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--> '''Gaia''': "What do you think about polygamy?"
--> '''Paolo''': "Polygamy...is great, really great! My wife likes it too. I think we're gonna spend our next holiday in Polygamy!"
--> '''Gaia''': "What do you think about polygamy?"
--> '''Paolo''': "Polygamy...is great, really great! My wife likes it too. I think we're gonna spend our next holiday in Polygamy!"
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** However, despite him being clueless about ''anything'' remotely academic, he's shown to be able to scheme at times and his ability to trick his clients makes him the best salesman in the company. He also knows everything about cars and stuff. He borders on GeniusDitz.
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** or also
--> '''Gaia''': "What do you think about polygamy?"
--> '''Paolo''': "Polygamy...is great, really great! My wife likes it too. I think we're gonna spend our next holiday in Polygamy!"
** However, despite him being clueless about ''anything'' remotely academic,he's Paolo is shown to be able to scheme at times and his ability to trick his clients makes him the best salesman in the company. He also knows everything seems to have a vast knowledge about cars and stuff.cars. He borders on GeniusDitz.
--> '''Gaia''': "What do you think about polygamy?"
--> '''Paolo''': "Polygamy...is great, really great! My wife likes it too. I think we're gonna spend our next holiday in Polygamy!"
** However, despite him being clueless about ''anything'' remotely academic,
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** Eh, kind of subverted about Luca's Blue Oni, actually. Yeah, he's the "intellectual", serious one and, at least at first sight, the most level-headed of the duo (actually he isn't level-headed at all, but Paolo is even worse), but Luca is also extremely rude, arrogant and short-tempered.
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** Eh, kind of subverted about Luca's Blue Oni, actually. Yeah, he's the "intellectual", serious one and, at least at first sight, and usually acts as the most level-headed responsible of the duo (actually he isn't level-headed duo. But Luca is actually not responsible at all, but all (even if Paolo is even worse), but Luca is worse) and he's also extremely incredibly rude, arrogant and short-tempered.
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** Another difference is that Luca is a self-proclaimed "intellectual BookWorm", Alex...not so much.
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* OppositesAttract: Luca and Alex. Not that opposites actually: they are both ill-natured, cynical, sarcastic and anti-conformist. But there's a big difference: Alex ReallyGetsAround and Luca is always alone and never gets a girl. Ever.
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* OppositesAttract: Luca and Alex. Not that opposites actually: they are both ill-natured, cynical, sarcastic sarcastic, rebellious and anti-conformist. But there's a big difference: Alex ReallyGetsAround and Luca is always alone and never gets a girl. Ever.Ever.
** Another difference is that Luca is a self-proclaimed "intellectual BookWorm", Alex...not so much.
** Another difference is that Luca is a self-proclaimed "intellectual BookWorm", Alex...not so much.
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* OppositesAttract: Luca and Alex. Not that opposites actually: they are both ill-natured, cynical, sarcastic and anti-conformist. But there's a big difference: Alex ReallyGetsAround and Luca is always alone and never gets a girl. Ever.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Pretty much every ButtMonkey, especially Silvano. Luca can be an exception since he ended up being a ButtMonkey in many episodes, but he's actually very bossy and arrogant.
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** Eh, kind of subverted about Luca's Blue Oni, actually. Yeah, he's the "intellectual", serious one and, at least at first sight, the most level-headed of the duo (actually he isn't level-headed at all, but Paolo is even worse), but Luca is also extremely rude, arrogant and short-tempered.
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* LoveRedeems: parodied in the episode "La Bella e la Bestia" ("The Beauty and the Beast") where Andrea, after a one-night stand with Gaia, claims to be madly in love with her and tells Luca and Paolo that he wants to be a better, nicer person just for love. Luca and Paolo obviously take advantage of the situation and start to pick on the new nice Andrea, who doesn't react violently anymore and he's basically become another Silvano. When Gaia arrives, she's seriously disgusted by Andrea being a pathetic doormat and tells him that it was his though badass attitude who made him appealing. So end of their "love story". Andrea of course immediately went back to his old self and you can imagine [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown what he did to Luca and Paolo]].
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* LoveRedeems: parodied in the episode "La Bella e la Bestia" ("The Beauty and the Beast") where Andrea, after a one-night stand with Gaia, claims to be madly in love with her and tells Luca and Paolo that he wants to be a better, nicer person just for love. Luca and Paolo obviously take advantage of the situation and start to pick on the new nice Andrea, who doesn't react violently anymore and he's basically become another Silvano. When Gaia arrives, she's seriously disgusted by Andrea being a pathetic doormat and tells him that it was his though badass attitude who what made him appealing. So end of their "love story". Andrea of course immediately went back to his old self and you can imagine [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown what he did to Luca and Paolo]].
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** In the episode [[UglyBetty Ugly Bitta]] Paolo, forced to wear braces and red glasses after a car accident, is ridulized and made fun of by the other workers including [[ButtMonkey Patti, Pippo and Wanda]] because of his "ugliness". At the end of the same episode there's a reference to another American TV show when Paolo (now without braces and glasses) starts dressing and acting like ''[[{{House}} Gregory House]]''.
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** In the episode [[UglyBetty Ugly Bitta]] Paolo, forced to wear braces and red glasses after a car accident, is ridulized ridiculized and made fun of by the other workers including [[ButtMonkey Patti, Pippo and Wanda]] because of his "ugliness". At the end of the same episode there's a reference to another American TV show when Paolo (now without braces and glasses) starts dressing and acting like ''[[{{House}} Gregory House]]''.
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** In the episode [[UglyBetty Ugly Bitta]] Paolo, forced to wear braces and red glasses after a car accident, is ridulized and made fun of by the other workers including [[ButtMonkey Patti, Pippo and Wanda]] because of his "ugliness". At the end of the same episode there's a reference to another American TV show when Paolo (now without braces and glasses) starts dressind and acting like ''[[{{House}} Gregory House]]''.
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** In the episode [[UglyBetty Ugly Bitta]] Paolo, forced to wear braces and red glasses after a car accident, is ridulized and made fun of by the other workers including [[ButtMonkey Patti, Pippo and Wanda]] because of his "ugliness". At the end of the same episode there's a reference to another American TV show when Paolo (now without braces and glasses) starts dressind dressing and acting like ''[[{{House}} Gregory House]]''.
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* LoveRedeems: parodied in the episode "La Bella e la Bestia" ("The Beauty and the Beast") where Andrea, after a one-night stand with Gaia, claims to be madly in love with her and tells Luca and Paolo that he wants to be a better, nicer person just for love. Luca and Paolo obviously take advantage of the situation and start to pick on the new nice Andrea, who doesn't react violently anymore and he's basically become another Silvano. When Gaia arrives, she's seriously disgusted by Andrea being a pathetic doormat and tells him that it was his though badass attitude who made him appealing. So end of their "love story",. Andrea of course immediately went back to his old self and you can imagine [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown what he did to Luca and Paolo]].
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* LoveRedeems: parodied in the episode "La Bella e la Bestia" ("The Beauty and the Beast") where Andrea, after a one-night stand with Gaia, claims to be madly in love with her and tells Luca and Paolo that he wants to be a better, nicer person just for love. Luca and Paolo obviously take advantage of the situation and start to pick on the new nice Andrea, who doesn't react violently anymore and he's basically become another Silvano. When Gaia arrives, she's seriously disgusted by Andrea being a pathetic doormat and tells him that it was his though badass attitude who made him appealing. So end of their "love story",.story". Andrea of course immediately went back to his old self and you can imagine [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown what he did to Luca and Paolo]].
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* LoveRedeems: parodied in the episode "La Bella e la Bestia" ("The Beauty and the Beast") where Andrea, after a one-night stand with Gaia, claims to be madly in love with her and tells Luca and Paolo that he wants to be a better, nicer person just for love. Luca and Paolo obviously take advantage of the situation and start to pick on the new nice Andrea, who don't react violently anymore and he's basically become another Silvano. When Gaia arrives, Andrea tells her that he changed for her, but she went away disgusted
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* LoveRedeems: parodied in the episode "La Bella e la Bestia" ("The Beauty and the Beast") where Andrea, after a one-night stand with Gaia, claims to be madly in love with her and tells Luca and Paolo that he wants to be a better, nicer person just for love. Luca and Paolo obviously take advantage of the situation and start to pick on the new nice Andrea, who don't doesn't react violently anymore and he's basically become another Silvano. When Gaia arrives, she's seriously disgusted by Andrea being a pathetic doormat and tells her him that he changed for her, but she it was his though badass attitude who made him appealing. So end of their "love story",. Andrea of course immediately went away disgustedback to his old self and you can imagine [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown what he did to Luca and Paolo]].
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* LoveRedeems: parodied in the episode "La Bella e la Bestia" ("The Beauty and the Beast") where Andrea, after a one-night stand with Gaia, claims to be madly in love with her and tells Luca and Paolo that he wants to be a better, nicer person just for love. Luca and Paolo obviously take advantage of the situation and start to pick on the new nice Andrea, who don't react violently anymore and he's basically become another Silvano. When Gaia arrives, Andrea tells her that he changed for her, but she went away disgusted
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* JerkAss: someone more than others but well, pretty much everyone. Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, and Vittorio are always this to everyone. Alex is a big {{Jerkass}} to Luca (she gets better in season 5 though), Geller is a MagnificentBastard who genuinely enjoys driving the other people crazy. Even the supposedly "nice" Patti is evolving into this more and more. But again, every character is extremely selfish and opportunist. The [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeys]] are ''usually'' more sympathetic just because they are always victim of the others' bossy behavior, but they can be jerks too when they find people who are even more hapless than them.
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* JerkAss: someone more than others but well, pretty much everyone. everyone with Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, and Vittorio are always this to everyone. being the best examples. Also Alex who is a big {{Jerkass}} to Luca (she gets better in season 5 though), Geller is though) and Geller, a MagnificentBastard who genuinely enjoys driving the other people crazy. Even the supposedly "nice" Patti is evolving into this more and more. But again, every character is extremely selfish and opportunist. The [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeys]] are ''usually'' more sympathetic just because they are always victim of the others' bossy behavior, but they can be jerks too when they find people who are even more hapless than them.
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** This is the point of the whole relationship between Luca and De Marinis. They are openly hostile to each other, the former being a "Communist" who claims the director his natural enemy [[BlatantLies because of their opposite political leanings]], but actually they are always making secret agreements and plotting against the other workers for their own personal profit.
