History Series / ElChapulinColorado

* JackassGenie: The magic wand Dr. Faust gets in the retelling of ''Myth/{{Faust}}'' causes him several problems when his spells are not specific enough:
** His maid Margarita (and Faust's love interest) wants to dine turkey, so he summons a turkey. A live turkey appears.
** After desummoning the turkey. Faust asks Margarita if she wants silver or gold plates - she wants the latter. Faust summons "el oro" (gold), which the wand interprets as "el loro", and summons a parrot instead.
** Angry, Faust wants to summon the parrot away, but he calls it a "cotorra", which both means "parrot" and is also jargon for someone that talks too much. Therefore, the wand makes Margarita disappear.
** Even more frustrated, Faust gets rid of the parrot and then asks the wand to give him the queen of his heart. The wand summons a Queen of Hearts card.
** Faust throws the card away decides to be a little more specific so he asks the wand to summon Margarita with the person she loves. The wand successfully summons Margarita... and her boyfriend.
** Furious, Faust wants to summon "that idiot" away. The wand makes Faust himself disappear.

* LongList: Once, after el Chapulín has spent the entire episode lousing things up for the old man he was supposed to help, the man begins rattling off a list of people who would have been better to call instead of el Chapulín, and it lasts through the entire ending credits. He begins with Superman, and then works his way down to Speedy Gonzalez, Fidel Castro, the Wizard of Oz, Mannix, and Rin Tin Tin. He even says "El Chapulín Col- no, not him...". During all this, el Chapulín, covered in mud, shuffles his feet and looks embarrassed.
* Often, a character will say something nice to him, then add on "... even though you're short, ugly, stupid, weak, etc., etc., etc., etc..." Chapulín's response is always "You could have at least left out a couple of et certeras."

* {{Malaproper}}: El Chapulín. He was specially prone to the butchered rendition of several, intermixed proverbs usually ended with "Bueno, la idea es ésa" ("Well, that's the idea"), even when it was impossible to grasp ''any'' idea relevant to the situation.

* MeaningfulName: At the very end of the Samson's wig episode, the maid of the archeologist who chops up the wig, to ensure [[NoManShouldHaveThisPower no one abuses the wig's ability to give its wearer]] SuperStrength and NighInvulnerability, is named Dalila.

* MundaneUtility: ''El Chavo'' of all people found another use for the Chiquitolina pills: [[spoiler:Eat a regular-sized torta de jamón while reduced in size was like having a feast!]]

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** "Don Chapulín de la Mancha": El Chapulín tries to convince an old person that he's not El Chapulín Colorado, by pretending to be his conscience. The old person replies that he wants to be El Chapulín Colorado because he does a lot of important acts unlike himself. The aesop El Chapulín gives is that any job well done (in the old person's case, being a health inspector, and not take any bribes) is much more important than anything El Chapulín does.

** As proper parodies, there have been episodes based around ''Literature/DonQuixote'' (featuring an old person who believes he's El Chapulín Colorado), ''Myth/{{Faust}}'', ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', and more.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Super Sam, a cross between Uncle Sam and Franchise/{{Superman}}, was sometimes treated as this for Chapulín. After all, Super Sam had money on his side; as in, his main weapon was an actual bag of money he used to club bad people, all with a cash register sound.

* CartridgesInFlight: One episode revolved around our clumsy hero wearing a wig made of Samson's actual hair, discovered in an archeological dig. This not only gave him nigh invulnerability, but when one of the bad people fired a bullet he caught it with his teeth. As in caught the entire bullet, casing, prime and all. The thing looked pristine.

** '''"¡Síganme los buenos!"''', "Good people, follow me!"
*** A variation is used by recurring BigBad, the pirate "''Alma Negra'' / Black Soul": '''"¡Siganme los malos!"''', "Bad people, follow me!".

* CulturalCrossReference: One episode had Chapulín helping a young woman and her elderly father, whose house was being threatened of being demolished with the two still inside. The old person is not happy about being helped by a hero of the likes of Chapulín, angrily saying to his daughter: "You could have called any other hero! ''Any other''! Franchise/{{Superman}}! Franchise/{{Batman}}! ComicStrip/DickTracy! [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Donald]] [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Duck]]!".

** "El caso de dos hombres que eran tan parecidos que eran idénticos, sobre todo uno de ellos" involves El Rascabuches finding out there's another person that looks exactly the same as him (both are played by Ramón Valdéz), and plans to kill him to fake his own death. At the end of the episode, while El Chapulín is discussing with the lookalike about this trope, his daughter brings her significant other, Roberto, who is played by Roberto Gómez Bolaños and therefore looks identical to El Chapulín Colorado.

** Faust throws the card away decides to be a little more specific so he asks the wand to summon Margarita with the person she loves. The wand successfully summons Margarita... and her significant o.

* LongList: Once, after el Chapulín has spent the entire episode lousing things up for the old person he was supposed to help, the person begins rattling off a list of people who would have been better to call instead of el Chapulín, and it lasts through the entire ending credits. He begins with Superman, and then works his way down to Speedy Gonzalez, Fidel Castro, the Wizard of Oz, Mannix, and Rin Tin Tin. He even says "El Chapulín Col- no, not him...". During all this, el Chapulín, covered in mud, shuffles his feet and looks embarrassed.

