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Boris (2007)

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Boris (2007)	comment	Boris is an Italian comedic TV series produced by FOX. It's a Dilbert-esque satire of the Italian TV series production process revolving around an awful melodrama named ''The Eyes of the Heart 2'' (the sequel of another equally awful series which was cut off after only two episodes, but which the network execs believe was only penalized due to its time slot) and the unlucky, disfunctional troupe of the same â€” a neurotic director, self-serving and self-centered stars, an incompetent and coke-addicted photography director, a dishonest executive producer, slave interns and more. It parodies much that's wrong with the production process of the mainstream networks: politics, blatantly dishonest product placement, cut-and-paste clichÃ© plots, extreme Executive Meddling and worse, but even when it's not actively making fun of something, the quirky cast manages to keep the funny coming.Not entirely unlike 30 Rock, but exquisitely Italian.The show has had three seasons so far, having followed the production of the two seasons of Eyes of the Heart 2 and later of Medical Dimension, a blatant ripoff of American Medical Dramas. There is also a movie, concerning the same crew involved in the production of the In-Universe movie La Casta.Some of the characters involved with the production are:
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Boris (2007) / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
Boris (2007) / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: Likewise, another one of the Platform's request is a "teen" sub-plot. They answer by plagiarising a story RenÃ© previously proposed to the Platform, making Jesus and Judas into childhood friends who are romantic rivals over Mary Magdalene and who idolise Judas's older brother Yohanaan (a Canon Foreigner), an armed rebel.
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Boris (2007) / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
Boris (2007) / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: Sandra Gusberti, the sexy police officer who attracts Giorgio in season 2.
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Boris (2007) / int_149ff4b0	type	HilarityEnsues
Boris (2007) / int_149ff4b0	comment	Hilarity Ensues: Constantly.
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Boris (2007) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Boris (2007) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Allison is initially skeptical of Life of Jesus because she cannot see the "ghost", or the main character's trauma, in order to make the story more engaging. RenÃ© and the screenwriters are initially left scratching their heads because they cannot find Hidden Depths in the character of Jesus. The solution? Invent that Jesus had inherited Generational Trauma from Joseph about the Massacre of the Innocents.
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Boris (2007) / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Boris (2007) / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Medical Dimension has a badly written example, to keep old people "young in spirit". The show has a character oddly named Grandpa Joe (for some unknown reason), an old man who is also a Badass Biker, wears a leather jacket, talks in an obnoxious Totally Radical speech, and has a hot girlfriend 40 years younger than him. His actor even complained to the director because he didn't want to play such a ridiculous character.
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Boris (2007) / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
Boris (2007) / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: In the episode set in an African village, there is a cage that contains a tiger, despite tigers being from Asia. This is because Sergio wanted to spare money and bought the first wild animal he found.
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Boris (2007) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Boris (2007) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: From the season 1 finale: "Don't look at me with the eyes of a surgeon, look at me with the eyes... of the heart".
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Boris (2007) / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
Boris (2007) / int_1b590025	comment	At the end of the first episode of season 4, one of the three screenwriters disappearing into thin air, revealing he was Dead All Along.
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Boris (2007) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Boris (2007) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: In the Season 1 episode where RenÃ© briefly leaves the studio to film a toothpaste commercial, the gorilla mascot character from commercials for the bitter drink Crodino pops out in a brief scene to ask RenÃ© where's the bar.
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Boris (2007) / int_1bf94a24	type	The Movie
Boris (2007) / int_1bf94a24	comment	Although played straight in the series, the trope is ultimately averted overall, as we do get a proper conclusion in Boris - The Film.
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Boris (2007) / int_1fa5ae07	type	The Prima Donna
Boris (2007) / int_1fa5ae07	comment	The Prima Donna: Most of the actors in all of the In-Universe series, but it's mostly prominent in Stanis and Corinna, the two main stars of the Soap Within a Show. Both are incredibly stuck-up and demanding Attention Whores, often complaining when they have to shoot a scene they don't like. Additionally, they are not nearly as famous and talented as they think they are. In one episode, Stanis refers to the extras as "the underclass of the show business" in front of them. Subverted with Cristina, the actress who replaces Corinna in season 2. She's a rich Spoiled Brat who often shows up late on the set, but this is only due to her Upper-Class Twit lifestyle. She's not self-centered when it comes to her acting career and is not even interested in being famous, in fact she hates being part of the show.
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Boris (2007) / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
Boris (2007) / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: Averted, then played straight. RenÃ© refuses to let Fabiana be the star of Medical Dimension as she's secretly his daughter and he doesn't want to be accused of this, but he later has to ask them to take the role as the network's designated replacement proves to be utterly incompetent.
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Boris (2007) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Boris (2007) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: And gunman, used constantly in The Eyes of the Heart 2. The truth is that the scriptwriters prefer looking at the previous episodes to find something they can use instead of actual writing. These don't stop them (to praise themselves) and the director (to avoid further questions) to pass them as this trope.
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Boris (2007) / int_266a9dd6	type	Heel–Faith Turn
Boris (2007) / int_266a9dd6	comment	Heelâ€“Faith Turn: Mariano, between season one and two, have some kind of epiphany that makes him a nicer and softer person. The quote under Heelâ€“Faith Turn takes place after that epiphany. We only see a glimpse of him before it, and it's him burning down the stage.
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Boris (2007) / int_2719ab04	type	Special Guest
Boris (2007) / int_2719ab04	comment	In "Stopper", former football player Sergio Brio appears as himself, as he was supposed to be a Special Guest on Medical Dimension. He spends the episode being annoyed by other characters's reactions to him: RenÃ© pretends to be an enthusiastic fanboy even if he clearly didn't know anything about football, Stanis goes into a narcissistic rant about actors being superior to football players, and Biascica still holds a grudge against Brio for a controversial football game played 30 years ago.
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Boris (2007) / int_275ca6e1	type	Ass Pull
Boris (2007) / int_275ca6e1	comment	Ass Pull: A staple of the plots of the In-Universe shows since The Writers are lazy ones and write the show on a whim.
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Boris (2007) / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Boris (2007) / int_28a5213a	comment	The protagonists of the series, Giorgio and Giulia, are just bland good guys with no distinctive traits other than being doctors, and Giulia's actress can't even find a word to describe her. This doesn't stop Stanis from describing his character Giorgio as a "three-dimensional Anglo-Saxon hero" in an interview.
