''El Chavo Animado'' (''El Chavo: The Animated Series'' in English) is a Mexican

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based on the

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television series ''

El Chavo del Ocho ''El Chavo'' ("The Kid/The Boy", Spanish 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 (Che ...

'', created by

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, produced by

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and Ánima Estudios. It aired on Canal 5, and repeats were also shown on

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and Cartoon Network Latin America. 135 episodes aired between 2006 and 2014. After several years of successful repeats of the original series, on October 21, 2006

launched in Mexico and the rest of Latin America an animated version of the program by Ánima Estudios to capitalise on the original series' popularity. With the series, Televisa began a marketing campaign which included merchandise tie-ins. For the series' launch event, a set was built (imitating the computerised background) on which the animation was said. Many elements of the original series, including most of the original stories, were included in the animated series. ''El Chavo Animado'' also aired in English via

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's on-demand service in the

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. Although it was part of the video-on-demand service, the series did not appear on the Kabillion website until the site's April 2012 relaunch. The series is currently airing on BitMe and Distrito Comedia as of 2020, and from 2016–2017, and again from 2022–2024, it aired on

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alongside ''

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''.

Premise

Background

The cartoon depicts the children to scale, compared to the live-action series where the children were played by adults. This was not the first attempt to animate the show's characters;

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sequences were created for the original-series credits during the late 1970s, and 2D animations were used for the credits of ''Chespirito'' (the program which succeeded ''El Chavo'' and its sister series, ''

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'').

Synopsis

Based on the series ''

'', the cartoon is the adventures of

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, a poor boy, and his gang, who live in a village in Mexico (the Brazilian dubbing, however, moved the village's location to Brazil and in Kabillion's dub, to

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). In the first season, all episodes of the series are remakes of episodes from the original series. With the absence of La Chilindrina, Ñoño, Popis and Quico (in school episodes) replace her role in most episodes. From the second season, the cartoon began to have episodes with original stories.

Characters

''El Chavo Animado'' features all the characters of the original series, with the exception of La Chilindrina due to ownership disputes. The series stars El Chavo, a poor boy, along with his gang, which consists of Quico, the exhibitionist and protected son of Doña Florinda, and Ñoño, a fat boy which is Señor Barriga's son.

Cast

Spanish

* Jesús Guzmán as

, Godínez * Sebastián Llapur as Quico and Señor Barriga (seasons 5-7) *

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Don Ramón Don Ramón is a Mexican fictional character from the Mexican television sitcom series ''El Chavo del Ocho'', played by the Mexican actor Ramón Valdés. He is an unemployed widower who lives in flat n°. 72 in Chavo's neighborhood, owned by Señ ...

, Ñoño * Erica Edwards as Doña Florinda, La Popis * Juan Carlos Tinoco (seasons 1-2) and Moisés Suárez Aldana (seasons 3-7) as Profesor Jirafales * Erika Mireles as Doña Clotilde (La Bruja del 71) * Víctor Delgado (seasons 1-5) as Señor Barriga * Maggie Vera as Paty * Leonardo García (seasons 1-5) and Hector Miranda (seasons 6-7) as Jaimito, el cartero * Julieta Rivera as Gloria

English

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as Chavo, Miss Pinster (The Witch of 71) *

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as Quico, Mr. Raymond, Captain Hopper *

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as Mrs. Worthmore, Gordon, Phoebe *

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as Gordon, Phoebe *

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as Junior *

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as Gloria, Patty *

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as Professor Girafalde *

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as Mr. Beliarge, Manny the Mailman, Mr. Crookley

English dub

The series was dubbed into English and aired on

's video-on-demand service, with some changes. The theme song and most of the character names were changed, but the original theme song can be heard during the credits of nearly every episode. Spanish cuisine was Americanized, and the setting changed from

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. Episode titles were changed to idiomatic English, although 2 seasons were only aired in the USA.

US names

Chavo, Gloria and Quico are the only characters whose names have never been Americanized or changed. Although Paty's name sounds the same, the US version adds another "t" to the name. *Don Ramón – Mr. Raymond *Doña Florinda – Mrs. Worthmore *Profesor Jirafales – Professor Girafalde *Doña Cleotilde, La bruja del 71 – Miss Pinster, The Witch of 71 *Señor Barriga – Mr. Beliarge *Jaimito el cartero – Manny the Mailman *La Popis – Phoebe *Ñoño – Junior *Godínez – Gordon *Paty – Patty *El Chapulín Colorado – Captain Hopper *Señor Hurtado – Mr. Crookley *Serafina – Stephanie *El Justiciero Enmascarado – The Secret Masked Crusader *La Rubia Margot – Margot Blonde *Panfilo – The Baby *Vicente/Chente – Chova *Rufino Malacara – Ruffino Meanface

Episode list

Season 1 (2006–2007)

The original title is in the original

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version, which aired on Canal 5. The

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title is the

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version, which aired on

, the Portuguese title is for the

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version.

Season 2 (2007–2008)

Season 3 (2009–2010)

This was the last English-dubbed season. Only the first 6 episodes of this season were dubbed, and they have never been released publicly or aired on Kabillion.

Season 4 (2010–2011)

The episode "La vecindad en venta" ("Neighboorhood on Sale") was dubbed, but it was never released.

Season 5 (2012)

Season 6 (2013)

Season 7 (2014)

Telecast

The show was aired on Canal 5, and repeats were also shown on

and Cartoon Network Latin America. ''El Chavo Animado'' also aired in

via

's on-demand service in the

Spin-offs and merchandise

Televisa released six episodes of ''El Chavo'' in Mexico in 2007. The same collection was released by Universal Video Entertainment in Brazil in 2008 as ''Chaves em Desenho Animado''. Quico, La Popis (Phoebe), Don Ramón (Mr. Raymond), Doña Florinda (Mrs. Worthmore) and Profesor Jirafales (Professor Girafalde) dolls were marketed in Mexico in 2004.

Video games

A video game based on the series was developed by Kaxan Media Group and released in Mexico on April 27, 2012 for the

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by Slang Publishing and Televisa Home Entertainment. ''La Vecindad de El Chavo'' (a

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) was released in March 2012 by Playful Play, a game development company in Monterrey, Mexico. By October 3, 2012, the game had three million registered players. It closed on August 4, 2014. In 2014, '' El Chavo Kart'' was released for the

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, and Android. However, the Android version has since been delisted from the

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. In 2014, another game was released exclusively on Android, titled ''El Chavo: A Carnival in the Apartments''. It was developed by Blue River SA. In this game, a carnival is taking place in the housing complex, and we can play minigames to win tickets to get powerups. The game was able to be played in Spanish, English (using the names from the Kabillion dub), and Brazilian Portuguese. However, the game has since been delisted from the Google Play Store.

''El Chapulín Colorado Animado''

After the success of ''El Chavo Animado'',

and Ánima Estudios developed an animated series based on ''

'' (another show created by

). It premiered on veo.tv on April 13, 2015, and on television on July 26 of that year.

Successor

First presented in

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, then at MIPCOM in

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, a new CG-animated series adaptation of ''

'' is in development. It will be produced by THR3 Media Group. It will feature the return of La Chilindrina, a character absent in the previous animated series.

References

External links

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Ánima Estudios
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