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* LongList: Once, after el Chapulín has spent the entire episode lousing things up for him, Ramón begins rattling off a list of superheroes who would have been better to call instead of el Chapulín, and it lasts through the entire ending credits. He begins with Superman, Batman, and Spiderman, and gradually works his way down to the Wizard of Oz, Mannix, and Rin Tin Tin. He even says Ël Chapulín Color...no, not him..."
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* LongList: Once, after el Chapulín has spent the entire episode lousing things up for him, Ramón begins rattling off a list of superheroes who would have been better to call instead of el Chapulín, and it lasts through the entire ending credits. He begins with Superman, Batman, and Spiderman, and gradually works his way down to the Wizard of Oz, Mannix, and Rin Tin Tin. He even says Ël "El Chapulín Color...Col- no, not him..."
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* LongList: Once, after el Chapulín has spent the entire episode lousing things up for him, Ramón begins rattling off a list of superheroes and who would have been better to call instead of el Chapulín, and it lasts through the entire ending credits. He begins with Superman, Batman, and Spiderman, and gradually works his way down to the Wizard of Oz, Mannix, and Rin Tin Tin. He even says Ël Chapulín Color...no, not him..."
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* AntiHero: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type I]].
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** ClassicalAntiHero
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* RecycledSoundtrack: Just a couple of examples:
** When Chapulín first shows up in any episode, Elmer Bernstein's score for TheTenCommandments' parting/crossing of the Red Sea can be heard.
** The ending theme for many episodes is "[[RealSongThemeTune Baroque Hoedown]]" by Jean Jacques Perrey, who also recorded "The Elephant Never Forgets".
** When Chapulín first shows up in any episode, Elmer Bernstein's score for TheTenCommandments' parting/crossing of the Red Sea can be heard.
** The ending theme for many episodes is "[[RealSongThemeTune Baroque Hoedown]]" by Jean Jacques Perrey, who also recorded "The Elephant Never Forgets".
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* AcceptableTargets: Soccer ("Futbol") referees, who are described as either crooks or blind.
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* SawAWomanInHalf: A lumberjack once tried to hit El Chapulin 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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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Early sketches had a darker sense of humor. Frequently, Chapulín would rescue the characters in distress, only to kill them through his own clumsiness. Once, when the villain threatens the victims with a machine gun, and Chapulin manages to wrestle it away with him...but shoots up the victims at the same time. Sometimes if he´s helping a lady, he just kills her father and doesn´t seem all that bothered by it.
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* PeoplePuppets In the episode where Rubén Aguirre's character cannot control his hand movements, because of the [[AppliedPhlebotinum wristwatch]] he is wearing.
** (hits Chapulín) "It was not me, it was my hand!"
** (hits Chapulín) "It was not me, it was my hand!"
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** In another episode, the bad guy locked a couple away and ate the key. When asked about how Chapulin got the key, he said a virtue of man is knowing how to wait. There was yet another episode where he told about an occasion where there was a microphone hidden in his soup and he learned it the next day.
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** In another episode, the bad guy locked a couple away and ate the key. When asked about how Chapulin got the key, he said a virtue of man is knowing how to wait. There was yet another episode where he told about an occasion where there was a microphone hidden in his soup and he learned it found out the next day.
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* AscendedExtra: For most of the series, actor Horacio Gomez (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 Gomez had always planned to be the show's marketing director, not an actor.
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* AscendedExtra: For most of the series, actor Horacio Gomez 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 Gomez Gómez had always planned to be the show's marketing director, not an actor.
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* WantedPoster: ''ElChapulinColorado'' 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 - Caution") When confronted by the criminal Chapulin tried to appease him by ripping a piece of the poster so it's red "Lo Queremos Mucho" (Very Wanted)
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* CryingWolf: One episode featured a [[SpoiledBrat 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. Chapulin 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 'TheBoyWhoCriedWolf') but the boy didn't know the story and Chapulin [[InNameOnly told his own version of it]], excluding Peter and describing a wolf that lied so much that, when he met Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs, he claimed to be Literature/LittleRedRidingHood.