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Boris (2007) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Boris (2007) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Mariano Giusti, a (In-Universe) recurring guest star who has the villain role of The Count in The Eyes of the Heart, is certifiably insane and destructively violent (a fact the troupe tries to defuse by leaving Alessandro to keep him calm â€” a thing he does under Mariano's threat of death by baseball bat mauling).
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Boris (2007) / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Boris (2007) / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Even the evil Count is seen this way by his actor Mariano Giusti. When Mariano accepted the role, he was told that the Count would have evolved into a complex villain with Hidden Depths... but after playing the character for years, he notices that the Count is still a stereotypical baddie who is evil for the sake of being evil, with no depths at all.
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Boris (2007) / int_2ef89a18	type	Fat Comic Relief
Boris (2007) / int_2ef89a18	comment	Fat Comic Relief: To raise the rating of the series, Dr. Cane demands to hire someone to make the series more funny, and they hire the fat comedian Martellone for the role of the notary.
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Boris (2007) / int_30d05c00	type	Music Video Credits Sequence
Boris (2007) / int_30d05c00	comment	Music Video Credits Sequence: The main characters are shown around the set (or, starting with the second season, swimming around in Boris' bowl), with their name and job next to them, lip-syncing to Elio e le Storie Tese's song. In season 4 they're walking through a desert instead (which may be both the set and Boris's bowl at the same time), with a new version of the song to match.
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Boris (2007) / int_315a122	type	Hospital Hottie
Boris (2007) / int_315a122	comment	Hospital Hottie: Giorgio, Giulia, Sofia, and all the main characters who work in the hospital are all meant to be good-looking.
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Boris (2007) / int_3214e476	type	Oblivious to Hatred
Boris (2007) / int_3214e476	comment	Oblivious to Hatred: Stanis and Corinna are blind to the fact that most of their co-workers can't stand them. They are treated well just because they are the stars of the show, so everyone is forced to put up with them. Even in the movie, when Corinna finally learns about RenÃ©'s infamous hatred for her and calls him out on it, RenÃ© denies everything and still pretends to adore her.
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Boris (2007) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Boris (2007) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: When RenÃ© meets at last Dr. Cane, he cheerfully tells him the Evil Plan: since Dimension Six failed like Medical Dimension was supposed to, RenÃ©'s series will never be aired at all. He ends it with a gift, a little box containing "the future". The box is empty.
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Boris (2007) / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Boris (2007) / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Season three, in the last episodes, becomes a steep one for RenÃ©.
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Boris (2007) / int_3767d6f9	type	Ruder and Cruder
Boris (2007) / int_3767d6f9	comment	Averted with Medical Dimension, where profanity is allowed and even encouraged, because it was supposed to be sort of a Ruder and Cruder sequel to The Eyes of the Heart.
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Boris (2007) / int_37fcf16	type	Death Is Cheap
Boris (2007) / int_37fcf16	comment	Death Is Cheap: All the time, including characters who are apparently killed off but then they are seen perfectly alive in later episodes with no explanation.
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Boris (2007) / int_389b0e	type	Title Theme Tune
Boris (2007) / int_389b0e	comment	Title Theme Tune: A curious case: the theme song is titled after the soap-within-a-show Gli occhi del cuore, though the background vocalists do sing the proper title "Boris".
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Boris (2007) / int_39eb5a6e	type	Sex Starts, Story Stops
Boris (2007) / int_39eb5a6e	comment	Sex Starts, Story Stops: At some point, the screenwriters are working on the script of an episode and can't think of anything to advance the plot involving Giorgio and Giulia, until one of them suggests to let them have sex, out of nowhere.
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Boris (2007) / int_3d5c5deb	type	Flat Character
Boris (2007) / int_3d5c5deb	comment	Flat Character: The protagonists of the series, Giorgio and Giulia, are just bland good guys with no distinctive traits other than being doctors, and Giulia's actress can't even find a word to describe her. This doesn't stop Stanis from describing his character Giorgio as a "three-dimensional Anglo-Saxon hero" in an interview. This also applies to Sofia, Giulia's Suspiciously Similar Substitute in season 2, to the point that her actress, reading the script, doesn't even understand why her character would say such lines. In fact, when Cristina (Sofia's actress) joins the cast, she asks the assistant director what kind of character Sofia is, and the only answer she got is "Well... she's the main character". Even the evil Count is seen this way by his actor Mariano Giusti. When Mariano accepted the role, he was told that the Count would have evolved into a complex villain with Hidden Depths... but after playing the character for years, he notices that the Count is still a stereotypical baddie who is evil for the sake of being evil, with no depths at all.
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Boris (2007) / int_3ea462d7	type	Take That, Audience!
Boris (2007) / int_3ea462d7	comment	Take That, Audience!: The producers need to cut everything even slightly ethically complex or ambiguos, also the whole fact that they don't want anything new just, at the very best, something that looks new but is the same story all over again.
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Boris (2007) / int_410f55a2	type	Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas
Boris (2007) / int_410f55a2	comment	Either "World Domination", or Something About Bananas: When the screenwriters are plagiarizing a Korean series, they are unsure whether a specific word translates as "juggle the ball" or "orange". They decide to insert a scene of a football player juggling an orange.
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Boris (2007) / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
Boris (2007) / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: From the trivial dialogue to the melodramatic Bad "Bad Acting", this soap is hilariously bad to highlight how terrible the actual Italian series are.
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Boris (2007) / int_41be2c1b	type	Spoiler Title
Boris (2007) / int_41be2c1b	comment	Spoiler Title: "The Climber of the Andes" gives away the resolution of the episode's plot, namely a guest actor unsuitable to portray a formerly-addicted cyclist and a Peruvian extra equally unsuitable to portray a drug addict. The two roles are swapped, with the cyclist being rewritten into a Peruvian rock climber.
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Boris (2007) / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Boris (2007) / int_469e3e2f	comment	Most of the actors in all of the In-Universe series, but it's mostly prominent in Stanis and Corinna, the two main stars of the Soap Within a Show. Both are incredibly stuck-up and demanding Attention Whores, often complaining when they have to shoot a scene they don't like. Additionally, they are not nearly as famous and talented as they think they are. In one episode, Stanis refers to the extras as "the underclass of the show business" in front of them.
