Aquí no hay quien viva

Characters

Porter's lodge

• Emilio Delgado Martín – The building's porter. He is in his mid-thirties and lives in the porter's lodge with his father, Mariano. He is an unambitious man who just wants to live without worries and have a steady girlfriend. Unluckily, he is in the wrong building for that. He is a gossip who always has a comeback for everything. He was in college for a while, until he got kicked out. He has had three girlfriends so far: Rocío, Belén and Carmen. His most well known catchphrase, "un poquito de por favor", has quickly become an everyday use idiom around Spain. It has even been parodied in other shows, and not only in the show's own station, Antena 3.
• Mariano Delgado – Emilio's father, though not exactly a model one. He's separated from Emilio's mother and, since he has no place to live, he made himself one with his son. He has a lot of nerve, is a womanizer without much luck, and he's always concocting one money scheme or another. It won't be the first time Emilio has kicked him out, but he always takes him back. His catchphrase is ignorante de la vida, criticizing the younger generation for being ignorant about life. He enjoys a brief career as a comedian with his performance being called Crónicas Marianas, "The Mariano Chronicles", a reference to the Spanish late-night TV show Crónicas Marcianas. In spite of his unstylish look, he considers himself a metrosexual, much to the amusement of his neighbours and son.

  1-A

• Vicenta Benito Valbuena – Lives in flat 1-A. She's a retired woman that has never married and who's still a virgin. She's really naive and polite but also very optimistic. Her dog Valentin is the most important thing for her. Alongside her sister Marisa and her friend Concha, they're the source of all gossiping in the building. She's got a crush on Andrés. When Marisa's husband gets back they end up together to everyone's amazement. She is still waiting for her true love. At first it seems that she is silly but in fact is very clever when she wants.
• Maria Luisa "Marisa" Benito Valbuena – Vicenta's older sister. After her husband Manolo left her, Vicenta took her in her home. She's the polar opposite of her sister, a harsh, ironic chain-smoker, "chinchón" -drinking who always speaks her mind. She would like to retire to Benidorm with a handsome German. Alongside her sister and her friend Concha, they like to spy on others in the building and spread gossip. Marisa is often seen smoking and carries a large bottle of Chinchón liquor in her purse and wearing teen clothes.
• Concepción "Concha" de la Fuente García – In the first season, she lives in flat 2-B with her son Armando and her grandson Dani. Afterwards, they move out and she sells the flat to the Guerra family. But her son puts her in a retirement home because the woman he moved in with doesn't like her, which angers Concha. She went to live with her friends Vicenta and Marisa. She still has another flat in the building, which she rents to Belén without a contract. In later seasons, she decides to sell it, and Belén buys it using a plot that Concha doesn't like one bit.

  1-B

• Mauricio "Mauri" Hidalgo Torres – A gay journalist who used to work for a Cosmopolitan-type magazine. He's unstable, hypochondriac, has many obsessions and he's pretty insecure. Mauri frequently finds himself not sure as to whether or not his potential love's interests are gay. During the first season, he lived with his boyfriend Fernando, but he left to work in London. Later he had a son, Ezequiel, by artificial insemination with his lesbian roommate Bea. He also had an affair with Lucia's brother Diego, which ended when Diego got involved with Abel, his baby son's nanny. Fernando has since returned and they're living together again. Recently, Mauri decided to write a book at Fernando's urging and his own lack of fulfillment with his career. After suffering from severe writer's block, he was helped by Mariano to write an action novel featuring a truck driver who is struck by lightning and gains precognition powers. Although he found the story ridiculous, he went with the idea. The book became a best-seller.
• Fernando Navarro Sánchez – Mauri's lawyer boyfriend during season 1. After he lost his job when he came out, he got a very good job offer at London and finally decided to take it. They did the long-distance relationship thing for a while, but they finally broke up as friends. He has since returned and, after a bit of fumbling, he and Mauri are living together again. He has decided to start his own practice, and him and Mauri have just married.

