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The Champions (2018) (Web Animation)

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The Champions is a 2018 animated web video series, created by Andy Haynes, produced by Bleacher Report and directed by Adam and Craig Malamut, the sibling creators behind Game of Zones and Gridiron Heights. As opposed to the Malamuts' first series' mashup of the National Basketball Association and Game of Thrones and their second series' rapid-fire sketch comedy about the National Football League, The Champions takes the players and managers of the UEFA Champions League and sets them in a Reality Show setting, putting them in a Big Fancy House where they live together day-to-day when they're not playing football. Of course, this being a reality show, antics and rivalries flare up, often involving real life rivalries and controversies between clubs and players, putting a humorous spin on the grudges.New episodes of the series are posted on Bleacher Report's B/R Football subchannel (usually on the Monday before Champions League gamedays), and on Reddit here. A complete list of episodes can be found here.A spin-off Talk Show specifically for the 2022 World Cup, "Champions Chat" was launched in December 2022. It features Lionel Messi's football puppet interviewing players after the conclusion of each round.No relation to the old TV series The Champions (1968), old Hong Kong film The Champions (1983) or 2011 novel The Champions (2011).
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Retired Badass: Subverted. Despite having found success as a manager, Jürgen Klopp was never a world-class player, and he seems to be fully aware of it.
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Badly Battered Babysitter
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Badly Battered Babysitter: In the Season 5 premiere, it's shown that Lionel Messi has difficulty sleeping thanks in part to Pedri, Sergiño Dest, and Ansu Fati shaking his bed in the morning, begging him to take them to breakfast. After Messi tiredly asks why he has to carry them everywhere, Antoine Griezmann offers to carry them, which they take him up on, knocking him down in the process. Later on, while sleeping in PSG's beds, Messi gets a barrage of texts from Barcelona including one of Pedri crying.
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My Friends... and Zoidberg
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My Friends... and Zoidberg: How the Galactic VAR referee introduces himself to the goalkeepers in Goaltron: "Attention, keepers of the Champions League... and De Gea."
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Multinational Team
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Multinational Team: Par for the course when it comes to the elite of Euro Footy, most of the teams depicted on the show feature players from multiple nationalities. For instance, players appearing on the show during their real-life time as Real Madrid players include Sergio Ramos, Isco, Lucas Vázquez, Nacho (all four Spanish), Karim Benzema (French), Marcelo, Vinicius Jr. (both Brazilian), Gareth Bale (Welsh), Luka Modric (Croatian), Luka Jovic (Bosnian Serb), Thibaut Courtois and Eden Hazard (both Belgian).
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Totem Pole Trench
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Totem Pole Trench: During the intro taglines for Season 7 Episode 3, two poorly disguised Barcelona players wearing a Xavi mask and a trench coat remark that Pedri and Gavi are the future of Barcelona. The producer remarks that he knows that it's Pedri and Gavi wearing the disguise, leading the two to topple over, with Pedri giggling afterward.
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: Kylian Mbappé's reboot of The Champions with him and Erling Haaland as the main characters is treated like this, with darker lighting effects, a more dramatic storyline, and even a different delivery of the iconic opening taglines.
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: In the season 3 premiere, Luka Modric shows off the mansion's kitchen to new Real Madrid teammate Luka Jovic. One of the appliances he shows off is a flour dispenser shaped like Diego Maradona....where the flour is dispensed through the nose, after pressing on one of it's nostrils. In the Season 5 premiere, Lionel Messi has trouble sleeping in the Barcelona beds and decides to try out the other beds in the Champions mansion, namely Manchester City and PSG, at the insistence of Pep Guardiola and Neymar.
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All There in the Manual
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All There in the Manual: Several official videos about the episodes' Easter Eggs and references mention that Messi's football-shaped Hand Puppet is called Pelota (which is Spanish for "ball"), but this name is never spoken on the show itself.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: As the top page quote would indicate, this happens Once an Episode in the opening spiel. In the season 6 premiere, Cristiano Ronaldo says this after he and Lionel Messi end up in a universe where the European Super League took off:
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Always Someone Better
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Always Someone Better: Antoine Griezmann tends to suffer from this. Best summed up in season 2, in this dialogue with his then-coach Diego Simeone:
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You Meddling Kids
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You Meddling Kids: This is Neymar's reaction to Thomas Muller figuring out his Faking the Dead plan in the eighth episode:
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: In addition to Shakira's appearance noted in Brick Joke, Drake also shows up at UEFAvision to peform for Atletico Madrid as a favor to Antoine Griezmann. Once his part of the performance is over, however: Season 5 episode 4 sees NBA star and Liverpool co-owner LeBron James do a tagline, commenting on Liverpool's recent spate of injuries and how the team might call on him to fill in if it got any worse.
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Visual Pun
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Visual Pun: While decorating the Champions League house's Christmas tree, Angel Di Maria puts a miniature version of himself at the top. Upon arriving at the Champions House to carry out his plan to move AC Milan in, Zlatan Ibrahimovic parks his Ferrari close to several Fiats, a reference to a comment he made about being "a Ferrari among Fiats" in his MLS days.
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The Rival
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The Rival: Kylian Mbappe considers himself and Erling Haaland to be rivals, however Haaland doesn't feel the same way, even explicitly stating that they aren't rivals until PSG does better in the Champions League.
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The Roast
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The Roast: Season 5 episode 5 is one for Cristiano Ronaldo, with host Thomas Mueller revealing it's mostly to make fun of him (and Juventus) being eliminated from the Champions League. However, the laughter just from the first roaster, Nani, gets Ronaldo to snap and storm off the stage, but not before a hot mic reveals his true feelings about most of the Champions Mansion's residents. Ronaldo's attempts to patch up the hurt feelings about his comments eventually turns into a diss battle with Lionel Messi about their respective clubs, much to everyone's entertainment.
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The Stoic: Lionel Messi. As he says in his appearance in the first episode's intro, his football speaks for itself. Literally, as the most talkative part of him is his football-shaped Hand Puppet:
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The Voice: The producer of the in-universe show the series takes place in shows up as a disembodied voice throughout. He's often found giving directions to players and managers in the intro taglines, as well as asking questions during the interview segments.
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The Man in the Mirror Talks Back: When Zlatan goes to visit his dojo masters, it is revealed that they are a three fold mirror who converse with him.
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Self-Applied Nickname: Thomas Muller loves to remind everyone of the nickname for himself, "Raumdeuter", as well as both its meanings.
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Angrish: Cristiano Ronaldo's tantrum is peppered with this after goat-herder Leo Messi asks him if he was brought back to his original universe.
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"No. Just… No" Reaction
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"No. Just… No" Reaction: When Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo enter a universe where they (along with Robert Lewandowski, Kylian Mbappe, Arturo Vidal and N'Golo Kante) are all teammates at Newcastle United, Messi immediately whips out his puppet to yell "OH F**K NO!"
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Stealth Pun: In season 2 episode 2, if you look very closely, the bowl of nachos in the La Liga Lounge has a label next to it reading "José Ignacio Fernández Iglesias"... which is the full name of the Real Madrid player best known simply as "Nacho".
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My Name Is Inigo Montoya
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My Name Is Inigo Montoya: Iker Casillas goes for it during the 2019 knockout stage short.
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Sinister Whistling: When Kylian Mbappe searches for Erling Haaland in the Champions mansion, he whistles La Marseillaise ominously.
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I'm a Humanitarian
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I'm a Humanitarian: Luis Suarez, unsurprisingly, reveals himself to be one of these after the mansion gets wiped out by a meteor and Gonzalo Higuain eats all the emergency supplies. In a bit of Black Comedy, his first target is Giorgio Chiellini, the player he bit at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. When Galactic VAR reverses the meteor strike and undoes all the fallout from it, Chiellini is resurrected to Suarez's shock, all but confirming that Suarez actually succeeded in devouring him.
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Implied in the season 4 premiere, where we see that at the entrance checkpoint there is a sign telling that Manchester City is banned from the house, but after being handed a bag full of money by Pep Guardiola, the guard promptly ignores the ban and removes the sign. This is a reference to Manchester City being banned from the Champions League for two years and the ban later being overruled in Real Life.
