History Sandbox / ElBuenCuate

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* ProtestSong: Played for laughs. The song is an angry letter about how boring and annoying road trips are for him.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Played for laughs. The murderer was Jenkins, the butler, a completely new character, but everyone talks about how much seniority he has and how respected he is in the channel. Lampshaded when he says that everyone acts as if he doesn't exist.

* TheGreatRace: La Copletada con Cicletada. Which is a bike race... that also involves preparing and eating hotdogs while racing.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The video seems to take place in Egypt, with the whole desert and mummies theme, but the lyrics are just some vaguely Arabic sounding words [[spoiler:which at the end are revealed to actually be Spanish backwards.]]

* WildTeenParty: Played with, as the song is about how all of Mario Hugo's dogs throw a huge party while he is away at home and how they have to clean everything up before he comes back.

* AllJustADream: The video ends with Milton's mother waking him up from the nightmare he was having.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: At the end is relvealed that Los Bulliciosos kept changing activities, not to keep Navarrete from playing with them, but to confirm if he would be willing to always follow along, as they just always love to try new things at a moment's notice.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Milton was really happy to have a theme park just for himself and hear how jealous the other kids were. Until he started getting bored of how repetitive everything became and decided to invite the other kids, only to be told that is against the contract.
* DealWithTheDevil: Milton wasn't aware that the man that gave him his theme park was the devil himself. And as per their contract, now he is forced to stay at the park forever.

* PickyEater: Carmencita's song is all about rejecting every single dish put in front of her.

* GratuitousEnglish: The chorus is "(We) want to see you", which sounds similar to Guantecillo. The song itself let you know beforehand to pay attention to this.

* ShipperOnDeck: Implied with the way Corchetis sings about Norberto and Raquel. How they are always together and how they look so cute together.

* HomemadeSweaterFromHell: The song is all about how the siblings have to endure all the badly-made clothes their mother makes for them.

* ProtestSong: Played for laughs. The song is an angry letter of how boring and annoying road trips are for him.

* LiteralMinded: After the meteorite landed, Bodoque immediately starting making plans, saying it is a gold mine. Just a moment later Tulio already has a pickaxe ready to get to all the "gold inside".
* TemptingFate: When Tulio accepted to allow the baby to stay at the show, he mention how little he is, asking how much of a problem he could be. Which of course, turned out to be, a lot.

* InstantlyProvenWrong: Uncle Horacio says that no one notices he only airs reruns becuase his show is such classed and current. Then we immediately see one of his episodes airing treating comptuers some newfangled technology and pointing out that man hasn't arrived to the moon.
* TheDreaded: Jack Patata is stated to be the most dangerous criminal of all. All the characters are terrified to jus tbe near him, and people get blind simply by reading his criminal record.
* HereWeGoAgain: After Cindy decided to give Tulio another chance to amend his mistake of ditching her, they set a new date. But once again, Tulio decided to go to an interview and forgot about his date, so Cindy, once again, bowed to get revenge.

* EasyAmnesia: The snake expert lost his memory after hitting his head. So between Guaripolo and Bodoque kept bumping him in the head switching between remembering and not remembering. Then he apparently got so many bumps that he just couldn't remember at all. Then Guaripolo decided to give him a "No bump". He released an anvil that fell just besides the expert, not hitting him. And this, someone, made his memory come back.
* MagicAntidote: Bodoque was really weakened and about to die due to the poison, but the moment he finished the jar of antidote, que was completely back to normal.
* RashomonStyle: Subverted. During a debate between the Hatfields and [=McCoys=] to see why they were fighting, the [=McCoys=] say that Jebedías Hatfield stole their grandma's chamber pot to use it as a hat. Then the [=McCoys=] tell their version... Saying that Jebedías saw grandma's chamber pot and took it because he wanted a hat. When Tulio points out that both versions are the same, the Hatfields admit thir mistake, and the [=McCoys=] forgive them and their 50-year feud ends.
* GiantNoveltyCheck: Mr. Manguera decided to sell the network (again), and so was paid the full amount with a giant check.

* TriggerHappy: Mr. Cowboy, whenever he is really happy, he starts firing his pistols in the air. As well as the Hatfields and [=McCoys=]. When Tulio asked how they would celebreate stopping 50 years of shooting, they proclaim they celebrate... By shooting!
* FeudingFamilies: They bring the classice Hatfield and [=McCoy=] fight, that is stated that has been going on for 50 years.

* VegetarianVampire: Juanín explains that Bombi actually doesnt like to eat people and took away his teeth, so even if he tried, he wouldn't be able to hurt anyone.

