History Series / Chespirito

* HistoricalLongevityJoke: OncePerEpisode. Someone will always make a comment about his age, and the doctor would angrily ask if they are implying that he is old. The man would deny it, [[DistinctionWithoutADifference just to make a worse comment about his age]].

--> '''Dr. Chapatín:''' Are you implying I'm an old man?\\

** Dr. Chapatin was basically Chespirito's version of Tyrone F. Horneigh, the old man from ''Series/RowanAndMartinsLaughIn''. In fact, some of Dr. Chapatin's skits featured a character similar to Gladys Ormphby, another character from Tyrone's skits.

* YoungerThanHeLooks: In one skit, Dr. Chapatín claims to be 36. In another, he says his grandmother died recently. Dr. Chapatín looks no different from an old man.

* ToiletHumor: Chespirito was never above the occasional fart, pee, or poop joke in all of his characters' series. However, he really took this trope as far as he could in the movie ''Música de viento'' (Wind Music), where Chespirito played a man who let out [[{{Gasshole}} a blast of flatulence]] whenever he saw a gun, in real life or even on TV.

* InsultFriendlyFire: In a sketch where Doña Nachita acuses Chompiras of stealing her earings has Licensiado Luna LampShade this dialougue:

Chespirito ran for twenty-plus years, in one form or another, with most of the cast remaining for the entire time. Unfortunately, two cast members -- Ramón Valdés and Carlos Villagrán -- dropped out after having disagreements with the star. Many fans regard this as a JumpTheShark moment, since they played some of the best-loved characters on the show. Still, the show managed to go on for more than a decade without them, gradually relying more on sketches that didn't feature them.

--> '''Nurse:''' ''(Talking on the phone)'' Hello, mental hospital. Oh yes doctor, I'm just about finished with Chaparrón's medical examination. Yes, I finished examining Lucas Tañeda. Improved? No doctor, I think it's the complete opposite.
* GotVolunteered: In one skit, Chaparrón and Lucas Tañeda, are in the middle of a war (actually they wondered onto a construction cite, but because of their [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} mental]] [[InsaneTrollLogic faculties]] believed they were at war), and when Lucas asks for a volunteer to go and give "the enemy" an ultimaum to take two steps forward, he takes to steps back, and congratulates Chaparrón on his bravery.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: During the first seasons, it was often stated that El Chómpiras and El Peterete were part of a larger criminal organization (merely described as "the syndicate") that had the likes of ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'' recurring villain El Cuajináis among their members. Later on, the show essentially drops this matter and makes it look like El Chómpiras and El Peterete work independently, with the latter as their leader.

* AscendedExtra: In the early years, Los Caquitos appeared as an "entremés", a short sketch shown at the beginning of a Chavo or Chapulín episode. By the mid-80s, Chespirito began to pivot away from Chavo and Chapulín towards less physically-demanding sketches. Los Caquitos had the most-developed cast of characters, and could most easily carry hour-long storylines. Because of that, Los Caquitos dominated the later years of the series, particularly after Chavo and Chapulín were retired.

* EvenEvilHasStandards

* GreaterScoopVillainy:

** The Cuajináis, which is a dangerous criminal who is much more influential and dangerous than our protagonists.

* GreaterScooperVillainy:

** The Cuajinais, which is a dangerous criminal who is much more influential and dangerous than our protagonists.

Chespirito is a sketch-comedy series named after Roberto Gómez Bolaños, known as "Chespirito" (a play on "Shakespearecito", or "little Shakespeare") the Mexican comedian who wrote and starred in almost every sketch on the show. It's most famous for the skits ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'', in which Chespirito and others play small children who get into various mischief, and ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'', a parody of comic-book super-heroes, who exhibits the opposite of all typical superhero traits, save for having good intentions. Both of these spun off into independent sitcoms for several years. Other popular sketches on the show were Dr. Chapatín (a rude, money-grubbing doctor who went a little berserk any time someone mentioned his age), Los Chifladitos (the surreal adventures of two suburban lunatics), and Los Caquitos (sketches about two small-time thieves, who eventually reform and try a series of odd jobs).