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Companion Cube
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Companion Cube: Cristiano Ronaldo shows signs of insanity in Saudi Arabia, most notably by attaching googly eyes on his trophies and referring to them as his former teammate Marcelo and his former rival, Lionel Messi.
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Atomic F-Bomb
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Atomic F-Bomb: When Cristiano Ronaldo finally makes it back to the Champions Mansion, Lionel Messi is there to greet him, only to tell him that Manchester United did not qualify for the Champions League. Ronaldo responds with an f-bomb that ends the episode, and the season.
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Our Centaurs Are Different
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Our Centaurs Are Different: When Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi attempt to go back to their own universe, they inadvertently stumble upon one comprised entirely of centaurs, with centaur versions of Thomas Muller, Angel De Maria and Thibaut Courtois there to greet them.
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Only in Florida
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Only in Florida: At the conclusion of The Champions: Next Gen, a teaser shows up advertising a spinoff series called The Champions: Florida Edition. Lionel Messi and his puppet pull up on a jetski in full Inter Miami gear:
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Ditto Aliens
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Ditto Aliens: Though their details are obscured by the bright light in their ship, the alien race that Gareth Bale belongs to share, at minimum, the same general silhouette.
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Funny Background Event: During UEFAvision, Borussia Dortmund hit the stage with a heavy metal number. Christian Pulisic, who had requested to not take part in the performance on the grounds that he was leaving for Chelsea, has to go with it anyway. The result? In the background, in a blink-and-you'll miss it moment, as soon as Mario Götze starts screaming "Wall of Noise!" into the mic, Pulisic is literally sent flying off the stage by the power of the music. David Luiz appears multiple times in the background in full clown makeup in the Europa House episode.
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Sickeningly Sweethearts: Implied with Harry Kane and his wife, who he never seems to stop talking about with his fellow players to their annoyance. It drives Neymar to pull a Faking the Dead stunt just so he wouldn't have to listen to Kane anymore.
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Sophisticated as Hell
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Sophisticated as Hell: Thomas Müller explaining the situation to his Bayern teammates in the season 4 premiere:
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Crying at Your Birthday Party
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Crying at Your Birthday Party: Leo Messi receives a barrage of texts from the Barca Group Chat wondering where he is. One text shows a picture of Pedri crying while celebrating his 18th birthday ostensibly because Messi wasn't there, with the preceding text saying "Look what you did to Pedri".
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Vocal Evolution
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Vocal Evolution: Starting with season 3, a number of characters go through voice changes compared to their appearances in the first two seasons. The most dramatic change is Zlatan Ibrahimovic, whose voice upon returning to the show in season 4 is noticeably deeper than in his early season 1 appearances.
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Older Than They Look
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Older Than They Look: Julian Nagelsmann, then-manager of 1899 Hoffenheim, has to deal with this when trying to enter Bayern Munich's Oktoberfest party:
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: In the intro taglines for Season 5, Episode 2, Sergio Ramos says that he may be evil, but he's not "Super League" evil.
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Tuxedo and Martini
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Tuxedo and Martini: Christian Pulisic acts like a secret agent on Frank Lampard's orders with a fake promise that he'll be part of the queen's Secret Service. He buys into it a little too much, leading to Lampard creating a fake mission involving the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Sergio Ramos, and Luis Suarez in order to try and get Pulisic to tone it down. As it turns out, Pulisic is actually a secret agent for the queen under deep cover as a Chelsea football player.
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The Unintelligible
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The Unintelligible: Harry Kane, whose dialogue is largely stuttered and slurred, to the point that the producers have occasionally resorted to hiring Dan Stevens to play him.
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Out of Focus
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Out of Focus: Addressed in the season 1 finale, as host Kate Abdo acknowledges that since there are so many players in the Champions House, the show can't feature them all consistently. She then brings in one of the players that had not appeared during the season, Galatasaray's Selçuk İnan, for a quick interview. In season 6, Alt!Griezmann complains about not having any major storyline in the scripted Super League in spite of trying out new hairstyles and goal celebrations every week. In the beginning taglines for the World Cup special, Erling Haaland uses his time to try and make the audience aware of the Champions League, a reference to Norway not qualifying for the World Cup.
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Cluster F-Bomb
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Cluster F-Bomb: Jurgen Klopp lets one loose after one of his players falls down the stairs and injures himself.
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Gratuitous German
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Gratuitous German: Marco Reus's speech is peppered with German words during his debut on episode 4:
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OnceAnEpisode
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As the top page quote would indicate, this happens Once an Episode in the opening spiel.
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Foreign Cuss Word
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Foreign Cuss Word: On two separate occasions, German players are heard saying "Scheisse!".note German for "Shit!" The second time is an Oh, Crap! moment for Manuel Neuer and Marc-Andre ter Stegen when they realize they let the meteor they were supposed to stop hit the Earth.
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Conspiracy Theorist
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Conspiracy Theorist: Dejan Lovren is of the tinfoil hat wearing variety. Surprisingly he's been right about a number of his conspiracies including the underground fight club, Gareth Bale being an alien, and Liverpool having a secret laboratory with Virgil van Dijk clones. However, his theory that the dome around the mansion is only a projection is disproved when he crashes a rocket into it.
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Change the Uncomfortable Subject
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Change the Uncomfortable Subject: During the taglines on season 5, Liverpool legend and current Rangers manager Steven Gerrard is talking about former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard, claiming that he "as a midfielder was a great rival". When asked about Lampard's less-than-stellar managerial career, after a Beat, Gerrard chooses to just repeat "Lampard as a midfielder was a great rival".
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Dystopia
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Dystopia: Played for Laughs in the closing moments of the season 4 premiere, where the mansion devolves into chaos after the drone carrying the players and managers luxury items crashes into the cornfield. As Serge Gnabry points out, "We were only gone 90 minutes!".
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Fortune Teller
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Fortune Teller: As part of Jamie Vardy's motivational technique, Brendan Rodgers (and his "envelope of doom") reveals the (mis)fortunes of Phil Foden, Ansu Fati, and Jadon Sancho in the Europa House sauna that never gets hot. Rodgers goes a bit too far forcing Vardy to get him to stop by splashing his energy drink on him.
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Barrier-Busting Blow
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Barrier-Busting Blow: When José Mourinho slams the door of Manchester United's room in Zinedine Zidane's face in episode 3, Zidane headbutts the door so hard his head breaks through it.
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Pineapple Ruins Pizza
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Pineapple Ruins Pizza: Brought up by Antonio Conte during the 2023 knockout stage draw, saying that pineapple on pizza and his track record on the Champions League both are "not good".
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Voiceover Letter
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Voiceover Letter: When Lionel Messi drops off his gift for Cristiano Ronaldo, his voice reads the letter left with it as well:
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Under the Mistletoe
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Under the Mistletoe: At the season 4 Christmas Episode, Cristiano Ronaldo finds the mistletoe right next to the front door of the house and whips out a mirror to smooch himself.note One has to wonder why is the mistletoe even there, since except for Mauro Icardi (and Gerard Piqué if we count Shakira's Musical Episode cameo), none of the players is ever seen bringing their wives or girlfriends along.
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Black Comedy Burst
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Black Comedy Burst: The season 4 Christmas Episode ends with a shot of the dome around the Champions House... just at the same time as Santa Claus's sleigh crashes into it.
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The Name Is Bond, James Bond
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The Name Is Bond, James Bond: Christian Pulisic is seen practicing his "Pulisic, Christian Pulisic" introduction in front of the mirror during his spy phase on season 4.
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Some of the English and Welsh players speak in Received Pronounciation, no matter where they hail from. Examples include Kyle Walker (from Sheffield), Phil Jones (Chorley), and Gareth Bale (Cardiff).
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Becoming the Mask
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Becoming the Mask: Through the show’s run and World Cup special, as well as the Champions Chat show-within-a-show, Lionel Messi let his football puppet project his true thoughts and emotions. After winning the 2022 World Cup, Messi decides to speak for himself, delivering an impassioned speech about how much winning it all means to him. He then unapologetically admits that he has an insatiable lust for winning and that he will continue to play football instead of retiring on top. At the end, he challenges those who take issue with this by using his puppet voice, showing rarely-seen genuine emotion:
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Screams Like a Little Girl
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Screams Like a Little Girl: This is Marouane Fellaini's reaction upon seeing Neymar's dead body in the eighth episode.
