YMMV / Aquí no hay quien viva

• Angst? What Angst?: Josemi and Natalia never show any kind of sadness for the fate of their mother, Paloma, in a way that borders on sociopathy.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Roberto's dream where he and the other neighbors are dressed up as characters from The Lord of the Rings. As funny as it is, it's surreal, bizarre, and never mentioned for the rest of the episode.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Paloma's fate could be a cruel scene, but the exaggerated way it occurs and the neighbors' reactions end up making the tragedy hilarious.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • The great reception of Mariano, Carlos and Carmen motivated their moving to the building and to the main cast.
  • Paco, initially only a sideshow actor to the rest of the cast in the first season, was eventually given more prominence and character depth, receiving a wife and hooking up with Belén in the final season.
• Fair for Its Day: It was one of the first Spanish shows to feature a homosexual couple as a regular part of its main cast, and not as standard-issue Camp Gay caricatures at that, partly due to actors Adrià Collado and Luis Merlo's refusal to portray Fernando and Mauri in that light. That said, Mauri's hardline No Bisexuals stance would probably raise more than a few eyebrows today.
• Fandom Rivalry: Against La que se avecina, the TV series that the Caballeros siblings made immediately after the cancellation of "Aqui no hay quien viva" and with the same cast. Because of this, many fans of "Aqui no hay quien viva" end up having a dislike for the successor series, which is not helped by the fact that "La que se avecina" has already had more than twice the number of seasons and the constant criticism about having a more exaggerated and vulgar humor.
• Growing the Beard: The first few episodes are well received, but the general consensus is that the ninth episode, "Erase una de miedo", is one of the best in the series.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In Season 3, Roberto cheats on Lucia with the newly introduced character Ana on the eve of their wedding, which obviously causes Lucia to break up with Roberto and gain a dislike for Ana. In real life, actress Maria Adanez (Lucia) dated series creator Alberto Caballero the entire time she worked on the series, and ended the relationship after leaving the cast at the end of the fourth season. Around the same time, Caballero started dating actress Vanesa Romero (Ana) and they even got married, so many fans and journalists pointed out how suspicious the timing of these events was (the marriage only lasted a few months). It didn't help that when Adanez returned to work with Romero and Caballero years later on two seasons of "La que se avecina", her character had a dialogue in which she accused Romero's character of stealing other women's fiancés.
  • Paloma claiming in the Season 2 finale that she never cheated on Juan ends up becoming that in the final season when it is revealed at her funeral that she actually cheated on Juan with another man.
  • Concha's constant comments that she will be the first to die and that her death must be near ends up becoming that when you discover that actress Emma Penella passed away just a year after the series was canceled (and having participated in the first season of "La que se avecina").
• Hollywood Homely: Belén is supposed to be unattractive, with a bitter personality and wearing more conservative, less glamorous clothes, compared to Alicia and Lucia. None of this erases the fact that Malena Alterio is a beautiful woman.
• Ho Yay: Between Carlos and Roberto, so much that we get Mistaken for Gay and Like an Old Married Couple.
• Jerkass Woobie: Andrés can be a nasty human being when he wants to be, constantly tricking the neighbors into his scams, but it's hard not to sympathize with him when you remember how he lost everything after moving to Desengano 21: his wife, his house, his family and his store.
• Memetic Mutation: A lot.
  • Emilio's "¡Un poquito de por favor!" (Literally, "A little bit of please!"), which he said every time that he asked someone to behave properly. It became a huge Catchphrase and everyone in Spain used it for years.
  • See Catchphrase. "¡Váyase, señor Cuesta, váyase!" ("Go away, Mr. Cuesta, go away!") is a mutation of what José María Aznar was telling Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González for some time before the elections that gave Aznar the power in 1996.
• The Scrappy: Fans don't think very highly of later additions to the cast, mainly Yago, Ana and Mamen's family. The general consensus is that they're not particularly funny and that they take up precious screentime that could be spent on other veteran characters.
• Seasonal Rot: The general consensus among fans is that the last two seasons have suffered a drop in quality compared to the previous three seasons, due to the departure of several characters (Alicia, Andrés, Carlos, Lucía and Roberto) and the replacements (Ana, Yago, Mamen) being far less funny or charismatic.
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • The mere fact that Paco's video store has VHS and DVD already establishes the series at the beginning of the 21st century.
  • In an episode, Juan and Paloma travel by car to the wedding of a cousin who lives in another city. They end up getting lost in the middle of nowhere and trying to orient themselves with a map, to no avail. Almost two decades after the airing of this episode, the chances of this happening would be minimal, thanks to a GPS or Google Maps.
  • In Season 2, the neighbors steal Lucia's pay-TV signal and become obsessed with a telenovela. When Lucia finds out and takes away their signal, the neighbors decide to pay Paco a huge fortune to have him download the final episode for them. Today, it would be highly unlikely that none of the neighbors would have cable TV or know how to download TV series from the internet.
  • The constant jokes and references to The Lord of the Rings (including a dream scene parodying the books and movies, with characters from the series portrayed as Tolkien's characters) make it clear that the series was realized when the trilogy of Peter Jackson was at the height of success.
• Unpopular Popular Character: Hardly anyone in the building likes Juan Cuesta, Carlos or Andrés. Among the fandom, they are among the most popular characters.
• Values Dissonance: Aqui no hay quien viva was a pretty progressive series for the time it was made, considering the way it portrayed its LGBT characters... but still, it's a Spanish series from the beginning of the 21st century, which means that some storylines aged very poorly for modern or foreign audiences.
  • Several male characters had no trouble flirting with Natalia in the first season, in spite of her only being 17 at the time. Today, that would be completely inadmissible.
  • Mauri insisting that there are No Bisexuals is a belief that has aged very poorly these days.
  • In Season 5, Belén and most of the video club gang make fun of the fact that Emilio is dating a trans woman (who is also consistently deadnamed and referred to as a man by her sister and brother-in-law — and even the credits listed the character with her birth name), with transphobic jokes that would never be approved these days.
  • In Season 5, Candela, a 14-year-old teenager, flirts with Pablo, who is an adult, to the point of kissing him. This is another rather uncomfortable plot for modern audiences.
  • In Season 5, the whole plot of Mariano changing the sperm vial so that Ana becomes pregnant with him is very uncomfortable. It doesn't help that Mauri points out that what Mariano did was basically a violation.
• Values Resonance: As mentioned above, for a Spanish series from the beginning of the 21st century, the way the series portrays homosexual characters, without offensive stereotypes, is admirable.

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