YMMV / Les Luthiers

• Growing the Beard: Sometimes literally: Núñez was clean-shaven at first, as well as Acher. Their most successful years came when they were both with beard and moustache, to the point of many fans being unable to recognize them in old photos or footage. Marcos Mundstock was also shaven for a little while, and his daughter reportedly forbids videos from that era being played at home as she finds him "ugly" that way. In fact, six out of seven official members (all but Gerardo) had both looks (clean shaven and with beard and moustache) at some point. Yes, even Carlos López Puccio had a short-lived beard for a few months!
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In "Cantata del Adelantado Don Rodrigo Díaz de Carreras", in one point where Don Rodrigo and the narrator argue, Don Rodrigo says he doesn't argue with "aficionades". Upon the narrator correcting him by saying it's "aficionados"^note amateurs, although Don Rodrigo says he pronounced it incorrectly as it would rhyme with "verdades"^note truths. Almost 40 years later after this was first played, "aficionades" would perfectly fit into an attempt to introduce a new gender-neutral speech form in spanish (using the letter "e" instead of the masculine "o" and the feminine "a").
  • The Chist! version of "La Comisión" adds several off-hand comments by Rabinovich's character in that he often takes all the money he gets and stores it in off-shore accounts somewhere else in the world. While this situation was not exactly unknown for by the time this version was played, a few years later, a new scandal about off-shore accounts in Panama was revealed to the public... giving this version of "La Comisión" a hilariously prophetic light.
• Seasonal Rot: Mild case, but after Ernesto Acher left the group and the members inevitably became old, they started relying more and more on Recycled Scripts than on completely new plays, and even when reusing older plays, they tend to be the same ones (partially justified because some of their plays required 6 members, making them impossible to reuse, at least until Rabinovich's death; in other cases, the avoided works were very much only liked by Acher, but not by the rest, and given the acrimonious split they had little incentive to replay them). The quality of their shows did not diminish, however, which prevents the group falling into Franchise Zombie.

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