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Hand Puppet Mockery
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Hand Puppet Mockery: Leo Messi uses his hand puppet to project out loud his most unsavory thoughts and opinions, including taunting rival players. For example, coming back from a party with the other La Liga teams, the puppet takes a swipe at Real Madrid's recent performance: "Now you are just like your season: totally wasted!". The season 1 finale has Luka Modric reveal his own hand puppet, which leads to a comedic trading of insults between them.
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Butt-Monkey
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Butt-Monkey: Manchester United gets this treatment as a whole throughout the series, whether it is through the dysfunction with manager Jose Mourinho and his players (particularly Paul Pogba) in season 1, or their general incompetence and eventual expulsion in season 2 even after Mourinho is sacked. Their appearance in the season 3 finale takes further kicks at the team, with Chelsea players rejecting their offer for a ride out of the ravaged, destroyed mansion and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer driving United's bus into a ditch immediately afterward. Even after Galactic VAR undoes the damage from the meteor strike, the bus is still stuck in the ditch much to the amusement of Pep Guardiola, Harry Kane and José Mourinho.
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Big Fancy House
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Big Fancy House: As the intro to each episode shows, Chateau du Champions is a huge property that includes a full-size football pitch, a large garden that one can easily get lost in (as at least two groups led by Harry Kane can attest to), a helicopter landing pad, a pool in the shape of the Champions League trophy, a very fancy entrance foyer and a mess hall large enough for all of the residents. Each of the 32 teams also has their own room that are living quarters for their players and managers (as well as any additional residents they bring along, like Barcelona's child trainees, Dortmund's ultras that form their room's Yellow Wall, and Paris-Saint Germain housing both Neymar's entourage and Mauro Icardi's wife).
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Glass Smack and Slide
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Glass Smack and Slide: Dejan Lovren's attempt to prove that the dome covering the Champions League Mansion is a fake projection by Bill Gates leads to him crashing a rocket into it. He slides down ass backwards and upside down.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: "Hey, Cristiano? I don't think we're in UEFA anymore..." — Lionel Messi, after realizing he and Ronaldo have been transported to a parallel universe where the Super League took off and seemingly replaced the Champions League for good. After some more inter-universe travel shenanigans, in the next episode an Alternate Universe version of Jürgen Klopp follows it up with an even bigger whammy: "What is football? There's no such thing called football." After Neymar thanks Cristiano Ronaldo for calling him to invite him down to Saudi Arabia, Ronaldo responds with "I never called you."
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No Navel, Novel Birth
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No Navel, Novel Birth: Virgil van Dijk apparently has no belly button. Dejan Lovran deduces that it's because he's a clone, which is confirmed when he stumbles upon Liverpool's laboratory. After the Virgil clones capture Dejan, his clone shows up to assure the Zenit players that he's done with the clone conspiracy theory. Malcolm takes notice that the clone doesn't have a belly button, which his teammates dismiss as Lovran being a weirdo.
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Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!
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Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: After filming Marco Reus face planting at the arcade, Alphonso Davies immediately announces his intention to post the video on TikTok.
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Dreaming of a White Christmas
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Dreaming of a White Christmas: While fighting in The Thunderdome, Angel Di Maria notices that it's snowing in the Champions League dome. Initially the players all stop to admire the snowfall, that is until Thomas Muller determines that the snow in question is actually asbestos from the ceiling, putting a damper on the festivities.
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Hero of Another Story
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Hero of Another Story: The closing moments of the season 1 finale reveal that the Europa League teams live in another house not far from the Champions House. As Eden Hazard declares to a horrified Mauro Icardi, "it's not so bad, but also not so good". It's still enough of a downgrade that when Manchester United offers the now-promoted Chelsea shelter in Europa House during the chaos of the meteor strike, the Chelsea players reject the offer with manager Frank Lampard noting they'd rather take their chances in the devastated mansion.
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Snark-to-Snark Combat
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Snark-to-Snark Combat: Cristiano Ronaldo's roast in the season 5 finale eventually turns into a battle of disses with Lionel Messi... which Ronaldo seems to enjoy much more than getting roasted. A short aired before the 2022 Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid features Virgil van Dijk and Karim Benzema trading barbs on behalf of their respective sides. You can read it all on the Quotes page.
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Renaissance Man: Paul Pogba tries to portray himself as one on the season 1 Reunion Show to defuse José Mourinho's comments about his supposed lack of focus.
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Smoking Is Cool: Maurizio Sarri is always seen lighting up or smoking a cigarette. He's even smoking when he's unceremoniously dumped out of the mansion via trash compactor by Andrea Pirlo in the season 4 premier.
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Extra Digits: Shaktar Donetsk goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov has six fingers on each hand. It's implied to be the result of a nuclear radiation-induced mutation from his time playing for Pripyat Roentgens.
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Face of a Thug: Jamie Vardy may look like a psychopath and chug Red Bulls excessively, but he insists it’s to help young Champions League players appreciate what they have in the Champions League Mansion.
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Big Eater: In the panic room, Gonzalo Higuaín scarfs down a year's worth of food reserves in one sitting.
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Marco Reus and Mario Gotze look for Christian Pulisic, Reus determines that Pulisic, like every American, would be at the weisswurst breakfast station after breakfast. If you look carefully in the background, fellow American Weston McKennie is also there. The print from the Generic Online Map Service that Lewandowski uses to guide the Bayern players back to the house in the season 4 premiere: The second episode of Champions Chat has Lionel Messi's puppet with a mug with the text "I expected Morata Spain."
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Gilligan Cut: Happens as Jürgen Klopp talks about Liverpool's upcoming victory ball to the Confession Cam.
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No Wrong Answers Except That One: Though not explicitly referred to as a dumb idea by the Goalkeepers Union, Brad Guzan’s proposal that keepers should wear big hats that cover the whole goal so they can sit on their butts is met with incredulity and some very odd looks by his peers. The chair of the Keepers Union, Manuel Neuer even has to pause to process the stupidity he just heard before asking for other suggestions.
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Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!/"We're Live" Realization: In season 2, when Diego Costa recalls why he and the rest of Atletico Madrid kept the mansion's underground fight club a secret from Antoine Griezmann:
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Expressive Hair: Marco Reus's hair jumps out of his head for a moment when he's irate at Christian Pulisic wanting to attend Bayern's Oktoberfest party.
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Once Done, Never Forgotten: Loris Karius's fumbled throw against Karim Benzema on the 2018 Champions League final seems to have sentenced him to perpetual infamy. The book that activates the Bookcase Passage to Diego Simeone's secret fight club is "Goalkeeping Essentials", written by him, and Simeone himself calls it "the book no one reads". Later on, Jürgen Klopp implies that it was that incident that convinced Liverpool's owners to spend a lot of money in signing Alisson to replace him, and in the season finale we get this dialogue after the goalies fail to stop the meteor from hitting Earth:
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Christmas Episode: The season 4 finale is the series' first, with Robert Lewandowski being gifted a Ballon d'Or by his Bayern Munich teammates devolving into arguments among the rest of the Champions League Mansion's residents over who deserves the honor more, with the whole thing eventually escalating into a parody of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
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Ocular Gushers: Joao Felix, after Cristiano Ronaldo promises to retire from the Portuguese national team, but doesn't give a straight answer as to when.
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Stealth Hi/Bye: During Jose Mourinho's party for his Manchester United team, one of his predecessors makes a quick visit:
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Clone Army: Dejan Lovran discovers that Liverpool has a secret laboratory with an army of Virgil van Dijk clones, explaining why he is able to run at perfect health while recovering from injury and not breaking a sweat.
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Baritone of Strength: Being the resident Big Guy in Atlético de Madrid, Diego Costa also gets a deep voice to match this portrayal.
