Running Gag / Mortadelo y Filemón

• The basic plot is one. Mortadelo goofs, Filemón gets hurt and punishes Mortadelo. Lather, rinse, repeat. It's usually played with, though.
• When Filemón is the one who goofs and is later punished by Mortadelo, he will complain that the natural order is having Mortadelo on front.
• Also, very often both Mortadelo and Filemón get punished by the Súper, Ofelia or any other character.
• Let's not forget about Bacterio. He's probably the character, apart from Mortadelo, who has been punished the most often throughout the series. Very often by Mortadelo himself.
• Many times, Ofelia will go tell Mortadelo that the Súper is looking for him. He will say something that Ofelia takes for a romantic thing, but turns out to be some kind of insult (mostly aimed at her girth), to which she responds quite forcefully. Filemón will later continue the joke, and finally the Súper will say something completely innocent that Ofelia takes for the continuation. The one that suffers most is the Súper.
  • In one instance, Mortadelo, Filemón *and* Bacterio, one after each other, manage to break Ofelia's pearl necklace, making her having to search and pick her pearls three times. After they have suffered Ofelia's anger, they go complain to the Súper, who kindly tries to defend his secretary by saying: "Come on, come on! Ofelia is a pearl in the TIA's necklace...". Ofelia overhears him and explodes with anger.
• Whenever Prince Charles (the most recurrent antagonist) appears, someone (normally Mortadelo) will make continuous jokes about Charles' ear size. Sometimes, even supposed English newspapers get in the joke.
• A main character receives Amusing Injuries of a specific nature or to a certain body part continuously throughout the entirety of the story (such as Agony of the Feet). Characters that have nothing to do with this then mention something to the character tangentially related to the injury, which drives them nuts^note A co-worker mentioning going for a walk in the park, playing a match on the agency's soccer team, etc..

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