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  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: While popular in his native Chile, Condorito is popular, if not even more, in Mexico, partly due to the excellent adaptation to Mexican Spanish of the comic and the many similarities of traditional Chilean culture with the Mexican one. This also is one of the reasons why there's very few jokes about Mexicans in the comic and the few times either Mexico or Mexicans are alluded on it, most of the time is either in a positive or neutral way.note 
  • Memetic Mutation: "PLOP" (particularly on the Something Awful forums).
    Condorito: Look out Cone, a condor!
    Cone: I have never seen one!
  • Nightmare Fuel: The (in)famous 72nd issue, which included a large section of incredibly gory and violent jokes, with very cruel punchlines, gruesome artwork, plenty of Black Comedy, gallons of blood... and it was done just for the hell of it.
  • Only the Creator Does It Right: After Pepo's retirement and subsequent death, some fans felt that the franchise entered a perpetual Audience-Alienating Era due to the incredible drop in quality in many aspects such as jokes and plotlines.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Basically, all the comic books produced after Condorito's creator died, mostly because the artists (no longer controlled by René Ríos) began to break each and every one of the limitations imposed on them, reducing the number of panels per page from eight to merely six, etc...
  • Values Dissonance: Extremely noticeable due to the nature of the books, which are compilations of unrelated joke-based comic strips. This means there's a lot of humor based on stereotypes. If you see a member of any other race or culture that's not Chilean or Mexicannote  (leaving aside the outlandish characters that belong to their own made-up race), expect the joke to be based on mocking a stereotype or the accent. While this looks as it could be defended as a product of its time, these kinds of jokes continued well into the 2000s.

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