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Is This Thing Still On?: After storming off the stage for his roast, Cristiano Ronaldo goes to the restroom and while doing his business, promptly goes off on a rant about his fellow footballers without realizing his microphone is still on, broadcasting his ranting to those same footballers in attendance. After Marcelo finally reminds him of his hot mic, Ronaldo sheepishly returns to the stage while getting greeted by a much colder reception than when he left.
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Please Subscribe to Our Channel
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Please Subscribe to Our Channel: Starting with season 2, the videos end with players urging the viewer to subscribe to B/R Football. Season 4 sees Lionel Messi's football puppet do the promotional spots instead. Of note is the season 3 episode 4 spot, where Raheem Sterling gets to instead promote the channel's new interactive game:
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The Ageless: Parodied with veteran goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon when several Juventus members shut themselves in the panic room during the chaos of the season 3 finale:
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Eagleland: The series is more than happy to take its shots at American soccer, with American players typically portrayed as 'Murica the Boorish and generally poking fun at the failure of the US men's national team. Christian Pulisic, at both Dortmund and Chelsea, is generally a naive dope who finds himself in over his head trying to fit in, and pissing off his European teammates as a result. It's not until he becomes a regular scorer for Chelsea that he gains the trust of manager Frank Lampard. Pulisic's hometown is also made fun of on the fourth episode: In the 2019 knockout stage draw short, Schalke's Weston McKennie shows off his basic understanding of how the Champions League works: Season 3 introduces Brad Guzan, star goalkeeper for MLS's Atlanta United who seems to be only around to make jokes between the similar spellings of Atlanta and Atalanta. Surprisingly, he is a member of the Goalkeepers Union, one of two non-Champions League keepers in their ranks along with Manchester United's David de Gea. Pulisic's first appearance shows him reading "The Encyclopedia of USMNT Success." It's quickly revealed that the "encyclopedia" is little more than a sheet of paper. Major League Soccer gets made fun of pretty hard in the first episode of season 2, via a commercial that retired star Andrea Pirlo shows to Cristiano Ronaldo: In the second episode of season 6, one of the alternate universes Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo travel to has the US winning the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which causes both stars to laugh in response before continuing on their interdimensional travel.
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Bait-and-Switch Comparison: Cristiano Ronaldo does this to himself when discussing retirement with Andrea Pirlo:
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Armor-Piercing Question: Cristiano Ronaldo bluntly asks Zlatan if it's his destiny to win the Champions League, then why hasn't he won it by now? Neymar further drives the point home that Zlatan has played for all the big European teams, and couldn't even win at Barcelona, with Lionel Messi pointing out that they won after they sold him... as did Inter, which Zlatan then notices. Even his dojo masters, or more specifically his mirror reflections point out that Zlatan hasn't even played in a UCL final.
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Twinkle Smile: Exaggerated with Roberto Firmino, whose choppers are shiny enough for Philippe Coutinho to use them as a spotlight during his magic show in the seventh episode.
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Snowball Lie: Frank Lampard's motivational technique for Christian Pulisic. Initially he tells him that if Pulisic plays well this season he'll recommend him for the British Secret Service. After Pulisic takes being a secret agent way too seriously, Lampard creates a fake spy mission in the hopes that it will tire Christian out and make him want to give up espionage, to the point where he recruits Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Luis Suarez, and Sergio Ramos, as well as Pulisic's Chelsea teammates to play roles. After bungling through the fake mission and "saving" "Queen Elizabeth" (actually Lampard in drag), Pulisic insists he wants to do even more spy work, to which Lampard admits that he's sent Pulisic on a downward spiral of self delusion and that the only way to fix this is to create an even bigger lie. Lampard/Elizabeth then tells Pulisic that his next mission is to go deep undercover as a Chelsea footballer, and under no circumstances is he to tell anyone he's a spy. Pulisic, being the naive dope he is, completely buys it.
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Honking Arriving Car: In Season 6, episode 3, as Cristiano Ronaldo creates a football utopia in an alternate universe without football, three busses roll up and sound their horns together in a way that resembles notes from the anthem for the UEFA Champions League.
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Shared Universe: Gridiron Heights and The Champions apparently are based in the same universe, as evidenced by a Freeze-Frame Bonus in the Hardwood Hills episode of the former, where the Champions League Mansion is listed on the map as the stop after Hardwood Hills.
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Dark Horse Victory: After Atalanta surprisingly made it out of the group stage in the 2019-20 season (their very first Champions League appearance), one of their animated counterparts points out how unexpected this was, even to the players, in the annual knockout stage draw short:
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Air Quotes: After Jurgen Klopp's tirade from losing another Liverpool player due to injury, Klopp is asked by the producers about what happened. He responds by sarcastically commenting, complete with air quotes that apparently he's "unhinged", that you can't "yell" at the staircase, and "therapy would be good for [him]".
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Dramatic Drop: Upon discovering a billboard set up by Zlatan Ibrahimovic to warn the house about his impending arrival, a shocked Eden Hazard drops the hamburger he was eating.
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In season 2 episode 4, Diego Simeone advises to Antoine Griezmann, "Let's go somewhere that doesn't smell like a Porto-potty" while they're in the bathroom. As they leave, cut to a nearby stall in the same bathroom, where poor Pepe, on a toilet in full Porto gear, looks on sadly (while reading "Everyone Pepes", at that).
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After some more inter-universe travel shenanigans, in the next episode an Alternate Universe version of Jürgen Klopp follows it up with an even bigger whammy: "What is football? There's no such thing called football."
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Bait-and-Switch: When Jamie Vardy tours Europa House with the young Champions League footballers, he brings them to Arsenal's room. They are horrified to see what looks like blood on the walls and on their kits, though Vardy assures them that it's just their away jerseys and he was pointing out that their rooms are incredibly small. During Jose Mourinho’s anger management seminar, he invites Antonio Conte to stand up, then proceeds to insult him on multiple fronts, including not matching his achievements at Chelsea or Inter Milan, buying old and useless players, match fixing, and of course his hairpiece. Conte explodes in anger, predictably. Jurgen Klopp asks if this is an anger management exercise, which Mourinho responds it isn’t, but it’s a good idea.
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Denser and Wackier: While the show has always relied on wacky hijinks for comedy, season 4 turns up the wackiness with longer episodes and more surreal elements such as the many horrors in Europa House or the existence of a Clone Army of Virgil van Dijks.
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Unnecessary Combat Roll: Parodied to mock Neymar's tendency to dive and feign injuries, as rolling on the ground while clutching his foot seems to be his favorite way to move around the Champions House. In fact, his very first scene has him jump out of an ambulance and roll over all the way to Lionel Messi, then stand next to him without a problem as they take a selfie (or more accurately, Neymar takes a selfie also featuring a very small fraction of Messi's head).
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Didn't Think This Through: Marcelo is forced to admit a few problems in the "Beyond Ballon d'Ome" concept:
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José Mourinho is constantly commanding respect for his accolades, and gets jealous when Jürgen Klopp replaces him as Pep Guardiola's main rival, as demonstrated by this Confession Cam during the Paintball Episode:
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The Killjoy: Jose Mourinho is a humorless grump who believes the only acceptable strategy of football is slow and defensive, constantly demands respect from his players, opposing players and fellow managers for his countless achievements and in general is no fun to be around.
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Cargo Ship: Emi Martinez is shown (offscreen) dry humping his Golden Glove trophy during the Champions Chat finale, then in the Season 7 Premiere, does the same with a pool noodle in the background.
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Mic Drop: Alphonso Davies mimics the gesture with the Whack-a-Ref hammer after trouncing Giovanni Reyna at the game (and with a perfect score, at that).
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Dynamic Entry: Mario Balotelli makes his entrance in the sixth episode by ramming a car through the wall of the theater Luka Modric is making his speech to children.
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Heel Realization: After the United States and England crash Brazil's "World Cup Favorites" party, Brendon Aaronson and Raheem Sterling realize their respective actions and attitudes have made them look insufferable compared to their counterparts.
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Christmas Carolers: Harry Kane, David Luiz (in clown makeup), Jamie Vardy (holding a Red Bull), and a clearly unamused Jose Mourinho playing the triangle carol at the Champions league mansion before being shooed away by Cristiano Ronaldo. Later on, at the Christmas feast, they are presented a turkey by Marcus Rashford outside the window.