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** This is the point of the whole relationship between Luca and De Marinis. They are openly hostile to each other, the former being a "Communist" who claims the director his natural enemy [[BlatantLies because of their opposite political leanings]], but actually they are always making secret agreements and plotting together against the other workers for their own personal profit.
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** This is the point of the whole relationship between Luca and De Marinis.
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** This is the point of the whole relationship between Luca and De Marinis. They are openly hostile to each other, the former being a "Communist" who claims the director his natural enemy [[BlatantLies because of their opposite political leanings]], but actually they are always making secret agreements and plotting against the other workers for their own personal profit.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Anna and Gloria.
** Patti's sister Titti, a minor season 1 character, was this as well.
** Patti's sister Titti, a minor season 1 character, was this as well.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Anna and Gloria.
**Gloria. Patti's sister Titti, a minor character who only appeared in a few season 1 character, episodes, was this as well.
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* TheDitz: Patti and Anna, more often than not.
** Gloria, big time. She's possibly ''worse'' than the two mentioned above.
** Gloria, big time. She's possibly ''worse'' than the two mentioned above.
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* TheDitz: Anna, definitely. Patti is a mixture of this and Anna, more often than not.
a CloudCuckoolander.
**Gloria, big time. She's possibly ''worse'' than In Season 5 the two mentioned above.queen of this trope is [[BrainlessBeauty Gloria]].
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: all the time. We often get to see... ''stuff'' randomly happening in the background; more often than not, it's likely to involve [[RunningGag Andrea and his baseball bat.]] And some poor guy running away from him.
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** In Season 5, it's revealed that Olmo's mom picked the former's name [[DragonBall from a list of vegetables.]]
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* JerkAss: someone more than others but well, pretty much everyone. Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, and Vittorio are always this to everyone. Alex is a big {{Jerkass}} to Luca (she gets better in season 5 though), Geller is a MagnificentBastard who genuinely enjoys driving the other people crazy. Even the supposedly "nice" Patti is evolving into this more and more. But again, every character is extremely selfish and opportunist. The [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeys]] are ''usually'' more sympathetic just because they are always victim of the others' bossy behavior, but they can be jerks to people who are even more hapless than them.
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* JerkAss: someone more than others but well, pretty much everyone. Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, and Vittorio are always this to everyone. Alex is a big {{Jerkass}} to Luca (she gets better in season 5 though), Geller is a MagnificentBastard who genuinely enjoys driving the other people crazy. Even the supposedly "nice" Patti is evolving into this more and more. But again, every character is extremely selfish and opportunist. The [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeys]] are ''usually'' more sympathetic just because they are always victim of the others' bossy behavior, but they can be jerks to too when they find people who are even more hapless than them.
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* JerkAss: someone more than others but well, pretty much everyone. Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, and Vittorio are always this to everyone. Alex is a big {{Jerkass}} to Luca (she gets better in season 5 though), Geller is a MagnificentBastard who genuinely enjoys driving the other people crazy. Even the supposedly "nice" Patti is evolving into this more and more. But again, every character is extremely selfish and opportunist. The [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeys] are ''usually'' more sympathetic just because they are always victim of the others' bossy behavior, but they can be jerks to people who are even more hapless than them.
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* JerkAss: someone more than others but well, pretty much everyone. Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, and Vittorio are always this to everyone. Alex is a big {{Jerkass}} to Luca (she gets better in season 5 though), Geller is a MagnificentBastard who genuinely enjoys driving the other people crazy. Even the supposedly "nice" Patti is evolving into this more and more. But again, every character is extremely selfish and opportunist. The [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeys] Monkeys]] are ''usually'' more sympathetic just because they are always victim of the others' bossy behavior, but they can be jerks to people who are even more hapless than them.
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* JerkAss: someone more than others but well, pretty much everyone. Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, and Vittorio are always this to everyone. Alex is a big {{Jerkass}} to Luca (she gets better in season 5 though), Geller is a MagnificentBastard who genuinely enjoys driving the other people crazy. Even the supposedly "nice" Patti is evolving into this more and more. But again, every character is extremely selfish and opportunist. The [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeys]]are ''usually'' more sympathetic, just because they are always victim of the others' {{Jerkass}} behavior.
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* JerkAss: someone more than others but well, pretty much everyone. Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, and Vittorio are always this to everyone. Alex is a big {{Jerkass}} to Luca (she gets better in season 5 though), Geller is a MagnificentBastard who genuinely enjoys driving the other people crazy. Even the supposedly "nice" Patti is evolving into this more and more. But again, every character is extremely selfish and opportunist. The [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeys]]are Monkeys] are ''usually'' more sympathetic, sympathetic just because they are always victim of the others' {{Jerkass}} behavior.bossy behavior, but they can be jerks to people who are even more hapless than them.
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* JerkAss: well, pretty much everyone at some point. Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, and Vittorio are always this to everyone. Alex is a big {{Jerkass}} to Luca (she gets better in season 5 though), Geller is a terrible MagnificentBastard who genuinely enjoys driving the other people crazy. Even the supposedly "nice" Patti is evolving into this more and more. But everyone can be a {{Jerkass}}, even the ButtMonkey (who are usually more sympathetic).
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* JerkAss: someone more than others but well, pretty much everyone at some point.everyone. Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, and Vittorio are always this to everyone. Alex is a big {{Jerkass}} to Luca (she gets better in season 5 though), Geller is a terrible MagnificentBastard who genuinely enjoys driving the other people crazy. Even the supposedly "nice" Patti is evolving into this more and more. But everyone can be a {{Jerkass}}, even the ButtMonkey (who are usually again, every character is extremely selfish and opportunist. The [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeys]]are ''usually'' more sympathetic). sympathetic, just because they are always victim of the others' {{Jerkass}} behavior.
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* JerkAss: well, pretty much everyone at some point. Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, and Vittorio are always this to everyone. Alex is a big {{Jerkass}} to Luca (she gets better in season 5 though), Geller is a terrible MagnificentBastard who genuinely enjoys driving the other people crazy. Even the supposedly "nice" Patti is evolving into this more and more. But everyone can be a {{Jerkass}} DependingOnTheWriter, even the ButtMonkey (who are usually more sympathetic).
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* JerkAss: well, pretty much everyone at some point. Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, and Vittorio are always this to everyone. Alex is a big {{Jerkass}} to Luca (she gets better in season 5 though), Geller is a terrible MagnificentBastard who genuinely enjoys driving the other people crazy. Even the supposedly "nice" Patti is evolving into this more and more. But everyone can be a {{Jerkass}} DependingOnTheWriter, {{Jerkass}}, even the ButtMonkey (who are usually more sympathetic).
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* JerkAss: well, pretty much everyone, with Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, Alex and Vittorio being the best examples.
** Patti can act like this as well, especially in the later episodes.
** Patti can act like this as well, especially in the later episodes.
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* JerkAss: well, pretty much everyone, with everyone at some point. Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, Alex and Vittorio being are always this to everyone. Alex is a big {{Jerkass}} to Luca (she gets better in season 5 though), Geller is a terrible MagnificentBastard who genuinely enjoys driving the best examples.
**other people crazy. Even the supposedly "nice" Patti can act like is evolving into this as well, especially in more and more. But everyone can be a {{Jerkass}} DependingOnTheWriter, even the later episodes.ButtMonkey (who are usually more sympathetic).
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* GeniusDitz: Silvano ''and how''. Yes, he acts like an idiot ([[CatchPhrase TOh-GOH!]]), he's extremely gullible, childish, naive and he's generally considered the dumbest character in the show. Yet, he's a math genius and excels at everything related to numbers, logic and statistics (his abilities with numbers are supposed to be better than any computer's or calculator's). He also knows everything about the animal world (because of his love for documentaries); he has a degree in economics with the highest score; he's a great chess player, is good at every board game, can solve the Rubik Cube in a few seconds and so on... His main problem is the lack of common sense and social skills.
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* GeniusDitz: Silvano ''and how''. Yes, he acts like an idiot ([[CatchPhrase TOh-GOH!]]), TOH-GOH!]]), he's extremely gullible, childish, naive and he's generally considered the dumbest character in the show. Yet, he's a math genius and excels at everything related to numbers, logic and statistics (his abilities with numbers are supposed to be better than any computer's or calculator's). He also knows everything about the animal world (because of his love for documentaries); he has a degree in economics with the highest score; he's a great chess player, is good at every board game, can solve the Rubik Cube in a few seconds and so on... His main problem is the lack of common sense and social skills.
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* GeniusDitz: Silvano ''and how''. He's very gullible, childish, naive and he's generally considered the dumbest character in the show. Yet, he's a math genius and excels at everything related to numbers, logic and statistics (his abilities with numbers are supposed to be better than any computer's or calculator's). He also knows everything about the animal world (because of his love for documentaries); he has a degree in economics with the highest score; he's a great chess player, can solve the Rubik Cube in a few seconds...
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* GeniusDitz: Silvano ''and how''. He's very Yes, he acts like an idiot ([[CatchPhrase TOh-GOH!]]), he's extremely gullible, childish, naive and he's generally considered the dumbest character in the show. Yet, he's a math genius and excels at everything related to numbers, logic and statistics (his abilities with numbers are supposed to be better than any computer's or calculator's). He also knows everything about the animal world (because of his love for documentaries); he has a degree in economics with the highest score; he's a great chess player, is good at every board game, can solve the Rubik Cube in a few seconds... seconds and so on... His main problem is the lack of common sense and social skills.
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[[caption-width-right:350: From left to right, Paolo, Andrea and Luca. Paolo and Luca [[StepfordSmiler try to smile]] as Andrea (in the middle) prepares to do [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown what he does best]].]]
-> '''Paolo:''' ''"Pippo, weren't ya goin' to the bathroom?"''
-> '''[[CampGay Pippo:]]''' ''"But I..."''
-> '''Paolo:''' '''''[[NoIndoorVoice "GO TO THE BATHROOM!"]]'''''
-> '''Pippo:''' ''[[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl "GOING RIGHT NOW!"]]''
-> ''[cue GirlyRun, [[RunningGag as always]]]''
A French sketch comedy series which spawned more than a dozen adaptations around the world, [[PunnyName punny-named]] so because "Camera Cachée" is French for ''Series/CandidCamera''. The original French series lasted from September, 2001 to December, 2003. A number of the adaptation were still ongoing as of 2011.
It basically involves [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a fixed camera, installed in a coffee vending machine]]. Said vending machine is inside a corridor within a company with NoNameGiven, next to a ''heavily'' [[DysfunctionJunction dysfunctional office]].