-->'''''While playing pocker''''': Something tells me that the first three of kings you set were [[TheThreeWiseMen Melchior, Caspar, and Balthasar.]]

** "Oye Lucas. Dígame Licenciado." ''Licenciado''. "Gracias, muchas gracias." This snippet of wordplay is said every episode and is difficult to explain to an English-speaking audience. "Dígame" can either mean "speak to me" or "say to me". Most people would understand "Dígame, Licensiado" to mean, "I'm listening, Licensiado, go ahead and speak." but Chaparrón interprets it as "Say the word 'Licensiado' to me." And in fact, that's exactly what Lucas wants, leading to his grateful response.

** With los Caquitos in one skit. Chaparrón Bonaparte and Lucastañeda are discussing a possible scenario, where a couple of thieves break into their home, and Chapparon then states that he would sneak behind them with a blunt instrument, strike their heads, tie them up, and announce to Lucas that he knocked them unconscious and tied them down. Lucas then states that Chaparrón does not have the necessary strength or intelligence to do what he just said, and advised him to just call the police if something like that happened. Chaparrón heeds Lucas' advice and apologizes for beating up, and tying down El Chompiras and Botija.

* AmoralAttorney: In the second part of when Chimoltrufia is willed Hotel Don Lucho by the late owner in an impromtu testament written in a notebooke page, the owner's nephew says he'll contest the inheritance in court. Whe the notebook in question goes missing, it turns up later in the hands of the nephew's lawyer who asks Chimoltrufia to divorce botija, marry him, sell the hotel, split the money, divorce him, and remarry Botija. When Chimoltrufia refuses to be part of his scam, the lawyer says the notebook will go missing once again, and she'll get nothing, which is when she points out that their conversation was overheard by Licensiado Luna and Sargento Refugio, whom promptly place the lawyer under arrest.

* AscendedExtra: In the early years, Los Caquitos appeared as an "entremés", a short sketch shown at the beginning of a Chavo or Chapulín episode that was a little short. By the mid-80s, Chespirito began to pivot away from Chavo and Chapulín towards less physically-demanding sketches. Los Caquitos had the most-developed cast of characters, and could most easily carry hour-long storylines. Because of that, Los Caquitos dominated the later years of the series, particularly after Chavo and Chapulín were retired.

** Chimoltrufia has what is probably the longest catchphrase in all of TV, although one could say it is actually a series of catch phrases that are almost always said consecutively. But in the course of conversation, whenever she feels she has made a point, she usually says "¿Pa'que le digo que no, si sí? Digo, no nos hagamos tarugos, pos ya sabes que yo como digo una cosa digo otra, pues si es que es como todo, hay cosas que ni qué, ¿tengo o no tengo razón?" Rough translation: "Why would I tell you no, if yes? I mean, let's not make dummies of ourselves, you know that just like I'll say one thing, I'll say another. It's like anything, they are some things that just are. Am I right or am I not?" It's quite nonsensical even in Spanish, and anyone talking with her will usually be confused into agreeing with her whenever she drops it.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: El Chómpiras and El Peterete ocassionally came across crazy old ladies that either harass them or think they are playing a game.

* DancePartyEnding: In one pesiode, Licensiado Luna, asked Chimoltrufia to house sit while he went to his granddaughter's baptism. She brings Botiga to keep her company, and are also joined by Chómpiras, Chimoltrufia's mom, Sargento Refugio, and Marujita. When the group holds an impromptu dance party, the Licensiado, his daughter, and son in law arrive, and the former group gets dragged to court. However, once they resolve the situation, the episode ends with Botija dancing with Chimoltrufia, Chómpiras with Chimoltrufia's mom, Refugio with Marujita, the Licenciado's daughter with her husband, and Licensiado himself with his grandaughter.

* DropInCharacter: Nachita (Angelines Fernandez) is the neighbor of Chimoltrufia and Botija, and generally stops by to drop exposition or have exposition dropped on her. Also, she alternatively chases after Chompiras or tries to have him arrested.

