Funny / Pataclaun

There's a reason why still to this day Pataclaun is considered one of the funniest Peruvian tv shows of all time.

Season 1

• Men vs. Women.
  • Queca ends up winning against Tony in the Athletic competitions without even trying. Tony was that bad.
  • Gonzalete's riddle consists in finding "A rose, leather, a rock, and a fool". Eventually, everyone realizes that the riddle was a reference to them, with Queca as "The Rose", Tony as "The Leather"^note "Leather" in Peru is slang for handsome, Machín as "The Rock"... But Wendy can't figure out who "The Fool" is, despite all the others explicitly pointing at her face.
  • Upon solving the riddle, Gonzalete takes off his nose and starts giving a long speech about solidarity and goodness... But none of them are having it because that means there's no winner or a prize.
• The episode where Monchi manipulates Wendy so that she falls in love with Gonzalete instead of Machín. Seeing Wendy, heavily pregnant, act like a silly schoolgirl around Gonzalete is incredibly funny. Even though she's hypnotized, it's hilarious to see Wendy put Machín in his place once he wakes her up from a romantic dream she had.
  • When Machín finds out who has been with Wendy, he challenges Gonzalete to a duel, and Queca goes to plead with Monchi fully expecting Machín to beat the crap out of Gonzalete. But to their surprise, it's Gonzalete the one who mops the floor with Machín.
  • Even though Gonzalete starts the episode announcing to everyone that he won a competition for "the most virginal and chaste priest", and actively tried to reject all of Wendy's advances, he finally caves in when Wendy prepares him a blackberry cake. Gonzalete later admits that he completely lost it the moment he saw that cake.
  • How does Queca manage to convince Monchi to return Wendy to normal? By telling her all the downsides of having a priest for a parent: She would have to go to church every day, be an altar kid for each of those celebrations, she won't be allowed to lie or misbehave, and worse, the only career she can aspire to in the future is as a nun.
  • After returning to normal, Wendy sees how Gonzalete is beating Machín and goes to defend her husband, knocking out Gonzalete with one punch.
• The episode where Tony disguises himself as Machín and fools the whole cast.
• When Nandito is visiting the house Tony mocks him by imitating his Baby Talk, only for Nandito to respond in a gravely grown-up voice "No me remedes, carajo!" before going back to acting like nothing ever happened.
• The episode where Wendy writes a book, influenced by the ghosts' words. She writes a historical romance in which her and the rest of the cast play the characters in her novel, and she gives each of them ironic roles based on how frustrated she feels about them that day. So Machín, who always dominates her, turns into her lowly servant; Queca is her maid, and Tony is turned into her foolish suitor who can't speak after being stung by a bee.
• In the elections episode, each adult returns from voting and shows off their inked finger. The middle one. Then Queca and Tony get dramatic about having ruined their manicure/having to wait in line to vote, respectively.
  • Monchi asks what's a Mayor and each one gives an unflattering description of what a Mayor is supposed to be/do, with lots of Reality Subtext.
  • Monchi still doesn't understand what Mayors are so she asks them to roleplay some elections for her to understand, which the family accepts. She asks who wants to run for Mayor and they all go "Me!" while showing off all their inked middle fingers at the same time to the camera.
  • At first Tony and Gonzalete try to win the elections by bribing Queca, Machín and Wendy, but Monchi realizes what is happening and decides to give the choices to the audience. At the end of the episode, the results are 100% of the votes in the blank. When the family demands explanations, a long text scroll starts rolling across the screen. Among the reasons, the audience tells them that they had enough with the real-life elections (the episode first aired the night of the national mayoral elections, making the "audience's" answer more understandable) to have to take them again in a comedy show.
  • Wendy agrees with the audience, saying that elections are supposed to be Serious Business and that Peruvians won't be voting for a bunch of clowns. Cue a montage of embarrassing moments from Peruvian politicians playing over the end credits to circus music.