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Boris (2007) / int_48d94bb8	type	Creator Backlash
Boris (2007) / int_48d94bb8	comment	Creator Backlash: In-Universe. Most of the crew hate working on the Soap Within a Show The Eyes of the Heart, especially the director RenÃ©, though he's good at pretending otherwise. Many of the actors (Cristina, Mariano, Orlando Serpentieri, Remo Arcangeli) also hate the soap and end up leaving.
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Boris (2007) / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Boris (2007) / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the Season 3 finale, Alessandro tells Arianna he's been keeping a diary of his experience on set and that it could be fun to develop a series on it. She shuts him down immediately, noting that it would be of zero interest for people outside of the industry.
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Boris (2007) / int_4e60913e	type	Incestuous Casting
Boris (2007) / int_4e60913e	comment	Incestuous Casting: In-Universe, married couple Stanis and Corinna play Jesus and his mother Mary.
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Boris (2007) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Boris (2007) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Claudio telling RenÃ© he's leaving and that "Medical Dimension is a trap." 3x13 ("Back to the Future- Part 1"). We already saw RenÃ© asking the screenwriters for "their usual shit", but we only get the true extent of his Heelâ€“Face Turn when he tells what they are about to shot: The Eyes of the Heart 3. At the end of the first episode of season 4, one of the three screenwriters disappearing into thin air, revealing he was Dead All Along.
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Boris (2007) / int_5012cb5c	type	Blind People Wear Sunglasses
Boris (2007) / int_5012cb5c	comment	Blind People Wear Sunglasses: Giorgio goes blind after the Wham Episode and starts wearing sunglasses. His actor (Stanis) tries to protest because he doesn't want to play a blind character, until the writers tell him they intend to make Giorgio a Handicapped Badass, who is still able to be the best doctor in town, despite his blindness.
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Boris (2007) / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Boris (2007) / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Claudio, the young, nice and enthusiast network delegate that keeps supporting RenÃ© and his idea of quality for Medical Dimension. However, it was chosen by Cane to lure RenÃ© into it and making him just do another The Eyes of the Heart. Or so it looks like, but in the end we find out it's subverted: Cane was playing both Claudio and RenÃ©, since he plans to sabotage Medical Dimension. Claudio leaves as soon as he finds out.
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Boris (2007) / int_6056f853	type	Homoerotic Subtext
Boris (2007) / int_6056f853	comment	Homoerotic Subtext: Played for Laughs regarding Biascica in season 3, when Lorenzo gets a Rank Up and is replaced as the photography intern. Biascica lamenting that Lorenzo was the "perfect slave" is very much intentionally played as someone pining over an ex lover.
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Boris (2007) / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Boris (2007) / int_617f0563	comment	3x13 ("Back to the Future- Part 1"). We already saw RenÃ© asking the screenwriters for "their usual shit", but we only get the true extent of his Heelâ€“Face Turn when he tells what they are about to shot: The Eyes of the Heart 3.
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Boris (2007) / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Boris (2007) / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Literally: Boris is the last one of a long line of lucky charm goldfishes RenÃ© insists on bringing on set. Additionally, the last episode of season one involves Boris's apparent death (after being fed a piece of lard) and the frantic search for a replacement so that RenÃ© won't notice the death. Boris gets better in the end, though.
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Boris (2007) / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Boris (2007) / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Whenever RenÃ©, Stanis or someone else is praising the scriptwriters' work (it must be noted that, in the first case, said praises are Blatant Lies), we immediately get to see how they actually work.
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Boris (2007) / int_68a171b6	type	Sadist Show
Boris (2007) / int_68a171b6	comment	Sadist Show: Boris is a cynical represention of the Italian world of television, where nearly everyone is corrupt and sociopathic, and the extreme abuse of the subordinates is Played for Laughs. Whenever a character shows good intentions, it rarely ends well and he/she learns that Being Good Sucks and Hard Work Hardly Works.
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Boris (2007) / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Boris (2007) / int_6b2b3b59	comment	As Lopez drops The Reveal about the true nature of Medical Dimension to RenÃ© in "Stopper", the camera focuses on the Roman Forum and the Colosseum in the background. Two episodes later, Dr. Cane uses the Colosseum as a metaphor — old, in ruins, and yet permanent and admired by everyone — to describe The Eyes of the Heart.
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Boris (2007) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Boris (2007) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Biascica's last name literally means 'slurs' (as in 'to slur', the speech impediment) â€” a thing he does liberally. "Cane" (as in dr. Cane) literally means "dog", but it's also used as an insult meaning "despicable person".
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Boris (2007) / int_6dcbe9aa	type	Deconstructive Parody
Boris (2007) / int_6dcbe9aa	comment	Deconstructive Parody: Being a series about a troupe making a TV series, it criticizes and mocks in a very humouristic way Italian fictional works of the 90's and the 2000's and all their associated tropes, often on a meta level, showing why said tropes happen in these kind of fictional works, as well as the entire Italian television industry. Season 4 adds the large, international streaming platforms to the list of its targets.
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Boris (2007) / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Boris (2007) / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Stanis is known for playing Corelli in The Eyes of the Heart. His actor, Pietro Sermonti, is known for playing a doctor in another Italian series, Un Medico In Famiglia.
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Boris (2007) / int_705d2ccf	type	Unseen No More
Boris (2007) / int_705d2ccf	comment	Unseen No More: The show's Big Bad, the Count, is mentioned several times before we actually get to see him on the soap.
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Boris (2007) / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Boris (2007) / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: The fourth season arguably has two main antagonists: The first one is technically the Platform's Algorithm, but it has a human face in Allison Daltman, the European manager of the Platform. Like Dr. Cane before her, she's not actively antagonising the protagonists but keeps requiring edits and additions to ensure that their show is a worldwide streaming success. The second one is Stanis himself, who as co-producer of Life of Jesus keeps dictating his "vision" against RenÃ©'s wishes, until he straight up usurpes the director chair from him.
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Boris (2007) / int_77552932	type	Character Shilling
Boris (2007) / int_77552932	comment	Character Shilling: Giorgio (Stanis's character) is occasionally referred to as "the best doctor in Italy".
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Boris (2007) / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Boris (2007) / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: In-Universe with Medical Dimension. One of the scriptwriters hears random sentences from the other two talking about anything (except, of course, Medical Dimension) and writes them verbatim. The plot is litterally whatever was happening in their life at that point.
