History Characters / ElChavoDelOcho

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Despite being one of his most recognizable traits, he didn't begin crying on the wall next to the stairs until 1974.

* CunningLikeAFox: She's smarter than what the other characters give her credit for, although most of the time it's just [[ItAmusedMe to mock people]].

* ForTheEvulz: Often pulls pranks and causes mischief just to see others fighting, Quico and el Chavo being prime examples.

* LaserGuidedKarma: La Chilndrina often instigates the mischief that gets Don Ramón beaten up by Doña Florinda, usually because she encourages El Chavo to perform some over-the-top violent action against Quico. El Chavo then gets punched in the head by Don Ramón, while [[KarmaHoudini La Chilindrina gets away scott free.]] Though there have been exceptions:

* ManipulativeBastard: Very quick to act and tell lies to her advantage (such as getting money or forcing El Chavo to do chores Don Ramón asked her to do). It helps that her two closest friends aren't [[TheDitz exactly]] [[BookDumb all that smart]].

* HateSink: Downplayed. Most of time, Florinda is a very unpleasant woman with an inflated view of herself who spoils her son rotten, physically abuses Don Ramón daily and often insult her neighbors, calling them the "riffraff". However, she has some moments of kindness (usually when Jirafales is around), like when she gives a job to El Chavo, or when she avoid punishing Don Ramón during the Churros and New Year episodes.

* {{Jerkass}}: Especially in the early seasons. Slapping [[BornUnlucky Don Ramón]] [[DisproportionateRetribution for everything]], acting cold towards the other people in the vecindad and [[NeverMyFault never admitting her fault]].

* KarmaHoudini: Rarely gets a punishment for her acts.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Very few episodes have shown Doña Florinda getting getting hit by karma, though the more noteworthy moments include:

** In another episode, Doña Florinda chases Don Ramón to beat him up for accidentally getting paint on her sheets. While she beats him up, El Chavo paints Don Ramón's front door, but Quico tells him that throwing a bucket of paint at it is faster, and shows El Chavo while Doña Florinda comes out of Don Ramón's apartment.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: ''"Mátalas callando"'' can be literally translated as "kill them quietly", but it's actually an old Mexican slang. A "mátalas callando" is a someone who pursues a goal without letting others notice; a sly person who acts stealthily. (It's the surname she took from her late husband, but it probably fits better on her naughty son)
* NeverMyFault: Or Quico's...

* {{Tsundere}}: Very ''tsun-tsun'' with Don Ramón, but becomes ''dere-dere'' around Profesor Jirafales.

*** It's worth noting that when Doña Florinda found that there were no churros left and asking the sales money from Don Ramón (when in fact he didn't sold it, Chavo ate them all), and Ramón self-accusing so she wouldn't blame Chavo for it, she told him that Chavo also told the truth to her, and congratulates him for not accusing him and being such a good neighbor. Talk about heartwarming.

* SignatureAttack: A kick to the shins.

* CatchPhrase:

-->'''Profesor Jirafales:''' Who is the biggest animal on earth?
-->'''El Chavo:''' It's Ñoño.

** Entire episodes are set on the neighbors trying to convince El Chavo to have a bath, only for him to try and escape it several times. Then they bring out the water buckets. HilarityEnsues.

* CatchPhrase:

* CatchPhrase:

** (After hitting Chavo) "No te doy otra no más porque..." ("I don't punch you again just because...")

* CatchPhrase:

** "¡Y la próxima vez, vaya... ''(insert action of whatever happened before)'' a su abuela!" ("And next time, go... to your grandma!", always told after she slaps Don Ramón)

* CatchPhrase:

* CatchPhrase: "Es que, quiero evitar la fatiga" ("It's only that, I want to avoid fatigue"). He used it frequently to avoid doing the simplest of tasks.

* CatchPhrase: "Acúsalo con tu mamá." ("Tell on him/her with your mom.") She would also say "¡Pero te voy a acusar!" ("But I'll tell on you!") when she's the one attacked.

* CatchPhrase: "¡Míralo, eh! ¡Míralo, eh!" ("Look at him, huh! Look at him, huh!")

* CatchPhrase: "¿Y yo por qué, maistro?" (Why me, teacher?)

* CatchPhrase: "Aquí estoy" ("I'm here") - said thrice in her only episode.

* DecompositeCharacter: After Carlos Villagrán left the show, Quico's traits were given to La Popis (who become TheDitz) and Ñoño (who got Quico's better traits to become the nicer rich kid).

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Despite being one of his most recognizable traits, he didn't begin crying on the wall next to the ladders until 1974.

* BadBoss: In one episode where el Chavo was spending his summer shinning shoes, she asks him why he doesn't want to go to work, and el Chavo responds that it's not fair that he does all the work, but she gets half the money. She then tells him that it was her shoe-shine kit, which was passed down several generations that allowed him to make enough money to buy ham sandwiches. When Chavo decides to get back to work, he asks if she would help him, only for her to tell him she has more urgent manners to take care of, like taking a nap.

* [[LoserSonOfLoserDad Loser Daughter of Loser Dad]]: In one of the '' "aguas frescas" '' episodes, Chilindrina asks Chavo for a drink, Chavo asks if she has money, when she says she does, he damnds to see it, when she calls him out on it, Chavo responds that she's "her father's daughter," and explains that Don Ramón never pays back the money he owes, becuase he doesn't work, and thus never has any money.

* WickedStepmother: She dreads the idea of "crazy old spinsters" hooking up with his father, "because he is so lucky with them". Which is probably why she is so nasty with Doñas Clotild, Eduviges and Gloria.