** In the sketch "El cadaver" (1990), after being accidentally scared by Doña Nieves, who held a gun while believing it to be her pipe, Chompiras, Botija, and Shory fall off a window, to whuch Doña Nieves declares that she never thougth somebody could die from a scare, implying that they fell from a high floor of a building to their deaths. However, since the series has a rather loose continuity, the two appear alive in the following episodes, while Shory also made sporadic appearances in subsequent episodes.

*** First, in "El vampiro chupasangre", upon watching a thief known as Cuajinais in her window, Chimoltrufia screamed in fear, as she believed he was a vampire (due to her naively beliving everything in TV is real). The scream caused Cuajinais to slip and fall into the street. While he survived the fall, he was heavily injured and in need of a blood transfution.

* DoubleStandard: In one skit, Chimoltrufia gets arrested for beating up Sargento Refugio after he catcalled her. Later, after Compiras insults Botija, Botija slaps him and Licenciado Padilla warns him not to hit Chompiras anymore, and Chimoltrufia says "a disrespectful commnet is no reason to hit someone." After Licenciado Padilla calls her out on her comment she goes on [[MotorMouth a long winded rant]] on the differences between men and women, Padilla [[SarcasmMode compliments her linguistic abilities]], and after Chompiras gets slapped by Botija for insulting him, Refugio admits that he only catcalled Chimoltrufia after another cop did, and when Botija asks why she didn't beat up that cop too, she says it's because the other cop was such a handsome man.
* EatTheEvidence: Near the end of the two part episode where Chimoltrufia is willed Hotel Don Lucho by the late owner in an improtu testament writen in a notebook page, the owner's nephew's lawywer is arrested after he stole the notebook and tried to pressure Chimoltrufia into marying him so that he could get a share of the money from the sale of the hotel. However a short time later, Sargento Refugio delivers some devastating news: as Refugio was taking him in to be processed, the lawyer ripped out the page that said Chimoltrufia was the hotel's new owner and ate it.

* {{Expy}}: The main set and the main characters (and even the dynamics between them) are an awful lot like ''Series/TheHoneymooners'', although there are important differences, like Botija and Chompiras being thieves and Chimoltrufia being rather stupid.

* HeelFaceTurn: In the famous episode where they watch a particulary sad episode of ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'', they regret being thieves and start doing odd jobs afterwards.

* InadequateInheritor: At the very end of the two part episode where a the hotel's recently deceased owner wills Chimoltrufia Hotel Don Lucho by writing it in an impromtu testament in a notebook paper, Sargento refugio tells her that the Lawyer hired by the owner's nephew ate the notebook page in question as he was being arrested, thus leaving her with nothing. Don Lucho gives his condolences to Chimoltrufia and adds that not only will the nephew get the hotel, but he's heard nothing but bad references of the nephew as a businessman.
* FatAndSkinny: El Botija and Chompiras respectively. Most jokes at Botija expense were about his weight.

* MarriageOfConvenience: Discussed in the two part episode where a the hotel's recently deceased owner wills Chimoltrufia the hotel by writing it in a notebook paper. After the owner's nephew says he'll challenge the inheritance in court, the notebook in question goes missing. Soon after that, the nephew's lawyer discloses to Chimoltrufia that he has the notebook, and makes her an offer: marriage. The lawyer tells Chimoltrufia to divorce Botija, marry him, add his name to the hotel's deed, sell the hotel, split the money, divorce him, and remarry Botija. In the end Chimoltrufia refuses the lawyer's scam and has him arrested since Licensiado Luna and Sargento Refugio were listening in on their conversation.
* MistakenForUndead: In one hour long episode, Chompiras is trying to catch up on some sleep, but when Licenciado Luna asks him to go to the morgue to identify a body, Chompiras finds an empty examination table and takes a nap. When Botija, Chimoltrufia, and Sargento refugio go to the morgue, they find Chompiras sleeping, and assume his body had recently been brought in. When Chompiras wakes up, from listening on the conversation, the former three run away in terror. When Chompiras goes to Botija and Chimoltrufia's apartment, they assume he's there to haunt them, but when Chompiras clarifies that he's not dead, they threaten to beat him up for playing a prank on them, but eventually convinces them that they were the ones who made the assumption he was dead.

