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The show was created by comedian Roberto Gomez Bolaños (whose artistic name was ''[[Chespirito]]'', "Little Shakespeare"), along with other classic sketch characters like [[El Chapulin Colorado]]. Chespirito is considered by many to tie Cantinflas as Mexico's greatest comedian, and his sketch comedy shows are beloved amongst the entire Latin American population.
The show relies mostly on [[Bottle Episode|Bottle Episodes]]. Most of them take place in the main courtyard or ''patio'' of the "vecindad" (community houses) where almost all of the characters live. Sometimes, there are episodes where the kids are in school or some other location, like the often-mentioned but rarely-seen "other patio", or the small business some character owns.
The main ensemble consists of:
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* '''Quico''' (also written '''Kiko'''): A pampered and bratty kid with a mean streak. Fortunately, he is [[The Ditz|too dumb]] to cause real harm, or be a threat to begin with. Obsessed with getting a "square ball." Mocked for his gigantic cheeks, and his deep stupidity. Delights in one-upping Chavo; whenever he spots Chavo playing with a simple home-made toy, Quico will within moments show up with an obscenely flashy, store-bought version of the same.
* '''La Chilindrina''': A mischevious girl, who lives to get some advantage from others, even the adults. Identifiable by her twin pigtails, her glasses and her freckles. Mocked for her short height, and the fact that she is less pretty than other girls her age (and her attitude makes her looks worse). Named after a "freckled" Mexican pastry. By far the smartest kid in the show.
* '''Don Ramón''': A widower, Chilindrina's father, and laziness personified. Always owes 14 months of rent. Survives by doing odd jobs, which rarely last more than one episode. The [[Designated Victim]] of Doña Florinda, often makes El Chavo pay for it. Mocked for his very thin body, and his ugliness. Probably the character that most interacted with El Chavo, and their situations together are a source of much of the show's humor. Played by Ramón Valdés, one of a group of sibling comedians(along with El Loco Valdés and [[Tin Tan]]), Don Ramón is possibly the show's most popular character along with El Chavo and La Chilindrina.
* '''Doña Florinda''': A young widow who believes herself to be superior, both morally and monetarily, to her neighbors. The [[Alpha Bitch]] grown up, only fallen and with perpetual hair curlers. Pampers her son (Quico) to a ridiculous extent; she often defends him by [[Armor
* '''Profesor Jirafales''': The kids' elementary teacher, [[Only Sane Man|a very educated man]] with [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]. The [[Straight Man]], with relatively little patience. Mocked for his height, is often callen "Maestro Longaniza" (which roughly translates as "teacher Longsausage"). His name is also a word play on the word ''jirafa''(hee-rah-fah), meaning giraffe. Has a [[No Hugging, No Kissing|chaste relationship]] with Doña Florinda.
* '''Sr. Barriga''': The owner of the "vecindad", and often the [[Only Sane Man]] in the madness of the neighborhood. He is always, ''always'' hit by El Chavo, usually when arriving. A fat man, who is mocked for his obesity. His last name, ''Barriga'', means "belly" in Spanish.
* '''Doña Clotilde "la Bruja del 71"''': An [[Maiden Aunt|old spinster]], whose sense of fashion got stuck in the twenties. Lusts intensely after "[[Trrrilling Rrrs|Don Rrrrrrramón]]", but it goes unreciprocated. Her nickname, "The witch of (house) Number 71", alludes to the kids' perception that she is an [[Wicked Witch|evil witch]]. This, and her bad habit of [[Deathbringer the Adorable|naming her lap dogs with demonic monikers]], only contributes to the confusion, leading to [[Three Is Company]] moments.
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* '''La Popis''': Quico's cousin, she's not as stupid as him (nobody is), but decidedly [[The Ditz|ditzy]], her recurring advice whenever someone was insulted by someone else was "tell on him to your mom!". When he and Chilindrina left the show, she took over their parts. Has a doll that serves as a foil for jokes.
* '''Ñoño''': (pronounced "Nyonyo") The son of Sr. Barriga, and as fat as his father (played by the same actor as well.) Very book smart and well-behaved. Since he has a stabler home and higher income than the neighborhood kids, he's portrayed as more naive than they are.