  2-A

• Juan Cuesta – A middle-aged high school teacher and long time homeowners council president, a position that defines who he is. He's a very grey man, completely controlled by his wife, he's a born worrier and nobody respects him. But, as president of this building, he always sees himself in the middle of some big messy affairs. He's married to Paloma, until she ends up in coma. He then starts an affair with his new neighbour, Isabel and, after a spectacular coming out, they move in together. He has divorced his wife, but has not yet married Isabel. He lost his job and his position as strata council president in later seasons, and with them his purpose in life. He has since then found a new job and recovered the strata council presidency.
• Natalia Cuesta – Juan and Paloma's teen daughter. She's got a lot more freedom since her mother is in coma. She's had several boyfriends, among them Pablo, with whom she lived under her aunt's roof for a while. She moved out to live on her own, but soon returned and she's now studying psychology. She got pregnant as a surrogate mother for a couple that soon backed out of the deal; she still carries on with her pregnancy. She has started a relationship with Yago.
• José Miguel "Josemi" Cuesta – Juan and Paloma's son, who is in his early teens. A lazy but gifted boy, always quick to take advantage of opportunities. José Miguel has the IQ of a genius, and was offered a chance to study abroad in Canada, but opted to stay in Spain. He's in love with Candela, in 2-B.
• Isabel Ruiz – Called La Hierbas by her neighbours, she moves in with her family after buying flat 2-B from Concha. A neurotic hypochondriac with a laisser-faire attitude, she's big time into natural therapy, herbal remedies and yoga. After her husband gets jailed, she starts an affair with Juan, which eventually leads to the end of her marriage. She moves in with Juan and his children and eventually sells her flat. After Juan loses his job, she is forced to return to work as a nurse, to her chagrin.
• Yago – Nicknamed el Sabrosón by the neighbours, is Lucía's Cuban ex-boyfriend, whom she met while on holidays when she was still engaged to Carlos. He's an ecology nut, very active in his NGO Aldeas Verdes and Lucía adopts his principles to get along with him. They've had several crisis when he caught her with Carlos and Roberto. After she leaves for Somalia, he moves into the attic and starts a relationship with Natalia. He now lives with her in the 2-A.

  2-B

• Higinio – used to be building's plumber and building worker until he bought the 2-B flat from Carlos. He's a laid-back man, who doesn't want problems in life. He started renovating 2-A, but then his wife Mamen got angry at them and told him to stop. He now has to work secretly at night.
• Mamen – Higinio's wife. She likes to have all perfect at home. She is angry with Cuesta family because their son Josemi touched Candela's breast while she was sleeping.
• Candela – Called Candy-Candy by their neighbours. Higinio and Mamen's 14-year-old daughter. She's interested in Pablo, who treats her like a child.
• Raquel – Mamen's sister, a female-identifying transgender. Her brother in law Higinio insists on calling her Raúl, her birth name. She briefly dated Emilio, but he wasn't able to get over the fact she has male genitalia.
• Moncho – Higinio and Mamen's oldest son, who has just returned home after his business venture collapsed.

  3-A

3-B

• Belén López Vázquez – She's nicknamed la Golfa by her landlady. She rents flat 3-B from Concha, without a contract. Harsh and fussy, she's very bitter because of her lack of success with men. She doesn't have a steady job and has worked in a lot of occupations. She eventually gets together with Emilio, to the point of living together, but they finally break up. Since then, they have broken up and gotten together again several times, including an affair while he was dating Carmen. She had a one night stand with Roberto. She just got a mortgage to buy the flat from Concha. She was also Paco's girlfriend, but not for a long time.
• Beatriz 'Bea' Villarejo – Mauri's lesbian roommate and best friend. She moved in with Mauri after breaking-up with her girlfriend Inés, when Mauri was looking for a roommate after Fernando left. She's a veterinarian, open, optimistic and sure of herself. She wanted to have a child and asked Mauri to be sperm donor. He wasn't supposed to get involved with raising the child, but finally he did and in a big way. For a while, she dated lesbian lawyer Rosa, but the relationship ended when she made Bea choose between her and Mauri after her son, Ezequiel, was born. After Fernando returned, she moved to 2-B with her new friend Carmen. Later, she lived in 3-B with Belén and Ana, her new girlfriend.
• Ana 'Inga' – Nicknamed Inga or la Sirenita by the neighbours, she's a very beautiful air hostess who, after a passionate night with Bea, ends up accepting she's a lesbian and they become a couple. She sporadically works as a model, which makes Bea rather jealous of other men looking at her love interest.
• Maria Jesús Vázquez – Belen's mother, she's nicknamed la Torrijas by the neighbours. She moves in with her when he leaves her husband. She's manipulative and dominant. She has started a relationship with Rafael.