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* CryingWolf: One episode featured a [[SpoiledBrat 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. Chapulin 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 'TheBoyWhoCriedWolf') but the boy didn't know the story and Chapulin [[InNameOnly told his own version of it]], excluding Peter and describing a wolf that lied so much that, when he met Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs, he claimed to be Literature/LittleRedRidingHood. At least he had the wolf replace Peter as the liar who would not be believed wven while telling the truth.
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* WireDilemma: One episode of has permutation number 10 (throwing the bomb out the window) happening twice. Actually, the second time used a door.
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*** Sometimes it's "Sí voy..."("I'll go...")
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Plenty of times, especially when using the ''Chicharra Paralizadora'' and the ''Chiquitolina'' pills.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Plenty of times, especially when using the ''Chicharra Paralizadora'' and the ''Chiquitolina'' pills.
* StyrofoamRocks: Rocks, chairs, tables... The whole set!
* StyrofoamRocks: Rocks, chairs, tables... The whole set!
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* CulturalCrossReference: One episode had Chapulin 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 [[GenreSavvy hero of the likes of Chapulin]], angrily saying to his daughter: "You could have called any other hero! ''Any other''! Superman! Batman! DickTracy! [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Donald]] [[DonaldDuck Duck!"]].
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* CulturalCrossReference: One episode had Chapulin 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 [[GenreSavvy hero of the likes of Chapulin]], angrily saying to his daughter: "You could have called any other hero! ''Any other''! Superman! Batman! DickTracy! ComicStrip/DickTracy! [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Donald]] [[DonaldDuck Duck!"]].
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* PricelessMingVase: At the final moments of the episode "De noche todos los gatos hacen miau" (''[[PunBasedTitle All cats meow at night]]''[[hottip:*:It is a pun for "All cats are grey at night"]]), Chapulín finds the noisy cat, that did not let people sleep, inside an expensive vase. Then Chapulín [[CutenessProximity pets the cat and drops the vase]].
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* EagleLand: Uncle Sam, the Rival of Chapulín for heroic deeds. [[YourMilageMayVary Some may argue]] if he is flavor 1 or 2.
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Bumblebee Man, a recurring figure on ''TheSimpsons'', is essentially a CaptainErsatz of this character. He was created because whenever the writers flipped through the channels, El Chapulin Colorado was always on (similar to how Bumblebee Man is always on television, at least when [[TheKrusty Krusty]], Itchy and Scratchy aren't).
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Bumblebee Man, a recurring figure on ''TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', is essentially a CaptainErsatz of this character. He was created because whenever the writers flipped through the channels, El Chapulin Colorado was always on (similar to how Bumblebee Man is always on television, at least when [[TheKrusty Krusty]], Itchy and Scratchy aren't).
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* CryingWolf: One episode featured a [[SpoiledBrat 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. Chapulin 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 TheBoyWhoCriedWolf) but the boy didn't know the story and Chapulin [[InNameOnly told his own version of it]], excluding Peter and describing a wolf that lied so much that, when he met TheThreeLittlePigs, he claimed to be LittleRedRidingHood.
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* CryingWolf: One episode featured a [[SpoiledBrat 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. Chapulin tried to warn the boy it would happen by stating it could happen to him the same it happened in "Peter and the Wolf". Wolf" (another title for TheBoyWhoCriedWolf) 'TheBoyWhoCriedWolf') but the boy didn't know the story and Chapulin [[InNameOnly told his own version of it]], excluding Peter and describing a wolf that lied so much that, when he met TheThreeLittlePigs, Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs, he claimed to be LittleRedRidingHood.Literature/LittleRedRidingHood.
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* ClipShow: The episode 'Conferencia sobre un Chapulín' and the untitled last episode.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Chapulin once told a tale of a man who sold his 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, the man used the device to make the contract vanish.
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* DealWithTheDevil: Chapulin once told a an InNameOnly tale of {{Faust}}, about a man who sold his 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, the man used the device to make the contract vanish.
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** '''"¡Mis antenitas de vinil están detectando la presencia del enemigo!"''', "Mi little vinyl antennae are detecting the enemy's presence!"
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-->''Oh, ¿y ahora quien podrá defendernos?''
-->''("Oh, and now... who could defend us?")''
-->''Más ágil que una tortuga.''
-->''Más fuerte que un ratón.''
