Line #25 Series/LaCaravana


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2	[[caption-width-right:250:¡LASTIMA, MARGARITO![[note]]Too bad, Margarito![[/note]]]]
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4	''La Caravana'' (Spanish for ''The Caravan'') was a Mexican sketch comedy/VarietyShow (more or less in the same vein of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'') from 1988 to 1992 which was broadcasted in Imevision (TV Azteca's former name when it was state-owned in the eighties) starring Victor Trujillo (more famous by his character Brozo, who is technicaly an AscendedExtra from that show) and Ausencio Cruz (whose famous character, [[ButtMonkey Margarito Perez]] was his most popular character and [[OneSceneWonder the only role he's still know to this date]].
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6	The show was splitted in many sketches, all of them starring Trujillo, Cruz, or both of them:
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8	* ''Los Reos'' ''(The Prisoners)'': The sketch begins when two jailed prisoners (Trujillo and Cruz) start talking about their personal tastes. The prisoner played by Trujillo is [[TransparentCloset heavily implied to be gay]] and he tries to hit with the other prisoner (played by Cruz), but that prisoner always responds angrily with '''¡YA TE DIJE QUE NO ME MIRES CON ESOS OJOS!'''[[note]]I said stop looking at me like that![[/note]]
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10	* ''Estetoscopio'': This sketch stars Victor Trujillo as the titular character Estetoscopio Medina Chaires, a walking, exaggerated version of the Mexican lower-class guy, who always tell to the audience about his life or about his son, who never appears on-screen. Since is implied he and his family are really dumb, HilarityEnsues each time they try to do or see something unusual, like watching a solar eclipse. It was very controversial because, regularly, the sketches started with Estetoscopio scratching his belly button and ends putting a finger inside of it and pulling it out to shoot... the next sketch.
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12	* ''Valente Campillo'': Ausencio Cruz stars this sketch as a walking stereotype of the Mexican badass (or macho) and dressed as a Mexican charro. Most of his topics deals how manly a man should be and how women should StayInTheKitchen... with the sole exception of his [[MommasBoy mother, the only woman who can boss him around, at least in his home]].
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14	* ''Los Cuentos de Brozo'' ''(Brozo's Tales)'': The [[AscendedExtra character who made Victor Trujillo famous]]: a really [[MonsterClown ugly, foul-mouthed, sex-crazed, mysoginistic clown]] who loved to tell famous tales, ''with a Mexican twist.'' After his original show was cancelled, Trujillo revived the character, this time as a journalist clown who loves to make fun of the most recent news and sometimes making fun of celebrities and politicians.
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16	* ''El Charro Amarillo'' ''(The Yellow Charro)'': In this sketch, Victor Trujillo stars as the titular charro who sings ranchero songs who always ended being [[CurseCutShort changed by him at the last part of the stanza]].
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18	* ''La Pirinola'' ''(roughly translated as The Spinning Dice)'': Maybe the most memetic part of the show, along with Brozo. In this sketch Victor Trujillo star as Johnny Latino, a showman from the titular GameShow ''La Pirinola''[[note]]named after a famous Mexican spinning dice of the same name, used in many child games in Mexico.[[/note]] and Ausencio Cruz as ''[[ButtMonkey Margarito Perez]]'' a dumber, lower-class dude who it seems to be the only regular contestant of that show. Unfortunely for him, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption the show seems to be rigged and he always fails, no matter what]] and each time he loses, Johnny Latino and the audience yells '''¡LASTIMA, MARGARITO!'''[[note]]Too bad, Margarito![[/note]] and he always receives [[UndesirablePrize a very crappy prize]] as a ConsolationPrize.
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20	* "Erreconerrechea Jr": In this sketch, Ausencio Cruz plays a Main/SpoiledBrat that tends to try to speak to the audience as if they are below him, but more specific to count his experience to live "lower" experiences with the lower classes. Curiously, it is revealed that his father (appearing in one sketch) is a devoted rich bureaucrat that tends to speak over very complex and stupid formalities to be able to have a conversation with his family.
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22	* "Beba Galván": Victor Trujillo performs a drag character in order to parody female variety shows of Televisa. Her name is a pun to 90s teen idol and actress Bibi Gaytan. Later in "Humorcito Corazon" she tends to interview male personalities and present them her "calientes" (hot guys dressed as chippendales).
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24	* "Jeremias": Another character from Victor Trujillo where he parodies the TV preachers (while not exactly Christian, as long as his views goes more to the New Age tendencies) with a catchy song and even testimonials (Jeremias posing with "real" people).
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26	While ''La Caravana'' [[ShortRunner only last 5 years]], it's impact in both Mexican culture and television is still felt to this day, two decades after the end of the show. In fact, Victor Trujillo, one of the actors (and creators) of the show, decided to revive some of the original concept of the original show with some TV shows, including "Humorcito Corazon" (made in 1994, without Ausencio Cruz focusing more in Brozo and Beba Galvan characters to the point of controversy when his Beba character shows men only dressed in thongs), ''El Mañanero'' (When Brozo becames a journalist, but without losing his acid sense of humor) and it's successor: ''El Notifiero'' (who is practically ''La Caravana'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN TELEVISA]] or at least, only the characters played by Trujillo himself alone, without Ausencio Cruz).
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28	There's a spinoff DirectToVideo film starring both Trujillo and Cruz which was done after the end of the show at 1991, named ''La verdadera historia de Barman y Droguin'' (The True Story of Barman and Droguin), which is a parody of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' and it was the last time both actors worked together before going to separate ways
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30	!!Tropes:
31	* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: ''Los Presos'' is basically a Mexican version of this trope, despite not being intentional per se: Trujillo's character is the Boke, while Cruz' character is the Tsukkomi.
32	* ButtMonkey: Margarito Perez and Estetoscopio.
33	* CrossOver: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWXy7PSEnLA In one of the sketches]], Brozo meets the character [[{{Expy}} he's based of,]] '''Bozo'''.[[note]]The Mexican version, of course.[[/note]] This is justified since it's revealed both Brozo and Bozo are cousins.
34	* CurseCutShort: ''El Charro Amarillo'' always changes his offensive lyrics with non-offensive stanzas at the last second. Averted later when he becomes an AscendedExtra in ''El Notifiero''.
35	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: The whole point of ''La Pirinola'' is to make Margarito to lose in the most humillating way possible for him, no matter what. And no matter how many times he loses, [[IronButtMonkey Margarito will always returns to the show, despite being rigged to hell and back]].
36	* LiteralMinded: Estetoscopio.
37	* {{Parody}}: ''La Pirinola'' is a parody of many gameshows (both in Mexico and abroad) but mainly from ''[[LongRunner En Familia con Chabelo]]'' from their main rival network, Televisa, except the host, Johnny Latino, is based in the American hosts from many gameshows and variety shows.

Context Series / LaCaravana