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El ChapulÃn Colorado
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El ChapulÃn Colorado is a legendary Mexican Sitcom (and staple of popular culture) from Chespirito, the creator of El Chavo del ocho (which this show uses most of the cast of). Airing during 1973-1979 on Televisa, it centers on the adventures of a Comedic Hero, 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 Phrase Catcher. Not that he is really that useful, or even helpful. But El ChapulÃn Colorado is well meaning and at least tries to help, so it's okay.Unlike El Chavo, the adventures of El ChapulÃn 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 The Wild West, or against The Mafia, and even parodying monster movies. Or even against the Third Reich. The cast remained the same, but with the exception of ChapulÃn they changed roles every chapter (although in the more "themed" episodes some actors have recurring roles)While not as popular as El Chavo, El ChapulÃn remains loved and well remembered. Despite its relatively cheap production values, it has very interesting ideas for a comedic show. It even pioneered the use of Chroma Key in Latin America.Bumblebee Man, a recurring figure on The Simpsons, is essentially a Captain Ersatz of this character. He was created because whenever the writers flipped through the channels, El ChapulÃn 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).An Animated Adaptation has been airing since 2015. | |
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Far East: Episodes that involve Japanese families will inevitably include a gong... which is a Chinese instrument. | |
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Styrofoam props were actually used to showcase the main property of the potential weakener - making items incredibly fragile. | |
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Faustian Rebellion | |
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Faustian Rebellion: In El ChapulÃn's retelling of Faust, the titular character is given a riding crop that makes things appear and disappear from Mephistopheles in exchange of signing a contract. When Faust realizes he sold his soul, he made the contract vanish. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Some of the actors in the Beach Episode have names based on celebrities. The lead actress, SofÃa Welch (Florinda Meza), gets her name from Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch, while "Chato" Heston (Horacio Gómez), the actor who was initially going to portray El ChapulÃn Colorado, gets his name from Charlton Heston. | |
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Magic Wand: "El ChirrÃn Chirrión del Diablo", a wand (actually a riding crop) that allows the wielder to summon or cast away anything he says (usually interpreted in the worst way). | |
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Exactly What I Aimed At | |
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Exactly What I Aimed At: In one episode el ChapulÃn used his Paralyzing Horn, but the bad guy had already shot. He mocked ChapulÃn for missing, but he reveals that he actually paralyzed the bullet, then deparalyzed it and it hit a nearby wall. | |
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The Wild West | |
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The Wild West: Some episodes were set in there. It was the only type of episode in which El ChapulÃn had recurring allies. | |
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Clothes Make the Superman | |
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Clothes Make the Superman: The episode where ChapulÃn foils a band of smugglers ends with the chief inspector thanking him for his good work. ChapulÃn then admits tha he's not the real ChapulÃn, but a guest dressed like ChapulÃn, and figured that since he was wearing the costume, he had to do something. Soon after, the real ChapulÃn arives, and apologizes for being so late. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: If you ever wondered, you will need to Google to find references to a certain interview in order to learn about ChapulÃn's origin story. 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. ChapulÃn was the only honest person that went, that's how he got his only real superpower. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: El ChapulÃn is terrible at telling stories: His retelling of "Peter and the Wolf" was about the wolf being a liar who told The Three Little Pigs that he was Little Red Riding Hood, then falls into some nonsense and ends up with the wolf going with his children, Romulus and Remus. Peter does not appear in the story, and is supposedly the author. His retelling of Samson and Delilah features Samson as a New-Age Retro Hippie who Does Not Know His Own Strength and became very strong just because of his hair (though he claims it's because of his very healthy lifestyle... until he spills the beans, of course). His Taking You with Me moment does not happen either, as Samson and all the philistines are fine (if a little dirty) after the temple collapses. | |
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Twist Ending | |
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Twist Ending: In one hour long episode, ChapulÃn 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 ChapulÃn 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. | |
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Always Someone Better | |
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Always Someone Better: Super Sam, a cross between Uncle Sam and Superman, was sometimes treated as this for ChapulÃn. After all, Super Sam had money on his side; as in, his main weapon was an actual bag of money he used to club villains with, all with a cash register sound. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Characters from El Chavo del ocho 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/La Popis/La Chilindrina (depending on which version), El Chavo, El Chómpiras and El Peterete/El Botija, Doctor ChapatÃn and parodies of Charles Chaplin, Jerry Lewis and Laurel and Hardy. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: In "Más vale ratero en jaula que ciento robando", the checkers board the policeman and an inmate play with has the ladies' bathroom sign in the other side. In Spanish, both "checkers" and "ladies" use the same word: "damas". | |
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The Rival | |
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Super Sam, The Rival of ChapulÃn for heroic deeds. A mix of flavors 1 or 2, as Sam is a satire of American interventionism who meddles in ChapulÃn'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. | |
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Smuggling with Dolls | |
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Smuggling with Dolls: In the costume party episode, a smuggling ring is taking advantage of this to hand over a doll stuffed with stolen jewelry, and ChapulÃn is asked for help to figure out who are the criminals and stop them. | |
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MST3K Mantra | |
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An especially ridiculous version is when ChapulÃn 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. Don't think too much about it. | |
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Laugh Track | |
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Laugh Track: In the first years. The last seasons, when the ChapulÃn was included along with other Chespirito characters, the program started with the message "As a matter of respect for our audience, this program does not contain a laugh track". | |
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Aliens Steal Cattle | |
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One episode involved El ChapulÃn Colorado trying to stop a martian from stealing poultry. At first, he mistakes someonewearing American football equipment to be the alien. In the 1977 version, after El ChapulÃn manages to force the Martian to flee, El ChapulÃn comments on his earlier mistake to them, who then teleports away, just like the Martian. | |
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Comedic Hero | |
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Comedic Hero: ChapulÃn himself | |
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Cardboard Prison | |
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Cardboard Prison: One episode revolves around a police precinct from where prisoners keep escaping and no one has any idea why. The answer comes at the end: the precinct has a sliding door which also works as the back wall of the only cell of the place! | |
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Ash Face | |
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Ash Face: In the end of gas leak episode. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: La Minina and Rosa la Rumorosa have used this trope to take advantage of El ChapulÃn and his allies, though La Minina is generally too much of The Ditz to be any dangerous. | |
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I Meant to Do That | |
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Right after the introduction, ChapulÃn would sometimes trip and break something, he would be asked if he's alright to which he says "of course, all my movements are coldly calculated". The person who invoked him, would tell him someone is causing problems, ChapulÃn would say his vinyl antenna are detecting the enemy, ChapulÃn attacks him, while also unknowingly helping the antagonist, and this would go on until someone informs ChapulÃn of his mistake. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: The entirety the Rogues Gallery of the Wild West episodes, with the exception of Rosa La Rumorosa, who is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing. The mere mention of their names can bring horror to every townsperson, the marshal included. | |
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You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses | |
