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El Chavo

• The Artful Dodger: In his best moments
• Book Dumb
• Five Finger Discount: Even though he vehemently denies it or says he is just borrowing without the other knowing.
• Hates Baths / The Pig Pen
• The Klutz: Can't take one step while holding something without falling. If he tries to get back up, Disaster Dominoes ensues.
  "Fue sin querer queriendo..."
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness
• Literal-Minded
• Obsessed With Food: Justified...
• Only Known by Their Nickname
• Overly Long Gag: The "El Perro Arrepentido" poem. To the point other characters try to Drop The Cow on him.
• Parental Abandonment: According to the tie-in books, he actually ran away from what's all but stated to be an Orphanage of Fear.
• Sarcasm-Blind
• Seven Minute Lull: He's often caught during one of these while referring to Profesor Jirafales as "Maestro Longaniza".
• Street Urchin
• Trademark Favourite Food: Tortas de Jamon

Federico aka Quico

• Always Someone Better: Tries very hard to be this to Chavo.
• Attention Whore
• Book Dumb
• Disappeared Dad: He explains in the tie-in book that his father, Federico, was a sea captain who went down with his ship, which is implied in the series when his father makes an appearance in a flashback in one episode (also played by Carlos Villagrán).
  • Generation Xerox
• The Ditz
• First Name Ultimatum: If Florinda calls him "Federico", it's because she's PISSED at him.
• Freudian Slip: Whenever he slips and calls Profesor Jirafales "Daddy".
• Sarcasm-Blind
• Small Name, Big Ego
• Spoiled Brat: His mother spoils him rotten
• Too Dumb to Live: A lot of times.

La Chilindrina

• Cunning Like a Fox
• Deadpan Snarker
• Girlish Pigtails
• Manipulative Bitch
• Meganekko
• Mouthy Kid
• Puppy Love: With El Chavo (at least, from her perspective)
• Put on a Bus / The Bus Came Back: An entire episode was spent on her return.
• The Trickster / Schemer

Don Ramón

• Butt Monkey
• The Danza: played by Ramón Valdéz
• Deadpan Snarker: Like his daughter.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold
• New Job Episode
• Parental Substitute: To El Chavo, most on the time.*
  Unless he's hitting him for asking about his grandmother after Doña Florinda tells him what he can "go do to [her] the next time".
• The Slacker
• Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?
• Would Hurt a Child: Played for Laughs.
  Don Ramón: (hits El Chavo with Kung-Foley bell in background) ¡TOMA!
  El Chavo: Pipipipipipipipipipipi...
  Don Ramón: (after mocking El Chavo's crying) ¡Y no te doy otra no más porque...!
  • He also often pinches Quico's arms whenever the latter annoys him enough.

Doña Florinda

• Chastity Couple: With Profesor Jirafales
• The Danza: played by Florinda Meza
• Disproportionate Retribution
• Fallen Princess: She was kicked out of her rich family for having married beneath her station, and they also refused support when she was widowed
• Hair-Trigger Temper
• My Beloved Smother: Explains a LOT about Quico
• Never My Fault: Or Quico's...
• Pet the Dog: When she does something kind for Don Ramon or El Chavo, like when she offered Don Ramon help with the baby he found even when she had been stabilished as a Baby Hater.
• Rich Bitch: Comparatively richer at least.
• Small Name, Big Ego
• Tsundere: Very tsun-tsun with Don Ramón, but becomes dere-dere around Profesor Jirafales.
• Playing Gertrude: In the first season, she was played by 22-year-old Florinda Meza.
• Widow Woman

Profesor Jirafales

• Chastity Couple: With Doña Florinda
• The Comically Serious
• It's All About Me: In one of his dates with Doña Florinda, he said he'd like to talk about her. He wanted to know what she thought of him; how she felt about him; and so forth.
• Only Sane Man (along with Sr. Barriga)
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
• Stern Teacher
• Straight Man
• The Fundamentalist

Doña Cleotilde

• Abhorrent Admirer: To Don Ramón.
• Christmas Cake
• The Glomp: To Don Ramon, often.
• Impoverished Patrician: Like Florinda, only that instead of being thrown out for marrying a poor man, she left her family because she didn't want to be the spinster aunt.*
  which she is anyway
• Satchel Switcheroo
• Stalker with a Crush

Señor Barriga

• Acting for Two: Edgar Vivar, Barriga's actor, also played Ñoño, Barriga's son.
• Big Fun: On the Jerk with a Heart of Gold variety.
• Butt Monkey
• The Chew Toy
• The Comically Serious
• Only Sane Man: Along with Profesor Jirafales
• Punny Name: "Barriga" is an actual surname in Mexico, but it's also Spanish for "belly", which is Sr. Barriga's most distinguishing trait.
• Rage Breaking Point: After being abused an entire episode, Don Ramon accidentally pinches him in the arm. Mr. Barriga responds by hitting him and then falling on top of him, flattening him.

Jaimito el cartero (the mailman)

• Catch Phrase: "Es que, quiero evitar la fatiga"*
  It only that, i want to avoid fatigue
  He used it so much to avoid making the most simple things.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Of don Ramón in later seasons.
• Lazy Bum: And how!
  "Es que, quiero evitar la fatiga"