-->''Más noble que una lechuga.''
-->''Su escudo es un corazón.''
-->''("More agile than a turtle. / Stronger than a mouse / Nobler than a lettuce / His emblem is a heart.")''
Legendary Mexican SitCom (and staple of popular culture) from the creator of ''ElChavoDelOcho'' (and most of same the cast) about the adventures of a ComedicHero, 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 PhraseCatcher. Not that he is really that useful, or even helpful. But El Chapulín Colorado is well meaning and at least tries to help, so it's okay.
Unlike ''El Chavo'', the adventures of ''El Chapulín'' 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 TheWildWest, or against TheMafia, and even parodying monster movies. Or even [[ThoseWackyNazis against the third reich]]. The cast remained the same, but with the exception of Chapulín they changed roles every chapter (although in the more "themed" episodes some actors have recurring roles)
While not as popular as ''El Chavo'', El Chapulín 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 ChromaKey in Latin America.
Bumblebee Man, a recurring figure on ''TheSimpsons'', is essentially a CaptainErsatz of this character. He was created because whenever the writers flipped through the channels, El Chapulin Colorado was always on (similar to how Bumblebee Man is always on television, at least when [[TheKrusty Krusty]], Itchy and Scratchy aren't).
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* AffectionateParody: of a superhero series, among others.
** And then some: [[WordOfGod Creator Roberto Gómez Bolaños]] indicated repeatedly that for him a ''real'' hero was somebody like the Chapulín, 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 Chapulín's heroic deeds amount to.
** 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.
* AllThereInTheManual / WordOfGod: If you ever wondered, you will need to google to find references to a certain interview in order to learn about Chapulin's origin story. [[spoiler: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. Chapulin was the only honest person that went, that's how he got his only real superpower.]]
* AntiHero: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type I]].
* AscendedExtra: For most of the series, actor Horacio Gomez (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 Gomez had always planned to be the show's marketing director, not an actor.
* BananaPeel
* BraggingThemeTune: 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 Kaliman admire him and Batman and Superman ask forgiveness when facing him.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: The old Spanish letter CH on the hero's costume
* ButtMonkey: Every non-villainous role Ramón Valdés played was this. In fact, pretty much every non-villain (the titular hero included) is prone to this.
* CatchPhrase: A lot!
** '''"¡No contaban con mi astucia!"'''; "They did not count on my cleverness!"
** '''"Síganme los buenos!"''', "Good guys, follow me!"
*** A variation is used by recurring BigBad, the pirate "''Alma Negra'' / Black Soul": '''"Siganme los malos!"''', "Bad guys, follow me!".
** '''"Se aprovechan de mi nobleza..."''', "They take advantage of my nobility..."
** '''"Calma, que no panda el cúnico."''', "[[{{Malaproper}} Remain calm, don't let renic paign.]]"
** '''"¡Mis antenitas de vinil están detectando la presencia del enemigo!"''', "Mi 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.
** '''"Lo sospeché desde un principio."''', "I suspected it from the beginning."
** '''"Todos mis movimientos estan fríamente calculados."''', "All my movements are coldly calculated."
** This whole gag:
---> ''' "Y ahora...¿Quién podrá defenderme?" ''' "And now...Who could defend me?"
---> ''(the Chapulin Colorado appears from nowhere)'' '''"¡Yo!"''' "me!"
---> ''(the person rejoices)'' '''"¡El Chapulin Colorado!"'''
---> ''(and then the aforementioned)'' '''"No contaban con mi astucia"''' "They did not count on my cleverness!".
---> Then he trips and falls or gets hit. God, I love this show.
** MadLibsCatchPhrase: After the aforementioned gag, then comes
--->'''¿"Te lastimaste Chapulín?"''' "Are you hurt Chapulin?"
--->'''"No, lo hice intencionalmente para [X]"''' "No, I mean to do that so I could [X]" [X] is obviously a bad excuse for the clumsy action.
** '''"Yo Opino..."''', "I think that..." when he wants to express his oppinion. He is always interrupted accidentaly or intentionally.
** One gag when someone asks to do something dangerous.
---> ''(the Chapulín, shy and reluctant)'' '''"Sí lo hago..."''' "I'll do it..."
