¡Qué bello es sobrevivir!

¡Qué bello es sobrevivir! was a Spanish animated comedy show produced by Globomedia and Crea Anima2 for Telecinco, although it also aired on the now-defunct Spanish branch of Cartoon Network. It ran for thirteen episodes between 2001 and 2002.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Producers had expressed their intention to make the show Spain's response to The Simpsons, and unfortunately they took the easy route of making a cheap knockoff, right down to having an overweight and somewhat dumb father (Óscar/Homer), a mother with impossibly long and tall hair (Silvia/Marge) and a smart little girl (Inés/Lisa). At least in this case Inés is technically not part of the family, but the neighbors' daughter.
 * 2) One-dimensional, clichéd characters: the fat and lazy husband, the wife who is a terrible driver, the wife's mother who hates her son-in-law, the slacker son, the smart little girl with little if any social skill, and the workaholic boss.
 * 3) Terrible ending from the first episode: after being mistaken for a robber in his hospital and the ensuing parody of mh:greatestmovies:It's A Wonderful Life, the allegedly stolen money turns out to still be in Mr. Doménech's office, therefore the €8,000 that his co-workers collected so that Óscar could be reinstated should be returned, as his guardian angel points out. Instead, Óscar takes the money and tells his guardian devil to dispatch his guardian angel and make it look like an accident as he walks out with a briefcase full of money.
 * 4) Long string of terrible fat jokes in the second episode at the expense of Silvia.
 * 5) Also in the second episode, after Silvia becomes much more attractive through cosmetic surgery, Inés is shown stalking her from her wardrobe, pretending to be the voice of her conscience to convince her to take Óscar back. While it's nice she's worried about Óscar and wants them to reunite, the means to that end are questionable at best.
 * 6) The third episode features more questionable actions by Inés: she asks Óscar to go to her school for the days where the students' parents explain their jobs, since her actual parents are away all the time, but asks him to choose a more exciting job than his real one as a hospital attendant because she will make more friends if she has a cool dad. It's bad enough that she asks Óscar to lie to her classmates just for the sake of popularity, but later she still has the nerve to get mad at him when the lie she orchestrated comes crashing down.
 * 7) The arc of Marga trying to kill her son-in-law Óscar is creepy, and also allows for several instances of animal cruelty as she uses Gómez, the family's pet dog, as a guinea pig for her murder plots.
 * 8) Cringeworthy and unoriginal jokes, such as Óscar trying to tell his boss he suffered Spider-Man's origin story in an attempt to get a day off.
 * 9) The attempts at breaking the fourth wall fall flat, such as Óscar telling the writers to stop drinking after an UFO showed up for no reason.
 * 10) Óscar is overall a woefully unsympathetic character: he is extremely lazy, lies to his wife, and once unplugged the defibrillator in the hospital where he works so he could plug a TV and watch a football game from the changing room, which almost caused a patient's death. And he refuses to take any responsibility for that (which at least does get him fired).
 * 11) Silvia's not much better than her husband when it comes to her job: she's a cab driver who usually gets into the wrong lane, disregards speed limits far too often, and tends to neglect customers or throw them out of the cab on a whim.
 * 12) Most of the cartoon recreations of real-life people look hideous, in particular José María Aznar.
 * 13) The sixth episode, "Cumpleaños feliz" is pretty much an Óscar torture episode, and an example of a comeuppance delivered at the wrong time. Wanting to make a big gift to his wife for her upcoming birthday, Óscar misguidedly cleans out their bank account to buy tickets for a concert, and it all goes downhill from there for him: first he loses the tickets, then it turns out they were worthless anyway as the place where he bought them was a scam, then his wife refuses to believe him due to his long history of lying to her when the scam ticket selling point is gone, and then a fumble with refrigerator boxes results in his boss mistaking him for an organ trafficker, and not believing him either when he claims it was a misunderstanding.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The theme song is somewhat catchy.
 * 2) The animation, while not quite perfect, at least does look smooth most of the time.

Trivia

 * The main character, Óscar Balor, was named after the show's director.
 * Juan Perucho, who voiced Óscar, would later become the voice actor for Peter Griffin in the Spanish dub of Family Guy.