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78-403: The Russ Abbot Show is a British television sketch comedy series which in 1980 onwards stars Russ Abbot and ran for 17 years on television before moving over to Radio 2 for a further five years. The series originated as The Freddie Starr Variety Madhouse ; with Russ Abbot, Mike Newman, Toni Palmer, Norman Collier and Bella Emberg . After one series in 1979, Freddie Starr left and the show

156-547: A barber shop (where Don Ramón worked at one point), and the sidewalk located at the entrance of the vecindad. Three episodes were filmed in Acapulco , which also served as a vacation for the entire cast. In 1992, the last El Chavo sketches were filmed in Profesor Jirafales' classroom. The last sketch for El Chavo was a 1992 remake of "Clases de Inglés" (English Classes). In the series many objects are used as symbols of either

234-530: A cast of recurring characters. In North America , contemporary sketch comedy is largely an outgrowth of the improvisational comedy scene that flourished during the 1970s, largely growing out of The Second City in Chicago and Toronto , which was built upon the success in Minneapolis of The Brave New Workshop and Dudley Riggs . Notable contemporary American stage sketch comedy groups include The Second City,

312-616: A few months before Bolaños' death. El Chavo continues to be popular with syndicated episodes averaging 91 million daily viewers in all of the markets where it is distributed in the Americas . Since it ceased production in 1992, it has earned an estimated US$ 1.7 billion in syndication fees alone for Televisa. El Chavo was also available on Netflix in the United States, but was removed on December 31, 2019. The titular character, El Chavo (meaning "the kid or "the boy"), whose real name

390-471: A four year absence. Both shows would be returning to Univision and UniMas and stream on Vix beginning on September 21, 2024 for Univision and two days later for UniMas. The show would return to Las Estrellas in Mexico a month later. Later in 1980, Gomez Bolaños returned with a revived version of Chespirito featuring El Chavo, El Chapulín Colorado and other characters. The debut of El Chavo in this program

468-540: A la vecindad del Chavo" , were distributed, also in LP format, with songs from El Chapulín Colorado and El Chavo . In 1981, the LP record " El Chavo canta Eso, eso, eso...!" came out, with 10 tracks in total, distributed by PolyGram . Over a decade later, in 1992, the first CD with the series music was commercialized in following sequence, such as " Así cantamos y vacilamos en la vecindad del Chavo" (2000) and " Así cantamos y vacilamos en la vecindad del Chavo volumen 2" (2007), in

546-611: A larger programme. In Britain , it moved to stage performances by Cambridge Footlights , such as Beyond the Fringe and A Clump of Plinths (which evolved into Cambridge Circus ), to radio, with such shows as It's That Man Again and I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again , then to television, with such shows as Not Only... But Also , Monty Python's Flying Circus , Not the Nine O'Clock News (and its successor Alas Smith and Jones ), and A Bit of Fry and Laurie . An early, perhaps

624-539: A loyal reflection of the social reality of Latin America: people of low social class, unemployed, single parents, that in spite of all the problems, manage to move on with hope, good humor, loyalty, and friendship." Brendan Koerner, from the American online magazine Slate , compared the series style, practically staged on one set (the vecindad), with the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1967). He also commented that

702-417: A number of spinoff films, including The Blues Brothers (1980), Wayne's World (1992) and Superstar (1999). The idea of running characters was taken a step further with shows like The Red Green Show and The League of Gentlemen , where sketches centered on the various inhabitants of the fictional towns of Possum Lake and Royston Vasey , respectively. In Little Britain , sketches focused on

780-400: A party hosted by Aguirre. Villagrán did a comedy step where he blew his cheeks out of proportion, and Aguirre told Roberto Gómez Bolaños about his friend's hidden talent. Villagrán was promptly hired for the show. María Antonieta de las Nieves was a voice-over only actress who used to go to Televisa to make announcements. Upon hearing her voice, Roberto Gómez Bolaños thought she was perfect for

