It took an episode dedicated to the clash between “Trattorie” and “Stellati” to convince me to watch “Ciao Darwin” at one o’clock, as happened on Friday.
“Hello Darwin,” announces the television forty years back, based on the basics of the first Fininvest: farts, (half) naked women and eggs on the face. The programs created by the boomers who still dominate the networks – like Ricci, like Bonolis, who hosts this show with admirable disdain – seem to have been written by the mayor of Terni, whose sentence “A normal man watches a woman in the ass” seems to be the theme of the show.
In short, the highlight of the three-hour show is Luca Laurenti in the role of a horny Chihuahua who fakes a relationship with the defenseless Israeli model Orian Ichaki, in the role – briefly: a surgical bikini – from “Mother Nature”. A moment compared to which “Drive in” seemed like Beckett.
But enough of the fanaticism, let’s get to the “Trattorie vs. Stellati” clash. As fans of the dedicated show know natural selectionand two teams representing opposite categories compete in various tests, a church version of “Games without borders” in which unfortunate people, chosen by cunning, are subjected to various humiliations.
On Friday, the two fan competition teams will be headlined Claudio Amendolafor trattorias and Andy Luotto for the starry sky. The casting must of course have had great difficulty selecting the participants for this last group: the bizarre “stars” are almost exclusively employees of hotels, which, unlike restaurants, always have stars, and the only familiar face is that of the Already Masterchef winner Antonio Lorenzon, apparently happy with an appearance. Competing against each other, the two teams make accusations that can easily be summarized in three words: “You are thieves,” “You are dirty.” Very interesting.
In the end, for the record, the trattorias win, and for purely sentimental reasons: in a battle between popular and haughty characters, no one can root for the etiquette expert who shouts, “But what do you know about what?” Amuse bouche!”.
Luckily, there's a touch of Turin grace that saves everything: among the pops here Fabio Belcastroknown as Fabietto, the charming innkeeper of Barbagusto, who laughs and exclaims: “You are overthinking the dishes: they may be beautiful to look at, but it is an insult, you are betraying Italian tradition and culture.” Phrase with which you may agree or not, but it has the necessary depth Wittgenstein compared to Bonolis' texts: “And now comes the stupidest descendant of the Ming Dynasty: Minghion».