The camera ''never'' moves unless in cases of CameraAbuse (which [[ComedicSociopathy happen a]] ''lot''), all while accurately filming the employees' quirky habits.
[[TemptingFate But what could possibly happen in the relax area, to deserve enough interest to install a camera in a coffee vending machine?]]
'''''[[HilarityEnsues EVERYTHING.]]'''''
This series, sadly, has never been re-done in English. However this doesn't mean we can't list some tropes here. The series concept has however been sold across many countries, who have copied or made their own scripts based on the concept. The Quebec version, for examples, features a gender-neutral bathroom door in the room where the coffee machine is, allowing for other situations.
[[{{Characters/CameraCafe}} A character sheet]] (also about the Italian version) is under construction, although the most characters have essentially already been covered by now. Pictures about minor characters - or even one-time guest stars - are not strictly required, but still welcome nonetheless.
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!! This series (the names listed come from the Italian version) provides example of:
* AdultChild: Silvano, mostly due to the relationship with his mother.
* AffectionateNickname: Paolo often calls his friend Luca "Bubino" (as much as Luca hates this nickname). Also sometimes Patti calls Silvano "Silvy" and Silvano calls Patti "Pattina".
* AnnoyingLaugh: [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Guido]] [[DissonantLaughter Geller]] [[strike: currently provides]] [[SmallReferencePools used to provide]] the image for the trope. Hee-hee!
** The new secretary [[BrainlessBeauty Gloria]]'s weird laugh definitely fits this trope.
* AntiRoleModel: Paolo. His defining traits are: almost illiterate by choice, proud of it, can't spell a single word right, he's BookDumb enough to be [[RunningGag unable to end a proverb without simply repeating twice the first half of it]], drinks [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grappa Grappa]] (imagine something similar to Whisky) regularly even while driving, DrivesLikeCrazy even while being sober, he ''only'' wants to drive either campers or Alfa Romeos, he's a LoonyFan of Italian band [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooh_(band) Pooh]] (that last one not actually being a flaw by itself, obviously, but purchasing campers, Alfas and discographies [[CrackIsCheaper may be too much of an expensive hobby for a father]]), he can't [[HollywoodToneDeaf sing his idols' songs right]], he's a full-fledged CasanovaWannabe, only able to betray his wife with [[TheUnseen Maruska the hooker]], argues with his wife almost as regularly as how often he's drunk, he's proud of his two sons ''because'' of their criminal habits, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and on top of that, he has only one testicle!]]
* AudibleSharpness: this one needs explanation. Guido Geller, a post-[[JumpingTheShark merger]] character, acts as an in-universe NightmareFuelStationAttendant, given how being in charge of ''human resources'' makes him an extremely feared figure. He carries a small notebook almost as feared as the Manga/DeathNote, and whenever he notices anything going wrong, he takes it and starts writing. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome That's when the Audible Sharpness kicks in.]]
* AxCrazy: Vittorio the guard. ''In spades.''
** Paolo's stalker (and occasional lover) Lucrezia, so very much.
* {{Badass}}: Andrea, full stop.
* BaldOfEvil: Andrea, as seen above, overlapping with BaldOfAwesome, with BeardOfEvil thrown in the mix.
* BasementDweller: Silvano's relationship with his mom reminds us of [[TheSimpsons Seymour and Agnes Skinner]].
* BatmanGambit: Chiara, daughter of the MagnificentBastard director De Marinis, once pulled a Gambit ''on her own father''.
* BerserkButton: Andrea has ''a whole [[IncrediblyLamePun keyboard]]'' made of these.
* BigEater: Olmo.
* BookDumb: Paolo. So, so much. His over the top ignorance is PlayedForLaughs.
--> '''Luca''': "We don't need a calculator. 86 + 86..."
--> '''Paolo''': "Eighty-twelve!"
** or worse...
--> '''Paolo''': "Silvano, "apple" is spelled with one P, right?"
--> '''Silvano''': "No, Paolo, with double P..."
--> '''Paolo''': "Are you sure? Even if the apple is just one?"
** However, despite him being clueless about ''anything'' remotely academic, he's shown to be able to scheme at times and his ability to trick his clients makes him the best salesman in the company. He also knows everything about cars and stuff. He borders on GeniusDitz.
* BrainlessBeauty: Anna and Gloria.
** Patti's sister Titti, a minor season 1 character, was this as well.
* BrainyBrunette: Ilaria and Maria Eleonora.
* BrilliantButLazy: Luca and Paolo are actually pretty good in their respective jobs- when they fail it isn't because they're not skilled, but because fate said so. With that said, good luck seeing them working: they'd much rather spend their time in the Relax Area than doing something constructive.
--> '''Paolo''': "I might be a beast but I'm a ''professional'', for the love of..."
* TheBully: Andrea, who else? (with Luca, Paolo and Silvano being his favorite targets of abuse).
** Luca and Paolo as well, especially towards Silvano. And the fact is that Luca used to be the bullied one in high school.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Paolo. Actually many characters could qualify.
* [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkey]]/[[TheChewToy The Chew Toy]]: Silvano is by far the biggest one in the show being also Luca's and Paolo's favorite target. Basically everyone in the company considers him the official ButtMonkey. Other examples are Patti, Pippo, Anna and Wanda. [[AndZoidberg And Olmo to a lesser extent]].
** Luca himself can qualify too.
** Patti kept this status even in Season 5, ''[[UpToEleven despite being pregnant.]]''
* CameraAbuse: expect it anytime [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Andrea draws near]].
* CampGay: Pippo's behavior, though in an interesting subversion, his appearance makes him CampStraight.
* CannotTellAJoke: Silvano in "La barzelletta di Silvano" ("Silvano's joke"). Go to the trope page and see why.
* CasanovaWannabe: Paolo. He ''wishes'' he had sex with the women listed under Ms Fanservice below. Poor thing, he always [[WhatAnIdiot ruins everything right when he's close to the point to get one of them to date him]]. Out of his co-workers he only slept with his best friend's "girlfriend" [[ReallyGetsAround Alex]], his stalker Lucrezia and 60 years old Wanda.
** He actually ''gets'' many girls outside his workplace, mostly hookers and sluts, but still. It has been mentioned that he has an intense sex life unlike Luca.
* CatchPhrase: several.
** Paolo: "TALKIN' 'BOUT ME?"
*** "[first half of the proverb] [[[{{Beat}} beat]]] [first half of the proverb]"
*** "Weren't ya goin' to the bathroom, Pippo? ''GO TO THE BATHROOM!''"
** Carminati: "FOR TOM WEIL!"
** Silvano: "TOH-GOH!" (a stand-in for "Awesome!", usually said about stuff [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome that's not really that awesome at all]])
** De Marinis, the director: "YOU MORON!"
** Luca: "Now ''this'' will piss off our bosses!"
** Olmo: "I'll send you an e-mail!"
** Vittorio: "Ah, if it isn't that little comunist bastard with his tall, brainless pal!"
** Geller "In the ancient region of..." following a boring story about ancient chinese populations.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Several characters did just disappear without being mentioned again, most notably: Anna (one of the most prominent characters in the first two seasons), Jessica, Anselmo, psychologist Nadia along with other minor characters. But the biggest change was in the fifth season starting in 2011: Ilaria, Gaia, Giovanna, Emma, Maria Eleonora, Caterina and Carminati are all missing in the new episodes and seem to be just forgotten by the other characters.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Patti, Alex and Paolo's wife Valeria.
* CloudCuckoolander: Paolo. The following exchange pretty much sums everything up.
--> '''Luca:''' ''"This quiz says you have to astonish your bosses. What should you do?"''
--> '''Paolo:''' ''"I don't know, by drinking with my nose?"''
--> '''Luca:''' ''"Something that has to do with your job."''
--> '''Paolo:''' ''"Drinking with my nose while I'm driving my Alfa?"''
--> '''Luca:''' ''"Something that has '''anything''' to do with your '''selling''' job!"''
--> '''Paolo:''' ''"Drinking with my nose while I'm signing a contract, then!"''
--> '''Luca:''' ''"But- [brief [[{{Beat}} beat]]] Listen, do you '''seriously''' think you'll surprise your boss by '''drinking with your nose?'''"''
--> '''Paolo:''' ''"How do you think I got my job?"''
* ComedicSociopathy: ''everyone.''
* ComesGreatInsanity: De Marinis once challenged Luca to become "boss for a day", since the latter accused the former to be unfair and declared to be a way nicer boss if given the chance. By the end of that very sketch, he became so "good" at giving orders to prompt a company-scale rebellion.
* TheComicallySerious: ''Guido Geller''.
* ComicTrio: [[CloudCuckoolander Paolo]], [[DeadpanSnarker Luca]] and [[TheChewToy Silvano]].
* ControlFreak: Maria Eleonora.
* CouchGag: in the beginning, the opening for each sketch provided the series' logo, printed on a small plastic glass while it gets filled with coffee. Then, in the second season, a few variations have been made, such as both the plastic glass and the stream of coffee being misplaced, or the plastic glass being flipped over by the coffee itself. The third season [[UpToEleven upped the ante]] with even more absurd variations such as the plastic glass slowly lowered by chains and filled with ''[[{{Squick}} concrete]]'', a small scuba-diver-action-figure popping up from the plastic glass, the plastic glass being absent and the coffee flooding everything, the plastic glass glowing in the dark, a ''fish'' falling off the machine...
* [[strike: CrapsackWorld]] [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Relax Area]]: let's just put it this way. Out of all the characters played by the guest stars, almost ''nobody'' liked the company in any way. [[TraumaCongaLine For good reason.]]
* CrypticBackgroundReference: the company produces something called C-14. It's never said what it is. In an episode, Patti is going to say what they are, but the episode ends [[SmashCut in the middle]] [[LostInTransmission of the phrase]].
* TheDanza: Luca Nervi and Paolo Bitta are played by Luca Bizzarri and Paolo Kessisoglu respectively.
* DeadBabyComedy: subverted in that nobody makes jokes about certain subjects. This doesn't mean the character just ''won't stop'' [[CrapsackWorld being complete assholes to each other]]. Their mistreatment of Wanda, an old employee, counts as this trope.
* DeadpanSnarker: Luca, about his friend Paolo and... well, about anything that's weird in general.
--> ''(Luca notices one of the small, round, silver-colored tables stuck to the ceiling)''
--> '''Luca:''' ''"Why is one of the tables stuck to the ceiling?"''