* TheButlerDidIt: Parodied. The lieutenant said that one of the employees of 31 Minutos was a murderer. He was listing each one of the regular cast and finally stated the culprit was... Jenkins, the butler. A character that has never appeared before.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Played for laughs. The murderer was Jenkins, the butler, a completely new character, but everyone was saying how much seniority he has and how respected he is in the channel. Lampshaded when he said that everyone acts as if he didnt existed.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When everyone was feeling paranoid about Bombi, Tulio determined that he must be... a Yugoslav, completely ignoring the obvious conclusion of him being a zombie. Later when we see an interview with lieutenant Puñete, he states that there is a zombie invation and advises people to look out for zombie signals, as some people might mix them up with Yugoslavs.
* WorstNewsJudgementEver: When Juanín explains their guest is a famous watermelon because it's trendy, Tulio states then it is their duty to interview the watermelon and to ignore any real news.
* IronicEcho: Juanín asked Tulio if he could stop laughing at him for having his own webshow, and Tulio started he could, he just doenst want to. Once Juanín became incredibly popular in his show (due to mocking Tulio), Tulio asked if he could stop mocking him, and Juanín started he could, but didn't want to.
* FlashInThePanFad: Juanín's webshow just had three viewers at the beginning (some senior citizens that didn't know how to change the page). Then, once he started mocking Tulio, he was the most popular star in all of the internet, to the point of being given the anchorman position in the show, but he couldn't even do two reports before his fame dwindled and were considered old.

* MaximumCapacityOverload: At the beginning, we see everyone trying to get into the elevator to go to the gala. Juanín tried to warn them that the maximum capacity was nine, but everytime he tried to count, somoene will yell a different number. Of course, the elevator breaks and they have to see how to get out.
* ElevatorFailure: So the elevator breaks down and dozens of characters are trapped. Then the air conditioning breaks, and the lights go out. Subverted in that it is shown that the elevator could have actually worked properly from the beginning, but the the operator (Guaripolo) was not aware of any of these features.

* HereWeGoAgain: At the end, everyone was able to get out, so only Guaripolo stayed behind as operator, who then had to take Coke to the first floor. But then the elevator once again got stuck, and Guaripolo had to listen to the whole joke.
* ProducesPelting: At the end, Coke Mauricio's joke was getting so long and tedious that the audience started to throw food at him. And someone even threw an anvil.
* CannotTellAJoke: Coke Mauricio, the "long joke teller." It's implied his jokes are so long they simple are not funny. He actually managed almost the whole gala timeframe with a single joke. And the reason he didn't fill it completely is because the audience got annoyed and started pelting him.

* GuinnessEpisode: Mario Hugo was reporting on the small town of Titirilquen wanting to break the record of most puppets spinning in a laundry machine. They managed to break it, and Mario Hugo is really happy for them... But he forgot to actually stop the laundry machine so the puppets just kept on spinning in the machine, as the whole town went in for the record.

* MeaningfulRename: Tío Pelado (Uncle Baldy) decided to turn a new leaf and start a legitimate business as a surgeon. And having operated on himself and gotten new hair, he now calls himself Tío Peludo (Uncle Hairy).
* MagicPlasticSurgery: "Tío Peludo" surgeries are done and recover on the same day. The moment he takes the bandages, Tulio looks completely different, and the rest of the cast were outside the oeprating room the same day.
* AgingWouldBeHipster: By necessity, after Cossimo said he would fire anyone deemed too old, Tulio came back from the commercial break wearing a cap and hoodie, while carrying a radio on his shoulder and trying to add more slang.
* BlatantLies: Tulio was wearing some glasses to be able to see something better, but when Cossimo asked why he was wearing them (since he was threatening to fire anyone ''suspected'' of being old) Tulio said they were modern sunglasses, and looked directly at the sun to prove it... And getting his eyes on fire.
* PlotTwist: At the end of the episode it is revealed that Cossimo is as old as Balón himself, proved by a photo of them in elementary.
* BackAlleyDoctor: Tío Pelado might or not actually gotten a license, but his clinic gives the regular vibe. Dark, unsanitary, operating with a chainsaw, and his special anethesia (a log to the head).
* StatusQuoIsGod: None of the characters learned their lesson and just kept being vain about their surgeries, but turns out that they were low-quality and they just reverse themselves, making them all look the same as in the beginning.

* LiteralMetaphor: Patana stated that the contestants must be enduring hell backstage, meaning they must be really stressed out. She wasn't aware that Bodoque had just summoned the devil to the room at that moment.

* BrokeEpisode: The second half of the episode has the cast dealing having to make the cheapest possible news show from a landfill and already having to live in rags.

* TerribleArtist: After being hyped us as the fastest artist of all, we finally see Denis Danis painting and he is indeed incredibly fast... But all his portraits look horrible, and the whole cast regretting saving to hire him.
* BaitAndSwitch: When trying to find out who Patana is in love with, she starts saying the names of his name, basically spelling M'''ario''' H'''ugo'''. But just as he was about to declare his love, '''Guari'''p'''o'''l'''o''' appears, revelaing himself to be the lover.
* ActOfTrueLove: Played for laughs. After some failed attemps, Tulio managed to prove that he loves Cindy by showing that he knows her cellphone number ''by heart''.

* {{Telethon}}: The cast decided to create an event for people to donate so Mr. Manguera can become a millionaire again, so he can buy the network back and rehire them all.

* BoringVacationSlideshow: Tulio asked Juanín to talk about his vacations to fill time. Juanín took a slideshow recounting how he just stayed in the building, and he basically just kept doing the maintenance of the place.

* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: The cast managed to help Dante to finally get rid of his explosion addiction. But since a huge meteor was heading to earth, they worked even harder to get him back into his explosive persona so he could get rid of it before it destroyed earth.
* VisualPun: One imitator arrived saying that he was Bodoque's double, meaning as a stunt double. Then he faces the camera and turns out he is literaly double Bodoque, as if two Bodoques had been fused in the middle.

** When Bodoque was recounting his first report, he states he met a guy named Freddy Turbina, who was trying to get inspiration for a song. As we know, he was one of the artists during the Ranking Top in the first season.
** When bodoque was recounting his first report, he met Sasquatch, a huge black monster wandering the woods. And he mentioned his dream was traveling to Japan, because every monster wants to destroy Tokyo at least once, in reference to "Japonés", when we saw him indeed destroying the city.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: The second half of the episode starts with Tulio and Juanín calling all the former cast so they can gather together and think of a solution to go back to TV.
* ShoddyShindig: Juanín's party at the beginning. After hours no one had showed up. And when the first guest arrived, Jackson Aceituno, Juanín just couldn't keep a conversation. The party was a bore until Policarpo arrived.
* BaitAndSwitchSuicide: When Patana reveals she is in love with Guaripolo, Mario Hugo decides that there is nothing else for him and prepares a noose. Tulio runs to try to stop him, but turns out he was just swinging full body in the noose, saying he will just continue swinging until he dies of boredom.
* BehindTheBlack: Mario Hugo is reporting live about a robbery by a dangerous armed man. When Tulio asks where exactly the robbery is happening, Mario Hugo points out it is on their studio itself, and then the camera pans out to show that the robber and Mario Hugo were just beside Tulio's desk.
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: When Mario Hugo proved to Patana that Guaripolo is a terrible person, she states that this just makes her love him even more, since she ''knows'' she can change him.
* ShoutOut: When the rest wanted to find out who Patana was in love with, they disguised Mario Hugo as a woman and said she is Patana's old school friend, Film/{{Tootsie}}.
* ExactWords: During the lint invasion, Guaripolo said he was going to take care of them. One segment later, and there was more lint than before so the cast questioned why Guaripolo hasnt taken care of them. He said he did. He has been taking good care of them by feeding them and getting them vaccinated.
* IfItBleedsItLeads: When Juanín mentions there hasnt been any terrible events, Tulio gets really angry, outright saying that, as a news show, they live off public misery. And when an earthquake hits, Tulio was ecstatic that real news have happened.
* OhCrap: The robber threatens to shoot everyone in the "studio" if they don't give him everything they have, but Tulio states that they have nothing. Out of nowhere Bodoque appears with a plank full of nails pointing out that the robber at least has a gun, and Mario Hugo mentions he also has a nice jacket. The robber immediately understands the situation and flees.

* HereWeGoAgain: At the end [llenar]

* DarkSecret: The whole episode is the big revelatio of some horrible secret Policarpo has. [[spoiler:Which turns out to be that he is bald.]]

* OhCrap: The robber threatens to shoot everyone in the "studio" if they don't give him anything, but Tulio says that they have nothing. Out of nowhere Bodoque appears with a plan full of nails pointing out that the robber at least has a gun, and Mario Hugo mentions he also has a nice jacket. The robber immediately understood the situation and fled.
* ShoutOut: The final result of the Mona Lisa's bad retoration and the guy who bought it in the end is a reference to a bad restoration of a Jesus freso in Spain that became memetic in 2012.

* BehindTheBlack: Mario Hugo was reporting about a robbery in direct with a dangerous armed man. When Tulio asks where exactly the robbery is happening, Mario Hugo points out it is on their studio itself, and then the camera pans out to show that the robber and Mario Hugo were just beside Tulio's desk.

* ShoutOut: When Percy wonders if his godfather might be either fat or thin, the godfather wears both a masks of both Creator/LaurelAndHardy. And then he wonders if he might ressemble [[Film/TheGodfather Marlon Brando or Al Pacino]].

* LiteralMetaphor: Patana stated that the contestants must be enduring hell backstage, meaning they must be really stressed out. She wasnt aware that Bodoque had just summoned the devil to the room at that moment.
* ProducePelting: During the whole show, the audience keeps throwing produce to whoever is on stage at a given time. And they even do it backstage to the artists' door.

* RashomonStyle: Subverted. During a debate between the Hatfields and [=McCoys=] to see why they were fighting, the [=McCoys=] say that Jebedías Hatfield stole their grandma's chamber pot to use it as a hat. Then the [=McCoys=] tell their version... Saying that Jebedías saw grandma's chamber pot and took it because he wanted a hat. When Tulio points out that both version are the same, the Hatfields admit thir mistake, and the [=McCoys=] forgive them and their 50 year feud ends.

* RichesToRags: The episode shows Mr. Manguera living at the dumpster after having to sell the channel and losing all his fortune.

* {{Telethon}}: The cast decided to create an event for people to donate so Mr. Manguera can become a millionaire again, so he can buy the channel back and rehire them all.