---> ''(the one that asked him, happily)'' '''"(lo sé)"''' "I know"
---> ''(the Chapulín, again)'' '''"Sí lo hago..."'''
---> ''(the person, showing some irritation) '''"(muy bien)"''' "alright"
---> ''(the Chapulín, [[RuleOfThree Once More]])'' '''"Sí lo hago..."'''
---> ''(all the presents, totally exasperated)'' '''¡PERO YA!''' "BUT NOW!"
** The whole set of catchphrases: usually played when Chapulín gets hit unconcsious 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''.
** [[GratuitousEnglish "Time is Money"]].
* ComedicHero: Chapulín himself
* ControlFreak: Chespirito disliked and discouraged anything remotedly [[ThrowItIn improvisational]], also he wrote almost all of the material.
* {{Crossover}}: with ElChavoDelOcho, and some other characters created by the same actor, to the point of RequiredSpinoffCrossover since all of them derived from the same sketch show.
** Also another with ''Topo Gigio''.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his overall clumsiness, Chapulin would sometimes be quite able and competent against the villains, especially when he had the use of his gadgets.
* CryingWolf: One episode featured a [[SpoiledBrat 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. Chapulin 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 TheBoyWhoCriedWolf) but the boy didn't know the story and Chapulin [[InNameOnly told his own version of it]], excluding Peter and describing a wolf that lied so much that, when he met TheThreeLittlePigs, he claimed to be LittleRedRidingHood.
* CulturalCrossReference: One episode had Chapulin 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 [[GenreSavvy hero of the likes of Chapulin]], angrily saying to his daughter: "You could have called any other hero! ''Any other''! Superman! Batman! DickTracy! [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Donald]] [[DonaldDuck Duck!"]].
* TheDanza: Most of the one-shot characters.
* DastardlyWhiplash
* DeadpanSnarker: Chapulín often took on this role, but sometimes others ,be it victims or villains, threw in the own dose of snarking.
* DealWithTheDevil: Chapulin once told a tale of a man who sold his 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, the man used the device to make the contract vanish.
* DevilInPlainSight
* DropTheHammer: The "Chipote Chillón" ("Squeaky Mallet"), a silly-looking but effective hammer.
* DumbIsGood
* EconomyCast: To the max.
* EagleLand: Uncle Sam, the Rival of Chapulín for heroic deeds. [[YourMilageMayVary Some may argue]] if he is flavor 1 or 2.
** Sometimes the Chapulín encounters a turist during some adventures that is an obvious Flavor 2.
* EleventhHourSuperPower: Used just once during a TV special: Chapulin 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 Chapulin proves himself the fastest of the two. Chapulin said he didn't like using that power but would open an exception if it'd reform a criminal.
** In one episode he used his teleporting ability, usually only used when he appears, freely during a fight. WillfullyWeak?
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Parodied, the Cuajinais in an episode said "I use a false bomb, because the real one could hurt someone".
* {{Expy}}: Super Sam is a mix of {{Superman}} and Uncle Sam. He dresses like Superman and has Uncle Sam style beard, hair and hat.
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily
* FarEast
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Averted, many villains use guns and occasionally shoot.
* FaustianRebellion: See the DealWithTheDevil mentioned above.
* GainaxEnding: An episode ends with the sudden revelation that all the villains, a "[[LivingProp dead guy]]", a [[YouAreATreeCharlieBrown barrel]] and the Chapulín himself that they weren't who they said they were during the episode but rater "actors" who liked to play those roles, followed by a FlatWhat from Ramón Valde's character.
** Another episode ends with el Chapulin using the "La Chicharra Paralizadora" to permanently stun ''everyone'', including accidentally hitting himself with it so that no one can undo the stun.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In an episode, one character complains that he should have called {{Batman}} instead of Chapulín and he replies:
--> ''Chapulín'': In first place, Batman is in honeymoon with Robin.
** In another episode, the bad guy locked a couple away and ate the key. When asked about how Chapulin got the key, he said a virtue of man is knowing how to wait. There was yet another episode where he told about an occasion where there was a microphone hidden in his soup and he learned it the next day.
* GratuitousEnglish: Chapulin's flashy rival, Super Sam, speaks exclusively in highly stereotypical American phrases. "Time is money, OH YEAH!"