• "Machín's Movie" starts with Machín having one of his episodic career goals to be a director. Coincidentally, an eccentric millionaire, Mr. Multi, wants to produce a movie completely different from the conventional ones, so he starts by requesting the worst director in the world. Hilarity Ensues.
  • After hearing that Mr. Multi gave them a 100 million dollar budget, Tony manages to become Machín's assistant and convinces him to cut corners to get the most out of the money for themselves. That includes ugly scenography and hiring cheaper actors (Wendy, Queca, Monchi, and Gonzalete, and Tony volunteers to be also the leading man).
  • The story itself is hilariously bad and cliché: A good woman meets a handsome guy, they fall in love, get married, he cheats on her with a sexy dancer, the mistress gets killed by random assassins, the leading girl tries to commit suicide, but only stops after her husband shows her a pregnancy test, but immediately appears a bat and kills her, and he has to stake her. Pacing and continuity? Where?
  • The movie as a whole is a checklist of everything wrong in a film, and that's not even related to the story.
    • The Bad "Bad Acting" (not even self-proclaimed professional actor Tony is free from this)
    • The cheap scenography is made with cardboard and spray paint.
    • Bad editing (black and white with incorrect balance and bad transitions)
    • Machín leaves the outtakes in the middle of a scene.
    • The costumes are all Victorian dresses, for some reason. Monchi and Gonzalete somehow are dressed as a cowboy and a pirate.
    • Wendy and Tony's characters end up falling in love in a disco club, despite being dressed like in the 1800s
    • The sound editing. Since they didn't have microphones and a grip, the actors have to practically shout their lines (on top of the bad acting), and this gets worse when there's a soundtrack.
    • Many of the scenes have bad framing.
    • Wendy confuses the scenery door with the real door twice, and Machín's voice telling her to use "the other door" is left in the editing.
  • Despite all of this, and everyone acknowledging that the movie is garbage, Mr. Multi ends up enjoying it. But he dies from his illness right after giving them the check... which promptly gets destroyed when everyone tries to grab it.
• After Wendy goes on a trip to Tarapoto by herself, Tony and Queca try to summon a clone of her to hide her absence from Machín, but their powers malfunction and end up summoning different Wendys, including Wendy Salerno, Wendy Menéndez and Wendy from Peter Pan.
• After Wendy gains ghost powers she goes missing and Queca panics trying to find her, but Tony and Gonzalete aren't worried since they don't think Wendy is going to do much with her new powers. They then find out Wendy has overturned the government and positioned herself to become a (benevolent?) dictator.
  • The ghosts catch up to Wendy in the middle of a message to the nation, and take away her powers with a group-spell, Wendy can only whine that they ruined it all when they hear the voice of certain then-current president, and run away in a panic.

Season 2

• The entire Cinderella parody, with their references to The Exorcist, the Stepsisters being Tony and Gonzalete in Drag, and the iconic glass slipper being replaced by Gigantic Clown Shoes.
  • Tony's contribution to the story is short and sweet:
    Tony: Want to know what happened to Wendycienta? Wendycienta went out into the street, and a van passed by and ripped her apart. Now she's the top story in the 10 pm news.
    Nandito: ...MOOOOOM!
    • This only causes Nandito to throw a tantrum, Gonzalete appears, thinks Tony is doing something to Nandito and they both beat him up.
  • The Mood Whiplash when the romantic scene of the prince meeting Wendycienta for the first time immediately cuts to both of them dancing salsa in the ballroom, going through other modern songs, and ending with them dancing La Macarena.
  • After finishing the fairy tale, Wendy is excited at the idea of adapting more stories in the Pataclaun format, like Wendynieves, Sleeping Wendy or Little Red Riding Wendy. The ghosts, who spent the whole episode doing nothing but telling the fairytale to Nandito, look on less than amused.
    Tony: Oh yeah, and we're the dwarves, right?
    Wendy: Oh of course!
    Gonzalete: And I'm the witch.
    Wendy: Sure!
    Queca: And I guess I'm the poisoned apple.
