YMMV / La rosa de Guadalupe

• Anvilicious: And how! There can be no doubt whatsoever of what the moral of the episode is. IF there is any doubt, don't worry, as the protagonist or a side character will face the camera and directly state the moral.
• Archive Panic: As of this writing, the series has aired over a thousand episodes. Being cheap and quick to produce, couple with very high viewership numbers, is the reason why the show ran as long as it did.
• Ass Pull: One of the reasons the show gets so much hate is because the resolutions to the conflict of each episode comes out of nowhere, and is always unrealistic and goes against the moral of the episode.
  • But if there is an episode that takes the crown on Ass Pulls, that would be the episode "Las rosas". See Bizarro Episode.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In the episode "Mis ojos de luz", the person in charge of asking for the miracle is nothing more and nothing less....than a dog. See it to believe it
• Bile Fascination: Many who hate this show only watch it over how crazy, morbid, stupid and narmy the plots of some episodes can get.
• Bizarro Episode: The episode "Las rosas" would have been a completely normal episode if it wasn't for it's climax, in which instead of having the typical prayer towards the Virgin and the white rose appearing, the Virgin of Guadalupe, in flesh and bone, appears and personally helps the protagonists to escape the bad guys!. The episode even ends with Mary herself giving the moral at the end of the episode!.
• Cliché Storm: Most of the stories, particularly the ones focused on dogs. A little girl finds a dog but her mom won't let her keep it? The dog saves the family and can be kept. Everyone but one person loves a dog, and that one person loses it on purpose? The dog will find a way home.
• Critic-Proof: Despite having a very negative reception by viewers and critics alike, that doesn't prevent it from having millions of viewers per episode, which lead it to become the Long-Runner it is nowadays.
• Designated Hero: Edwin and Romina in "Mi nombre es venganza" ("My name is revenge"). They are portrayed as Hate Sink characters from the very first scene, Edwin being a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk who cheated on his wife Maria de la Luz because "she no longer gave him love" due to her fertility treatments and divorces her after a car accident that leaves her horribly disfigured, and Romina being a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who doesn't seem shocked to find out that her husband was cheating with her when he was already married and assumes that her relationship with Maria was completely broken when she met Edwin.
  • With all the qualities mentioned, at first glance one might think that they are the Big Bads of the episode considering that many previous antagonists have acted in the same way as them. Big surprise for the viewer when the episode reveals that they are the "good guys" when Romina is the one who prays to the Lady of Guadalupe and founds the white rose. While Maria is no saint (after all, she commits pedophilia with Edwin and Romina's son as part of her revenge later in the episode), she's Unintentionally Sympathetic as the episode antagonizes her before her Face–Heel Turn, as part of the reason she suffered the accident was because of the frustration of feeling betrayed by Edwin, and not only that, she has a miscarriage and was about to tell Edwin the night she discovered him cheating.
  • Even after her revenge, in which she cheats with Edwin in front of Romina, it is impossible to hate Maria considering the assholes that Edwin and Romina were through the episode. Edwin even tries to justify his infidelity saying that Maria never loved himm despite the episode showing the opposite before Maria's Face–Heel Turn, giving the impression that the writers tried to justify infidelity to have An Aesop of "revenge is bad", even though infidelity is something the show is very against.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Pepe from "Monsterball GO", he's easily the best character of the show, he's a good friend and wants to be someone in life, also he truly cares for friends and family. It helps that Liam and his friends like him and in return they do anything as posible to help him. In the end of the episode Pepe, Liam and his gang are all True Companions.
• Fountain of Memes: Every episode can have at least one thing that can become memetic. And then there's the "air of the rosa".
• Glurge: While meaning to inspire watchers, the show constantly implies that praying is the only solution to all problems.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In the episode "Hasta sacarle brillo", we meet Erika, a Neat Freak woman who is an extreme germophobe, to the point of applying hand sanitizer to herself and her family very frequently, she wears a mask outside her house and loves to sanitize everything from tables to sheets. When the episode first aired in 2018, her behavior seemed over the top, but after the COVID-19 Pandemic in The New '20s, her behavior no longer seems crazy anymore (for most part) given its uncanny similarities with the preventive measures against COVID-19
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Namiko Moon and Monsterball Go are some notorious examples for being notorious Shallow Parodies.