--> '''Paolo:''' ''[[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum "There was a fly on the ceiling!"]]''
--> '''Luca:''' ''[[SarcasmMode "Well, that explains everything."]]''
** Many [[PreAssKickingOneLiner pre-ass kicking one-liners]] provided by Andrea may count.
** And then there's Geller...
--> '''Paolo (to Luca):''' ''"I chose to take a vacation in order to not see that bastard that is Mr. Geller for a while."''
--> ''[[RightBehindMe (cue Geller coming out of the kitchen)]]''
--> '''Geller:''' ''"Next time you'd better be more careful about when taking a vacation then; turned out we'll both be away from work within the same time range, instead of you coming back to work when I'm on holiday."''
--> '''Paolo:''' ''"Oh. How long have you been eavesdropping?"''
--> '''Geller:''' ''[[SarcasmMode "Not long enough to hear you calling me a bastard, I'm afraid."]]''
--> '''Paolo:''' ''[[DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm "Whew, that's fine then."]]''
* DemotedToExtra: Gaia, Giovanna and Emma in season 4 before [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome totally disappearing]] in season 5.
* TheDitz: Patti and Anna, more often than not.
** Gloria, big time. She's possibly ''worse'' than the two mentioned above.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Paolo, on occasion, usually much to Luca's total shock.
* DumbIsGood: stupid characters (like Patti, Silvano, Anna, Gloria...) tend to be way too naive and innocent to be as mean and cynical as others. Patti in the later seasons is far less naive and more and more shrill and bossy.
** Subverted with Paolo who is dumb and just as much of a {{Jerkass}} as his smart friend Luca.
* TheEeyore: Poor [[TheWoobie Anna]].
* EnemyMine: Arch enemies Ilaria and Gaia on a few occasions teamed up against Luca and Paolo.
* EpicFail: most characters are prone to this. Mostly noticeable in a sketch beginning with Luca screws up and gets tea instead of coffee; instead of simply throwing it away, he tries to give it to someone else[[hottip:*:(the former would be a solution, but [[SeriousBusiness his strong Communist beliefs keep him from "wasting" tea, as it would be "an instance of Capitalism"]])]]. By the end of the sketch, he ends up with ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext even more tea.]]''
* ExtremeDoormat: Pretty much every ButtMonkey, especially Silvano. Luca can be an exception since he ended up being a ButtMonkey in many episodes, but he's actually very bossy and arrogant.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: basically the plot of every episode.
* FatBestFriend: Olmo to both Luca and Paolo.
* FieryRedhead: Gaia and especially the director's daughter Chiara De Marinis. Totally subverted with Anna (who can be a brunette or a redhead depending on the episode) and Wanda.
* {{Flanderization}}: Patti, big time. She was already considered a [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] (because of her ugliness. ''Seriously.'') and the fact that she TookALevelInJerkass in season 5 didn't help either.
** Also Paolo. In season 1, with all his flaws, he still had a common sense, he was just less book smart than Luca. In later seasons, [[TookALevelInDumbass he was really dumbed down]], to the point he never gets the simplest thing and Luca has to explain ''anything'' to him multiple times. His idiocy reached its peak in season 4 though, it was a bit toned down in season 5.
** Silvano was less of a wimpy doormat in the very first episodes. He was still a ButtMonkey but he was actually able to react to people and in one episode after being insulted by Luca, he loudly yells back at him. In later episodes, apart from very rare BerserkButton moments of unexpected violence, (possibly CrowningMomentOfAwesome) he was a total ExtremeDoormat.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: [[TheUnseen Paolo's sons]] Brad (foolish) and Jonathan (responsible). Interestingly, in the beginning they are both shown as EnfantTerrible, but at some point, to [[AntiRoleModel Paolo]]'s absolute disdain, the oldest son Jonathan started reading, studying and getting good grades. Obviously Paolo is often mad at him because of it and favours little criminal Brad instead.
* GeniusDitz: Silvano ''and how''. He's very gullible, childish, naive and he's generally considered the dumbest character in the show. Yet, he's a math genius and excels at everything related to numbers, logic and statistics (his abilities with numbers are supposed to be better than any computer's or calculator's). He also knows everything about the animal world (because of his love for documentaries); he has a degree in economics with the highest score; he's a great chess player, can solve the Rubik Cube in a few seconds...
* GoldfishPoopGang: Michele Carminati [[AndZoidberg and]] [[TrueCompanions his co-workers]].
* {{Gonk}}: Patti, as well as the late Wanda.
* GoodWithNumbers: Silvano.
* GoshDangItToHeck: while minor swears are allowed within the show, most of the dialogue borders on this even when characters are particularly pissed. This doesn't mean there aren't [[PrecisionFStrike rare exceptions]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The two main characters, Luca and Paolo.
** Arguably also Paolo and his friends Pino and Budello, although [[TheGhost they never appeared on the show]].
* HilarityEnsues: the very premise of the series. Everything can happen in front of the coffee vending machine, every character may appear at any given [[DiabolusExMachina (and least appropriate)]] moment, and most notably, every plan [[strike: can]] ''will'' [[HoistByHisOwnPetard backfire]].
* HoYay: the episode "La più bella dell'ufficio" ("The most beautiful one in the office") started with the men writing a sexist "top ten" about the women and [[spoiler: ended with TheUnfairSex tricking an half-naked Paolo to fall on top of an half-naked Luca in the bathroom, getting photos of the two together and printing said photos on whatever you can name]].
** There's a lot of HoYay between them- Paolo said at least once "I love you" to Luca, and one episode centers around Paolo moping around because Luca never said that he was his best friend and Luca doing everything to make him happy. As for Luca, well... the times he went into a jealous fit because Paolo was spending more time with somebody else is truly astonishing.
-->'''Paolo''': "C'mon, you look like Valeria during her period!"
-->'''Luca''': "''Hmpf''!"
-->'''Paolo''': "''Exactly'' the same!"
*** Also, this exchange:
-->'''Luca''': "I WON. I FOUND SOMEBODY WHO'D GIVE ME A HICKEY WITH LOVE! YES, WITH LOVE! BECAUSE I'M GAY! I'M GAY, I LOVE PAOLO AND HE LOVES ME, RIGHT?!"
-->'''Paolo''': "Well-"
-->'''Luca''': *''kisses him''*
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Paolo ''just can't'' sing in key. He borders on HellIsThatNoise.
* HopelessSuitor: Paolo to Gaia (actually to every female character except Patti, but Gaia is his dream girl). Since there's no Gaia in season 5, rigth now he seems very (sexually) attracted to Gloria.
** Luca mostly to Emma and Maria Eleonora (and the other girls as well, except Patti of course).
** Olmo to Anna.
** Psychologist Sergio to Anna as well.
** Patti to everyone, but she has to settle with the only one interested, Silvano. Maybe Silvano is the one she really loves but she just desperately wants to have sex with ''anyone''.
* {{Hypocrite}}: while Luca is a Communist, he doesn't exactly always stick to the ideals and values that Communism would imply.
* ItMakesSenseInContext: after seeing "Il portafoglio" ("The wallet"), whistling will become the [[MostWonderfulSound most hilarious thing you'll ever hear.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Luca, Luca, Luca. As well as most of the other characters.
* JadeColoredGlasses: It seems that the contract requires to wear them constantly.
* JerkAss: well, pretty much everyone, with Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, Alex and Vittorio being the best examples.
** Patti can act like this as well, especially in the later episodes.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Paolo sometimes shows that he really cares about his friendship with Luca. Although most of the time they have a WithFriendsLikeThese type of relationship.
* KarmaHoudini: it doesn't matter [[ReallyGetsAround how much of a slut]] Alex is, she never pays for it. Likewise, anyone who acts as the "villain" of the sketch equally never pays for it.
** Definitely Andrea, annoyingly so. ''Every single character'' (including the "untouchables" Alex, Gaia, De Marinis, even ''Geller'') gets some humiliation or punishment in at least one episode. But there's basically no episode in which Andrea gets any sort of karmik comeuppance for being right-down sadistic and cruel. When it seems like he got screwed, he ends up beating up some ButtMonkey just because he's there. So the audience still remembers he's ''always'' the strongest.
** [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist Luca and Paolo]] depending on the episode, although most the time they get the karmik punishments that they deserve (usually thanks to [[TheBrute Andrea]] or [[MagnificentBastard Geller]]).
* LackOfEmpathy: ''Everyone'', with Luca on top.
-->'''Luca''': "No, no, no, I'm sorry, I'm-"
-->'''Ilaria''': "You, instead, will just keep working knowing that your colleagues are paying because of you!"
-->'''Luca''': *beat* "Oh well."
** Of course, Andrea is the most triumphant example: while Luca ''did'' have his [[PetTheDog nice moments]], Andrea just beats people because they're annoying him.
* LargeHam: Luca, the Communist employee in charge of organising strikes, whenever he starts being overly melodramatic. And when he's actually talking about strikes, he starts ChewingTheScenery.
* LastNameBasis: De Marinis, Geller and Carminati.
* LoonyFan: Paolo is quite a fan of Italian band [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooh_(band) Pooh]] ([[NamesTheSame no, not]] [[WinnieThePooh that one]]).
* {{Malaproper}}: Paolo. Just Paolo.
* MagnificentBastard: the director, Mr. De Marinis, ''is'' this trope incarnate, but two characters are [[BeyondTheImpossible even better than him]] at this, namely [[BatmanGambit his daughter Chiara]] and that in-universe NightmareFuelStationAttendant that is Guido Geller.
* MotorMouth: Patti and Anna, the latter only in case of nervous breakdowns.
* MsFanservice: some of the girls are pretty damn sexy when they're wearing the right clothes. Case in point: Alex, Gaia, Ilaria, Jessica, Giovanna and after the company merged with its rival Digitex, Caterina and Maria Eleonora. [[FetishFuel There's plenty for everyone]]. Most blatant in the episode, "La più bella dell'ufficio", that is, "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The most beautiful one in the office]]", where even [[TheWoobie Anna]] goes sexy (while [[{{Gonk}} Patti]]... er, [[NoYay is trying to do her best]]).
** Season 5 has Lucrezia and Gloria.
* NamesTheSame: Pippo is also [[{{Disney}} Goofy]]'s Italian name. It should be noted, though, that [[IncrediblyLamePun they're both goofy]], [[CampGay one way]] [[CloudCuckoolander or another]].
* NeatFreak: Silvano and Maria Eleonora.
