Line #33 Series/LasFierbinti


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3	''Las Fierbinți'' is a Romanian sitcom that premiered in 2012 on [=ProTV=]. The series follows the lives of the villagers in the town of [[https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fierbinți-Târg Fierbinți-Târg]], among them:
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5	* Giani Orlando (Constantin Diță), a former expat who used to live in Italy;
6	* Bobiță (Mihai Bobonete), the bartender of Fierbinți and Giani's best friend;
7	* Dorel (Mihai Rait Dragomir), Bobiță's autistic brother;
8	* Celentano (Adrian Văncică), the village drunk;
9	* Firicel a lu' Cimpoaie (Cuzin Toma), Celentano's best friend;
10	* Robert "Robi" Doroftei (Leonid Doni), the chief constable and local cop of Fierbinți;
11	* Mitică Coman (Radu Gabriel), the former mayor of Firbinți;
12	* Vasile Pleșcan(Gheorghe Ifrim), the former vice mayor and current mayor of Fierbinți;
13	* Dalida (Ecaterina Ladin), the mayor's secretary and Vasile's best friend;
14	* Gianina (Anca Dumitra), Mitică's teenage daughter;
15	* Aspirina (Mirela Oprișor), the village whore;
16	* Ardiles (Mihai Mărgineanu), the singer who "observes" each episode, starting and ending it with a song;
17	* Brânzoi (Ion Ionuț Ciocia), the most hardworking man in Fierbinți.and
18	* Nicu Rață (Marius Chivu), The only Taxi driver of Fierbinți and Brânzoi's best friend.
19	The show is a satire of Romanian village life as a whole.
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21	!! Las Fierbinți contains examples of:
22	* AddictiveForeignSoapOpera: Aspirina is a big fan of foreign soap operas.
23	* TheAlcoholic: Celentano. He drinks so much that in "The Turk" he discovers for the first time that plums are actually edible and not just used to make alcohol. Firicel also loves to drink, but not to the extent of Celentano.
24	* {{Animorphism}}: [[spoiler:The King of Spain that "The Bear" is looking for can change into various animals such as a pigeon, a bear and a rooster]]
25	* BadCopIncompetentCop: Robi is both corrupt and incompetent
26	* BearsAreBadNews: The A plot of "The Bear" is about Giani, who gets scared by a bear. He tries informing Rață about it, but he won't listen and thinks Giani is just seeing things, until Giani takes him to the bear. They spend the rest of the episode in hiding while the bear keeps stealing things from the car, and they try to find a way to catch it. [[spoiler:In the next episode it's revealed that the "Bear" was actually just a madman in a suit who thinks he is the King of Romania and is looking for the shape-shifting King of Spain.]]
27	* BizarreTasteInFood: In "Armed Robbery part 2" after Giani, Bobiță and Dorel opened a pizzeria in the previous episode, Dorel makes "Corn Pizza" which quickly became popular with the villagers.
28	* CatchPhrase: Firicel and Celentano have "Bă ej nebun?, Bă ej prost?" (Yo r u crazy?, Yo r u stupid?)
29	* ChristmasEpisode: Three of the season finales were Christmas Specials.
30	* CryptidEpisode: In "Chupacabra" the priest's wood is stolen by Bobiță and his friends. He recruits Celentano and they disguise themselves as beasts from the woods in order to scare them away. Afterwards, the villagers report what they saw to Vasile, while Dalida tells the press, who come to Fierbinți to interview the villagers. Afterwards, everyone concludes that the "Creatures" were Chupacabras.
31	* CorruptChurch: The local priest is corrupt. The Church as a whole is also portrayed like that.
32	* CorruptPolitician: Both Mitică and Vasile are corrupt. However, Mr. Dragu is even more so, as he is a parody of Liviu Dragnea, one of the most corrupt politicians in Romania.
33	* DisproportionateRetribution: In "The Swedish Girls" Giani is left in charge for a little at Bobiță's bar. Afterwards an old woman curses him because she didn't like the drink he served her.
34	* ExpyCoexistence: Brânzoi and Rață are similar in many ways to Giani and Bobiță.