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Boris (2007) / int_7a2aba81	type	Exposition
Boris (2007) / int_7a2aba81	comment	Exposition: When faced with particularly complex scenes, the screenwriters's solution is to completely renounce Show, Don't Tell and insert this ("we say it, we don't do it"). It comes to the point where Arianna shoots sequentially a bunch of scenes of gossipy townfolk discussing the main events of Jesus's life instead of, you know, properly shooting said events instead.
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Boris (2007) / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
Boris (2007) / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: When Giulia, Corinna's character, says how old she is, she says "I am as old as I am", leaving her age unclear, since Corinna refuses to say that her character is 34 years old because her teen fans could be turned off if they hear that she's too old.
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Boris (2007) / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Boris (2007) / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: In a Shout-Out to the Lost pilot, season two opens with Alessandro lying on the ground in an African setting, muttering "cold milk" and with a tiger beside him. The rest of the episode gives away the context: the "African village" is actually a set just outside the studio, Alessandro was shocked by an electic cable, the tiger was rented by Sergio to save money, and a glass of cold milk is what Corinna asked him.
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Boris (2007) / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Boris (2007) / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Mariano gets sick of playing The Count because he's a one-dimensional villain without any redeeming trait, and lists the bad things he does in the show: killing, raping (or sending people to rape) and being obsessed with a share package; Mariano's anger then remains concentrated on the last detail.
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Boris (2007) / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
Boris (2007) / int_816a4e80	comment	In "The Deaf-mute, the Senator and the Future of Our Country", the ghosts of RenÃ©'s mentors appear in much the same way as the Force ghosts do in Return of the Jedi.
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Boris (2007) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Boris (2007) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: RenÃ©. Pannofino is good at doing that sort of characters. With his overly pretentious and flamboyant ways, Stanis is this both on and off camera.
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Boris (2007) / int_86ee8070	type	World of Ham
Boris (2007) / int_86ee8070	comment	World of Ham: Although averted in The Eyes of the Heart, where the acting is just very melodramatic, this is played straight with the entire TV crew, who are all very quirky and loud.
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Boris (2007) / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Boris (2007) / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: To emphasize how bad The Count is, whenever there's something evil that he's made to the characters, it always include rape. In the end, The Writers have relied on this trope so much that it becomes hard to take seriously and RenÃ© jokes that, by this point, The Count has basically raped the entire cast.
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Boris (2007) / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Boris (2007) / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: The final product of RenÃ©'s work, the film I, Judas, is this on Jesus's story.
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Boris (2007) / int_8aa0f76	type	Deconstructed Trope
Boris (2007) / int_8aa0f76	comment	Deconstructed Trope: The show takes apart many tropes, sometimes even on a meta level, showing what causes these tropes to happen in a show, usually in a much more humorous way than the typical deconstruction. Cliché Storm: For the sake of satire, The Eyes of the Heart represents every Italian TV show that aired during the 2000's and has all of the soap opera cliches one can think. In-Universe, it's because The Writers are so lazy they don't even bother to come up with something new, and the show is so clitchÃ©d they often rely on the function keys with pre-composed lines of script. It's later revealed this trope is reinforced by the executives, who want to keep producing shows that are essentially the same thing to keep making easy money, such as when The Writers send RenÃ© the rewritten script for Machiavelli and he realizes it's identical to The Eyes of the Heart except for the setting and the characters. Creator Backlash: In-Universe. Most of the crew hate working on the Soap Within a Show The Eyes of the Heart, especially the director RenÃ©, though he's good at pretending otherwise. Many of the actors (Cristina, Mariano, Orlando Serpentieri, Remo Arcangeli) also hate the soap and end up leaving. Development Hell: In-Universe. There's the series Machiavelli, which has been stuck in pre-productionsfor decades and no director assigned to the project could take it out of development. This is because Machiavelli is designed to be forever stuck in Development Hell and get rid of directors by assigning them to the project, in which they will be stuck for the rest of their career without bringing it to fruition. However, RenÃ© is so passionate about this project, he manages to take it out of Development Hell.. until he reads the new script, which is as awful as The Eyes of the Heart's. Harpo Does Something Funny: In-Universe. The notary, the comic relief of the show, doesn't have any lines in the script, and instead the actor has to improvise them, along with Stanis (Giorgio's actor), who also turns into comic relief whenever he interacts with him. This is not because they are good at improvising (Stanis is not even a comedy actor), but because The Writers can't come up with anything actually funny and decide to leave the work to the actors, resulting in ridiculously unfunny scenes and very clumsy jokes. Heelâ€“Faith Turn: When he comes back to the set, Mariano, who once burned the entire set, claims to have met Jesus and since then to have become a new person. Unfortunately, Mariano is just as crazy and dangerous as ever, and he simply becomes more obsessed with Christianity. Hypercompetent Sidekick: Arianna is well aware of being the only competent person in a highly dysfunctional TV crew. However, this leaves her to be taken for granted by everyone leading her to repress her feelings and needs. Plucky Comic Relief: In-Universe. Martellone plays "the notary", whose role is to provide comic relief for the show. However, this means that nobody of the troupe takes the character seriously, even during a tragic scene like his death. Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Every troupe member got the job thanks to recommendation, this mean that, when they have to fire someone to "remedy" of the show's bad rating, Gloria loses the job because she's the only one without someone to back her up, while the official excuse is that she was fired because the bad makeup was worsening the show. Took the Bad Film Seriously: In-Universe. Orlando Serpentieri is a famous theatre actor who, despite being aware of the low quality of the series, plays his role very well. However, this make the two lead actors, who are terrible, look bad by comparison, and RenÃ© suggests Orlando tone down his acting to Stanis and Corinna's level.
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Boris (2007) / int_8c55e307	type	Ultimate Job Security
Boris (2007) / int_8c55e307	comment	Ultimate Job Security: Almost everyone has it, as literally everyone on the set is protected by (and is there because of) some politician or other person-in-power. This becomes later a plot point as Lopez and Sergio force RenÃ© to pick someone to fire to cut costs, and he has to pick the one with the "least" protection.
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Boris (2007) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Boris (2007) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: 3X11, "Stopper", when we find out Medical Dimension is just Dr. Cane's Evil Plan.
