Although the range of such suffixes that might be coined is limitless, some have gained such widespread usage that the boundary between established honorifics and wordplay has become a little blurred.

Perhaps one of the reasons this comedy group's popularity transcended borders, including the Atlantic ocean, was their use of the Spanish language as a source for laughs. Far from slapstick humor, mockery, sexism and dirty jokes that are very characteristic of Hispanic comedy, Les Luthiers made use of wordplay and music, and referenced diverse themes such as psychoanalysis, math and epistemology.