35	* FatandSkinny: Bobiță (fat) to Giani (skinny); Celentano (fat) to Firicel (skinny); Rață (fat) to Brânzoi (skinny)
36	* FictionalSport: Gianiball. A sport made up by Giani in the 2 parter with the same name. The sport consists of a player throwing a football, and the other player hitting the football with a tennis racket.
37	* TheFoodPoisoningIncident: In "Armed Robbery Part 2" It's revealed that the "corn" Dorel put on the pizza was actually rat poison which caused the villagers to get food poisoning.
38	** In another episode Celentano accidentaly gives Firicel food poisoning after mistaking the rat poison for rice
39	* MultiPartEpisode:
40	** Season 4 has three two-parters: "Aspirina is Pregnant", "Dalida Mayor" and "Giani and his Family".
41	** Season 5 has "Ardiles in Love".
42	** Season 6 has "The Millionaire", "Illuminati" and "The Bar, The Joke and The Crook".
43	** ''All'' of the episodes in Season 7 and 9 are two-parters.
44	** With a few exceptions, most of the episodes in seasons 8, 10, 11, and 14 consist of two parts.
45	** Season 12 has "The Chicken Pox", "The Astronaut", "Mother Nature", "The Intelligence Test" and "1 Leu".
46	** Season 13 has "The Logan Knights", "The Tuft Without a Gift", "The Bike Thief", "The Vampire Hunter", "Goluța and the Monkey", "Cinderella", "Alfredo", "Full HD", "The Șmecherez" and "Cool, Bro!".
47	* TheMafia: Appears in "The Mobster", in which one of them chases Giani. When the mobster catches him, Giani thinks he is in trouble, but it turns out the Mafia boss simply wants to thank him.
48	* MistakenNationality: In "The Turk", the titular character was transporting some immigrants in his truck. At first the villagers assume they are Middle Easters or North Africans; turns out they were actually Albanians.
49	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: In "the Bear" Rață claims that the titular bear is actually a Vampire Bear.
50	** One episode had an internet user who's username was "Zombiu_Samuraiu_1979" which literally translates to "The Zombie_The Samurai_1979"
51	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Mr. Dragu from the two-parter "Goluța and the Monkey" is a blatant parody of Liviu Dragnea, the former leader of the Social Democrat Party
52	* NotMeThisTime: In one episode all the cattle are stolen by a group of crooks pretending to be vets. Everyone however blames Ardiles for it
53	** In another episode Firicel and Celentano steal Brânzoi's sausages and Ardiles gets the blame once again
54	* PhraseCatcher: The villagers will sometimes ask Bobiță "Da' ce-ai făcut Bobiță?" (But what did you do Bobiță?).
55	* PuttingOnTheReich: In one episode Vasile has a dream where he installs a dictatorship over Fierbinți complete with Nazi uniforms and "Horst Wessel Lied" played on loudspeakers
56	* RabbleRouser: Bobiță and Giani in "the Election". They convinced the villagers to rise up against Mitică in favor of Vasile.
57	* ReallyGetsAround: Aspirina. She is the village whore and has had sex with many men.
58	*RhymesOnADime:In the aformentioned episode Vasile forces everyone to speak only in rhymes
59	* SexyScandinavian: One episode features a group of Swedish girls who had to spend the night in Fierbinți after their coach broke down. As you might expect, they turn out to be nymphomaniacs.
60	* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Ardiles and Rață use shotguns to carry out their heist in "Armed Robbery part 2".
61	* SpotlightStealingSquad: In some episodes the Side plot which focuses on Firicel and Celentano takes up more screentime than the main plot. "The Mobster" and "The Parrot" are prime examples.
62	* StickyFingers: Ardiles is a kleptomaniac, but the villagers are so used to his antics that nobody tries to stop him.
63	* SupremeChef: Dorel becomes one in "Armed Robbery part 1" were he started watching cooking shows as a substitute for porn (which was deleted by his brother) and learned all the recipes by heart. This was later exploited by Giani and Bobiță who together with Dorel opened a pizzeria.
64	* TakeThat: The show is a satire of Romanian village life and Romania in general.
65	* TheTaxi: Nicu Rață is the only Taxi driver in the whole village.

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