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Big Bad: Sergio Ramos plays the Bond villain for Frank Lampard's fake spy mission for Christian Pulisic. As he lampshades, "Who else? No, seriously, who else would be the bad guy?"
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Never My Fault: During one of the intros, Jürgen Klopp comments that every time Liverpool gets a bad result, he takes a hard look in the mirror... and blames essentially everything and everyone but himself and his players. Comes up again in season 5, when Klopp's attempts to prevent more injuries to his team backfire as one of them falls down a staircase in the mansion, he promptly goes into a raging fit and blames the staircase itself and an open window nearby.
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Money, Dear Boy: Two in-universe examples. First, Tyga's justification for why he agreed to be a part of Luka Modric's entourage: And at the start of season 3, why Matthijs de Ligt joined Juventus: This is listed as the reason why many of the players leaving for Saudi Arabia are going. Most notably Ronaldo convinces Neymar that even though he's injured he'd still get paid a lot of money to just stand around on the pitch. Similarly, Karim Benzema tells Ronaldo or rather, Kylian Mbappe pretending to be Ronaldo, that he's only going to Saudi Arabia for the money, not to hang out with him.
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Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Zig-zagged in the first teaser for season 4, in which the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on football and the show itself are briefly discussed:
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Screw Yourself: When the Super League version of Cristiano Ronaldo confronts the original Cristiano Ronaldo in the closet of the Super League fortress, sparks fly as the two are entranced by each other, complete with pink heart visuals and sensual jazz. They even go so far as to feel each other. When Super League Messi buys the two time, Super League Ronaldo cries out "Never forget me Chrissy!"
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HA HA HA—No: Messi and Ronaldo's reaction to entering an Alternate Universe where the United States win the World Cup.
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A Day in the Limelight The goalies get theirs on the fifth episode of season 3, with its first act set in a Goalkeepers Union meeting and the Champions debuts of the likes of Keylor Navas, Andriy Pyatov (the very first appearance by a Shaktar Donetsk player) and Wojciech Szczęsny. The only non-goalkeeper featured in the episode is Thomas Müller (and if you pay attention, Kyle Walker). After getting teased in the season 1 finale, season 4 episode 3 finally takes a look at Europa League House, where Leicester City's Jamie Vardy shows around some of the younger players of the Champions League Mansion to get them to appreciate what they've got.
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Sarcasm Mode: The Chelsea players who act as hostages for Christian Pulisic's fake spy mission, especially when he cuts them down directly into the pool of gold paint.
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Kylian Mbappe incurs Erling Haaland's wrath when he says that Norway's inability to be a World Cup contender makes Haaland just a goal scorer. Haaland pops out of hiding with a soccer ball cannon of his own, offers a Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "That's a shirt sleeve too far." before doing battle with Mbappe.
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He may be a foul-collecting, bite-happy, human-eating nuisance, but Luis Suárez will not tolerate bad words about his mother, as Diego Costa finds out the hard way after a fight between the two in Fightlético:
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Cool Crown: Bayern Munich's Alphonso Davies owns and wears a huge crown, as a part of his self-appointed title as King of TikTok.
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As Himself: Kate Abdo, the then-host for Turner Sports' coverage of the Champions League, voices her cartoon self in the season 1 finale.
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Status Quo Is God: The mansion and it's residents are surprisingly resillent to change, and are able to bounce back quickly from drastic events such as the meteor strike in season 3 or Kylian Mbappe's Darker and Edgier reboot in season 7.
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Obfuscating Stupidity: The closing moments of the second episode of season 4 hint that Christian Pulisic's spy antics were him deliberately putting on a show to prevent Frank Lampard from ever knowing he really is an agent of the Queen's Secret Service.
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Neymar's most obvious fault; the man is ridiculously self-centered to the detriment and irritation of his Paris-Saint Germain teammates. This blows up in season 3, episode 4, which aired after a summer where in Real Life Neymar almost transferred out of the club, but stayed much to the annoyance of PSG supporters.
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The Friend Nobody Likes: Gareth Bale is this to Real Madrid, with season 2 episode 2 focusing on his isolation from the rest of his teammates. A large part of this divison is Bale's focus on getting a good night's sleep and golfing in his spare time compared to his teammates' regular partying with the other Spanish teams, which earns him derision and suspicion from the other Real players:
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Scare 'Em Straight: This is the whole point of the tour of the Europa House some of the young players are given in season 4, as they seem to be getting too complacent in the Champions House and the veterans decide they need to be shown what could happen to them if they rest on their laurels.
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For the Evulz: Atlético de Madrid is portrayed as a bad boy club, with manager Diego Simeone running an underground fight club in the Champions House's basement and notorious players like Diego Costa and Luis Suárez in their roster. This is further exemplified in the 2021 Knockout Stage short with Simeone loudly proclaiming that it's time for chaos before letting out an Evil Laugh with Costa and Suarez joining him. There is also some lampshading from Suárez in the Season 5 Premiere taglines.
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Accidental Misnaming: Cristiano Ronaldo constantly mistakes Gonzalo Higuaín for Karim Benzema. Neymar tries to convince his teammates that he loves Paris Saint-Germain and doesn't want to leave anymore... but then, he calls the team "Paris Saint-Germany".
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At the season 1 Reunion Show, Dan Stevens plays Harry Kane for the second time, until host Kate Abdo identifies him as "Matthew Crawley from Downton Abbey". Stevens corrects her saying he's the actor who played Matthew Crawley, and then points out that he also appeared in the third Night at the Museum movie as Sir Lancelot.
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Be Careful What You Wish For: In the season 6 premiere, right before their shots open a hole in the space-time continuum that sends them out into The Multiverse, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo both wish they "could be the GOATnote Usual acronym among sports fans for "Greatest Of All Time". forever". And indeed, when they arrive at the Super League Alternate Universe, the two find out that their counterparts in that universe are revered as the Greatest Of All Time For All Time, but neither of them cares about winning and losing anymore, which infuriates Ronaldo.
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Totally Not a Criminal Front: During Christian Pulisic's spy mission, the yacht where the villain hides features a massive sign reading "THIS WAY TO THE EVIL LAIR".
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Raging Stiffie: Upon the revelation that he was one of many Dortmund players who had jumped ship to Bayern Munich, Mario Gotze shows off a picture of himself and Pep Guardiola, with Gotze sporting a very noticable bulge. The 2019 knockout stage short has Gotze sporting another one, although his black shorts and the black background mostly hides it.
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Hand Puppet: Messi, and later Modric, let their football speak for itself. As in, they employ football-shaped puppets to say out loud their most politically incorrect thoughts.
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Take That!: At the beginning of Liverpool's victory ball in season 3, Jürgen Klopp has some fun at the expense of other teams, and even a former Liverpool player: Argentina's national team and its reputation for choking in big stages (at least until their 2021 Copa America triumph) also gets a few barbs aimed at it. Similarly, the consistent failure of the US men's national team to come anywhere near the success of the women's squad is frequently mocked. The "Complete Encyclopaedia" of their success is only a sheet of paper, and Christian Pulisic's early appearances in the show are mostly used to take further digs at them: Manchester City's UEFAvision song takes some swipes at their cross-town rival's misfortunes: Kylian Mbappé attempts to lure Erling Haaland into joining a Ligue 1 team so that they can play each other more frequently, which results in the latter taking shots at several top French clubs:
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Hypocritical Humor Towards the end of Liverpool's victory ball in the second episode of season 3, which has been every bit the "insufferable Liverpool wankfest" Raheem Sterling expected it to be, Pep Guardiola snaps at Jurgen Klopp's joke about Manchester City's overspending and rubs in his face that Man City are the reigning Premier League champions while Liverpool hasn't won that title in over 30 years. Klopp responds by chiding Guardiola and Manchester City for being "self-absorbed," despite he and his own team spending most of the evening being exactly that. As if to further illustrate the hypocrisy, the camera pans away to reveal that everybody but Liverpool and Manchester City have already left the party. While he is pleading his case to lead the team of goalkeepers to stop the meteor headed toward Earth, Manuel Neuer is interrupted by a member of Goalkeepers Union who points out Neuer's advanced age, history of injuries and how time eventually catches even the best players. The hypocrisy is the goalkeeper saying this is Gianluigi Buffon, whose still-active career has lasted almost a decade longer than Neuer's career. After Robert Lewandowski is given the Ballon d'Or as a Christmas present from his Bayern teammates, other players start asking for other awards they think they should have received. Neymar says he wants a Nobel Peace Prize... right before punching Memphis Depay. After Joao Felix breaks down in tears because of what Cristiano Ronaldo said about him on a hot mic, Luis Suarez comes up on stage to console Joao while admonishing Ronaldo for hurting him with his mouth. Keep in mind, this is the same Luis Suarez who has at least twice injured opponents using his mouth.