858-503: A really impressive harmony" the characters and their situations, especially those relating to friendship and betrayal. In 2010, Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa expressed that El Chavo is "the best TV show" and praised the script, the characters, and the actor's abilities, especially Villagrán's as Quico. Due to the type of humor, it is considered the preceding show of double meaning in Latin America . Like Ramírez, Ruth Rocha ,

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936-516: A script for an adapted film of El Chapulin Colorado or El Chavo del Ocho. Gómez Bolaños denied this request due to his belief that El Chavo was uniquely developed in the vecindad and therefore would find it difficult to provide a new storyline that would be relevant with what has already been shown in the series. In its place, they produced El Chanfle , which used the same cast as El Chavo del Ocho . In this movie, Villagrán also appeared, even though he

1014-515: A skit in 1971. On January 8, 1973, Telesistema Mexicano and Televisión Independiente de México merged to become Televisa . After the merger, on February 26, 1973, El Chavo del Ocho premiered as a half-hour weekly television series. The first two episodes of the main character were intercut with a skit at the start that included Dr. Chapatín, El Chómpiras, or another character created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños. In reality, those were sketches shot in 1972–1973, most likely intended for "Chespirito,"

1092-447: A toll and they stopped communicating. Direction and production fell into the hands of Carmen Ochoa and Enrique Segoviano , whom had previously worked with Gómez Bolaños on the series Chespirito. In some episodes, Gómez Bolaños appears listed in the credits as the scene director, alongside Segoviano. Mary Cabañas, Tere de la Cueva, Ersilia Anderlini and Norma Gutiérrez were Ochoa's and the production team's assistants. Luis Felipe Macías

1170-405: A writer from Brazil, emphasized the universal theme from a perspective that is "incredibly childlike". Furthermore, she noted that "what we see in the kids, animated, but real children in the manner of their relationships, reactions and expressions [...] we can not only see a Mexican kid, but a kid who could be Brazilian, Argentinian, or Chinese, what we see is a child who reminds us we once were too"

1248-522: Is Don Ramón, who never pays his rent and either hides from Señor Barriga until he leaves or uses trickery to waive the payment for later. El Chavo likes to "hide" in a wooden barrel located in the neighborhood 's main courtyard, especially after getting into a disagreement where he ends up getting scolded, and otherwise is usually accompanied by his friends: Quico, Doña Florinda's spoiled, dim-witted and arrogant son, and Chilindrina, Don Ramón's shrewd and mischievous bespectacled daughter. Non-residents who visit

1326-441: Is a rendition of Ludwig van Beethoven 's Turkish March , rearranged by Jean-Jacques Perrey and retitled “The Elephant Never Forgets”. A poor orphan known as " El Chavo " (meaning "The Kid" or "The Boy"), played by the show's creator, Roberto Gómez Bolaños (Chespirito) , is the main character of the series. It chronicles his adventures and tribulations, and those of his friends, frequently leading to comedic confrontations among

1404-518: Is never revealed, is an eight-year-old orphan boy who lives in a neighborhood where he and several other characters, both residents and non-residents, interact with each other on a daily basis. The neighborhood is owned by the fat and wealthy Señor Barriga (Spanish for "Mr. Belly"), who is often seen in the neighborhood to collect the monthly rent from his residents. His best tenants are the widow Doña Florinda (Ms. Florinda) and Doña Clotilde (Ms. Clotilde), who pay every month on time, and his worst tenant

1482-453: Is not copyrighted in Argentina). María Antonieta de las Nieves , however, won a court battle against Gómez Bolaños for the right to appear in Mexico as la Chilindrina. Nonetheless, in 2012, after a long judicial battle, de las Nieves retired her character. She declared that a long judicial battle against Bolaños ruined her career and that her public image was tarnished, which "burned" her name in

1560-592: The Upright Citizens Brigade , and The Groundlings . In South Bend, Indiana , area high school students produced a sketch comedy series called Beyond Our Control that aired on the local NBC affiliate WNDU-TV from 1967 to 1986. Warner Bros. Animation made two sketch comedy shows, Mad and Right Now Kapow . Australian television of the '80s and '90s featured several successful sketch comedy shows, notably The Comedy Company , whose recurring characters included Col'n Carpenter , Kylie Mole and Con