* '''Patty''': An on-and-off character, who represents the classic pretty girl. Often presented either as recently moved to the vecindad with her gorgeous aunt, or as the kids' schoolmate. In the "neigborhood" episodes, [[
* '''Jaimito the mailman''': An old mailman, often too tired to do his work. He was given a bicycle by the post office that hired him, which makes his work harder because he can't ride a bicycle and can't let his employers know it. Took Don Ramón's place in the later years. Initially sweet-natured and mildly senile, he eventually took on Don Ramón's less sympathetic characteristics when he became his [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]].
The show began in [[The Seventies|1971]], as a segment in a [[Sketch Comedy]]. In 1973, this segment got its own [[Half
The show has been too difficult to translate, due to the nature of its very regional humor. The only exception is Brazil, where the show was renamed ''Chaves'' and got [[Woolseyism|an over the top translation]].
Depite its [[Creator Provincialism|excessive regionalism]], its [[Viewers
The show is considered to be quite possibly the most beloved and successful comedy show in Latin American history; it's literally IMPOSSIBLE to go to any country in Latin America where this show was not shown. Part of its success was based on the social status of the characters: they were working poor who tried to make the best out of their lack of money and tried to lead decent, happy lives in spite of it. This attitude was embraced by the poor masses of Latin America, making the show a success. It was also successful for being a comedy show that was appropriate for all ages, yet still maintained a level of sharpness and sophistication that did not insult any audience.
Recently, ''El Chavo'' got an [[Animated Adaptation]] where, for first time, the kids are actually shorter than the adults. La Chilindrina does not appear here either, due to copyright disputes from her actress who owns the rights.
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Doña Clotilde
* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in many episodes.
* [[Agony of the Feet]]: One episode revolved around Mr. Barriga having a painful corn in one of his feet. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity ensued]] when the kids accidentally hurt his foot too many times! At the end of the episode, Don Ramón [[Here We Go Again|ended up having one]], too.
* [[An Aesop]]: Many fans of the show take Don Ramón's teachings by heart. Two famous examples: "Good people should love their enemies" (this touched even Doña Florinda's heart, go figure!), and "[[Cycle of Revenge|Revenge is never complete]]; [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|it kills the soul and poisons it]]" (it's kind of like Gandhi's "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind").
* [[Animated Adaptation]]
* [[Armor
* [[Artifact Title]]: The "del Ocho (8)" part of "El Chavo del Ocho" was there merely to promote the fact that the show aired on Canal 8 (Channel 8). At some point, [[Channel Hop|the show moved to Canal 2]] and the series title was shortened to "El Chavo", but the character was still mentioned with his "last name" in the show and an [[In
* [[As Himself]]: The actors have often commented how Don Ramón was pretty much Ramón Valdés without a stable income.
* [[Aside Glance]]: Done a lot, by everyone, usually in reaction to something stupid another charater has said.
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* [[Beach Episode]]: A two-part special.
* [[Big Gulp]]: Don Ramón, when he's really scared, or whenever Chavo says something that strikes an emotional nerve.
* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]: Quico usually yells one to El Chavo whenever he wouldn't stop talking. It's one of his [[Catch Phrase|Catch Phrases]] ("¡¡¡Aaaay, cállate, cállate, cállate, cállate, que me desespeeeeras!!!"/"Oooh, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, you're driving me craazyy!!!").
** He once even did this ''to himself''.
** Whenever Profesor Jirafales begins the lesson at his class, the students will invariably make noise and refuse to pay attention. Then, the good teacher will always have to utter "Silencio. Silencio. '''''[[Punctuated!
* [[Bindle Stick]]
* [[The Blank]]: "Cow Eating Grass". What grass? The cow ate it. The cow? Went to the bathroom (or it just left, depending on the episode).
* [[Bottle Episode]]
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Not used as part of the show's humor. Is usually used in two-part episodes for telling the viewers that the story will continue in the next episode.
* [[Brother Chuck]]: Quico and Don Ramón, given a certain amount of time after [[Put
* [[Brutal Honesty]]: El Chavo (being excessively naive) and the other kids (being meaner or just plain stupid) are specially prone to this.