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Boris (2007) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Boris (2007) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Part of the main story arc is about the mysterious murder of the Count, the Big Bad of the soap.
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Boris (2007) / int_8f9f71a8	type	Crazy Enough to Work
Boris (2007) / int_8f9f71a8	comment	Crazy Enough to Work: At the end of season 4 RenÃ© gets in trouble with the Platform because he illegally used the footage shot for Life of Jesus to turn it into a self-released film. Faced with a super-solid case on their part, how does he decide to act? By redoing the audition scene from Flashdance in front of them. And it works.
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Boris (2007) / int_913089c2	type	Screwed by the Network
Boris (2007) / int_913089c2	comment	Screwed by the Network: Invoked by Lopez as the reason The Eyes of the Heart was so poorly received and cancelled. It might or might not be true: it was that bad, however the sequel is just as bad and it's however quite succesfull. It's also Dr. Cane's Evil Plan in season three: he leaves RenÃ© free to work on a fiction following actual criteria of quality (or the nearest thing he can get), but Medical Dimension is planned to air the same night the champions' league's on, so no one will watch it and it'll prove that "a new television isn't only possible, but not even desirable". In season 4, Life of Jesus is dead on arrival once Alessandro reveals that the Platform's Spanish branch has just finished producing a series with same exact premise.
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Boris (2007) / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Boris (2007) / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Season 4 features the return of almost the entire main and guest characters from the previous seasons, but an unexpected one is Guido, the actor playing St. Peter. He reveals he's the same hopeless actor who was supposed to portray the cyclist in "The Climber of the Andes" when RenÃ© accidentally gives him the same exact "The Reason You Suck" Speech as he did thirteen years previously.
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Boris (2007) / int_92f863b6	type	Revival
Boris (2007) / int_92f863b6	comment	Revival: Season 4 is effectively this, being set a decade after the events of Season 3 and the movie (just like in real life) and with the characters working on a new Show Within a Show.
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Boris (2007) / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Boris (2007) / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: Karin and Cristina do not appear in season three, until they are brought back for the pilot of The Eyes of Heart 3. Corinna and Glauco also come back, as does the In-Universe character of the homosexual social worker played by RenÃ©.
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Boris (2007) / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Boris (2007) / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Dr. Cane, once he finally appears. He acts cheerfully with RenÃ©, but he's just kicking the dog.
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Boris (2007) / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Boris (2007) / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: The Count is a typical soap villain. He doesn't even have a name, we only know he's greedy and commits all sorts of villainous acts For the Evulz.
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Boris (2007) / int_96a2363c	type	Bathos
Boris (2007) / int_96a2363c	comment	Bathos: Itala's funeral in the first episode of the fourth season, especially when RenÃ© mentions that Duccio was unable to come because he's stuck "thinking" in India because of work commitments. Cut to loud Bollywood music playing while Duccio's hands prepare a rail of cocaine. Onto which a tear falls.
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Boris (2007) / int_970b51b6	type	Adaptational Diversity
Boris (2007) / int_970b51b6	comment	Adaptational Diversity: One change that Alessandro requires on behalf of the Platform is to make the main characters ethnically diverse (in an obvious parody of said real-life practice, it's not to genuinely include representation, but to make the product as successful as possible worldwide). The screenwriters decide to Race Lift one Apostle to Black and another to Chinese, basing themselves on a far-fetched theory that there was a pocket of ethnic Chinese people living in Palestine.
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Boris (2007) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Boris (2007) / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Dr. Cane might count as this. He doesn't want to stop the protagonists, but causes all the meddling that troubles them. Fits the trope in season three, when he's actively planning to make RenÃ©'s work a disaster — see Screwed by the Network below.
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Boris (2007) / int_98a19d7f	type	Money, Dear Boy
Boris (2007) / int_98a19d7f	comment	Money, Dear Boy: In-Universe. Orlando Serpentieri, a renowned actor, joins the cast. When Alessandro asks him why, after playing Shakespeare, would he do that, he answers honestly that between Shakespeare and The Eyes of the Heart 2 there's something called "mortgage". RenÃ© himself: he started The Eyes of the Heart believing it would be something good, but then kept working on it only because he was payed to. However, he keeps feeling guilty about it and dreaming of doing something good again, and eventually moves out of it at the end of season two. Duccio was like RenÃ©, except he's perfectly okay with it and doesn't move out. Unusually, averted by Lopez, who seems to sincerely like The Eyes of the Heart 2
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Boris (2007) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Boris (2007) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Dimension Six, a show created to rival Medical Dimension. We find out, however, that they were never supposed to air together; they were made both as "quality fiction" to show one chosen at random so to make it fail, and then cancel the other before broadcast. The opening of Season two (and three) shows the characters in an aquarium, with Lorenzo unwillingly breaking the glass in the end. In season three Lorenzo unwillingly breaks RenÃ©'s aquarium. Which is in itself another brilliant foreshadowing: Federer (the goldfish RenÃ© bought for the new series) is lost and replaced with another random one as Medical Dimension, we will find out, loses is purpose and becomes just a series like any other. That the replacement turns out to be Boris, the fish bought for The Eyes of the Heart, only makes it more brilliant, since RenÃ© will end actually turning it in The Eyes of the Heart 3. A quite lighter one: in season three a repented scriptwriter advises, to do a good job, to never make more than three season. It hinted that it would the series' last season (may count as Leaning on the Fourth Wall). The opening says "I'll use the eyes of the heart/ As the blind doctor says/ when he operates on patients" The Eyes of the Heart 3 has the main character becoming blind but resolving to operate nonetheless. Cue Title Drop. As Lopez drops The Reveal about the true nature of Medical Dimension to RenÃ© in "Stopper", the camera focuses on the Roman Forum and the Colosseum in the background. Two episodes later, Dr. Cane uses the Colosseum as a metaphor — old, in ruins, and yet permanent and admired by everyone — to describe The Eyes of the Heart.
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Boris (2007) / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Boris (2007) / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: In-Universe. While averted in The Eyes of the Heart, it's been played straight in many works Stanis has worked on previously, since his contract says his characters can never die and they therefore have survived being stabbed multiple times or a one hundred meter fall.
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Boris (2007) / int_a0d3818f	type	Digital Piracy Is Okay
Boris (2007) / int_a0d3818f	comment	Digital Piracy Is Okay: While not endorsing it, the showrunners of Boris have acknowledged the role played by illegal streaming websites in elevating a limited release series into a cult phenomenon via word of mouth.