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The season 2 finale ends with one of these:
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Blood Knight: Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos is known for his aggressive defending, which has led to him racking up a record number of red cards in his career, and the series implies in different instances that a reason for it is that he enjoys tackling opponents. Take, for example, his reaction to someone sliding a red card (actually an invite to Liverpool's victory party) under the door of Real Madrid's dorm in season 3: Parodied later in the same episode, when he is not enjoying the party and begs a referee to send him off. In the season 3 finale, during the chaos caused by the meteor impact, he says "In chaos, everything is legal", laughs mischievously while tearing up a red card, and starts charging at the injured João Félix before Diego Costa intercepts him.
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Americans Hate Tingle: In-universe: During the "Champions of the World" special, Harry Kane is incredulous that the England National Team is not viewed favorably among other nations. Despite his insistence that everyone loves English football, he's corrected by Iran's Mehdi Taremi who clarifies that people love the Premier League. The point is further driven home by fellow Iranian Alireza Jahanbakhsh pointing out the fact that England was not invited to Brazil's World Cup favorites party.
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Jive Turkey: In the 2022 World Cup special, Gareth Bale fashions himself as able to mediate between the England and US squads, due to having spent the past season in Major League Soccer:
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"Hey, Cristiano? I don't think we're in UEFA anymore..." — Lionel Messi, after realizing he and Ronaldo have been transported to a parallel universe where the Super League took off and seemingly replaced the Champions League for good.
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Useless Without Cellphones: When Robert Lewandowski breaks the cell phones of his younger teammates while in the middle of the mansion's cornfield, they complain that they now are unable to find their way back to the mansion. Their anger at Lewandowski, ironically enough, motivates him to use old-fashioned pathfinding techniques to find their way back home.
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It's All About Me: Neymar's most obvious fault; the man is ridiculously self-centered to the detriment and irritation of his Paris-Saint Germain teammates. This blows up in season 3, episode 4, which aired after a summer where in Real Life Neymar almost transferred out of the club, but stayed much to the annoyance of PSG supporters. José Mourinho is constantly commanding respect for his accolades, and gets jealous when Jürgen Klopp replaces him as Pep Guardiola's main rival, as demonstrated by this Confession Cam during the Paintball Episode:
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Precision F-Strike: Cristiano Ronaldo's reaction to Leo Messi asking him about the Europa League in the World Cup special:
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In season 5 episode 2, Bruno Fernandes finds himself in the anger management class for managers by mistake, excusing himself out while holding a brochure for "Penalties Anonymous." Later in the episode, when an angered Zinedine Zidane crashes through several walls out of the building, one of the rooms he passes through is that Penalties Anonymous meeting, with Fernandes, Mohamed Salah, Robert Lewandowski and Cristiano Ronaldo in attendance.
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I Am Not Spock
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I Am Not Spock: In-universe example. In the season 1 finale, Dan Stevens, standing in for Harry Kane, breaks character and takes exception to being called Matthew Crawley.
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Ring-Ring-CRUNCH!: The Season 5 premiere has Sergio Ramos punching and breaking an alarm clock and throwing it out his bedroom's window, right onto a mountain of broken alarm clocks.
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Show Within a Show: Leo Messi's puppet gets a talk show called Champions Chat where he highlights the best players during the 2022 World Cup.
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Fun with Acronyms: Due to sleeping with his hat-trick balls,note For the uninitiated: it is something of a tradition in football that players who score three goals (a hat-trick) or more during a game get to keep the ball, which is then signed by their teammates. and because he keeps adding more to his collection, Erling Haaland is becoming worried that he might contract an STD... that is, a Sweet Transfer Deal.
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Bait-and-Switch Comment: When Cristiano Ronaldo gifts the UEFA Nations League trophy to João Félix, this dialogue happens: When he realizes that his plan to motivate Christian Pulisic by promising him a future job as a spy has spun out of control, Frank Lampard decides it's time to "call in the big guns". So he gives José Mourinho a ring... to ask him for Zlatan Ibrahimovic's number.
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Big "NO!" Cristiano Ronaldo has one after finding out Lionel Messi's gift to him is a recreation of the infamous bust of himself. Jadon Sancho lets out one after Brendan Rodgers predicts his fate is ending up in Major League Soccer.
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Squee: Christian Pulisic's reaction to getting a spy mission from Zlatan Ibrahimovic is an excited "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my Goooood!"
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Shout-Out: In the first episode, Cristiano Ronaldo's idea of "traditional Italian clothing" is revealed to be a Mario costume. During Barcelona's trip to the pottery shop, Malcom creates a model of Ivan Rakitic that's just Son Goku. Gerard Pique notes that "the likeness is uncanny." To show off his American accent trick, Kyle Walker calls himself "Kyle Walker, Texas Ranger." As part of Luka Modric's "Flair Five" makeover, Paul Pogba tries different hairstyles on him. One of them is "The Rachel". At the season 1 Reunion Show, Dan Stevens plays Harry Kane for the second time, until host Kate Abdo identifies him as "Matthew Crawley from Downton Abbey". Stevens corrects her saying he's the actor who played Matthew Crawley, and then points out that he also appeared in the third Night at the Museum movie as Sir Lancelot. When Neymar interrupts a Paris Saint-Germain game film study to show off a YouTube highlight of one of his goals, one of the related videos is an episode of Game of Zones. Fittingly, the thumbnail features Jimmy Butler. Jamie Vardy uses a lot of references to The Shining while attempting to scare Jadon Sancho and the other young Champions League players straight. When Sancho laughs off the scare attempts, Vardy asks him if he finds him funny like a clown. During the season 4 finale, the fight in "Beyond Ballon d'Ome" is hosted by Marcelo in full Aunty Entity costume. The VARcade in season 5 episode 4 is full of footy-themed references to arcade classics, including Celebrate Celebrate Revolution and GOAT Fighter. At the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Brenden Aaronson reveals that he and the rest of the US team learned about the US Revolutionary War through a documentary they watched on the plane ride over... and holds up a Hamilton DVD. His US teammate Weston McKennie is also seen pulling Harry Potter moves in their stay at the International Inn, mostly to the irritation of team England.
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Big Friendly Dog: Lionel Messi's dog Hulk makes a couple appearances and while he's already rather large compared to his master in Real Life, the series has the hound stand as tall as Messi and Messi is able to ride on him as a mount.
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Argentina's national team and its reputation for choking in big stages (at least until their 2021 Copa America triumph) also gets a few barbs aimed at it.
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Rage Breaking Point: After dealing with Pep Guardiola, then Mauricio Pochettino going overboard to get him to sleep in their respective team's beds, as well as both of them arguing, and Barcelona panickedly texting him, Lionel Messi snaps and (through his puppet) angrily tells off Pep and Poch for trying to buy him without asking what he wants.
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Parodies for Dummies: In the series premiere, Cristiano Ronaldo explains a few of the things he has done to prepare for his move to Italy upon joining Juventus, including "reading up on local politics". At this point he shows a book titled "Right Wing Populism for Stunads". The back cover of the book also features an alleged review from Benito Mussolini that claims "This book helped me get all the trains running on time".
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Speaking Like Totally Teen: Robert Lewandowski speaks like this when hanging out with the younger players on Bayern Munich, much to their exasperation.
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Paintball Episode: The fifth episode features Pep Guardiola taking the Manchester City players paintballing... and the other three English teams crashing the game.