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You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses: El ChapulÃn 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 ChapulÃn said "But I do" and then put on a pair of sunglasses. | |
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Ring of Power | |
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Ring of Power: "La sortija de la bruja" features a maid that happens to be a witch. She explains that it's not the witches who have powers, but the rings they put on, giving the user the ability to make anything they think of happen. Witches are trained on their use well enough, as properly ordered thoughts are required to get the expected outcome. | |
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Gossip Evolution | |
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Gossip Evolution: In the Samson's story. There was the story that he killed a lion in the Sinai desert and got 100 thousand dollars as reward. He clarifies (one mistake at a time) that actually he killed an angora kitten on the Chapultepec zoo and got a 100 pesos fine. | |
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Daddy's Little Villain | |
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El Rascabuches (Ramón Valdéz) and his daughter, Rosa la rumorosa (Florinda Meza) in the Wild West episodes. | |
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Gratuitous English | |
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Gratuitous English: ChapulÃn's flashy rival, Super Sam, speaks exclusively in highly stereotypical American phrases. "Time is money, OH YEAH!" | |
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Cursed with Awesome | |
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Cursed with Awesome: The spell the Wicked Stepmother from the Snow White Affectionate Parody used to create a poisonous apple carries a curse to the one that casts it if the one who ate it gets kissed by a Prince Charming (Which happens to be el ChapulÃn...'s Squeaking Mallet). Once it happens, the Stepmother stares in horror as the curse is about to be cast on her. The result? She becomes an attractive woman. And el ChapulÃn asks her out after he finishes telling the story. | |
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Chest Insignia | |
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Chest Insignia: The CH-heart. | |
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Time Stands Still | |
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Time Stands Still: The "Chicharra Paralizadora" was capable of doing this. ChapulÃn used it often to set up embarrassing situations for his enemies. | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Parodied, the Cuajinais in an episode said "I use a false bomb, because the real one could hurt someone". | |
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Dastardly Whiplash | |
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Dastardly Whiplash: The villain in a story of an old abandoned mine that dates back to the 17th Century, and is about to collapse. | |
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Inheritance Murder | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_3437ee2c | comment |
The cousins that wanted to kill their uncle for the inheritance are called Hugo, Paco and Luisa. Hugo, Paco and Luis were the names given in Spanish to Huey, Dewey, and Louie. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_3517000d | type |
Mad Scientist | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_3517000d | comment |
One episode had a Mad Scientist saying "¡SÃganme los locos!", "Crazy people, follow me!" | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_36754cc7 | type |
"Freaky Friday" Flip | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_36754cc7 | comment |
"Freaky Friday" Flip: In one episode a mad scientist created a brain-switching machine and the victims were a thin female doctor and a fat male one. It's a weird case where the voices changes in live-action. At the end, ChapulÃn accidentally switched another doctor's brain with the scientist's pet dog. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_3c3f28a5 | type |
Blessed with Suck | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_3c3f28a5 | comment |
Blessed with Suck: Don Severiano Mirón, is the most famous spy in the world. This means he is easily recognized by everyone, and therefore is not hired for any kind of work. When a journalist recognizes him, he quickly bursts into tears. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_3eee0728 | type |
Captain Obvious | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_3eee0728 | comment |
Captain Obvious: In one episode, el ChapulÃn wants to help an innocent perison to escape prison, and tells him he brought a file to cut the bars. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_3fb6b526 | type |
Delayed Reaction | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_3fb6b526 | comment |
Delayed Reaction: "If you believe that hit did hurt me, let me tell you that it did" and then El ChapulÃn faints. In other times, he'd simply not react from being hit until a few seconds later. An especially ridiculous version is when ChapulÃn 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. Don't think too much about it. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_405f6f52 | type |
Recycled Soundtrack | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_405f6f52 | comment |
Recycled Soundtrack: Just a couple of examples: When ChapulÃn first shows up in any episode, Elmer Bernstein's score for The Ten Commandments' parting/crossing of the Red Sea can be heard. The ending theme for many episodes is "Baroque Hoedown" by Jean Jacques Perrey, who also recorded "The Elephant Never Forgets", which was used as the theme song for El Chavo del ocho. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_4192763e | type |
Malaproper | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_4192763e | comment |
Malaproper: El ChapulÃn. He was specially prone to the butchered rendition of several, intermixed proverbs usually ended with "Bueno, la idea es esa" ("Well, that's the idea"), even when it was impossible to grasp any idea relevant to the situation. The proverb mangling can get pretty awesome. For example, when CrÃa fama y échate a dormir ("Cultivate a good reputation and go to sleep (i.e., rest on your laurels)") and CrÃa cuervos y te sacarán los ojos ("Breed crows, and they shall pluck out your eyes") get mangled into CrÃa fama y te sacarán los ojos ("Cultivate a good reputation, and they shall pluck out your eyes") and CrÃa cuervos y échate a dormir ("Breed crows and go to sleep"). El ChapulÃn (and sometimes other characters) would also accidentally mix syllables of a few words when shocked or speaking really quickly. Most commonly "¡Escápenlo que se agarra!" ("Escape him that he's catching!"). This includes ChapulÃn's catchphrase Que no panda el cúnico ("Don't let renic paign"). | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_41feb209 | type |
Non Sequitur, *Thud* | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_41feb209 | comment |
Non Sequitur, *Thud*: When he suffers a severe enough trauma, El ChapulÃn starts uttering his Catch Phrases one after another in rapid succession until coming back to his senses. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_4294909e | type |
Superman Substitute | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_4294909e | comment |
Superman Substitute: Although the actual Superman is stated to exist in-universe, he nevertheless has a substitute in the form of Super Sam. While he may lack superpowers or morals often expected from the trope, Super Sam is a Captain Patriotic hero that dresses just like Superman (mixed with Uncle Sam's beard and hat). | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_44f6517d | type |
Beach Episode | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_44f6517d | comment |
Rocks, chairs, tables... The whole set! In the Beach Episode, where El ChapulÃn helps a production crew of a film about himself, this trope was invoked and Played for Laughs in a more literal by one of the actors (Played by Ramón Valdéz), explaining a fan (MarÃa 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 tries to step on the rock to reach the doll. Yet again, later, when the actor holds the rock in one hand for a photo, El ChapulÃn mistakes him for a madman that believes he's The Six Million Dollar Man, and tries to defeat him. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_47325888 | type |
Latex Perfection | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_47325888 | comment |
Latex Perfection: The Master of Disguise in the episode of the same name. He appeared under several identities of other actors (Edgar Vivar, Florinda Meza and Carlos Villagrán) dubbed by Ramón Valdéz, and Ramón Valdéz himself in one scene. And at the end, where he was supposedly sent to prison, it's revealed he disguised himself as the old woman (MarÃa Antonieta de las Nieves) El ChapulÃn was trying to protect, to his shock. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Every non-villainous role Ramón Valdés played was this. In fact, pretty much every non-villain (the titular hero included) is prone to this. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_485011b | type |
MadLibsCatchPhrase | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_485011b | comment |
Mad Libs Catch Phrase: After the aforementioned gag, then comes | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_48b9731f | type |
Paper-Thin Disguise | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_48b9731f | comment |
Paper-Thin Disguise: El ChapulÃn's preferred disguise is a fake moustache; he doesn't even try to hide his costume, his insignia or even his vinyl antennae. The effectiveness of this disguise varies per episode, but generally the person to see El ChapulÃn talking about the disguise doubts about its usefulness; the first person to see the "disguised" ChapulÃn fails to recognize him, and the second person to see him does not even realize he's disguised at all, which prompts El ChapulÃn to drop it. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_4a1385f2 | type |
