I soliti idioti ("The Usual Idiots") is an Italian television series, starring Francesco Mandelli and Fabrizio Biggio. The series won Best MTV Show at the 2011 TRL Awards.
Characters
Each episode features unique scenes, in which the two main characters (played by Mandelli and Biggio) appear, supported by the appearance of extras who are sometimes inherent in the story but who almost never interact directly with the main characters: Il nichilista (the nihilist): (played by Mandelli) a character inspired by a concept of absolute nihilism. He spends his time in a bar reading a newspaper and inserting himself into the discourses of people sitting next to him, offering his point of view. Gli Sbroccati (the crackpots): two different people, but they have in common the meeting of trivial incidents in various situations, and their over-apologizing to each other whenever they get into heated disagreements. I tifosi (supporters): Two mature and sensible friends, while attending a football match, discuss topics of social significance through deep speeches, which are interspersed with sudden outbursts of cheers, chants, insults and scurrilous gestures when their team or the opposing team scores a goal. Father & Son: a father (Ruggero De Ceglie) and his son (Gianluca), wealthy members of the Roman elite living in a large apartment. In the third episode of the third season, Gianluca says he has never been to Rome and his father Ruggero says that they live in Milan. Ruggero is authoritarian, dishonest and vulgar, while his son is a very naive graduate, a lover of art, nature and technology. His father is very hard on him and frequently leads him to daring and immoral actions, putting him always in trouble. Other related secondary characters that are often mentioned, but seldom appear, are: Ruggero's wife and mother of Gianluca, who is almost always in Jamaica or Australia Fabiana, the ugly girlfriend of Gianluca Chicco, Poniuma, Lello, Ugo, Edoardo and Sergio 'er puzza' ('the stink'), friends of Ruggero Romoletto, the other son of Ruggero and brother of Gianluca The son of Edoardo, mentioned several times by Ruggero, who urges his son to be more like him Marika, a porn star and Ruggero's friend (The Italian film released in theaters in 2011, "I soliti idioti – The Movie," is based on this sketch.) L'amante del primario (the mistress of the primary): an anesthesiologist for two doctors working in a hospital operating room. She is a busty and beautiful woman and uses her charm to have secret relations with the primary Donghi. Il precario (the precarious): an office employee (Mandelli) constantly harassed by work practices, oppressed and ridiculed by his boss (Biggio), often represented as a devil. He tries and fails to convince others to join him and rebel. Dolce attesa (sweet wait): a gay couple trying to have a child, resulting in ridiculous situations, such as asking the pharmacist to verify the pregnancy test, participation in courses for pregnant mothers and visits to the gynecologist. Both characters are called Fabio. The scenes follow the same pattern: the 'father' (Mandelli), has eyes only for his phone, not considering other people, the other (Biggio) is the 'pregnant'. She tries to ask him questions, and he replies with annoyance "I don't know, I don't know ..." Then she tries to socialize other people, but when they look astonished, she accuses them to have trouble seeing homosexuals, and repeats loudly the word "homosexual". In Episode 6 of the third season, Fabio 'the father' claims to be heterosexual. Il rinnovamento della Chiesa (the renewal of the church): two priests, Father Boy (Biggio) and Father Giorgio (Mandelli), work at the Vatican to show Catholic senior echelons, including the Pope, the most extravagant ways to increase the consensus of the mass towards the Catholic Church. Gisella e Sebastiano (Dicaaa, un attimo e sono subito da lei): The same woman (Gisella, played by Biggio) works as a clerk in several public offices, including a post office, a bank, an information center, a police station, a call center, a lost & found office, even as a waitress in a restaurant. The customer (Sebastiano, played by Mandelli) is deceived by the woman in the most improbable ways, sometimes partially stripped before his indifference. Sebastiano is forced to repeat his requests several times, as Gisella constantly repeats, "Dicaaa ..." (in English, "please tell"), and then answering, "Just a moment and I'm right with you". Then she continues to rotate on the chair, to say and do the same things, then calls his colleague Bertelli, never finishing anything.