1638-401: The neighborhood regularly include Señor Barriga and his equally fat son Ñoño, Profesor Jirafales, the tall, cultured and elegant teacher of a nearby school that the children attend, and Popis, a stuck up girl who speaks nasally. Each episode uses comedic strategies, such as slapstick , irony , recurring jokes, and funny situations in which the characters are usually getting into. It includes

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1716-449: The 1970s, several TV stations have repeated it. El Chavo is also highly popular in Brazil, where it has been dubbed into Portuguese with the name of Chaves , broadcast by SBT ; historically, since its premiere, the show has repeatedly recorded the first audience place at all time-slots in which it was broadcast. The main reasons for the immediate success of the program is the similarity between

1794-486: The Fruiterer . An early British example is the influential The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959). Sketch films made during the 1970s and 1980s include If You Don't Stop It... You'll Go Blind and the sequel Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses? , The Groove Tube , Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) , The Kentucky Fried Movie and its sequel Amazon Women on

1872-477: The Hispanic population in the United States watches El Chavo del Ocho mainly due to " nostalgia " which entails watching Mexican productions in a country different from their own. He noted in his reporting that the show keeps being successful due to being transmitted generation after generation. Similar to his opinion, Carolina Sanín , who wrote for Semana opinión (former Revista Arcadia ), mentioned that thanks to

1950-586: The Moon , and Monty Python 's And Now for Something Completely Different and The Meaning of Life . More recent sketch films include The Underground Comedy Movie , InAPPropriate Comedy , Movie 43 and Livrés chez vous sans contact . Many of the sketch comedy revues in Britain included seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival . Since 1999, the growing sketch comedy scene has precipitated

2028-693: The Right», originally composed for the animated movie Peter Pan , « Funeral March », written by Frédéric Chopin , «Miss Lilly Higgins Sings Shimmy In Mississippi's Spring» by Argentinian band Les Luthiers , « Minnie's Yoo Hoo » from Disney , «Gonna Fly Now» from Rocky , among others. In 1977, Polydor Records , subsidiary of Universal Music , distributed the LP record "Así cantamos y vacilamos en la vecindad del Chavo" [Like this we sing and play in El Chavo's neighborhood], with songs that were incorporated in some episodes of

2106-430: The United States that many of the phrases El Chavo and his friends used have become part of the vernacular of countries like Peru, Uruguay, and Argentina. "Chespirito" has established legal battles with former El Chavo del Ocho actors out of a desire to prevent them from using the show's characters in Mexico without his permission. Villagrán moved to Argentina in order to use his character's name on his shows ( Chespirito

2184-431: The age of 63, Chespirito retired the El Chavo character from his show (he did the same thing to El Chapulin Colorado one year later). In 1978, Villagrán left the show to start his own with Quico, with the permission of Gómez Bolaños. Within some time, he felt that the character's rights were his and sued Gómez Bolaños. The results of the lawsuit were favorable to the show's creator. Later on, Villagrán admitted that his exit

2262-447: The broadcast of the series in their services due to deadlocks between Televisa and Grupo Chespirito, which owns the characters and the scripts for the episodes. Grupo Televisa is currently in talks with several studios to distribute past and future projects, including El Chavo . On September 7, 2024, it was announced by Florinda Meza on Twitter/X that El Chavo del Ocho and El Chapulín Colorado would be returning to television after

2340-447: The canceled sitcom. Following a few of those early seasons, the show started with an almost thirty-minute episode that was preceded by a sketch featuring Roberto Gómez Bolaños and his characters. This was the format of the first season. Due to her pregnancy, María Antonieta de las Nieves departed the show at the end of the first season. It was observed that De Las Nieves, who was the first actor credited after Chespirito, primarily played