Dangerous Backswing | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_4a1385f2 | comment |
Dangerous Backswing: ChapulÃn would often pull back 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). | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_4d070ee3 | type |
Power Perversion Potential | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_4d070ee3 | comment |
Power Perversion Potential: After introducing how the Paralyzing Horn works to an attractive woman, El ChapulÃn would lure her to get paralyzed with her lips wide, so that El ChapulÃn would kiss her without her noticing what happened. In a very early sketch, El ChapulÃn steals a magic wand from a stereotypical Wicked Witch and threatens to use it on her. Eventually he uses it... and turns her into a beautiful woman. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_4efc4fae | type |
Good Scars, Evil Scars | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_4efc4fae | comment |
The gangsters El Cuajináis (Carlos Villagrán) and El Tripaseca (Ramón Valdéz), as well as La Minina (Florinda Meza) in episodes set in present times. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_4f4372e9 | type |
Early-Installment Weirdness | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
It is of note that, in earlier seasons, El ChapulÃn 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. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_50b05d30 | type |
Disproportionate Retribution | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: In the Affectionate Parody of Romeo and Juliet, Rumiet's father tells Juleo that, for their love, he could forgive the latter's father, grandfather and great-grandfather murdered the former's respective ones. What he cannot forgive is that the Montesco support Chivas while the Capuletto support América.note Chivas-América is the most relevant football rivalry in Mexico | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_545831af | type |
Forgotten Friend, New Foe | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_545831af | comment |
Forgotten Friend, New Foe: In "Un bandido bastante muerto", El ChapulÃn claims that El Tripaseca, who had seemingly died and is one of his most dangerous enemies, was a classmate and childhood friend of his. Considering El ChapulÃn had already seen El Tripaseca's wax statue and knew the whole gambit, it's unknown if he was telling the truth. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_55f92df9 | type |
Wire Dilemma | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_55f92df9 | comment |
Wire Dilemma: One episode has permutation number 10 (throwing the bomb out the window) happening twice. Actually, the second time used a door. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_58f02a89 | type |
Sizeshifter | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_58f02a89 | comment |
Sizeshifter: One of El ChapulÃn's secret weapons, the Chiquitolina Pills, make him shrink significantly for a few minutes. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_5989e3b6 | type |
Enemy Mine | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_5989e3b6 | comment |
Enemy Mine: In one episode, El ChapulÃn was summoned by El Rascabuches to help him and MatoncÃsimo Kid escape from a prison owned by a man-hating woman. However, MatoncÃsimo Kid turns out to be The Mole. Once, El ChapulÃn was asked to stop El Tripaseca after he steals the wallet from someone (pants included). However, a restaurant owner kept beating all three up when they accidentally entered his building, so El ChapulÃn ended up siding with them and El Tripaseca to defeat the owner. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_5bdcc85a | type |
Disney Villain Death | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_5bdcc85a | comment |
Disney Villain Death: A Running Gag 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, Ruleof Funny 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 ChapulÃn suggests to purposefuly throw the person 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 ChapulÃn sketch in Chespirito tited "La muerte del bulldog", as El ChapulÃn 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. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_5c219298 | type |
Phony Psychic | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_5c219298 | comment |
Phony Psychic: In one episode, El ChapulÃn encounters a man 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: | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_5d777251 | type |
That's All, Folks! | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_5d777251 | comment |
That's All, Folks!: The last episode of the half-hour show. Unfittingly, it continued as part of the Chespirito sketch show for much longer. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_5ff56a1f | type |
Long List | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_5ff56a1f | comment |
Long List: Once, after el ChapulÃn 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 ChapulÃn, 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 ChapulÃn Col- no, not him...". During all this, el ChapulÃn, covered in mud, shuffles his feet and looks embarrassed. Often, a character will say something nice to El ChapulÃn, then add on “... even though you’re short, ugly, stupid, weak, etc., etc., etc., etc...â€� ChapulÃn’s response is always “You could have at least left out a couple of et certeras.â€� | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_5ff8aab9 | type |
Self-Offense | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_5ff8aab9 | comment |
Self-Offense: ChapulÃn'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. In the episode where he investigates a toy theft, he knocks out the thief with "el chipote chillón." 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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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_60194b82 | type |
Spanner in the Works | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_60194b82 | comment |
Spanner in the Works: ChapulÃn's modus operandi boils down to this. He doesn't outsmart or overpower the criminals he goes against, but rather, he mostly stumbles into annoying them, distracting them and provoking them into making mistakes while trying to fend him off. He's not much in the matter of heroics, but he's a major nuisance for the people that oppose him. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_610ea5a7 | type |
Mephistopheles | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_610ea5a7 | comment |
Mephistopheles: Mephistopheles appears when Chapúlin tells the story of Faust to someone 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. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_61b576af | type |
I Take Offense to That Last One | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_61b576af | comment |
I Take Offense to That Last One: When other characters say they trust El ChapulÃn as their national hero even though he's small, ugly, weak, dumb, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera... El ChapulÃn always complains about the two extra exceteras. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_62434fe2 | type |
Sanity Slippage | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_62434fe2 | comment |
Sanity Slippage: In one hour-long version of the volatile energy extract story, Raúl "Chato" Padilla's character asks 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. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_671681af | type |
Jackass Genie | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_671681af | comment |
Jackass Genie: The magic wand Dr. Faust gets in the retelling of 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. The Witch's Ring from "La sortija de la bruja" works on a similar principle. The maid witch explains that it requires well-ordered thoughts to be able to use the ring properly, and that it requires practice that everyone in the Witch Order has. When this does not happen, for example... The maid witch's boss first thinks of a beautiful woman he once saw on a film. He focused on the film, which makes the film reel show up instead. In another version, the woman he saw was on a picture in a museum, and it makes the picture appear. The boss also thinks of a former girlfriend he had at high school. She shows up, no strings attached, but aged up to the present. El ChapulÃn eventually is given the ring by the witch for protection, but does not let her explain what it does. The ring will even work when the user isn't even trying to use it, causing him to summon and move multiple people without even trying, until he accidentally summons a psychiatrist that slowly helps him lead on to the truth (albeit unaware that it's because of the ring). Much like the Faust example above, El ChapulÃn tries to have a turkey for dinner, but does not specify it has to be roasted. | |
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Those Wacky Nazis | |
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Those Wacky Nazis: El ChapulÃn once fought against Adolf Hitler (Also played by Chespirito). El ChapulÃn won after Hitler accidentally set off the Self-Destruct Button of his bunker. | |
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"Shaggy Frog" Story | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_6bd6c63f | comment |
"Shaggy Frog" Story: Trying to discourage a boy from his habit of telling lies, ChapulÃn says the kid might end up like the boy from "Peter and the Wolf". After the boy says he doesn't know the story, ChapulÃn, 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. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: At the very end of the Samson's wig episode, the maid of the archeologist who chops up the wig, to ensure no one abuses the wig's ability to give its wearer Super-Strength and Nigh-Invulnerability, is named Dalila (Delilah). | |
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Carry a Big Stick | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_6c07693b | comment |
