On November 11, 2005, four days after the Cuatro network began broadcasting free-to-air, the program Callejeros premiered for the first time on television. Until 2014, it would become one of the most surprising and striking spaces in Spanish programming, earning a reputation as a discovery program thanks to the huge number of characters that would take over its screens for 9 years.
It was exactly on March 25, 2014 when the original stage of Callejeros came to an end. However, tonight at 10:50 p.m., the space is resurrected thanks to the efforts of the production company Señor Mono and a new team of reporters. A fact that will mark one of the most outstanding television moments of the year, and for which many people have looked back, remembering some of the most surreal scenes in the history of the program.
One of the most notable examples is that of Ares, who occupied the screens of half of Spain with the phrase “pim, pam, drink Lacasitos” during a breathalyzer test. The fragment went viral thanks to television clipping programs, such as APM? from 3Cat. In 2019, the Soria native reappeared in a Michelin advertising campaign, with the intention of raising awareness among the population about the problems caused by alcohol while driving.
Another moment praised by Spanish society was that of the Mutxamel Eclipse Gunmen: two young people who were intercepted by the Civil Guard, exceeding the blood alcohol limit and carrying drugs and weapons on them. “Are you laughing?”, “Do you want to calm down?”, “I have drunk five bottles of White Label” or “The gun is taken out to shoot, the person who takes it out to show it is a fool” were some of the phrases that Alberto Fernández ‘El Tomate’ left with his partner.
A figure that also found prominence was Julio, an orange seller at a roundabout on the SE-020 highway in Seville. His intervention was interrupted by a colleague who tried to laugh at him through the walkie-talkie, calling him drunk and using strange voices. “Shut your mouth, the television is here! For now I shit on your dead. “Porrero, you really like joints,” was the exchange that took place.
Also left for posterity is the intervention of Encarnita, who wanted to show an alleged Roman baptistery from the 1st century to the Callejeros Viajeros team. Accompanied by the entire family, included in the photograph, the woman left a phrase that has currently been heard in comedy sketches and even YouTube channels: “Who isn’t going to like a Roman Empire from the 1st century? “Who isn’t going to like it?”
