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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.



--->'''Aníbal''': Reme, you'll see, I won't be able to help you out anymore. I'm sorry but I... have my obligations, and...
--->'''Reme''': ''(Appears overwhelmed and angry)'' Don't you even think about [[BaitAndSwitch apologizing]]! You've given me so much in exchange for nothing!

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--->'''Aníbal''': -->'''Aníbal''': Reme, you'll see, I won't be able to help you out anymore. I'm sorry but I... have my obligations, and...
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''(Appears overwhelmed and angry)'' Don't you even think about [[BaitAndSwitch apologizing]]! You've given me so much in exchange for nothing!
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* CastingGag:
** Fernando Cayo playing the boss of El Caso very shortly after appearing on ''Series/ElMinisterioDelTiempo'' playing [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte a different kind of boss]].
** Antonio Garrido playing a DirtyCop after having been the Spanish counterpart of [[Series/LifeOnMars2006 Gene Hunt]].

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* RealityEnsues: Clara saves a young woman from an insane asylum, that seems sane compared to the other inmates. Almost as soon as they are out, she has a mental episode [[spoiler: and kills herself.]]



* WomanScorned: Rodrigo's wife is furious to learn that [[SleepingWithTheBoss he has an affair with the El Caso secretary, Paloma]] (who apparently used to be a maid at their house, as well). Since her family invested the money to open El Caso, it takes a few pleas from Jesús [[spoiler:and his word that he'll convince Rodrigo to fire Paloma]] to talk her out of shutting down the newspaper.

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* WomanScorned: Rodrigo's wife is furious to learn that [[SleepingWithTheBoss he has an affair with the El Caso secretary, Paloma]] (who apparently used to be a maid at their house, as well). Since her family invested the money to open El Caso, it takes a few pleas from Jesús [[spoiler:and his word that he'll convince Rodrigo to fire Paloma]] to talk her out of shutting down the newspaper.newspaper.
* YankTheDogsChain: Clara saves a young woman from an insane asylum, that seems sane compared to the other inmates. Almost as soon as they are out, she has a mental episode [[spoiler: and kills herself.]]
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Several in-universe examples, since this is a newspaper dealing with censorship. For instance, in episode 4, Jesús hands Aparicio an article and tells him to change the front page behind Cabrera's back... just minutes before the paper goes into the rotary.

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'''''El Caso. Crónica de sucesos''''' (''The Case. Incident Chronicle''), often referred to simply as '''''El Caso''''', is a Spanish television series created by Fernando Guillén Cuervo (who is also the main actor) and produced by Plano a Plano (the guys who also brought us ''El Príncipe'' and ''Series/AlliAbajo'') for Televisión Española. It started on March 2016, and finished in June of the same year as TVE decided against renewing it for a second season. In 2018, some of the characters were brought back for a SpinOff series to air on TVE's web platform Playz, which would focus mainly on Aparicio and Aníbal's TV career after leaving El Caso.

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'''''El Caso. Crónica de sucesos''''' (''The Case. Incident Chronicle''), often referred to simply as '''''El Caso''''', is a Spanish television series created by Fernando Guillén Cuervo (who is also the main actor) and produced by Plano a Plano (the guys who also brought us ''El Príncipe'' and ''Series/AlliAbajo'') for Televisión Española. It started on March 2016, and finished in June of the same year as TVE decided against renewing it for a second season. In 2018, some of the characters were brought back for a SpinOff series to air on TVE's web platform Playz, which would focus mainly on Aparicio and Aníbal's TV post-El Caso career after leaving El Caso.
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'''''El Caso. Crónica de sucesos''''' (''The Case. Incident Chronicle''), often referred to simply as '''''El Caso''''', is a Spanish television series created by Fernando Guillén Cuervo (who is also the main actor) and produced by Plano a Plano (the guys who also brought us ''El Príncipe'' and ''Series/AlliAbajo'') for Televisión Española. It started on March 2016, and finished in June of the same year as TVE decided against renewing it for a second season.

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'''''El Caso. Crónica de sucesos''''' (''The Case. Incident Chronicle''), often referred to simply as '''''El Caso''''', is a Spanish television series created by Fernando Guillén Cuervo (who is also the main actor) and produced by Plano a Plano (the guys who also brought us ''El Príncipe'' and ''Series/AlliAbajo'') for Televisión Española. It started on March 2016, and finished in June of the same year as TVE decided against renewing it for a second season.
season. In 2018, some of the characters were brought back for a SpinOff series to air on TVE's web platform Playz, which would focus mainly on Aparicio and Aníbal's TV career after leaving El Caso.

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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Several of the cases shown in the series are inspired on actual murders the real-life El Caso reported about.
** WordOfGod is that ''all'' were headlines in El Caso once, making this a literal example.

