History Series / TreintaYUnMinutos

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* {{Catchphrase}}: Almost every character has at least one, but the closest there is to a collective one is "disimula" ("pretend") which they tell to each other when they need to keep a charade towards the audience, which happens ''very'' often.

* CocaPepsiInc: Tio Horacio promoted a "Panashiva" color TV on his show, parodying Panasonic. Incidentally, "Panashiva" was an ''actual'' brand of cheap and shoddy electronics sold in Chile during the early 2000's.

* CocaPepsiInc: Tio Horacio promoted a "Panashiva" color TV on his show.
** "Panashiva" was an ''actual'' brand of cheap and shoddy electronics sold in Chile during the early 2000's.

* DescendedCreator: Tulio Triviño and Juan Carlos Bodoque, the most famous character from the show, are voiced by Pedro Peirano and Álvaro Diaz, the creators of the show.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[WorkCom "¡Tulio, ya estamos al aire!"]][[note]]Tulio, we're on air![[/note]]]]

** Meanwhile, Juanin appears to have a Species ''First Name''.

''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 somwehere 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.

* {{Nepotism}}: Parodied with Policarpo's Ranking Top. All the artists 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.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Several characters share traits with analogous Chilean media personalities, although [[WordOfGod the creators]] [[DeniedParody deny they were intended as parodies]].

* OneHitWonder: InUniverse, all songs featured on the 'Ranking Top' are this.

* PalsWithJesus: Not even friends.

** Season 4 features Carlitos Lechuga doing the WeatherReport at the end of the episode, only to be victim of the weather he's informing.

* DealWithTheDevil: The song 'Parque de diversiones' (Amusement Park) where a kid wins a whole park for himself, but then discovers he cannot invite his friends, and also cannot leave the park and he's forever locked inside... with a demon, who's chasing the kid to kill him. [[spoiler: It's just a nightmare.]]

* PersonOfMassDestruction: Dante, in his second episode. When you can blow up a huge asteroid by yourself, you can officialy consider yourself a WMD.

* WidgetSeries:
** Parodied in 'Japonés'.
** Heck! The whole show is a Chilean widget show: From whatever puppets, non-sequitur humor, StylisticSuck, SelfParody, {{big lipped alligator moment}}s, {{gainax ending}}s and more.

** 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/Luc%C3%ADa_Hiriart Lucía Hiriart]], the widow of infamous Chilean dictator UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet.

** 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 "We you talking about me?" The puppet has the exact same hairstyle and sunglasses as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc%C3%ADa_Hiriart Lucía Hiriart]], the widow of infamous Chilean dictator UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet.

** 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]]

** 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. 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.

* {{Nepotism}}: Parodied with Policarpo's Ranking Top. All the artist are related to him. They are either family or friends. Like how Cucky is his bodyguard, Percy is his best friend's godchild, or Lino and Lana are the kids of his neighbor twice-removed.

* TakeThat: 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]]

** He does confess it in "El secreto" just to get rejected by an "And I don't care"

* Catchphrase: Almost every character has at least one, but the closest there is to a collective one is "disimula" ("pretend") which they tell to each other when they need to keep a charade towards the audience, which happens ''very'' often.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: In a segment of the show of Tio Horacio (supposedly broadcasted 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.

* ExecutiveMeddling: 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.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The song "Severlá". The video seems to take place in Egypt, with the whole desser and mummies theme, while the lyrics are just some vaguely Arabic sounding words [[spoiler: which at the end is revealed to actually be Spanish backwards.]]
** 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").

* TakeThat: 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]

* {{Takethat}}: The "Teletón" special made between the first and second season was only made to mock the annual Chilean television event. They specially take a dig at the artists and scammers of the event.

* TraumaticHaircut: The song 'Me cortaron mal el pelo'(''They've cut my hair badly'').

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: In 'El fin del mundo', 'Maguito Explosivo' and the three-part 'La amenaza siluria".

* MadeOfExplodium: Maguito.
** More like drank a can of explodium and is regularily exploding ever since.
** For instance, his titular episode ("Maguito Explosivo") has, without counting footage form previous episodes, 79 explosions. 44 of them happen in his own ThemeTune.
** As of season 4, [[spoiler: Tio Pelado and Cossimo Gianni]] explode in two different episodes.

* MistakenForGay: Tulio and Bodoque at the end of "El Funeral De Tulio"
* 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.
** [[NightmareFuel The entiretly]] of the Papa Te Queiro music video.
* {{Mooks}}: Cachirula's dolls in TheMovie.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: Maguito, in his second episode. When you can blow up a huge asteroid by yourself, you can officialy consider yourself a WMD.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Maguito, 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.

* NewsParody: Faux News variation.

* ParentalBonus

* PresentDay
* ProductPlacement: 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.

* PunnyName: 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.

* SavingTheWorld: In 'Maguito explosivo' and the 'La Amenaza Siluria' StoryArc.

* ThirtySecondsOverTokyo: In 'Japonés'.
* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: In 'Maguito explosivo'.

* VocalEvolution

** 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 are 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.
** At the beginning of "31 minutos educativio", Tulio tells Juanín he will read in silence the letter who 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.
* VoxPops: The “Encuesta” segment.

* CouchGag / LogoJoke: 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.

* EekAMouse: In 'Un ratoncito duro de cazar'

* EveryoneHasStandards: Most of the characters are selfish, lazy, greedy and rude, but still are morally outraged by the things Tio Pelado tries to pull off.

* GratuitousEnglish: "They Cut Wrong My Hair"
* GreenAesop: On the 'Nota verde' segments.
* HalfHourComedy

* HandsomeLech: Bodoque

* HavingABlast: Maguito, in his second appearance.

* HypocriticalHumor: The show ran on this.

* LemonyNarrator / InteractiveNarrator: On Calcetín con Rombos Man segments.

* PuppetPermutation / HumanityEnsues: Naturally {{inverted|Trope}} in 'La amenaza Siluria III" where [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome the main crew are turned briefly into their voice actors]].
-->'''[=Tulio=]''': "That was the worst thing that had happened in my life. [[StylisticSelfParody I even had a nose!]]"

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-->'''Juanín (Sancho Panza):''' Oh, Don Quixote. I see a threat in the distance.\\

'''Bodoque (The Narrator):''' What they didn't know is that their archenemies are coming... the vampire windmills blocked their passage!\\