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Gianni Infantino is this to a T in the World Cup special, a reference to the controversy involved in Qatar getting the World Cup.
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As Cristiano Ronaldo is reassuring João Félix after their The Door Slams You incident described above, one of his reassurances is immediately undercut by another arriving star:
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New Friend Envy: Jadon Sancho does not take Erling Haaland's invite to the Expensive AF FC friend group too well because of Paul Pogba (who's in the group) ghosting him after inviting him to the movies.
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Cassandra Truth: Even though most of his theories turn out to be correct, Dejan Lovren is written off as a weirdo by his Zenit teammates.
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The Thunderdome: Marcelo proposes this to determine who rightfully deserves Robert Lewandowski's Ballon D'or. Initially the rules are "9 men enter, one man leaves" but after everyone involved expresses confusion about the rules, as well as the fact that the ceremony is called "Beyond Ballon D'ome" when the action is in the thunder dome, Marcelo admits he focused a bit too much on the costumes and production design at the expense of the rules.
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Toilet Humor: During the opening scene of the sixth episode, Sergio Ramos is shown emerging from a bathroom stall labeled "Kaka". When the camera pans to show an arriving Marcelo, it reveals one of the nearby urinals is labeled "Pepe". In season 2 episode 4, Diego Simeone advises to Antoine Griezmann, "Let's go somewhere that doesn't smell like a Porto-potty" while they're in the bathroom. As they leave, cut to a nearby stall in the same bathroom, where poor Pepe, on a toilet in full Porto gear, looks on sadly (while reading "Everyone Pepes", at that).
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Unconventional Learning Experience: Invoked by Marcus Rashford and Juan Mata in order to get the younger Champions League players to appreciate what they have at the Champions League mansion, by way of sending them to Europa House, with a Red Bull-chugging Jamie Vardy serving as their tour guide.
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Writing Around Trademarks: Played for Laughs. During the intro to an episode, new Juventus player Matthijs de Ligt appears and starts saying, "Ever since I was a young boy, I dreamed of playing for Juv—" before a robotic voiceover cuts in and completes the sentence with "Piemonte Calcio".
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Waxing Lyrical: During the pottery class in episode 2, Gerard Piqué is making a Latin Grammy for girlfriend Shakira, which allows a little wordplay with one of her songs.
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Right Hand Versus Left Hand
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Right Hand Versus Left Hand: Neymar's apparent disconnect from the rest of the Paris Saint-Germain roster, particularly fellow striker Edinson Cavani, is highlighted on several occasions. In the 2019 last 16 draw short, Neymar cuts in Cavani's line: And again during UEFAvision. While Cavani, Kylian Mbappé and Gianluigi Buffon play a rock song, Neymar shows up to the stage in full mime gear and starts miming, when he was presumably supposed to be the vocalist. The goalkeepers driving Goaltron have different ideas on how to face the meteor that they have to stop. Especially Marc-Andre ter Stegen and Manuel Neuer, who are handling the robot's head together, yet can't seem to agree on pretty much anything. Unsurprisingly, this causes the mission to fail, as the meteor passes right between Goaltron's legs and destroys the Champions House.
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: During the season 3 finale, in the aftermath of the meteor impact that has wrecked the Champions House, two Red Star Belgrade players are warming up in the middle of the debris like it's no big deal. Earlier in the same episode, this is Dele Alli's reaction to the devastated mansion around him:
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Implied in Ajax's UEFAvision performance, where Dusan Tadic, Matthijs de Ligt and Frenkie de Jong's act is credited as "Ajax ft. the Barcelona Juniors", and after quickly recounting the team's elimination against Tottenham in the semi-finals, the players say "Now it's transfer time!". The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue at the end of the episode confirms that, indeed, De Ligt and De Jong are gone from Ajax. Just an episode earlier, the news that Antoine Griezmann would be leaving Atlético for Barcelona was also written into the show. After picking a fight with Cristiano Ronaldo and getting him to back away, this happens: In season 4, after some of the young players are caught trying to dig a contraband tunnel under the dome, Marcus Rashford and Juan Mata decide to arrange a tour of the Europa House for them. Mason Greenwood, having already resided there for a season with Manchester United, promptly bails out on the rest of rulebreakers.
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Did Not Do the Bloody Research
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Did Not Do the Bloody Research: After moving to Chelsea from Borussia Dortmund, Christian Pulisic tries a bit too hard to fit in in England:
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Hell Hotel: Europa House. As Eden Hazard and Jamie Vardy point out, it's not so bad, but it's not so good either. The lightbulbs are incandescent, the free breakfast buffet has no eggs, the exercise room only has one elliptical, the Stadio Olympic sized swimming pool has no towels, the rooms are too small, and the sauna never gets hot. Also David Luiz and Brendan Rodgers haunt the hotel. The International Inn at the 2022 World Cup is much smaller than the mansion FIFA's corporate sponsors get to stay in the for the tournament, and acording to Gianni Infantino, it was built in a day. The kicker is that it requires all four teams in each group to share a room, much to the players' disgust.
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Ma'am Shock
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Ma'am Shock: Or more appropriately, "Legend Shock" for Cristiano Ronaldo when Kylian Mbappe asks him to sign a infant onesie that Mbappé wore as a baby, and then call Ronaldo a legend after that:
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Chair Reveal: In the first episode of Season 7, we are led to believe that Cristiano Ronaldo is recruiting players to Saudi Arabia as part of an evil plan to take over the Champions Mansion. This is further accentuated by the fact that we don't see Ronaldo's face, or body for that matter, but the unknown figure is sitting in a large swivel char with a number 7 on it. In the second episode, after Karim Benzema notes that Ronaldo sounds oddly French when he talks, we finally see who's sitting in the chair: It's Kylian Mbappe - who's using a Cristiano Ronaldo voice changer to disguise his voice - who's luring all the older players to Saudi Arabia in the hopes of starting a football New World Order and reigniting the GOAT discussion between him and Erling Haaland.
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Manchester City's UEFAvision song takes some swipes at their cross-town rival's misfortunes:
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Disguised in Drag
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Disguised in Drag: Frank Lampard dresses up as Queen Elizabeth as part of his fake spy mission for Christian Pulisic.
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Art Evolution
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Art Evolution: Starting with season 3, there's a more consistent level of detail applied to the drawings of the characters, particularly those that played minor or side roles in the first two seasons. While there isn't as much a difference for players and managers who were already regular fixtures (e.g. Messi, Ronaldo, Kane, Ramos, Klopp) the likes of Matthijs de Ligt, Thibaut Courtois and Andrea Pirlo show up in the later two seasons with much more detailed and expressive faces than their first appearances.
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Pokémon Speak
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Pokémon Speak: Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne speaks like this most of the time.
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Sudden Morbid Monologue: While at (an already awkward) dinner, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are interrupted by Eric Cantona, who is taking their order. Cantona proceeds to deliver an incredibly unsettling monologue that unnerves both Messi and Ronaldo, who share terrified glances at each other until Cantona finishes.
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Catchphrase
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Catchphrase: "Kevin". Neymar greets other players with "What's good, my man?".
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Humongous Mecha
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Humongous Mecha: The fifth episode of season 3 introduces us to Goaltron, a Soviet-built giant robot goalkeeper that has spent three decades hidden under a football pitch in Ukraine, in the abandoned town of Pripyat, near Chernobyl. Five people are needed to pilot it.
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Cristiano Ronaldo is approached by the Gareth Bale's non-football universe counterpart, Bale offers his services as a translator since in this universe he's apparently fluent in multiple languages, to Ronaldo's shock. Sergio Ramos then approaches Bale and says he loves him, to which a skeptical Ronaldo asks what his deal is. Ramos bluntly replies he's a monk, furthering Ronaldo's shock.
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Freudian Slip
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Freudian Slip: Thomas Mueller fires off a bunch when he begins investigating Neymar's murder. Romelu Lukaku picked a bad time to be standing near the door to the room:
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Younger Than They Look
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Younger Than They Look: Retired Juventus legend Andrea Pirlo is noted to be "suffering" from advanced aging, according to Cristano Ronaldo. In Pirlo's own words, he was "50 years old since [he] was 25."