* {{Retool}}: The original skits were about el Chompiras and el Peterete/el Botija and their often failed attempts to steal. In the later part, Chompiras and Botija decided to quit the thieves life for good, and averting StatusQuoIsGod, they found honest jobs, so most of the later skits involved them working at a hotel and how they deal with it.

* SplitPersonality: Inverted, as the episode "Las Gemelas" (1988) centers on a client at Hotel Lucho who secretly sneaks her twin sister into the hotel. Since the two continuosly leave and have different experiences with the staff, Botija is led to belive that the woman has a split personality, a concept he explains to la Chimoltrufia and el Chompiras. However, Botija does not seem to understand the concept himself, as, when Chimoltrufia accused the client of stealing the hotel's money even througth she states that she was with Sargento Refugio at the time, Botija takes it as a confirmation that she has a split personality, arguing that "what one personality does, the other ignores it. And what the other does, the one ignores it", clearly not realizing that ''split personalities does not mean you can divide physically into two'' (something Lincenciado Morales points out in the 1993 two-part version).

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Botija (Édgar Vivar) replacing Peterete (Ramón Valdés) in the '80s version of the show, although their physical appearances were polar opposites. Later, They start working on a hotel owned by Don Lucho (Carlos Pouliot); that hotel shuts down, and they start working on a similar one owned by Don Cecilio (Moisés Suárez).
* UnexpectedInheritance: In a two part episode, Chimoltrufia befriends an elderly guest staying at Hotel Don Lucho, which turns out to be the owner of the property, and Don Lucho, the acting manager, explains that the hotel has his name because the owner gem him free reign on the condition that he handed over the earnings from the guests. When the old man dies, he writes in a piece of notebook paper that Chimultrufia gets the hotel, however as an investigation unfolds, the owner's nephew shows up, and says he will challenge the inheritance in court.
* VillainDecay: Botija. In his appearances in the El Chapulin Colorado sketches, he was a true threat.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Botija and Chompiras are very close friends, despite the fact that Botija constantly mocks Chompiras, and slaps him whenever Chompiras screws up, or when he calls out Botija. In one skit, after they had stopped stealing, Chompiras recounts how he stole four apples, with three of them being spoiled. Botija says that showed Chompiras' ineptitude since Botija managed to get the good one. When Chompiras mentions how he managed to steal four more apples, where three of them were good and one was spoiled, Botija tried to play him eating the three good ones and leaving the bad one to Chompiras as bad luck.

* DamselOutOfDistress: In one "La chicharra" skit, Vicente Chambón and Cándida (Florinda Meza) show up to report on a gunamn that has entrenched himself in an apartment. When Cándida gets too close, she's pulled inside by the gunman. When Vicente stubles his way to rescue her, she answer the door, and when he asks if she's okay, she says she's fine, and when he asks about the gunman, she points to him, lying unconcious on the floor.

--> '''William Tell:''' A watermelon instead of an apple.
--> '''Governor:''' No
--> '''William Tell: ''' Shooting a ball instead of an arrow.
--> '''Governor:''' No
--> '''William Tell:''' [[YourMom Your grandmother]] instead of the child.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: A recurring sketch early in the hour-long 80s series was "La Chicharra", in which Chespirito played small-time news reporter Vicente Chambón. This was briefly an independent half-hour series just before the hour-long show debuted. After appearing frequently in the first season and less often in the second, La Chicharra made one last appearance in the 3rd season, in which the WillTheyOrWontThey romance story-line between Chambón and photographer Candida (Florinda Meza) finally gets to move a step forward.

* GossipEvolution: In the Samson's story. People heard 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.

* GratuitousItalian: Christopher Columbus in the skit that retells his story. He speaks spanish with some italian words thrown in, and instead of the series-wide UnusualEuphemism "¡Chanfle!", he uses "Per San Gennaro!" ("For Saint Gennaro!")