* [[Building of Adventure]]: the neighbourhood of the "Vecindad".
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* [[The Cast Showoff]]
* [[Catch Phrase]]: a lot. Listing them all would require a page ''only for this trope''.
** One example, by Quico:
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''(goes in front of Don Ramón)'' '''"¡Chusma, chusma, [[Blowing a Raspberry|prrrf!]]"''' ''(pushes him and gets away)'' "Riffraff, riffraff, prrrf!" }}
** [[Borrowed Catchphrase]]: happened sometimes, too. One example is when Señor Barriga stumbles at (and totals) El Chavo's refreshment stand: he yells "¡Tenía que ser el Señor Barriga!" in frustration! And, in a typical Chavo manner, he responds "Fué sin querer quierendo..." (roughly, "I didn't mean to mean to do it...").
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** Usually when he's been REALLY humiliated, Don Ramón cries with a high-pitched "eeeeeeeeeeeee" and always put one hand over one of his eyes.
** Ñoño cries with an ''"Ehi-AH! Ehi-AH! Ehi-AH!"'' sound like a bird.
* [[Canon
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]
* [[Continuity Nod]]: In an episode, Don Ramón breaks his TV in rage because he thought it malfunctioned. In the next few episodes when he's idle in the scene, he can be seen repairing the TV in his house.
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* [[Costume Inertia]]: some characters initially wore different clothes; but once they find the "iconic" look, never changed again.
* [[Creator Provincialism]]: the show makes no attempt to avoid Spanish vocabulary that's used only in Mexico. Most Spanish speakers can guess the meaning most of the time, which makes the show almost completely comprehensible, but it still routinely uses some vocabulary incomprehensible to non-Mexicans—words like ''guajolote'', ''tejolote''.
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* [[The Danza]]: Florinda Meza as Doña Florinda, Ramón Valdés as Don Ramón and Maria Antonieta de las Nieves as Doña Nieves.
** Chespirito liked to do this, because he felt the actors would be more connected to their characters this way. Same went for many of them when they played extras in ''[[El Chapulin Colorado]]'', which used the same cast.
* [[
* [[Deathbringer the Adorable]]: Doña Clotilde has the very bad habit of naming her puppies "Lucifer" or "Satan". This, of course, scares the crap out of the overhearing kids, who already believed her to be a witch.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]
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** Though Quico is not without strokes of [[Ted Baxter]]. Blame his doting mother for that.
* [[Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off]]: Don Ramón.
** [[Caught
* [[Double Entendre]]
* [[Double Take]]
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* [[Economy Cast]]
* [[Evil Matriarch]]: Doña Florinda is a mild version, more of a [[My Beloved Smother]] technically speaking... but truly terrifying when seriously pissed.
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]- Chavo
** [[The Lancer]]- Quico
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** [[The Chick]]- Popis
** [[The Sixth Ranger]]- Godinez and Pati
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Don Ramón...ok, so he is more of an [[Anti
** [[The Lancer]]: Dona Florinda
** [[The Big Guy]]: Senor Barriga
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** [[The Sixth Ranger]]: Jaimito
* [[Fleeting Demographic Rule]]: For Chespirito, it's generally a three year rule, although sometimes a story would only get one season off before being repeated.
* [[Franchise Zombie]]: After the departure of Quico and Don Ramón the show substantially dropped in quality, but it still went on for approximately ten more years.
* [[Friends Rent Control]]: Subverted. Don Ramón's apartment is the opposite of luxurious, but there's still no way he should be able to afford to live there. It's just that Señor Barriga continually pardons him the unpaid rent he's accumulated (a particular example doubled as [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]).
* [[From the Mouths of Babes]]
* [[Full Name Ultimatum]]: Although it almost never happens, Kiko knows he's in trouble if Doña Florinda ever refers to him as "Federico".
