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1	[[https://www.youtube.com/user/tangramproducciones '''Un Año Sin Televisión''']][[note]](The tilde is ''very'' important, as ''Un Ano Sin Televisión'' would be "An Anus Without Television.")[[/note]] (abbreviation "UASTV", translation "A Year Without Television", also called ''Four Blokes Without Telly'') is an Argentinian WebVideoSeries on Website/YouTube, in which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin four film students have to survive the extreme situation of living without the comfort of TV for a year]] after accidentally tossing their TV out the window. The series ran for 10 years.
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3	They have a [[http://www.uastv.com.ar web page]] and a [[https://www.facebook.com/UASTV/ Facebook page]].
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6	!!Examples:
7	* AmbiguouslyBi: Pedro, who attracts nearly everyone without even trying, doesn't shy away from the attention.
8	* ArsonMurderAndJayWalking: Matías has skewed priorities.
9	--> '''Cristian''': Travel to the past to prevent your parents from f***ing on December 24, so that you won't be born on Friday the 13 and your mother won't die and you won't ruin everyone's lives.\
10	'''Matías''': And the TV won't be broken!\
11	'''Pedro''': Are we doing this? Are we going to fix your life?\
12	'''Matías''': And stop the TV from breaking!
13	%%* TheBoxingEpisode: Episode 2.
14	* BreakingTheFourthWall:
15	** When Matías talks to the audience in Episode 1, and when Pedro walks in for the first time.
16	** In Episode 7, Matías is singing in the split screen with Cristian on the other side, and Cristian pushes Matías' side away.
17	** An ad pops up at the bottom of episode 8 and Hernán reacts to it.
18	** Cristian tries to pick up a girl because "it's the series finale."
19	%%* BrickJoke:
20	%%--> '''Cristian''': Don't you have a test today?
21	* {{Callback}}: In episode 4, Hernán casually mentions that, to occupy their time, they should set up a cumbia band. 2 episodes later, they start up a cumbia band, but Hernán doesn't understand cumbia because he's never fallen in love. The next episode, they're broke because they spent all their money making their music video, [[SlipperySlopeFallacy which got popular, so they ended up victims of the fast life of drugs, women, and alcohol]].
22	* CargoShip: InUniverse. The song "[[TitleDrop Un Año Sin Televisión]]" by [[ArtistAndTheBand La Banda de Cristian]] begins like a typical love song--until you realize that they're singing about the TV.
23	--> ''Te amo, te amo, siempre te amaré.\
24	Te amo, te amo, no puedo vivir sin vos.\
25	Me paso todo el día en el sillón, \
26	No sé que hacer un año sin televisión.''\
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28	I love you, I love you, I will always love you.\
29	I love you, I love you, I can't live without you.\
30	I spend all my time on the couch,\
31	I can't live a year without television.
32	%%* CatapultNightmare: Matías
33	* {{Catchphrase}}:
34	-->'''Pedro''': ''Ooooobvio!'' (Obviously.)\
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36	'''Cristian''': ''No puedo/puedes/puede fallar.'' (I/You/It can't fail.)\
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38	'''Matías''': ''Siempre, tengo razón.'' (I'm always right.)
39	%%* ChristmasSpecial: The eighth (and last) episode. ([[IronicEpisodeTitle Which is actually set in summer]].)
40	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Hernán tries to break some bad news to Pedro.
41	--> '''Hernán''': You remember when your parents got divorced?\
42	'''Pedro''': Yes! Two bedrooms and twice the toys.\
43	'''Hernán''': No, bad example. Now we don't have even one room for the four of us. And don't mention toys.\
44	'''Pedro''': We're getting a divorce?
45	* CulturalTranslation: In order to prove that there's no such thing as bad luck, Matías starts to chant, "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Menem Menem Menem]]." English dub translates this as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon Nixon]]. While both of them are well-known politicians, "Nixon" is not known to be as much of a bad luck chant as "Menem."
46	%%* CutawayGag: Diaper scene must be the very best example.
47	%%* DeathByChildbirth: Hernán's mother
48	* FourIsDeath: DoubleSubversion. These guys survive lot of episodes as a group of four without anybody getting killed. [[spoiler:Until Episode 7.]]
