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Legendary Mexican [[Sitcom]] (and staple of popular culture) about a little orphan boy and his quirky neighborhood. Famous for casting adults as little children. This lets the show get away with having many rather awful things happen to the kids without it being too horrifying, since they're really adults and playing parodies of kids, anyway.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: a lot. Listing them all would require a page ''only for this trope''.

** One example, by Quico:

''(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...").

* [[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.

* [[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''.

* [[Full Name Ultimatum]]: Although it almost never happens, Kiko knows he's in trouble if Doña Florinda ever refers to him as "Federico".

* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: Done once when the kids went on "Strike",

'''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:

** In another instance, when El Chavo was checking up on Chilindrina, who was sick after eating an entire cake:

'''El Chavo:''' And everyone fits? }}

*** One more came when The Profesor wanted to explain something to Don Ramón.

'''Don Ramón''': Oohhh, here we have other name for them. }}

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: All the female "kids", but most notably La Chilindrina.

* [[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

* [[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:

'''Quico''': But you're not a dirty-mouth! }}

* [[I Was Just Joking]]

* [[Musical Episode]]

* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: From an episode where El Chavo and Quico were receiving guitar lessons from Don Ramón and Jirafales respectively:

* [[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.

* [[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:

* [[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]]