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''Telenovelas Are Hell'' is a web series produced by Funny or Die, in which an unseen narrator (Tamara Yajia) recaps various Latin American {{telenovela}}s of the 90s and 00s in a humorous manner, often pointing some of the poor stylistic or writing choices of the show, as well as their melodramatic nature.
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''Telenovelas Are Hell'' is a web series produced by Funny or Die, Creator/FunnyOrDie, in which an unseen narrator (Tamara Yajia) recaps various Latin American {{telenovela}}s of the 90s and 00s in a humorous manner, often pointing some of the poor stylistic or writing choices of the show, as well as their melodramatic nature.
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** The male lead in ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'' [[note]]Who happens to be played by the same actor from ''Series/MariaLaDelBarrio''[[/note]] is described as looking "like [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]], but orange."
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** The male lead in ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'' [[note]]Who happens to be played by the same actor from ''Series/MariaLaDelBarrio''[[/note]] is described as looking "like [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]], but orange."
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Some videos can make you really start to wonder why the female leads are interested in the male ones, since they make them appear very unappealing. The inverse (the female leads being unappealing) can also happen.
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* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Some videos can make you really start to wonder have the narrator humorously questioning why the female leads are interested in the male ones, since they make them appear very unappealing. The inverse (the female leads being unappealing) can also happen.
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* LatinLand: The series certainly seems to operate on "anything Latin is free game." Being a series about telenovelas obviously leads to a lot of references to Mexico, and most of the telenovelas recapped are indeed Mexican ones. However, the theme played at the beginning of the videos sounds like an odd blend between [[{{Spexico}} a Spanish flamenco guitar riff and a Mexican Mariachi riff]], one telenovela recapped is the Colombian ''Series/PasionDeGavilanes'', which actually comes off as more grounded in comparison to the Mexican ones (a feature associated with Colombian telenovelas in general), and the narrator actually seems to have an ''Argentine'' accent, of all things.[[note]]Funnily enough, that's actually not that far off from TruthInTelevision: There were several Argentine actresses who appeared in Mexican telenovelas, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertad_Lamarque Libertad Lamarque]] (incidentally the actress who plays Abuela Piedad in ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'') and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Bach Christian Bach]]. Furthermore, the narrator, Tamara Yajia, is actually of Argentine descent.[[/note]]
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* LatinLand: The series certainly seems to operate on "anything Latin is free game." Being a series about telenovelas obviously leads to a lot of references to Mexico, and most of the telenovelas recapped are indeed Mexican ones. However, the theme played at the beginning of the videos sounds like an odd blend between [[{{Spexico}} a Spanish flamenco guitar riff and a Mexican Mariachi riff]], one telenovela recapped is the Colombian ''Series/PasionDeGavilanes'', which actually comes off as more grounded in comparison to the Mexican ones (a feature associated with Colombian telenovelas in general), and the narrator actually seems to have an ''Argentine'' accent, of all things. Indeed, the narrator, Tamara Yajia, is actually of Argentine descent.[[note]]Funnily enough, that's actually not that far off from TruthInTelevision: There were several Argentine actresses who appeared in Mexican telenovelas, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertad_Lamarque Libertad Lamarque]] (incidentally the actress who plays Abuela Piedad in ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'') and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Bach Christian Bach]]. Furthermore, the narrator, Tamara Yajia, is actually of Argentine descent.[[/note]]
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''Telenovelas Are Hell'' is a web series produced by Funny or Die, in which an unseen narrator recaps various Latin American {{telenovela}}s of the 90s and 00s in a humorous manner, often pointing some of the poor stylistic or writing choices of the show, as well as their melodramatic nature.
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''Telenovelas Are Hell'' is a web series produced by Funny or Die, in which an unseen narrator (Tamara Yajia) recaps various Latin American {{telenovela}}s of the 90s and 00s in a humorous manner, often pointing some of the poor stylistic or writing choices of the show, as well as their melodramatic nature.
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* CarpetOfVirility: In the ''Series/{{Rubi}}'' video, Alejandro is described as "a medical studen with a chest so hairy, it looks like he has a chinchilla hanging from his neck."