* [[Fun
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'''Chilindrina''': '''E'''xigimos '''D'''erechos '''P'''ro '''L'''ibertad.<ref>We Demand Rights In favor of Freedom</ref
'''Chavo''': Yo creí que decía '''E'''l '''M'''aestro '''P'''arece '''L'''onganiza. <ref>[[I Thought It Meant]] The Prof looks like Longsausage.</ref> }}
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Many times, considering the show. For instance:
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** In another instance, when El Chavo was checking up on Chilindrina, who was sick after eating an entire cake:
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'''El Chavo:''' And everyone fits? }}
*** One more came when The Profesor wanted to explain something to Don Ramón.
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'''Don Ramón''': Oohhh, here we have other name for them. }}
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: All the female "kids", but most notably La Chilindrina.
** Averted with Patty, who wears a ponytail.
* [[Hey,
** In [[Latin America]] Sr. Barriga also provides the voice of [[Ratatouille|Auguste Gusteau]] and [[Up (
* [[Hit Me Dammit]]
* [[How Much Did You Hear?]]
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]
* [[Human Hummingbird]]: El Chavo gives a nice live-action interpretation of the trope whenever he's excited about something.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]
* [[I Ate What?]]: In one episode where El Chavo was hunting "[[Malaproper|insepts]]" for his bug collection, Quico drinks from Chavo's bottle thinking it was lemonade. {{spoiler|It was gasoline that El Chavo uses to kill his bugs}}. Later, Chilindrina, Don Ramón and Doña Clotilde eat from Chavo's bag thinking they're snacks. {{spoiler|They were Chavo's bug collection}}.
* [[Impoverished Patrician]]: Doña Florinda (outright stated) and Doña Clotilde (heavily implied).
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: ''Why do you keep talking when I am interrupting?''.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: A few. One is Jirafales' insistence on being addressed as "professor" instead of the less-prestigious "maestro", meaning "teacher". Later on, Doña Florinda is adamant that her business is a "restaurant", since people have a tendency to call it a "fonda", which implies more of a [[Greasy Spoon]] diner (there was even [[Shaped Like Itself|a signpost on it which read "Fonda"]] before she opened her business there).
** Doña Clotilde
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* [[Insult Misfire]]: In one episode, Don Ramon entered Professor Jirafales' class claiming he wanted to learn. (He just wanted a place where he'd be safe from Doña Florinda) When El Chavo first saw him there, he believed it was an old kid who looked like Don Ramon. When Don Ramon stated something like "I am, idiot!", El Chavo said they had even that in common.
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: In an instance for example:
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'''Doña Florinda''': Don't pay them attention, Quico.
'''Quico''': But you're not a dirty-mouth! }}
* [[I Was Just Joking]]
* [[Jerk
** It is heavily implied that the only reason why El Chavo survives [[Tear Jerker|is because the entire adult cast takes turns to feed him and shelter him,]] [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|despite their own poverty]].
** Don Ramón used to play this trope often, being mean and grumpy to Chavo but then sharing what little food he had with Chavo or lending him a hand when everything seemed lost for the kid. In one episode Chavo wondered who was leaving empty plates on his barrel, until a night he discovered that Don Ramón was sleepwalking and leaving (what he believed on his dreams) a feast for Chavo to eat.
* [[The Klutz]]: El Chavo
* [[Kung Foley]]: With ''bell sounds''.
* [[Lamarck Was Right]]: Chilindrina's nervous laugh when she's embarrassed is exactly the same as her dad's.
** The first time Doña Florinda is seen crying, it is the exact same style of Quico's cry. Even after she develops her unique style, her gestures remain the same.
** Doña Nieves also cries in the exact same manner as her great granddaughter.
* [[Large Ham]]: QUICO.
** When given enough power, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilELFKNcONo&feature=related Don Ramón becomes] one. Hamming at 2:45
* [[Last
* [[Late to
* [[Laugh Track]]: ''El Chavo'' went through phases of laugh tracks, the two major ones being when it had an old and very unconvincing sounding laugh track, and the later years when the laugh track was eliminated at the beginning of the 80's "out of respect for the audience".
** There's also an unofficial laugh track provided by the crew, who occasionally cracked up at the antics of the cast, especially after an ad lib or a blooper. This unfortunately disappeared in later years as the series became more polished and very [[Fleeting Demographic Rule|repetitive]].
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* [[Maiden Aunt]]: Doña Clotilde
* [[Malaproper]]: most of the characters, but El Chavo is the most notorious of the bunch.
