YMMV / Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo

• First Installment Wins: The first three movies and, to a lesser extent, the fourth are unanimously considered the best-remembered as well as the most quotable.
• Jerkass Woobie: Giovanni in Chiedimi se sono Felice. He's always cynical but you can feel sorry for him when he has relationship problems and Marina cheats on him with one of his best friends.
• Memetic Mutation: It would be easier to list what has not achieved a memetic status in Italian pop culture.
  • The one-note character Tafazzi (portrayed by Giacomo) has become a symbol of self-sabotage, with the fictitious "Tafazzi syndrome" being used to describe such behaviors, especially in politics. He's such a popular character that the protein tafazzin was named after him.
  • Aldo suddenly jumping out of the sand during the beach soccer game in Tre uomini e una gamba, as well as the group commenting on the abysmal result, is an evergreen among soccer fans.
  • "C'ho sotto un cannone!" (literally, "I've got a cannon down there!") pronounced by Giovanni, which is the definitive Orphaned Punchline.
• Older Than They Think: Some of the trio's most famous sketches (Sicilian lessons, the dog on a leash, the ticket inspector) were originally performed just by Aldo and Giovanni in old TV and stage appearances without Giacomo. In fact, Aldo and Giovanni worked together as a comedy duo in the '80s for ten years, before meeting Giacomo in 1991 and becoming a popular trio.
• Replacement Scrappy: Silvana, who becomes The Heart of the trio in later works, is seen this way by Marina fans. Nearly everyone prefers Marina who had much better chemistry with the trio. Interestingly, Silvana's first appearance in Chiedimi se sono Felice was appreciated by fans, and this was also the only movie where Marina and Silvana appear together. But when Marina stops working with the trio and Silvana basically replaces her as the main leading lady, fans started getting tired of her.
• Retroactive Recognition: In Così è la vita, a young Francesco Pannofino briefly appears as Giacomo's Jerkass brother-in-law. It was one of his first roles as an actor (he was better known as a voice actor), before becoming famous for playing René from Boris.
• Sequelitis: Their later movies were not well received at all, especially Il cosmo sul comò and Fuga da Reuma Park.
• Tear Jerker: Some of their movies, despite all the comedy, are not immune to this trope.
  • Tre Uomini e una Gamba: Chiara's goodbye to the trio. Giacomo, who felt in love with her, is deeply depressed in that scene.
  • The ending of Così è la vita where the three are revealed to be Dead All Along after a car accident and they were actually ghosts the whole time.
  • The trio's break-up in Chiedimi se sono felice after Giovanni finds out that Giacomo kissed his girlfriend Marina and accuses poor Aldo of complicity. He then furiously destroys the scenography of their stage show after declaring their long time strong friendship out. O.O.C. Is Serious Business indeed.
  • The ending of Odio l'estate is the saddest of them all, after it's revealed that Aldo is terminally ill. Thankfully, he has a positive attitude and True Companions who help him realize his dream before the end of the movie, but his ultimate fate is still very sad.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Giovanni in "Chiedimi se sono felice" had every right to be mad at Giacomo for kissing Giovanni's girlfriend Marina (and he also made Giovanni lose his job in the same day) but his accusations of complicity to Aldo were unjust and harsh, especially since he insulted and blamed Aldo even more than Giacomo for the entire situation. So it's quite hard to see him in a positive light after that.
• Unpopular Popular Character: Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo, in all their movies, are unlucky losers who get no respect by the other characters. A clear example is their 2000 movie "Chiedimi se sono felice" where their characters are struggling actors whose acting career is so pathetic that nobody wants to work with them. In real life, they were at the peak of their success, since in the 90s and early 2000s, they were some of the most successful Italian comedians ever and their impact on the audience is still alive many years later.
• Vindicated by History: When La leggenda di Al, John e Jack was released in 2002, it left critics and fans disappointed, being seen as a forced parody of gangster movies and relying on Black Comedy, instead of focusing on the daily life of three average people like all their previous films. Nowadays, it's fondly remembered by many fans for its clever jokes (some of them fairly quotable), funny moments, and being better written than most of their later movies.
• Win Back the Crowd: Odio l'estate was this after the unlucky shot with Fuga da Reuma Park, which is almost universally considered as the lowest point of the trio. The return to down-to-earth comedy was appreciated by the audience, and the trio proved once again to have a great chemistry.