Adaptation Displacement: Outside of Italy, very few people know that Calimero was originally an advertisment character created in The '60s.
Ensemble Dark Horse: Though never managing to overshadow the ubiquitous title character, Valeriano was wildly popular during the second anime run, to the extent that he is in fact better remembered than more important characters like Priscilla.
Memetic Mutation: In France, Calimero and his catchphrase ("c'est vraiment trop injuste!") have long been the go-to way to refer to a whiner.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The general opinion about the CGI series, which abandons most of the characters and targets a much lower age demography, and of course, it is made in CGI.
