History Series / ElChapulinColorado

Legendary Mexican SitCom (and staple of popular culture) from {{Series/Chespirito}}, the creator of ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' (which this show uses most of the cast of). Airing [[TheSeventies 1973-1979]] on Creator/{{Televisa}}, it centers on 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.

** When Chapulín first shows up in any episode, Elmer Bernstein's score for ''Film/TheTenCommandments''' parting/crossing of the Red Sea can be heard.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Chapulin Colorado's fairy tales. Specially memorable is its version of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''.

* {{Mooks}}

* {{Outlaw}}

* {{Pirate}}

--> '''Chapulín:''' First of all, we have to defeat the martian.
--> '''Scientist:''' How?
--> '''Chapulín:''' That's the only detail I don't know yet.

* EconomyCast: To the max.

* DoesNotLikeGuns: In one episode, El Chapulín uses this excuse after [[TooDumbToLive returning the gun he took from the villain.]]

* OvertOperative: One story featured the world's most famous spy. It was a case of RealityEnsues as, because of the spy's fame, nobody hires him. Once he got word of a formula that made things invisible, he decided to steal it so he could use it to gain an edge his fame wouldn't ruin. By being able to enter places without being seen.

* RealityEnsues: Don Severiano Mirón, is the most famous spy in the world. This means he is easily recognized by everyone, and therefore is not hired for any kind of work. When a journalist recognizes him, he quickly bursts into tears.

** "El caso de dos hombres que eran tan parecidos que eran idénticos, sobre todo uno de ellos" involves El Rascabuches finding out there's another person that looks exactly the same as him (both are played by Ramón Valdéz), and plans to kill him to fake his own death. In the end of the episode, while El Chapulín is discussing with the lookalike about this trope, his daughter brings her boyfriend, Roberto, who is played by Roberto Gómez Bolaños and therefore looks identical to El Chapulín Colorado.

* LatexPerfection: The Master of Disguise in the episode of the same name. He appeared under several identities of other actors (Edgar Vivar, Florinda Meza and Carlos Villagrán) dubbed by Ramón Valdéz, and Ramón Valdéz himself in one scene. [[spoiler:And in the end, where he was supposedly sent to prison, it's revealed he disguised himself as the old woman (María Antonieta de las Nieves) El Chapulín was trying to protect, to his shock]].

* NoManShouldHaveThisPower: At the end of the Samson's wig episode, once the bad guy who wants to poses the wig is defeated, Dalila, one of the poeple who invoked Chapulin's help, starts cutting up the wig. though the archeologist who wants to study it says it is a great loss to academia, Chapulin says it's bettern than to risk the possibility someone who would want to exploit its ability to give the wearer SuperStrength.

Legendary Mexican SitCom (and staple of popular culture) from {{Series/Chespirito}}, the creator of ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' (which this show uses most of the cast of), 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.

* AlasPoorVillain: An InUniverse example PlayedForLaughs. In an episode, after a villain accidentally eats [[Irony a cake he himself poisoned]] and el Chapulin goes to help him, the baker cries for the villain's fate... of having to suffer the assistance of el Chapulin. His daughter soon joins him.

*** Part 4: Tim McCoy and Tom Mix movies, ''Madame Butterfly'' and ''Napoleon Bonaparte''.

** As proper parodies, there have been episodes based around ''Literature/DonQuixote'' (featuring an old man who believes he's El Chapulín Colorado), ''Myth/{{Faust}}'', ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', and then some. The four-parter episode "La función debe continuar" is one big mash-up of sketches parodying several works, ranging from live-action series, films and even ''cartoons'', with the parodied work being mentioned.

Bumblebee Man, a recurring figure on ''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, or Kent Brockman aren't).

** El Chapulín (and sometimes other characters) would also accidentally mix syllables of a few words when shocked or speaking really quickly. Most commonly "¡Escápenlo que se agarra!" ("Escape him that he's catching!")

* DevilInPlainSight: Sometimes, when the character that summons El Chapulín does not have time (or simply forgets) to explain who is causing him/her trouble, El Chapulín will often be fixated in thinking the villain is an ally and viceversa, until he's finally told he got the sides switched around. In these cases, even his vinil antennae usually fail to detect the proper enemy.

* DevilInPlainSight: Sometimes, when the character that summons El Chapulín does not have time (or simply forgets) to explain who is causing him/her trouble, El Chapulín will often be fixated in thinking the villain is an ally and viceversa, until he's finally told he got the sides switched around.

** Whoever Chapulin is helping always say "Bravo, Chapulin Colorado! Eres lo maximo!" ("Bravo, Red Cricket! You're the greatest!") whenever he would best the bad guys and save the day.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** In an episode, one character complains that he should have called Franchise/{{Batman}} instead of Chapulín and he replies:
---> '''Chapulín:''' In the 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 found out the next day.

* DisneyVillainDeath: An offscreen example occurs at the end of a Chapulin sketch in ''Chespirito'' tited "La muerte del bulldog", as El Chapulin reveals that famous criminal Bulldog, who faked his death in order to commit any crime he pleases, fell off a balcony to his death. However, given the very loose continuity of the show, he appears in subsquent episodes alive.

* AdolfHitlarious: In the hour-long episode where El Chapulín faces Adolf Hitler, the dictator plays a war game with his staff ([[RuleOfFunny which he wins by dropping a bomb on the opposing figurines]]), goes on a rant when he finds out what was water in a Europe map was Austria (and crying that it must never be painted yellow), and then realizes he sent submarines to strike on that country. It ends with Hitler accidentally killing himself and his staff after setting off the SelfDestructButton of his bunker.
-->'''Chapulín:''' And people will surely say that he killed himself or something and so and so...

* Often, a character will say something nice to him, then add on “... even though you’re short, ugly, stupid, weak, etc., etc., etc., etc...” Chapulín’s responde is always “You could have at least left out a couple of et certeras.”