarpo.
105* DealWithTheDevil: The song 'Parque de diversiones' (Amusement Park) where a kid is given a whole park for himself by a seemingly kind man. However, the kid then discovers he cannot invite his friends because the contract he signed says so. He tries to escape, but the park's gates are locked and, to make matters worse, the seemingly kind man turns out to be non-other than the devil himself, who wants to kill him. [[spoiler: It's just a nightmare.]]
106* DeliberatelyMonochrome: In "Ahorrando", in the sports segment, Balón Von Bola and Raúl Guantecillo appear completely in black and white. This is because, as part of the plan to save money to hire Dennis Dannis, the crew decided to use for that segment, the oldest camera available. In contrast, the graphics on screen and Tulio are still colored.
107* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In a segment of the show of Tio Horacio (supposedly broadcast decades before 31 minutos), the aforementioned host tells a kid that being left handed is a disease. When Tulio reprimands him in the present, Tio Horacio responds that back in the day it really was a disease, and so were things like having long hair or speaking English.
108* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The "Maligna Máquina del Mal"[[labelnote:Translation]]Evil Machine of Evil[[/labelnote]] from "La Liga del Mal"[[labelnote:Translation]]The Evil League[[/labelnote]].
109* DepravedKidsShowHost: Tío Horacio to dangerous extremes, although he's the same on and off stage.
110* DeusExMachina: Provided by the literal God, who shows up out of nowhere in "La Amenaza Siluria Parte 3" to solve both the main plot and the story of Calcetín Con Rombos Man. And then just to top it off, he performs the greatest miracle of them all: Give the whole cast beautiful blond hair.
111%%* TheDitz: Tulio.
112* DisappearedDad: Parodied with the song 'El Huerfadino' (The Godorphan). Where Percy, the singer, talks about how he has never met his godfather and wonders where he could be with the same seriousness as if he were talking about his father.
113* DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas: Parodied in 'Calurosa Navidad' (Hot Christmas) where a group of hot, tired and uncomfortable people disguised as Santa Claus sings about the problem of celebrating Christmas during summer.
114* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Parodied in 'Patana Enamorada' (Patana in love) where Mario Hugo takes a hangman´s noose upon discovering Patana [[BlackComedy is not in love with him]]... And he uses said noose as a swing]].
115-->'''Mario Hugo:''' ''It´s too late, Tulio! I'm gonna swing here for months and years until I die of boredom!''
116* DrunkOnMilk: During his depression, Bodoque starts drinking powdered juice, claiming that he'll drown his sorrows by drinking until all the chemicals in it make him pass out. Tulio and the rest get worried as if he was drinking rubbing alcohol.
117* DrunkWithPower: Raul Guantecillo after substituting Tulio in "El video", relegating the main characters to the newsroom.
118* DudeLooksLikeALady: Mario Hugo, apparently, as seen in 'Patana Enamorada' (Patana in love). She is in love with Guaripolo, so he makes a scheme to break them up...which involves him dressing into drag and pretending to be Patana's friend Tootsie. It works ''too well'' since Guaripolo breaks up with Patana, preferring Tootsie over her. When poor Mario Hugo says that it's actually him on drag, Guaripolo doesn't care at all and hugs him tightly. Mario Hugo is understably shocked by this.
119* EarlyBirdCameo: Juanín and Balón made cameos on the background of the studio one episode before their formal appearances.
120* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
121** The puppets' designs were quite different. Also, the voices weren't fully developed, particularly in the case of Tulio, whose voice is deeper and calmer than in later seasons.
122** Early episodes are more of a SketchShow with the "news" as the skits and the studio scenes serving merely as a FramingDevice, without any actual plot happening besides some kind of RunningGag (the first and third episodes don't even have any of these, actually). Tulio isn't a jerk at all and various main characters weren't introduced yet, most notably Juanín Juan Harry (as a result, Tulio was told he was on air by an offscreen voice, voiced by the same voice actor as Bodoque). WordOfGod considers "El Señor Amable" (S1, E07) as the ''true'' first episode, as it marks Juanín's first appearance, has Tulio adopt his "schmuck" personality and does have an actual plot carried throughout the whole half-hour.
123** Two segments present in the first handful of episodes, "El club de los reclamones" and the ''telenovela'' spoof "Los Titeres" were dropped for being "too boring", as recognized by the characters themselves.
124* EdutainmentShow: Heavily zigzagged. While the show's main objective is comedy, Juan Carlos Bodoque's Nota Verde gives real information on environmental and archeological themes, and Calcetín Con Rombos Man usually delivers an aesop about children's rights. But the news segment more often than not deal with the trope in a mercilessly parodic way
125** Parodied in 'Educativio': The "educativional" segment begins with a parade of nubers ''a la'' ''Sesame Street'', only for the number "5" coming before "4", leading to an all-out fight.
