31 Minutos premiered in Chile in 2003 as a puppet parody of a television newscast, created by Álvaro Díaz and Pedro Peirano. Its cast of puppet reporters and musical segments made it a cult favourite across Latin America far beyond its original children's audience. Short lines from the show have circulated for years as reaction audios on social media and messaging apps. This particular phrase survives because wanting your own show sums up the series' backstage chaos, and fans reuse it whenever someone dramatically announces a project of their own online today.