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zy-XWHkEVM&feature=related Averted, he actually accidentally kills Hitler in an episode]]]]
* InNameOnly: Some of the Chapulín's re-stagings of fairly tales fall under this. Lampshaded when he told a [[FracturedFairyTale random interpretation of "Peter and the Wolf"]]. Somebody pointed that Peter wasn't in his story and he replied that Peter was the author.
* IMeantToDoThat: "All my movements are coldly calculated!"
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne
* LaughTrack (in the first years. The last seasons, when the Chapulín 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").
* LongTitle: One of the episodes was called "Story of an old abandoned mine that dates from the 17th Century, and is about to collapse."
** [[TitleDrop And they said it in the episode,]][[RunningGag A LOT.]]
* LuckyTranslation: Chapulin Colorado has the same initials as it's rough English equivalent, Crimson Cricket. Any english version would have a hell of a time explaining where the H on his chest came from, though.
* TheMafia
* {{Malaproper}}: El Chapulín. He was specially prone to the butchered rendition of several, intermixed proverbs usually ended with "Bueno, la idea es ésa" ("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 ''Cría fama y échate a dormir'' ("Cultivate a good reputation and go to sleep (i.e., rest on your laurels)") and ''Cría cuervos y te sacarán los ojos'' ("Breed crows, and they shall pluck out your eyes") get mangled into ''Cría fama y te sacarán los ojos'' ("Cultivate a good reputation, and they shall pluck out your eyes") and ''Cría cuervos y échate a dormir'' ("Breed crows and go to sleep").
* TheMinnesotaFats: Super Sam, a cross between Uncle Sam and {{Superman}}. (His main weapon was a bag of money he used to club bad guys, all with a cash register sound.)
* {{Mooks}}
* MutuallyFictional: With ElChavoDelOcho.
** And luckily, the many [[CrossOver crossovers]] between them didn't cause the universe to explode.
* TheNapoleon: Half of the jokes about El Chapulín are about how short he is, with Chapulín gleefuly insulting back.
* NonSequiturThud: When he suffers a severe enough trauma, El Chapulín starts uttering his {{Catch Phrase}}s one after another in rapid succession until coming back to his senses.
* {{Outlaw}}
* {{Pirate}}
* SecretIdentityIdentity: El Chapulín 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 TheTick). In an episode it's revealed that "Chapulín Colorado" is ''really'' the given name of our hero, from before he took his superhero role. (And its implied that his real mother is [[{{Superman}} Lois Lane]])
** And there are Chapulin imitators in-universe...professional ones, in fact. In at least one episode, we find out at the end that the Chapulin we'd been following through today's adventures was only an actor hired to play Chapulin at a birthday party. He just happened to be passing by when he got mixed up in this episode's dilemma, as the real Chapulin had arrived late.
* SelfOffense: Chapulin'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.
* ShoutOut: Especially to {{Batman}}, the Green Hornet and ''El Chavo del Ocho''.
* {{Sizeshifter}}
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Chapulin Colorado's fairy tales. Specially memorable is its version of RomeoAndJuliet.
* StopTrick
* ThoseWackyNazis
* ThrowItIn: Deliberately adverted because show creator and main scriptwriter Chespirito positively disliked it.
* TimeStandsStill
* UnPaused: The entire schtick of the paralyzing horn.
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: "El Chipote Chillón" ("The Squeaking Hammer"), "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 couple of vinyl antennae, which detected the "presence of the enemy" (The detection was real, but Chapulin couldn't identify WHO was the enemy.)
** With some careful analysis, you could realize that he invented all of them, or got them through some pretty good connections. 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, Shrink-e-tolin pills are akin to the Atom's or Ant Man's powers; tough they only last a very short ammount of time. 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.
** Also, you'd have to wonder what a "proper" superhero could achieve with access to the Crimson Grasshopper teleporting device. El Chapulín could appear at any location the instant his cry fo 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.
* UnusualEuphemism: "¡Chanfle!" (a soft swear, similar to "Holy Mackerel!")
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-->''Oh, ¿y ahora quien podrá defendernos?''
-->''("Oh, and now... who could defend us?")''
