History Series / Pataclaun

** Queca becomes [[GreenEyedMonster Envy]} since one of her favorite past times is badmouthing celebrities who have more than her.

* TakeThatUs: The show isn't shy to either make fun of their actors or meta jokes at the production, especially at Wendy being the head writer.

** Queca becomes {{Envy}} since one of her favorite past times is badmouthing celebrities who have more than her.

** Machín has both {{Wrath}} and {{Sloth}} since he gets mad for Wendy not fixing his car, while he just wants to be lazy around the house.

* ForTheEvulz: Tony's main motivation for creating conflict is because he is the CardCarryingVillain of the show. Depending on the plot, he is seen having normal friendly interactions with the rest of the household, with his more antagonistic attitude being reduced to the snarky friend.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite being sexist, dirty, and rude, Machín has been shown to have a soft spot for his family and comes around the Aesop in the last act of the episodes.

* {{Ladyella}}: For the ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' parody, the main character is called "Wendycienta", the Spanish equivalent of the trope.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Queca wants to pretend that she is young, but it's pretty evident that she has been under the knife quite many times. Machín even found her photo in a History book, more specifically in the ''Pre-columbian history'' chapter.

* ThePigPen: Machín has pride in the fact that he doesn't bathe. He smells bad enough to make the police come over to investigate, confusing him for a corpse.

* PutOnABus: Monchi goes to travel the world in the second half of the first season because her actress was moving away to Italy. She comes back for the last two episodes of the second season, right before the series finale.

* SillySpook: The 3 ghosts aren't scary or do much haunting (they "haunt very nicely" as the song goes), an episode has them receive a letter from the administration telling them to step up their job as ghosts and scare someone or be replaced.
** ZigZagged with Cousin Hertes who is very nice and dorky but others fear him for the bad luck he brings, {{Averted}} with Mamá Antonieta who is very imposing and feared in her own right.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Usually, if two characters are gonna be at each other's throats, it'll be often Machín with somebody else. Either Tony when he's playing the villain for the episode or Queca most of the other times. Queca and Machín have a notable size difference so the comedic effect doubles when they fight.

* SoBadItsGood: {{Invoked}}. In the episode "Machín's Movie", an eccentric millionaire named Mr. Multi wants to fund Machín's movie precisely because he wants to do something different since he is bored and wants to do something with the short life he has left. After the horrendous results, and the family acknowledging that everything in the movie is bad, Mr. Multi is the only one who truly enjoyed it. Too bad the household couldn't make use of the check before he died.

* TakeThat: Pataclaun wasn't shy when doing some obvious takes at the government[[note]]The Fujimori government from 1990 to 2000 was considered a dictatorship, so there were a lot of references to the President and the Intelligence Director, Vladimiro Montesinos[[/note]], in an age when doing that on National TV was taboo.

* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: Monchi spends an episode trying to convince the family that there is some monster under her bed with none of them caring, to the point she moves to the living room to avoid it. Then Tony teleports and locks her in her bedroom ForTheEvulz, where she ends up befriending the gremlin living in there, and brings him back to [[LaserGuidedKarma scare Tony with it]].

* WorldOfSnark: The cast is sarcastic to a fault, especially Tony and Queca. The big exceptions are Wendy and Gonzalete, since their jokes derive more from their ditzy or wacky tendencies.

* AutomobileOpening: The second season's opening has the characters riding the family car while going through an animated psychedelic version of the city until they crash in their own home.

* AutoRevive: In the episode "The Rat", Queca eats a poisoned cake meant for a rat and drops dead, and this serves Machín, Wendy, and Gonzalete to pick up on Tony's schemes. Fortunately, she is a ghost, so she is fine in the following scene.

* DraggedByTheCollar: The animated first opening shows Wendy inviting Machín to her house by literally dragging him by the feet.

* ForgotToPayTheBill: 2 Episodes where Machín actually refuses to pay the phone bill/the entire house's utilities because he feels the ghosts are taking advantage of the house facilities without paying anything back.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Gonzalete is certainly a little quirkier than the other two ghosts. He's not mean, perse, but a lot of his humor derives from random occurrences he encounters instead of being sarcastic at the others (when he's not lusting after women), like being at a party at any time he's being summoned. His preparation for an exorcism, for example, requires him to make a dance while sporting two ill-fitting pigtails, which he doesn't seem to mind.
* ClownSpecies: It's never properly established how the world of Pataclaun works, since the main cast, supporting characters and magazine models/some extras always appear with the clown nose; yet other extras and real-life celebrities and politicians appear as they are. For the most part, the fact that they're clauns is just left to be a visual gag. Since this was a Sitcom first and foremost that satirized society and often mocked conceptions about Meta and the Fourth Wall, inventing the lore wasn't probably a priority.

