"Los Espookys" - Hired Horripilation Quiz

Answer: an undisclosed South American nation

At one point in the development of this television programme, there was some thought given to setting it in Mexico. Instead, it is set in an unspecified Latin American nation. In one episode, Greta Titelman plays Melanie Gibbons, a consular official of the United States, which indicates that the setting has diplomatic relations with the US. Spanish is the dominant language of this country but many citizens also speak English.

Answer: staging horror events

The friends cater a quinceañera, turning it from a sugar-sweet fantasy event to a goth, dark party with gruesome decorations and a cake that looks like a mound of rotting flesh. They are so successful that offers follow and they decide to form a business specializing in horror-based events and special effects. Because their leader enjoys everything spooky, he names the business "Los Espookys."

Answer: Renaldo

The creator and leader of Los Espookys in Renaldo, played by Bernardo Velasco. He is obsessed with horror and gore. He has skills as a make-up artist. He is an innocent, friendly, positive person who does not do well with finances and business affairs.

His mother would very much like it if he would eschew his fascination with horror and marry the girl next door. People consistently call him "Reynaldo" and, just as consistently, he corrects them to his true name "Renaldo."

Answer: chocolate

Andrés, played by Julio Torres, was abandoned as a baby and placed with his adoptive parents by Father Francisco Lopez who is the priest who runs the orphanage at Santa de la Guardia. Andrés' parents own a huge chocolate empire and have pledged their adopted son to a gay marriage to Juan Carlos, the heir of a huge cookie empire. Andrés is troubled by a demon who hints at the secrets in his past.

Answer: odd jobs

Tati, played by Ana Fabrega, is not the brightest of persons. She is sweet and positive but not clever. She earns a living doing the oddest of odd jobs. Father Francisco hires her as a human fan to cool his office. She gets a job wearing other peoples' new shoes to break them in. She is willing to take on whatever goofy task Los Espookys assigns to her, which are always the goofiest.

Answer: a valet parking company

Tico, the protagonist's uncle, is played by Fred Armisen, a writer and character in "Portlandia" and "Saturday Night Live." He is living his dream as an airport parking valet. He learned to park cars before he learned to speak. He can park a car in a space accessible to other valet. It is reputed that he can park two cars at the same time. He is also one of the producers of the series.

Answer: to make Father Francisco look good

Father Antonio Valenzuela, played by Luis Gnecco, is young, handsome and enormously popular. Father Francisco Lopez, his boss, thinks that, if he conducts a successful exorcism, people will like him better than they do Father Antonio. He hires Los Espookys to create a fake exorcism using ropes and pulleys to elevate Tati from a bed. She "vomits" all over Father Antonio for effect.

Answer: to attract tourists

The mayor of Montepio, a seaside community, wants to increase its attractiveness as a vacation community. She hires Los Espookys to create a monster. Tati dresses the part of a monster and appears in the harbour. The plan is so successful that they enter into a monthly agreement for subsequent appearances.

They augment this plan with another in which Tati plays the ghost of Marilyn Monroe possessed by the spirit of Fred Flintstone who haunts the boardwalk in Montepio.

Answer: to scare off potential inheritors

Ignacio Ferracuti made a fortune on his invention of the handrail. Upon his death, The Mysterious Woman sets up a scheme to scare off unworthy recipients of the estate. Los Espookys create a haunted house to which Ignacio Ferracuti Jr., Sister Raquel (a nun), the old man's nurse Esperanza del Carmen, and Ambassador Melanie Gibbons are invited. Whoever lasts the longest will inherit.

Answer: space aliens

Dr. Lucrecia needs to produce filmed evidence of space aliens in order to renew her government funding. She hires Los Espookys to be those aliens. The doctor wants aliens who look like E.T., have "penetrating gazes with black eyes" and are naked. The Spookys use cheesy face paint, cheap prosthetics, and cheesy-costumes to accomplish their mission.