El Chavo del Ocho/Characters
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Characters from El Chavo del Ocho include:
El Chavo
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Tropes exhibited by El Chavo include:
- The Artful Dodger: In his best moments
- Book Dumb
- Five-Finger Discount
- The Klutz
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"Fue sin querer queriendo..." |
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- Incorruptible Pure Pureness
- Parental Abandonment: According to the tie-in books, he actually ran away from what's all but stated to be an Orphanage of Fear.
- Seven Minute Lull: He's often caught during one of these while referring to Profesor Jirafales as "Maestro Longaniza".
- Street Urchin
Federico aka Quico
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Tropes exhibited by Federico include:
- Book Dumb
- Disappeared Dad: He explains in the tie-in book that his father, Federico, was a sea captain who went down with his ship, which is implied in the series when his father makes an appearance in a flashback in one episode (also played by Carlos Villagrán).
- The Ditz
- First Name Ultimatum: If Florinda calls him "Federico", it's because she's PISSED at him.
- Small Name, Big Ego
- Spoiled Brat: His mother spoils him rotten
- Too Dumb to Live: A lot of times.
La Chilindrina
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Tropes exhibited by La Chilindrina include:
- Cunning Like a Fox
- Deadpan Snarker
- Girlish Pigtails
- Manipulative Bitch
- Meganekko
- Puppy Love: With El Chavo (at least, since her perspective)
- The Trickster
Don Ramón
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Tropes exhibited by Don Ramón include:
- Butt Monkey
- The Danza: played by Ramón Valdéz
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold
- New Job Episode
- Parental Substitute: To El Chavo, most of the time.[1]
- Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?
- Would Hurt a Child
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Don Ramón: (hits El Chavo with Kung Foley bell in background) ¡TOMA! |
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- He also often twists one of Quico's arms whenever the latter annoys him enough.
Doña Florinda
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Tropes exhibited by Doña Florinda include:
- Chastity Couple: With Profesor Jirafales
- The Danza: played by Florinda Meza
- Fallen Princess: She was kicked out of her rich family for having married beneath her station, and they also refused support when she was widowed
- My Beloved Smother: Explains a LOT about Quico
- Small Name, Big Ego
- Tsundere: Very tsun-tsun with Don Ramón, but becomes dere-dere around Profesor Jirafales.
- Playing Gertrude: In the first season, she was played by 22-year-old Florinda Meza.
- Widow Woman
Profesor Jirafales
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Tropes exhibited by Profesor Jirafales include:
- Chastity Couple: With Doña Florinda
- The Comically Serious
- Only Sane Man (along with Sr. Barriga)
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
- Stern Teacher
- Straight Man
Doña Cleotilde
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Tropes exhibited by Doña Cleotilde include:
- Abhorrent Admirer: To Don Ramón.
- Christmas Cake
- Impoverished Patrician: Like Florinda, only that instead of being thrown out for marrying a poor man, she left her family because she didn't want to be the spinster aunt.[2]
- Stalker with a Crush
Señor Barriga
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Tropes exhibited by Señor Barriga include:
- Acting for Two: Edgar Vivar, Barriga's actor, also played Ñoño, Barriga's son.
- Butt Monkey
- Chew Toy
- The Comically Serious
- Fat Bastard: Averted, he's more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Only Sane Man: Along with Profesor Jirafales
- Punny Name: "Barriga" is an actual surname in Mexico, but it's also Spanish for "belly", which is Sr. Barriga's most distinguishing trait.
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- ↑ Unless he's hitting him for asking about his grandmother after Doña Florinda tells him what he can "go do to [her] the next time".
- ↑ which she is anyway