* [[
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Señor Barriga (y Pesado) = Mr Belly (and Heavy), to a very fat man.
* [[Mickey Mousing]]: Used sparingly.
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* [[Musical Episode]]
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: From an episode where El Chavo and Quico were receiving guitar lessons from Don Ramón and Jirafales respectively:
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* [[Napoleon Delusion]]: Don Ramón once faked this to avoid paying the rent.
** And Doña Neves on a remake of that episode -- except she was Jeanne D'Arc.
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** There's an episode where Chavo says he has a friend who looks just like him and makes up names until he firmly comes to Chente. It's never clear if he's talking about an imaginary friend, a street pet or himself.
* [[Nonverbal Miscommunication]]
▲* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: Subverted; the kids are played by adults from the very beginning.
* [[Not Important to This Episode Camp]]: The vencidad tenants went to Acapulco for a vacation. When [[The Landlord]], [[Meaningful Name|Señor Barriga]], learned this from El Chavo, he decided to go there as well and, taking pity from El Chavo, takes him as well. Señor Barriga's son, Ñoño, was at a boy scout camp at the moment and, aside from when his Dad mentioned this as an explanation not to take him to Acapulco, wasn't mentioned in the whole story arc.
* [[Not That There's Anything Wrong
** [[Just for Pun|Shouldn't that be "both straight and ''in'' a homosexual version"?]]
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Every time Don Ramón tries to stop the kids from doing something dangerous or annoying (especially Quico), it would always be at the worst possible time: Doña Florinda would arrive at the last second, and Quico would come crying to her and blame it on him. When Don Ramón tries to explain the situation, [[Cassandra Truth|Doña Florinda doesn't believe it anyway]] (or care to listen) and slaps him.
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: [[Played for Laughs
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Señor Barriga and Profesor Jirafales.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Kiko and La Chilindrina are orphaned of one of their parents (Kiko's dad died when the ship that he was captain of sunk; Chilindrinas's mom has a classic [[Death
** In one episode Doña Florinda asks Chilindrina why her father disappeared, and she answers he went off to look for a job and promised to never return until he gets one. He never returned.
* [[Parents
* [[Perpetual Poverty]]
* [[Pie in
* [[Playing Sick]]: La Chilindrina often attempts this to avoid school.
* [[Plot Tumor]]
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* [[Product Placement]]: their spinoff products.
* [[Punny Name]]: Profesor Jirafales (Jirafa being the Spanish word for Giraffe).
* [[Put
* [[Reality Subtext]]: many of the cast departures were for internal personality clashes.
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: The show uses Jean Jacques Perrey's "The Elephant Never Forgets" as its theme tune, which in turn is an arrangement of Beethoven's Turkish March (aka ''Marcia Alla Turca'').
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* [[Reset Button]]: Underlines the [[Negative Continuity]].
* [[Retcon]]
* [[Retool]]: A shift in focus during the last season, after Quico, and then Don Ramón, leave. Doña Florinda opens a restaurant and Chavo starts to work there, resulting in a large number of episodes that take place away from the neighborhood. Even many episodes that aren't set in the restaurant take place at the school.
* [[Right Behind Me]]
* [[Rule 34]]: Yes, it exists.
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* [[Scooby Stack]]
* [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]
* [[Self
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Professor Jirafales.
* [[Seven Minute Lull]]: The Running Gag was everytime a Lull happened it would be when Chavo was refering to Professor Jirafales as 'Maestro Longaniza'. Subverted in one episode: many Lulls happen, always with Chavo being heard saying something embarassing once the noise stops. The last time it happens, what he says is "And now I'm not saying anything!"
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* [[Spoof Aesop]]: A gem by Don Ramón: "There's no bad job; the bad thing is having to work."
* [[Spoonerism]]: Sometimes, when talking to Sr. Barriga, Don Ramón would misplace Sr. Barriga's name and one other word of his phrase, driving Sr. Barriga mad since it makes it look like Don Ramón is insulting him for being fat. An example:
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* [[Springtime for Hitler]]: one script has El Chavo trying to catch a contagious disease Chilindrina is faking, with the hope that he'll end up in the hospital (where he could have a nice bed and three meals a day). Eventually, everybody contracts the disease... except for El Chavo, who is the most unhappy of them all.