* {{Nerd}}: Silvano is a textbook example, while Olmo tends on the {{Otaku}} variant.
* NiceGuy: Michele Carminati, Paolo's nemesis, is usually a friendly and good-natured person. Also Silvano of course, although his kindness is mostly due to his shy and naive nature. And when he [[BerserkButton really gets mad ]] can be as violent as Andrea.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Andrea, Vittorio and Guido Geller are this in-universe. Also, Silvano: while usually cheerful and naive, when he talks about his mother it can border on disturbing.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Andrea is the all-time master of this, really. You name it - any episode featuring him is bound to end like this, whether you get to see it happening [[BolivianArmyEnding or not.]]
* OddFriendship: Luca and Paolo. The first time they met they hated each other: now they're best friends.
** Patti and Alex. Also Paolo and Patti in the episode "Momento d'intesa".
* OfficialCouple: Paolo and [[TheGhost Valeria]]. (Paolo and [[TheGhost the hooker Maruska]] can count too).
** Luca and Alex (well, actually Alex and every guy in the company). [[spoiler:Now they are going to marry each other.]]
** Patti and Silvano, although they're more of PlatonicLifePartners (at least, until season 5). [[spoiler:Now they are waiting for a baby.]]
* OhCrap: whenever a sketch ends with a BolivianArmyEnding, the last shot shows whoever gets a DownerEnding ([[CrapsackWorld at the time]]) either [[StepfordSmiler trying to smile]] (see image above) screaming or [[HeroicBSOD stuck with a moronic yet horrified expression]].
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Pippo, Patti and Alex.
* OppositesAttract: Luca and Alex.
* ThePerfectionist: Maria Eleonora.
* PlayingCyrano: Luca played Paolo's Cyrano in an episode to help him to find the right words with Gaia, withouth screwing up. ''With terrible (and hilarious) results.''
* ThePrankster: Luca and Paolo are a well known duo of troublemakers.
* ReallyGetsAround: Alex, and damn proud of it. She'd have sex with almost AnythingThatMoves, much to her [[FromACertainPointOfView "boyfriend"]] Luca's chagrin.
** Silvano's mom, Chiara De Marinis, Paolo's wife Valeria and to some extent Paolo himself.
* RedOniBlueOni: Paolo and Luca.
* ResetButton: nothing ever stays the way the sketch ends, [[StatusQuoIsGod but rather]] [[SnapBack the way]] [[NegativeContinuity the sketch begins]] (without counting major events such as [[JumpingTheShark the aforementioned merger]]).
* RightBehindMe: ''all the friggin' time.'' Every single damn character is a potential OhCrap magnet.
* TheRival: Digitex to the [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] company which the series is set in... [[JumpingTheShark until they merged for the latest seasons]].
* RunningGag: several.
** "Pippo, weren't ya goin' to the bathroom?", "Really, I -", "GO TO THE BATHROOM!", "GOING RIGHT NOW!".
** Andrea [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating up somebody]].
** Luca and Paolo beating up Silvano and making fun of Patti's ugliness.
** Silvano and Patti [[AlmostKiss almost kissing]].
** Paolo and Luca's plans, whatever they are, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard backfiring]].
** Paolo not being able to properly end a proverb, like: "All's well... [[[{{Beat}} beat]]] all's well".
** Paolo bursting out of the bathroom whenever he hears his name (or not), enthusiastically yelling "TALKIN' 'BOUT ME?!"... usually at the least appropriate moments.
** Geller narrating boring and incomprehensible stories about ancient chinese populations, when he wants people to learn a lesson.
* SadistShow: ''oh yes.''
* SassySecretary: Alex.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Silvano and Patti; Luca and Alex.
* SexySecretary: Alex, Gloria and arguably Anna. ''Horribly'' subverted with Patti.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: usually provided by Luca when Paolo ruins a plan in a [[WhatAnIdiot stupid way]], but there are many other examples of this trope throughout the series.
* ShoutOut: several.
** The "ultimate joke" seen in one episode ("Il re degli scherzi", that is, "The king of jokes") consists of ''a wave of coffee flooding the relax area [[TheShining bursting out of the elevator]]''.
** One episode parodied TheMatrix, quoting lines of dialogue word for word.
** Another episode parodied FinalDestination, and Patti avoided a scripted death several times (although this ended up causing chaos). She eventually died by the end of the sketch when the vending machine fell on top of her (a rare case of the view moving).
* SitcomArchNemesis: the whole [[NoNameGiven unnamed company]] has the Digitex Company in the same building; in season 4, with the union of the two companies Paolo sees Digitex worker Michele Carminati as this, who is also his rival in his selling job, but Carminati doesn't hate Paolo back and wants him to join his working team instead.
** Gaia and Ilaria are this to each other; also season 4 has Ilaria and Maria Eleonora.
* TheSnarkKnight: Luca.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Luca defines himself "tall, charismatic, charming, honest, serious, idealist and a cinema expert". Oh well. He's ''really'' kind of a cinema expert anyway. About the rest...
* SorryIFellOnYourFist: When Andrea draws near, you will suffer. And if the sketch isn't over, you will also apologize for bleeding on him.
* SpannerInTheWorks: any stupid character will ruin any plan at the worst moment possible.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Geller and Maria Eleonora in season 4.
** Patti in season 5, ''so much'': there are several episodes completely about Patti, her pregnancy and Silvano, in which Luca and Paolo don't even appear and they are supposed to be the main characters!
* StalkerWithACrush: Lucrezia towards Paolo.
* StatusQuoIsGod: the trope is generally in full effect, as the only thing remotely resembling a coherent continuity is the change of said status quo between seasons.
** However, the trope is [[MediumAwareness acknowledged]] and [[DeconstructedTrope sort of deconstructed]] by Luca in a Season 5 sketch, where Silvano [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity being fired for the nth time]] invokes in the former an... ''unusual'' reaction. Luca spends the whole time of the sketch in front of the coffee vending machine, constantly ranting in CreepyMonotone about how "it's always the same story, nothing ever changes, nothing ever happens", etc. This creeps out De Marinis so much, that he thinks it's another strategy of Luca to help Silvano keeping his job (and it ''isn't''); Silvano then hugs Luca in gratitude, and he replies [[CreepyMonotone "You see? Nothing happened".]] After Luca acknowledged the never-changing status quo, he basically took advantage of it to help Silvano by ''doing absolutely nothing.'' At the end of the sketch, Paolo remarks that "You've been there since this morning... I can't see you like this, let's go home". As soon as they leave, ''the coffee machine falls over''. Considering it could have ''crushed'' Luca, he snaps out of his depression and says in a surprised voice, [[MoodWhiplash "Oh well, so something DOES happen!"]].
* TheStoner: Alex, though we never get to see her stoned.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In season 3 Emma replaced Anna as the director's secretary. They were totally different chararacters though as Emma was nothing more than a boring ReplacementScrappy. After Emma's departure in saeson 5 they introduced the new secretary Gloria who was basically another Anna, the ditzy airhead type of secretary.
* TooDumbToLive: Silvano, Paolo (more in the later seasons) and Gloria.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Paolo.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Patti in season 5. Pregnant Patti is now a histerical, shrill bitch and downright abusive towards [[ExtremeDoormat Silvano]]. She's always been the most dominant in their "relationship" but in the most recent episodes she's getting worse and she literally treats him like a dog ''all the time''.
* {{Troperiffic}}: you've already seen the tropes not related to specific episodes. Keep in mind this is a sketch show. As a consequence, many and brief episodes means many subjects covered, with some episode being based about tropes themselves. You get the picture.
* TrueCompanions:
** Michele, better known by his surname Carminati, is a a standout among Italian series. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Set in a business company.]]
--> '''Carminati:''' [[CatchPhrase "FOR TOM WEIL!"]]
** While not at the same level, this is also true for the nameless company. If you are harrassing a colleague of Luca and Paolo, ''they will get you''.
---> '''Luca''': "That's how you treat your boyfriend?"
---> '''Digitex Guy''': "I'm not his boyfriend."
---> '''Paolo''': "And those roses?"
---> '''Luca''': "Pippo, leave this to us, hunny."
---> '''Digitex Guy''': "There's a misunderstanding-"
---> '''Paolo''': "Pippo, did this bastard break your heart?"
---> '''Pippo''': "YES!"
---> '''Paolo''': "Then there's no misunderstanding."
---> *''And beating ensues''*
* TheUnfairSex: if the men are plotting a plan to get to have sex with any of the women, be sure that by the end of the sketch the plan will backfire and the women will react [[DisproportionateRetribution accordingly]].
* TheUnseen: several, mostly related to Paolo, the AntiRoleModel. Paolo's family (his wife Valeria and his sons, Brad and Jonathan) and criminal buddies (Pino, the one nicknamed Budello, as well as Maruska the hooker). There's also Lello, along with his restaurant; the President of the company (the first one and the new one after season 3); Silvano's mom and her old next-door neighbour, Mrs Bollini.
* VillainProtagonist: Luca and Paolo in many episodes. At their best they are just UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Luca and Paolo are a strong Type 2. Although Luca is usually the most vitriolic one.
** Silvano seems to consider Luca and Paolo his best friends. Of course they don't treat him like a friend (not even like a human being) as they always take advantage of Silvano and pull on him cruel pranks, but in ''very very'' rare occasions, they actually try to help him or give him advice particularly about his relationship with Patti.
* WhosLaughingNow: Silvano goes badass in one episode. Remember "[[BuffyTheVampireSlayer badass Giles]]"? Something like that. And it is ''awesome''.
* WritingLines: Paolo once screwed with the women, and as a result they forced him to write several times the [[AnAesop supposed Aesop]] on a giant paper sheet that ''covered the entire floor''.
* XanatosPlannedThisIndex: basically ''everyone'' gets a moment in which he or she is plotting something. ''Everyone''. Except any ButtMonkey, maybe.
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[[caption-width-right:350: From left to right, Paolo, Andrea and Luca. Paolo and Luca [[StepfordSmiler try to smile]] as Andrea (in the middle) prepares to do [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown what he does best]].]]
-> '''Paolo:''' ''"Pippo, weren't ya goin' to the bathroom?"''
-> '''[[CampGay Pippo:]]''' ''"But I..."''
-> '''Paolo:''' '''''[[NoIndoorVoice "GO TO THE BATHROOM!"]]'''''
-> '''Pippo:''' ''[[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl "GOING RIGHT NOW!"]]''