* IAmSpartacus: In the sketch where the Colonel asks for a volunteer to test a prototype parachute. Chespirito says he knows who's the boyfriend of the col.'s daughter after he's told he won't be selected if he tells him. Chespirito takes pity on him and says he's her boyfriend, but then the Sergeant confesses that he's her boyfriend, then the Captain says he is. When the Col. demands to know the truth, Chespirito says they all are.

* LongLostRelative: In a skit performed in the final years of the show, Chespirito played the owner of a funeral home named Carlos Vera, and when an employee allowed a homeless girl take refuge in a coffin because she she was running away from the man, Rube Aguirre, she stole some bread from. When the man, Carlos'friend, Carlos, and the employee confront the girl, Carlos tells the girl she looks familiar and pays his friend for the bread, and when she laves the funeral home, he admits because she maybe his daughter. When they encounter her again, he shows her a picture of an ex-girlfriend, and shes delighted so see a picture of her grandmother.

* ToiletHumor: Chespirito was never above the occasional fart, pee, or poop joke in all of his characters' series. However, he really took this trope as far as he could in the movie ''Música de viento'' (Wind Music), where Chespirito played a man who let out [[{{Gasshole}} a blast of flatulence]] whenver he saw a gun, in real life or even on TV.
* ThatsAnOrder: In a skit where Chespirito plays a private, Ruben Aguirre plays a sergeant, Edgar Vivar a captain, and Horacio Gomez plays a colonel, Gomez's character order Vivar's character to dispose of a large sandbag, who then orders Aguirre, and who then orders Chespirito to do so.
-->'''Chespirito:''' Sergeant Aguirre! mission accomplished, the sandbag is disposed of.
-->'''Aguirre:'''' Very well. Captain Vivar! Mission accomplished, the sandbag is disposed of
-->'''Vivar:''' Colonel Gomez! mission accomplished, the bag is disposed of.
-->'''Gomez:''' ''(staggers into the scene since someone threw a sandbag on him from an upper floor).''

* HeelFaceTurn: In the infamous episode where they watch a [[TearJerker particulary sad]] episode of ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'', they regret being thieves and start doing odd jobs afterwards.

* MonsterOfTheWeek: They were this to Series/ElChapulinColorado.

* AccidentalHero: In an episode, Chaparron and Lucas manage to catch a kidnapper of children, just because they believed that he was going to steal a doll, which Chaparron believed was his daughter.

** Chaparron mentions that if he found thieves himself, he would be in charge of catching them. Lucas then states that Chaparron does not have the necessary strength or intelligence to do what he just said, and advised him to just call the police if something like that happened. Chaparron then mentions that he managed to catch two thieves, because he was not aware of how dangerous this was.
%% * AntiHero: Sometimes bordering on VillainProtagonist.

** With los Caquitos in one skit. Chaparron Bonaparte and Lucastañeda are discussing a possible scenario, where a couple of thieves break into their home, and Chapparon then states that he would sneak behind them with a blunt instrument, strike their heads, tie them up, and announce to Lucas that he knocked them unconscious and tied them down. Lucas then states that Chaparron does not have the necessary strength or intelligence to do what he just said, and advised him to just call the police if something like that happened. Chaparron heeds Lucas' advice and apologizes for beating up, and tying down El Chompiras and Botija.

%% * CrypticConversation: Chaparrón and Lucas are fond of them.
%% * CloudCuckooLander: Both of them. And their neighbor.

%% * TheDitz: The neighbor, complete with a whiny nasally voice.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Chaparrón had NoIndoorVoice.

--> '''Nurse:''' ''(Talking on the phone)'' Hello, mental hospital. Oh yes doctor, I'm just about finished with Chaparron's medical examination. Yes, I finished examining Lucas Tañeda. Improved? No doctor, I think it's the complete opposite.
* GotVolunteered: In one skit, Chaparron and Lucas Tañeda, are in the middle of a war (actually they wondered onto a construction cite, but because of their [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} mental]] [[InsaneTrollLogic faculties]] believed they were at war), and when Lucas asks for a volunteer to go and give "the enemy" an ultimaum to take two steps forward, he takes to steps back, and congratulates Chaparron on his bravery.

