Between 1968 and 1970, Italian families gathered around the television to watch the RAI comedy La Famiglia Benvenuti. The series, which was of great public success, narrated the daily life of the prototypical middle-class Italian family. Andrea Benvenuti, the youngest son of the family, was one of the most recorded characters. Andrea was interpreted by the actor Giuseppe Valerio Fioravanti, a man who a few years later became the leader of the neo-fascist terrorist organization Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (NAR). Tried and convicted for a total of 95 murders, including those of the Bologna Central Station massacre, Fioravanti spent 26 years in prison until he was granted parole in 2009.

Simpatico, Carino, Buono reproduces in a soliloquy all the dialogues of the character played by Fioravanti throughout the two seasons of La Famiglia Benvenuti, suggesting through those unconnected phrases, the rupture between the plane of fiction and reality.