-> ''[cue GirlyRun, [[RunningGag as always]]]''
A French sketch comedy series which spawned more than a dozen adaptations around the world, [[PunnyName punny-named]] so because "Camera Cachée" is French for ''Series/CandidCamera''. The original French series lasted from September, 2001 to December, 2003. A number of the adaptation were still ongoing as of 2011.
It basically involves [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a fixed camera, installed in a coffee vending machine]]. Said vending machine is inside a corridor within a company with NoNameGiven, next to a ''heavily'' [[DysfunctionJunction dysfunctional office]].
The camera ''never'' moves unless in cases of CameraAbuse (which [[ComedicSociopathy happen a]] ''lot''), all while accurately filming the employees' quirky habits.
[[TemptingFate But what could possibly happen in the relax area, to deserve enough interest to install a camera in a coffee vending machine?]]
'''''[[HilarityEnsues EVERYTHING.]]'''''
This series, sadly, has never been re-done in English. However this doesn't mean we can't list some tropes here. The series concept has however been sold across many countries, who have copied or made their own scripts based on the concept. The Quebec version, for examples, features a gender-neutral bathroom door in the room where the coffee machine is, allowing for other situations.
[[{{Characters/CameraCafe}} A character sheet]] (also about the Italian version) is under construction, although the most characters have essentially already been covered by now. Pictures about minor characters - or even one-time guest stars - are not strictly required, but still welcome nonetheless.
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!! This series (the names listed come from the Italian version) provides example of:
* AdultChild: Silvano, mostly due to the relationship with his mother.
* AffectionateNickname: Paolo often calls his friend Luca "Bubino" (as much as Luca hates this nickname). Also sometimes Patti calls Silvano "Silvy" and Silvano calls Patti "Pattina".
* AnnoyingLaugh: [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Guido]] [[DissonantLaughter Geller]] [[strike: currently provides]] [[SmallReferencePools used to provide]] the image for the trope. Hee-hee!
** The new secretary [[BrainlessBeauty Gloria]]'s weird laugh definitely fits this trope.
* AntiRoleModel: Paolo. His defining traits are: almost illiterate by choice, proud of it, can't spell a single word right, he's BookDumb enough to be [[RunningGag unable to end a proverb without simply repeating twice the first half of it]], drinks [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grappa Grappa]] (imagine something similar to Whisky) regularly even while driving, DrivesLikeCrazy even while being sober, he ''only'' wants to drive either campers or Alfa Romeos, he's a LoonyFan of Italian band [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooh_(band) Pooh]] (that last one not actually being a flaw by itself, obviously, but purchasing campers, Alfas and discographies [[CrackIsCheaper may be too much of an expensive hobby for a father]]), he can't [[HollywoodToneDeaf sing his idols' songs right]], he's a full-fledged CasanovaWannabe, only able to betray his wife with [[TheUnseen Maruska the hooker]], argues with his wife almost as regularly as how often he's drunk, he's proud of his two sons ''because'' of their criminal habits, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and on top of that, he has only one testicle!]]
* AudibleSharpness: this one needs explanation. Guido Geller, a post-[[JumpingTheShark merger]] character, acts as an in-universe NightmareFuelStationAttendant, given how being in charge of ''human resources'' makes him an extremely feared figure. He carries a small notebook almost as feared as the Manga/DeathNote, and whenever he notices anything going wrong, he takes it and starts writing. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome That's when the Audible Sharpness kicks in.]]
* AxCrazy: Vittorio the guard. ''In spades.''
** Paolo's stalker (and occasional lover) Lucrezia, so very much.
* {{Badass}}: Andrea, full stop.
* BaldOfEvil: Andrea, as seen above, overlapping with BaldOfAwesome, with BeardOfEvil thrown in the mix.
* BasementDweller: Silvano's relationship with his mom reminds us of [[TheSimpsons Seymour and Agnes Skinner]].
* BatmanGambit: Chiara, daughter of the MagnificentBastard director De Marinis, once pulled a Gambit ''on her own father''.
* BerserkButton: Andrea has ''a whole [[IncrediblyLamePun keyboard]]'' made of these.
* BigEater: Olmo.
* BookDumb: Paolo. So, so much. His over the top ignorance is PlayedForLaughs.
--> '''Luca''': "We don't need a calculator. 86 + 86..."
--> '''Paolo''': "Eighty-twelve!"
** or worse...
--> '''Paolo''': "Silvano, "apple" is spelled with one P, right?"
--> '''Silvano''': "No, Paolo, with double P..."
--> '''Paolo''': "Are you sure? Even if the apple is just one?"
** However, despite him being clueless about ''anything'' remotely academic, he's shown to be able to scheme at times and his ability to trick his clients makes him the best salesman in the company. He also knows everything about cars and stuff. He borders on GeniusDitz.
* BrainlessBeauty: Anna and Gloria.
** Patti's sister Titti, a minor season 1 character, was this as well.
* BrainyBrunette: Ilaria and Maria Eleonora.
* BrilliantButLazy: Luca and Paolo are actually pretty good in their respective jobs- when they fail it isn't because they're not skilled, but because fate said so. With that said, good luck seeing them working: they'd much rather spend their time in the Relax Area than doing something constructive.
--> '''Paolo''': "I might be a beast but I'm a ''professional'', for the love of..."
* TheBully: Andrea, who else? (with Luca, Paolo and Silvano being his favorite targets of abuse).
** Luca and Paolo as well, especially towards Silvano. And the fact is that Luca used to be the bullied one in high school.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Paolo. Actually many characters could qualify.
* [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkey]]/[[TheChewToy The Chew Toy]]: Silvano is by far the biggest one in the show being also Luca's and Paolo's favorite target. Basically everyone in the company considers him the official ButtMonkey. Other examples are Patti, Pippo, Anna and Wanda. [[AndZoidberg And Olmo to a lesser extent]].
** Luca himself can qualify too.
** Patti kept this status even in Season 5, ''[[UpToEleven despite being pregnant.]]''
* CameraAbuse: expect it anytime [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Andrea draws near]].
* CampGay: Pippo's behavior, though in an interesting subversion, his appearance makes him CampStraight.
* CannotTellAJoke: Silvano in "La barzelletta di Silvano" ("Silvano's joke"). Go to the trope page and see why.
* CasanovaWannabe: Paolo. He ''wishes'' he had sex with the women listed under Ms Fanservice below. Poor thing, he always [[WhatAnIdiot ruins everything right when he's close to the point to get one of them to date him]]. Out of his co-workers he only slept with his best friend's "girlfriend" [[ReallyGetsAround Alex]], his stalker Lucrezia and 60 years old Wanda.
** He actually ''gets'' many girls outside his workplace, mostly hookers and sluts, but still. It has been mentioned that he has an intense sex life unlike Luca.
* CatchPhrase: several.
** Paolo: "TALKIN' 'BOUT ME?"
*** "[first half of the proverb] [[[{{Beat}} beat]]] [first half of the proverb]"
*** "Weren't ya goin' to the bathroom, Pippo? ''GO TO THE BATHROOM!''"
** Carminati: "FOR TOM WEIL!"
** Silvano: "TOH-GOH!" (a stand-in for "Awesome!", usually said about stuff [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome that's not really that awesome at all]])
** De Marinis, the director: "YOU MORON!"
** Luca: "Now ''this'' will piss off our bosses!"
** Olmo: "I'll send you an e-mail!"
** Vittorio: "Ah, if it isn't that little comunist bastard with his tall, brainless pal!"
** Geller "In the ancient region of..." following a boring story about ancient chinese populations.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Several characters did just disappear without being mentioned again, most notably: Anna (one of the most prominent characters in the first two seasons), Jessica, Anselmo, psychologist Nadia along with other minor characters. But the biggest change was in the fifth season starting in 2011: Ilaria, Gaia, Giovanna, Emma, Maria Eleonora, Caterina and Carminati are all missing in the new episodes and seem to be just forgotten by the other characters.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Patti, Alex and Paolo's wife Valeria.
* CloudCuckoolander: Paolo. The following exchange pretty much sums everything up.
--> '''Luca:''' ''"This quiz says you have to astonish your bosses. What should you do?"''
--> '''Paolo:''' ''"I don't know, by drinking with my nose?"''
--> '''Luca:''' ''"Something that has to do with your job."''
--> '''Paolo:''' ''"Drinking with my nose while I'm driving my Alfa?"''
--> '''Luca:''' ''"Something that has '''anything''' to do with your '''selling''' job!"''
--> '''Paolo:''' ''"Drinking with my nose while I'm signing a contract, then!"''
--> '''Luca:''' ''"But- [brief [[{{Beat}} beat]]] Listen, do you '''seriously''' think you'll surprise your boss by '''drinking with your nose?'''"''
--> '''Paolo:''' ''"How do you think I got my job?"''
* ComedicSociopathy: ''everyone.''
* ComesGreatInsanity: De Marinis once challenged Luca to become "boss for a day", since the latter accused the former to be unfair and declared to be a way nicer boss if given the chance. By the end of that very sketch, he became so "good" at giving orders to prompt a company-scale rebellion.
* TheComicallySerious: ''Guido Geller''.
* ComicTrio: [[CloudCuckoolander Paolo]], [[DeadpanSnarker Luca]] and [[TheChewToy Silvano]].
* ControlFreak: Maria Eleonora.
* CouchGag: in the beginning, the opening for each sketch provided the series' logo, printed on a small plastic glass while it gets filled with coffee. Then, in the second season, a few variations have been made, such as both the plastic glass and the stream of coffee being misplaced, or the plastic glass being flipped over by the coffee itself. The third season [[UpToEleven upped the ante]] with even more absurd variations such as the plastic glass slowly lowered by chains and filled with ''[[{{Squick}} concrete]]'', a small scuba-diver-action-figure popping up from the plastic glass, the plastic glass being absent and the coffee flooding everything, the plastic glass glowing in the dark, a ''fish'' falling off the machine...
* [[strike: CrapsackWorld]] [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Relax Area]]: let's just put it this way. Out of all the characters played by the guest stars, almost ''nobody'' liked the company in any way. [[TraumaCongaLine For good reason.]]
* CrypticBackgroundReference: the company produces something called C-14. It's never said what it is. In an episode, Patti is going to say what they are, but the episode ends [[SmashCut in the middle]] [[LostInTransmission of the phrase]].
* TheDanza: Luca Nervi and Paolo Bitta are played by Luca Bizzarri and Paolo Kessisoglu respectively.
