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* [[Efficient Displacement]]: When the Súper wants to assign some dangerous mission to Mortadelo and Filemón (especially testing Bacterio's latest invention) he usually finds only their silhouettes in a nearby wall.
* [[Exact Words]]: If you ask Mortadelo to check for any guard dogs, he won't warn you about the hungry crocodile... Also, if he tells you that there is "nothing" behind a door, don't go rushing through it too fast.
* [[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 suppresing [[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 "[[World War One|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 [[Crossover|Cross Overed]] with Mortadelo y Filemón), a parodic [[Mad Scientist]] that built monsters for a living, was eventually written out and substitued by a taylor because the dead-hard 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.
* [[Franchise Zombie]]: The series has been accused of this since roughly the early 2000's. [[Your Mileage May Vary]], of course.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: Ibáñez is a ''master'' of these. In fact, he makes it a goal to put, at least, 2 or 3 of these events on every page. (one doubles as a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]])
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