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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Several of the cases shown in the series (in fact, all of them, according to WordOfGod) are inspired on actual murders the real-life El Caso reported about.
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about. Those real-life cases are from different decades, which causes the series, set in 1966, to often veer into VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory territory (more on that ''all'' were headlines in El Caso once, making this a literal example.below).
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--->''Aníbal'': Reme, you'll see, I won't be able to help you out anymore. I'm sorry but I... have my obligations, and...
--->''Reme'': '''(Appears overwhelmed and angry)''' Don't you even think about [[BaitAndSwitch apologizing]]! You've given me so much in exchange for nothing!

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--->''Aníbal'': --->'''Aníbal''': Reme, you'll see, I won't be able to help you out anymore. I'm sorry but I... have my obligations, and...
--->''Reme'': '''(Appears --->'''Reme''': ''(Appears overwhelmed and angry)''' angry)'' Don't you even think about [[BaitAndSwitch apologizing]]! You've given me so much in exchange for nothing!
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--->''Aníbal'': Reme, you'll see, I won't be able to help you out anymore. I'm sorry but I... have my obligations, and...
--->''Reme'': '''(Appears overwhelmed and angry)''' Don't you even think about [[BaitAndSwitch apologizing]]! You've given me so much in exchange for nothing!
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: DoubleSubverted with [[GenkiGirl Reme]]. While Aníbal is clearly smitten with her, the El Caso staff already knows her and they doubt that she appreciates what he does for her. When he's left almost without resources, and is thus unable to maintain her, this piece of dialogue happens:
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* CommutingOnABus: Gerardo, combined with NewJobAsThePlotDemands. He announces on episode 2 that he will be sent shortly to the Spanish Embassy in Morocco, then on episode 5 he returns as he has been reassigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affaris. Then disappears again in episode 11... and the next thing we hear of him is he [[BusCrash dies in the train accident]] from episode 13.

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* CommutingOnABus: Gerardo, combined with NewJobAsThePlotDemands. He announces on episode 2 that he will be sent shortly to the Spanish Embassy in Morocco, then on episode 5 he returns as he has been reassigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affaris.Affairs. Then disappears again in episode 11... and the next thing we hear of him is he [[BusCrash dies in the train accident]] from episode 13.

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* BerserkButton: When Jesús and Clara first meet him at the San José asylum, Juan Toledo seems a calm man. However, while Camacho is interrogating him, a pianist starts playing Beethoven's ''Für Elise'' and he loses his cool. [[spoiler:It's the music that was playing when his mother was raped in front of him.]]

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* BerserkButton: When Jesús and Clara first meet him at the San José asylum, Juan Toledo seems a calm man. However, while Camacho is interrogating him, a pianist starts playing Beethoven's ''Für Elise'' and he loses his cool. [[spoiler:It's the music that was playing when his mother was raped in front of him.him as a child.]]



* CommutingOnABus: Gerardo, combined with NewJobAsThePlotDemands. He announces on episode 2 that he will be sent shortly to the Spanish Embassy in Morocco, then on episode 5 he returns as he has been reassigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affaris. Then disappears again in episode 11... and the next thing we hear of him is he [[BusCrash dies in the train accident]] from episode 13.



* PutOnABus: Gerardo announces on episode 2 that he will be sent shortly to the Spanish Embassy in Morocco.
** TheBusCameBack on episode 5. Then disappears again in episode 11.
*** BusCrash: Gerardo suddenly dies in the train accident from episode 13.
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* {{Gayngst}}: Gerardo is ashamed of his homosexuality and believes in a "cure" for it.

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* {{Gayngst}}: Gerardo is ashamed of his homosexuality and believes in a "cure" for it. Justified since the series is set in Francoist Spain.

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* CouldSayItBut:
-->'''Montenegro:''' I can't give you Garcés's confession. But if someone searches for it in the files, there's nothing I can do about it.


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* SteppingOutForAQuickCupOfCoffee:
-->'''Montenegro:''' I can't give you Garcés's confession. But if someone searches for it in the files, there's nothing I can do about it.
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* CouldSayItBut:
-->'''Montenegro:''' I can't give you Garcés's confession. But if someone searches for it in the files, there's nothing I can do about it.
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* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: GenderFlipped with Margarita. She's the only person in the entire series seen smoking from a pipe (in a show set in UsefulNotes/TheSixties in which EverybodySmokes), and also happens to be the most experienced journalist in the El Caso office.

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* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: GenderFlipped [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-Inverted]] with Margarita. She's the only person in the entire series seen smoking from a pipe (in a show set in UsefulNotes/TheSixties in which EverybodySmokes), and also happens to be the most experienced journalist in the El Caso office.
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* ThrowTheBookAtThem: Camacho's weapon of choice when interrogating suspects is a phone book.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Cabrera and Father Sanchís, both of whom are named Manuel. LastNameBasis is usually in effect with both of them, however.

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