* [[ManChild Childish]]: An episode involves an elderly person that is living his second childhood and becomes a danger to everyone else because he eventually gets a gun.

* NapoleonDelusion: An episode involves an elderly person who thinks he's El Chapulín Colorado after watching him too many times on TV, and starts viewing everyone else as villains or victims. After El Chapulín talks him out of it, the elderly person reveals he's not actually crazy, but he wanted to be El Chapulín Colorado because he's a hero unlike himself, a health inspector - and El Chapulín also talks him out of that as well.

* PhonyPsychic: In one episode, El Chapulín encounters a person that claims to be a Rajah and a fakir, but he's actually neither, and is trying to steal a crystal ball he himself sold to a family by faking a curse. The so-called Rajah even tries to use the crystal ball to see the future:

---> '''Chapulín:''' They didn't count on my cleverness! Good people, follow me!

** [[{{Manchild}} An elderly person in his "second childhood"]] in one episode is pretending to be a detective from ''Series/HawaiiFiveO''.

* WantedPoster: El Chapulín Colorado once helped a western town to post wanted posters with the criminal's face and the inscription "Lo Queremos Vivo o Muerto - Mucho Cuidado". (Roughly "Wanted dead or alive - extreme caution") When confronted by the criminal Chapulín tried to appease him by ripping a piece of the poster so it reads "Lo Queremos Mucho" ("We love him/you a lot"). After Chapulín realized that the criminal didn't fall for the trick, Chapulín tried to buy his way out stating that the criminal in the poster did not look like the real criminal (played by Ramón Valdés) at all, even though it was an obvious caricature of Valdés on the poster. Chapulín insisted it was actually a bald bearded person... and flipped the poster upside down to prove his point.

* [[YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses You Wouldn't Hit Someone with Glasses]: El Chapulín once tried to get out of a fight by claiming he was not allowed to someone with glasses. When the bad person said "But I don't wear glasses", El Chapulín said "But I do" and then [[AmbiguousSyntax put on a pair of sunglasses]].

* TheCameo: Characters from ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' sometimes appear. "El disfraz, el antifaz y algo más", which takes place at a costume party, turns this up to eleven, as several characters from other Chespirito sketches and one-shots also appear, such as Quico, El Chavo, El Chómpiras and El Peterete, Doctor Chapatín and parodies of Charles Chaplin, Jerry Lewis and Laurel and Hardy.

* DropTheHammer: The "Chipote Chillón" ("Squeaky Mallet"), a silly-looking but effective hammer.

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** "Don Chapulín de la Mancha": El Chapulín tries to convince an old man that he's not El Chapulín Colorado, by pretending to be his conscience. The old man replies that he wants to be El Chapulín Colorado because he does a lot of important acts unlike himself. The aesop El Chapulín gives is that any job well done (in the old man's case, being a health inspector, and not take any bribes) is much more important than anything El Chapulín does.

** As proper parodies, there have been episodes based around ''Literature/DonQuixote'' (featuring an old man who believes he's El Chapulín Colorado), ''Myth/{{Faust}}'', ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', and more.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Super Sam, a cross between Uncle Sam and Franchise/{{Superman}}, was sometimes treated as this for Chapulín. After all, Super Sam had money on his side; as in, his main weapon was an actual bag of money he used to club bad guys, all with a cash register sound.

* CaptainObvious: In one episode, el Chapulín wants to help an innocent man to escape prison, and tells him he brought a file to cut the bars.

* CartridgesInFlight: One episode revolved around our clumsy hero wearing a wig made of Samson's actual hair, discovered in an archeological dig. This not only gave him nigh invulnerability, but when one of the bad guys fired a bullet he caught it with his teeth. As in caught the entire bullet, casing, prime and all. The thing looked pristine.

** '''"¡No contaban con mi astucia!"'''; "They did not count on my cleverness!" (he says this mainly after he makes his presence announced, or after defeating the bad guys—even when they're ''not'' the bad guys)
** '''"¡Síganme los buenos!"''', "Good guys, follow me!"
*** A variation is used by recurring BigBad, the pirate "''Alma Negra'' / Black Soul": '''"¡Siganme los malos!"''', "Bad guys, follow me!".
*** One episode had a MadScientist saying '''"¡Síganme los locos!"''', "Crazy guys, follow me!"

** Whoever Chapulín is helping always say "¡Bravo, Chapulín Colorado! ¡Eres lo máximo!" ("Bravo, Red Cricket! You're the greatest!") whenever he would best the bad guys and save the day.

* CulturalCrossReference: One episode had Chapulín helping a young woman and her elderly father, whose house was being threatened of being demolished with the two still inside. The old man is not happy about being helped by a hero of the likes of Chapulín, angrily saying to his daughter: "You could have called any other hero! ''Any other''! Franchise/{{Superman}}! Franchise/{{Batman}}! ComicStrip/DickTracy! [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Donald]] [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Duck]]!".

* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Chapulín once told an InNameOnly tale of ''Myth/{{Faust}}'', about a man who sold his soul in exchange of a magical device that made people and things disappear and appear as the user wishes. When the Devil showed up to collect, the man used the device to make the contract vanish.