  Top-floor residents

• Pablo Guerra – Isabel and Andrés' youngest son. After his parents' marriage breaks up, he sticks with his father. For a while, he dates and lives with Natalia in Nieves' flat. He moved with his mother after his father left. He dated Marta for a while, but they broke up when she made him choose between her and his friendship with Paco. The two friends now live together on the top floor.
• Francisco – The videoshop assistant. A self-proclaimed film lover, Paco has a collection of weird quirks and kinks. He's still a virgin because he wants his first time to be with a woman he loves. He finally finds a girlfriend at Diego and Abel's wedding and he gets very upset when his friends joke about the fact she's not very pretty. They finally get married, but soon thereafter they start having serious problems. Separated from his wife, he has now moved to the top floor apartment with his friend Pablo. He has started relationship with Belen but they split up.

  Non-resident characters

• Rafael Álvarez – Lucías father, who, after his daughter leaves, moved temporarily into her flat with his butler and cook while he was having his house refurbished. The wealthy owner of a speculative construction company, completely amoral and willing to do anything for money, he tried to buy the building several times, including setting fire to it.
• Marta – The president of the building on the opposite side of the road. She's nicknamed pantumaca due to her strong Catalan accent. Divorced for several years, she falls in love with Juan Cuesta, who hesitates between her and La hierbas. After being rejected by Juan she attempts suicide on New Year's Eve but finally accepts her rejection and develops an ambiguous friendship with her rival, since every advice she gives her results in trouble and crisis for the couple. She dated Isabel's youngest son Pablo for a while, until she made him choose between her and his friendship with Paco. She lost.
• José María – A former drug addict, who still has mental problems due to that, who becomes friends with Emilio and the videoclub gang. He lives with his aunt Choni.
• Father Miguel – The neighbourhood priest. Ready for everything, he has been able to marry, confess and baptise characters of both sexes and all sexual orientations. He's a singer, always trying to sell people his singles, usually Catholic covers of hit Spanish songs.

  Former characters

• Paloma Hurtado – Juan's wife for 18 years. A very controlling woman with an acerbic tongue. She ended up in coma after falling down the interior courtyard from her window while fighting with Isabel. She finally got out of her coma, only to be run over with a car by Isabel. She was in coma for a long time, until she died. The day she was cremated Juan discovered that she cheated with a vacuum cleaner seller.