  • The entire climax of "Nomofobia, Adicción al Celular" became this, as it pretty much is the entire show's acting in a nutshell; it has become pretty popular to spoof it with other characters filling in the roles.
• Misaimed Fandom: Many people find Franco from the episode "Un Camino de paz" as Unintentionally Sympathetic and that his attempt to stop the bullying at his school by scaring the bullies off was good, even though the episode portrayed it as wrong. Franco is a Well-Intentioned Extremist who got revenge on bullies by scaring them, killing one by accident, and yet some say that bully deserved to die, though it's plausible that this happens due to the bully never showing any redeeming qualities.
• Narm: The series is infamous for this, mostly due to the poor acting.
  • If you want an example, look no further than the above metioned climax of "Nomofobia" ^summary In which a girl becomes addicted to her cellphone, much to the desperation of her mother. It is supposed to be an intese scene, but combined with the mother's over-the-top anger, the daughter yelling her lines while crying and the grandmother's reaction to her granddaughter going out a two-story window just to get her cellphone, which her mother threw in a fit of rage, it is pretty much not hard to guess why it became a meme.
• Never Live It Down: The episode "Cosplay: Salvemos el Mundo" is one of the most memorable episodes of the entire series for the wrong reasons, and is due to its poor take on otakus and cosplayers, which has led it to be subject of mockery among the hispanic Anime and Cosplay communities for more than a decade.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The titular monster from the episode "El reto del Momo" and "El Regreso de Momo". While the monster is more of an Captain Ersatz of the original Momo Challenge image, it's very unsettling, and from some angles, it looks more horrifying than the actual Momo sculpture.
  • The scene of Melisa smothering her baby sister Melanie with a pillow in "La única princesa". For an LRDG episode, this scene is pretty scary, considering the viewer is treated to a first-person shot from Melanie's POV of the scene until cutting to black.
    • The whole episode (especially the second half after the aforementioned scene) is even scarier for expectant parents, assuming they already had children before their current pregnancy.
  • The episode "La novia del narco": Lorena claims to be the girlfriend of a notorious, dangerous narco only to get free food and other privileges - her luck runs out when a taco vendor actually knows the narco, tells him, and she disappears, never to be seen again.
  • Sergio in “La voluntad de Yesenia” is a disturbingly accurate portrayal of the kind of people who would fatten a loved one up just to destroy their self confidence and make them more dependent on them. The episode shows his jealousy, gaslighting, manipulation, and sweet-talking even as Yesenia grows more distressed with the weight she’s gaining and openly says she wants to lose it.
    • Several times he adjusts his tactics so that he can get away with them, such as when he insists Yesenia deserves a reward for doing a brief workout for the first time in months, manipulating her newfound love of food to ruin her efforts; and insisting that his job was gifting him free fatty foods after Yesenia pushed back on him constantly bringing it to her.
    • It’s also discovered that he made his ex-wife fat before they separated, meaning Sergio has a track record of this sort of emotional breaking down. All of this stemmed from witnessing Yesenia having a normal conversation with a male acquaintance, causing Sergio to become jealous and immediately buy her pizza and cake. When Yesenia finally tries to leave him, Sergio pulls a gun on her and then points it at himself, showing just how unbalanced and dangerous he can truly be when he steps his game up from psychological manipulation.
• Realism-Induced Horror: Cheesy acting, improbable economic status, La Virgen de Guadalupe interfering on the plot and other factors aside, many of the conflicts on the show can happen in real life at any moment: Robbery, murder, sexual abuse, parental abandonment, extortion, kidnapping, arson, pedophilia, workplace harassment, domestic abuse, substance abuse, and many others, are portrayed in the show, sometimes in a very detailed way. A common joke about La rosa de Guadalupe is how it inadvertently gives ideas about murder, kidnapping, robbery, drug use, etc, which unfortunately has come to happen in real life in some cases such as the case of three teenagers who kidnapped a friend as a joke in 2013, inspired by an episode of this series.
• Signature Scene:
  • The ending of each episode, when the holy air blows into the main character's face.
  • The infamous "celular" scene, in which a mother attempts to take a cell phone away from a phone addicted girl, is so well known that if a non-Mexican has a hint of knowledge about La Rosa de Guadalupe, chances are they've seen this scene or know of it.
• So Bad, It's Good: Some people have called the show the "best comedy/parody ever".