** A RunningGag througth the episode "De noche, todos los gatos hacen miau" involves a non-conflict-related subversion of this trope: whenever the husband of a lady falls asleep, he's woken up by throwing some water at him. Unfortunely, this causes him to believe that he's in a sinking ship, and desperately jumps off the window, causing him to fall to the street. However, RuleofFunny would save his life by several means, such as landing on a nightwatcher, falling to the trash, sinking on the street, etc. This happens enough times that Chapulín suggests to purposefuly throw the man off the window to find a cat that keeps making noises and is supposedly on the street, arguing that "[he] knows the road".

** Once, El Chapulín was asked to stop El Tripaseca after he steals the wallet from a man ([[RuleOfFunny pants included]]). However, a restaurant owner kept beating all three up when they accidentally entered his building, so El Chapulín ended up siding with the man and El Tripaseca to defeat the owner.

** One episode involved El Chapulín Colorado trying to stop [[AliensStealCattle a martian from stealing poultry]]. At first, he mistakes a man wearing American football equipment to be the alien. In the 1977 version, after El Chapulín manages to force the Martian to flee, El Chapulín comments on his earlier mistake to the man, who then teleports away, just like the Martian.

** "El caso de dos hombres que eran tan parecidos que eran idénticos, sobre todo uno de ellos" involves El Rascabuches finding out there's another person that looks exactly the same as him (both are played by Ramón Valdéz), and plans to kill him to fake his own death. At the end of the episode, while El Chapulín is discussing with the lookalike about this trope, his daughter brings her boyfriend, Roberto, who is played by Roberto Gómez Bolaños and therefore looks identical to El Chapulín Colorado.

** Faust throws the card away decides to be a little more specific so he asks the wand to summon Margarita with the man she loves. The wand successfully summons Margarita... and her boyfriend.

* LongList: Once, after el Chapulín has spent the entire episode lousing things up for the old man he was supposed to help, the man begins rattling off a list of people who would have been better to call instead of el Chapulín, and it lasts through the entire ending credits. He begins with Superman, and then works his way down to Speedy Gonzalez, Fidel Castro, the Wizard of Oz, Mannix, and Rin Tin Tin. He even says "El Chapulín Col- no, not him...". During all this, el Chapulín, covered in mud, shuffles his feet and looks embarrassed.

* ManChild: An episode involves an elderly man that is living his second childhood and becomes a danger to everyone else because he eventually gets a gun.

* {{Mephistopheles}}: Mephistopheles appears when Chapúlin [[FramingDevice tells the story]] of Faust to a man trying to steal the projects of his father-in-law. In the story, the demon gives Faust a magic riding crop that can make anything appear and disappear in exchange for signing a contract.

* NapoleonDelusion: An episode involves an elderly man who thinks he's El Chapulín Colorado after watching him too many times on TV, and starts viewing everyone else as villains or victims. After El Chapulín talks him out of it, the elderly man reveals he's not actually crazy, but he wanted to be El Chapulín Colorado because he's a hero unlike himself, a health inspector - and El Chapulín also talks him out of that as well.

---> '''Chapulín:''' They didn't count on my cleverness! Good guys, follow me!

*** In one version of the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Volatile Extract Energy]] story, all of the main cast comprising of Chapulín, the Sheriff, Profesor Inventillo, the man who inadvertently sent his house flying, his daughter, and a thief who took advantage of the situation all got wet by falling at least once into a bathtub that was inexplicably full for the duration of the story.

** [[{{Manchild}} An elderly man in his "second childhood"]] in one episode is pretending to be a detective from ''Series/HawaiiFiveO''.

** In "El regreso de Super Sam", El Pocastrancas locks a couple in a room and then eats the key. At the end of the episode, the couple asks El Chapulín how he freed them when Pocasteancas had eaten the key. El Chapulín then replies that patience is one of man's best virtues. [[BrainBleach The couple is NOT happy to hear that.]]

* UnPaused: The entire schtick of the paralyzing horn. El Chapulín normally exploited it so his opponents would hurt themselves or one another (most of the episodes with the paralyzing horn involve two bad guys).

** "¡Chanfle!" (a soft swear, similar to "Holy Mackerel!")

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In "Jamás volveré a jugar apostando dinero, y te apuesto todo lo que quieras a que cumplo", there are two men playing chess in the background during the whole episode. None of the events that happen during it, not even El Chapulín and El Cuajináis [[ItMakesSenseInContext swordfighting with pool sticks]] ''right above the board'', faze them.

* WantedPoster: El Chapulín Colorado once helped a western town to post wanted posters with the criminal's face and the inscription "Lo Queremos Vivo o Muerto - Mucho Cuidado". (Roughly "Wanted dead or alive - extreme caution") When confronted by the criminal Chapulín tried to appease him by ripping a piece of the poster so it reads "Lo Queremos Mucho" ("We love him/you a lot"). After Chapulín realized that the criminal didn't fall for the trick, Chapulín tried to buy his way out stating that the criminal in the poster did not look like the real criminal (played by Ramón Valdés) at all, even though it was an obvious caricature of Valdés on the poster. Chapulín insisted it was actually a bald, bearded man... and flipped the poster upside down to prove his point.

* YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses: El Chapulín once tried to get out of a fight by claiming he was not allowed to hit a guy with glasses. When the bad guy said "But I don't wear glasses", El Chapulín said "But I do" and then [[AmbiguousSyntax put on a pair of sunglasses]].

* CatchPhrase: A lot!

* DangerousBackswing: Chapulín would often pull back [[DropTheHammer his Chipote Chillón]] to hit a villain, then would accidentally hit somebody behind too (either a villain trying to sneak up on him, or a good guy trying to get up or just happening to be there at the wrong time).

** In the episode where he investigates a toy theft, he knocks out the thief with "el chipote chillon." He chuckles triumphantly when he gets hit by the hammer. He looks at it and says "not me, dummy!" and loses consciousness.

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* EconomyCast: Just like with El Chavo, while in most episodes all the charaters are supposed to be completly different, they are always played by the same group of 4-10 actors.

Bumblebee Man, a recurring figure on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', is essentially a CaptainErsatz of this character. He was created because whenever the writers flipped through the channels, El Chapulin Colorado was always on (similar to how Bumblebee Man is always on television, at least when Krusty, Itchy and Scratchy, or Kent Brockman aren't).

---> ''' "Y ahora...¿Quién podrá defenderme?" ''' "And now...Who could defend me?"
---> ''(the Chapulin Colorado appears from nowhere)'' '''"¡Yo!"''' "me!"
---> ''(the person rejoices)'' '''"¡El Chapulin Colorado!"'''
---> ''(and then the aforementioned)'' '''"No contaban con mi astucia"''' "They did not count on my cleverness!".
---> Then he trips and falls or gets hit.

--->'''¿"Te lastimaste, Chapulín?"''' "Are you hurt Chapulin?"

** '''"Yo Opino..."''', "I think that..." when he wants to express his opinion. He is always interrupted accidentally or intentionally.

** Whoever Chapulin is helping always say "¡Bravo, Chapulín Colorado! ¡Eres lo máximo!" ("Bravo, Red Cricket! You're the greatest!") whenever he would best the bad guys and save the day.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: The episode where Chapulín foils a band of smugglers ends with the chief inspector thanking him for his good work. Chapulin then admits tha he's not the real Chapulín, but a guest dressed like Chapulín, and figured that since he was wearing the costume, he had to do something. Soon after, the real Chapulín arives, and apologizes for being so late.
* ClothingDamage: To Chapulin. Result of the last explosion in the gas leak episode.

* CryingWolf: One episode featured a [[SpoiledBrat boy]] who threw away the toys he didn't want anymore and told his parents somebody stole them. Nobody believed him when it really happened. Chapulin tried to warn the boy it would happen by stating it could happen to him the same it happened in "Peter and the Wolf" (another title for 'TheBoyWhoCriedWolf') but the boy didn't know the story and Chapulin [[ShaggyFrogStory told his own version of it]], describing a wolf that lied so much that, when he met Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs, he claimed to be Literature/LittleRedRidingHood. When the kid points out at the end that he excluded Peter from the story, Chapulín says that Peter was the author. At least he had the wolf replace Peter as the liar.
* CulturalCrossReference: One episode had Chapulin helping a young woman and her elderly father, whose house was being threatened of being demolished with the two still inside. The old man is not happy about being helped by a hero of the likes of Chapulin, angrily saying to his daughter: "You could have called any other hero! ''Any other''! Franchise/{{Superman}}! Franchise/{{Batman}}! ComicStrip/DickTracy! [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Donald]] [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Duck]]!".

* DemotedToExtra: Maria Antonieta de Las Nieves played all the lead female roles for the first season or so, then left the program for a while. Florinda Meza took over from her, and when de Las Nieves returned to the ensemble, she only appeared occasionally, such as the rare occasions when a Chapulin episode had two female characters.

* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Chapulin once told an InNameOnly tale of ''Myth/{{Faust}}'', about a man who sold his soul in exchange of a magical device that made people and things disappear and appear as the user wishes. When the Devil showed up to collect, the man used the device to make the contract vanish.

** A RunningGag througth the episode "De noche, todos los gatos hacen miau" involves a non-conflict-related subversion of this trope: whenever the husband of a lady falls asleep, he's woken up by throwing some water at him. Unfortunely, this causes him to believe that he's in a sinking ship, and desperately jumps off the window, causing him to fall to the street. However, RuleofFunny would save his life by several means, such as landing on a nightwatcher, falling to the trash, sinking on the street, etc. This happens enough times that Chapulin suggests to purposefuly throw the man off the window to find a cat that keeps making noises and is supposedly on the street, arguing that "[he] knows the road".
** An offscreen example occurs at the end of a Chapulin sketch in ''Chespirito'' tited "La muerte del bulldog", as El Chapulin reveals that famous criminal Bulldog, who faked his death in order to commit any crime he pleases, fell off a balcony to his death. However, given the very loose continuity of the show, he appears in subsquent episodes alive.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Early sketches had a darker sense of humor. Frequently, Chapulín would rescue the characters in distress, only to kill them through his own clumsiness. Once, when the villain threatens the victims with a machine gun, and Chapulin manages to wrestle it away with him...but shoots up the victims at the same time. Sometimes if he´s helping a lady and explains how he saved her, he just kills her father and doesn´t seem all that bothered by it.

** Super Sam, TheRival of Chapulín for heroic deeds. A mix of flavors 1 or 2, as Sam is a satire of American interventionism who meddles in Chapulin's quests for selfish reasons, and his weapon just happens to be a sack of money. But in at least one episode he acts in a more humble way, and ends up saving the day on his own merits.

** Used just once during a TV special: Chapulin turned a dial on his Vinyl Antennae to go into "Overdrive Mode," gaining super-speed and super-strength to quickly defeat a gang of pirates.
** He also used it on a wild west episode where an outlaw said he'd reform if Chapulin proves himself the fastest of the two. Chapulin said he didn't like using that power but would open an exception if it'd reform a criminal.

* EverythingExplodesEnding: In the gas leak episode. Near of the end, Chapulin opens an oven (Which is where the gas leak comes from) and he complains that is too dark to see anything. He lights a match, causing a huge explosion.

* FlatEarthAtheist: Chapulin tend to always dismiss anything about ghosts, witches or other paranormal things as fantasy. [[DependingOnTheAuthor Sometimes he is right, sometimes not]].

** Another episode ends with el Chapulin using the "La Chicharra Paralizadora" to permanently stun ''everyone'', including accidentally hitting himself with it so that no one can undo the stun.

* GratuitousEnglish: Chapulin's flashy rival, Super Sam, speaks exclusively in highly stereotypical American phrases. "Time is money, OH YEAH!"

* HawaiianShirtedTourist: El Chapulin met one in one episode.

* PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo: In one story, El Chapulin is helping two pirates to defect and a girl offers the Captain a cup of wine while El Chapulin is given a drink from a similar cup. Suspecting the Captain's wine to be poisoned, he and Chapulin keep playing switcheroo behind each other's backs until Chapulin pretends to switch and the Captain ends up drinking a sleeping potion.

*** In the ''Series/{{Chespirito}}'' hour long episode revolving around Samson's wig, the archeologist would be asked a question and the exchange would something like this:

* SanitySlippage: In one [[Series/{{Chespirito}} hour-long]] version of the [[AppliedPhlebotinum volatile energy extract]] story, Raul "Chato" Padilla's character asks [[AbsentMindedProfessor Profesor Inventillo]] why did the walls and roof disappear from his house, to which Inventillo casually states that the extract causes any object that's been injected to fly away. The rest of the episode centers on Padilla as he becomes more and more unhinged, injecting more furniture in house and giddily laughing as his belongings fly off into the unknown.
* SawAWomanInHalf: A lumberjack once tried to hit El Chapulin with an axe but a witch interfered. Until he was made one again, his legs walked around while the rest of him kept floating in air.

** El Chapulín doesn't seem to have a "real" identity besides being a superhero, and if he ever had one it may have been absorbed completely by the hero persona (for American audiences, it's kind of like Franchise/TheTick). In an episode it's revealed that "Chapulín Colorado" is ''really'' the given name of our hero, from before he took his superhero role - apparently, his father was an entomologist and named his children after insects ("Chapulín" was picked in a raffle). And its implied that his real mother is ComicBook/LoisLane.
** And there are Chapulin imitators in-universe...professional ones, in fact. In at least one episode, we find out at the end that the Chapulin we'd been following through today's adventures was only an actor hired to play Chapulin at a birthday party. He just happened to be passing by when he got mixed up in this episode's dilemma, as the real Chapulin had arrived late.
* SelfOffense: Chapulin's antennae act as his equivalent of Spidey Sense; they beep in the "presence of an enemy". When he hears them, he attacks the next person who approaches, and it's always, ''always'' someone who's on his side.

* ShaggyFrogStory: Trying to discourage a boy from his habit of [[CryingWolf telling lies]], Chapulin says the kid might end up like the boy from "Peter and the Wolf". After the boy says he doesn't know the story, Chapulin, who doesn't know it either, makes up one on the spot about a wolf that liked to tell lies to the point that, when he met the three little pigs, he claimed to be Little Red Riding Hood. In the end, he forgets to include Peter in his version and, when called out for this, he says Peter wrote the tale.

** Rocks, chairs, tables... The whole set! In the BeachEpisode, where El Chapulín helps a production crew of a film about himself, this trope was {{invoked}} and PlayedForLaughs in a more literal by one of the actors (Played by Ramón Valdéz), explaining a fan (María Antonieta de las Nieves) that film props are not real, and just made of styrofoam. He proves his point by having the styrofoam rock he was holding float on a pool nearby. After that, the film director arrives and believes the fan is looking for a doll floating in the pool, and [[HilarityEnsues tries to step on the rock to reach the doll]]. [[RuleOfThree Yet again]], later, when the actor holds the rock in one hand for a photo, El Chapulín mistakes him for a madman that believes he's Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan, and tries to defeat him.

* SuperZeroes: El Chapulin is a textbook example, despite always managing to come out on top.

** In "El regreso de Super Sam", El Pocastrancas locks a couple in a room and then eats the key. At the end of the episode, the couple asks El Chapulín how he freed them when he had eaten the key. El Chapulín then replies that patience is one of man's best virtues. [[BrainBleach The couple is NOT happy to hear that.]]
* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: One of Chapulin's catch phrases points out when someone is doing this to him ("Se aprovechan de mi nobleza" -- although literally it means "They take advantage of my nobility"). More often than not, "they" are those who summoned him for help, and what makes him says this is when they make him do something dangerous and make clear that they won't help.

* TimeStandsStill: The "Chicharra Paralizadora" was capable of doing this. Chapulin used it often to set up embarrassing situations for his enemies.
* TriviallyObvious: Done by Chapulín's own introcution. It states that he is more agile than a tortoise, stronger than a mouse, and kinder than a lettuce.

* ToonPhysics: Unusually for a live-action series, it's all over the place. ChromaKey was used for things like El Chapulin suspending himself in mid-air when trying to pull someone down, El Chapulín being sent to the sky with one punch (Except for his shoes, which stay on the floor), people flying, etc.
* TwistEnding: In [[Series/{{Chespirito}} one hour long episode,]] Chapulin is summoned because an escaped mental patient, with martial arts training, has been spotted near the vicinity of an isolated cabin. Suspicion falls on the cabin's owner, a traveler, a roughed up man, and even Chapulín himself as to who may be the maniac. At the end of the episode, the roughed up man reveals that he's a cop that was beaten up by the maniac and is in the area looking for the escapee. At the very end, it's revealed that the the maniac is Florinda Mesa's character who scares off the men with a karate yell.

* WantedPoster: El Chapulin Colorado once helped a western town to post wanted posters with the criminal's face and the inscription "Lo Queremos Vivo o Muerto - Mucho Cuidado". (Roughly "Wanted dead or alive - extreme caution") When confronted by the criminal Chapulin tried to appease him by ripping a piece of the poster so it reads "Lo Queremos Mucho" ("We love him/you a lot"). After Chapulin realized that the criminal didn't fall for the trick, Chapulin tried to buy his way out stating that the criminal in the poster did not look like the real criminal (played by Ramón Valdés) at all, even though it was an obvious caricature of Valdés on the poster. Chapulin insisted it was actually a bald, bearded man... and flipped the poster upside down to prove his point.

** "El Chipote Chillón" ("The Squeaking Mallet"), "La Chicharra Paralizadora" (a bike horn that can paralyze people by honking once, and release them by honking twice) and the "Chiquitolina" Pills (that shrink him down to the size of a small action figure.) Also, his suit included a couple of vinyl antennae, which detected the "presence of the enemy" (The detection was real, but Chapulín couldn't identify WHO was the enemy.) The Squeaking Mallet relies on his own strenght, but it's capable of stopping cold people much bigger than him, and to damage otherwise unsurmountable obstacles, his Vynil Antennae work as a Spider-Sense of sorts, but they also double as radar, two-way radio, and multipurpose sensors that can study, for example, a wall to look for weaknesses in the material. The Paralyzing Honking-Horn was a device ahead of his time (even for most comic books and sci-fi series) in that it effectively put any person or object caught in its blast radius in a perfectly stable and self sustaining sleep; a couple episodes even theorized that people paralized this way, could be left alone for years and they'd be alright after coming out of the honk's effects. Chespirito would say in later years that they came from an agonizing scientist who wanted to pick someone to give his inventions, and when he called upon people to meet him so he could choose to whom to give the pills, Chapulin was the only honest person that went, that's how he got his only real superpower.

''El Chapulín Colorado'' is a legendary Mexican SitCom (and staple of popular culture) from {{Series/Chespirito}}, the creator of ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' (which this show uses most of the cast of). Airing [[TheSeventies 1973-1979]] on Creator/{{Televisa}}, it centers on the adventures of a ComedicHero, whose name vaguely translates as The Red Cricket (The Crimson Grasshopper is more accurate, but sounds too serious given the context of the show), rescuing people who say his PhraseCatcher. Not that he is really that useful, or even helpful. But El Chapulín Colorado is well meaning and at least tries to help, so it's okay.

Unlike ''El Chavo'', the adventures of ''El Chapulín'' happened in a wider range of places and even times. While most of his adventures were urban, there were a lot of episodes set in TheWildWest, or against TheMafia, and even parodying monster movies. Or even [[ThoseWackyNazis against the third reich]]. The cast remained the same, but with the exception of Chapulín they changed roles every chapter (although in the more "themed" episodes some actors have recurring roles)

* AlasPoorVillain: An InUniverse example PlayedForLaughs. In an episode, after a villain accidentally eats [[{{Irony}} a cake he himself poisoned]] and el Chapulin goes to help him, the baker cries for the villain's fate... of having to suffer the assistance of el Chapulin. His daughter soon joins him.

** "Se regalan ratones": A secretary is in danger of being fired because she got two wedding gifts from her boss switched around - a piece of cloth for the gatekeeper's daughter and a TV for a minister's daughter. El Chapulín manages to convince her boss with a lesson on generosity, on giving people what they don't have, to let the poor gatekeeper's daughter have the TV, the minister's daughter the piece of cloth, and for the secretary to keep her job.

** Of a superhero series, among others. And then some: [[WordOfGod Creator Roberto Gómez Bolaños]] [[invoked]] indicated repeatedly that for him a ''real'' hero was somebody like the Chapulín, who was knowingly weak, distracted, clumsy, cowardly and ugly, but who engaged in heroic actions anyway. It's been stated more than once in-show, on his cowardliness, that "courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability of facing your fears", which is essentially what Chapulín's heroic deeds amount to. In fact, it seemed not so much a parody than a TakeThat against then established and famous superheroes, his description runs contrary to bragging about his abilities and instead, focuses on the ridiculousness of them; he is for example "nimbler than a turtle". Then during an episode, he throughly deconstructs the super-hero genre, by acting clumsily and being more harmful than helpful, even if in the end he saves the day.

* AgentScully: He has fought against martians, robots, pirates, ghosts, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs ghost pirates]], etc. But he still dismiss anything outside of the ordinary as fake. If he is justified in his skepticism or not depends on the episode.
* AllThereInTheManual: If you ever wondered, you will need to google to find references to a certain interview in order to learn about Chapulin's origin story. [[spoiler:An agonizing scientist wanted to pick someone to give his top invention, the chiquitolina pills, he called upon people to meet him so he could choose to whom to give the pills. Chapulin was the only honest person that went, that's how he got his only real superpower.]]
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: The episode "Cuando los gemelos no son buenos cuates" is about a janitor who is being ordered around by two twin performers (played by Carlos Villagrán) who are constantly telling him to do stuff and immediately pull back. Given that he never sees the two of them together until the end, he naturally assumes it's the same guy messing with him. [[spoiler:At the end, the girlfriend of one of the twins (played by Florinda Meza) shows up revealing that she too has a twin sister]].

* AntiClimax: In one episode, Chapulin and Super Sam are staying the night on a hotel to look out for a burglar that specializes on robbing hotels. Both heroes happen to book the same room, but never realize the other is there. To the very end of the episode they are oblivious to each other's presence and the burglar never appears.

* AsHimself: InUniverse in the BeachEpisode. The production crew of a Chapulín Colorado movie finds out the actor playing the hero resigned, so they ask El Chapulín Colorado to play as himself in it. [[HilarityEnsues Naturally, the movie's plot does not go on as desired thanks to El Chapulín's clumsiness]].

** '''"¡No contaban con mi astucia!"'''; "They did not count on my cleverness!" (he says this mainly after he makes his presence announced, or after defeating the bad guys - even when they're ''not'' the bad guys)

* ChromaKey: Used ''very'' extensively in the series, for most of its special effects (Such as El Chapulin when shrunk or two identical characters played by the same actor) or ToonPhysics.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: The episode where Chapulin foils a band of smugglers ends with the chief inspector thanking him for his good work. Chapulin then admits tha he's not the real Chapulin, but a guest dressed like Chapulin, and figured that since he was wearing the costume, he had to do something. Soon after, the real Chapulin arives, and apologizes for being so late.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his overall clumsiness, Chapulin would sometimes be quite able and competent against the villains, especially when he had the use of his gadgets.

* DangerousBackswing: Chapulin would often pull back [[DropTheHammer his Chipote Chillón]] to hit a villain, then would accidentally hit somebody behind too (either a villain trying to sneak up on him, or a good guy trying to get up or just happening to be there at the wrong time).

* DeadpanSnarker: Chapulín often took on this role, but sometimes others ,be it victims or villains, threw in the own dose of snarking.

** An especially ridiculous version is when Chapulin hits pirate Almanegra over the head with a stool and he does not faint (as is expected to happen in this show). Instead, he just stays where he is with his drinking mug raised. It turns out ''the mug was holding him up'', and once removed, Almanegra falls to the floor. [[MST3KMantra Don't think too much about it.]]

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: In one episode Chapulin has a cast in his forearm, and when someone asks about it, he mentions that he got hurt on a previous mission and had to get medical help. In real life Chespirito did hurt his arm, and had to have it bandage for some time, including while filming ''El Chapulin Colorado'' and ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho''.

-->'''Chapulin:''' As the old proverb says "a bird in the hand is a friend indeed"... no, I mean "a friend in need is worth two in the bush". No... eeehh, "A bird friend who has a hand... and indeed has two friends in a bush..." Well, [[WordSaladHumor you got the idea]].

** El Rascabuches (Ramón Valdéz) and [[DaddysLittleVillain his daughter, Rosa la rumorosa]] (Florinda Meza) in the wild west episodes.

** [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness It is of note that, in earlier seasons, El Chapulín actually fought against an outlaw El Cuajináis in the wild west and a gangster El Rascabuches in the present. It wasn't until later that his rogues gallery got restricted to certain episode themes]].

** "El Chipote Chillón" ("The Squeaking Mallet"), "La Chicharra Paralizadora" (a bike horn that can paralyze people by honking once, and release them by honking twice) and the "Chiquitolina" Pills (that shrink him down to the size of a small action figure.) Also, his suit included a couple of vinyl antennae, which detected the "presence of the enemy" (The detection was real, but Chapulin couldn't identify WHO was the enemy.) The Squeaking Mallet relies on his own strenght, but it's capable of stopping cold people much bigger than him, and to damage otherwise unsurmountable obstacles, his Vynil Antennae work as a Spider-Sense of sorts, but they also double as radar, two-way radio, and multipurpose sensors that can study, for example, a wall to look for weaknesses in the material. The Paralyzing Honking-Horn was a device ahead of his time (even for most comic books and sci-fi series) in that it effectively put any person or object caught in its blast radius in a perfectly stable and self sustaining sleep; a couple episodes even theorized that people paralized this way, could be left alone for years and they'd be alright after coming out of the honk's effects. Chespirito would say in later years that they came from an agonizing scientist who wanted to pick someone to give his inventions, and when he called upon people to meet him so he could choose to whom to give the pills, Chapulin was the only honest person that went, that's how he got his only real superpower.

* YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses: El Chapulin once tried to get out of a fight by claiming he was not allowed to hit a guy with glasses. When the bad guy said "But I don't wear glasses", El Chapulin said "But I do" and then [[AmbiguousSyntax put on a pair of sunglasses]].

* DidntThinkThisThrough: There was one time El Chapulín was trying to help a scientist (Ramón Valdéz) stop a mosquito-sized martian. El Chapulín comes up with a plan...
--> '''El Chapulín''': First of all, we have to defeat the martian.
--> '''Scientist''': How?
--> '''El Chapulín''': That's the only detail I have to resolve.

** A RunningGag througth the episode "De noche, todos los gatos hacen miau" involves a non-conflict-related subversion of this trope: whenever the husband of a lady falls asleep, he's woked up by throwing him some water. Unfortunely, this causes him to believe that he's in a sinking ship, and desesperately jumps off the window, causing him to fall to the street. However, RuleofFunny would save his life by several means, such as landing on a nightwatcher, falling to the trash, sinking on the street, etc. This happens enough times that Chapulin suggests to purposefuly throw the man off the window to find a cat that keeps making noises and is supposedly on the street, arguing that "[he] knows the road".

** The cousins that wanted to [[InheritanceMurder kill their uncle for the inheritance]] are called Hugo, Paco and [[HighHeelFaceTurn Luisa]]. Hugo, Paco and Luis were the names given in Spanish to [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales Huey, Dewey, and Louie]].

* DastardlyWhiplash: The villain in a [[LongTitle story of an old abandoned mine that dates back to the 17th Century, and is about to collapse]].

* LongTitle:
** One of the episodes was called "Story of an old abandoned mine that dates back to the 17th Century, and is about to collapse". [[TitleDrop And they said it in the episode,]] [[RunningGag A LOT]].
** There's also the "Simple, noble-hearted peasant lady who every day heads into the woods to collect firewood". And everyone called her that way.

* LuckyTranslation
** Chapulin Colorado has the same initials as its rough English translation, Crimson Cricket. Any English version would have a hell of a time explaining where the H on his chest came from, though (especially because at the time the show was made, in Spanish language the "CH" was treated as a single letter, it has since been phased out).
** On one English-dubbed episode of the animated version of ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' (when he crossed over into their universe), he was called "Captain Hopper".

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Unlike ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'', it's mostly {{Averted}}. There was one instance of El Chapulín accidentally hitting a woman with an object that was paralyzed while it was thrown, however.

* SwallowTheKey: When Alma Negra imprisoned Chapulín and part of his crew, he then swallows the key so they can't escape. Parodied in that he even added some salt to the key before swallowing it. Also a subversion since he actually needed to release them later on to help him hide his treasure, and it wasn't until he swallowed the key that he noticed [[DidntThinkThisThrough the flaw with his plan]].

* NoManShouldHaveThisPower: At the end of the Samson's wig episode, once the bad guy who wants to poses the wig is defeated, Dalila, one of the poeple who invoked Chapulin's help, starts cutting up the wig. though the archeologist who wants to study it says it is a great loss to academia, Chapulin says it's better than to risk the possibility someone who would want to exploit its ability to give the wearer SuperStrength.

** Uncle Sam, TheRival of Chapulín for heroic deeds. A mix of flavors 1 or 2, as Sam is a satire of American interventionism who meddles in Chapulin's quests for selfish reasons, and his weapon just happens to be a sack of money. But in at least one episode he acts in a more humble way, and ends up saving the day on his own merits.

* {{Expy}}:
** Super Sam is a mix of Franchise/{{Superman}} and Uncle Sam. He dresses like Superman and has Uncle Sam-style beard, hair and hat.
** Doctor Panchostein, who is explicitly described as "Dr. Frankestein's totonac version."

* TheCameo: Characters from ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' sometimes appear. "El disfraz, el antifaz y algo más", which takes place at a costume party, turns this UpToEleven, as several characters from other Chespirito sketches and one-shots also appear, such as Quico, El Chavo, El Chómpiras and El Peterete, Doctor Chapatín and parodies of Charles Chaplin, Jerry Lewis and Laurel and Hardy.

* IMeantToDoThat: "All my movements are coldly calculated!"

** Uncle Sam, TheRival of Chapulín for heroic deeds. A mix of flavors 1 or 2, as Sam is a satire of American interventionism who meddles in Chapulin's quests for selfish reasons. But in at least one episode he acts in a more humble way, and ends up saving the day on his own merits.