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Boris (2007) / int_a2e887be	type	Secondary Character Title
Boris (2007) / int_a2e887be	comment	Secondary Character Title: The eponymous Boris is RenÃ©'s pet goldfish, a Living Prop at best and just part of the scenery at worst.
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Boris (2007) / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
Boris (2007) / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: In the season one episode "Like Lars von Trier", everyone is forced to work naked on-set to assuage Corinna's insecurities during the shooting of a sex scene.
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Boris (2007) / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Boris (2007) / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: In "Stopper", former football player Sergio Brio appears as himself, as he was supposed to be a Special Guest on Medical Dimension. He spends the episode being annoyed by other characters's reactions to him: RenÃ© pretends to be an enthusiastic fanboy even if he clearly didn't know anything about football, Stanis goes into a narcissistic rant about actors being superior to football players, and Biascica still holds a grudge against Brio for a controversial football game played 30 years ago. In "Nella rete", famous director Paolo Sorrentino appears as himself. He wants Fabiana to play a role in his new movie and tries to convince her to leave Medical Dimension. Famous dramatic actor Fabrizio Gifuni appears in the last episode of season 4 in front of a starstruck Martellone. Subverted when he claims not to be Gifuni but Pierfrancesco Favino under heavy prosthetics.
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Boris (2007) / int_a6fa41b	type	Recycled Premise
Boris (2007) / int_a6fa41b	comment	Recycled Premise: Season 3, the film, and season 4 use variations on the same twist at their climax: RenÃ© is trying to make a serious entertainment product, but something happens to make production stop in its tracks. He then repurposes the shot footage into a different, successful product. Glauco is even involved all three times in a key role.
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Boris (2007) / int_a9dc5293	type	Development Hell
Boris (2007) / int_a9dc5293	comment	Development Hell: In-Universe. There's the series Machiavelli, which has been stuck in pre-productionsfor decades and no director assigned to the project could take it out of development. This is because Machiavelli is designed to be forever stuck in Development Hell and get rid of directors by assigning them to the project, in which they will be stuck for the rest of their career without bringing it to fruition. However, RenÃ© is so passionate about this project, he manages to take it out of Development Hell.. until he reads the new script, which is as awful as The Eyes of the Heart's.
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Boris (2007) / int_ae43d443	type	Soap Within a Show
Boris (2007) / int_ae43d443	comment	Soap Within a Show: The in-universe series The Eyes of the Heart is the embodiment of all the worst Italian Soap Opera clichÃ©s. Hardly anyone working on it (except the lead actors and Itala) enjoys the final product.
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Boris (2007) / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Boris (2007) / int_b01abe4f	comment	When the comedian Martellone tries to use his Catchphrase as the notary, it's immediately censored because it contains a swear word. His line was later dubbed over by someone else and replaced with a family-friendly "how lucky!" (causing Lip Lock).
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Boris (2007) / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Boris (2007) / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: The entire purpose of Sandra's character (played by "Thighs" Karin), due to In-Universe Executive Meddling.
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Boris (2007) / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
Boris (2007) / int_b6de94d1	comment	Executive Meddling: It happens a lot In-Universe. Many episodes are about a change demanded by the executives (more often Dr. Cane), like the introduction of a comic relief, the re-shooting of a scene, or firing the makeup worker since the series was in decline because of the makeup (in truth, she was simply the only employee not recommended by someone).
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Boris (2007) / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
Boris (2007) / int_b6ec7566	comment	Twofer Token Minority: In the last episode of season 4 Lopez introduces a new script supervisor who's non-binary, vegan and multiracial. Lopez cheers at having found the "diversity" the Platform was asking.
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Boris (2007) / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Boris (2007) / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: The scriptwriters claim they really need an holiday while sunbathing, or fishing, or doing anything but working.
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Boris (2007) / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Boris (2007) / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: In season 2, Giorgio is in a triangle between his wholesome co-worker Sofia and sexy Fair Cop Sandra Gusberti. It seems like he chose the latter.
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Boris (2007) / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Boris (2007) / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Sergio in season 4 appears only in a few brief scenes when RenÃ© or Lopez visit him in prison, the latter having taken over his role as executive producer.
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Boris (2007) / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
Boris (2007) / int_bc103f8b	comment	Famous dramatic actor Fabrizio Gifuni appears in the last episode of season 4 in front of a starstruck Martellone. Subverted when he claims not to be Gifuni but Pierfrancesco Favino under heavy prosthetics.
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Boris (2007) / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Boris (2007) / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: Giorgio in the second season, after being falsely accused of the Count's murder.
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Boris (2007) / int_bcb2cfe1	type	Beam Me Up, Scotty!
Boris (2007) / int_bcb2cfe1	comment	Also, in the last episode, characters tell Alessandro "wax on, wax off" to remember his role as a slave (a case of Beam Me Up, Scotty!, since the phrase used, "metti la cera, togli la cera", is not the actual translation in the movies, "dai la cera, togli la cera").
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Boris (2007) / int_bcb8e1cb	type	I, Noun
Boris (2007) / int_bcb8e1cb	comment	I, Noun: I, Judas, the film RenÃ© makes in the Season 4 finale from the footage shot for Life of Jesus.
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Boris (2007) / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
Boris (2007) / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Plucky Comic Relief: The notary is supposed to be the only comic relief of this otherwise "dramatic" soap. He's played by Nando Martellone, a talentless comedian who is only famous for a very lame Catchphrase.
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Boris (2007) / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
Boris (2007) / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: Machiavelli, a fiction directors are assigned to when producers just want them out. Subverted, however, since RenÃ© gets quite fond of the idea and leaves The Eyes of the Heart 2 of his own will to do Machiavelli.
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Boris (2007) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Boris (2007) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Curiously, when it looks like RenÃ© will lose the job. Not being tied to The Eyes of the Heart 2 makes him consider doing some quality work again, but in the end the show is succesful, so he keeps the job and the money. He eventually leaves for Machiavelli, but season three shows it's just another one of those. The season itself turns in yet another one with Medical Dimension. The whole season three is one for RenÃ©.