• Special Effect Failure:
  • "El Estallido Del Corazón" (The Burst of the Heart) features an egregious example. A boy had lost his hand because he held a firework that had a delayed explosion. He spends the rest of the episode wearing long sleeved shirts and during one scene, you can see the bulge of his actual hand that is holding on to the artificial one.
  • There are a few episodes where, in the scene of the white rose appearing during a prayer, you can clearly notice that the rose is being thrown right in front of the camera.
• Spiritual Successor:
  • While this show came first, the comparisons to Black Mirror exploded when the latter became available to Mexican audiences, to the point some people call it "El Black Mirror Mexicano".
  • In it's native Mexico the show is often considered the sucessor of Mujer, Casos de la vida real (Woman, real life cases). As they are both Televisa produced show about episodic stories of everyday people with everyday problems, with the only difference being that in said show the plots tend to be Darker and Edgier in comparison.
• The Scrappy:
  • One boy in a Big Brother Bully episode is this in spades. Primarily because he has no reason for torturing his sister other than being a dick, and then influencing his best friend into doing the same (although the best friend feels guilty for torturing his sister). It doesn't help that the brother pulls off a Karma Houdini in the end.
  • Melissa and Miroslava's mother, from "Llamar la atención", is hated by many due to her neglectful nature towards Melissa and being on Miroslava's side rather than Melissa's. She even prioritizes Miroslava's tennis camp rather than Melissa's fragile emotional state after she attempted suicide, as she refused to sacrifice the money she saved for said camp to pay Melissa's therapy. She even admited she never really cared for Melissa, not even once. She also got scot-free from her abuse towards Melissa.
  • Robertito's teacher, she labels him as a troublemaker the moment he speaks out against being bullied, even blaming him for everything and refusing to even listen to him, even going as far as trying to get him expelled. Thankfully, she realizes her mistake when Robertito attempts (and fails) to commit suicide for real, but that doesn't change the fact she could had prevented this if she had ever listened to him once.
  • Robertito's parents also qualify, the two are a disfunctional matrimony who always blame Robertito for each one of their troubles and tell him in his face that they would be happy without him, only because their marriage no longer works. Thankfully the two realize what they did was wrong and become better parents and divorce, but the damage is done. Robertito commited suicide (but survived) because they blamed him for not putting the things in their place.
  • Carola in "Imagina mi cara" due to being an incredibly vile bully to Antonio. While most bully characters in the show are seemed to be due to some Freudian Excuse (which is shown to be the case for her since Carola's mother abuses her husband), Carola's behavior teethers into borderline The Sociopath levels, notably when she pushes Antonio off the stairs so he can get hurt for real after she heard he avoided school by throwing himself off the stairs at his home. All while having a twisted evil grin on her face. It makes her getting expelled all the more satisifying.
  • Similar to Carola, Antonio's father, due to his not only borderline arrogant attitude that Antonio should fight Carola because of her bullying and refusal to actually handle the situation more clearly but shouting homophobic slurs at him because he "let a girl" bully him.
  • Horacio's mother in "Dos destinos" due to her abusive nature to her son and belittling him for not standing up for himself when he gets picked on by his bully Vicente, and even ragefully accuses him of being gay just because of his effeminate-like personality (but he's actually straight), so much that her homophobia causes her to threaten to beat him for having "another little girl" in the house. After Horacio runs away from home and has a sleepover with the girl he has a crush on, and returns the morning after, she admits that she went too far in handling the matter and promises Horacio to be more supportive of him.
  • One of Horacio's sisters is also this for witnessing her brother being bullied mercilessly and not bothering to do anything about it, and being a gossip about it to their mother. She realizes her mistake once Horacio gets in the hospital after Vicente almost kills him.
  • Horacio's homophobic grandmother for brainwashing his mother into acting harsh, cruel and physically violent to her son, as she also had incorrect suspicions that her grandson is gay. While she's naturally a lady coming from an older generation, she is not let off the hook that easily for causing the entire mess in the first place. The fact that she ultimately ends up as a Karma Houdini only intensified the hate.
  • Hell, nearly every character is this because they're either completely unpleasant assholes, complete morons who don't understand the situation they're in or people with the charisma and personality of a piece of cardboard.