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Exact Words
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Exact Words: During the season 1 reunion episode, Kate Abdo's question for Real Madrid is worded ambiguously, and a certain cross town rival jumps at the chance to steal the spotlight:
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Bookcase Passage: The entrance to 'Fightlético' is one of these:
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You Are Number 6
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You Are Number 6: Played for Laughs. Zlatan Ibrahimovic can't even bother to learn his AC Milan teammates' names, instead referring to them by their shirt numbers.
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Groin Attack: During the Paintball Episode, Kevin gets hit in "De Groin-ye!"
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Big Damn Heroes
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In the season 3 finale, during the chaos caused by the meteor impact, he says "In chaos, everything is legal", laughs mischievously while tearing up a red card, and starts charging at the injured João Félix before Diego Costa intercepts him.
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Spotting the Thread
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Spotting the Thread: When Karim Benzema gets a call from Cristiano Ronaldo in season 7, he realizes that it's not the actual Ronaldo he is talking to upon noticing the caller's French accent, which leads to the reveal that the Ronaldo impersonator that has been calling the veteran players to lure them out of the Champions Mansion is Kylian Mbappé.
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One-Steve Limit
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One-Steve Limit: Parodied in the season 3 premiere, where Luka Modric notes in addition to taking new Real Madrid signee Luka Jovic under his wing, that he also inducted him into his society of "Lukas of Real Madrid" - featuring himself, Jovic and former Real basketball/current NBA star Luka Doncic.
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In season 1 episode 2, Philippe Coutinho uses this to describe the Messi-Ronaldo rivalry: And in season 3 episode 3, Cristiano Ronaldo on the sycophancy of the people in his life:
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Conspicuous Consumption
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Towards the end of Liverpool's victory ball in the second episode of season 3, which has been every bit the "insufferable Liverpool wankfest" Raheem Sterling expected it to be, Pep Guardiola snaps at Jurgen Klopp's joke about Manchester City's overspending and rubs in his face that Man City are the reigning Premier League champions while Liverpool hasn't won that title in over 30 years. Klopp responds by chiding Guardiola and Manchester City for being "self-absorbed," despite he and his own team spending most of the evening being exactly that. As if to further illustrate the hypocrisy, the camera pans away to reveal that everybody but Liverpool and Manchester City have already left the party.
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Too Much Information
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Too Much Information: Implied in the crew's reaction to Ryan Giggs's cheating confession during one of the intros:
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Human Aliens: After an entire episode featuring throwaway lines that would come off as red herrings, season 2 episode 2 reveals that Gareth Bale actually is the member of an very human-like alien species to the point that all their members share the same shape as him.
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Creepy Twins: Parodied by Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson as the guardians of the club's hidden cloning lab.
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Sitcom Archnemesis: Mirroring their own real life rivalry, Jose Mourinho and Paul Pogba are constantly at odds with each other throughout season 1. Even when an unemployed Mourinho shows up to judge the Great British Baking Derby in season 2, he's not above needling at his former player: Ronaldinho serves as this to Sergio Ramos. When Philippe Coutinho offers the former's card as a potential solution to separating his accidental fusion of the latter with Mohamed Salah, a shaken Ramos immediately recognizes the title despite Ronaldinho's name not being on it. Then, when the two fused players meet the legend:
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Verbal Backspace: As Cristiano Ronaldo is reassuring João Félix after their The Door Slams You incident described above, one of his reassurances is immediately undercut by another arriving star: José Mourinho seems to be growing too used to having his teams turn against him:
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Dartboard of Hate
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Dartboard of Hate: The second episode of season 7 reveals that Cristiano Ronaldo has a dartboard with a picture of Erik Ten Hag, who managed him during his disastrous second stint at Manchester United, in his new house in Riyadh.
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Blame Game
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Blame Game: The eighth episode of the first season is a murder mystery centered around Neymar, who is found dead after a Lights Off, Somebody Dies situation. The players are quick to point the finger at each other until Thomas Mueller finally deduces that Neymar was playing dead to avoid having to listen to Harry Kane talk about his wife.
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Consolation Prize
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Consolation Prize: After Jose Mourinho refuses to try any of the English teams' culinary creations and subsequently places every team in 4th, Mauricio Pochettino begs him to consider giving Harry Kane something since "his ankle has been through so much". Mourinho grudgingly relents, awarding Kane the Most Excellent Order of the Baking Empire. His Tottenham teammates celebrate as the other teams leave, before Son Heung-Min asks "So... how are we supposed to beat Liverpool on the pitch?"
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Group Hug
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Group Hug: Robert Lewandowski admits that despite 100% deserving the Ballon D'Or, he'd rather share it with everyone in the Champions League mansion because of how hard 2020 has been. After an initial pause, with Lewandowski looking downcast, he's embraced by Paulo Dybala, then Cristiano Ronaldo, then Neymar before everyone present rushes in for a hug. The hug is so massive that it forms a human Christmas Tree, with Lewandowski holding the Ballon D'Or at the top.
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Don't Explain the Joke: As MC of Cristiano Ronaldo's Roast, Thomas Muller repurposes his Space Interpreter shtick to be a Joke interpreter, telling jokes that either fail to land or which he explains afterwards, to the annoyance of the audience.
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Rhymes on a Dime: Luis Suárez shows off some rhyming skills when jumping into the Blame Game on Neymar's murder:
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Exhausted Eye Bags: Two Barca players are drawn with eye bags: Pedri is shown to have eye bags at the beginning of the season 5 premiere when he shakes’s Leo Messi’s bed to wake him up - a reference to Ronald Koeman overusing him in La Liga. Leo Messi has eye bags and bloodshot eyes due to Pedri, Ansu Fati and Sergino Dest shaking his bed. In the Confession Cam, he acknowledges his inability to sleep due to his discomfort. When asked if it's the beds that are the problem, his puppet starts to blame someone before Messi cuts it off and says it’s the beds.
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Comically Missing the Point: Zlatan Ibrahimovic unveils his plan to get AC Milan, or more specifically, himself back into the Champions League Mansion before the 2021-22 Champions League, building a room worthy of the greatest team in Italian history. Daniel Maldini first guesses Juventus, then Gianluigi Donnarumma follows with Inter. Finally, Rafael Leao guesses Napoli when Diego Maradona was there, leading to Zlatan facepalming.
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Impact Silhouette: After Jurgen Klopp gets Zinedine Zidane to go on a headbutting frenzy by mentioning Marco Materazzi, Zidane headbutts through three walls, leaving his impact in his wake.
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Non-Ironic Clown: Arsenal's David Luiz has a part time gig as a clown:
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Brick Joke In episode 3, José Mourinho sets up a mandatory party to prove everything is going well at Manchester United, and demands Alexis Sánchez play the piano. In the season 3 premiere, when Manchester United have been evicted from the Champions House and Chelsea take over their room, Olivier Giroud finds Alexis still there playing the piano. During Barcelona's trip to the pottery shop, Gerard Pique's scuplture is a Latin Grammy as a gift to his girlfriend Shakira. Fast forward to UEFAvision, and Barcelona brings in Shakira herself as an additional performer for their entry in the musical competition. In the second episode of season 2, when the players of the Spanish teams are partying together, Ivan Rakitic asks Antoine Griezmann if he wants to drink red or white wine, to which he responds, "Hmmmm. That is a tough choice", a graphic of "The Decision" flashes on the screen... and we don't get back to Griezmann until after the credits, when he finally chooses the red, but everyone's already gone by then. In season 5 episode 2, Bruno Fernandes finds himself in the anger management class for managers by mistake, excusing himself out while holding a brochure for "Penalties Anonymous." Later in the episode, when an angered Zinedine Zidane crashes through several walls out of the building, one of the rooms he passes through is that Penalties Anonymous meeting, with Fernandes, Mohamed Salah, Robert Lewandowski and Cristiano Ronaldo in attendance.
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The Corrupter: Kylian Mbappe admits that in trying to wage war with Erling Haaland to make them both better, he forgot about Pep Guardiola's influence and admits that he created a monster.
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