Carry a Big Stick: The "Chipote Chillón" ("Squeaky Mallet"), a silly-looking but effective hammer. | |
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Overt Operative | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_6fdd991c | comment |
Overt Operative: One story featured the world's most famous spy. It was a case of realistic outcomes as, because of the spy's fame, nobody hires him. Once he got word of a formula that made things invisible, he decided to steal it so he could use it to gain an edge his fame wouldn't ruin. By being able to enter places without being seen. | |
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Big Bad Ensemble | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_72cdfc33 | comment |
Big Bad Ensemble: El Cuajináis, El Tripaseca and La Minina were often seen together in the present times episodes. They were occasionally joined by El Botija or El Shory. El Rascabuches and Rosa la Rumorosa sometimes teamed up in the Wild West episodes (though the latter would mostly mind her own business). They were joined by El MatoncÃsimo Kid in "La Ley del Chipote Chillón". | |
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Invoked Trope | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_72e0023f | comment |
"La Ley del Chipote Chillón": Invoked by one of the townspeople at Villa Chaparra. Early on, when El ChapulÃn learns of El Rascabuches, El MatoncÃsimo Kid and Rosa la Rumorosa teaming up, he tries to convince the town to rally against them and use the "unity in strength". Everyone runs away... until the very end, where they effortlessly defeat the Big Bad Ensemble when everything seemed lost. All the townspeople cheer for El ChapulÃn for giving them that idea. | |
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Chroma Key | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_743437c4 | comment |
Chroma Key: Used very extensively in the series, for most of its special effects (Such as El ChapulÃn when shrunk or two identical characters played by the same actor) or Toon Physics. | |
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Does Not Like Men | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_767f84ea | comment |
Does Not Like Men: In one occasion, El ChapulÃn had to help El Rascabuches and MatoncÃsimo Kid to escape from a prison owned by a man-hating woman. | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_786bf97f | comment |
Real Life Writes the Plot: In one episode ChapulÃn 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 ChapulÃn Colorado and El Chavo del ocho. | |
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Crying Wolf | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_78d0ebcf | comment |
Crying Wolf: One episode featured a 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. ChapulÃn 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 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf') but the boy didn't know the story and ChapulÃn told his own version of it, describing a wolf that lied so much that, when he met The Three Little Pigs, he claimed to be Little Red Riding Hood. When the kid points out at the end that he excluded Peter from the story, ChapulÃn says that Peter was the author. At least he had the wolf replace Peter as the liar. | |
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Eagleland | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_7a265daa | comment |
Eagleland: Super Sam, The Rival of ChapulÃn for heroic deeds. A mix of flavors 1 or 2, as Sam is a satire of American interventionism who meddles in ChapulÃn'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. Sometimes the ChapulÃn encounters a tourist during some adventures that is an obvious Flavor 2. | |
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Frankenstein's Monster | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_7a2ebcba | comment |
Frankenstein's Monster: El ChapulÃn Colorado once tried to save a young woman from the monster Doctor Panchostein, described as Frankestein's totonac version, made. El ChapulÃn ends up defeating the monster by explaining it the current costs of living. The monster had El ChapulÃn tell Doctor Panchostein not to bring it back from the dead again. | |
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Villain Decay | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_7bb844ec | comment |
Villain Decay: Botija. At beginning was a true threat. But in the end he become in a Harmless Villain. | |
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Arranged Marriage | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_80621707 | comment |
Arranged Marriage: Most of the episodes featuring the Chicharra Paralizadora involved El ChapulÃn trying to avert one. | |
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Large Ham | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Every actor on the series is this sometimes, but even if they play their character straight, they will take the melodramatic acting over the top the moment they say “¡Oh! ¿Y ahora quién podrá defenderme?� | |
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Gainax Ending | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_82accf22 | comment |
Gainax Ending: Several episodes have this kind of ending. The most usual one is that El ChapulÃn Colorado inexplicably turns out to be right on what seemed to be a mistake at the beginning of an episode. An episode set in a theater ends with the sudden revelation that all the villains, a "dead guy", a barrel and the ChapulÃn himself that they weren't who they said they were during the episode but rather "actors" who liked to play those roles, followed by a Flat "What" from Ramón Valdés' character. Another episode ends with el ChapulÃn using the "La Chicharra Paralizadora" to permanently stun everyone, including accidentally hitting himself with it so that no one can undo the stun. One episode involved El ChapulÃn Colorado trying to stop a martian from stealing poultry. At first, he mistakes someonewearing American football equipment to be the alien. In the 1977 version, after El ChapulÃn manages to force the Martian to flee, El ChapulÃn comments on his earlier mistake to them, who then teleports away, just like the Martian. At the end of the episode where ChapulÃn foils a criminal gang in a costume party, the undercover detective thanks him after he captures the leader. ChapulÃn then admits that he's just a partygoer disguised as El ChapulÃn Colorado, and since he was in costume he decided that he had to do something. Just then, the real ChapulÃn arrives, and apologizes for being so late. | |
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Napoleon Delusion | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_83a55c8e | comment |
Napoleon Delusion: An episode involves an elderly man who thinks he's El ChapulÃn Colorado after watching him too many times on TV, and starts viewing everyone else as villains or victims. After El ChapulÃn talks him out of it, the elderly man reveals he's not actually crazy, but he wanted to be El ChapulÃn Colorado because he's a hero unlike himself, a health inspector - and El ChapulÃn also talks him out of that as well. | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_83cef301 | comment |
Several episodes have this kind of ending. The most usual one is that El ChapulÃn Colorado inexplicably turns out to be right on what seemed to be a mistake at the beginning of an episode. | |
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Agent Scully | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_8658cd14 | comment |
Agent Scully: He has fought against martians, robots, pirates, ghosts, ghost pirates, etc. But he still dismisses anything outside of the ordinary as fake. If he is justified in his skepticism or not depends on the episode. | |
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Cartridges in Flight | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_86c2af02 | comment |
Cartridges in Flight: 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. | |
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Medium Awareness | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_884e513b | comment |
Medium Awareness: Sometimes, when summoned after a character just had a Split-Screen Phone Call, El ChapulÃn would show up next to him, behind one of the halves of the screen, becoming visible only after the screen stops being split. | |
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Willfully Weak | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_8941750b | comment |
In one episode he used the ability of teleporting, which he was only shown to have at the end of one episode (aside from it being , freely during a fight. Willfully Weak? | |
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Everything Explodes Ending | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_8a03b3f1 | comment |
Everything Explodes Ending: In the gas leak episode. Near of the end, ChapulÃn 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. | |
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Real Song Theme Tune | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_8ae7eb89 | comment |
The ending theme for many episodes is "Baroque Hoedown" by Jean Jacques Perrey, who also recorded "The Elephant Never Forgets", which was used as the theme song for El Chavo del ocho. | |
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The Family for the Whole Family | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_8c0bbee3 | comment |
The Family for the Whole Family: It doesn't matter how feared a villain character is, they can be as incompetent as El ChapulÃn at critical moments. For example, in "No seas torpe, ChapulÃn", El Cuajináis, El Tripaseca, El Shory and La Minina try to lure El ChapulÃn to a trap, but they have to make several changes to their plan due to their own mistakes, and they get defeated not long afterwards. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_8d0785d5 | comment |
When Alma Negra imprisoned ChapulÃn 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 the flaw with his plan. | |