    Wendy: No, no, you'd have to be the poisoned watermelon!
    (the ghosts get closer to Wendy, faking niceness) Queca: Oh, really? Well, that's nice, you know what we think about it? ...SCREW YOU! (the three punch her simultaneously)
  • The ending where after Wendy had given her character her fairy tale ending, Machín appears and Re Writes it so the prince suddenly meets a sexy girl and dumps Wendycienta, and to prevent Nandito from rejecting it he also gives her a happy ending by having her move to the castle...as a floor scrubber.
• 'Queca is old' starts with Queca singing about how youthful she is, but is interrupted by Wendy bringing her a diaper and telling her to not be jumping around and wet the floor, Queca tries to salvage the song the best she can but Wendy ends up ruining it further and it ends with a Record Needle Scratch.
  • Machín makes fun of Queca and is transformed into a donkey to shut him off, after Wendy convinces Queca to turn him back, Machín keeps antagonizing Queca by showing everyone he found her picture in a History Book.
  • At the end the whole cast is accidentally turned old due to Wendy using the eggs cursed by Queca to make a cake for the whole family instead of just Machín's lunch.
• Queca and Tony trying to seduce each other just to prove a point.
  • Wendy reveals that Machín didn't woo her. It was her who had to conquer him, and this took 3 years, 7 months, and 15 days of her buying him chocolates, taking him to dates, polishing his shoes, and even pedaling the boat by herself.
  • At first Tony believes that Queca is being sincere with her exaggerated compliments, but Gonzalete quickly realizes something is up when Queca tells Tony that his hands are big.
  • In the final round, Tony decides to get revenge and gets more assertive against Queca, by using the old tactic of "Let's get some fresh air". Afterward, it turns into a Chicken Race to see who gives up first before they have to kiss. Both back off at the same time completely disgusted.
• Wendy enters the Miss Peru contest and the ghosts help train her:
  • Gonzalete tries to teach her to walk properly with a book on her head, but Wendy starts reading it instead and discovers it's an erotic book. Next, he tries to make her laugh like a lady but loses his patience at her bad attempts, only to get called out on his own Annoying Laugh.
  • Queca discreetly gives her the numbers of the judges and tries to have Wendy bribe them, but gives up when they realize they don't have enough money for that, so she settles for showing her how to "shine" and walk the catwalk, using some very exaggerated movements.
  • Tony trains her on how to answer the typical questions asked to contestants. Of the options given, Wendy reluctantly says she admires the Pope but adds she doesn't agree with his views on condoms, causing Tony to freak out and apologize to the camera, telling her she's not allowed to say that in a catholic country.
  • Afterwards they have her show off all her learned skills, which Wendy nearly aces until she passes some gas at the end, to their bafflement. Gonzalete asks where Queca went and Tony points down. Cut to Queca, having fainted, on the floor.
• 'El Centro de Lima':
  • Wendy asks Machín to take her out because she is bored of being stuck in the house all the time, Machín grumpily lists all the times he has taken her out but they turn out to be all from years past. Finally he remembers and describes a time where he took her out for a hot night at a hotel, to Wendy's increasing confusion and anger...when he realizes this he sheepishly asks "It...it wasn't you?" which Wendy answers with a Big "NO!". Machín's reply is just "Tough luck.You missed out!". (We never do find out if he unwittingly confessed or was just trolling her.)
  • Later, we see a rat roaming the house which scares Machín and the ghosts into jumping onto the table and chairs and yell out for Wendy's help:
    Machín: Wendy! Wendy! There is a vermin on the house!
    Wendy: Well of course! Where do you want me to be if you never take me outside?
    (Cue mass Stunned Silence)
  • When Tony explains there is an actual vermin on the house (making sure to explain they didn't mean a vermin looking human, humanoid vermin, or a vermin and monkey hybrid, etc...), the rat reappears and Tony jumps again on the chair while screaming. Wendy is the only one visibly unbothered by the rat but still agrees to help take care of the problem:
    Wendy: (On the Phone) Hello, fumigations 'Mickey Mouse'?