49	%%* FourTemperamentEnsemble: But not solid. Characters may tend to change their behavior depending on the situation or episode. Generally, as follows:
50	%%** Sanguine: Cristian
51	%%** Choleric: Matías
52	%%** Melancholic: Hernán
53	%%** Leukine: Pedro
54	%%* GagSeries
55	%%* HomoeroticSubtext: Pedro[=/=]Cristian
56	%%* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Franco's colorful lollipops
57	%%* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Matías and the photographer Willy
58	%%* IveHeardOfThatWhatIsIt:
59	%%--> '''Cristian''': No, Pedro, the other solution.\
60	%%'''Pedro''': Ah, the other solution. (''Pause'') What other solution?
61	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each episode is a "misterio" (mystery).
62	* ImpossibleGenius:
63	** Hernán [[ToiletHumour perfumed his butt with his invention after going to the toilet.]]
64	** Hernán [[spoiler:cloned Matías after being shot and killed]] in the previous episode.
65	%%* InSeriesNickname: Mauri-Mauricio
66	* IronicEpisodeTitle: Episode 8 is called "El Misterio de la Inmaculada Concepción" (The Mystery of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Conception Immaculate Conception]]). It's a ChristmasEpisode in that it was uploaded around Christmas, and had the boys going back in time to Christmas Eve years ago to investigate another "conception." However, the episode is actually set in the summer.
67	* LampshadeHanging:
68	** Episode 1, when Matías talks about learning about stuff the previous season, he remembers it doesn't exist.
69	** Matías calls Cristian "liar" in Episode 3, saying that what Cristian just said is Film/{{ET\|The Extraterrestrial}}'s plot.
70	** Episode 4 begins with Cristian standing up to tell his (and Matías's) drug addition story at Narcóticos Anónimos. He says he can't remember how long ago it was, but ... (''flashbacks to the story'') Around the 8:00 minute mark, we're back with Cristian as he finishes with "those were the most dangerous and deadly 8 minutes of our lives."
71	%%* LaughTrack
72	%%* {{Leitmotif}}: Pedro's background cheer
73	%%* LovableNerd: Matías
74	%%* MusicalEpisode: Episode 7.
75	* MyOwnGrampa: In the final episode, we find out that [[spoiler: Cristian is Hernán's father, when the boys try to go back in time to prevent Hernán from being born on Friday the 13th]].
76	%%* NobodyPoops: Subverted.
77	%%* ParodyName: "Four Blokes Without Telly"
78	* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Hernán with his InsistentTerminology about this occasion:
79	--> '''Hernán''': It's the best Christmas of my life.\
80	'''Matías''': It's summer. It shouldn't be snowing.\
81	'''Hernán''': (''clenched teeth'') Best. Christmas. Of my life!
82	* RawEggsMakeYouStronger: Cristian attempts to down raw eggs in his TrainingMontage, but ends up [[VomitDiscretionShot throwing up]].
83	%%* SentientVehicle: Episode 3.
84	%%* SexySecretary: Episode 2.
85	%%* TheScream: Matías, [[spoiler:when he wakes up as a sailor]].
86	%%* {{Sitcom}}: Completely based on.
87	%%* ShoutOut: Some of them are:
88	%%** Episode 1: [[spoiler:''Franchise/FridayThe13th'', ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'']]
89	%%** Episode 2: [[spoiler:''Film/{{Rocky}}'']]
90	%%** Episode 3: [[spoiler:''Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial'', ''Film/WaynesWorld'', ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'']]
91	%%** Episode 4: [[spoiler:''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}'', ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'', ''Film/PulpFiction'']]
92	%%** Episode 5: [[spoiler:''Film/RearWindow'', ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'']]
93	%%** Episode 6: [[spoiler:''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Afternoon_on_the_Island_of_La_Grande_Jatte A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte]]'', ''Series/That70sShow'']]
94	%%** Episode 7: [[spoiler: ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_%28film%29 JFK]]'', ''Film/TheBourneSeries'', ''Film/TheInformant2009'', ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen'', ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'']]
95	%%** Episode 8: [[spoiler: ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'', ''Film/MiracleOnThirtyFourthStreet'']]
96	%%** And all those movie posters on the wall of their apartment, with the obvious intention of distract you from the bad acting.
97	%%* SuddenDownerEnding
98	* SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat: Franco, who plays the guitar when the boys need one for their band. Justified as Cristian had previously mentioned that Franco has "superpowers."
99	%%* ThirteenIsUnlucky: First episode's first joke.
100	%%* TrainingMontage: As an obvious [[PotHole Rocky]] ShoutOut when Cristian tries to lose some weight.
101	%%* TranslatedCoverVersion: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody Why see a litel siluetu of a man, scaramush, sacamush, will yu du the fandangu]].
102	%%* VillainSong: Delivered by Franco

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