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Always Identical Twins | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_8f00b02a | comment |
Always Identical Twins: The episode "Cuando los gemelos no son buenos cuates" is about a janitor who is being ordered around by two twin performers (invokedplayed 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. At the end, the girlfriend of one of the twins (played by Florinda Meza) shows up revealing that she too has a twin sister. | |
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Secret-Identity Identity | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_8f350291 | comment |
Secret-Identity Identity: El ChapulÃn 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 The Tick). In an episode it's revealed that "ChapulÃn 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 ("ChapulÃn" was picked in a raffle). And it’s implied that his real mother is Lois Lane. And there are ChapulÃn imitators in-universe...professional ones, in fact. In at least one episode, we find out at the end that the ChapulÃn we'd been following through today's adventures was only an actor hired to play ChapulÃn at a birthday party. He just happened to be passing by when he got mixed up in this episode's dilemma, as the real ChapulÃn had arrived late. | |
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Time Master | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_908ad334 | comment |
Time Master: El ChapulÃn can control time through clocks, as seen once when trying to save a woman and her father from a vampire (In later versions, it's a madman that believes he's a vampire). Since it's noon, El ChapulÃn manipulates a clock to advance a few hours, only for sunlight suddenly appearing and defeating the vampire. | |
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Major Injury Underreaction | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_91cab736 | comment |
"If you believe that hit did hurt me, let me tell you that it did" and then El ChapulÃn faints. In other times, he'd simply not react from being hit until a few seconds later. | |
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Trivially Obvious | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_91e8bb36 | comment |
Trivially Obvious: Done by ChapulÃn's own introduction. It states that he is more agile than a tortoise, stronger than a mouse, and kinder than a lettuce. | |
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WildWest | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_95aded7e | comment |
El Rascabuches and Rosa la Rumorosa sometimes teamed up in the Wild West episodes (though the latter would mostly mind her own business). They were joined by El MatoncÃsimo Kid in "La Ley del Chipote Chillón". | |
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Behind the Black | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_9600368d | comment |
Behind the Black: Sometimes El ChapulÃn's Offscreen Teleportation when called works like this. In one episode, when called, he shows up on the side of the screen that is covered by a Split-Screen Phone Call. | |
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Anti-Climax Boss | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_96e967f8 | comment |
Anti-Climax Boss: In-Universe in one of the Wild West episodes. El Rascabuches and Rosa la Rumorosa constantly threaten El ChapulÃn and the sheriff that, once El MatoncÃsimo Kid arrives, they will be set free. Not only El ChapulÃn and the sheriff are incapable of helping due to them being incarcerated due to their clumsiness, but El Rascabuches, Rosa la Rumorosa and El MatoncÃsimo Kid are all defeated in a few seconds by the extras offscreen. | |
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Big Bad | |
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A variation is used by recurring Big Bad, the pirate "Alma Negra / Black Soul": "¡Siganme los malos!", "Bad guys, follow me!". | |
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Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys? | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_9723e2cd | comment |
Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: "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 par of vinyl antennae, which detected the "presence of the enemy" (The detection was real, but ChapulÃn 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, ChapulÃn was the only honest person that went, that's how he got his only real superpower. Also, you'd have to wonder what a "proper" superhero could achieve with access to the ChapulÃn's teleporting device. El ChapulÃn could appear at any location the instant his cry for help was uttered. He'd even pop out of ridiculous and hard to reach places, like a trash can, or just literally drop from a place off-camera in between the assailant and its victim; of course, pretty much getting wrong who was who and hilarity ensuing. Not to mention he can also travel in time, unless he's immortal, as some episodes are set during the The Golden Age of Piracy (around the 1600s-1700s), the Wild West (1800s), and even inside the Führerbunker during Adolf Hitler's last days (1945), up to others that are set in the future when Casual Interstellar Travel is possible. | |
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Dumb Is Good | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_9a8c7632 | comment |
Dumb Is Good: El ChapulÃn tends to leave much to be desired in terms of intelligence, yet he's The Hero and the one person both victims and villains consider as the symbol of goodness in the series. | |
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Repeated Rehearsal Failure | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_9b030fac | comment |
Repeated Rehearsal Failure: Played for Laughs when the eponymous superhero tries to say some proverb tied with the case he has to solve, but he changes the half of it with another proverb different to that. And then he mixed up everything to get a messy phrase. This is an example of many can be found on the series: | |
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Brought to You by the Letter "S" | |
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Brought to You by the Letter "S": The old Spanish letter CH on the hero's costume. | |
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New-Age Retro Hippie | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_9e09fbd7 | comment |
New-Age Retro Hippie: Samson in El ChapulÃn's retelling of his story (perhaps because he was long-haired?). He wears a crown made of flowers. | |
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Un-Paused | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_9e869a0c | comment |
Un-Paused: The entire schtick of the paralyzing horn. El ChapulÃn normally exploited it so his opponents would hurt themselves or one another (most of the episodes with the paralyzing horn involve two bad characters). | |
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Rogues Gallery | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_a0396574 | comment |
Rogues Gallery: The gangsters El Cuajináis (Carlos Villagrán) and El Tripaseca (Ramón Valdéz), as well as La Minina (Florinda Meza) in episodes set in present times. El Rascabuches (Ramón Valdéz) and his daughter, Rosa la rumorosa (Florinda Meza) in the Wild West episodes. Alma Negra (Ramón Valdéz) whenever El ChapulÃn fights against pirates. It is of note that, in earlier seasons, El ChapulÃn 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. | |
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Living Prop | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_a1575551 | comment |
An episode set in a theater ends with the sudden revelation that all the villains, a "dead guy", a barrel and the ChapulÃn himself that they weren't who they said they were during the episode but rather "actors" who liked to play those roles, followed by a Flat "What" from Ramón Valdés' character. | |
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Saw a Woman in Half | |
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Saw a Woman in Half: A lumberjack once tried to hit El ChapulÃn 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. | |
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As Himself | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_a5e0c01 | comment |
As Himself: In-Universe in the Beach Episode. The production crew of a ChapulÃn Colorado movie finds out the actor playing the hero resigned, so they ask El ChapulÃn Colorado to play as himself in it. Naturally, the movie's plot does not go on as desired thanks to El ChapulÃn's clumsiness. | |
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Rule of Funny | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_a60e3252 | comment |
Once, El ChapulÃn was asked to stop El Tripaseca after he steals the wallet from someone (pants included). However, a restaurant owner kept beating all three up when they accidentally entered his building, so El ChapulÃn ended up siding with them and El Tripaseca to defeat the owner. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: For most of the series, actor Horacio Gómez (incidentally the creator's brother) just played occasional bit parts with a couple of lines. In the last season, after two main cast members left, he became one of the principal actors, even though Gómez had always planned to be the show's marketing director, not an actor. | |
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Animate Inanimate Object | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_a73cfb7f | comment |
Volatile energy extract, which can make inanimate objects be alive and sentient when injected. | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_a9de87d2 | comment |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite his overall clumsiness, ChapulÃn would sometimes be quite able and competent against the villains, especially when he had the use of his gadgets. | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_ac09dc0f | comment |