-->''Más ágil que una tortuga.''
-->''Más fuerte que un ratón.''
-->''Más noble que una lechuga.''
-->''Su escudo es un corazón.''
-->''("More agile than a turtle. / Stronger than a mouse / Nobler than a lettuce / His emblem is a heart.")''
Legendary Mexican SitCom (and staple of popular culture) from the creator of ''ElChavoDelOcho'' (and most of same the cast) about the adventures of a ComedicHero, 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 PhraseCatcher. Not that he is really that useful, or even helpful. But El Chapulín Colorado is well meaning and at least tries to help, so it's okay.
Unlike ''El Chavo'', the adventures of ''El Chapulín'' 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 TheWildWest, or against TheMafia, and even parodying monster movies. Or even [[ThoseWackyNazis against the third reich]]. The cast remained the same, but with the exception of Chapulín they changed roles every chapter (although in the more "themed" episodes some actors have recurring roles)
While not as popular as ''El Chavo'', El Chapulín 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 ChromaKey in Latin America.
Bumblebee Man, a recurring figure on ''TheSimpsons'', is essentially a CaptainErsatz of this character. He was created because whenever the writers flipped through the channels, El Chapulin Colorado was always on (similar to how Bumblebee Man is always on television, at least when [[TheKrusty Krusty]], Itchy and Scratchy aren't).
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This series provides examples of:
* AffectionateParody: of a superhero series, among others.
** And then some: [[WordOfGod Creator Roberto Gómez Bolaños]] indicated repeatedly that for him a ''real'' hero was somebody like the Chapulín, 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 Chapulín's heroic deeds amount to.
** 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.
* AllThereInTheManual / WordOfGod: If you ever wondered, you will need to google to find references to a certain interview in order to learn about Chapulin's origin story. [[spoiler: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. Chapulin was the only honest person that went, that's how he got his only real superpower.]]
* AntiHero: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type I]].
* AscendedExtra: For most of the series, actor Horacio Gomez (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 Gomez had always planned to be the show's marketing director, not an actor.
* BananaPeel
* BraggingThemeTune: 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 Kaliman admire him and Batman and Superman ask forgiveness when facing him.
* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: The old Spanish letter CH on the hero's costume
* ButtMonkey: Every non-villainous role Ramón Valdés played was this. In fact, pretty much every non-villain (the titular hero included) is prone to this.
* CatchPhrase: A lot!
** '''"¡No contaban con mi astucia!"'''; "They did not count on my cleverness!"
** '''"Síganme los buenos!"''', "Good guys, follow me!"
*** A variation is used by recurring BigBad, the pirate "''Alma Negra'' / Black Soul": '''"Siganme los malos!"''', "Bad guys, follow me!".
** '''"Se aprovechan de mi nobleza..."''', "They take advantage of my nobility..."
** '''"Calma, que no panda el cúnico."''', "[[{{Malaproper}} Remain calm, don't let renic paign.]]"
** '''"¡Mis antenitas de vinil están detectando la presencia del enemigo!"''', "Mi 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.
** '''"Lo sospeché desde un principio."''', "I suspected it from the beginning."
** '''"Todos mis movimientos estan fríamente calculados."''', "All my movements are coldly calculated."
** This whole gag:
---> ''' "Y ahora...¿Quién podrá defenderme?" ''' "And now...Who could defend me?"
---> ''(the Chapulin Colorado appears from nowhere)'' '''"¡Yo!"''' "me!"
---> ''(the person rejoices)'' '''"¡El Chapulin Colorado!"'''
---> ''(and then the aforementioned)'' '''"No contaban con mi astucia"''' "They did not count on my cleverness!".
---> Then he trips and falls or gets hit. God, I love this show.
** MadLibsCatchPhrase: After the aforementioned gag, then comes
--->'''¿"Te lastimaste Chapulín?"''' "Are you hurt Chapulin?"
--->'''"No, lo hice intencionalmente para [X]"''' "No, I mean to do that so I could [X]" [X] is obviously a bad excuse for the clumsy action.
** '''"Yo Opino..."''', "I think that..." when he wants to express his oppinion. He is always interrupted accidentaly or intentionally.