126%% * EekAMouse: In 'Un ratoncito duro de cazar'
127* EmptyQuiver: The plot of the "Nota verde" segment of the episode "La liga del mal", dedicated to nuclear energy, is about Tío Pelado stealing an atomic bomb.
128* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt:
129** The appropiately named 'El fin del mundo' (The End of the World), where a prophet said the world will simply end by the end of the show. [[spoiler:When the show ended, the world came to an end, but an identical one came up in its place]].
130** In 'Maguito Explosivo' (Exploding Magician) an asteroid was headed to earth in just a few minutes.
131* EskimosArentReal: According to Bodoque, while telling a bedtime story to his niece and nephew, cowboys are a Hollywood invention.
132* EveryoneHasStandards:
133** Most of the characters are selfish, lazy, greedy and rude, but still are morally outraged by the things Tio Pelado tries to pull off.
134** Tulio seems genuinely shocked about how incompetent Guaripolo is when he replaces Juan Carlos in his ecology report. In short, Guaripolo advises children to burn tires.
135* EverythingTalks: It's assumed that ''all'' the objects in the show are sentient, save when the plot requires otherwise. This is particularly so in the first episode, when, at a certain point, a toilet seat asks for a roll of toilet paper to bring him juice.
136* ExactWords: The studio spends the whole duration of an episode cutting costs so they can hire Denis Danis, the fastest painter in the world. [[spoiler: Turns out, he ''is'' the fastest... But as a result his portraits are terrible, and they barely resemble the people they're supposed to portray. They said he was the fastest, they never said he was fast ''and'' good.]]
137* ExecutiveMeddling: [[InUniverse In-Universe]]. Cosimo Gianni, the show's image consultant, shows up every once in a while to make intrusive changes that usually result in little more than the suffering of the cast.
138* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: In the Calcetín Con Rombos Man segment of 'Lulo Serrucho', and the beginning of 'Lo recuerdo muy bien' (I remember it very well).
139* FaceHeelTurn: In 'La Liga del mal' (The Evil League) Patana [[spoiler:fakes one to stop said team]].
140* FakingTheDead: In [[spoiler: 'El estiércol']] and in 'El funeral de Tulio'.
141* FemaleEmpowermentSong: The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAQiGa26L5E 'Minilolas']] is about a trio of girls who are together doing good and taking on any man who offends them. The song was made in conjunction with UN Women Chile for Women's Day.
142* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: In 'Maguito explosivo', when they want Maguito to lose his 'addiction' to explosions.
143* FluffyCloudHeaven: In 'Alcancía'.
144* FourFingeredHands: Most of the characters with fingers [[note]]Some has three (Rosario Central, Sr. Manguera), others has oven glove like (Huachimingo) and others don't have at all (Bodoque, save for "[[SuddenAnatomy close-ups]]")[[/note]], including the ones where the puppeteer wears the hand as a glove like Tulio and Patana, not unlike Franchise/TheMuppets.
145* FracturedFairyTale: Their take of ''Literature/{{Pinocchio}}'' has the fairy marrying Geppetto and becoming [[ParentalNeglect negligent parents]].
146** Damn they also become drunkards and only pay attention to him because he is inside a broken T.V.
147* FreezeFrameBonus: Season 4 has TONS of these.
148** A particularly good example of this are the names of the bottles that appear in "Oestelandia". Some may be considered very common names like "Botella de la Abuela"[[labelnote:Translation]]Grandmother's Bottle[[/labelnote]] , "Leche de burra"[[labelnote:Translation]]Donkey Milk[[/labelnote]], but also there are some subtle ones like "Aguarrás" or "Pájaro verde" [[note]]An alcoholic beverage very known in the prisons in Chile. It is made by aguarrás, paint, varnish and other components. Because of that, it is known for being very toxic for human consumption[[/note]]. At some point of that episode there's even a bottle of "[[ContinuityNod Fitupo Jugoso]]"[[labelnote:Translation]]Juicy Fitupo[[/labelnote]].
149** In one episode of season 4 after Tulio ditches a date with his on-and-off girlfriend Cindy (who is apparently Japanese), after returning with her, after breaking up with her, [[TooDumbToLive for ditching her in a date]] the credits roll with scenes drawn in Ukiyo-e style of her torturing him one of these including using the [[Manga/DeathNote Death Note]] on him.