Alas, Poor Villain: An In-Universe example Played for Laughs. In an episode, after a villain accidentally eats a cake he himself poisoned and el ChapulÃn goes to help him, the baker cries for the villain's fate... of having to suffer El ChapulÃn's assistance. His daughter soon joins him. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_ac4ac8e5 | comment |
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Most of the time, episodes are named as if they were proverbs. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: ChapulÃn often took on this role, but sometimes others, be it victims or villains, threw in the own dose of snarking. | |
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Super Zeroes | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_b4b811ac | comment |
Super Zeroes: El ChapulÃn is a textbook example, despite always managing to come out on top. | |
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Toon Physics | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_b4f47048 | comment |
Toon Physics: Unusually for a live-action series, it's all over the place. Chroma Key was used for things like El ChapulÃn suspending himself in mid-air when trying to pull someone down, El ChapulÃn being sent to the sky with one punch (Except for his shoes, which stay on the floor), people flying, etc. | |
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People Puppets | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_b5fb096b | comment |
People Puppets: In the episode where Rubén Aguirre's character cannot control his hand movements, because of the wristwatch he is wearing. (hits ChapulÃn) "It was not me, it was my hand!" | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: 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 ChapulÃn episode had two female characters. | |
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Victoria's Secret Compartment | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_b9fc31d3 | comment |
Victoria's Secret Compartment: In "El extraño y misterioso caso del difunto que se murió" (1977), La Minina (Florinda Meza) tries to hide a key using this trope, but fails and the key falls to the floor. | |
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Spoonerism | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_c368c3ea | comment |
"Calma, que no panda el cúnico.", "Remain calm, don't let renic paign." | |
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Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_c3e4a2f0 | comment |
Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: In one story, El ChapulÃn is helping two pirates to defect and a girl offers the Captain a cup of wine while El ChapulÃn is given a drink from a similar cup. Suspecting the Captain's wine to be poisoned, he and ChapulÃn keep playing switcheroo behind each other's backs until ChapulÃn pretends to switch and the Captain ends up drinking a sleeping potion. | |
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Strong Family Resemblance | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_c5fe6c81 | comment |
Strong Family Resemblance: El ChapulÃn Colorado stated once that El Chómpiras is his cousin. Both are played by Roberto Gómez Bolaños. Subverted in the end, where it's revealed that El ChapulÃn Colorado was actually an imitator, and not the real one. | |
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Shout-Out | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Especially to Batman, the Green Hornet and El Chavo del Ocho. See Affectionate Parody above. In the Beach Episode, Carlos Villagrán's character was a madman that believed he was The Six Million Dollar Man, up to and including pretending to run in slow-motion (A fact that was lampshaded by the asylum's nurse). The two-parter "El disfraz, el antifaz y algo más" featured short sketches involving parodies of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and Jerry Lewis as well as other Chespirito characters. In the 1977 version of the episode in which a martian comes to Earth to steal some animals, the martian looks like a Star Trek character, especially in regards to his clothing. The cousins that wanted to kill their uncle for the inheritance are called Hugo, Paco and Luisa. Hugo, Paco and Luis were the names given in Spanish to Huey, Dewey, and Louie. The House Husband episode starts with him ironing and singing the first verse of "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes". The episode in which El Cuajináis pretends to be dead involves a detective called Cannon. An elderly man in his "second childhood" in one episode is pretending to be a detective from Hawaii Five-O. The Wild West episode in which a group of outlaws announce they will arrive to town and ChapulÃn tries to encourage the population into helping him, seemingly to no avail initially, was basically a Whole-Plot Reference to High Noon, with the difference that in the end the people changed their minds at the last minute and decided to help him, and defeated the outlaws. In "Prohibido tirar bombas en horas de oficina", El ChapulÃn quotes the famous American poet Corner Penalty with "Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away",note which he pronounces rather badly and mistranslates it as "Licenciados vemos, tarugos no sabemos" which is part of The Beatles song "Yesterday". In the episode where El ChapulÃn faces Adolf Hitler, both characters are played by the same actor, as in The Great Dictator. | |
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Dr. Fakenstein | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_c93d5bc3 | comment |
Dr. Fakenstein: Doctor Panchostein, who is explicitly described as "Dr. Frankestein's totonac version." | |
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Damned by Faint Praise | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_cbe3d017 | comment |
Damned by Faint Praise: The opening parodies The Adventures of Superman by saying El ChapulÃn is "faster than a turtle, stronger than a mouse, smarter than a jackass". | |
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Word of God | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_cc4b45f6 | comment |
Of a superhero series, among others. And then some: Creator Roberto Gómez Bolaños invoked indicated repeatedly that for him a real hero was somebody like the ChapulÃn, 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 ChapulÃn's heroic deeds amount to. In fact, it seemed not so much a parody than a Take That! 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. | |
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"Wanted!" Poster | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_cd336741 | comment |
"Wanted!" Poster: El ChapulÃn 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 ChapulÃn tried to appease him by ripping a piece of the poster so it reads "Lo Queremos Mucho" ("We love him/you a lot"). After ChapulÃn realized that the criminal didn't fall for the trick, ChapulÃn 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. ChapulÃn insisted it was actually a bald bearded guy... and flipped the poster upside down to prove his point. | |
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Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act | |
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Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: Averted; he actually fought Hitler in an episode. | |
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Flat-Earth Atheist | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_cf1b706e | comment |
Flat-Earth Atheist: ChapulÃn tend to always dismiss anything about ghosts, witches or other paranormal things as fantasy. Sometimes he is right, sometimes not. | |
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Vampire Episode | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_cfb7ff32 | comment |
Vampire Episode: Episode "Los hombres vampiro no saben hacer otra cosa mas que estar chupando sangre", in later seasons remade as "El Vampiro" and "El Conde Terranova". | |
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The Napoleon | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_d080f396 | comment |
The Napoleon: Half of the jokes about El ChapulÃn are about how short he is, with ChapulÃn gleefuly insulting back. | |
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Character Catchphrase | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_d308cbb0 | comment |
Character Catchphrase: Many! "¡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 characters—even when they're not the bad characters) "¡SÃganme los buenos!", "Good guys, follow me!" A variation is used by recurring Big Bad, the pirate "Alma Negra / Black Soul": "¡Siganme los malos!", "Bad guys, follow me!". One episode had a Mad Scientist saying "¡SÃganme los locos!", "Crazy people, follow me!" "Se aprovechan de mi nobleza...", "They take advantage of my nobility..." "Calma, que no panda el cúnico.", "Remain calm, don't let renic paign." "¡Mis antenitas de vinil están detectando la presencia del enemigo!", "My little vinyl antennae are detecting the enemy's presence!" His antennae also detect whenever someone asks "Y ahora...¿Quién podrá defenderme?" "And now...Who could defend me?", which prompts a variation of the catch phrase about his antennae. However, this is seldom seen as he's usually offscreen when someone asks for a defender, and the few times he's onscreen while the call happens he's stopped by somebody or something. "Lo sospeché desde un principio.", "I suspected it from the beginning.", when he's told he made a mistake or he learns about an obvious fact. "Todos mis movimientos están frÃamente calculados.", "All my movements are coldly calculated.", usually said after he has done something clumsy. This whole gag: Mad Libs Catch Phrase: After the aforementioned gag, then comes "Yo opino...", "I think that..." when he wants to express his opinion. He is always interrupted accidentally or intentionally. One gag when someone asks to do something dangerous. Sometimes it's "Sà voy..."("I'll go...") "Es exactamente lo que iba yo a decir"("That's exactly what I was about to say"), whenever someone comes up with a good suggestion. The whole set of catchphrases: usually played when ChapulÃn gets hit unconscious and gets awakened very rudely (a punch, a kick, a splash of water) and decides to say every. Single. One. Of his catchphrases in an incredibly quick speed. Super Sam has "Time is money! Oh yeah!". Whoever ChapulÃn is helping always say "¡Bravo, ChapulÃn Colorado! ¡Eres lo máximo!" ("Bravo, Red Cricket! You're the greatest!") whenever he would best the bad characters and save the day. | |