• Armando – Concha's son. After the first season, he moved away to live in a house with his new girlfriend and tried, unsuccessfully, to put his mother in a retirement home. Fernando being a closeted homosexual, he and Mauri tried to fend off the building suspicions about them being gay by befriending Armando, inviting him over to watch football matches and other considered manly things. Unluckily for them, it was all worthless, since Armando leaves their home by saying "I thought you gay people were a bit more tactful", after Mauri and Fernando behaved like the stereotypical "macho".
• Alex Guerra – Isabel and Andrés' eldest son. When the family starts family therapy to try to save the marriage, Isabel confesses Alex is the product of a pre-marriage affair with a Polish man named Jaroslav. When Isabel moves in with Juan, he goes to live with them and gets along very well with his new family. He left the series to find his real father in Poland.
• Nieves Cuesta – Nicknamed la Chunga by the neighbours, she is Juan's single sister. She moved in with him after Paloma's accident to help him. Unlike her brother, she has a strong character and wants things done her way. She has some money, but she is stingy. She has a fallout with her brother over his relationship with Isabel and, after some trouble, ends up buying Isabel's flat and starting a relationship with her former husband Andrés, trying by all means to get back at her brother. When things between Andrés and her fall through, she moves away, leaving her brother in charge of renting the flat.
• Roberto Alonso – Lucía's boyfriend. He's an architect, but works drawing erotic comics. He's brilliant, but he has no ambitions and he's lazy. After his relationship with Lucía ends, he moves to the building's attic and tries to get her back several times. After finally giving up, he now lives in 2-B with his ex-rival turned friend Carlos, trying to get him over his depression. He finally moves away to Puerto Banús to continue with his profitable business of drawing caricatures.
• Carlos – Lucía's childhood friend. A rich kid like her, he lives off his family's money. Carlos is very unsure of himself, and ends up doing wacky, impulsive things, such as pretending to be gay and trying to start a relationship with Mauri. He's been after Lucia since forever, but she never wanted to date him. He helps her with her restaurant business, and gets infatuated with Alicia. Eventually, Carlos buys the video shop in the ground floor and ousts Juan as building president, gaining popular support by paying for a new elevator and spa in the attic. In a New Year's Eve party, he has a drunken one-night stand with Alba, and she becomes pregnant with his daughter, whom he agrees to support. After much trouble, Lucía finally gives him a chance, but it doesn't last long. Totally depressed, he agrees to share a flat with Roberto, but he can't get over the depression, and checks himself into a depression clinic, selling both the flat and the videoclub.
• Lucía Álvarez – Called La Pija. The daughter of the wealthy owner of a construction company, Lucía arrives at the building to live with her boyfriend Roberto. She works in her father's company and she's used to good clothes and the finer things. Eventually, her relationship with Roberto falls through and she decides to quit her father's company and do things by herself. She tries opening a restaurant, but it doesn't work. She goes through some difficult times after she refuses her father's money, but things start to get better once she gives her old boyfriend Carlos another chance. But things fall through quickly. She finds a new boyfriend in Yago, an ecology nut whose principles she adopts to get along with him. In the end, however, she believes in them more than he does and leaves with an NGO to Somalia. As Marisa puts it, her appearance is always neat and stylish, which is emphasised by the catchphrase "qué mona va esta chica siempre".
• Andrés Guerra – Isabel's husband. A middle-aged businessman of doubtful reputation, he has to sell his house after some trouble with the Treasury and he moves with his family to 2-B. He has a sports shop Deportes Guerra and he's always into doubtful business affairs. Eventually he's jailed, but he's able to get out when Vicenta pays his bond. But she has a crush on him, and he has to play along so she wouldn't retire the bond money. He suspects his wife is having an affair for a while, but he doesn't know with whom until she tells him in a very inappropriate moment. He later starts a relationship with Nieves which falls through fast. For a while he lives alone in the attic, turning increasingly bitter, with an apparent Diogenes syndrome. He enjoys a brief relationship with Carmen. Finally, after a freak accident, he ends up with amnesia, and Vicenta tries to make him think that they are married. When he realises that he doesn't have anything left for him at Calle Desengaño 21, he leaves the building and leaves the show for good.
• Alicia Sanz – Belen's roommate. A would-be actress, Alicia is vain, selfish, completely without tact and not above rubbing her success with men in her less successful flatmate Belen's face. She goes through men like shoes, never falling in love with one. She toys with Carlos for a while, getting expensive gifts from him but never giving him anything in return. Occasionally a bit of friendly generosity comes through. After Emilio moves up with Belén, they quarrel and Alicia moves in with a now single Lucía. After a while, she and Belén patch things through and she returns to 3-B. Eventually, Alicia finally falls in love with a man, Ricardo, and moves to New York City with him.
• Carmen Villanueva – A college professor, and the daughter of the vice-chancellor, she meets Emilio when he attends one of her classes and they start a relationship. Carmen knows what she wants and she's very sure of herself, but she has some insane tendencies. After she and Emilio break up, she moves in with Belén to try to recover him, up to the point to calling up her former crazy boyfriend to make him jealous, but it doesn't work. She later rents 2-B from Nieves, and Bea moves in with her. She has a crush on Fernando, even after Bea tells her he's gay, and tries to seduce him, but he flees away scared. She lived at 3-B with Bea, Belén and Inga for a while, but finally moved back with her parents.
• Salvador Villarejo - He is catholic priest and Bea's brother. He appeared briefly in season 3, before starting a trip to third world countries as missionary.
• Diego Álvarez – Lucia's younger brother. Recently married to Alba, he meets Mauri at his sister's restaurant opening, and they start an affair. He divorces and moves in with him, but their affair ends when he falls for Abel, the male nanny of Mauri's son Ezequiel. Mauri gets angry and tries to prevent their wedding, but finally he marries Abel, being the first gay married couple in Spain. But soon thereafter, he admits he has made an error, that it was too soon and that he misses Mauri. But Mauri's former boyfriend Fernando has since then returned.
• Alba – Diego's not completely sane wife. Jealous and insecure, she gets the shock of her life when she learns her husband is having an affair with another man. After they divorce, she has a one-night affair with Carlos, and she's now pregnant with his child.
• Rosa Izquierdo – Bea's girlfriend in season 3. A strong-willed lawyer that originally was hired by Bea's former employer against her but who chose to become her lawyer instead. The two of them soon became a couple, but Rosa and Mauri never got along. In the end, they break up when Bea chooses to go with Mauri to Diego and Abel's wedding instead of going with Rosa to meet her family.

  Episodes

1st season

• Episode 1: Érase una mudanza
• Episode 2: Érase una reforma
• Episode 3: Érase el reciclaje
• Episode 4: Érase un rumor
• Episode 5: Érase un niño
• Episode 6: Érase un resbalón
• Episode 7: Érase una rata
• Episode 8: Érase un indigente
• Episode 9: Érase una de miedo
• Episode 10: Érase un dilema
• Episode 11: Érase un traspaso
• Episode 12: Érase un sustituto
• Episode 13: Érase una fiesta
• Episode 14: Érase una avería
• Episode 15: Érase un anillo
• Episode 16: Érase una Nochebuena
• Episode 17: Érase un fin de año

  2nd season

• Episode 18: Érase una derrama
• Episode 19: Érase un sueño erótico
• Episode 20: Érase un negocio
• Episode 21: Érase un desafío
• Episode 22: Érase una patrulla ciudadana
• Episode 23: Érase un rastrillo
• Episode 24: Érase una huelga
• Episode 25: Érase un piso en venta
• Episode 26: Érase una parabólica
• Episode 27: Érase un video casero
• Episode 28: Érase unas elecciones
• Episode 29: Érase una despedida de soltero
• Episode 30: Érase una boda
• Episode 31: Érase un apoyo vecinal

  3rd season

• Episode 32: Érase un caos
• Episode 33: Érase un okupa
• Episode 34: Érase un matrimonio de conveniencia
• Episode 35: Érase una inauguración
• Episode 36: Érase un combate
• Episode 37: Érase un canario
• Episode 38: Érase un mal de ojo
• Episode 39: Érase un famoso
• Episode 40: Érase un desalojo
• Episode 41: Érase un belén
• Episode 42: Érase una Nochevieja
• Episode 43: Érase una grieta
• Episode 44: Érase unos nuevos inquilinos
• Episode 45: Érase un bautizo
• Episode 46: Érase una academia
• Episode 47: Érase unos estatutos
• Episode 48: Érase unas alumnas
• Episode 49: Érase un juicio
• Episode 50: Érase un disco-pub videoclub
• Episode 51: Érase un cobaya
• Episode 52: Érase un premio
• Episode 53: Érase unas puertas blindadas
• Episode 54: Érase un vicio
• Episode 55: Érase un administrador
• Episode 56: Érase un traición
• Episode 57: Érase el primer presidente gay
• Episode 58: Érase una tragaperras
• Episode 59: Érase un desgobierno
• Episode 60: Érase un regalo de boda
• Episode 61: Érase otra boda
• Episode 62: Érase una luna de miel
• Episode 63: Érase un cirujano plástico
• Episode 64: Érase unas vacaciones

