Mortadelo y Filemón/Trivia


 * Executive Meddling: A lot in the early years - the Bruguera company even tried to "steal" the characters from Ibañez and give them to other authors a couple of times. He also had to deal with the Francoist official censorship, which was pretty hard at suppressing Toilet Humor and anything that denoted "subversion". For instance, the cops are called "gendarmes" and their uniforms and cars do not look anything like the Spanish police ones of the time; when a character made any reference to the Spanish Civil War it either disappeared or was changed to "the '14 war", a war in which Spain never took part, and so on. One character of 13 Rue del Percebe (another comic strip from the same author that sometimes Cross Overed with Mortadelo y Filemón), a parodic Mad Scientist that built monsters for a living, was eventually written out and substituted by a tailor because the hardline Catholic government thought that "Only God can create life". This is also why women do not appear at all in late 50s strips - each time Ibáñez drew one, the censors eliminated so much curves that it ended looking like a broomstick.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!:
 * In the video-game adaptations. In "Una aventura de cine" (arguably the best so far ever made), Filemón is voiced by Carlos Revilla, widely known in Spain as the first Homer Simpson.
 * In the second version of the same game, Mortadelo is voiced by Luis Posada, more known as Jim Carrey's usual dub voice actor. He's also the usual voice actor for Johnny Depp and was for Leonardo DiCaprio during the late 90's.
 * Recycled Script: Post Seasonal Rot, several albums have been accused of this. For example, "El tirano" being a remake from "Objetivo eliminar al rana", "La MIER" from "Cacao espacial"...