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Non-Fatal Explosions | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_d3e9483a | comment |
Non-Fatal Explosions: In the gas leak episode, two times, despite the last one causing a huge damage. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_d442f9d1 | type |
ToiletHumor | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_d442f9d1 | comment |
Toilet Humor: Implicitely, but references to farts sometimes come up, especially in the gas leak episode - in that case, it's referred as there being another gas leak. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_d848560f | comment |
Unusual Euphemism: "¡Chanfle!" (a soft swear, similar to "Holy Mackerel!" or "Crikey!") "Al fondo a la derecha", as an euphemism for bathroom. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_d8e40b47 | type |
El Spanish "-o" | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_d8e40b47 | comment |
El Spanish "-o": El ChapulÃn after encountering a Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist while helping someone to pick some sacks said "Voy a subireishon los costaleishon a la camioneishon"note He said "I'm going to put all the sacks on the truck." | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_d99a228f | type |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: In "Jamás volveré a jugar apostando dinero, y te apuesto todo lo que quieras a que cumplo", there are two people playing chess in the background during the whole episode. None of the events that happen during it, not even El ChapulÃn and El Cuajináis swordfighting with pool sticks right above the board, faze them. | |
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Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_d9d3c1f2 | comment |
Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: El ChapulÃn met one in one episode. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_db7efdaf | type |
Adolf Hitlarious | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_db7efdaf | comment |
Adolf Hitlarious: In the hour-long episode where El ChapulÃn faces Adolf Hitler, the dictator plays a war game with his staff (which he wins by dropping a bomb on the opposing figurines), goes on a rant when he finds out that what he though was a sea in a Europe map was actually Austria (and crying that it must never be painted yellow), and then realizes he sent submarines to strike on that country. It ends with Hitler accidentally killing himself and his staff after an officer sets off the Self-Destruct Button of his bunker. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_dca44146 | type |
Taking Advantage of Generosity | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_dca44146 | comment |
Taking Advantage of Generosity: One of ChapulÃn's catchphrases 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. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_dd3d1f69 | type |
Wicked Witch | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_dd3d1f69 | comment |
In a very early sketch, El ChapulÃn steals a magic wand from a stereotypical Wicked Witch and threatens to use it on her. Eventually he uses it... and turns her into a beautiful woman. | |
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Manchild | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e150c4c7 | comment |
Childish: 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. | |
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House Husband | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e2f5760 | comment |
The House Husband episode starts with him ironing and singing the first verse of "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes". | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e303d198 | type |
Whole-Plot Reference | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e303d198 | comment |
The Wild West episode in which a group of outlaws announce they will arrive to town and ChapulÃn tries to encourage the population into helping him, seemingly to no avail initially, was basically a Whole-Plot Reference to High Noon, with the difference that in the end the people changed their minds at the last minute and decided to help him, and defeated the outlaws. | |
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Manchild | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e313b4e7 | comment |
An elderly man in his "second childhood" in one episode is pretending to be a detective from Hawaii Five-O. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e3437b48 | type |
11th-Hour Superpower | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e3437b48 | comment |
Eleventh Hour Super Power: Used just once during a TV special: ChapulÃn 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 ChapulÃn proves himself the fastest of the two. ChapulÃn said he didn't like using that power but would open an exception if it'd reform a criminal. In one episode he used the ability of teleporting, which he was only shown to have at the end of one episode (aside from it being , freely during a fight. Willfully Weak? | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e3c20140 | type |
As Long as It Sounds Foreign | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e3c20140 | comment |
In "Prohibido tirar bombas en horas de oficina", El ChapulÃn quotes the famous American poet Corner Penalty with "Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away",note which he pronounces rather badly and mistranslates it as "Licenciados vemos, tarugos no sabemos" which is part of The Beatles song "Yesterday". | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e466ae41 | type |
Family-Friendly Firearms | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e466ae41 | comment |
Family-Friendly Firearms: "El Chipote Chillón", a rubber hammer. Many villains use guns and occasionally shoot, though. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e4900915 | type |
Ridiculously Human Robots | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e4900915 | comment |
Ridiculously Human Robots: A 1973 episode (remade in 1979) features a robot played by Carlos Villagrán (Rubén Aguirre, in the remake). In both cases, while the actors act like a robot to play their character, they look exactly like a human. | |
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Stripping the Scarecrow | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e56e3e0f | comment |
Stripping the Scarecrow: A thief named El Peterete goes to a farm to take revenge on the old lady who put him in prison. He switches his clothes with those of a scarecrow to confuse everyone and sneak up on them. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e61d9a3c | type |
Clothing Damage | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e61d9a3c | comment |
Clothing Damage: To ChapulÃn. Result of the last explosion in the gas leak episode. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e70127 | type |
The Mole | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e70127 | comment |
In one episode, El ChapulÃn was summoned by El Rascabuches to help him and MatoncÃsimo Kid escape from a prison owned by a man-hating woman. However, MatoncÃsimo Kid turns out to be The Mole. | |
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Brain Bleach | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e7fd5cdc | comment |
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 ChapulÃn how he freed them when Pocasteancas had eaten the key. El ChapulÃn then replies that patience is one of humanity's best virtues. The couple is NOT happy to hear that. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e83f211c | comment |
"El hombre lobo aullaba en español" starts with a woman summoning El ChapulÃn Colorado... because she was reading a werewolf story and she got scared. El ChapulÃn, generally being keen on helping anyone no matter what, calls her out on requesting his services over such a trivial problem. | |
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The Plan | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e851b5 | comment |
The Plan: El ChapulÃn elaborates one in order to defeat an extremely tiny martian, and he explains it to a scientist (Ramón Valdéz). Except not. | |
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No Man Should Have This Power | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_e888fbd8 | comment |
No Man Should Have This Power: At the very end of the Samson's wig story, once the bad guy who wants to possess the wig is defeated, the maid of the archeologist who invoked ChapulÃn's help chops up the wig in such a way that it can't be remade into a wearable hairpiece. ChapulÃn matter of factly states that it's the only way to make sure no one abuses the wig's ability to give its wearer Super-Strength and Nigh-Invulnerability, though the archeologist considers it a great loss to academia. | |
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You Are Number 6 | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_ea6f361f | comment |
You Are Number 6: Played for laughs in an episode where ChapulÃn helps a jail where all the prisoners are known by their number, and we focus on "the 24", but aside from being know only by his number, he actually has an amicable relation with the jailer, to the point that he actually leaves the cell door unlocked (it probably has to do with the fact that he is the only prisoner that hasn't escaped yet). It's implied this is the same with all prisoners, as ChapulÃn mentions a "13" (which they nicknamed the "14"). | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_eb7c34cf | type |
Crossover | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_eb7c34cf | comment |