2418-502: The cast in 1981, he made his television series debut with Villagrán in Federrico in 1982. He collaborated with him again in ¡Ah qué Kiko! , which came out in 1988, six years later. Valdés was diagnosed with stomach cancer at this period, which put his health at risk. He died on August 9 during that year. In 2002, Gómez Bolaños sued De las Nieves due to disagreements over rights to La Chilindrina. In 1995, De las Nieves recorded herself as

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2496-463: The character on another Televisa show. Gómez Bolaños denied his consent due to Villagrán denying his authorship in creating Quico. Due to this, Azcárraga Milmo opted to cancel the independent project for Quico. Regardless, Villagrán continued to use Quico's character in Venezuela in 1981 in the show Federrico . In that time, producers Valentín Pimstein and Fabián Arnaud asked Gómez Bolaños to write

2574-491: The characters or of the neighborhood itself. The most iconic of these was the wooden barrel near the entrance of the neighborhood. This was El Chavo "secret hiding place", and most of the characters were unaware that he had an apartment where he lived. A running gag about this is that they believed this was El Chavo's actual residence, which El Chavo was quick to clarify. Other symbols in the series include Quico's ball and other toys , lollipops and balloons which represented

2652-516: The children, Don Ramón's cap , Doña Florinda's curls, Profesor Jirafales's cigar , the flowers of the budding romance of the latter two, Doña Clotilde's broom , etc. By 1971, Roberto Gómez Bolaños was already well known in Mexico for his self-titled sketch comedy show, Chespirito, which was produced by Televisión Independiente de México and aired on XHTIM-TV, channel 8 (now XEQ-TV channel 9, Gala TV ). He had already introduced El Chapulín Colorado and other characters. The first drawing of

2730-460: The closing sequence, the credits only feature the production team responsible for the respective episode, with the last scene being of them or a related image, along with the musical theme used in the opening. In its first moment, music in El Chavo del Ocho was conducted by Ángel Álvarez, Luis A. Diazayas, René Tirado, and later, by Alejandro García. In some episodes, melodies were used to emphasize certain scenes. Among these are «The Second Star to

2808-406: The comic child characters and Don Ramón as the charismatic adult character. During that season, the classroom scenes began to appear, alongside other child characters like Ñoño (the son of Señor Barriga, both characters played by Edgar Vivar ), Popis (one of Florinda Meza's other characters), and the relaxed Godínez (played by Horacio Gómez Bolaños , brother of Roberto Gómez Bolaños). De las Nieves

2886-653: The development of sketch comedy festivals in cities all around North America. Noted festivals include: El Chavo del Ocho El Chavo ("The Kid" or "The Boy", Spanish chavo also meaning " cent "), also known as El Chavo del Ocho ("The Kid/Boy from Number Eight") during its earliest episodes, is a Mexican television sitcom series created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños (Chespirito) and produced by Televisa . It premiered on February 26, 1973 and ended on January 7, 1980, after 8 seasons and 312 episodes, and aired across Latin America and Spain . The series theme song

2964-421: The episodes. Surrounding it are the homes of Doña Florinda and Quico in #14, Doña Clotilde in #71, and Don Ramón and Chilindrina in #72, and from 1982 onwards Jaimito "El Cartero", who lives up the stairs in #23. The hallway on the right between #71 and #72 leads "the other courtyard", which at times has a fountain in the middle. On the street facade at the left, a corner store and a barber shop are shown adjacent to

3042-439: The familiar by presenting "isolated characters, and adults who are frequently made fun of by the kids" and that it involves blank comedy. She added that the dialogue "lazy and tasteless" and that the show appeared comparable to The Simpsons, She said that although "presenting one of the possible reflections of society... but minimizes social issues,". Furthermore, other writers have incorporated prejudice and acts of hostility against