150** A particularly horrifying one is the one in the commonly mentioned episode 1 of season 3, in this episode a mute[[DontExplainTheJoke electric]] or [[EverythingTalks fan]] is kidnapped and it turns out [[BadBoss Mr. Manguera]] was the kidnapper, [[https://imgur.com/GrqrejQ when he's arrested]] he's surrounded with other ("supposedly") kidnapped electric fans and just below the focus of the camera you can barely see he's with the kid, under a blanket, to confirm the worst, the police call him a "pervert".
151* FullNameBasis: Played with. Whenever someone says Calcetin con Rombos Man's full name, his {{Leitmotif}} plays in the background while everyone turns to the camara.
152* FunSize: Carlitos Lechuga.
153* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Anything the tramoyas do at the background of the set.
154* FunWithAcronyms:
155** The band LLUEHHHB. The name is short for "[[OverlyLongName Latidos Latinos Urbanos Emergentes Hip Hop Hermanos Brothers]]". ''Wow''.
156** "Un ratoncito duro de cazar" gaves us the CPLLDLCP, the "Comando Pro Liberación De Los Compañeros Peluches".
157* FurryConfusion:
158** Mario Hugo is a chihuahua but seems to have truckloads of pet dogs.
159** Also, although the main characters are shown in different clothes several times and Juanin spends a good portion of TheMovie naked, the first episode showcases a nude photoshoot, with the nudity being that the puppets involved remove their "skin" revealing the hands controlling them.
160* GilliganCut: In "El funeral de Tulio", Patana tells Juanin that the news of Tulio's death have reached Juan Carlos Bodoque and she assumes that Juan Carlos must be mourning Tulio and regretting that they ended their friendship, the next scene has Juan Carlos Bodoque laughing and being happy at the news that Tulio had died.
161* [[GodInHumanForm God in Puppet Form]]: And a very ugly one, with -- according to Tulio -- a terrible taste on music.
162* GreenAesop: The aptly named Nota Verde of Juan Carlos Bodoque. They tend to always talk about either about something bad happening to earth and how to solve it, or just about some interesting natural phenomenon.
163%% * HalfHourComedy
164* HandPuppet: Taken to its LogicalExtreme by using socks (or whatever object) without even putting a minimal effort to convert them into sock puppets. In particular concerning the ''Calcetín con Rombos Man'' sketches.
165%% * HandsomeLech: Bodoque
166* HatedByAll: Mr. Manguera, as he's an invoked JerkWithAHeartOfJerk who gets (positively) flanderized.
167* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight: Bodoque, as he's forced to do ecological reports while actually wanting to be the anchor man of the show.
168* HavingABlast: Maguito, after his second appearance, was seen to be always exploding at random times.
169* HeelFaceTurn:
170** [[spoiler:Tío Pelado in TheMovie, after Cachirula fires him after he gets her Juanín.]]
171** [[spoiler:Calcetín con Ramones Man.]]
172* HighPressureBlood: That was rather an "I just take a dump all over the radar" episode
173* HilariousOuttakes: Fake ones are shown in 'El Video' and in reports about the [[SoapWithinAShow channel telenovela]]. Actual ones appear on DVD.
174* HowWeGotHere: The episode "El meteorito" starts with [[spoiler: the meteorite falling towards the studio where the show is made. Once it has fallen, the episode takes us "6 minutes and 41 seconds before"]].
175* HumanityEnsues: Naturally {{inverted|Trope}} in 'La amenaza Siluria III" where [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome the main crew are turned briefly into their voice actors]].
176-->'''[=Tulio=]''': "That was the worst thing that had happened in my life. [[StylisticSelfParody I even had a nose!]]"
177%% * HypocriticalHumor: The show ran on this.
178* InstrumentalThemeTune: A version WithLyrics called 'Yo nunca vi televisión' is used in-show.
179* {{Interchangeable Asian Cultures}}: In the episode "Japonés". The premise is that Japanese businessmen bought the show and adapted it to their culture, but two ''Chinese'' songs are used (these being the theme song to Hong Kong movie ''Para Para Sakura'' and the Chinese version of "Anything Goes" seen in ''{{Film/Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom}}'') and one of the segments has clips from a ''Korean'' supermarket.
180* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tulio, especially in TheMovie.
181* {{Kaiju}}: The Sasquatch. He is actually average human size, though.
182* KeepingSecretsSucks: During the episode 'El Secreto', Tulio paid for hearing a secret about Policarpo, and once he heard it he got in shock to the point of not being able to work. He literally got sick from keeping it and the doctor who saw him literally said the only cure would be for him to reveal it.
183* LampshadeHanging: At the beginning 'Maguito Explosivo' Tulio is worried because at any moment he's going to be interrupted, like in all previous episodes.
184* LaughTrack:
185** Parodied in the episode 'Risotrón' (Laugh-a-Tron), with a device that makes everything funnier [[spoiler:(Except Tulio)]] by laughing.
