L'ispettore Coliandro is a series of Italian spoof television movies directed by Marco Manetti and Antonio Manetti, written by mystery writer Carlo Lucarelli, and starring Giampaolo Morelli as Inspector Coliandro. Coliandro is an Italian crime television series aimed for "young viewers," according to the actors and directors. In fact, this is most likely correct. In Italian novels and television shows like Il commissario Montalbano, police officers are strong servants of the law who usually save the day. Inspector Coliandro also saves the day, but primarily via "luck and [his younger partner's] intuition." He is stupid, crude, and disliked by all of his colleagues except this one, who sees him as a hero worthy of the good men in American cop movies. The series' humor is evident in the disparity between how Coliandro sees himself and how the rest of the world sees him. Coliandro's name is a pun on the Italian word coglione, which literally means "ball" but is more commonly used to mean "asshole," and he must constantly correct its pronunciation.
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L'ispettore Coliandro is a series of Italian spoof television movies directed by Marco Manetti and Antonio Manetti, written by mystery writer Carlo Lucarelli, and starring Giampaolo Morelli as Inspector Coliandro. Coliandro is an Italian crime television series aimed for "young viewers," according to the actors and directors. In fact, this is most likely correct. In Italian novels and television shows like Il commissario Montalbano, police officers are strong servants of the law who usually save the day. Inspector Coliandro also saves the day, but primarily via "luck and [his younger partner's] intuition." He is stupid, crude, and disliked by all of his colleagues except this one, who sees him as a hero worthy of the good men in American cop movies. The series' humor is evident in the disparity between how Coliandro sees himself and how the rest of the world sees him. Coliandro's name is a pun on the Italian word coglione, which literally means "ball" but is more commonly used to mean "asshole," and he must constantly correct its pronunciation.
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