YMMV / Pataclaun

• Ass Pull: Wendy's plan to deliver messages throughout the Internet makes no sense since she has no way to make sure that the people on Machín's list has either an e-mail or a computer. The episode doesn't explain how the messages arrive to those people.
• Cargo Ship: Queca got a bit too affectionate with Wendy's police baton when she became a Policewoman, at the end of the episode Wendy kept it aside for her even when she was quitting the job.
• Catharsis Factor:
  • Whenever Machín exacts Extreme Mêlée Revenge on Tony due to how deserved these beatdowns are.
  • When Queca and/or Wendy deservingly give Tony a Groin Attack whenever he tries to harass Wendy.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Much of the humor comes from just how over the top the situation or interactions between characters are.
  • Wendy and Queca teaming up to bully and make fun of Tony's Embarrassing Middle Name? Mean. Doing so until he literally shrinks and becomes a doll of himself that swears revenge in a high pitched voice? Hilarious!
• Fanon: Lots of people like to imagine how the ghosts died since the show never gave proper answers for it yet enough clues are peppered here and there in the series to build up a stable theory. Even Carlos Carlín (Tony's actor) has theorized in interviews about how his own character died.
• First Installment Wins: After Pataclaun ended, all the following Claun shows couldn’t achieve the same popularity level. “Carita de Atún” wasn’t as strong despite having the same cast, plus Katia Condos. And other shows from the same team failed to grab the attention of the viewers. The Channel Hop for El Santo Convento didn’t help either.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Tony is always bragging about the millions of fans he supposedly claims to have all over the country, in an attempt to make himself seem cooler. Years later, unironic fans of him would pop up on social media making a lot of content centered around him, from fanart to video edits. Seems Tony was right all along!
  • Many jokes are made often of Gonzalete's nose, often linking him to birds and witches due to how long it is (Gonzalo Torres, his actor, in real life has a long nose). In the Wendicienta episode, at the prospect of the cast doing Snow White, he ventured he would play the witch. Years later, in the other claun spinoff, "Carita de Atún"; for their Snow White parody, Gonzalo Torres did end up playing the old witch!
  • It's pretty funny at first when we see in the "Wanda" episode that Wendy took inspiration from the family to create her characters, only making them their reverse. It becomes ironic when years later we'd see the same pattern with the cast of "Carita de Atún", which had the actors play characters almost the complete opposite of their roles in Pataclaun.
  • One episode has Machín interested in being a movie director. Years later, Carlos Alcántara (Machín's actor) would pursue filmmaking in his artistic career.
• Iron Woobie: Cousin Hertes, who has lots of terrible things happen to him due to his bad luck, but always has a sunny disposition.
• Informed Wrongness: After Gonzalete's wish turns Peru into an utopia the other characters try to get it back to normal thinking it's a worse state. However the reasons they have to turn it back are minor or selfish (Tony and Queca thought it was weird and a signal of the end of times, Gonzalete is angry that people aren't more grateful and attending church, Wendy wants to be known as a savings queen again, and Machín wants the newspapers to show nude girls on the front again.). Somewhat achknowledged at the end when Wendy tries to explain to the audience how it's better to go back to normal, only to get punched in the face directly from the camera for it.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • It's hard not to feel bad for Tony in the episode "Lorenita Rivasplata" when he finally gets a girlfriend and stops trying to get Wendy's love, just for Wendy to grow jealous and manipulate him into dumping his new girlfriend, only to take back her offer after he does so because Wendy fixed her problem with Machín in the meantime, leaving Tony with no one and Wendy a Karma Houdini.
  • Queca in "El Centro de Lima" as her actions isolate her from the family and activities in the city, which she actually wants to take part in but is too prideful to admit.
  • Gonzalete in "Gonzalete adicto al juego" gets too carried away in his gaming competitiveness, driving the family away with his pushiness, and eventually moving on to gambling in a casino, where he loses the family's house with his bets.
• Memetic Hair: The characters' more outlandish hairdos, like Machín's Wild Hair, Queca's enormous Bun, and Wendy's 4 smaller hair buns, have become very associated with them.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Queca's "SACA LAS CHELAS, PERU!!" phrase is often referenced, especially anytime a happy event happens in Peru.
  • Gonzalete's "AEA" reaction became a small meme amongst Whatsapp users.
    • On a smaller scale, Queca's "Aggh" reaction and Wendy asking her rubber chicken "Que opinas de esto pollo?" (What do you think, chicken?)
  • "Háganle fandom a Pataclaun": In social media, lots of accounts fond of the show have said this phrase in an ironic manner to attempt to create a traditional fandom for the series, with fanart and the likes.