** One gag when someone asks to do something dangerous.
---> ''(the Chapulín, shy and reluctant)'' '''"Sí lo hago..."''' "I'll do it..."
---> ''(the one that asked him, happily)'' '''"(lo sé)"''' "I know"
---> ''(the Chapulín, again)'' '''"Sí lo hago..."'''
---> ''(the person, showing some irritation) '''"(muy bien)"''' "alright"
---> ''(the Chapulín, [[RuleOfThree Once More]])'' '''"Sí lo hago..."'''
---> ''(all the presents, totally exasperated)'' '''¡PERO YA!''' "BUT NOW!"
** The whole set of catchphrases: usually played when Chapulín gets hit unconcsious 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''.
** [[GratuitousEnglish "Time is Money"]].
* ComedicHero: Chapulín himself
* ControlFreak: Chespirito disliked and discouraged anything remotedly [[ThrowItIn improvisational]], also he wrote almost all of the material.
* {{Crossover}}: with ElChavoDelOcho, and some other characters created by the same actor, to the point of RequiredSpinoffCrossover since all of them derived from the same sketch show.
** Also another with ''Topo Gigio''.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his overall clumsiness, Chapulin would sometimes be quite able and competent against the villains, especially when he had the use of his gadgets.
* CryingWolf: One episode featured a [[SpoiledBrat 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. Chapulin 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 TheBoyWhoCriedWolf) but the boy didn't know the story and Chapulin [[InNameOnly told his own version of it]], excluding Peter and describing a wolf that lied so much that, when he met TheThreeLittlePigs, he claimed to be LittleRedRidingHood.
* CulturalCrossReference: One episode had Chapulin 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 [[GenreSavvy hero of the likes of Chapulin]], angrily saying to his daughter: "You could have called any other hero! ''Any other''! Superman! Batman! DickTracy! [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Donald]] [[DonaldDuck Duck!"]].
* TheDanza: Most of the one-shot characters.
* DastardlyWhiplash
* DeadpanSnarker: Chapulín often took on this role, but sometimes others ,be it victims or villains, threw in the own dose of snarking.
* DealWithTheDevil: Chapulin once told a tale of a man who sold his 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, the man used the device to make the contract vanish.
* DevilInPlainSight
* DropTheHammer: The "Chipote Chillón" ("Squeaky Mallet"), a silly-looking but effective hammer.
* DumbIsGood
* EconomyCast: To the max.
* EagleLand: Uncle Sam, the Rival of Chapulín for heroic deeds. [[YourMilageMayVary Some may argue]] if he is flavor 1 or 2.
** Sometimes the Chapulín encounters a turist during some adventures that is an obvious Flavor 2.
* EleventhHourSuperPower: Used just once during a TV special: Chapulin 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 Chapulin proves himself the fastest of the two. Chapulin said he didn't like using that power but would open an exception if it'd reform a criminal.
** In one episode he used his teleporting ability, usually only used when he appears, freely during a fight. WillfullyWeak?
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Parodied, the Cuajinais in an episode said "I use a false bomb, because the real one could hurt someone".
* {{Expy}}: Super Sam is a mix of {{Superman}} and Uncle Sam. He dresses like Superman and has Uncle Sam style beard, hair and hat.
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily
* FarEast
* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Averted, many villains use guns and occasionally shoot.
* FaustianRebellion: See the DealWithTheDevil mentioned above.
* GainaxEnding: An episode ends with the sudden revelation that all the villains, a "[[LivingProp dead guy]]", a [[YouAreATreeCharlieBrown barrel]] and the Chapulín himself that they weren't who they said they were during the episode but rater "actors" who liked to play those roles, followed by a FlatWhat from Ramón Valde's character.
** Another episode ends with el Chapulin using the "La Chicharra Paralizadora" to permanently stun ''everyone'', including accidentally hitting himself with it so that no one can undo the stun.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In an episode, one character complains that he should have called {{Batman}} instead of Chapulín and he replies:
--> ''Chapulín'': In first place, Batman is in honeymoon with Robin.
** In another episode, the bad guy locked a couple away and ate the key. When asked about how Chapulin got the key, he said a virtue of man is knowing how to wait. There was yet another episode where he told about an occasion where there was a microphone hidden in his soup and he learned it the next day.