3120-655: The female protagonists in the episodes of the first season, including those shot in 1972–1973. When Florinda Meza filled in for her, El Chavo and Quico developed into a fantastic comedy duo for the non-Chavo del 8 sketches. While de las Nieves was not a part of the series, there was a contention that Chilindrina was residing in Celaya, Guanajuato, with her aunts. the character made a comeback in an episode dedicated to her: El Regreso de la Chilindrina. During this absence, Bolaños introduced new characters: Ñoño, La Popis, Malicha, and Godínez. The second season began with El Chavo and Quico as

3198-460: The final television series in 1996, the series moved to BBC Radio 2 for 50 episodes from November 1997 to February 2002. The series showcased Abbot's talents as an all round entertainer and included characters such as Basildon Bond, a James Bond parody; 'Cooperman', a cross between Tommy Cooper and Superman ; and C.U. Jimmy, a virtually unintelligible, red-headed, kilt-wearing Scotsman. The programme attracted millions of viewers weekly. The show

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3276-548: The first, televised example of a sketch comedy show is Texaco Star Theater aka The Milton Berle Show 1948–1967, hosted by Milton Berle . In Mexico, the series Los Supergenios de la Mesa Cuadrada , created by Mexican comedian Roberto Gómez Bolaños under the stage name Chespirito , was broadcast between 1968 and 1973, creating such famous characters as El Chavo del Ocho and El Chapulín Colorado . While separate sketches historically have tended to be unrelated, more recent groups have introduced overarching themes that connect

3354-450: The market. Currently, the only cast members who did not sue Bolaños were Édgar Vivar, who retired his character after bariatric surgery, and Bolaños' wife, Florinda Meza. El Chavo rapidly became the most successful show on Channel 8, being one of the few to best the viewing quota from Channel 2 in its time. In the beginning, the series was considered "vulgar", even though it counted with a "good dramatic structure". Aguirre mentioned that it

3432-669: The mid 1970s, the show was averaging 350 million Latin American viewers per episode, leading the cast to global tours and public performances. Chaves, a Brazilian Portuguese dub, has been broadcast by Brazilian TV Network SBT since 1984, and has been featured on Brazilian versions of Cartoon Network , Boomerang and Multishow , and in the United States it has aired on UniMás since May 2, 2011, following its previous airing on Univision and Spanish International Network. The series spawned an animated version titled El Chavo Animado , which aired from October 21, 2006 to June 6, 2014, just

3510-484: The neighborhood's entry. El Chavo was filmed in a fictitious neighborhood set at studios 2, 5 and 8 of Televisa San Angel in Mexico City . In the later seasons, sometimes an unnamed park was shown. Several episodes are set in Profesor Jirafales's classroom, where he teaches; all the child characters in the sitcom attend the same classroom, sometimes with their parents. Others are set inside Doña Florinda's restaurant,

3588-414: The opening sequence, De las Nieves was the first in charge of the presentation during the first two seasons (1972 and 1973), then Meza was left in charge when De las Nieves left, since the end of 1973 into beginning of 1974. Previously, in 1974, Jorge Gutiérrez Zamora becomes the one in charge of the presentation. His first presentation was in the episode "El billete de lotería" [The lottery ticket]. Gutiérrez

3666-462: The other residents of a fictional low-income housing complex, or "neighborhood," as it is known in Mexico. Chespirito, produced by Televisión Independiente de México (TIM), debuted El Chavo as a skit in 1972. Produced by Televisa , it began as a weekly half-hour series in 1973 after Telesistema Mexicano and TIM merged. The show continued until 1980 when it became a segment of Chespirito. Up until 1992, Chespirito exhibited shorts after that year. In

3744-412: The owner of the author's rights, to which Gómez Bolaños responded that he was the owner of the character being the creator. De las Nieves was not involved in the recording of the animated series El Chavo del Ocho , and was replaced by Ñoño and Popis. In 2013, De las Nieves won the lawsuit and kept author rights over La Chilindrina. Due to this dispute, Gómez Bolaños and De las Nieves's friendship took

3822-412: The physical stereotypes of certain characters, such becoming a target of criticism. El Chavo always hits Señor Barriga in this way. In addition, the other characters' frequent ridicule of him as a result of his weight. Popis, known for her nasally voice, once caused a parent to act nonconformistally. The parent claimed during one of the cast's tours that Popis' speech was a sarcastic poke at children who had