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* LatinLand: The series certainly seems to operate on "anything Latin is free game." Being a series about telenovelas obviously leads to a lot of references to Mexico, and most of the telenovelas recapped are indeed Mexican ones. However, the theme played at the beginning of the videos sounds like an odd blend between [[{{Spexico}} a Spanish flamenco guitar riff and a Mexican Mariachi riff]], one telenovela recapped is the Colombian ''Series/PasionDeGavilanes'', which actually comes off as more grounded in comparison to the Mexican ones (a feature associated with Colombian telenovelas in general), and the narrator actually seems to have an ''Argentine'' accent, of all things.[[note]]Funnily enough, that's actually not that far off from TruthInTelevision: There were several Argentine actresses who appeared in Mexican telenovelas, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertad_Lamarque Libertad Lamarque]] (incidentally the actress who plays Abuela Piedad in ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'') and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Bach Christian Bach]].[[/note]]
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* LatinLand: The series certainly seems to operate on "anything Latin is free game." Being a series about telenovelas obviously leads to a lot of references to Mexico, and most of the telenovelas recapped are indeed Mexican ones. However, the theme played at the beginning of the videos sounds like an odd blend between [[{{Spexico}} a Spanish flamenco guitar riff and a Mexican Mariachi riff]], one telenovela recapped is the Colombian ''Series/PasionDeGavilanes'', which actually comes off as more grounded in comparison to the Mexican ones (a feature associated with Colombian telenovelas in general), and the narrator actually seems to have an ''Argentine'' accent, of all things.[[note]]Funnily enough, that's actually not that far off from TruthInTelevision: There were several Argentine actresses who appeared in Mexican telenovelas, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertad_Lamarque Libertad Lamarque]] (incidentally the actress who plays Abuela Piedad in ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'') and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Bach Christian Bach]]. Furthermore, the narrator, Tamara Yajia, is actually of Argentine descent.[[/note]]
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* MadLibsCatchphrase: Some of the videos begin with the narrator asking the viewer, "Would you rather [embarrasing or humiliating, or just awkward situation], or [another embarrasing or humiliating, or just awkward situation]?"
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* TitleDrop: The narrator always finds a way of saying that "telenovelas are hell."hell".
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-->'''Narrator:''' The moment his mom hears of the pregnancy, she devises a plan to make María look like she's insane: She dresses up as this terrigying ghoul and scares the shit out of her, which I personally think is kind of hilarious.
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-->'''Narrator:''' The moment his mom hears of the pregnancy, she devises a plan to make María look like she's insane: She dresses up as this terrigying terrifying ghoul and scares the shit out of her, which I personally think is kind of hilarious.
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->''"Because telenovelas... are hell."''
''Telenovelas Are Hell'' is a web series produced by Funny or Die, in which an unseen narrator recaps various Latin American {{telenovela}}s of the 90s and 00s in a humorous manner, often pointing some of the poor stylistic or writing choices of the show, as well as their melodramatic nature.
[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRcB4n4CGcy9h2G4YIZJj3lsPaVVN1R_8 Playlist]] on Website/YouTube.
See also its sister series, ''WebVideo/ZackMorrisIsTrash'' and ''WebVideo/AVerySpecialEpisode''.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The narrator actually gives her compliments to a scene from ''María Mercedes'' for being entertaining, even if it seems to have been meant as scary.
-->'''Narrator:''' The moment his mom hears of the pregnancy, she devises a plan to make María look like she's insane: She dresses up as this terrigying ghoul and scares the shit out of her, which I personally think is kind of hilarious.
* AdaptedOut: Given that this is a series about recapping telenovelas that are about 200-odd episodes long into around 5-minutes long videos, some things are bound to be left out. This was most notorious in the ''Series/PasionDeGavilanes'' video, where several prominent supporting characters are left out, most egregiously Rosario Montes, who as one [=YouTube=] commenter described, had musical acts that filled about 70% of the story, and Dínora Rosales, an antagonist who ''was actually one half of the series' BigBadDuumvirate'' alongside Fernando (the "toothpick guy"), who as a result was made out to look in the video like the series' sole BigBad. They both get relegated to FreezeFrameBonus shots at the beginning of the video.
* CarpetOfVirility: In the ''Series/{{Rubi}}'' video, Alejandro is described as "a medical studen with a chest so hairy, it looks like he has a chinchilla hanging from his neck."
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** "Because [[TitleDrop telenovelas... are hell.]]"
** She also sometimes refers to "the telenovela gods," crediting them with all the dramatic things that happen.
* CelebrityResemblance:
** In the ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'' video, he compares the protagonist's first boyfriend, who's quite stocky, to someone who "looks like Creator/JohnnyDepp, if he'd eaten too many bagels."
** In ''María Mercedes'', the narrator refers to Santiago del Olmo as "if Creator/JavierBardem had a kid with my ''tío'' Felipe and then it became a vampire."
* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: The narrator notes that when in ''María Mercedes'' someone tried to murder the title character, they didn't do a good job at being subtle about it.
-->'''Narrator:''' Maria's mother-in-law sends a man who's wearing a tuxedo to shoot María with an AK-47 that, like most AK-47's, has a bright pink strap on it.
* DeadpanSnarker: The spirit and tone of the narrator.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The narrator alludes to this in the ''Series/{{Rubi}}'' video when she notes that Rubi ultimately ended up falling from a flight of stairs and into a glass table. Given that it's later revealed that the fall caused her face to be disfigured and her leg to be amputated, the narrator may have had a point.
-->'''Narrator:''' The fall doesn't kill her. That would be too happy.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'' video, when the protagonists marry at the end, the narrator notes "this old guy [who] gets too excited and almost falls over and breaks his hip," while showing an elderly man appearing as an extra in the background at the wedding tripping and almost falling.
* InSeriesNickname: In the ''Series/PasionDeGavilanes'' video, the three Reyes brothers (Óscar, Juan, and Franco) get nicknamed Angry, Horny, and Stupidy, respectively, and get called that way through the rest of the video.
* LatinLand: The series certainly seems to operate on "anything Latin is free game." Being a series about telenovelas obviously leads to a lot of references to Mexico, and most of the telenovelas recapped are indeed Mexican ones. However, the theme played at the beginning of the videos sounds like an odd blend between [[{{Spexico}} a Spanish flamenco guitar riff and a Mexican Mariachi riff]], one telenovela recapped is the Colombian ''Series/PasionDeGavilanes'', which actually comes off as more grounded in comparison to the Mexican ones (a feature associated with Colombian telenovelas in general), and the narrator actually seems to have an ''Argentine'' accent, of all things.[[note]]Funnily enough, that's actually not that far off from TruthInTelevision: There were several Argentine actresses who appeared in Mexican telenovelas, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertad_Lamarque Libertad Lamarque]] (incidentally the actress who plays Abuela Piedad in ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'') and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Bach Christian Bach]].[[/note]]
* LeanAndMean: In the ''Series/PasionDeGavilanes'' video, the narrator says that the antagonist (Fernando) "looks like a toothpick with arms."
* LemonyNarrator: The narrator tells the stories in a really eccentric and bizarre style.
* MadLibsCatchphrase: Some of the videos begin with the narrator asking the viewer, "Would you rather [embarrasing or humiliating, or just awkward situation], or [another embarrasing or humiliating, or just awkward situation]?"
* MotiveDecay: In the ''Series/PasionDeGavilanes'' video, the narrator points out how Reyes brothers' quest for revenge against the Elizondo family gets gradually abandoned as each brother falls for one of the Elizondo sisters.
-->'''Narrator:''' Now the brothers are like, "Okay, so maybe we forgot about the whole 'get revenge for our sister and her unborn baby' thing, but hey, we're rich, and our women are fine."
* RunningGag:
** In the middle of the video, at a point where it seems that the plot has resolved itself rather easily, the narrator would say something along the lines that the story could have easily ended there, but that it doesn't, because [[TitleDrop "telenovelas are hell."]]
** As part of her LemonyNarrator tendencies, the narrator always going out of her way to find ridiculous or {{squick}}y ways to describe people or situations meant to be taken as serious: [[invoked]]
*** The ''very first line'' (after the opening) of the very first video (about ''Series/MariaLaDelBarrio''):
---->'''Narrator:''' María's life is ''straight-up diarrhea''.
*** Also from ''María la del barrio'', after a TimeSkip:
---->'''Narrator:''' Fourteen years pass, and we know this because Luis Fernando has grown a stunning 'stache that looks like it's made out of flat ironed pubic hairs.
*** In ''La usurpadora'', the protagonist's work as a maid in a club is described as her having to clean "towels with ball sweat" and "pubic hairs."
*** Also in ''La usurpadora'', one of the EvilTwin's lovers (an elder man) is described as "this rich guy who looks like a leather boot."
** In vein of the above point, the series tend to put slurping sounds whenever two people are having open-mouth kisses. ''Especially'' if they have ''really'' sloppy, wet open-mouth kisses.
* ShoutOut:
** The male lead in ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'' [[note]]Who happens to be played by the same actor from ''Series/MariaLaDelBarrio''[[/note]] is described as looking "like [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]], but orange."
** Also in ''La usurpadora'', Abuela Piedad's red hair and hairstyle makes the narrator say that she looks like "a glamorous [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Ronald McDonald]]."
