History Trivia / MortadeloYFilemon

* AcclaimedFlop: The movie ''Mortadelo and Filemon: Mission Implausible'' (''Mortadelo y Filemón contra Jimmy el Cachondo'') was a financial flop, only earning a measly €4.9 million and not covering the €12.5 million spent on its production. Despite this colossal flop, many fans of the franchise and critics consider this movie to not only be one the best movie of the franchise, but one of the best animated movies made in Spain of all time.

** ''Futt et Fil'' in France. [[note]]Only when some comics were localized in the 1980s; later on, it's been retitled "Mortadel et Filemon".[[/note]].

** "Futt et Fil" in France. [[note]]Only when some comics were localized in the 1980s; later on, it's been retitled "Mortadel et Filemon".[[/note]].

* ReferencedBy: In Episode 4 of ''Series/MoneyHeist''[='s=] second season, Sánchez negatively responds to Raquel's explanation of her plan to catch the Professor at the hospital Ángel is in with infiltrated cops as being something out of ''Mortadelo y Filemón''.

** The character of Irma was based on a German secretary who worked for the comic books' editor in Germany. Sadly, she died not much later after Irma's creation.

** The character of Irma was based on a pretty German secretary who worked for the comic books' editor in Germany. Sadly, she died not much later.

* ReferencedBy: In Episode 3 of ''Series/MoneyHeist''[='s=] second season, Sánchez negatively responds to Raquel's explanation of her plan to catch the Professor at the hospital Ángel is in with infiltrated cops as being something out of ''Mortadelo y Filemón''.

** A lot in the early years - the Bruguera company even tried to "steal" the characters from Ibáñez and give them to other authors a couple of times. He also had to deal with the Francoist official censorship, which was pretty hard at suppresing ToiletHumor and anything that denoted "subversion". For instance, he sometimes had to imply the story took place in either France (cops were called "gendarmes" and characters often talked about "[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI the '14 war]]") or Britain/United States (some cops dressed like British ones and had in their cars the word "Police" in English instead of the Spanish "Policía", and there were lines about the Sing-Sing Penal) not to look he was making fun of Spain's law enforcement or the Spanish Civil War. One character of 13 Rue del Percebe (another comic strip from the same author that sometimes {{Crossover}}ed with Mortadelo y Filemón), a parodic MadScientist that built monsters for a living, was eventually written out and substituted by a tailor because the dead-hard Catholic government thought that "Only God can create life". This is also why women ''do not appear at all'' in late 50s strips - each time Ibáñez drew one, the censors eliminated so much curves that it ended looking like a broomstick.