3900-414: The present, sighing wistfully, then pulling out a cup-and-ball (the only toy he had ever had on a regular basis) made of a stick, a tin can, and a piece of string. He begins to play with it as the camera slowly fades out. Some episodes also have educational endings, teaching, for example, that it is good to take a shower and to not judge a book by its cover. The central courtyard is the setting for most of

3978-537: The same format. The program has been translated into over 50 languages after airing in many countries, making it the most translated Latin American program in history. It is the most watched sitcom in Mexican television history, with 324 episodes and 316 sketches in the 1980s Chespirito show (the 1,300 episode count that is often cited is incorrect because it includes all of the episodes of El Chavo, El Chapulín, Los Caquitos, Los Chifladitos, and other Chespirito series). Since

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4056-437: The same issue. In spite of the previous critics, there were those who praised the content of the show. For Chilean editor of the diary El Mercurio , Paulo Ramírez: "El Chavo is one of the characters and one of those series that is eternal"; in his analysis, he made emphasis that, in spite of being a Mexican series, it contained "universal situations", and recognized the popularity due to whichever spectator could identify "with

4134-401: The scene had to 'cut'. Gómez Bolaños approached him, asked him if he was Vivar, and told him that they would not be using an earpiece, to which Vivar responded that he didn't know what he was talking about. He hired him on the spot. Roberto Gómez Bolaños recruited Ramón Valdés because he had known Valdés for years and had seen multiple movies Valdés had made. Then, Rubén Aguirre was cast in

4212-544: The series was transferred over to the BBC, where it was renamed The Russ Abbot Show , and featured Dennis, Emberg, Hewson, Holland, Suzi Aitchison , Tom Bright, Maggie Moone , Paul Shearer , and Lisa Maxwell . In 1991 allegedly the BBC was heard to announce at the Montreux Television Festival that Abbot no longer represented what the audience wanted to see on their screens and the series transferred to ITV . After

4290-441: The series. The record has 10 tracks in total, with a duration of little over a half hour. Among them is the song «La vecindad del Chavo» [Chavo's neighborhood] (also known as «Qué bonita vecindad» [What a lovely neighborhood]), which went on to be one of the musical themes which the series would be associated with, after the melody was used as the opening sequence. Three years later, in 1980, another 3 records named " Síganme los buenos

4368-419: The show as the character of "Profesor Jirafales". Aguirre and Roberto Gómez Bolaños had been working on scripts together for years, and Aguirre had already been playing the character of Profesor Jirafales on another Chespirito show, Supergenios de la Mesa Cuadrada , which spoofed current events panel discussion. Carlos Villagrán just happened to be a friend of Aguirre who was a newspaper reporter, and he went to

4446-444: The show, created by Gómez Bolaños, premiered on June 20, 1971, and depicted an 8-year-old child competing with a balloon seller in a park. Character development was given a lot of attention in the program, and each character was given a unique personality. Even though the program was about adults interpreting children, Gómez Bolaños made the decision from the start that El Chavo would be aimed at an adult audience. Roberto Gómez Bolaños

4524-588: The show, it was explained that Quico had gone to live with his rich grandmother. "He couldn't stand the riffraff anymore", Doña Florinda explained. Not long after, Ramón Valdés also left the series. Chilindrina explained that Don Ramón left the city to look for a job and that he wouldn't return until he was a millionaire. With the loss of two of its major supporting characters, the ratings for the show slid and Televisa cancelled El Chavo on January 7, 1980. On August 1, 2020, all broadcasters showing El Chavo and other shows by Chespirito in several countries had to suspend

4602-402: The show. At first, she refused by telling him she was not a comedy actress, but Roberto Gómez Bolaños's retort challenged her: "Then you're not a good actress: there are no dramatic or comic actors—there are only actors." The last additions to the show were Angelines Fernández , a former film actress and Horacio Gómez Bolaños , Roberto's younger brother who had never considered acting before; he

