Line #12 Trivia/Boris


1	!!The band:
2	* CreatorBacklash: ''Pink'' is one of the band's best loved albums and is considered by some critics to be their best, but the band has had some negative things to say about it. Setlists have typically included the title track and occasionally "Farewell" while ignoring the rest of the album. However, they reissued it in 2016 and played it live in its entirety, so either they've come around a bit or are just willing to put aside their own opinions and give the fans what they want.
3	* CreatorCouple: Wata and Atsuo are married.
4	* ThePeteBest: Nagata, appropriately enough, their first drummer.
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6	!!The TV show:
7	* ActingForTwo: Corrado Guzzanti plays both crazy actor Mariano and his priest/mentor Father Gabrielli, Three, if you include The Count (the character played in-universe by Mariano in the SoapWithinAShow).
8	* AllStarCast: Several main roles are portrayed by high-profile Italian performers, be them TV and/or film actors (Carolina Crescentini as Corinna, Pietro Sermonti as Stanis, Antonio Catania as Lopez), comedians (Caterina Guzzanti as Arianna) or voice actors (Creator/FrancescoPannofino as René, Creator/AlessandroTiberi as Alessandro).
9	* ChannelHop: The first three seasons aired on Creator/{{Fox}} Italia's satellite TV channels, while the revival is a Creator/DisneyPlus exclusive.
10	* TheCharacterDiedWithHim: Itala's actress Roberta Fiorentini died in 2019. In the first episode of the 2022 revival, we see the main characters going to Itala's funeral.
11	* ConclusionInAnotherMedium: Although the series originally ended with its third season in 2010, the aptly titled 2011 feature "Boris - The Film" served as the proper finale. Being it a theatrical release, it overlaps with [[TheMovie The Movie]]. Eventually [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when the show got revived in 2022 with a fourth series.
12	* TheDanza:
13	** Alessandro is played by Alessandro Tiberi, while Karin is played by Karin Proia.
14	** In a FreezeFrameBonus in the film (and later confirmed by the credits of season 4), we can see that the three screenwriters are called "Aprea", "Max" and "Zaghia", the same names (or real-life nicknames) as their actors.
15	* FakeAmerican: In season 4, Allison Daltman, the Platform's Europe manager, is played by British-Italian actress Emma Lo Bianco.
16	* PlayingAgainstType:
17	** Before this show, Pietro Sermonti was known for playing Guido Zanin, a standard good-hearted doctor in a family-friendly show. Here, he plays UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist Stanis, a parody of a talentless and obnoxious actor who just happens to play a doctor on the SoapWithinAShow.
18	** Famous comedian Caterina Guzzanti plays StraightMan Arianna, the only completely serious character in a comedic context. Arianna is also a Berlusconi supporter, which goes completely against the well-known political opinions of the actress (who actually [[CreatorBacklash hated Arianna's story arc in season 3]] for this reason).
19	* RealLifeRelative:
20	** Siblings Caterina and Corrado Guzzanti respectively portray Arianna and Mariano/The Count.
21	** Eugenia Costantini, who plays Cristina, is the daughter of Laura Morante, who appears in Season 3 as the woman who's accidentally filmed while hanging her laundry.
22	** Biascica's children are played by Paolo Calabresi's real-life children, eldest son Arturo who appears in ''Stopper'' and later all three of them, briefly, in the film. Aurora Calabresi, Paolo's daughter, later reappears in season 4 in the separate role of Lalla.
23	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: One of the three real-life screenwriters of ''Boris'', Mattia Torre, passed away in 2019, before season 4 was officially commissioned. [[spoiler:In the first episode of said season, it's revealed one of the three InUniverse screenwriters is dead and only appears as a ghost to his colleagues.]]
24	* RoleReprise: Almost the entire cast returned to their roles for the fourth season, after more than a decade since season 3 and the film. Exceptions include Roberta Fiorentini -- who sadly passed away in 2019 -- as Itala, and Ilaria Stivali as Gloria.
25	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The character "Stanis" was originally supposed to be an actor who plays a priest on the SoapWithinAShow. It was Pietro Sermonti's idea to make Stanis "an actor who plays a doctor" to satirize the popularity of his previous role, Dr. Guido Zanin on ''Series/UnMedicoInFamiglia''.
26	* YouLookFamiliar: Aurora Calabresi (Lalla) had previously a brief appearance in the film as Biascica's daughter.

Context Trivia / Boris