186** Played straight in the Calcetin con Rombos Man segment of 'Patana', which is a spoof of an skit of the Chilean sketch show ''Jappening con Ja''.
187* LastOfHisKind: Juanín in TheMovie. Huachimingo was believed to be this ''until'' said movie.
188* {{Leitmotif}}:
189** ¡Calcetín con Rombos Man! Da-dara-dara! ''(characters look at the camera while this plays)''
190** Every presentation of Patana as her alter ego "La Sombra" (The Shadow) is accompanied by mystery music.
191%% * LemonyNarrator: On Calcetín con Rombos Man segments.
192* LieDetector:
193** In the scientific convention reported in "La coanimadora", was presented a "Truth Machine", invented by Huachimingo, who presents the machine disguised as a scientist. In response of something said by the user, this machine yells "True" or "False". It doesn't works as Huachimingo expected when Mario Hugo interviews him...
194--->'''Mario Hugo''': Hello, from 31 Minutos. In what consists your invention?
195--->'''Huachimingo''': Well, this is the machine who tells the truth.
196--->'''Truth Machine''': ¡False!
197** As part of her investigation in "Relox", Patana, disguised as "La Sombra" (The Shadow), uses a "Truth Machine" on Policarpo. When the user is lying, he receives an electric shock from the machine. [[spoiler: When Patana asked if he took Tulio's Relox watch, Policarpo answers "No", and the machine doesn't do anything. Then Policarpo declares that he, as an entertainment journalist, never lied, and the machine gives him an electric shock.]]
198* LimitedWardrobe: The whole cast most of the time, but averted with Tulio.
199* LivingDinosaurs: Anacleto is the only remaning dinosaur, and he feels quite lonely.
200* LoonyFan: Calcetín con Hongos Man.
201* LostHimInACardGame
202* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Mario Hugo]]'s mom in 'La mamá'.
203* LoveMakesYouCrazy: In TheMovie, Cachirula is incredibly obsessed with taking endangered animal species away to her zoo-island so they can be her pets and, by extension, her friends. If one refuses to escape, [[spoiler:she [[OffWithHisHead beheads them]] and places their heads on her wall, something Juanin finds out the hard way.]]
204* MadeOfExplodium:
205** Dante Torobolino drank a can of explodium and is regularily exploding ever since. In his titular episode ("Maguito Explosivo") has, without counting footage form previous episodes, 79 explosions. 44 of them happen in his own ThemeTune.
206** At the end of 'Cirugía', Tío Pelado exploded over his failed self-surgeries.
207* MeatOVision: In [[spoiler: the beginning of]] "La amenaza siluria III". [[spoiler: After a week trapped into the space, and inside the malfunctioning spaceship, the crew started to become hungry. The episode starts with Tulio seeing Juanín as a roast chicken, then Tulio became aware that Bodoque started seeing him as a roast chicken, then Policarpo does the same with Bodoque, then Patana with Policarpo, then Mario Hugo with Patana, ending with an actual chicken seeing Mario Hugo as a roast chicken.]]
208* MistakenForGay: Tulio and Bodoque when they reconciled after a fight with a hug, and a paparazzi took them a photo to say they were a couple.
209* MindScrew: Parodied with one of the Japanese “News segments” in ‘Japonés’, which consists of a group of real children with boxes decorated like faces over their heads, dancing and moving randomly, while some sad music and a ''lot'' of Japanese-like gibberish (including some random stats) fly through the screen, ending with a white drawing of one of the decorated boxes with a sad face over a black background (with a white text and a weird voiceover that say mere gibberish). After the segment is over, we get to see Tulio staring at the camera, as if what he he just saw had fried his brain.
210%% ** [[NightmareFuel The entiretly]] of the Papa Te Queiro music video.
211%% * {{Mooks}}: Cachirula's dolls in TheMovie.
212* MoodWhiplash: In one episode, Calcetín Con Rombos Man discovers that some products with his image are being sold without his consent (and at very expensive prices, to boot) so he decides to track the source and discovers they are being manufacturated on a ship anchored on international waters, by one of the show's recurrent villains, who claims to have reformed and decided to make merchandise out of admiration for the man who showed him the light. Calcetín Con Rombos Man is initially flattered and happy to see an old foe reforming, until he discovers that his products are being manufacturated by children. ''Slave children'', forced to work in inhuman conditions, being fed just once a week and forced to drink alcohol to keep them quiet and obedient. He promptly releases the children and takes them to an OrphanageOfLove.
213** Done InUniverse in the episode '¡Qué lástima!', where Cossimo wants to keep it [[TearJerker as pitiful as possible]] in order to raise the ratings, yet the characters can't stop doing "funny" stuff instead.