4680-747: The sketches within a particular show with recurring characters that return for more than one appearance. Examples of recurring characters include Mr. Gumby from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; Ted and Ralph from The Fast Show ; The Family from The Carol Burnett Show ; the Head Crusher from The Kids in the Hall ; Martin Short 's Ed Grimley , a recurring character from both SCTV and Saturday Night Live ; The Nerd from Robot Chicken ; and Kevin and Perry from Harry Enfield and Chums . Recurring characters from Saturday Night Live have notably been featured in

4758-575: The social realities and the culture of Brazil and Mexico, which added to the ease of adaptation of the dialogue and jokes between Spanish and Portuguese. In the United States, the show is still shown on UniMás and Galavisión as of 2012. The show in the United States is consistently the No. 1-rated Spanish-language cable program. The show was so popular in Latin America and among the Spanish speaking community of

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4836-466: The use of pre-recorded laughter tracks to emphasize comic scenes. The sitcom explores, in a comical manner, the problems that many homeless children face on a daily basis, such as hunger, sadness, loneliness, and a lack of adult supervision and attention. On one episode, for example, Chavo was sitting on the stairsteps of the vecindad at night, dreaming of all the toys he wished that he could have and how he'd play with them. It ended with him returning to

4914-454: The vecindad visits Acapulco. Some sources state that this episode was the only one where the whole cast was filmed together. Costumes were provided by Casa Tostado, located in Mexico City , which specializes in customized designs. The song used in the title sequence of El Chavo del Ocho is "The elephant never forgets" composed by Jean-Jacques Perrey in 1970. This melody is based on Ludwig van Beethoven 's Turkish March Op. 113. In

4992-451: Was an incorrect prejudice on their part. Violence has been criticized as one of the show's themes. In 2008, a survey in Ecuador comprising over 1400 parents and children concluded that Don Ramón's blows to the neighborhood kids and Doña Florinda's slaps to him are a bad influence on the younger audience. In the Spanish journal Sphera Pública, Patricia Ávila Muñoz found that it is distinct from

5070-451: Was another factor contributing to the radical success. Likewise, Joaquín Bode observed in his review on Veintemundos.com that the show's appeal to viewers worldwide stems from its ability to "reflect the way of being and living of the Latinos very well; but also the unforgettable and loved characters, where they live, and their moral and religious aspects were part of a common identity [...] it's

5148-537: Was auspicious, with a wealth of new episodes being produced. Moreover, in 1981, Valdés joined Chespirito after starring in some unsuccessful shows alongside Villagrán. However, he left again at the end of the year. The number of new episodes started to decline in the late 1980s and early 1990s, so once again, many early episodes were remade. Eventually, Chespirito's age began to catch up with him and it became harder for him to adequately portray some of his characters, especially El Chavo and El Chapulin Colorado. In 1992, at

5226-422: Was distanced from his fellow cast mates. Valdés resigned from El Chavo afterwards, in 1979, citing personal reasons. Because of this, Chespirito hired Raúl Chato Padilla to integrate into the vecindad in 1980, but Chespirito did not want to replace Don Ramón. Instead, Padilla would play a brand-new character named Jaimito el Cartero , who served as Don Ramón's stand-in in various ways. Although Valdés returned to

5304-419: Was due to jealousy and envy between his character's and El Chavo. According to Vivar, Chespirito was accustomed to write all the best jokes in the show for Quico, whom he knew was very popular with the audience. Regardless of his conflict with Chespirito, Villagrán recorded his last episodes with his cast mates in 1978 with what seemed typical normalcy. Once he abandoned El Chavo del Ocho , Villagrán wanted to use

5382-420: Was given "distinctive" last billing when she returned in 1975. After Villagrán and Valdés left in 1978 and 1979 respectively, she was moved to top billing after Chespirito again. On the hour-long "Chespirito", De las Nieves was often given third billing behind Chespirito and Florinda Meza if playing another character besides Chilindrina, otherwise she always got the special final credit. When Carlos Villagrán left