* DeadBabyComedy: subverted in that nobody makes jokes about certain subjects. This doesn't mean the character just ''won't stop'' [[CrapsackWorld being complete assholes to each other]]. Their mistreatment of Wanda, an old employee, counts as this trope.
* DeadpanSnarker: Luca, about his friend Paolo and... well, about anything that's weird in general.
--> ''(Luca notices one of the small, round, silver-colored tables stuck to the ceiling)''
--> '''Luca:''' ''"Why is one of the tables stuck to the ceiling?"''
--> '''Paolo:''' ''[[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum "There was a fly on the ceiling!"]]''
--> '''Luca:''' ''[[SarcasmMode "Well, that explains everything."]]''
** Many [[PreAssKickingOneLiner pre-ass kicking one-liners]] provided by Andrea may count.
** And then there's Geller...
--> '''Paolo (to Luca):''' ''"I chose to take a vacation in order to not see that bastard that is Mr. Geller for a while."''
--> ''[[RightBehindMe (cue Geller coming out of the kitchen)]]''
--> '''Geller:''' ''"Next time you'd better be more careful about when taking a vacation then; turned out we'll both be away from work within the same time range, instead of you coming back to work when I'm on holiday."''
--> '''Paolo:''' ''"Oh. How long have you been eavesdropping?"''
--> '''Geller:''' ''[[SarcasmMode "Not long enough to hear you calling me a bastard, I'm afraid."]]''
--> '''Paolo:''' ''[[DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm "Whew, that's fine then."]]''
* DemotedToExtra: Gaia, Giovanna and Emma in season 4 before [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome totally disappearing]] in season 5.
* TheDitz: Patti and Anna, more often than not.
** Gloria, big time. She's possibly ''worse'' than the two mentioned above.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Paolo, on occasion, usually much to Luca's total shock.
* DumbIsGood: stupid characters (like Patti, Silvano, Anna, Gloria...) tend to be way too naive and innocent to be as mean and cynical as others. Patti in the later seasons is far less naive and more and more shrill and bossy.
** Subverted with Paolo who is dumb and just as much of a {{Jerkass}} as his smart friend Luca.
* TheEeyore: Poor [[TheWoobie Anna]].
* EnemyMine: Arch enemies Ilaria and Gaia on a few occasions teamed up against Luca and Paolo.
* EpicFail: most characters are prone to this. Mostly noticeable in a sketch beginning with Luca screws up and gets tea instead of coffee; instead of simply throwing it away, he tries to give it to someone else[[hottip:*:(the former would be a solution, but [[SeriousBusiness his strong Communist beliefs keep him from "wasting" tea, as it would be "an instance of Capitalism"]])]]. By the end of the sketch, he ends up with ''[[ItMakesSenseInContext even more tea.]]''
* ExtremeDoormat: Pretty much every ButtMonkey, especially Silvano. Luca can be an exception since he ended up being a ButtMonkey in many episodes, but he's actually very bossy and arrogant.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: basically the plot of every episode.
* FatBestFriend: Olmo to both Luca and Paolo.
* FieryRedhead: Gaia and especially the director's daughter Chiara De Marinis. Totally subverted with Anna (who can be a brunette or a redhead depending on the episode) and Wanda.
* {{Flanderization}}: Patti, big time. She was already considered a [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] (because of her ugliness. ''Seriously.'') and the fact that she TookALevelInJerkass in season 5 didn't help either.
** Also Paolo. In season 1, with all his flaws, he still had a common sense, he was just less book smart than Luca. In later seasons, [[TookALevelInDumbass he was really dumbed down]], to the point he never gets the simplest thing and Luca has to explain ''anything'' to him multiple times. His idiocy reached its peak in season 4 though, it was a bit toned down in season 5.
** Silvano was less of a wimpy doormat in the very first episodes. He was still a ButtMonkey but he was actually able to react to people and in one episode after being insulted by Luca, he loudly yells back at him. In later episodes, apart from very rare BerserkButton moments of unexpected violence, (possibly CrowningMomentOfAwesome) he was a total ExtremeDoormat.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: [[TheUnseen Paolo's sons]] Brad (foolish) and Jonathan (responsible). Interestingly, in the beginning they are both shown as EnfantTerrible, but at some point, to [[AntiRoleModel Paolo]]'s absolute disdain, the oldest son Jonathan started reading, studying and getting good grades. Obviously Paolo is often mad at him because of it and favours little criminal Brad instead.
* GeniusDitz: Silvano ''and how''. He's very gullible, childish, naive and he's generally considered the dumbest character in the show. Yet, he's a math genius and excels at everything related to numbers, logic and statistics (his abilities with numbers are supposed to be better than any computer's or calculator's). He also knows everything about the animal world (because of his love for documentaries); he has a degree in economics with the highest score; he's a great chess player, can solve the Rubik Cube in a few seconds...
* GoldfishPoopGang: Michele Carminati [[AndZoidberg and]] [[TrueCompanions his co-workers]].
* {{Gonk}}: Patti, as well as the late Wanda.
* GoodWithNumbers: Silvano.
* GoshDangItToHeck: while minor swears are allowed within the show, most of the dialogue borders on this even when characters are particularly pissed. This doesn't mean there aren't [[PrecisionFStrike rare exceptions]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The two main characters, Luca and Paolo.
** Arguably also Paolo and his friends Pino and Budello, although [[TheGhost they never appeared on the show]].
* HilarityEnsues: the very premise of the series. Everything can happen in front of the coffee vending machine, every character may appear at any given [[DiabolusExMachina (and least appropriate)]] moment, and most notably, every plan [[strike: can]] ''will'' [[HoistByHisOwnPetard backfire]].
* HoYay: the episode "La più bella dell'ufficio" ("The most beautiful one in the office") started with the men writing a sexist "top ten" about the women and [[spoiler: ended with TheUnfairSex tricking an half-naked Paolo to fall on top of an half-naked Luca in the bathroom, getting photos of the two together and printing said photos on whatever you can name]].
** There's a lot of HoYay between them- Paolo said at least once "I love you" to Luca, and one episode centers around Paolo moping around because Luca never said that he was his best friend and Luca doing everything to make him happy. As for Luca, well... the times he went into a jealous fit because Paolo was spending more time with somebody else is truly astonishing.
-->'''Paolo''': "C'mon, you look like Valeria during her period!"
-->'''Luca''': "''Hmpf''!"
-->'''Paolo''': "''Exactly'' the same!"
*** Also, this exchange:
-->'''Luca''': "I WON. I FOUND SOMEBODY WHO'D GIVE ME A HICKEY WITH LOVE! YES, WITH LOVE! BECAUSE I'M GAY! I'M GAY, I LOVE PAOLO AND HE LOVES ME, RIGHT?!"
-->'''Paolo''': "Well-"
-->'''Luca''': *''kisses him''*
* HollywoodToneDeaf: Paolo ''just can't'' sing in key. He borders on HellIsThatNoise.
* HopelessSuitor: Paolo to Gaia (actually to every female character except Patti, but Gaia is his dream girl). Since there's no Gaia in season 5, rigth now he seems very (sexually) attracted to Gloria.
** Luca mostly to Emma and Maria Eleonora (and the other girls as well, except Patti of course).
** Olmo to Anna.
** Psychologist Sergio to Anna as well.
** Patti to everyone, but she has to settle with the only one interested, Silvano. Maybe Silvano is the one she really loves but she just desperately wants to have sex with ''anyone''.
* {{Hypocrite}}: while Luca is a Communist, he doesn't exactly always stick to the ideals and values that Communism would imply.
* ItMakesSenseInContext: after seeing "Il portafoglio" ("The wallet"), whistling will become the [[MostWonderfulSound most hilarious thing you'll ever hear.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Luca, Luca, Luca. As well as most of the other characters.
* JadeColoredGlasses: It seems that the contract requires to wear them constantly.
* JerkAss: well, pretty much everyone, with Luca, Paolo, De Marinis, Andrea, Alex and Vittorio being the best examples.
** Patti can act like this as well, especially in the later episodes.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Paolo sometimes shows that he really cares about his friendship with Luca. Although most of the time they have a WithFriendsLikeThese type of relationship.
* KarmaHoudini: it doesn't matter [[ReallyGetsAround how much of a slut]] Alex is, she never pays for it. Likewise, anyone who acts as the "villain" of the sketch equally never pays for it.
** Definitely Andrea, annoyingly so. ''Every single character'' (including the "untouchables" Alex, Gaia, De Marinis, even ''Geller'') gets some humiliation or punishment in at least one episode. But there's basically no episode in which Andrea gets any sort of karmik comeuppance for being right-down sadistic and cruel. When it seems like he got screwed, he ends up beating up some ButtMonkey just because he's there. So the audience still remembers he's ''always'' the strongest.
** [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist Luca and Paolo]] depending on the episode, although most the time they get the karmik punishments that they deserve (usually thanks to [[TheBrute Andrea]] or [[MagnificentBastard Geller]]).
* LackOfEmpathy: ''Everyone'', with Luca on top.
-->'''Luca''': "No, no, no, I'm sorry, I'm-"
-->'''Ilaria''': "You, instead, will just keep working knowing that your colleagues are paying because of you!"
-->'''Luca''': *beat* "Oh well."
** Of course, Andrea is the most triumphant example: while Luca ''did'' have his [[PetTheDog nice moments]], Andrea just beats people because they're annoying him.
* LargeHam: Luca, the Communist employee in charge of organising strikes, whenever he starts being overly melodramatic. And when he's actually talking about strikes, he starts ChewingTheScenery.
* LastNameBasis: De Marinis, Geller and Carminati.
* LoonyFan: Paolo is quite a fan of Italian band [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooh_(band) Pooh]] ([[NamesTheSame no, not]] [[WinnieThePooh that one]]).
* {{Malaproper}}: Paolo. Just Paolo.
* MagnificentBastard: the director, Mr. De Marinis, ''is'' this trope incarnate, but two characters are [[BeyondTheImpossible even better than him]] at this, namely [[BatmanGambit his daughter Chiara]] and that in-universe NightmareFuelStationAttendant that is Guido Geller.
* MotorMouth: Patti and Anna, the latter only in case of nervous breakdowns.
