El Chavo del Ocho: Difference between revisions

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

** Averted with Patty, who wears a ponytail.

** In [[Latin America]] Sr. Barriga also provides the voice of [[Ratatouille|Auguste Gusteau]] and [[Up (Animation)|Dug]]

* [[Hit Me Dammit]]

* [[Large Ham]]: QUICO.

** When given enough power, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilELFKNcONo&feature=related Don Ramón becomes] one. Hamming at 2:45

* [[Late to The Punchline]]: Quico, so much that Chilindrina told him that if he's told a joke during a funeral, he'd laugh the next day during the burial.

* [[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".

* [[Scooby Stack]]

* [[Seinfeldian Conversation]]

* [[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!"

* [[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-Reveal]]: El Chavo's real name, whenever he'd say it (or anything explicit about his background by the way) someone else would enter the scene and either interrupt him or cause an uproar so noisy the audience is unable to hear. The subject on Chavo is then [[Noodle Incident|left not to be brought up again]] (at least for the next slew of episodes).

* [[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.

* [[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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