  • This leads to the family needing to leave the house for 24 hours while it's being fumigated, to Wendy's joy. Queca tries to get them to stay a a 5 Star hotel but since there's not nearly enough money for that, Machín tells them they'll have to stay with his father, who lives in the titular central district of the city, causing Queca to faint.
  • The rest of the episode follows Queca at her most Tsundere, pretending to be too high class and above everything they find in the city, but desperately wanting to take part of the activities.
• The episode where Queca and Gonzalete agree to marry for convenience's sake, and Machín, playing the Straight Man for once, and having an unusually high opinion of love; does everything in his power to stop the wedding. It even leads to him bribing the priest so he can make bizarre vows to dissuade the couple from marrying.
  • During the party where Wendy tries to pair up Queca and Gonzalete, she starts giving silly orders to Tony and Machín so they don't interrupt the "mood", like telling Tony to talk by himself.
    Wendy: Machín, you dance with me. Tony, you dance with the chicken. Kiss the chicken even! (Tony does so, unperturbed)
• "Tony the Singer" has a lot of funny moments, but the main plot is actually about the drama with the new neighbors.
  • Tony starts thinking that he can be a great singer when Queca and Wendy encourage him to give it a try. How? They start role-playing as Sony executives having an audition, with both playing Mariah Carey. Once Tony shows what he can do, Queca, Wendy, and later Gonzalete, try to avoid him at all costs until they have to tell him the truth straight up.
  • Every single member of the family has formed some kind of animosity against the Pataclaun family.
    • Wendy hates the wife because she has borrowed all her flour, sugar, eggs, and even the cutlery, from her without intention of paying her back for all of the groceries. Then she tries to hide her animosity against the kid because the child made her trip on the welcome cake that she intended to give them. Not helping matters that the wife says that Wendy is dumb aloud. And then the dog wouldn't stop barking all day, to the point Wendy puts aside her attempts at making piece and instead suggests they just poison the dog and all the family.
    • Queca hates the husband because he practically burped on her face when she opened the window. And then both of them call her "everyone's grandma".
    • Gonzalete hates the husband because he flipped him off when Gonzalete was just tryng to tell him to do less noise. On the other hand he is constantly creeping on the wife while she is taking a shower.
    • As the family returns to their rooms, Gonzalete stays near the window when he overhears the neighbors “getting busy”
    • Machín hates them because he doesn't like to give things away, and the kid shot a toy arrow at his head. And then the husband left his car in Machín’s parking lot.
  • In the end, they get rid of the neighbors by setting up a karaoke stage to drive them away. The problem now they can't make Tony stop singing.
• Machín finds a 4 leafed clover and starts getting a string of good luck, with Queca and Gonzalete getting envious and trying to take it for themselves, to the point Gonzalete starts talking in a gravely demonic voice.
  • They summon Cousin Hertes to have his bad luck counter Machín's good luck so they have an opportunity to take the clover, but we get a montage of the clover's good luck protecting Machín from the bad luck, while Queca and Gonzalete accumulate Amusing Injuries, until they get run over by a train.
  • At one point the bandage on Gonzalete's head jumps out, which apparently wasn't scripted, and it stays on top of his head for the rest of the scene.
  • At the end of the episode after Wendy has destroyed the clover, they find solace that Tony at least still got his lucky commercial break. Turns out Tony had become the face of an impotence ad campaign, and he is going through the city trying to take down all the posters showing his face.
• Pataclaun in Iquitos. The boys take a trip by themselves to the jungle, and the girls; in revenge for being left behind, follow them and get them in all sorts of wacky shenanigans to teach them a lesson. They even dress up as local girls and manage to fool them long enough as to get them entranced!