5460-711: Was in charge of production, Saltiel Peláez was responsible for the forum where episodes were filmed, and Gabriel Vázquez was the camera director. At once, there were up to three cameramen to record a single episode; among them, were Andrés H. Salinas, José M. Carrillo, Jaime Sánchez and Armando Soto. The scenography was the responsibility of Julio Lattuf (in episodes from 1976 and 1977), of Gabriel Bernal (in 1977 and 1978) and of Alicia Cázares (in 1979), while Leopoldo Sánchez and Alberto García were in charge. Episodes were recorded in Forum 8 and 5 of Televisa San Ángel, although there were some exceptions where they were filmed outside, such as when

5538-400: Was in charge until 1979, who was preceded in that same year by Aguirre until the last episode as an independent series in 1980, including in the first years of the series Chespirito (between 1980 and 1981). In 1983, Gabriel Fernández, De las Nieves's husband, acted as the narrator who presents the stellar cast. His first presentation was the episode in which Valdés returns to the show. Regarding

5616-505: Was one of those shows that allowed them to do so. For Valerio Fuenzalida Fernández, from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile , many adults "have in general enormous difficulty to value humor television programs for children, under the prejudice that humor would be a useless and irrelevant distraction, therefore a waste of time" and would therefore prefer kids to be invested in watching educative shows, which he believed

5694-431: Was originally to oversee the show's marketing. The first El Chavo sketch was broadcast in 1971 and there is little information about that time, but possibly premiered on June 20, since El Chavo was created to replace the sketch Los Chifladitos, in which Chespirito and Rubén Aguirre played two madmen, Chaparrón Bonaparte and Lucas Tañeda. As Rubén Aguirre had left the program, the sketch needed to be replaced and that

5772-608: Was popular amongst younger viewers, prompting two annuals to be published in 1982 and 1983. The annuals featured comic strips based on popular characters Abbot had created in the various series of the show. It was also notable for its "Tears of laughter" theme song, which played at the start and end of the show. The stop-motion animated titles were produced by 3 Peach Animation. Eight series were made of The Russ Abbot Show, between 1986 and 1996. Sketch comedy Sketch comedy has its origins in vaudeville and music hall , where many brief humorous acts were strung together to form

5850-534: Was qualified as "trash, stupid content". In Colombia, the government sought to forbid the distribution of the series due to their belief of it being "dehumanizing", while in Brazil some executives from the SBT chain qualified it as "not recommendable" for distribution. Even though Gómez Bolaños declared that the show was not intended for children as an audience, there are studies that children prefer to view shows that allow "them to relax through laughter", and El Chavo del Ocho

5928-567: Was repackaged as Russ Abbot's Madhouse premiering on 12 April 1980, with Liz Smith , Dustin Gee , Nicky Croydon and Billy Hartman joining the cast. From the 1981 series there was a major cast upheaval, with many of the cast being replaced, with the new lineup being Dustin Gee, Bella Emberg , Susie Blake , Sherrie Hewson , Jeffrey Holland , Patti Gold, and Michael Barrymore . Les Dennis joined in Series 3 and Michael Barrymore left in Series 4. In 1986

6006-408: Was the show's main creator and star. He called Florinda Meza to act in the show first; Chespirito and Meza later married. Édgar Vivar was the second actor chosen for the show. A mutual friend recommended Vivar to Gómez Bolaños when he started casting. Gómez Bolaños cited Vivar at Forum 8 at Telesistema Mexicano – where shooting was taking place. Vivar showed up as a scene was shooting; he laughed and

6084-426: Was when Chespirito created El Chavo Del Ocho. Several "Chavo" sketches produced before the start of the half-hour series were grouped into half-hour segments and are shown before the "official" half-hour episodes in syndication. Many of these were also re-written and re-shot as half-hour long shows later in the show's life. TV show Chespirito, created by Televisión Independiente de México (TIM), debuted El Chavo as

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