• Moe: Monchi is this, being small, often clad in pink, and giving astute observations to the audience.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • Machín recovering his courage just in time to return to being a firefighter to save Wendy from a house fire.
  • Wendy with the help of a psychologist starts psychoanalizing each member of the family, and gets them to invert their main traits (Machín becomes soft and in touch with his feminine side, Gonzalete becomes a punk rebel, Tony lets go of his material posessions, Queca accepts her age and acts like a Granny Classic and Monchi starts behaving like an actual baby), only to reveal at the end it was all prank to get back at them for mistreating her at the start of the episode, to their relief.
  • Machín realizes what a bad parent he has been and goes through the entire airport security to catch Monchi at the plane before she leaves so he can tell her he loves her.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • The priest who was set to marry Queca and Gonzalete, gets bribed by Machín into breaking them up, and delivers a hilarious speech detailing how they'll have to live together forever if they decide to go through the wedding. It worked all too well, sending them running away in a panic.
• Squick: Machín is often a source of this.
  • When he promises not to bathe he goes weeks forgoing any personal hygiene to the point he gets stench lines and is visibly followed by (animated) fleas.
  • In the Mailman episode he does a trick in front of a kid where he puts a ball in his mouth then retrieves it from his backside and gifts it to the kid. Lampshaded at the end of the episode when he is having a flashback to his time as a mailman and mumbles how gross that part was.
• Tearjerker:
  • The final episode, when the clauns decide to confront reality and leave their imaginary world behind. There's a sense of melancholy as each claun/actor comes over and gives their final words for the series. Even more when the final images of the show is the group, unnosed, hugging, and holding back tears.
  • The episode where Monchi decides to move to Italy, and the family's responses to it, especially Machín and Wendy's.
  • Machín's reaction when he finds out the treasure hunt in Arequipa was fake and he was just being led on by Wendy to have some vacations.
• Too Good to Last: The series only had 2 seasons despite being well-loved.
• Ugly Cute: Wendy's rubber chicken.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Since the series was produced in 1998, some of the episodes are outdated.
  • The episode "Machín the Messenger", where the household has access to the Internet for the first time.
    • The ghosts claim that the messengers are outdated since the letters are sent by e-mail. Nowadays messengers are still important since online shopping has increased.
    • “Machín the Messenger” shows a very shallow understanding of how the internet works. See Ass Pull above.
    • Gonzalete is seen browsing a website dedicated to Pamela Anderson in her prime. The design of the web clearly looks outdated.
  • Many of the Take That! jokes nowadays can only be understood by people from the 90s, as many of them are references to the Fujimori government and the Intelligence assessor Vladimiro Montesinos or Peruvian celebrities from that time.
  • In Season 2, the family thinks that the world is ending because a lot of weird stuff starts happening (like Peru fixing its economy). This is around the time The Nostradamus prophecies of The End of the World were very popular right before the Turn of the Millennium.
  • In one episode of the first season the characters comment on the then-new blue National Identity document that was started to be distributed to replace the old military identity document.
• Unpopular Popular Character: Pipo the dog, who was sent by the administration In-Universe to boost ratings and got mistreated by the other characters in return, but became popular with the audience for being the Comically Serious Straight Man to the other characters while his screentime lasted.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Despite being a colorful show and setting, starring funny-looking clowns, it was a show full of mature themes and language, which is why the first season had warned before the episodes themselves to warn that it wasn't really meant for kids. Despite this though, it became very popular with people of all ages.
• The Woobie:
  • Monchi in the episode where she gets prepared to enter preschool, feels overwhelmed due to all the conditions she has to fulfill to be considered eligible. She eventually runs away from home in fear of ending up a failure.
  • When Monchi decides to leave the household to travel around the world^note In reality her actress was moving to Italy for a year, Both Wendy and Machín disapprove of her choice, and the only people who actively support her are the ghosts (Queca debates with Wendy, Gonzalete helps Monchi to get the funding for her trip, and Tony eventually helps to convince Machín), but while Wendy accepts the situation a bit earlier, Machín actually disowns Monchi and refuses to talk to her after she has made up her mind. If it wasn't thanks to Tony, Machín would have damaged his relationship with his daughter forever because of his own pride and stubbornness.
  • Wendy in the episode where the family uses her talking to animals skills to make money, but she eventually gets overwhelmed by the bad things that happen to the animals, and the efforts of the family for making her feel better just backfire each time until she suffers a Heroic BSoD after watching a documentary on animal suffering.
  • Machín in episodes like “Machín the Messenger” or “Machín Firefighter” where he loses or is about to lose jobs he actually likes to perform.