22 Curiosities about Keys You Probably Didn't Know
1 - The first episode of Chaves, which at first was just a painting of the program "Chespirito", aired on June 20, 1971. Chespirito was the nickname of actor Roberto Bolaños (Chaves).
2 - The character of Angelines Fernández, the Witch of the 71, was so called because it began to work in 1971 with Roberto Bolaños. That was also why he chose his apartment number so that the nickname made sense. The actress passed away in 1994.
3 - In Mexico, Chaves's name was "El Chavo del Ocho". This is because initially the program was channel 8, which later changed frequency and became channel 9. The name was now justified within the series by the number of the apartment in which Chaves lived.
4 - In the story, the barrel is just a hiding place, and he shares the apartment with someone who has not appeared in any episode (the door of the apartment never came too).
5 - Chaves's real name was never revealed, as every time he tried to speak he was interrupted (the original nickname "El Chavo" can be freely translated as "The Boy").
6 - Chaves loves ham sandwiches, but appears to eat only twice this delicacy in the series.
7 - Marie Antoinette de las Nieves (Chiquinha) became pregnant in 1974 and therefore moved away from the series. In episodes where the character was not present, the excuse given in the plot was that she had gone to live with her aunts inside.
8 - Performed by Florinda Meza, Popis was one of the characters inserted to cover the embezzlement caused by the removal of Maria de las Nieves (Chiquinha) and at the beginning had a thin voice. One man told Bolaños that he would no longer see the show because his son had this problem and the other children began to make fun of him at school. Popis disappeared for a while and came back reformulated, his voice normal. In the Brazilian version, the opposite happened: in the beginning she was not a fan, but in the following episodes it became.
9 - Carlos Villagrán (Quico) received a proposal to work on a show in Venezuela. The last episodes in which he was present are those of Acapulco. The justification given for his departure from the program was that Quico would live with a godmother.
10 - Mr. Belly lives in Baleia Street, corner of Cachalote Street, in the village of Elephants.
11 - Edgar Vivar (Mr. Belly) before being an actor was a doctor.
12 - Florinda, besides forming a couple with Girafales (Rubén Aguirre Fuentes) in fiction and having started dating Bolaños (Chaves) in 1978, before that also had a romance with Carlos Villagrán (Quico). Rumors say that is why the two (Bollaños and Villagrán) have been away for many years.
13 - Tagamandápio, a city always mentioned by the postman Jaiminho, really exists. It is a small municipality located in the northwest of Michoacán state in Mexico. In 2012, a statue was inaugurated in the city in honor of the character who always wanted to avoid fatigue.
14 - The actor who played Godinez was Roberto Bolaños' brother Horácio Bolaños and died of a heart attack in 1999.
15 - The iconic song that plays during the meeting between Dona Florinda and Professor Girafales in the Portuguese dubbed version is inspired by the musical theme of the movie "Tara's Theme".
16 - In 1995, after Bolaños (Chaves) forgot to renew the rights of the character Chiquinha, Maria Antonieta de las Nieves came to own them. That's why new works, such as Chaves' cartoon, for example, do not contain the character.
17 - The last words spoken by Ramón Valdez (His Madruga) to Edgar Vivar (Mr. Belly) were: “See? I didn't pay the rent! ”
18 - Carlos Villagrán (Quico) said that when he went to visit Ramón at the hospital he was very sad, and the actor who played Seu Madruga told him to calm down, as they would meet "there". Carlos asked if they would meet in heaven, and Ramón joked, "No, in hell."
19 - Angelines Fernández (Witch of 71), during the funeral of Ramón Valdez, wept for hours beside his coffin, refusing to leave.
20 - Carlos Villagrán did not have to use any kind of filling in the cheeks. He filled them with air and spoke at the same time.
21 - The idea of Professor Girafales's famous “Ta ta ta ta ta”, according to actor Rubén Aguirre, comes from a teacher of his childhood named Celayo Rodríguez.
22 - Another famous phrase, said by Chaves in the episode “Vamos ao Cinema”, in the Portuguese dubbed version in Brazil, was “It would have been better to see Pelé's movie”. Already in the original version, the phrase was: “Hubiera been better to go to see the El Chanfle Film” This, in this case, was a comedy film directed by Enrique Segoviano (who was also director of the productions of Chaves and Chapolin) and starring Bolaños. Pelé's film, quoted in the voiceover, was “Os Trombadinhas”, in which the former player acted as himself.
* Posted on 4/9/2015
