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for a video with all the advertisements in a row.
Provides examples of:
- Abusive Offspring: The llama parents towards Grampa Llama. The other llamas refuse to give him CPR (instead chanting that they want his inheritance), he gets electrocuted with the lights of a Christmas tree he ate (and before that, when Grampa starts blinking, they want to sell him as a warning light for antennas) and he's generally mistreated because he's starting to get senile.
- Abusive Parents: The father of the llamas regularly hits the dumber of his children. In a flashback, it's revealed that the young llama was actually a genius, author of the paper Black Holes and Llamas, who discussed fine points of cosmology with experts in the field. But the father was angry that the young llama spent so much money in international calls, so he hit the kid in the head, leaving him with his current sub-par intelligence. In fact, the father finds hitting the kid so funny, that he's glad they didn't have a way to make cheap international calls back then!
- Cannot Tell a Joke: One of the llamas systematically fail to make good jokes, and ruin the jokes done by the others, who must tell him "Silence, You Fool!"
- The "Fun" in "Funeral": The elder llama had a heart attack. All the other llamas start to celebrate: "Inheritance for all, inheritance for all!". Then the elder llama wakes up and joins the celebration, he also wants his part of the inheritance!
- Funny Animal: The llamas are the embodiment of the trope; more so given that almost each appearance is a Prank Call.
- Gilligan Cut: The llamas call to Hollywood, to protest about Babe: Pig in the City. Hollywood proposed instead to hire them for a new film, paying a million to each llama. The llama leader asks "What if it's just me? Do I get all those millions for myself?". He then hungs up and says to his family that he has rejected the proposal. Next, he's at the Academy Awards, giving thanks for the prize and for the support of his family.
- Hunter of His Own Kind: One of the llamas was protesting that they have sheared his wool to make ponchos, and now he's suffering the cold. Then, another of the llamas comes from outside: look at the new poncho I have bought!
- Hurricane of Puns: Used all the time in each Prank Call but also in the family dialog. Much mileage is obtained from the fact that the world llama in Spanish, beside being one of the forms of the present tense of the verb llamar ("to call"), also means flame; fire-related puns are legion.
- Popcultural Osmosis Failure: The llamas call to the zoo and ask for the liberation of the llamas. Then, they started chanting "Free Willy!". One of the llamas reminded them that Willy is already free. The chantings then changed to "jail Willy"
- A possible one for the audience: When Papa Llama goes to Hollywood to receive his Oscar, and after thanking his family, he takes the mic in the podium and says "Big burger, small fries"; only people of a certain age will remember that as the way the people taking the order announced the people in the back what meals the clients asked, in the now deceased argentinian fast-food chain Pumper Nic, using precisely that kind of mic.
- A possible one for the audience: When Papa Llama goes to Hollywood to receive his Oscar, and after thanking his family, he takes the mic in the podium and says "Big burger, small fries"; only people of a certain age will remember that as the way the people taking the order announced the people in the back what meals the clients asked, in the now deceased argentinian fast-food chain Pumper Nic
- Pounds Are Animal Prisons: The llamas do not like that there are other llamas in the Buenos Aires zoo. Free them!
- Prank Call: The main idea of the advertisings, there was a prank call Once per Episode.
- Replacement Scrappy: Invoked and parodied. A man from Telecom mentions that "La llama que llama" is a great success, so they aimed for diversity and created a new advertising, set in the patagonia. Cue to the "Otra llama" advertising, a polite llama living in a hut in the patagonia, and who makes a call to donate some money to protect the whales. Then, the other llamas take down the door and drive this polite llama away: this is their show!
- Slapstick: The constant violence of the father of the llamas against his dumb son.