* MsFanservice: some of the girls are pretty damn sexy when they're wearing the right clothes. Case in point: Alex, Gaia, Ilaria, Jessica, Giovanna and after the company merged with its rival Digitex, Caterina and Maria Eleonora. [[FetishFuel There's plenty for everyone]]. Most blatant in the episode, "La più bella dell'ufficio", that is, "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The most beautiful one in the office]]", where even [[TheWoobie Anna]] goes sexy (while [[{{Gonk}} Patti]]... er, [[NoYay is trying to do her best]]).
** Season 5 has Lucrezia and Gloria.
* NamesTheSame: Pippo is also [[{{Disney}} Goofy]]'s Italian name. It should be noted, though, that [[IncrediblyLamePun they're both goofy]], [[CampGay one way]] [[CloudCuckoolander or another]].
* NeatFreak: Silvano and Maria Eleonora.
* {{Nerd}}: Silvano is a textbook example, while Olmo tends on the {{Otaku}} variant.
* NiceGuy: Michele Carminati, Paolo's nemesis, is usually a friendly and good-natured person. Also Silvano of course, although his kindness is mostly due to his shy and naive nature. And when he [[BerserkButton really gets mad ]] can be as violent as Andrea.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Andrea, Vittorio and Guido Geller are this in-universe. Also, Silvano: while usually cheerful and naive, when he talks about his mother it can border on disturbing.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Andrea is the all-time master of this, really. You name it - any episode featuring him is bound to end like this, whether you get to see it happening [[BolivianArmyEnding or not.]]
* OddFriendship: Luca and Paolo. The first time they met they hated each other: now they're best friends.
** Patti and Alex. Also Paolo and Patti in the episode "Momento d'intesa".
* OfficialCouple: Paolo and [[TheGhost Valeria]]. (Paolo and [[TheGhost the hooker Maruska]] can count too).
** Luca and Alex (well, actually Alex and every guy in the company). [[spoiler:Now they are going to marry each other.]]
** Patti and Silvano, although they're more of PlatonicLifePartners (at least, until season 5). [[spoiler:Now they are waiting for a baby.]]
* OhCrap: whenever a sketch ends with a BolivianArmyEnding, the last shot shows whoever gets a DownerEnding ([[CrapsackWorld at the time]]) either [[StepfordSmiler trying to smile]] (see image above) screaming or [[HeroicBSOD stuck with a moronic yet horrified expression]].
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Pippo, Patti and Alex.
* OppositesAttract: Luca and Alex.
* ThePerfectionist: Maria Eleonora.
* PlayingCyrano: Luca played Paolo's Cyrano in an episode to help him to find the right words with Gaia, withouth screwing up. ''With terrible (and hilarious) results.''
* ThePrankster: Luca and Paolo are a well known duo of troublemakers.
* ReallyGetsAround: Alex, and damn proud of it. She'd have sex with almost AnythingThatMoves, much to her [[FromACertainPointOfView "boyfriend"]] Luca's chagrin.
** Silvano's mom, Chiara De Marinis, Paolo's wife Valeria and to some extent Paolo himself.
* RedOniBlueOni: Paolo and Luca.
* ResetButton: nothing ever stays the way the sketch ends, [[StatusQuoIsGod but rather]] [[SnapBack the way]] [[NegativeContinuity the sketch begins]] (without counting major events such as [[JumpingTheShark the aforementioned merger]]).
* RightBehindMe: ''all the friggin' time.'' Every single damn character is a potential OhCrap magnet.
* TheRival: Digitex to the [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] company which the series is set in... [[JumpingTheShark until they merged for the latest seasons]].
* RunningGag: several.
** "Pippo, weren't ya goin' to the bathroom?", "Really, I -", "GO TO THE BATHROOM!", "GOING RIGHT NOW!".
** Andrea [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating up somebody]].
** Luca and Paolo beating up Silvano and making fun of Patti's ugliness.
** Silvano and Patti [[AlmostKiss almost kissing]].
** Paolo and Luca's plans, whatever they are, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard backfiring]].
** Paolo not being able to properly end a proverb, like: "All's well... [[[{{Beat}} beat]]] all's well".
** Paolo bursting out of the bathroom whenever he hears his name (or not), enthusiastically yelling "TALKIN' 'BOUT ME?!"... usually at the least appropriate moments.
** Geller narrating boring and incomprehensible stories about ancient chinese populations, when he wants people to learn a lesson.
* SadistShow: ''oh yes.''
* SassySecretary: Alex.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Silvano and Patti; Luca and Alex.
* SexySecretary: Alex, Gloria and arguably Anna. ''Horribly'' subverted with Patti.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: usually provided by Luca when Paolo ruins a plan in a [[WhatAnIdiot stupid way]], but there are many other examples of this trope throughout the series.
* ShoutOut: several.
** The "ultimate joke" seen in one episode ("Il re degli scherzi", that is, "The king of jokes") consists of ''a wave of coffee flooding the relax area [[TheShining bursting out of the elevator]]''.
** One episode parodied TheMatrix, quoting lines of dialogue word for word.
** Another episode parodied FinalDestination, and Patti avoided a scripted death several times (although this ended up causing chaos). She eventually died by the end of the sketch when the vending machine fell on top of her (a rare case of the view moving).
* SitcomArchNemesis: the whole [[NoNameGiven unnamed company]] has the Digitex Company in the same building; in season 4, with the union of the two companies Paolo sees Digitex worker Michele Carminati as this, who is also his rival in his selling job, but Carminati doesn't hate Paolo back and wants him to join his working team instead.
** Gaia and Ilaria are this to each other; also season 4 has Ilaria and Maria Eleonora.
* TheSnarkKnight: Luca.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Luca defines himself "tall, charismatic, charming, honest, serious, idealist and a cinema expert". Oh well. He's ''really'' kind of a cinema expert anyway. About the rest...
* SorryIFellOnYourFist: When Andrea draws near, you will suffer. And if the sketch isn't over, you will also apologize for bleeding on him.
* SpannerInTheWorks: any stupid character will ruin any plan at the worst moment possible.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Geller and Maria Eleonora in season 4.
** Patti in season 5, ''so much'': there are several episodes completely about Patti, her pregnancy and Silvano, in which Luca and Paolo don't even appear and they are supposed to be the main characters!
* StalkerWithACrush: Lucrezia towards Paolo.
* StatusQuoIsGod: the trope is generally in full effect, as the only thing remotely resembling a coherent continuity is the change of said status quo between seasons.
** However, the trope is [[MediumAwareness acknowledged]] and [[DeconstructedTrope sort of deconstructed]] by Luca in a Season 5 sketch, where Silvano [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity being fired for the nth time]] invokes in the former an... ''unusual'' reaction. Luca spends the whole time of the sketch in front of the coffee vending machine, constantly ranting in CreepyMonotone about how "it's always the same story, nothing ever changes, nothing ever happens", etc. This creeps out De Marinis so much, that he thinks it's another strategy of Luca to help Silvano keeping his job (and it ''isn't''); Silvano then hugs Luca in gratitude, and he replies [[CreepyMonotone "You see? Nothing happened".]] After Luca acknowledged the never-changing status quo, he basically took advantage of it to help Silvano by ''doing absolutely nothing.'' At the end of the sketch, Paolo remarks that "You've been there since this morning... I can't see you like this, let's go home". As soon as they leave, ''the coffee machine falls over''. Considering it could have ''crushed'' Luca, he snaps out of his depression and says in a surprised voice, [[MoodWhiplash "Oh well, so something DOES happen!"]].
* TheStoner: Alex, though we never get to see her stoned.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In season 3 Emma replaced Anna as the director's secretary. They were totally different chararacters though as Emma was nothing more than a boring ReplacementScrappy. After Emma's departure in saeson 5 they introduced the new secretary Gloria who was basically another Anna, the ditzy airhead type of secretary.
* TooDumbToLive: Silvano, Paolo (more in the later seasons) and Gloria.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Paolo.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Patti in season 5. Pregnant Patti is now a histerical, shrill bitch and downright abusive towards [[ExtremeDoormat Silvano]]. She's always been the most dominant in their "relationship" but in the most recent episodes she's getting worse and she literally treats him like a dog ''all the time''.
* {{Troperiffic}}: you've already seen the tropes not related to specific episodes. Keep in mind this is a sketch show. As a consequence, many and brief episodes means many subjects covered, with some episode being based about tropes themselves. You get the picture.
* TrueCompanions:
** Michele, better known by his surname Carminati, is a a standout among Italian series. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Set in a business company.]]
--> '''Carminati:''' [[CatchPhrase "FOR TOM WEIL!"]]
** While not at the same level, this is also true for the nameless company. If you are harrassing a colleague of Luca and Paolo, ''they will get you''.
---> '''Luca''': "That's how you treat your boyfriend?"
---> '''Digitex Guy''': "I'm not his boyfriend."
---> '''Paolo''': "And those roses?"
---> '''Luca''': "Pippo, leave this to us, hunny."
---> '''Digitex Guy''': "There's a misunderstanding-"
---> '''Paolo''': "Pippo, did this bastard break your heart?"
---> '''Pippo''': "YES!"
---> '''Paolo''': "Then there's no misunderstanding."
---> *''And beating ensues''*
* TheUnfairSex: if the men are plotting a plan to get to have sex with any of the women, be sure that by the end of the sketch the plan will backfire and the women will react [[DisproportionateRetribution accordingly]].
* TheUnseen: several, mostly related to Paolo, the AntiRoleModel. Paolo's family (his wife Valeria and his sons, Brad and Jonathan) and criminal buddies (Pino, the one nicknamed Budello, as well as Maruska the hooker). There's also Lello, along with his restaurant; the President of the company (the first one and the new one after season 3); Silvano's mom and her old next-door neighbour, Mrs Bollini.
* VillainProtagonist: Luca and Paolo in many episodes. At their best they are just UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Luca and Paolo are a strong Type 2. Although Luca is usually the most vitriolic one.
** Silvano seems to consider Luca and Paolo his best friends. Of course they don't treat him like a friend (not even like a human being) as they always take advantage of Silvano and pull on him cruel pranks, but in ''very very'' rare occasions, they actually try to help him or give him advice particularly about his relationship with Patti.
* WhosLaughingNow: Silvano goes badass in one episode. Remember "[[BuffyTheVampireSlayer badass Giles]]"? Something like that. And it is ''awesome''.
* WritingLines: Paolo once screwed with the women, and as a result they forced him to write several times the [[AnAesop supposed Aesop]] on a giant paper sheet that ''covered the entire floor''.
* XanatosPlannedThisIndex: basically ''everyone'' gets a moment in which he or she is plotting something. ''Everyone''. Except any ButtMonkey, maybe.
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