History Series / MayBukasPa

* EscapeRouteSurprise: While being trapped by Agusto on a small building, Santino sees that he's busy looking for the numbers that the former chose and then look on an exit full of wood sticks with brown stripes as a way to escape. He starts removing the sticks blocking the exit by putting a spoon between the horizontal and vertical one. With applied force on the spoon, the sticks become loose on the right and then applying force on the left to remove the leftmost one. When one horizontal stick left at the bottommost part, Santino then tried to remove a vertical stick that is not connect to the exit's uppermost part with his left foot and applying force on a single remaining horizontal stick with hands but failed. He tries to apply force to a vertical stick with his hands over a horizontal one, successfully removing the former's upper part and remaining a part of the central over the horizontal and bottom portion. A bottom portion is successfully removed, and changed the locations of the horizontal sticks. When Agusto and his companions came, Santino then tries to escape on that exit but they find out that upon escaping, he will also be chased by them.

* EscapeRouteSurprise: While being trapped by Agusto on a small building, Santino sees that he's busy looking for the numbers that the former chose and then look on an exit full of wood sticks with brown stripes as a way to escape. He starts removing the sticks blocking the exit by putting a spoon between the horizontal and vertical one. With applied force on the spoon, the sticks become loose on the right and then applying force on the left to remove the leftmost one. When one horizontal stick left at the bottommost part, Santino then tried to remove a vertical stick that is not connect to its uppermost part with his foot and applying force on a single remaining horizontal stick with hands but failed. He tries to apply force to a vertical stick with his hands over a horizontal one, successfully removing the former's upper part and remaining a part of the central over the horizontal and bottom portion. A bottom portion is successfully removed, and changed the locations of the horizontal sticks. When Agusto and his companions came, Santino then tries to escape on that exit but they find out that upon escaping, he will also be chased by them.

* EscapeRouteSurprise:

** In the antepenultimate (261st) episode, [[spoiler:Santino was captured by Tilde when he approaches Mario, rides in a car and goes to her hideout in order to heal her colon cancer. As a result of the loss of ability to heal people, Tilde then insists on healing her by asking to Bro that she will be healed, orphan will not go out from her hideout while her colon cancer does not get healed, and he will be killed if the boy does not follow her wants. The boy tries for a second time but still not work. He prays Tilde asking that she will be healed but she strangles the boy saying that praying alone does not work. After strangling, Tilde then pushes Santino into the wall. At the night of being in Tilde's hideout, Santino is seating at the front of a closet, with the woman asking if there are plans to heal her. The orphan asks for water, but Tilde will let Santino suffer while he is not following her commands. After thinking what is the plan to heal the woman, Tilde becomes enraged which let Santino stand and the orphan talks to her. He again sat in the floor beside the closet because his healing ability was already lost after talking, but Tilde lets him stand again and traps him in a closet as a result of not following her command to heal a colon cancer.]]

** In the antepenultimate (261st) episode, [[spoiler:Santino was captured by Tilde when he approaches Mario, rides in a car and goes to her hideout in order to heal her colon cancer. As a result of the loss of ability to heal people, Tilde then insists on healing her by asking to Bro that she will be healed, orphan will not go out from her hideout while her colon cancer does not get healed, and he will be killed if the boy does not follow her wants. The boy tries for a second time but still not work. He prays Tilde asking that she will be healed but she strangles the boy saying that praying alone does not work. After strangling, Tilde then pushes Santino into the wall. At the night of being in Tilde's hideout, Santino ]]

* WouldHurt aChild: The removal of Santino's healing ability by Bro/Jesus even put his life in danger.

* WouldHurtaChild: The removal of Santino's healing ability by Bro/Jesus even put his life in danger.

** In the antepenultimate (261st) episode, [[spoiler:Santino was captured by Tilde when he approaches Mario, rides in a car and goes to her hideout in order to heal her colon cancer. As a result of the loss of ability to heal people, Tilde then insists on healing her by asking to Bro that she will be healed, orphan will not go out from her hideout while her colon cancer does not get healed, and he will be killed if the boy does not follow her wants. The boy tries for a second time but still not work. He prays Tilde asking that she will be healed but she strangles the boy saying that praying alone does not work. After strangling, Tilde then pushes Santino into the wall.]]

** In the 257th episode, [[spoiler:he attempted to heal a girl in the wheelchair but she collapses, resulting in one of the townspeople to throw a stone to Santino, wounding and bleeding his left forehead.]]
** On the next episode (258th), [[spoiler:the priests then treated his wound and a bandage is placed on a wound where it is present until his left forehead was healed on the 260th and preantepenultimate episode.]]
** In the antepenultimate (261st) episode, [[spoiler:Santino was captured by Tilde when he approaches Mario, rides in a car and goes to her hideout in order to heal her colon cancer. As a result of the loss of ability to heal people, Tilde then insists on healing her by asking to Bro that she will be healed, orphan will not go out from her hideout while her colon cancer does not get healed, and he will be killed if the boy does not follow her wants. The boy tries for a second time but still not work. He prays Tilde asking that she will be healed but she strangles the boy saying that praying alone does not work. After strangling, Tilde then pushes Santino into the wall.]]

* WouldHurtaChild: The removal of Santino's healing ability by Bro/Jesus on 257th episode of the series even put his life on danger as when he attempted to heal a girl in the wheelchair, the girl stands but she collapses, resulting in one of the townspeople to throw a stone to Santino, wounding and bleeding his left forehead. The priests then treated his wound on the next episode and a bandage is placed on a wound where it is present until the 260th and preantepenultimate episode. His left forehead was then healed, but the boy was captured by Tilde in the antepenultimate (261st) episode when he approaches Mario, rides in a car and goes to her hideout in order to heal her colon cancer. As a result of the loss of ability to heal people, Tilde then insists on healing her by asking to Bro that she will be healed, orphan will not go out from her hideout while her colon cancer does not get healed, and he will be killed if the boy does not follow her wants. The boy tries for a second time but still not work. He prays Tilde asking that she will be healed but she strangles the boy saying that praying alone does not work. After strangling, Tilde then pushes Santino into the wall.

