''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'' (English: ''The Kid''); — also known as ''El Chavo del Ocho'' (English: ''The Kid from number Eight'') during its earliest episodes —, is a Mexican television sitcom created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños, produced by Televisa. It ...

'', created by

Roberto Gómez Bolaños Roberto Gómez Bolaños (21 February 1929 – 28 November 2014), more commonly known by his stage name Chespirito, or "Little William Shakespeare, Shakespeare", was a Mexican actor, comedian, screenwriter, humorist, director, producer, and au ...

, produced by

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and Ánima Estudios. It aired on Canal 5, and repeats were also shown on Las Estrellas and Cartoon Network Latin America. 134 episodes aired between 2006 and 2014 and starts a hiatus. After several years of successful repeats of the original series, on 21 October 2006

launched in

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and the rest of

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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 USA. 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

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as of 2020 and in 2016 - 2017 and as of 2022, It aired on Galavisión along with '' El Chapulín Colorado Animado''.

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, '' El Chapulín Colorado'').

Synopsis

Based on the series ''

'', the cartoon is the adventures of El Chavo, 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 New York City). 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 Mr. Barriga's son.

Cast

Spanish

* Jesús Guzmán as El Chavo, Godínez * Sebastián Llapur as Quico * Mario Castañeda as Don Ramón, 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) and Sebastián Llapur (seasons 6-7) 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 * Bob Buchholz as Professor Girafalde

English dub

The series was dubbed into 52 English episodes and aired in

's video-on-demand, 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 Americanised, and the setting changed from Mexico to

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. Episode titles were changed to idiomatic English.

US names

Chavo, Gloria and Quico are the only characters whose names have never been Americanised 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 *Professor 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 English title is the American English version, which aired on

, the Portuguese title is for the Brazilian Portuguese version.

Season 2 (2007–2008)

This was the last English-dubbed season.

Season 3 (2009–2010)

Season 4 (2010–2011)

Season 5 (2012)

Season 6 (2013)

Season 7 (2014)

Telecast

The show was aired on Canal 5, and repeats were also shown on Las Estrellas and Cartoon Network Latin America. 134 episodes aired between 2006 and 2014 and starts a hiatus. ''El Chavo Animado'' also aired in English via

as of 2020.

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 Professor Jirafales (Professor Girafalges) 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 27 April 2012 for the Wii 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 3 October 2012, the game had three million registered players. It closed on 4 August 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 Google Play Store. 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 '' El Chapulín Colorado'' (another show created by

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

References

External links

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