History Main / ElSpanishO

* In Machinima/RedVsBlue with Sarge trying to talk to Lopez 2.0.

* In the [[WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan episode]] "Bowser Junior Learns Spanish!", Jackie Chu teaches his students "Spanish" with this method, with Cody in disbelief. Later at a Mexican restaurant, Junior and Cody, the latter being reluctant, test out their "Spanish" only to find out that it actually worked.

[[caption-width-right:330:[[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay No problemo]]. [[note]]It's actually "No entrar aquí," and "Entre por otro lado." And it's "No problem''a''", for that matter.[[/note]] ]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

[[caption-width-right:330:[[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay No problemo]]. [[note]]It's actually "No entrar aquí," and "Entre por otro lado." And it's "No problema", for that matter.[[/note]] ]]

* Wiki/TVTropes: UsefulNotes.LesCopsSportif.

** ''Series/FamilyFeud'': During the Richard Dawson era, he would call out a contestant's answer by repeating it this way. He previously did the same as a panelist on ''Series/MatchGame''.

* ''Series/FamilyFeud'': During the Richard Dawson era, he would call out a contestant's answer by repeating it this way. He previously did the same as a panelist on ''Series/MatchGame''.
* ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'': During the Bob Barker era, he would refer to the single digit number (which always had a leading zero, e.g., "04") in the Money Game as "El Cheapo". "El Cheapo" went into the national vocabulary to describe the bottom-grade line of any product; "these are the deluxe cassette tapes, and these are the el cheapos".[[note]]Older tropers might remember the ubiquitous [[http://images.45spaces.com/f/aud/audio-magnetics-c-60-aud.jpg Audio Magnetics orange-labeled cassettes]] which often had the words "Assembled in Mexico with USA Components".[[/note]] Additionally, the term “el-skunko” is used by fans to refer to a winless show, occasionally also using the term for a wipeout of certain pricing games and/or a winless show with a double overbid in the Showcase.

** Lacienega's family's last name is a corruption of "Boulevard" with "ez" at the end to make it sound Spanish.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/TheProudFamilyLouderAndProuder Louder and Prouder]]'' reveals that Lacienega has some relatives through her mom, Sunset's, side of the family who have the last name of "Avanúñez," which is just like "Boulevardez" but with "Avenue" in lieu of "Boulevard."

[[caption-width-right:330:[[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay No problemo]]. [[note]]It's actually "No entrar aquí," and "Entre por otro lado."[[/note]] ]]

This is usually a joke, but sometimes it's just plain desperation, if not outright insensitivity. In the U.S., [[UsefulNotes/SpanishLanguage Spanish]] is the language that most commonly gets this treatment, with the article "el" being put in front of English words and the masculine ending "-o" being put on the end. For example, an English speaker who wanted beer might ask a Spanish-speaker for "el beero," when it should have been "''la'' cervez''a''." Other languages get this treatment too. French, for example, will have the masculine article "le" placed in front of English words with the ending "-é" occasionally added. Italian will have "La" in front of words, an "a-" prefix ("It's a-me, Mario!") and another suffix "-a" added after. Russian will get "-ov" or "-ski" ([[BreadEggsBreadedEggs or "-ovski"]]) added to the ends of names and words, Latin with "-us" or "-um," German with "-en," Chinese with "-ee" or "-ing," Portuguese with "-eiro" or "-inho," Japanese with "-ru" or "[[{{Keigo}} -desu/masu]]," and Greek with "-on" or "-tron" (to make SciFi jargon). English itself in some languages takes this treatment with words in said languages ending with "-ing" or "-ation".

** ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'': During the Bob Barker era, he would refer to the single digit number (which always had a leading zero, e.g., "04") in the Money Game as "El Cheapo". "El Cheapo" went into the national vocabulary to describe the bottom-grade line of any product; "these are the deluxe cassette tapes, and these are the el cheapos".[[note]]Older tropers might remember the ubiquitous [[http://images.45spaces.com/f/aud/audio-magnetics-c-60-aud.jpg Audio Magnetics orange-labeled cassettes]] which often had the words "Assembled in Mexico with USA Components".[[/note]] Additionally, the term “el-skunko” is used by fans to refer to a winless show, occasionally also using the term for a wipeout of certain pricing games and/or a winless show with a double overbid in the Showcase.

* The instrumental that closes the ''Music/ATrickOfTheTail'' album by Music/{{Genesis}} is titled "Los Endos".

* When Bob Barker hosted ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', he would refer to the single digit number (which always had a leading zero, e.g., "04") in the Money Game as "El Cheapo". "El Cheapo" went into the national vocabulary to describe the bottom-grade line of any product; "these are the deluxe cassette tapes, and these are the el cheapos".[[note]]Older tropers might remember the ubiquitous [[http://images.45spaces.com/f/aud/audio-magnetics-c-60-aud.jpg Audio Magnetics orange-labeled cassettes]] which often had the words "Assembled in Mexico with USA Components".[[/note]]
* Occasionally on his version of ''Series/FamilyFeud'', Richard Dawson would call out a contestant's answer by repeating it this way. He previously did the same as a panelist on ''Series/MatchGame''.

* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has the ''¡La Fantoma!'' comics, about a superheroine [[JustForFun/XMeetsY halfway between]] ''ComicBook/BatGirl'' and ''ComicBook/ThePhantom''. While they were smart enough to realize that a female would have a name ending in "-a" and use the article "la" instead of "-o" and "el", and that Greek <ph> is written as <f> in Spanish, the word for phantom in Spanish is actually ''fantasma''.

* In ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', John teaches the T-800 to say "no problemo" (which is actually "Spanglish," and isn't right; the correct way to say "no problem" would be "No hay problema."). John also teaches him "Hasta la vista ([[CatchPhrase baby]])" which actually is correct (it means "Farewell"). The Spanish dub of the movie became a pretty good example of KeepItForeign translating the catchphrase as "Sayonara, baby", which then became a relatively popular expression in Spain.

* A short-lived commercial for grilled chicken chain El Pollo Loco had the chicken cooked on "El Grill" while a MaskedLuchador stomps on a box of El Nuggets. There is an element of NWordPrivileges here, though, in that El Pollo Logo really was founded in a Spanish-speaking country.[[note]]Mexico[[/note]]

[[caption-width-right:330:[[Film/TerminatorJudgementDay No problemo]]. [[note]]It's actually "No entrar aquí," and "Entre por otro lado."[[/note]] ]]

[[caption-width-right:330:[[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger No problemo]]. [[note]]It's actually "No entrar aquí," and "Entre por otro lado."[[/note]] ]]

This is usually a joke, but sometimes it's just plain desperation, if not outright insensitivity. In the U.S., [[UsefulNotes/SpanishLanguage Spanish]] is the language that most commonly gets this treatment, with the article "el" being put in front of English words and the masculine ending "-o" being put on the end. For example, an English speaker who wanted beer might ask a Spanish-speaker for "el beero," when it should have been "''la'' cervez''a''." Other languages get this treatment too. French, for example, will have the masculine article "le" placed in front of English words with the ending "-é" occasionally added. Italian will have "La" in front of words, an "a-" prefix ("It's a-me, Mario!") and another suffix "-a" added after. Russian will get "-ov" or "-ski" ([[BreadEggsBreadedEggs or "-ovski"]]) added to the ends of names and words, Latin with "-us," German with "-en," Chinese with "-ee" or "-ing," Portuguese with "-eiro" or "-inho," Japanese with "-ru" or "[[{{Keigo}} -desu/masu]]," and Greek with "-on" or "-tron" (to make SciFi jargon). English itself in some languages takes this treatment with words in said languages ending with "-ing" or "-ation".

''WesternAnimation/AngryBeavers'': one episode, titled ''Norberto y Daggetto en El Grapadura y el Castor Malo"'', has all the dialogue spoken in Spanish with English subtitles. In one scene, Daggett (playing the part of an evil scientist) explains his evil plan via a slide show, and every time he goes to the next slide he says "BEEP!" out loud, but the subtitles are written as "(El Beep-o!)".

** Prouncing Habanero as Haba'''ñ'''ero (like "haba'''ny'''ero"). Possibly caused by confusion with Jalapeño, which actually does have a palatalized ñ.

** Pronouncing Bei'''j'''ing as Bei'''zh'''ing (like the '''s''' in mea'''s'''ure), when really it is a hard '''J''' sound similar to the way it is pronounced in English.

* English speakers are fond of using the "French" phrase Ooh la la!, pronounced "oo lah LAH" to describe something sexual, probably because EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench. And yes, this is actually a commonly-used phrase in French, but it is "''Ô là là''," and has no sexual connotations at all (it means "dear me," literally 'oh there, there'), and is pronounced "OH lah lah," with masculine instead of feminine stress (which, granted, is unusual for a feminine-heavy language such as French).

* When Bob Barker hosted ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', he would refer to the single digit number (which always had a leading zero, e.g., "04") in the Money Game as "El Cheapo".
** "El Cheapo" went into the national vocabulary to describe the bottom-grade line of any product; "these are the deluxe cassette tapes, and these are the el cheapos".[[note]]Older tropers might remember the ubiquitous [[http://images.45spaces.com/f/aud/audio-magnetics-c-60-aud.jpg Audio Magnetics orange-labeled cassettes]] which often had the words "Assembled in Mexico with USA Components".[[/note]]
** Fans refer to shows where all 6 pricing games are lost and the Showcase ends in a double overbid as [[FanNickname "El Skunko"]].

* A lot of words in Spanish end with vowels (nouns and adjectives mostly). So, to show that [[InvertedTrope a Spanish speaker really doesn't know any English]], is to just cut out the final vowel. [[note]]This is, of course, TruthInTelevision with some words (idiota-idiot, importante-important, inteligente-intelligent).

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperforeignism Hyperforeignism]] is a reversed version of this trope. It occurs when someone tries to pronounce a foreign word correctly by applying what they believe to be a proper "foreign" pronunciation, when actually the word is pronounced similarly to how they would normally pronounce it in their own language. Examples in English include:

** Prouncing Habanero as Haba'''ñ'''ero (like "habanyero"). Possibly caused by confusion with Jalapeño, which actually does have a palatalized ñ.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperforeignism Hyperforeignism]] is a reversed version of this trope. It occurs when someone applies what they assume to be correct foreign pronunciation rules to a foreign loan word/phrase that doesn't actually use them. Examples in English include: