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1* AccidentalNightmareFuel:
2** The children's day episode has a few creepy features during the song, such as the characters' head on top of small puppet-like bodies, Paty wearing a creepy duck mask and Jirafales' bizzare legs at the start of the song.
3** Near the end of one episode, Chavo takes a needle and pinches Ñoño with it, causing the latter to pop like a balloon, literally. Thanks God for NegativeContinuity, 'cause otherwise Ñoño would've been dead altogether.
4** At the end of an episode, Señor Barriga got angry at Don Ramón pinching him and [[SquashedFlat squashed him like in a cartoon]]. The fact that Don Ramón didn't move while he was squashed made him seem dead (the very last scene of said episode has La Chilindrina crying over him, which only makes it worse).
5* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
6** Don Ramón is a [[BornUnlucky unlucky man]] which is struggling in a unfair world or he is just a lazy jerk which is lucky to have a house to live (thanks for Señor Barriga) and has no job due his own errors? Maybe both?
7** Why does Quico never tell his mom what really happened and lets her punish Don Ramón for things that are rarely his fault? Is he just [[TooDumbToLive too dumb to realise what's going on]]? Does he truly dislike Don Ramón [[HiddenEvil and enjoys seeing him beaten]]? Is it that he sees how his mother dislikes him and [[MommasBoy gives her reasons to hit him]]? Maybe he simply doesn't care? Or perhaps it's plain simple [[RuleOfFunny rule of funny]].
8** In one episode, La Chilindrina finds a [[spoiler:fake]] letter meant for El Chavo, where it states his wealthy father will arrive soon to give what he needs. The characters that read the letter suddenly stop treating El Chavo badly and start treating him very well. Did they do that out of greed, or was it because El Chavo would leave them if he learned about this? Their reaction upon [[spoiler:learning Jaimito wrote the letter as a prank]] does not clear things up.
9** When Sr. Calvillo stated he wanted to demolish the neighborhood, was that his plan all along, or he decided it after seeing all its inhabitants against him?
10** In a 1979 episode Chilindrina leaves the village with the intention of killing a cat, but when she returns, she says that the cat was run over. What if she did kill the cat, covering up what she did with a lie? In fact, in the original 1973 version of the episode, Dón Ramón is the one who kills the cat instead, which he not only ''succeeds'' in doing it; the cat's screams can be heard while he's killing the animal.
11* AluminumChristmasTrees: The way Jaimito el cartero talks about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangamandapio Tangamandapio]], his hometown, induces the belief it does not exist, both out and in-universe, even though it does. In fact, in 2012, years after his actor's death, [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xr6VzsuUzQ4/UBCLRQuAa6I/AAAAAAAAHmM/KoWGOHaYpF0/s1600/Develaci%C3%B3n+de+la+estatua+Jaimito+el+Cartero+en+S.+Tangamandapio+3.jpg a statue of Jaimito was raised in Tangamandapio]] in gratitude for making the town famous.
12* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In a 1973 episode involving Don Ramón working as a barber, the plot suddenly comes to a halt near the end and, literally out of nowhere (seriously. The scene at the time, taking place in the barber shop, quickly fades away in a very out-of-place, psychodelic way that looks like it was taken straight off a Windows Media Player visualization), changes to the whole cast sound and well in the neighborhood, talking about Mexico and the world's then current affairs. The scene soon changes back to the previous scene as the credits start rolling in the same colorful and spiral manner.
13* CatharsisFactor: Don Ramón's DesignatedMonkey status may be brutal but this actually makes the few instances where he triumphs over Doña Florinda beyond satisfactory even if only happens for a small gag in the middle of an episode where he still loses at the end.
14* CreatorsPet: La Popis is usually considered one of the most bland members of the main cast at best, yet she and Ñoño gained a very prominent role after Carlos Villagrán's departure in 1979, replacing Quico and becoming main characters. However, it appears that Chespirito tended to overuse the character to give more protagonism to Florinda Meza, who he was in a relationship with at the time and had already became the female lead of ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'' for years, with Maria Antonieta de las Nieves being demoted in that series to usually only showing up when a second female character was needed, and in the same series, an episode which originally guest-starred Quico was later remade with Popis on his place, even though Chilindrina is a more important main character and could better fill that role (in fact, she does in a posterior remake of the episode). In fact, even in the 1978 version of "El insomnio del Chavo", Popis is added into the plot and takes some of Quico's lines, despite Villagrán ''being still in the cast at that point''.
15* DesignatedMonkey: Don Ramón is ''always'' punished unfairly, with extremely rare exceptions, for doing the right thing like saving Quico from El Chavo and is often [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished "rewarded"]] with a slap to his face, a punch to his gut, being hospitalized and having his personal objects stolen. The level of abuse he goes through on the show, mostly from characters who receive no comeuppance whatsoever for their actions, is almost sadistic.
16* DesignatedVillain: Señor Barriga in the episodes which he tries to evict Don Ramón. Everyone, including ''Doña Florinda'' treats him with disdain, even though it's Don Ramón's own fault that he doesn't want to work and didn't pay over 14 months of rent.
17* EnsembleDarkhorse:
18** Godínez from the school episodes, considering he was the regular character who appeared on the least episodes.
19** Héctor Bonilla, AsHimself, despite only appearing on a two-parter episode, and also despite the first part being a LostEpisode.
20* FanonDiscontinuity: For some fans, any episode after the departure of Quico and Don Ramón. For some others, any episode starting from the 1980 season, where SeasonalRot hits the show hard.
21* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:
22** El Chavo was extremely popular over all of Latin America, but it's brutal in Brazil. To start off, the show has been airing everyday on the same channel non-stop for more than ''30 years'' after the original run. Then, the times the said channel network tried to remove it, it was met with angry mobs asking for it to be put back, and not even after a day, it was back. Finally, when the same channel network tried to produce a three-episode remake to commemorate the network's 30 years, Christmas and New Year's Day, they were ''very'' cautious to not change anything, this is notorious considering the same channel network remade quite a few cult-classic soap operas right after and changed almost everything to InNameOnly levels. El Chavo's popularity in Brazil can easily be noted by the fact that, when an El Chavo-inspired football shirt was released on ''[[VideoGame/FIFASoccer FIFA 21]]'' due to the series' 50th anniversary, it was marketed with both Mexican and Brazilian players.
23** Also worth noting that is by now much more popular in the rest of Latin American countries than Mexico.
24** Don Ramón (Seu Madruga) is ''legendary'' amongst Latin Americans as the funniest character on the show, to the point of MemeticBadass status. Popular items include T-shirts with his face superimposed on Ernesto "Che" Guevara's! His disappearance of the series caused a major [[SeasonalRot drop in the series quality]], despite his replacement, Jaimito (Manny the mailman), also being well liked.
25* GrowingTheBeard: The 1974 season is the one where CharacterizationMarchesOn is completed for the cast, with the main characters getting their definite personalities. Most {{Running Gag}}s were also introduced (such as Señor Barriga being hit by El Chavo when he comes to the vecindad, or Profesor Jirafales making a mistake in his CatchPhrase when he meets with Doña Florinda), and not all episodes [[BottleEpisode are set in the vecindad]], some of them being set in the streets or in the school. The 1975 season took these traits and improved even more, adding aspects such as a redesign to the vecindad, La Chilindrina's return after her leaving in late 1973, more creative and original stories, unusual cartoonish elements such as the kids' imaginary visit to the witch's house, and Doña Florinda kicking Don Ramón up to the top of the vecindad's wall.
26* HarsherInHindsight:
27** Some characters' conflicts become real with the actors. Notable examples are La Chilindrina vs Doña Florinda (María Antonieta de las Nieves vs Florinda Meza) and for a long time El Chavo vs Quico (Chespirito vs Carlos Villagrán).
28** In a few episodes, El Chavo tries to deflect blame from his actions by mentioning a kid called Chente, who is never seen and it's never told if he even exists (leading to fan speculation as to whether that was El Chavo's own name). Then, in 1995, Chespirito published a book titled ''El Diario del Chavo del Ocho'' ("El Chavo del Ocho's diary"), where it is revealed El Chavo ''did'' know a kid called Chente: a friend he met in an OrphanageOfFear who was always sick and eventually died.
29* IronWoobie: Don Ramón; his wife died while giving birth to Chilindrina, leaving him alone to take care of her, and while lazy, every time he gets a new job the kid's antics and his unusual bad luck end up getting in the way, leaving him unsuccessful and with even more debts. And the times Doña Florinda hits him unfairly or even gets him so badly hurt he needs to go to the hospital are plentiful. Yet, most of the time he's seen with a smile, which he lampshades.
30* MemeticBadass:
31** Latin-based imageboards have taken Ron Damón (not Don Ramón, Ron Damón - based on how Chavo pronounces his name) as some sort of avatar for Mexican badassery. Just go to any Latin-based imageboards, write "hora de ñ" and see the Ron Damón macros cascade in.
32** Enrique Segoviano, the show's director always mentioned at the start of each episode, acquired an air of mysticism due to [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen never being seen]], and even [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5M7TgoX4AE7Ybh.jpg got a T-shirt made about him]] with the font of a Creator/QuentinTarantino movie.
33* MemeticMutation:
34** "And the next time, go [do this action] to your grandma". [[labelnote:Explanation]]After Doña Florinda slaps Don Ramón, she tells him to do the action he was falsely blamed of to his grandmother.[[/labelnote]]
35** "Qué bruto, pónganle cero" (What a fool, grade them zero) [[labelnote:Explanation]]When Profesor Jirafález asked a student on his class about an answer, said student would answer and El Chavo would mock their answer, often wrongfully). The meme has been used to mock idiotic attitudes or remarks.[[/labelnote]]
36** "Este es el programa número uno de la televisión humorística" (This is the number one comedy TV show) [[labelnote:Explanation]]The very first line in the introduction to the program. The meme is often used to announce an incoming EpicFail, in a similar vein to the "Hi, I'm [X] and welcome to ''Series/{{Jackass}}''" meme in the U.S., or to ridicule someone's failures.[[/labelnote]]
37** The whole 'El Cumpleaños de Don Ramón' episode, specially the line "You're not going to die, they're gonna kill you!" said by El Chavo to Don Ramón is this in Brazil.
38** The 1975 episode "El primér dia de clases - parte 2" also spawned countless memes in Mexico and Brazil due to the scene where Don Ramón temporarily acts as a teacher while Profesor Jirafales is away. Examples include Don Ramón's BigNo [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLCoBW52GwM due to his voice actor's delivery]], the scene where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ4G3FSREzE he exclaims that the skull drawing represents danger]], wrongly exclaiming the word "perigo" (danger) as "prerigo" and [[PunctuatedForEmphasis emphasizing each syllable]], and the weird, funny dance he does while giving a visual representation of what can happen if one drinks from a bottle with a skull symbol on it. There is even an iconic Brazilian [[VoiceClipSong YTPMV]] named "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGcstfDJNLY Seu Madruga Will Go On]]", which used several lines of dialogue of that scene to the tune of Music/{{Anamanaguchi}}'s ''My Skateboard Will Go On''.
39** "We would have better gone to watch [X film]". [[labelnote:Explanation]]When Chavo and the rest of the vecindad go to the movies, Chavo keeps annoying the crowd present by saying that he wanted to watch ''El Chanfle'' ("Pelé's movie" in the Brazilian dub). As of 2022, this meme has been used to mock films people consider to be failures in favor of better ones.[[/labelnote]]
40* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
41** Any time Don Ramón manages to dodge Doña Florinda is this, [[LaserGuidedKarma because she ends up hitting Quico]] [[TakeThatScrappy or Professor Jirafales instead]].
42** During the Acapulco episode, The Witch from 71 pushes Doña Florinda into the water as retaliation for her slapping Don Ramón. She then dives dramatically into the water to save him.
43** Don Ramón Telling [[BaldOfEvil Sr. Calvillo]] To GetOut of his house
44* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The bell sound when someone is hit.
45* {{Narm}}: Creator Chespirito had tendencies towards schmaltzy sentimentality and taking himself and his work way too seriously, that, although kept in check most of the time, would pop up every so often in the show's handful of rather melodramatic episodes.
46* OlderThanTheyThink:
47** Children that are not introduced to classic Creator/{{Disney}} shorts may be surprised to find out that Don Ramón's {{leitmotif}} actually comes from [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse "Minnie's Yoo Hoo!"]].
48** Owing to the fact [[LostEpisode many early episodes have been lost]], some later episodes look like they have completely new plots, but are actually {{Recycled Script}}s based on these lost episodes. For example, a 1983 episode where Jaimito owns a parakeet and the kids think it's actually El Chavo turned into a parakeet by Doña Clotilde is actually based on a 1975 episode that only survived in a television guide summary, and the parakeet was presumably owned by Don Ramón or Quico.
49* ReplacementScrappy:
50** Malicha for La Chilindrina. Being a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for La Chilindrina when she left the show in 1974, fan reactions to Malicha were so bad, she was removed from the show after ''three'' episodes.
51** Much like the above, Doña Eduviges for Doña Clotilde, who was removed after only two episodes.
52** Doña Nieves and Jaimito, and La Pópis and Ñoño for Don Ramón and Quico, respectively. The latter two were so essential to the show that when the producers decided to remake earlier episodes using the former characters, it led to a series of rewritten personalities and jokes that lost their meaning. It's one of the reasons why fans consider the 1979 season the start of the show's SeasonalRot. Some fans also feel that La Popis was becoming a bit of a CreatorsPet to give more prominence to Florinda Meza.
53* SacredCow: Disliking the show? Fair enough. Disliking Don Ramon? [[FandomHeresy Better don't say it out loud]].
54* TheScrappy: Candida and Elizabeth (especially the latter). Both were introduced in the first classroom episode, ''"Llegando tarde a la escuela"'', the same episode in which Malicha was introduced. While Candida is a forgettable FlatCharacter, Elizabeth plays the role of the intelligent student but has very annoying quirks, such as crying at the slightest provocation and giving answers in [[MotorMouth very rapid succession]]. Malicha still got to show up in two more episodes, while both Candida and Elizabeth promptly [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome disappeared without explanation]].
55* SeasonalRot:
56** Often stated to happen either in 1979 (With the departures of Fan-Favorites Quico and Don Ramón) or 1980 (When the show stops existing independently, becomes part of Chespirito and the amount of RecycledScript episodes goes up to eleven). Although there is a consensus about Quico and Don Ramón leaving the vecindad had a huge impact in the quality of the show. First, this made characters like Doña Clotilde and Doña Florinda to become almost useless, especially the latter (who gained much more focus and entire episodes centered around her). Despite the addition of new characters like Jaimito and Doña Nieves, which become very popular with the fandom, many feel the 1972-1978 seasons are way better.
57** To a lesser extent, the 1977-78 seasons are considered relatively inferior to the 1974-76 phase, due to the overabundance of remakes (most of them serving the purpose of incorporating Chilindrina in stories she originally wasn't present in, but in most cases, it resulted on her being completely irrelevant and expendable to the plot), and the actors' performances being less lively in comparison. Some detractors of this era feel that the 1979 season was actually a breath of fresh air for the show, since the absence of Quico and Don Ramón forced Chespirito to stop simply doing identical remakes and start adding new elements to the series, such as an increase of classroom episodes and Doña Florinda's restaurant.
58* SpecialEffectsFailure: Near the end of one episode, Don Ramón gives El Chavo a lot of balloons, only for the latter to be pulled upwards by them with Don Ramón failing to catch him. The failure here is that, when Don Ramón is about to give the balloons, a rope can be clearly seen between them.
59* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The tie-in book has several moments of El Chavo at school, being given lessons that are featured as episodes in the series. That being said, there is one particular lesson in that history should not be used as a reason to hate other groups, giving examples such as Spain conquering Mexican lands, United States taking some of their territory, or France instating an emperor against their will. Some readers have taken the aesop Professor Jirafales was trying to give to be too valuable of a lesson to never be featured in the show.
60* {{Squick}}: In the end of the 1974 version of Quico's SickEpisode, Chavo throws all of Quico's medicine out the window at the latter's request. Don Ramón was lying unconscious under the window, so he ended up accidentally drinking everything Chavo was throwing out the window as well. In the last scene, Quico tells Chavo "You were supposed to throw away only the medicine... ''not the urine exams as well!''". Don Ramón passes out again after hearing this.
61* ValuesDissonance: Almost de rigueur, considering how old the show is and the fact it was set and videotaped in the Mexico from TheSeventies. Mexico is a ''very'' conservative society, even by Latin-American standards and it was even more back then.
62** Gómez Bolaños never gave a pass to any of his cast members' physical traits. Some of the jokes he wrote would be considered mean-spirited in places like the United States, but still there are tons of references about Aguirre and Valdés's thinness (and the former's tall height), Fernández's old age, Meza's lack of curves, Padilla and Villagrán's droopy faces, de las Nieves' short height and Vivar's overweight (although, in all fairness, Gómez Bolaños [[SelfDeprecation would also make fun of his own]] short height and thinness). In modern times, this would be considered bullying and body shaming, and in fact, Chespirito himself later admitted in 2012 [[CreatorBacklash that he regrets making this sort of jokes]] and, if he were to return producing the series in modern times, he wouldn't include them.
63** Don Ramón's hitting El Chavo and pinching Quico as part of the running gag and being heavily implied many times that he spanked Chilindrina. And El Chavo using hard hitting stuff to hit Quico, like brooms and bricks.
64** Certain episodes have everyone getting extremely disgusted when a confusion leads them to think that [[HoYay Don Ramón and Jirafales]] [[MistakenForGay were in love with each other]].
65** Don Ramón killing Doña Florinda's cat just for thinking it was eating his fishes (and La Chilindrina tried the same in the remake) and El Chavo accidentally killing Quico's cat just to avoid to crash into Professor in the streets (and showing no remorse or sadness for that). Considering the modern times pets (especially cats and dogs) became unacceptable targets (although in both of cases their actions are viewed as wrong during these episodes; the latter one even hinges upon El Chavo being brought to trial for running over the cat).
66** Professor Jirafales smoking in the classroom is another issue considering this is prohibited in many countries.
67** In the CourtroomEpisode, there is one scene that, after Quico starts randomly imitating people communicating through a walkie-talkie, Don Ramón sarcastically says to Profesor Jirafales "Why don't you tell him to kill himself". Due to the suicide incentivation, to a child nonetheless, such a joke would most likely not be taken as lightly nowadays.
68* TheWoobie: Chavo easily lives the worst life out of the Vecindad's children, and sometimes has to [[WithFriendsLikeThese deal with the others' antics]] (Quico's [[SpoiledBrat meanness]], Chilindrina's {{manipulative|Bastard}} nature, Don Ramon's [[HairTriggerTemper temper]], Doña Florinda's... well, ''[[{{Jerkass}} everything]]'', etc.). The "El Diario del Chavo del 8" novel shows what a crappy life he had before arriving at the vecindad -- living in an orphanage of horror, witnessing a child ran over and die, and his ParentalSubstitute dying sometime after he arrived to the Vecindad. He is often mis-blamed for problems he didn't cause, most infamously in the episode where him is mis-blamed for theft, ostracized by everyone and leaves temporarily; seeing everyone calling him a thief at his face is pretty hard to watch.
69* {{Woolseyism}}: The reason why El Chavo is so popular in Brazil is partially due to the amazing job done by the dubbing company, who many agree has improved over the original script - for instance, a joke that became a {{Meme|ticMutation}} was "We would be better off watching Pelé's movie!", which in the original was an ActorAllusion, "We would be better off watching [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chanfle al Chanfle!]]". This is coupled with the fact that many Mexican productions back in the day used to be imported with a dubbing that was either mediocre or just plain bad. The dub did have some occasional flaws, such as false cognates (such as "''piña''" - "''pineapple''" - being translated to the homophone "''pinha''" - "''pinecone''") and some jokes becoming completely nonsensical, but in general, it is considered an excellent dub overall with many good adaptations.
70** Another example is in the episode where everyone thinks El Chavo is going crazy and speaking to doors. At one point, Profesor Jirafales says the same happened to Don Quijote, and Chavo compares Don Quijote to Ñoño, saying that whenever Señor Barriga goes out with his son Ñoño, other people say "Que hijote" ("what a big son"). In the dubbed version, the joke is changed to that instead Chavo says that on another day, he kicked Ñoño on the leg and he shouted "Que chute!" ("what a kick") mantaining the wordplay with "Dom Quixote".

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