214%%* TheMovie
215* MundaneMadeAwesome: Several songs featured in the show. The best example probably is "Mi equilibrio espiritual" ("My spiritual balance") by Freddy Turbina, [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic a song about how awesome and admired he has become since he finally learned to ride a bike without training wheels]].
216* MuppetCameo:
217** Tulio and Juan Carlos Bodoque being interviewed by [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felipe_Camiroaga Felipe Camiroaga]] and [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonka_Tomicic Tonka Tomicic]] in [[https://youtu.be/dEzFEERYjXk Buenos Días A Todos]] in 2008. Bodoque even gets a kiss from Tonka.
218** Bodoque [[https://youtu.be/lKGx89ZtrA0 interviewing]] [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedropiedra Pedropiedra]] in 2011.
219** The whole main cast was interviewed in make believe in the [[https://youtu.be/gRIV2-CamrI press conference]] of the 2013 [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viña_del_Mar_International_Song_Festival Viña del Mar International Song Festival]].
220** Tulio and Juanín [[https://youtu.be/Cw7ac3wH-58 interrupted]] the news broadcast of [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_horas_(Chilean_TV_program) 24 Horas]] to promote the return of the show in 2014.
221* MusicalEpisode: Last episode of each season, although they are actually {{clip show}}s of all the music videos of the season, and usually a new song.
222* {{Nepotism}}: Parodied with Policarpo's Ranking Top. All the artists are his family or friends. For example, Cucky is his bodyguard, Percy is his best friend's godchild, or Lino and Lana are the kids of his neighbor twice-removed.
223* NeverLearnedToRead: The Calcetín con Rombos Man segment of the episode "Día libre" features a pencil artist in his art exposition, who avoids any instance of read or write something, like giving a speech or signing an autograph. When Calcetín con Rombos Man arrives to the exposition, the artist confess to him that he never learned to read and write. He focused so much on drawing, that he thought reading and writing had no importance. After he confesses, a teacher among the visitors offers him personal lessons.
224* NewsParody: The concept (at the beginning) was to show stuff that kids care about as if they were actually important news. And even after development, there are a lot of humor derived on showing ridiculous situations as real news.
225* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Several characters share traits with analogous Chilean media personalities, although [[WordOfGod the creators deny they were intended as parodies]].
226* NoEnding: 'Mugre' does have an ending, but it was so ambiguous and short that much people don't get it. The fact that it was simply [[EditedForSyndication removed in syndication]] by seemingly no reason doesn't help.
227* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Juanin, Cossimo, Bodoque and Policarpo give one to Tulio off-screen during the credits of "La Co-animadora"
228* NonIndicativeName: The song 'Papá, te quiero'; its title literally means 'Dad, I love you', but in the lyrics is told in the sense of "Dad, I want you [to do me favors]".
229* NoTitle: The episodes were officially untitled until they were [[AllThereInTheManual released to DVD]].
230** AscendedFanon: The titles of the first two seasons were taken from a fan website.
231* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:This is the fate for whoever attempts to escape Cachirula's tyranny in TheMovie, though we never get to see any actual beheading, and the only two people that go through this are the Blonde Buffalo and Cachirula's [[TheDragon right-hand doll]] Estrella de Lana, although the latter gets better just by sewing herself back together.]]
232* OlderThanTheyLook: Despite that StatusQuoIsGod time does pass including the hiatus. Thus meaning that Patana is in her early thirties by the end of season 4 considering that she entered the channel in her mid-late teens. Despite that, her puppet hasn't changed
233* OncePerEpisode: "¿Qué te pasa, Policarpo?", which translates to "What's happening to you, Policarpo?".
234%%* OneHitWonder: InUniverse, all songs featured on the 'Ranking Top' are this.
235* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: To Policarpo, it never mattered how bad things were, whenever he started on his VerbalTic Tulio would ask him if he's OK and Policarpo would tell him why he was in such state. In 'El Secreto', Policarpo gets mayorly offended and starts his VerbalTic and when Tulio asks him why, he yells at him:
236--->'''[=Policarpo=]''': Don't touch me!
237* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: In Universe, ''El Huachimingo'', a rare, rabbit-like animal that supposedly went extinct 1500 years ago... That promptly gets found almost immediately, and then becomes a regular on the show.
238* OverlyLongGag: In 'El secreto', about one minute of the characters astounded staring silent after discovering Policarpo's secret. [[spoiler:He's bald, his hair is actually a wig.]]
239* OverlyLongName: "Bailan Sin Cesar" is performed by ''Latidos Latinos Urbanos Emergentes Hiphop Hermano Brother'', usually shortened to "LLUEHHB"
240* PalsWithJesus: Not exactly friends, but they tend to very casually talk with God in several episodes as if he were just any other person.