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Boris (2007) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Boris (2007) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Numerous (all of these from The Other Wiki's page). "My Africa (part 1)" includes a parody of Lost's iconic eye-opening season 1 shoot. Again in "My Africa (part 1)", Corinna's arrival on the set has numerous elements that recall Kate Winslet's arrival on the titular ship of Titanic (1997). The beating of Lorenzo in "The Daughter of Mazinga" is a recreation of "Gomer Pyle"'s beating in Full Metal Jacket. In "Caught by the Network", the network exec gives Lopez an empty blue box, recreating the same scene and subsequent fadeout from Mulholland Dr.. In "The Deaf-mute, the Senator and the Future of Our Country", the ghosts of RenÃ©'s mentors appear in much the same way as the Force ghosts do in Return of the Jedi. Split-screen cuts in the episode "Use the Force, Ferretti" are an homage to 24. Also obviously the name of he episode. On that note, a ton of episode titles are obvious or less-than-obvious citations from movies and other works, such as "The Sky over Stanis" (a pun on the original title of Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, "The Sky over Berlin"); "No Logo"; "Use the Force, Ferretti"; "The Importance of Being Well-Liked by Lawyers"; "Back to the Future"; "Stanis Must Not Die" (riffing over the Italian title for Misery, "Misery Must Not Die"); "My Africa" (the Italian title for Out of Africa). Also, in the last episode, characters tell Alessandro "wax on, wax off" to remember his role as a slave (a case of Beam Me Up, Scotty!, since the phrase used, "metti la cera, togli la cera", is not the actual translation in the movies, "dai la cera, togli la cera"). The last episode of season 4 climaxes with RenÃ© reenacting the audition scene from Flashdance.
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Boris (2007) / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Boris (2007) / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: It's mentioned in the script that Eric is evil because the Count raped his mom and his sister.
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Boris (2007) / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Boris (2007) / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: The Eyes of the Heart 2 (supposedly the first one too) and Medical Dimention have three male scriptwriters, just like Boris. They do not come out in a good light, let's put it this way. In the first episode of season 4, a character declares that Hell "is full of seasons 4".
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Boris (2007) / int_ca3a4a31	type	Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery
Boris (2007) / int_ca3a4a31	comment	Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery: Fabio, a paraplegic fan of the show, who uses pity and manipulation to get away with his actions. At the end of the day, they kick him out of the set.
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Boris (2007) / int_cbd0ac32	type	Environmental Symbolism
Boris (2007) / int_cbd0ac32	comment	Environmental Symbolism: Lopez's speech in "Stopper" about how nobody in Italy wants "modern TV" and the public only cares about the old and traditional is set in front of the ruins of the Roman Forum.
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Boris (2007) / int_cbde3dfd	type	Took the Bad Film Seriously
Boris (2007) / int_cbde3dfd	comment	Took the Bad Film Seriously: In-Universe. Orlando Serpentieri is a famous theatre actor who, despite being aware of the low quality of the series, plays his role very well. However, this make the two lead actors, who are terrible, look bad by comparison, and RenÃ© suggests Orlando tone down his acting to Stanis and Corinna's level.
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Boris (2007) / int_cc427069	type	Hard Work Hardly Works
Boris (2007) / int_cc427069	comment	Hard Work Hardly Works: RenÃ©, after finding out the truth about Medical Dimension and losing the last bit of faith in television he had, decides to purposefully go back to The Eyes of the Heart.
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Boris (2007) / int_cdd676a3	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
Boris (2007) / int_cdd676a3	comment	Hypercompetent Sidekick: Arianna is well aware of being the only competent person in a highly dysfunctional TV crew. However, this leaves her to be taken for granted by everyone leading her to repress her feelings and needs.
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Boris (2007) / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
Boris (2007) / int_cfc52d52	comment	Subverted with Cristina, the actress who replaces Corinna in season 2. She's a rich Spoiled Brat who often shows up late on the set, but this is only due to her Upper-Class Twit lifestyle. She's not self-centered when it comes to her acting career and is not even interested in being famous, in fact she hates being part of the show.
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Boris (2007) / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Boris (2007) / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: When the comedian Martellone tries to use his Catchphrase as the notary, it's immediately censored because it contains a swear word. His line was later dubbed over by someone else and replaced with a family-friendly "how lucky!" (causing Lip Lock). Averted with Medical Dimension, where profanity is allowed and even encouraged, because it was supposed to be sort of a Ruder and Cruder sequel to The Eyes of the Heart.
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Boris (2007) / int_d0c8e54	type	Monkeys on a Typewriter
Boris (2007) / int_d0c8e54	comment	Monkeys on a Typewriter: The Algorithm, in Lorenzo's LSD-fueled visions, appears as a chimpanzee typing on a laptop.
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Boris (2007) / int_d5a060a8	type	Interchangeable Asian Cultures
Boris (2007) / int_d5a060a8	comment	Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Alfredo and the production spend a lot of time and effort looking for a good actor to play the role of a young St. Mark who was Race Lifted to Chinese. When they find one, the boy says he's actually of Vietnamese origin. They just give up and roll with it.
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Boris (2007) / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Boris (2007) / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The main villain of The Eyes of the Heart is The Count, who is always referred as such, presumably to make him more mysterious and less sympathetic to the audience. Martellone's comic relief character is only referred to as "The Notary", never by name.
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Boris (2007) / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Boris (2007) / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Every troupe member got the job thanks to recommendation, this mean that, when they have to fire someone to "remedy" of the show's bad rating, Gloria loses the job because she's the only one without someone to back her up, while the official excuse is that she was fired because the bad makeup was worsening the show.
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Boris (2007) / int_d9723630	type	In My Language, That Sounds Like...
Boris (2007) / int_d9723630	comment	In My Language, That Sounds Like...: RenÃ© closes a call with Allison by shouting his usual "dai, dai, dai!" of encouragement. Allison appears taken aback. Lopez explains RenÃ© that she likely understood it in English as "die, die, die!"
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Boris (2007) / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Boris (2007) / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Manuela, the script supervisor in season 4, quits immediately after witnessing Mariano coming on set with a loaded gun, Stanis accidentally shooting a monitor with said gun (narrowly missing her) and Alfredo acting blasÃ© in front of the whole ordeal.