* GratuitousEnglish: Chapulin's flashy rival, Super Sam, speaks exclusively in highly stereotypical American phrases. "Time is money, OH YEAH!"
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zy-XWHkEVM&feature=related Averted, he actually accidentally kills Hitler in an episode]]]]
* InNameOnly: Some of the Chapulín's re-stagings of fairly tales fall under this. Lampshaded when he told a [[FracturedFairyTale random interpretation of "Peter and the Wolf"]]. Somebody pointed that Peter wasn't in his story and he replied that Peter was the author.
* IMeantToDoThat: "All my movements are coldly calculated!"
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne
* LaughTrack (in the first years. The last seasons, when the Chapulín 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").
* LongTitle: One of the episodes was called "Story of an old abandoned mine that dates from the 17th Century, and is about to collapse."
** [[TitleDrop And they said it in the episode,]][[RunningGag A LOT.]]
* LuckyTranslation: Chapulin Colorado has the same initials as it's rough English equivalent, Crimson Cricket. Any english version would have a hell of a time explaining where the H on his chest came from, though.
* TheMafia
* {{Malaproper}}: El Chapulín. He was specially prone to the butchered rendition of several, intermixed proverbs usually ended with "Bueno, la idea es ésa" ("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 ''Cría fama y échate a dormir'' ("Cultivate a good reputation and go to sleep (i.e., rest on your laurels)") and ''Cría cuervos y te sacarán los ojos'' ("Breed crows, and they shall pluck out your eyes") get mangled into ''Cría fama y te sacarán los ojos'' ("Cultivate a good reputation, and they shall pluck out your eyes") and ''Cría cuervos y échate a dormir'' ("Breed crows and go to sleep").
* TheMinnesotaFats: Super Sam, a cross between Uncle Sam and {{Superman}}. (His main weapon was a bag of money he used to club bad guys, all with a cash register sound.)
* {{Mooks}}
* MutuallyFictional: With ElChavoDelOcho.
** And luckily, the many [[CrossOver crossovers]] between them didn't cause the universe to explode.
* TheNapoleon: Half of the jokes about El Chapulín are about how short he is, with Chapulín gleefuly insulting back.
* NonSequiturThud: When he suffers a severe enough trauma, El Chapulín starts uttering his {{Catch Phrase}}s one after another in rapid succession until coming back to his senses.
* {{Outlaw}}
* {{Pirate}}
* SecretIdentityIdentity: El Chapulín 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 TheTick). In an episode it's revealed that "Chapulín Colorado" is ''really'' the given name of our hero, from before he took his superhero role. (And its implied that his real mother is [[{{Superman}} Lois Lane]])
** And there are Chapulin imitators in-universe...professional ones, in fact. In at least one episode, we find out at the end that the Chapulin we'd been following through today's adventures was only an actor hired to play Chapulin at a birthday party. He just happened to be passing by when he got mixed up in this episode's dilemma, as the real Chapulin had arrived late.
* SelfOffense: Chapulin'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.
* ShoutOut: Especially to {{Batman}}, the Green Hornet and ''El Chavo del Ocho''.
* {{Sizeshifter}}
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Chapulin Colorado's fairy tales. Specially memorable is its version of RomeoAndJuliet.
* StopTrick
* ThoseWackyNazis
* ThrowItIn: Deliberately adverted because show creator and main scriptwriter Chespirito positively disliked it.
* TimeStandsStill
* UnPaused: The entire schtick of the paralyzing horn.
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: "El Chipote Chillón" ("The Squeaking Hammer"), "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 couple of vinyl antennae, which detected the "presence of the enemy" (The detection was real, but Chapulin couldn't identify WHO was the enemy.)
** With some careful analysis, you could realize that he invented all of them, or got them through some pretty good connections. 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, Shrink-e-tolin pills are akin to the Atom's or Ant Man's powers; tough they only last a very short ammount of time. 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.
** Also, you'd have to wonder what a "proper" superhero could achieve with access to the Crimson Grasshopper teleporting device. El Chapulín could appear at any location the instant his cry fo 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.
* UnusualEuphemism: "¡Chanfle!" (a soft swear, similar to "Holy Mackerel!")
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