* GayMoment: Lots of [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar jokes of this nature]] tended to appear in the show.
** To break the tension in many of Machín and Tony's fights, often Tony would make a sarcastic comment in the vein of "Oh, I've always to be in your arms, viruta". Machín, despite often written to be a parody of macho men, would often feel confused or flattered at these comments. He even said at one point to the fouth wall, after holding Tony's hand: "What? It's pretty popular in Europe!"
** A few jokes suggest Tony and Gonzalete don't mind [[ThreesomeSubtext bonding...As long as it's with a pretty woman of course]].
*** The two went together to the premiere of ''"Chicholina against the One-Eyed Giant"'' (For those who don't know, Chicholina was a well known adult entertainer, and one eyed giant [[MaleFrontalNudity means, well...]]).
*** In the episode where the gang travel to Iquitos, they're more than happy at the idea of fooling around with the [[ItMakesSenseInContext disguised!Queca]]. "Oh there'll be enough for both you and me!" Claims Tony to Gonzalete.
*** At the prospect of meeting Cheila, Queca's grandniece, Tony exclaimed to Gonzalete "Tonight we'll eat pork on a stick!". Could just mean they'll eat fancy, but if you know about spitroasts...

*** The two went together to the premiere of "Chicholina against the One-Eyed Giant" (For those who don't know, Chicholina was a well known adult entertainer, and one eyed giant [[MaleFrontalNudity means, well...]]).
*** In the episode where the gang travel to Iquitos, they're more than happy at the idea of fooling around with the disguised!Queca. "Oh there'll be enough for both you and me!" Claims Tony.
*** At the prospect of meeting Cheila, Queca's grandniece, Tony exclaimed "Tonight we'll eat pork on a stick!". Could just mean they'll eat fancy, but if you know about spitroasts...

* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Tony's full name is Antonio ''Eusebio Lechuga'' ("lettuce") Facundo. Naturally, he never goes by his full name; and in the episode, the girls find out the truth, and they bully him mercilessly for "having a vegetable name".

** GirlyGirl: Queca, is the one with the womanly advice and the claun most interested in fashion and luxuries.

* TheGhost: Machín's mother and brother, who lives with his father and in Miami respectively, are often mentioned but never appear.
** She only appears in one episode, but Lorenita Rivasplata also counts. Once Tony is exhausted from Wendy rejecting him once too many times, Queca sees to introduce him to her friend Lorenita on a date, in the chance he might finally get a girlfriend. We only know of Lorenita based on what Queca and Tony tell us, giving us a picture of an overall nice, [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold blonde girl]]. [[spoiler:Considering Tony was [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness seriously thinking of marrying her]] after dating her, she was probably the real thing and a big deal]].

** Wendy and Queca get tired of being called fat constantly, while Tony is stood up by Cindy Crawford, so [[DisproportionateRetribution he decides to get revenge by changing the world's beauty standards so Cindy and other models lose their jobs]]. [[spoiler:At the end of the episode, Wendy and Queca admit that they wrote the script to feel better about themselves.]]

** In one episode the family starts selling crumpled pieces of colored paper with a string after seeing Monchi playing very affectionately with one. Later when Monchi accidentally "kills" his "friend" with water, Wendy just picks another one and gives it to her, to Monchi's appallment at it being treated so callously.

** Tony's character and his relationships overall depend on the episode. When he's in villain mode, he's very manipulative; often ready to trick all the other characters without a second thought. On episodes where he's much more calmer he's just a little snarky and sarcastic, and seems to get along the best with Queca. Similarly, his relationship with Wendy varies on the episode: on some he finds her very obnoxious, while on others he's desperate to bed her or even gain her love.

** When the family pretended to be an international Rock band, with the intention of coming clean soon afterwards, they gained fame and notoriety very quickly, but at the end of the episode when they finally revealed they were all Peruvian the press and fans abandoned and ignored them pretty much instantly.

* EasilyForgiven: ZigZagged in the Arequipa episode, at the end everyone forgives Wendy for tricking them into going to Arequipa since ultimately they all enjoyed the trip. But since her antics left them all stranded they force her to carry all their luggage as they return home by walking.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Early episodes had the characters take off their noses for a gag, or to deliver An Aesop, it quickly dissapeared and afterwards their noses stayed put at all times.