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Boris (2007) / int_db4bb2fc	type	Harpo Does Something Funny
Boris (2007) / int_db4bb2fc	comment	Harpo Does Something Funny: In-Universe. The notary, the comic relief of the show, doesn't have any lines in the script, and instead the actor has to improvise them, along with Stanis (Giorgio's actor), who also turns into comic relief whenever he interacts with him. This is not because they are good at improvising (Stanis is not even a comedy actor), but because The Writers can't come up with anything actually funny and decide to leave the work to the actors, resulting in ridiculously unfunny scenes and very clumsy jokes.
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Boris (2007) / int_de0df7a0	type	Stock Scream
Boris (2007) / int_de0df7a0	comment	Stock Scream: Used to shot a suicide scene.
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Boris (2007) / int_e259bd08	type	Descended Creator
Boris (2007) / int_e259bd08	comment	Descended Creator: In-Universe once again, because after all it's a RenÃ© Ferretti production. Most of the crew is involved in a crowd scene when the extras don't show up, RenÃ© plays Pontius Pilate, and Fabio and Biascica are the two thieves crucified next to Jesus.
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Boris (2007) / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Boris (2007) / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: While gossiping about Orlando Serpentieri, RenÃ© mentions there are rumours about him being gay or at least bisexual, although Orlando hasn't shown any hint of his sexuality or attraction to anyone (RenÃ© recalls the rumours when seeing Orlando alone with Alessandro, though that was because Orlando was secretly tasking him with discovering the plot of the show). After learning Orlando has been recommended by a senator, RenÃ© thinks said senator might be bisexual as well.
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Boris (2007) / int_e4bc8059	type	Insufferable Imbecile
Boris (2007) / int_e4bc8059	comment	Insufferable Imbecile: Both lead actors Stanis and Corinna are this. They are the opposite of the smart, humble, and heroic characters they play (badly) on the Soap Within a Show.
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Boris (2007) / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Boris (2007) / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: The Count is the main villain of the series and doesn't have any sympathetic trait, which is the main reason his actor (Mariano) doesn't want to play the character anymore, since he was promised to play a deep and layered character.
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Boris (2007) / int_e6055047	type	Translator Buddy
Boris (2007) / int_e6055047	comment	Translator Buddy: The Notary is the only character who can communicate with a little girl in a coma, one of the patients. It becomes a problem when the Notary's actor is involved in a scandal behind the scenes, and the writers don't know what to do with the character for this reason. They eventually find a way to write the Notary out of the show without killing him: putting him in a coma as well.
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Boris (2007) / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
Boris (2007) / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: In the end we don't know if Arianna and Alessandro stayed in touch, or if he followed the scriptwriters' trail or started working on something better, we don't know where all the main characters went, except Duccio and RenÃ©. The last shot has him pondering about answering a phone call (Lopez calling him to work on The Eyes of the Heart 3, but he doesn't know it), but it ends before showing us if he does. Although played straight in the series, the trope is ultimately averted overall, as we do get a proper conclusion in Boris - The Film.
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Boris (2007) / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: The disabled fan featured in "Like Lars von Trier" is named Fabio. One of the new production interns in season 4 is also named Fabio.
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Boris (2007) / int_ef2fcbe1	comment	Le Film Artistique: The educational short RenÃ© creates in "Exit Strategy", The Red Ant: filmed during breaks in a side-roominvoked, with voice-over narration by RenÃ© himself, the Faux Symbolism of the card game, and a Downer Ending.
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Boris (2007) / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": Stanis and especially Corinna are not very good actors. Ada De Silvestri, who plays Giorgio's mother for two episodes, is even worse than Corinna, and is only hired because she is the senator's wife. Alessandro tries to play a gay character in one scene, replacing another actor at the last minute. His acting is so awful that RenÃ© tells him he's no better than Stanis and Corinna. To be fair, Alessandro is not an actor. At the end of season 2, Samantha, a Ms. Fanservice with political connections, is called to appear on the Wham Episode of the soap... She wasn't even able to say one line. The original actress who was supposed to play the female lead in Medical Dimension was terrible. RenÃ© is forced to replace her with his own daughter Fabiana, even if he didn't want to be accused of Nepotism, despite Fabiana being actually a good actress.
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Boris (2007) / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
Boris (2007) / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	It's also Dr. Cane's Evil Plan in season three: he leaves RenÃ© free to work on a fiction following actual criteria of quality (or the nearest thing he can get), but Medical Dimension is planned to air the same night the champions' league's on, so no one will watch it and it'll prove that "a new television isn't only possible, but not even desirable".
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Boris (2007) / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: The heroic doctor Giorgio has an evil twin named Eric, played by Stanis, who later becomes useful to the plot.
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Boris (2007) / int_f300ca44	comment	Cliché Storm: For the sake of satire, The Eyes of the Heart represents every Italian TV show that aired during the 2000's and has all of the soap opera cliches one can think. In-Universe, it's because The Writers are so lazy they don't even bother to come up with something new, and the show is so clitchÃ©d they often rely on the function keys with pre-composed lines of script. It's later revealed this trope is reinforced by the executives, who want to keep producing shows that are essentially the same thing to keep making easy money, such as when The Writers send RenÃ© the rewritten script for Machiavelli and he realizes it's identical to The Eyes of the Heart except for the setting and the characters.
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Boris (2007) / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Boris (2007) / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: After the female lead character Giulia is killed off (due to the actress leaving the series), the show introduces Giulia's cousin Sofia, another good-hearted, generic Hospital Hottie who serves as a Love Interest and co-worker to the male lead doctor Giorgio. In her second appearance, a jealous Sofia dramatically tells Giorgio "I will never be Giulia for you!", despite the fact that the character barely knows Giorgio in the story, as pointed out by Sofia's actress.
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Boris (2007) / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
Boris (2007) / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: 3x12, "Into the Network", RenÃ© is utterly destroyed and can't do anything anymore, not even keep the actors, and by the end of the episode he leaves the set himself.
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Boris (2007) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Boris (2007) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The earl's ring is a main plot point in The Eyes of the Heart 2. Despite no one knowing exactly why. Specific to Paolo Sorrentino's guest appearance in "Into the Network", people mixing his work with the one of rival director Matteo Garrone.
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Boris (2007) / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Boris (2007) / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: When football player Sergio Brio guest stars on Medical Dimension and is confronted with the chaos and incompetence on set, he announces to the crew that he finally understands what's going on... he's on Scherzi a parte.note A long-running programme where celebrities are filmed with a hidden camera while being subjected to practical jokes.
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