* [[Status Quo Is God]]
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* [[Temporary Substitute]]: Whenever Chespirito restaged a script and one of the major actors had left the show, he simply subbed in one of the other characters, even if it resulted in some unusual personality shifts. Some of the characters basically become permanent substitutes, like Ñoño and Popiz.
* [[Throw It In]]: Many bloopers made it to the final edit. Sometimes this was because they were funny or the cast used them to their advantage. In one episode, after a typical confrontation with Dona Florinda, Don Ramón angrily throws his hat, and it accidentally goes through Dona Florinda's door just as it closes. Don Ramón continues his snit fit but briefly pauses to knock on the door until one of the other actors lets him in to retrieve it. ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV55VE9iOH8 See it here.]) No one breaks character, which makes the scene funnier than if it had gone as planned. Other times, production problems that should have caused a stopdown didn't. There is one early show where a loud thunderstorm is obviously going on outside the studio, and yet no one mentions the frequent thunderclaps that can be heard over the dialogue.
* [[Tie
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Tomboy Chilindrina and Girly Girl Popis. Tough Dona Florinda and mushy Dona Clotilde.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: tortas de jamón (ham sanwiches) for El Chavo (despite him being a [[Big Eater]] in general), gigantic lollipops for La Chilindrina and Kiko.
* [[The Smart Guy]]: Profesor Jirafales
* [[Transplant]]: Profesor Jirafales originated in an early Chespirito sketch, "Los supergenios de la mesa cuadrada".
* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: In-universe exapmle with El Chavo's [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|Ximporinfora]]. [[Spell My Name
** Its written for, at least in Portuguese, is "[[Perfectly Cromulent Word|Chinfurínfula]]".
*** [[Spell My Name
* [[Tsundere]]: Chilindrina, type B.
** Doña Florinda, Type A. She's [[Almighty Mom|harsh and outspoken]], but adores Kiko and the mere sight of Jirafales makes her go all mushy.
* [[
* [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]]: A major Chavo trope. Almost all the characters have a relative played by the same actor. There was even an attempt to have Chilindrina play her own guardian, Doña Nieves, after Don Ramón left.
* [[The Un
** Also, who he lives with at apartment #8 (the barrel is just his "secret hideout").
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Usually it's between Profesor Jirafales and Doña Florinda; however, on a few occasions, they've shown that Don Ramón would be all too ready to let Florinda have her way with him, if she were willing.
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Half of the cast.
* [[We Named the Monkey "Jack"]]: The kids once named a dog "Ramón". The original namesake is not pleased.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: In 2008, Chespirito revealed that there was to be a series finale where {{spoiler|[[Sudden Downer Ending|Chavo saves the life of a child about to be hit by a car, but at the cost of his own life.]] His daughter, who worked as a psychologist, talked him out of it because she felt that showing the series finale would cause the audience to be HORRIBLY traumatized.}}
** Also, famous [[The Beautiful Game|soccer]] player Pelé once phoned in Chespirito to ask him to make a [[The Movie|movie of the show]] and even offered himself to appear in it, but Chespirito desisted as he didn't support the idea of having movies of shows you can see for free on TV.
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* [[Widow Witch]]: Averted. The one who looks like a witch is a spinster, and the actual widow is young (well, kinda) and just ill tempered.
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: The reason Don Ramón doesn't fight back when Doña Florinda slaps him. That and, good luck trying to explain to Profesor Jirafales she's not defenceless. Don Ramón once put a bucket over his head to protect himself from being slapped by Doña Florinda and Professor Jirafales punched him in the gut for this.
* [[You Called Me "X" - It Must Be Serious]]: Whenever Doña Florinda calls Quico "Federico" (his actual name, as "Quico" is a shorthand), he knows she's angry at her.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Godines was technically a recurring character, but still unimportant enough that actor Horacio Gomez appeared as other characters once or twice.
* [[Your Mom]]: Doña Florinda to Don Ramón after slapping him for doing X to Quico: "Next time, go X your grandma!"
** It occasionally became a rather humorous [[Insult Backfire]] when it happened said lady had actually done something to do with X.
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