Fantozzi (film)

In an occasion, while attending megacompany's president funeral ("prematurely disappeared at the young age of 126 years"), Fantozzi asks Miss Silvani out for lunch.

She accepts, but Fantozzi ends up getting into trouble as, while he's at the wheel of his tiny Bianchina she picks up a fight with the driver (a rageful Fidel-like thug) of an Opel Kadett.

In fourth episode (likely another flashback), Filini convinced Fantozzi to buy a small motor boat for a camping trip near Bracciano, but they cause an accident again the Minister of Petroleum from an ignote French-speaking African country, being punished in loco: 100 lashes with leather baldrics.

In an attempt to pitch a tent, planting stakes, Filini pounds unintentionally (surely for his almost total blindness) twice a finger Fantozzi, forcing him to run away very far away to scream monstrously in order to avoid reprimands by German tourists.

Fantozzi breaks in and silently shames his "superior" managers, however wishing them "merry Christmas and happy new year" in an extremely formal, business letter-like manner.

Everything is a disaster: a troublesome waiter throws every plate over Fantozzi's suit, he falls through a window during the dance and the band leader rigs the clock (to go to another party!)

Fantozzi initially underperforms (possibly on purpose), much to the amusement of his boss and the other connivent colleagues, who start insulting him and laughing even when he has a good play (dismissing it as luck rather than "class").

Fantozzi (trying to lose weight by doing sport) and Filini enjoy a tennis match, at 6 AM in a freeze and foggy day: every other time slot is reserved to high-class persons in a crescendo of nobility.

Japanese culinary uses are badly shown and received from both two: rice instead of bread, a primitive sashimi fished at the moment from restaurant's aquarium and two tough samurai guards punishing clients for every mistake they make.

Caused by cold and Calboni's "monstrous lies", Fantozzi falls to "competitive hallucinations" and claims he has been a national team-level skier (informing also he's not been skiing for 35 years).

Using his condescending political rhetoric and deceptive displays of clemency, the director persuades Fantozzi to return to his docile and humble self, convincing him of a somewhat divine nature of the higher corporate ranks.

In return for his act of contrition, Fantozzi is allowed to touch the director's chair made of human leather and to swim in his personal aquarium, where selected faithful employees replace fishes.