* OutOfTheFryingPan: In the second episode of the 1977 version of the "Aguas frescas" series, Don Ramón tells Chilindrina to lie to Señor Barriga and say she hasn't seen him, and won't be back for a long time, but Quiko says he'll tell Señor Barriga the truth, which prompts Don Ramón to threaten him, but when Doña Florinda wanders into the scene, Quiko tricks Don Ramón into pinching her, and she gives chase. Chavo manages to {{Blackmail}} Don Ramón into buying flavored water since he's trapped between Señor Barriga in front of the vecindad, being tricked by Chavo into buying flavored water in exchange for Don Ramón's location, and Doña Florinda in the main patio, who's hunting him down. At the very end, [[AsYouKnow Chavo recounts to Quiko]], how Señor Barriga eventually left when he got annoyed with [[MathematiciansAnswer Chavo's purposefully vague answers]], thus saving Don Ramón from being charged rent/served an eviction notice. When Quiko says that Don Ramón was safe, Chavo says "no, he still had to deal with your mom," and Don Ramón comes in, having suffered another NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Doña Florinda.

-->'''Don Ramón:''' (after being slapped by Florinda) Too bad she isn't a man...
-->'''Chilindrina:''' But daddy, if being a woman she already hits you like that... If she were a man, you'd be at the cemetery by now!
* WrongGenreSavvy: In the episode "Corto Circuito" Don Ramón gets angry because he is unable to watch the Football match. Then he destroys his TV thinking it's not working anymore. Moments latter La Chilindrina says there is a blackout in the vecindad. Don Ramón quickly regrets what he did and spent the rest of episode (and the following one) trying to fix his TV.

* DitzyGenius: Bolaños' description of the character (in ''"Chespirito: Vida y Magia"'') is that he is "cult, educated, but naive".

* PutOnABus: In the 1992 season, alongside all adult characters that were not required to appear in the school episodes the final season was entirely composed of.

* PutOnABus: In the 1992 season, alongside all adult characters that were not required to appear in the school episodes the final season was entirely composed of.

* MinorLivingAlone: She was temporarily this in 1979, between Ramón's departure and Doña Nieves' arrival.

* DubNameChange: He is known as Chaves in the Brazilian dub. It was changed to that because Chaves sounds more natural and easier to pronounce in Portuguese than Chavo. It also carries an element of LostInTranslation, since "Chavo" in Spanish is a slang for "kid"/"young boy", while "Chaves" in Portuguese is either a surname or means "keys" (in which doesn't make any sense as an in-universe nickname).

* DubNameChange: Renamed to "Chiquinha" in the Brazilian Portuguese dub. In one of the early dubs, she is named "Francisquinha" instead.

** Wasting food is another big one for him, given he's not in any condition to have his own as he pleases.

->'''Voiced by (dub):''' Marcelo Gastaldi (1st Brazilian dub), Sérgio Moreno, Cassiano Ricardo (Brazilian dub of some episodes from Chesperito era), Tatá Guarnieri (Brazilian dub; 2005-2012), Daniel Muller (2013 onwards)

->'''Voiced by:''' Jesús Guzmán (Original), Creator/MonaMarshall (English dub), Tatá Guarnieri (Brazilian dub, seasons 1-4), Daniel Muller (Brazilian dub, season 5)

->'''Voiced by (dub):''' Nelson Machado (1st Brazilian dub), Vinícius Souza (2012 Brazilian dub of missing episodes).

* AdaptedOut: Does not appear in the animated series, due to María Antonieta de las Nieves holding the rights of the character. Paty, Ñoño and La Popis are partial SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitutes of her in that series.

** In a 2006 interview, his dub actor Carlos Seidl revealed that the dub director wanted to come up with a name cooler than "Ramón" to him. Somebody commented that he "had the face of someone who has just gotten up after spending the whole night awake", so they picked "Seu Madruga" amidst other forgotten suggestions.

->'''Played by:''' Florinda Meza (Original series), Creator/EricaEdwards (Animated series), Creator/KateHiggins (English dub up to Episode 52), Creator/LauraPost (English dub since Episode 53).

* AscendedExtra: After [[PutOnABus Quico left the vecindad]], Popis basically became a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for him.

* ParentalSubstitute: To El Chavo, most on the time.[[note]]Unless he's hitting him for asking about his grandmother after Doña Florinda [[YourMom tells him what he can "go do that to [her] the next time"]].[[/note]]

* UnrequitedCrush: In the 1982 version of "El festival de la buena vecindad", he appears to have one towards Popis. The first intro for the 2006 animated series reverses the roles.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name is usually spelled as "Paty", though Bolaños spells it as "Pati" in his book ''"El Diario de El Chavo Del Ocho"''; and instances of "Patty" are also not unheard of.
* InconsistentSpelling: Along with La Popis and Ñoño, of La Chilindrina in the animated series.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Along with La Popis and Ñoño, of La Chilindrina in the animated series.
* TrueBlueFemininity: The first and second versions of Paty wear blue dresses.

* NiceGuy: In virtue of being a child, even his more malicious moments can be somewhat excused most of the time. When he's not angry or being sneaky, he'll usually do something genuinely nice for someone else without thinking of a reward, or partake in the episode's moral with a kind tone and expression.
** [[SubvertedTrope The one time]] he genuinely TookALevelInJerkass was when Professor Jirafales and Doña Florinda had a misunderstanding and the lovesick professor needed Quico and el Chavo to send her a message that he just wanted to talk. Chavo selfishly refuses to do it, and even [[ToxicFriendInfluence convinces Quico]] to do the same, on the basis that the professor promised to give Quico his much-desired [[RunningGag square ball]] and will inevitably forget about it when the two lovebirds reconcile. Even Don Ramón (who is helping Jirafales [[{{Hypocrite}} out of a promised amount of money]]) is disgusted at how selfish they're acting.