** In the ''Series/{{Rubi}}'' video, the narrator refers to the man who marries Rubí and Héctor as "a Latin [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Uncle Fester]]."
** To its sister series: Also in the ''Rubí'' video, the narrator at one point randomly says, "Oh, and Alejandro gets poisoned. But let's go back to the real drama.", similar to how in both ''WebVideo/ZackMorrisIsTrash'' and ''WebVideo/AVerySpecialEpisode'' the B-plots of the episodes (if they have them) get briefly mentioned before saying, "But who cares?"
* TitleDrop: The narrator always finds a way of saying that "telenovelas are hell."
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Some videos can make you really start to wonder why the female leads are interested in the male ones, since they make them appear very unappealing. The inverse (the female leads being unappealing) can also happen.
* WhatTheHellHero: Alluded to in the ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'' video, when describing how the EvilTwin dies repenting in her deathbed to her good sister, who is saddened by her death... only to marry her sister's husband the very next day.
-->'''Narrator:''' The nice sister is extremely saddened by the death of her twin. But not sad enough to prevent her from marrying her husband the very next day.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''*Latin guitar riff*'']]
->''"Because telenovelas... are hell."''
''Telenovelas Are Hell'' is a web series produced by Funny or Die, in which an unseen narrator recaps various Latin American {{telenovela}}s of the 90s and 00s in a humorous manner, often pointing some of the poor stylistic or writing choices of the show, as well as their melodramatic nature.
[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRcB4n4CGcy9h2G4YIZJj3lsPaVVN1R_8 Playlist]] on Website/YouTube.
See also its sister series, ''WebVideo/ZackMorrisIsTrash'' and ''WebVideo/AVerySpecialEpisode''.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The narrator actually gives her compliments to a scene from ''María Mercedes'' for being entertaining, even if it seems to have been meant as scary.
-->'''Narrator:''' The moment his mom hears of the pregnancy, she devises a plan to make María look like she's insane: She dresses up as this terrigying ghoul and scares the shit out of her, which I personally think is kind of hilarious.
* AdaptedOut: Given that this is a series about recapping telenovelas that are about 200-odd episodes long into around 5-minutes long videos, some things are bound to be left out. This was most notorious in the ''Series/PasionDeGavilanes'' video, where several prominent supporting characters are left out, most egregiously Rosario Montes, who as one [=YouTube=] commenter described, had musical acts that filled about 70% of the story, and Dínora Rosales, an antagonist who ''was actually one half of the series' BigBadDuumvirate'' alongside Fernando (the "toothpick guy"), who as a result was made out to look in the video like the series' sole BigBad. They both get relegated to FreezeFrameBonus shots at the beginning of the video.
* CarpetOfVirility: In the ''Series/{{Rubi}}'' video, Alejandro is described as "a medical studen with a chest so hairy, it looks like he has a chinchilla hanging from his neck."
* {{Catchphrase}}:
** "Because [[TitleDrop telenovelas... are hell.]]"
** She also sometimes refers to "the telenovela gods," crediting them with all the dramatic things that happen.
* CelebrityResemblance:
** In the ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'' video, he compares the protagonist's first boyfriend, who's quite stocky, to someone who "looks like Creator/JohnnyDepp, if he'd eaten too many bagels."
** In ''María Mercedes'', the narrator refers to Santiago del Olmo as "if Creator/JavierBardem had a kid with my ''tío'' Felipe and then it became a vampire."
* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: The narrator notes that when in ''María Mercedes'' someone tried to murder the title character, they didn't do a good job at being subtle about it.
-->'''Narrator:''' Maria's mother-in-law sends a man who's wearing a tuxedo to shoot María with an AK-47 that, like most AK-47's, has a bright pink strap on it.
* DeadpanSnarker: The spirit and tone of the narrator.
* FateWorseThanDeath: The narrator alludes to this in the ''Series/{{Rubi}}'' video when she notes that Rubi ultimately ended up falling from a flight of stairs and into a glass table. Given that it's later revealed that the fall caused her face to be disfigured and her leg to be amputated, the narrator may have had a point.
-->'''Narrator:''' The fall doesn't kill her. That would be too happy.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'' video, when the protagonists marry at the end, the narrator notes "this old guy [who] gets too excited and almost falls over and breaks his hip," while showing an elderly man appearing as an extra in the background at the wedding tripping and almost falling.
* InSeriesNickname: In the ''Series/PasionDeGavilanes'' video, the three Reyes brothers (Óscar, Juan, and Franco) get nicknamed Angry, Horny, and Stupidy, respectively, and get called that way through the rest of the video.