* FireFightingEpisode: An episode of the second season had Machín get a job as a Fire fighter, Wendy was initially trilled but then started worrying about the dangerous nature of the job and conspired with Queca to turn Machín into a coward so he would quit. Predictably the episode ended with Wendy being trapped in a fire, with Machín recovering his valor and returning to being a Fire fighter just in time to save her.

** GirlyGirl: Queca, as the one with the womanly advice and the claun most interested in fashion and luxuries.

* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: With there being NoFourthWall, the characters will often talk to the audience and ask for opinions, items or favors and will promptly be given them directly from the camera. For example Monchi asking for a solution when she was left behind in the house and being given a ''Film/HomeAlone'' VHS.

* TheGhost: Machín's mother and brother, who live with his father and in Miami respectively, are often mentioned but never appear.
** She only appears in one episode, but Lorenita Rivasplata also counts. Once Tony is exhausted from Wendy rejecting him once too many times, Queca sees to introduce him to her friend Lorenita in a date, in the chance he might finally get a girlfriend. We only know of Lorenita based on what Queca and Tony tell us, giving us a picture of an overall nice, [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold blonde girl]]. [[spoiler:Considering Tony was [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness seriously thinking of marrying her]] after dating her, she was probably the real thing and a big deal]].

** In the episode where Machín promises not to bathe again, they manage to make him change his mind by bringing Tony's mother to deal with him, but then they have to deal with her trying to get Tony and Queca married. Finally they manage to get her to leave with a magic potion that makes her forget the promise to get them married, but Machín accidentally drinks the rest of the potion, and the episode ends with Machín again refusing to bathe.
** {{Defied}} in another episode where the ghosts run the Phone tab and spend the episode getting enough money to pay it, at the end Machín and Wendy leave satisfied and when the ghosts try to abuse the house phone again they find it has been locked tight by Machín and is unusable.
* HistoricalLongevityJoke: One of the most common topics when making fun of Queca is about her age. Apparently Queca is so old that she appears in a history book along with Miguel Grau, or that the cookies made for her Quinceañera are so hard and old that they were used to build Macchu Picchu.

* InsultBackfire: All of Wendy's insults towards Tony, whenever he angers her. In her defense, the poor girl tries... Key word is "try". Played with, in that her insults are so inoffensive and downright ''strange'' that they just make Tony either laugh or look on weirded out.

* JustOneExtraTicket: Machín receives a an all-paid trip, meant for the previous owner of the house, to Iquitos for 2 persons. But instead of taking Wendy with him, Tony turns it into a 3 person ticket, so Tony, Machín and Gonzalete go on the trip, while telling Wendy and Queca they are going on a spiritual retreat.

* {{Ladyella}}: For the ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' parody, the main character is called "Wendycienta", the spanish equivalent of the trope.

* NewJobEpisode: A few episodes revolved around Machín getting a new job, with him becoming a Mailman, Fire fighter, minibus driver (At the same time Wendy became a Policewoman), among others.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: A huge aspect of many jokes, and an important aspect to consider in claun theatre. When the actors wear the noses they're always the characters, even when not filming or not following the script. If they take the nose off then it means the real actor starts speaking.

* OutOfFocus: Gonzalete has generally less screentime than other characters, which is pointed out on occasion.

** Machín of all people on the episode where Queca and Gonzalete want to marry out of convenience, he is the only one who sees a problem with it while Queca, Gonzalete and Wendy are focused on their own interests and Tony doesn't care.

* ParentalSavingsSplurge: [[ToxicFriendInfluence Queca]] goads Wendy into using Monchi's College savings on themselves, saying she's going to grow an ungrateful adult and it's not worth it, and Wendy goes along with it. Later Machín loses his salary (all 5 Soles of it) and tells Wendy they need to dip onto the savings to get by that month, leading Wendy to convince the others to get odd jobs to avoid having to tell Machín she splurged it all already.

* RidiculouslyAliveUndead: The ghosts are basically living people except they have powers, are immortal and have to haunt a house. But that last doesn't come up very often, so they act as if they are basically alive but with powers.
* RotatingProtagonist: Each character gets a few episodes of focus, while other episodes focus on the human duo, the ghost trio or the family as a whole.