  4th season

• Episode 65: Érase un despertar
• Episode 66: Érase un cultivo
• Episode 67: Érase un desvío provisional
• Episode 68: Érase una sequía
• Episode 69: Érase un banco en la acera
• Episode 70: Érase una Navidad convulsa
• Episode 71: Érase la tercera Nochevieja
• Episode 72: Érase unos propósitos de Año Nuevo
• Episode 73: Érase una presidenta títere
• Episode 74: Érase un par de bodas
• Episode 75: Érase una conexión Wifi
• Episode 76: Érase un vudú
• Episode 77: Érase un día de San Valentín
• Episode 78: Érase una nueva vida

  5th season

• Episode 79: Érase una extradición
• Episode 80: Érase un colapso
• Episode 81: Érase un robot de cocina
• Episode 82: Érase un presidente de vacaciones
• Episode 83: Érase un anuncio
• Episode 84: Érase un billete de 50 euros
• Episode 85: Érase un escándalo
• Episode 86: Érase un descubrimiento macabro
• Episode 87: Érase una emisora pirata
• Episode 88: Érase un funeral con sorpresa
• Episode 89: Érase una lista de boda
• Episode 90: Érase un paripé
• Episode 91: Érase un adios

  Catchphrases

Porter

• Emilio
• * ¡Un poquito de por favor!
• * ¡Cipote!
• * Apaguen los teléfonos móviles y no fumen, para hablar levantan la mano y para insultar también me la levantan
• * ¡Papá, cómete el kiwi!
• Mariano
• * Tú... ignorante de la vida
• * Mariano Delgado, metrosexual y pensador

  1-A

• Vicenta
• * A Marisa le dejó Manolo
• Marisa
• * ¡Qué mona va esta chica siempre!
• * ¡Radio Patio, 24 horas!
• * ¡Movida!
• * ¡Y a éste ¿qué le importa lo que hizo Manolo?!
• * ¡¿Por qué siempre me tienes que meter a Manolo en todas partes?!
• Concha
• * Váyase Señor Cuesta... ¡Váyase!
• * ¡Chorizo!
• * ''¡Qué vergüenza!

  1-B

• Mauri
• * ¡Envidia de pene!
• * Este también es gay

  2-A

• Juan
• * ¡Qué follón!
• * Soy Juan Cuesta, presidente de la comunidad
• * "Pico, mazo, pico pico mazo"
• * "¡Lo digo sin acritud pero lo digo!"
• Paloma
• * ¡Aquí no, Juan, aquí no!
• * ¡Hombre ya!
• * ¡Y punto en Boca, Y punto en Boca!
• Jose Miguel
• * "Bueno, Pero Tranquilita eh!!"

  2-B

• Roberto
• * Vamos no me jodas...

  International remakes

– [Aqui não há quem viva]

– [Faites comme chez vous]

– Moje drage komšije">:sr:Moje drage komšije">Moje drage komšije

– Moje drage komšije">:sr:Moje drage komšije">Moje drage komšije

– Η Πολυκατοικία">I Polykatoikia">Η Πολυκατοικία

– [Vecinos]

– [Qui non si può vivere]

– Aquí no hay quien viva

– Aquí no hay quien viva

– Naapureina Madridissa">:fi:Naapureina Madridissa">Naapureina Madridissa

– Щурите съседи">:bg:Щурите съседи">Щурите съседи

– ''[I Hate This Place]''

Awards

• Fotogramas de Plata: Best Actor , Best Actress
• ATV Award: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Fiction Program.
• TP de Oro: Best National Series, Best Actor.
• Ondas Award: Best Series, tied with Los Serrano.