  • The boys being so mesmerized and dumb that they don't realize the local girls they're flirting with are Wendy and Queca in disguise. Wendy fools Machín long enough to almost take him to bed (eventually, she uncovers herself and tells him the truth; either way they still end up hitting the sack), while disguised!Queca suggests a wild Threesome Subtext with Tony and Gonzalete at the bar, of which they're more than happy to indulge. (they just don't go along with it once Queca uncovers herself, and rejects both of Tony and Gonzalete's advances, as she usually does).
• After Wendy and Queca leave to find a new religion, Tony and Machín are desperately trying to save the show without them.
  • Tony and Machín hold auditions to replace their characters. Cue a montage of bad imitators of all shapes and sizes, dancing and jumping around trying to act like the missing clauns.
  • Gonzalete's reactions in this episode are absolutely hilarious. From having a seizure once he hears of Wendy and Queca changing religions, to doing Drag to replace Queca; our friendly priest easily takes the crown of funniest character for the episode.
  • Let's remember that the whole reason Wendy goes along with Queca is because Queca is the only one with the existential crisis, and Wendy does a better research job on each religion, which makes them both switch between all of them.
    • They abandon the Jehovah's Witnesses because nobody would answer their doors.
    • Queca abandons the Krishna because she just finds out that they can't use sweaters, they can't eat meat, smoke, gamble and, worse of all, they can only have sex to procreate. Queca takes this as the last straw.
    • Queca manages to get them booted from the Muslims because she had the "brilliant idea" of taking her veil off in the Mecca, arguing that she can't keep her blonde hair covered.
    • They renounce Alpha and Omega because they didn't find any ovni in Chilca.
    • After getting high during their Rastafari phase, Queca eventually realizes that she would go bald because she can't wash her hair because of the dreadlocks.
    • The last religion before giving up: The Voice of the People. It has them both dressed as housewives, watching Laura Bozzo and adoring the current Government^note Common knowledge that the 90's Government of Alberto Fujimori used the Laura Bozzo talkshow to keep the people dumb and entertained. So far the most blatant political Take That! of the season.
• The End of the World. Gonzalete makes a wish upon a star to make Peru a better country. The others find this very weird.
  • As everything is coming to an end, Queca grabs Machín and tells him that she has always loved him and wants to nail him. Machín, understandably freaked out, flees from the spot. When Gonzalete clears up that the world isn't ending, Queca immediately gets defensive and denies having thrown herself at Machín, despite nobody asking her.
  • Thinking that the world is ending as the Turn of the Millennium is close, Queca, Wendy, and Tony get very depressed, and Queca decides to give all her creams and beauty products to Wendy. Being moved by this gesture of generosity from Queca, Wendy decides to do something nice too, so she finally agrees to hook up with Tony. Tony's reaction is a complete 180° twist and quickly becomes excited, thanking the End of the World... and just then Gonzalete tells them that the world is not ending. Tony starts to throw a tantrum since once again he can't get laid. After the whole situation is cleared, Wendy flat out takes back her offer, to Tony's disappointment.

General

• Everytime the fourth wall is shattered. From "my character is limited by the script" jokes to "I'll go have lunch at the channel's cafeteria".
• Many of the Running Gags:
  • Wendy talking with her rubber chicken, getting angry at it for some reason and beating it up.
  • Queca being summoned and presenting herself like some celebrity, or alternatively letting her wild side show and loudly asking for some beers.
  • Tony explaining his schemes to the audience using Super-Deformed paper cutouts of the characters involved, and occasionally comenting on them.
    Tony: *Holding a particularly ugly cutout of himself* My regards to the propmaker's mom.
  • Tony flirting with Wendy, her getting angry and trying to insult him without success, then him sending her on some Snipe Hunt of a quest with the promise of a funny reward just to get rid of her.
    • This is generally used as a one-off gag and then forgotten, but the episode where we meet Tony's mother, Wendy actually takes up Tony's offer, making her exit the house so she wouldn't interact with Mamá Antonieta. We get to periodically see Wendy walking northwards, passing various cities and borders. Until the end credits when she finally reaches New York city's Times Square, confirms it's not rainy, shrugs, and turns back happily.