** Wendy talking with her rubber chicken, getting angry at it for some reason and beating it up.

** Monchi asking Gonzalete a simple question but then continuing to ask for [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes deeper/more philosophical clarifications]] until Gonzalete gets flustered and blows up in anger or tries to escape.

** An early episode of the second season had Queca being repeatedly summoned just as she was about to marry someone.

** Machín has both {{Wrath}} and {{Sloth}}, since he gets mad for Wendy not fixing his car, while he just wants to be lazy around the house.

** ZigZagged with Cousin Hertes who is very nice and dorky but others fear him for the bad luck he brings, {{Averted}} with Mamá Antonieta who is very imposing and feared on her own right.
* SitcomArchNemesis: Usually, if two characters are gonna be at each other's throats, it'll be often Machín with somebody else. Either Tony when he's playing the villain for the episode, or Queca most of the other times. Queca and Machín have a notable size difference so the comedic effect doubles when they fight.

** First season is "Wanda"; in which Wendy, frustrated by the ghosts' words, writes a historical romance to show them that she ''has'' a talent for writing stories. The family end up playing the characters in the novel in ironic casting, since Wendy is inspired by them to create her characters, and is frustrated by how unhelpful they were that day. So Wendy is now the beautiful Lady Wanda, stuck in a love triangle between her lowly servant Machini and her foolish suitor Sir Antonio. The vain Queca turns into her maid, horny Gonzalete is now a fop; and Monchi turns from a cute baby to the wealthy Madame, Wanda's strict mother.

* StrikeEpisode: Wendy gets tired of cleaning after the others and being taken for granted so decides to stop doing housework other than cooking and form a strike in the middle of the living room.

* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Wendy often converses with her rubber chicken, and an episode was centered on how she can talk to with any animal and the characters schemes to use this for their benefit.

* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: When Queca and Wendy left to find a new religion the rest of the cast tried to get some replacements but ended with a parade of bad imitators, until they finally found a pair that could very well fill their roles...except they were too expensive to hire.
* TreasureHuntEpisode: Wendy stages a fake treasure hunt to get the family to travel to Arequipa, which Machín is all too happy lead, acting like Indiana Jones the entire time. Queca then finds out the truth and uses the opportunity to add more clues to lead them to good tourist spots, but things get complicated when it's time to give an actual conclusion to the hunt and Wendy spends the last of her funds buying a 'treasure' for Machín to find.

* {{Tsundere}}: It turns out that her hostile interactions with Machín were in reality a cover for Queca having the hots for him, and she has let it slip in in some episodes.

* UnderdogsNeverLose: PlayedWith when Wendy entered the ''Miss Peru'' contest, to say [[EpicFail she did terribly]] in the first half would be an Understatement, but manages to win anyway because Queca and Gonzalete do a magic spell to prevent her from being humilliated.

* VacationEpisode: The series has a total of four where they travel to different Peruvian destinations:

* VillainousCrush: Depending on the episode, Tony is insanely into Wendy and finds every opportunity possible to sleep with her. It never comes to fruition because either Wendy is uninterested, or Machín finds a way to spoil his plans.

* WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode: Attempted by Queca and Wendy after the guys leave on 'Retirement trip', but [[IncrediblyLameFun Wendy is only able to come up with lame activities]], prompting Queca to abandon her to spy on the guys, leading her to discover they were actually on a secret vacation trip.

** Machín and Gonzalete decide to to vindicate themselves after having a near death experience/realizing what a bad priest he has been. They start performing noble and altruistic tasks, but soon enough begin to compete with each other over who is the most good of the two, driving the rest of the family nuts until they get told to drop it off.
** PlayedForDrama when Tony gets a new girlfriend and Wendy gets jealous that he isn't lusting after her anymore, manipulating him into dumping the new girlfriend so she'd have him for herself.

* YouAreFat: Aside of constantly making fun of Queca being fat, this is also the plot of some episodes.
** Machín enters [[HollywoodMidLifeCrisis a mid-life crisis]] when Monchi calls him "fat and old", so he tries to do diet and act more like a youngster. This only disturbs the others.
** Wendy and Queca get tired of being called fat constantly, while Tony is stood up by Cindy Crawford, so he decides to get revenge by changing the world's beauty standards so Cindy and other models loose their jobs. [[spoiler:At the end of the episode, Wendy and Queca admit that they wrote the script to feel batter about themselves.]]

* WorldOfSnark: The cast is sarcastic to a fault, especially Tony and Queca. The big exceptions are Wendy and Gonzalete, since their jokes derive more from their ditzy or wacky tendencies.