241* PaintingTheMedium: Every mention of Calcetí­n Con Rombos Man is followed by everyone turning to the camera while a snippet from Calcetín con Rombos Man's {{Leitmotif}} is played. In one episode his leimotif is played so many times that Calcetín Con Rombos Man yells at the musics to stop playing it, and the musicians themselves grab their instruments and walk away, offended.
242* PaperThinDisguise: Lulo Serrucho. He is a MasterOfDisguise who can fool everyone. He is a hand saw, and his disguises involve just getting some fabric with the overall pattern of whoever he is trying to impersonate, and said disguises always follow his hand saw shape.
243%% * ParentalBonus
244* PersonOfMassDestruction: Dante, in his second episode. When you can blow up a huge asteroid by yourself, you can officially consider yourself a WMD.
245* PhotoMontage: The credits of 'No te vayas, Juanín', with photos of a party at Juanín's house.
246%%* PieInTheFace
247* PiggyBank: Patana tries to break one until the piggy bank start running.
248* PokemonSpeak:
249** Juanín when he was little, as revealed in TheMovie, prompting Tulio and Bodoque to name him.
250** "El diario de Juanín" gave us the cat known as "El gato que empuja"[[note]]The Pushing Cat[[/note]]. ''DISEÑAU!''
251* PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: Calcetin con Rombos Man speaks in a high-pitched voice when posing as his SecretIdentity Cesar Quintanilla.
252* PowerIncontinence: Maguito had to take some self-control classesto avoid [[HavingABlast blowing up at the drop of a hat]]. Referenced in his ThemeTune (which replaces the usual ending theme) at the end of 'Maguito explosivo', where he is said to be ''more unstable than a '''volcano'''''.
253%% * PresentDay
254* ProductPlacement:
255** Parodied in 'Cebollas', where at first they are forced to shill a brand of musical glasses and then a brand of onions, making the whole show around them and having to do such things as drinking onion juice and wearing onion-scented deodorant, failing miserably at pretending they aren't disgusted.
256** The segments of the show of Tio Horacio present the show as little more than a big, blatant, irresponsible and highly manipulative commercial.
257* ProtestSong:
258** Parodied with Guaripolo's 'Mala'.
259--->'''[=Guaripolo=]''': "No more trucks, no more whales, no more revolving doors, no more batucadas, no more forests, no more carpets, no more remote controls, no more school vans and no more schoolkids."
260** Also parodied in 'Amurrao', where a toddler complains about long road trips.
261* PunnyName:
262** Joe Pino. His name is pronounced the same way as "yo opino" ("I think that..."), and he's the guy who's always giving his opinion on anything.
263** Lino and Lana, the artists that sing 'Mi mama me lo teje todo' (My mom knits everything for me). They are common nicknames, but they literally mean "linen and wool".
264* RageQuit: At the end of "La Mona Lisa" after the late-late-late-late night show only draws the attention of an obnoxious presidential candidate, Juan Carlos and Juanin leave Tulio alone talking with him.
265* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Huachimingo says to have been hidden for 1.500 years.
266* {{Retool}}: The third season is vastly different from the first two, as most episodes deal with the misadventures of the core characters instead of featuring news. This was remedied in the fourth season, however.
267* {{Retcon}}: In the episode "El despido" Mico reveals that the show is recorded in a truck, but in other episodes after this, we see clearly that is recorded in a studio.
268* RightForTheWrongReasons: Tulio is the only member of the cast that doesn't idolize Tío Horacio. As the episode goes on we find out Tio Horacio is an irresponsible, abusive and manipulative host, but then we learn that the reason Tulio hates him is not because of that, but because Tulio himself was a victim of his cruel mockery on national TV.
269* RuleOfFunny: Makes the news show either one of the most respected of the world or the dumbest.
270* RunningTimeInTheTitle: Subverted. The "31" was chosen arbitrarily and in fact, only a handful of episodes run 31 minutes.
271* SavingTheWorld: At the end of 'Maguito explosivo', where the titular Maguito must fly to an asteriod about to destroy earth, so he can explode it before it lands.
272* SawItInAMovieOnce: In 'Maguito explosivo':
273-->'''[=Cirilo Pila=]''': "The only way to avoid the colission would be we make the asteroid explode."
274-->'''[=Jackson Aceituno=]''': "And how do you know that?"
275-->'''[=Cirilo Pila=]''': "Because I saw it in a movie once..."
276* ScoutOut: In TheMovie, it's explained, by flashback, that Tulio and Bodoque were hiking through the woods as Boy Scouts when they met Juanin.
277* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: [[ItRunsInTheFamily Everyone in Tulio's family]] ''yawns'' this way.
278* SelfPromotionDisguisedAsNews: InUniverse with the coverage of the network's ''telenovela'', as noted above.
279* SelfTitledAlbum: The soundtrack for the first season, [[ContrivedCoincidence unintentionally]] also a case of RunningTimeInTheTitle.
280%%* ShoutOut: And ''how''!
281* SlidingScaleOfLivingToys: Estrella de Lana from TheMovie is quite obviously a sentient doll. [[spoiler:This is particularly so near the end, when she manages to recover from being beheaded by just sewing her head and body back together.]]
282* SmallNameBigEgo: Dante Torobolino, in his first appearance. ''None'' of his tricks went right, and even when he almost drowned in a Houdini-esque trap, he insisted he was doing it right.
283* SickeningSweethearts: "Son Pololos"[[note]]''Pololo/a'' is "boy/girlfriend" in Chilean Spanish.[[/note]], a Season Four song about two high school lovers. ''And how''.
284* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Besides Carla Rubio from the earlier episodes and her replacement Rosario Central, Patana is the only female character in the main cast.
285* SnapBack: Several episodes end with the cast fired or working at something completely different.
286* SoapWithinAShow: The mock-soap opera ''Los Títeres'' (The Puppets) announced by Policarpo during the first season.
287* SomethingPerson:
288** Calcetín Con Rombos Man (Argyle Sock Man). Oddly, he's an actual sock and not a man.
289** One-shot examples are 'Hombre de plumavit' (Styrofoam man) and '1/2 Hombre' (Half-man).
290* SpeciesSurname: Raul Guantecillo. Tenison Salinas has a given name and Balón Von Bola has both.
291** Don't forget Mico el Micófono!
292** Meanwhile, Juanin appears to have a [[ADogNamedDog Species ''First Name'']].
293* SpinOff: It generated two spinoffs:
294** ''Micos y Pericos'' (''Monkeys and Parrots''), made exclusively for Guatemala.
295** ''Las vacaciones de Tulio, Patana y el pequeño Tim'' (''Tulio, Patana and Little Tim's vacations''). All 12 episodes are available on the show's official Website/YouTube channel.
296%%* SpoiledBrat: Cachirula, TheMovie's villain.
297%%* SpotTheImposter: In 'Lulo Serrucho'
298%%* {{Snowlems}}: Hielito
299* StrawFan / MetaGuy: In 'Un ratoncito duro de cazar', Ratón del water makes fun of a fan website that had a section with a list [[SeriesContinuityError full of the show inconsistencies]].
300* StrictlyFormula: Calcetín Con Rombos Man segments, although they loosen up a bit on the ones with an StoryArc.
301* StylisticSuck: 'Guaripolo And Sopapiglobo versus Vampire Chaplin'
302* SuperheroEpisode: 'La Liga del Mal'
303* TakeANumber: In the "Calcetín Con Rombos Man" segment of the episode 'El árbol furioso', [[spoiler: in order to be attended by a medic of her problem]], Perfectina Gómez took a number. Perfectina's number was 109000, and immediately after, [[spoiler: a nurse]] called the patient with the number 14.
304* TakeThat:
305** The "Teletón" special made between the first and second season was only made to mock the annual Chilean television event. In particular, they outright treat the people running the telethon as scammers, mock how most artists are people barely anybody ever heard of, and have Teletón host "Don Mario" appear as a carboard cutout.[[note]]The carboard cutout appears to be a dig at how Teletón host Mario Kreutzberger is best known for hosting variety show ''Sábado Gigante'' (under the name "Don Francisco"), which initially aired in Chile, but was later brought by Univision, who moved the show to Miami, Florida. As a result, most of Kreutzberger's appearances in Teletón since then tend to be very brief, if not outright done via satellite.[[/note]]
306** In the song "Lucía la sandía" (about a watermelon named Lucía, which according to the song is somehow a celebrity and made her hometown famous), its lyrics include the phrase "''no es rancia ni huele mal como otras Lucías''" ("it is not rancid or smelly like other Lucías"), at which point (a puppet of) a woman appears saying "Were you talking about me?" The puppet has the exact same hairstyle and sunglasses as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucía_Hiriart Lucía Hiriart]], the widow of infamous Chilean dictator UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet.
307%%* TakenForGranite
308* TelevisionGeography: Although TheMovie don't mention being located at a specific setting, the single city displayed is made-out of different cities both in Chile and Brazil.
309* ThirtySecondsOverTokyo: In 'Japonés' the network was bought by a group of Japanese businessmen, and they forced the cast to make a lot of changes to stereotypically pander to Japan.
310* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: In 'Maguito explosivo', Maguito is the only one able to destroy an asteroid heading to Earth thanks to his power of exploding himself.
311* TitleSequenceReplacement: The syndication version of season 1 features the title sequence from seasons 2 and 3, instead of the original one.
312* ToiletHumour: Frequent. What else do you expect when the ''first'' episode features a report called "La Ruta de la Caca" (The Poop Road)?
313* TraumaticHaircut: The song 'Me cortaron mal el pelo' (''They've cut my hair badly'').
314%%* TwoForOneShow
315* UnreadablyFastText:
316** In "Huachimingo sin hogar", the special programming done to inform about the earthquake begins with a news-ticker at the bottom of the screen, that moves extremely fast. Among the news items, a movie actor helps those affected with free [=DVDs=] of his movies and a benefit soccer match ends in a riot leading to further destruction.
317** Also, the credits for the "Ballet Boxing" fight in "Oestelandia". If you pause the screen to see them, you'll notice that both Balón Von Bola and Raúl Guantecillo are just the hosts, all the rest of the credits are for Tenison Salinas.
318* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: The main cast (save for Juanin) range from annoying to selfish to downright abusive to each other, so it's funny when terrible things happen to them.
319* VacationEpisode: 'Vacaciones', which behaves like an ordinary episode but showing BusmansHoliday clips of the characters instead of news.
320* VerbalTic: Policarpo’s “Top Top Top...”
321* VillainSong: Cachirula attempts to sing one in TheMovie, but is unable to because her [[CoolChair flying chair]] {{m|usicalisInterruptus}}alfunctions. The complete version was done later for an advertisement.
322* VillainTeamUp: "La Liga del Mal" (''The Evil League'') in the episode of the same name, formed by Tío Pelado, Calcetín con Hongos Man and Chancho Irarrázabal.
323* VisualPun:
324-->'''[=Bodoque=]''': "[[DontExplainTheJoke I said 'Run the tape', and the tape ran away!]]"
325** The incredibly dark season 3 premiere can fall into this as Mister Manguera seems to have [[MoralEventHorizon kidnapped kids]] with mental issues or [[DontExplainTheJoke he just steals]] [[EverythingTalks fans]].
326%%* VocalEvolution
327* VoiceoverLetter:
328** Parodied in "Patana". As Tulio begins to read his sister Felicinda's letter about Patana wanting to be a reporter, he looks around in surprise searching for the source of the voice. Then, Felicinda straight up ''talks him back''.
329--->'''Felicinda's voice:''' I'm writing to tell you that I'm no longer angry with you even though you never returned to your town Titirilquen after you became famous!\
330'''Tulio:''' Hey, but...!\
331'''Felicinda's voice:''' Let me finish!
332** In "Ahorrando", when Tulio tells to Juan Carlos about the plan to save in everything to hire Dennis Dannis, Juan Carlos stops to talk, and to present the "Nota verde" segment, he starts to give Tulio some papers which content is voiced by Bodoque, to "save words". The segment finishes when Tulio receives a letter, and the content is the traditional "Esta fue la nota verde. Soy Juan Carlos Bodoque" ending, voiced by Bodoque himself.
333** At the beginning of "31 minutos Educativio", Tulio tells Juanín he will read in silence the letter that Cindy sent to him. While he's reading, we hear Cindy voicing her letter. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Juanín who tells that voice is being heard.
334%% * VoxPops: The “Encuesta” segment.
335* WantedPoster: For Guaripolo aka "Professor Guaripolus" in 'Oestelandia'.
336* WarIsHell: The updates about the war of "Salsacia" and "Conservia".
337* WelcomeTitles: The title sequence starts with Tulio commuting to work. Once he arrives at the news station, he interacts with some of his co-workers. Other reporters are introduced with them presenting the news. The technicians are shown doing their work and preparing the set.
338* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: Several episodes mention that the show is terrible and unsuccesful, although this varies between episodes according to RuleOfFunny.
339* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Tulio's fear of whales. {{Justified|Trope}} in TheMovie.
340%%* WickedWitch: Bruja González.
341* {{Workaholic}}: Juanín Juan Harry ''hates'' vacations. His friends take advantage of this and overload him with their own to-do things when the cast goes on vacation, and Juanin actually ''thanks'' them for it. In TheMovie, when he becomes one of Cachirula's "pets", he pities the fact that ''she'' doesn't make them work in order for them to retain their value.
342* WrapAround: One instance has Bodoque showing a new "trick" to Tulio. Telling him to keep sight on his arm, which he stretches offscreen, but then it reappears on the other side, and hits Tulio in the head.
343%%* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle

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