• Strawman Has a Point: In "Cosplay, salvemos al mundo" we're meant to think the headmistress of the school Perla and Toño are going is wrong to criticize them for being anime fans. However, despite her own faults in addition to Perla's behaviors through out the episode, she does have a point that Perla is living in a fantasy world.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • The whole "Mi Nombre es Venganza" (My Name is Revenge) episode. A husband cheats on his wife Maria Luz, causing her to drive in a broken frenzy, get into a car accident and miscarriage her baby. To make things worse, she gets horribly disfigured by the accident and the husband visits her in the hospital to announce he's leaving her for his lover Romina. Years later Maria Luz (who fixed her face thanks to cosmetic surgeries) decides to seduce her ex husband and the son he had with Romina to ruin his life. We're supposed to root for Romina, but the reason the whole thing happened was because the husband decided to cheat of Maria Luz with her. To many the ending felt bleak, with Romina happily reconciling with her husband while Maria Luz is arrested for embezzling money.
  • Violeta from "La Muñeca" (The Doll). A rich boy named Alexei fells in love with her at first sight and visits her mother to propose to her, but what he doesn't know is that Violeta has a boyfriend already. Violeta's greedy mother forces her to break up with the boyfriend and to marry Alexei instead. Afterwards she's bullied by his parents and sister due to being from a poor family, to the point one day she disappears. While looking for her, Alexei finds out Violeta escaped with the help of his grandfather (the only one who treated her like a person) and she married her boyfriend. We're supposed to pity Violeta because she was forced into a marriage against her will, but the whole thing could have been avoided if she told Alexei she wasn't interested from the beginning.
  • Leonel from “El Estallido del Corazón”, after losing his hand. We're supposed to pity him because he lost his hand and has to live with the hardships and teasing. But he lost his hand because he held a lit firework, which is something even small children wouldn't do.
  • In "Cosplay, Salvemos al Mundo", we're meant to root for Perla because she's constantly bullied by her classmates due to always going to school wearing her "Namiko Moon" cosplay and enjoying her hobbies of watching anime and reading manga, yet Perla herself just doesn't stop acting like she's the real Namiko Moon, yelling nonsensical stuff about protecting the earth from demons and villains at random times, wearing her cosplay all the goddamn time despite it being supposed to be a harmless hobby and overall acting like she were an anime character wholeheartedly. All of these can easily make her come across as being a wee-bit creepy Loony Fan.
  • Camila from "Amigas por siempre" (Friends Forever) gets heavily hit with this. In spite of suffering her Compulsive Liar of a boyfriend, Abelardo's abuse, she borders on this trope due to her self-righteous attitude and tendency to blame others for things that either are their fault or have little control of, and as well her blindness to see said boyfriend's true nature and abuse as well have caused many to quit feeling sorry for her.
  • Antonio's father in "Imagina mi cara". While there is some sympathy with his frustration that his son is being bullied in school and hates that his bully could get away with it due to her gender and how it can be used to her advantage, his constant insistence that Antonio should fight Carola comes off as borderline caustic. Him throwing homophobic slurs at Antonio for being bullied by a girl doesn't help matters either, coming off as an Abusive Parents at that.
  • Said in "Los Ingredientes del perdon". Despite losing his mother due to one of his sexist, abusive father, Rodrigo's mistakes, which got him sent to jail, it is hard for many people to feel sorry for him due to his self-righteous attitude and tendency to blame others for things that either aren't their fault or have little control of. When said death happened, he swore not to have anything to do with him. After Rodrigo, who is remorseful of his actions, was released from jail, Said, not only treats him like a pariah, but also screams at him when he had the chance. He refuses to listen to him and his desire to fix things between them. When his sister and pregnant wife try to convince him, he doesn't listen to them neither. Even going as far as to constantly kick him out of the restaurant he works in and his house, even at the last time when he tried to deliver presents for his unborn child, where it leads to his death after he fell from the stairs. This shows he only thinks about himself and never wants or even tries to put himself on other peoples' shoes.
• The Woobie:
  • Iris from "Que se escuche fuerte! No es no", was raped, and beaten by her ex and his friend and was unfairly sent on a trial. The poor girl can't even catch a break.
  • Robertito from "Volar un Papalote" (Fly a Kite). The poor kid has a crappy life, is bullied and his teacher makes him look like a troublemaker. His parents are always bickering and blaming him for every single one of his problems. Because nobody ever listens to or cares about him, he falls into depression which eventually drives him to attempt suicide. Fortunately, he survived, but with grave injuries.