* LatinLand: The series certainly seems to operate on "anything Latin is free game." Being a series about telenovelas obviously leads to a lot of references to Mexico, and most of the telenovelas recapped are indeed Mexican ones. However, the theme played at the beginning of the videos sounds like an odd blend between [[{{Spexico}} a Spanish flamenco guitar riff and a Mexican Mariachi riff]], one telenovela recapped is the Colombian ''Series/PasionDeGavilanes'', which actually comes off as more grounded in comparison to the Mexican ones (a feature associated with Colombian telenovelas in general), and the narrator actually seems to have an ''Argentine'' accent, of all things.[[note]]Funnily enough, that's actually not that far off from TruthInTelevision: There were several Argentine actresses who appeared in Mexican telenovelas, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertad_Lamarque Libertad Lamarque]] (incidentally the actress who plays Abuela Piedad in ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'') and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Bach Christian Bach]].[[/note]]
* LeanAndMean: In the ''Series/PasionDeGavilanes'' video, the narrator says that the antagonist (Fernando) "looks like a toothpick with arms."
* LemonyNarrator: The narrator tells the stories in a really eccentric and bizarre style.
* MadLibsCatchphrase: Some of the videos begin with the narrator asking the viewer, "Would you rather [embarrasing or humiliating, or just awkward situation], or [another embarrasing or humiliating, or just awkward situation]?"
* MotiveDecay: In the ''Series/PasionDeGavilanes'' video, the narrator points out how Reyes brothers' quest for revenge against the Elizondo family gets gradually abandoned as each brother falls for one of the Elizondo sisters.
-->'''Narrator:''' Now the brothers are like, "Okay, so maybe we forgot about the whole 'get revenge for our sister and her unborn baby' thing, but hey, we're rich, and our women are fine."
* RunningGag:
** In the middle of the video, at a point where it seems that the plot has resolved itself rather easily, the narrator would say something along the lines that the story could have easily ended there, but that it doesn't, because [[TitleDrop "telenovelas are hell."]]
** As part of her LemonyNarrator tendencies, the narrator always going out of her way to find ridiculous or {{squick}}y ways to describe people or situations meant to be taken as serious: [[invoked]]
*** The ''very first line'' (after the opening) of the very first video (about ''Series/MariaLaDelBarrio''):
---->'''Narrator:''' María's life is ''straight-up diarrhea''.
*** Also from ''María la del barrio'', after a TimeSkip:
---->'''Narrator:''' Fourteen years pass, and we know this because Luis Fernando has grown a stunning 'stache that looks like it's made out of flat ironed pubic hairs.
*** In ''La usurpadora'', the protagonist's work as a maid in a club is described as her having to clean "towels with ball sweat" and "pubic hairs."
*** Also in ''La usurpadora'', one of the EvilTwin's lovers (an elder man) is described as "this rich guy who looks like a leather boot."
** In vein of the above point, the series tend to put slurping sounds whenever two people are having open-mouth kisses. ''Especially'' if they have ''really'' sloppy, wet open-mouth kisses.
* ShoutOut:
** The male lead in ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'' [[note]]Who happens to be played by the same actor from ''Series/MariaLaDelBarrio''[[/note]] is described as looking "like [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]], but orange."
** Also in ''La usurpadora'', Abuela Piedad's red hair and hairstyle makes the narrator say that she looks like "a glamorous [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Ronald McDonald]]."
** In the ''Series/{{Rubi}}'' video, the narrator refers to the man who marries Rubí and Héctor as "a Latin [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Uncle Fester]]."
** To its sister series: Also in the ''Rubí'' video, the narrator at one point randomly says, "Oh, and Alejandro gets poisoned. But let's go back to the real drama.", similar to how in both ''WebVideo/ZackMorrisIsTrash'' and ''WebVideo/AVerySpecialEpisode'' the B-plots of the episodes (if they have them) get briefly mentioned before saying, "But who cares?"
* TitleDrop: The narrator always finds a way of saying that "telenovelas are hell."
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Some videos can make you really start to wonder why the female leads are interested in the male ones, since they make them appear very unappealing. The inverse (the female leads being unappealing) can also happen.
* WhatTheHellHero: Alluded to in the ''[[Series/{{Deceptions}} La usurpadora]]'' video, when describing how the EvilTwin dies repenting in her deathbed to her good sister, who is saddened by her death... only to marry her sister's husband the very next day.
-->'''Narrator:''' The nice sister is extremely saddened by the death of her twin. But not sad enough to prevent her from marrying her husband the very next day.
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