YMMV / El Chapulín Colorado

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • A few music videos thrown in the middle of the episodes.
  • In one 1976 episode, a character of fellow comedy show "Los Polivoces" appears out of nowhere, mistaking El Chapulín for someone else, then leaves and his presence is never acknowledged again.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Alma Negra the pirate is the most fondly remembered of the many villains of the show, chiefly due his actor's sheer charisma. This is in part due his incredible array of Badass Boast (like claiming to have killed the Dead Sea) and distinctive, incredibly exaggerated Evil Laugh.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Like El Chavo del ocho, Chapulin fandom extends to many Latin American countries, especially Brazil.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: The ending of the "La función debe continuar" six-part saga. Its aesop is that the end of the physical existence of a work or an author does not truly mean it's lost forever. Despite that saga being among the final episodes of El Chapulín Colorado,^note Although it eventually came back as a sketch on Chespirito, Chespirito's own death in 2014, and that all Chespirito shows were put out of syndication in 2020, he has been proven right through the efforts of fans.
• Memetic Mutation: Many of Chapulin's catch-phrases became staples of Latin-American pop culture. Namely "¡No contaban con mi astucia!" ("You/They did not count on my cleverness!").
• Nightmare Fuel: The episode with the giant, at the end when it steps in Chapulin, complete with Chapulin screaming and a sound of bones cracking. Chapulin was fine though, it was a dream.
• Retroactive Recognition: A young Rocío Prado guest-stars in a 1973 episode, as the girl who tossed her toys away and then lied to her parents that they were stolen so they would buy her more.
• Special Effects Failure: As much of a pioneer in Latin America for its use (and overuse) of Chroma Key, whenever it was used it was very noticeable, especially when El Chapulín Colorado uses the Chiquitolina pills. The most blatant giveaways are characters in Chroma Key having noticeably different lightning than other characters, and sometimes the green outline of the removed background could be seen. The instances of El Chapulín Colorado using the Chicharra Paralizadora were sometimes worse, as the "special effect" used to achieve the actors looking still was the actors actually just standing still; likewise, in episodes featuring a wax figure of Chapulín, said "wax figure" is actually just Chespirito standing completely still and immobile.
• Tear Jerker: The ending of the La función debe continuar six-part saga. After the old man finishes touring El Chapulín through the filming studio, he is convinced that the studios will remain even after being demolished because no one can destroy what was done there. El Chapulín is touched by those words, even doing a Title Drop to point it out. It's basically the way Chespirito thanked all those films that left a mark in history. It goes even further through Heartwarming in Hindsight, as explained above.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Although the show was fairly the same for about twenty years, some will argue that the departure of actors Ramon Valdes and Carlos Villagran roughly halfway through the show's run seriously hurt its quality. Others disliked the removal of the laugh track at about the same period of time, as while it was said that it was removed out of respect for the audience, it was simply replaced with a musical cue, rendering the removal moot.
• Values Dissonance:
  • Rarer than in El Chavo del ocho, but you can easily tell that it is set in the 1970s when in an episode a man working in the house while his wife got a job is Played for Laughs and the plot is "resolved" once he overcomes his anxiety to perform as a doctor and establishes himself as the boss in the house, making the wife go back to being a housewife, and everyone acts as if balance had been restored. This episode was re-made in 1992 without one detail changed.
  • One episode where Chapulín is summoned in Japan by a tourist has the Japanese characters being portrayed by the so not Asian regular cast in Yellowface, and speaking in accegerated accents. Hilarious back in the day, incredibly cringe worthy today.
  • One skit that aired as part of the stories Chapulín told, set during the American Civil War, centered around a hired hand, played by Chespirito, that drew the ire of a Confederate officer, played by Carlos Villagran, after his wife convinced Chespirito's character to help her in a scheme. To keep him Hidden in Plain Sight, they dressed Chespirito's character as a slave, meaning that, yes, he had to wear Blackface and speak with an exaggerated caribbean accent, with nothing implying it is Deliberate Values Dissonance.
  • The episode "El fantasma del piel roja", where Chapulín fights against a stereotypical Native American Indian chief that even speaks in Tonto Talk. While the Indian chief turns out to be an actor promoting the place, is still can be racist by the fact the episode uses the uses the term "redskin" to refer to the Indian chief, which can be uncomfortable for modern audiences considering that "redskin" is a racial slur towards Native Americans nowadays.