** "A propósito de..., sabías que la gente sigue diciendo..." (Speaking of...did you know people are still saying...)
*** The beginning phrase could be used in ''any'' conversation, in any context.
* MeaningfulName: Chaparrón Bonaparte is named after UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, [[NapoleonDelusion whose character is often related to lunatics]]. Lucas Tañeda is named after ''La Castañeda'', an old Mexican mental hospital.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Chaparron managed to catch two thieves, using only a broom as a fake rifle.

%%* ThoseTwoGuys
* WithFriendsLikeThese: The skits will include [[OncePerEpisode at least one instance]] where Chaparron will mention a rather innocuous statement, only for Lucas to turn it into a FloweryInsult.

* AntiVillain: While the protagonists are crooks, they are too well-meaning (and stupid) to do any real harm. In early episodes, they are announced as "Los inofensivos Caquitos", which means "The Harmless Little Thieves".

* ToiletHumor: Chespirito was never above the occasional fart, pee, or poop joke in all of his characters' series. However, he really took this trope [[UpToeleven as far as he could]] in the movie ''Música de viento'' (Wind Music), where Chespirito played a man who let out [[{{Gasshole}} a blast of flatulence]] whenver he saw a gun, in real life or even on TV.

* {{Squick}}: In-universe. "¡Me da cosa!"

* GrumpyOldMan: Dr. Chapatín.

* HospitalHottie: Literally. In some episodes, Dr. Chapatín mentions looking for attractive nurses - and that includes his own assistant.

** In some Sketchs, they manage to do things that should be impossible, but they are too crazy to realize that they are impossible. Like, for example, advancing the hour, changing the hands of a clock.

* AntiHero: Sometimes bordering on VillainProtagonist.

* CharacterTics: Chaparrón suffers a literal version called "chiripiolcas", in which he'll involuntarily stop what he's doing and do a repetitive dance in place until Lucas whacks him on the back to bring him out of it. Accompanied by bizarre sound effects.

* CrossOver: With los Caquitos in one skit. Chaparron Bonaparte and Lucastañeda are discussing a possible scenario, where a couple of thieves break into their home, and Chapparon then states that he would sneak behind them with a blunt instrument, strike their heads, tie them up, and announce to Lucas that he knocked them unconscious and tied them down. Lucas then states that Chaparron does not have the necessary strength or intelligence to do what he just said, and advised him to just call the police if something like that happened. Chaparron heeds Lucas' advice and apologizes for beating up, and tying down El Chompiras and Botija.

* CrypticConversation: Chaparrón and Lucas are fond of them.
* CloudCuckooLander: Both of them. And their neighbor.

** [[DontExplainTheJoke Chaparrón had married a palm tree that day, and the coconut reminded him of the children they could have]].
* TheDitz: The neighbor, complete with a whiny nasally voice.

* FromBadtoworse: One skit has this dialogue:

* NoSocialSkills.

* FatAndSkinny: El Chómpiras and El Botija.

** DawsonCasting: One possible reason "La Chicharra" was discontinued was that the rather innocent main characters should have been at least 10 years younger than the actors playing them were at the time (more in Chespirito's case).

* KillEmAll: The Juan Tenorio sketch, like the play, ends with everybody dead and meeting at the graveyard.

%%* ThoseTwoBadGuys

* RealityEnsues: Used as a ShoutOut to ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho''. At the begining of the skit where he accidentally foils some jewel thieves, a homeless widow laments to a cop that she was evicted after she accrued 14 months of back rent.

* ToiletHumor: Chespirito was never above the ocassional fart, pee, or poop joke in all of his characters' series. However, he really took this trope [[UpToeleven as far as he could]] in the movie ''Música de viento'' (Wind Music), where Chespirito played a man who let out [[{{Gasshole}} a blast of flatulence]] whenver he saw a gun, in real life or even on TV.

* NotSoDifferent / HypocriticalHumor: The nasal-voiced neighbor and her equally nasal-voiced father are really almost as bizarre as Chaparrón and Lucas. For one thing, they seemingly fail to recognize that their neighbors are crazy.