* WouldHurtaChild: The removal of Santino's healing ability by Bro/Jesus on 257th episode of the series even put his life on danger as when he attempted to heal a girl in the wheelchair, the girl stands but she collapses, resulting in one of the townspeople to throw a stone to Santino, wounding and bleeding his left forehead. The priests then treated his wound on the next episode and a bandage is placed on a wound where it is present until the 260th and preantepenultimate episode. His left forehead was then healed, but the boy was captured by Tilde in the antepenultimate (261st) episode when he approaches Mario, rides in a car and goes to her hideout in order to heal her colon cancer. As a result of the loss of ability to heal people, Tilde then insists on healing her by asking to Bro that she will be healed and the boy will not go out from her hideout while her colon cancer does not get healed.

* ShoutOut: Some viewers were quick to point out the use of the nickname "Bro" in reference to Jesus as a thinly-veiled allusion to ''[[Series/BigBrother Pinoy Big Brother]]''. It helps that Bro's [[VoiceOfDramatic omnipresent voice]] is also similar or the same as Big Brother's, hence the (inevitable) comparisons.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Huwag Kang Mangamba'', which was released 11 years after the finale episode of ''May Bukas Pa'', serves as the series' spiritual successor where some of the concepts used in ''May Bukas Pa'' such as having Jesus (also called "Bro"). Unlike its spiritual predecessor which is ''May Bukas Pa'' which was aired on main ABS-CBN terrestrial channel, ''Huwag Kang Mangamba'' is aired on ABS-CBN cable channel Kapamilya Channel due to the absence of the company's broadcast franchise to broadcast on free to air television.
** Some of the series' episodes feature Johnny Delgado and Carl John Barrameda and episode numbers in the 80s feature children begging around the streets of Manila, which makes ''May Bukas Pa'' a spiritual successor to 2005-2006 ''Mga Anghel na Walang Langit'', another ABS-CBN/Dreamscape Entertainment child/values-oriented series that released on odd number of years (2005) and also started the trend of "releasing values/child-oriented and inspirational television series on odd number of years."

* ShoutOut: Some viewers were quick to point out the use of the nickname "Bro" in reference to Jesus as a thinly-veiled allusion to ''[[Series/BigBrother Pinoy Big Brother]]''. It helps that Bro's [[VoiceOfDramatic omnipresent voice]] is quite similar to Big Brother's, hence the (inevitable) comparisons.

* StaircaseTumble: When Tilde pushes Santino down a flight of stairs, insisting that he heal her colon cancer.

* LimitedWardrobe:

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Huwag Kang Mangamba'', which was released 11 years after the finale episode of ''May Bukas Pa'', serves as the series' spiritual successor where some of the concepts used in ''May Bukas Pa'' such as having Jesus (also called "Bro"). The series is currently aired on {{Creator/ABSCBN}}'s cable channel Kapamilya Channel, A2Z Channel 11 of ZOE Broadcasting Network, and ABS-CBN's rival network and Pangilinan-owned TV5.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Huwag Kang Mangamba'', which was released 11 years after the finale episode of ''May Bukas Pa'', serves as the series' spiritual successor where some of the concepts used in ''May Bukas Pa'' such as having Jesus (also called "Bro").

* ClosetPunishment: Due to Santino's refusal to heal Tilde (Desiree del Valle) to heal her colon cancer because he has no power to heal the sick, she trap him inside the closet. Santino then bangs or knocks on the closet's door as an attempt for him to go out.

* ClosetPunishment: Tilde (Desiree del Valle) did this to Santino when he refused to heal her colon cancer because he has no more power to cure the sick.

Owing to the Philippines being a predominantly Catholic nation, the series proved to be quite popular with audiences and ran for about a year with an AllStarCast and prominent actors making guest appearances. It has also spawned merchandise and brought Zaijian Jaranilla to prominence, having since appeared in numerous roles well into his teens.

* SelfSacrificeScheme

* ChristmasEpisode: The ''parol''[[note]]A star-shaped lantern common in the Philippines during the Christmas season[[/note]] made an appearance as early as the 150s, but the appearance of Christmas-related stuff and traditions (i.e. saying "Merry Christmas" to everyone, caroling) became frequent starting at episode 219 [[spoiler:when Santino saw Totoy (Pen Medina) disguised as Santa Claus while roaming the streets of Manila with Cocoy (Rayver Cruz)]]. This continues throughout the 220s and 230s.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything / ShoutOut: Some viewers were quick to point out the use of the nickname "Bro" in reference to Jesus as a thinly-veiled allusion to ''[[Series/BigBrother Pinoy Big Brother]]''. It helps that Bro's [[VoiceOfDramatic omnipresent voice]] is quite similar to Big Brother's, hence the (inevitable) comparisons.

* StaircaseTumble: When Tilde pushes Santino on a flight of stairs while she insists to heal her colon cancer.
* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Huwag Kang Mangamba'', which was released 11 years and 1 month after the finale episode of ''May Bukas Pa'', serves as the series' spiritual successor where some of the concepts used in ''May Bukas Pa'' such as having Jesus which is named as Bro were carried over in ''Huwag Kang Mangamba'' and also it is a religious-themed teleserye.

* SelfSacrificeScheme