Crossover: With El Chavo del ocho, and some other characters created by the same actor, to the point of Required Spinoff Crossover since all of them derived from the same sketch show. Also another with Topo Gigio. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_ebdbd7e7 | type |
Comically Invincible Hero | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_ebdbd7e7 | comment |
Comically Invincible Hero: In spite of his hilarious incompetence, El ChapulÃn never loses.note With the possible exception of "El maestro de los disfraces" Even when he does not defeat the villain, either someone else (such as Super Sam) saves the day, or the villain atones for his mistakes. | |
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Cultural Cross-Reference | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_edb737b2 | comment |
Cultural Cross-Reference: One episode had ChapulÃn 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 ChapulÃn, angrily saying to his daughter: "You could have called any other hero! Any other! Superman! Batman! Dick Tracy! Donald Duck!". | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_eeb4a5eb | type |
Anti-Climax | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_eeb4a5eb | comment |
Anti-Climax: In one episode, ChapulÃn 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. | |
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_ef0a5ce | comment |
Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: ChapulÃn once told an In Name Only tale of Faust, about someone who sold their 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, they used the device to make the contract vanish. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_eff83d77 | type |
Mundane Utility | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_eff83d77 | comment |
Mundane Utility: El Chavo of all people found another use for the Chiquitolina pills: Eat a regular-sized torta de jamón while reduced in size was like having a feast! "El hombre lobo aullaba en español" starts with a woman summoning El ChapulÃn Colorado... because she was reading a werewolf story and she got scared. El ChapulÃn, generally being keen on helping anyone no matter what, calls her out on requesting his services over such a trivial problem. | |
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Hat of Power | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_f00d01f8 | comment |
Hat of Power: A wig made out of Samson's hair is treated this way in several episodes. Just wearing it gives the user Super-Strength and Nigh-Invulnerability, just as removing it instantly removes those two powers. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_f10d3363 | type |
Distracted by the Sexy | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_f10d3363 | comment |
Distracted by the Sexy: In the costume party episode,note "El Disfraz, el Antifaz y Algo más" the detective claims he's following clues towards a smuggling ring when he's following a woman in a devil outfit. Turns out, she is indeed one of the smugglers. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_f273b1cb | type |
Devil in Plain Sight | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_f273b1cb | comment |
Devil in Plain Sight: Sometimes, when the character that summons El ChapulÃn does not have time (or simply forgets) to explain who is causing him/her trouble, El ChapulÃn will often be fixated in thinking the villain is an ally and viceversa, until he's finally told he got the sides switched around. In these cases, even his Vinyl Antennae usually fail to detect the proper enemy. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_f27ec906 | type |
Identical Stranger | |
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_f27ec906 | comment |
Identical Stranger: "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 ChapulÃn 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 ChapulÃn Colorado. The man one thought was El ChapulÃn Colorado in "El disfraz, el antifaz, y algo más" turns out to be an ordinary man in a costume. He looks and acts exactly like the titular hero. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_f2d51908 | type |
Evil Hand | |
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Evil Hand: Played for Laughs in an episode in which El ChapulÃn loses his right arm and has it replaced through surgery. El ChapulÃn later tries to approach the surgeon to know why his new hand acted in a very graceful and feminine way - turns out, the arm was taken from a ballerina. In the end, he has his arm replaced again, getting a chimpanzee arm. A female chimpanzee arm, to El ChapulÃn's dismay. Played straight in a ten minute sketch, that ends with this exchange: | |
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Glad I Thought of It | |
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"Es exactamente lo que iba yo a decir"("That's exactly what I was about to say"), whenever someone comes up with a good suggestion. | |
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Priceless Ming Vase | |
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Priceless Ming Vase: At the final moments of the episode "De noche todos los gatos hacen miau" (All cats meow at nightnote It is a pun for "All cats are grey at night"), ChapulÃn finds the noisy cat, that did not let people sleep, inside an expensive vase. Then ChapulÃn pets the cat and drops the vase. | |
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Gold Digger | |
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Gold Digger: In "La romántica historia de Juleo y Rumieta", Juleo asks El ChapulÃn if Rumieta only wants to marry him because she knows he won 25 million pesos in the lottery. El ChapulÃn reassures him that she'd marry him even if he got 25 million pesos through work. | |
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Economy Cast | |
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Economy Cast: Just like with El Chavo, while in most episodes all the charaters but Chapúlin are supposed to be completly different, they are always played by the same group of 4-10 actors. | |
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Stop Trick | |
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Stop Trick: Generally used to display magic, and it was shown very extensively in "La sortija de la bruja" for the spells caused by the ring. It is particularly noticeable as the shot angle is a little different between the two sections of the episode. | |
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Faking the Dead | |
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Faking the Dead: El Cuajináis and El Tripaseca tried to do this so that they could commit crimes with no one casting suspicion on them. The first time involved putting an asleep ChapulÃn Colorado into the coffin, and the second time involved a wax statue. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Too many to mention but the most noteworthy are: The typical episode would go like this: Right after the introduction, ChapulÃn would sometimes trip and break something, he would be asked if he's alright to which he says "of course, all my movements are coldly calculated". The person who invoked him, would tell him someone is causing problems, ChapulÃn would say his vinyl antenna are detecting the enemy, ChapulÃn attacks him, while also unknowingly helping the antagonist, and this would go on until someone informs ChapulÃn of his mistake. Someone gives ChapulÃn a description, but he leaves out the final syllable, and the other person finishes it. For example: Episodes titles either rhyme, are alliterative, or are very long. Individual episodes also often have their own running gags: In the Chespirito hourlong episode revolving around Samson's wig, the archeologist would be asked a question and the exchange would something like this: The only one who doesn't fall for that trap is the maid because either someone interrupts the archeologist, or because she decides not to ask a question. In one version of the Volatile Extract Energy story, all of the main cast comprising of ChapulÃn, the Sheriff, Profesor Inventillo, the person who inadvertently sent his house flying, their 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. | |
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Rhymes on a Dime | |
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Rhymes on a Dime: "La historia de Don Juan Tenorio", an entire episode where the entire cast is speaking in rhymes. | |
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Swallow the Key | |
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Swallow the Key: When Alma Negra imprisoned ChapulÃn 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 the flaw with his plan. 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 ChapulÃn how he freed them when Pocasteancas had eaten the key. El ChapulÃn then replies that patience is one of humanity's best virtues. The couple is NOT happy to hear that. | |
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Styrofoam Rocks | |
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Styrofoam Rocks: Rocks, chairs, tables... The whole set! In the Beach Episode, where El ChapulÃn helps a production crew of a film about himself, this trope was invoked and Played for Laughs in a more literal by one of the actors (Played by Ramón Valdéz), explaining a fan (MarÃa 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 tries to step on the rock to reach the doll. Yet again, later, when the actor holds the rock in one hand for a photo, El ChapulÃn mistakes him for a madman that believes he's The Six Million Dollar Man, and tries to defeat him. Styrofoam props were actually used to showcase the main property of the potential weakener - making items incredibly fragile. | |
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Bragging Theme Tune | |
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Bragging Theme Tune: There is an extended version of his theme tune sung by Chespirito himself. In it, there's even a lyric where it says that Tarzan and Kalimán admire him and Batman and Superman ask forgiveness when facing him. | |
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