"El Ladrón del Señor Hurtado" and "El Ratero Arrepentido" (El Chavo del Ocho)

El Ladrón del Señor Hurtado (lit.: The Thief of Señor Hurtado) and El Ratero Arrepentido (lit.: The Repentant Pickpocket) are two episodes of the original 70s live-action Mexican series El Chavo del Ocho. The first episode is from 1974, while the second is a remake that premiered in 1976.

These episodes had two more remakes: one in 1982 and another in the first season of the animated series.

Why They Rock

 * 1) Both episodes are known to feature the one-time character Señor Hurtado who is the episode's main villain. The character has become very popular among fans of the show, even though these episodes are his only appearance.
 * 2) The remake is considered funnier and more emotional than the first version, which shows a great evolution.
 * 3) Many of the jokes are funny, for example:
 * 4) * The running gag in which Chavo often misnames Señor Hurtado making him angry
 * 5) * Chavo being dumb telling Don Ramon that he knows who stole his iron (a thief) and who the thief is (the one which stole the iron).
 * 6) * Don Ramón asking Chavo to investigate who killed the Dead Sea
 * 7) * The scene where Quico says "eat pie" after talking to Don Ramón and then says "give her a piece of your pie" after talking to Doña Clotilde.
 * 8) * Doña Florinda slapping Don Ramón thinking he had made Quico cry, when in reality Quico was crying because Chavo had left the village.
 * 9) * Quico doing "Chusma! Chusma!" in Don Ramón before meeting with Chavo in the moment he returns to the village.
 * 10) * The scene where Florinda tells Hurtado that she is hoping one day to be able to leave that village with Ramón/Chilindrinha saying that they are waiting for this day to come so they can have a party.
 * 11) * Señor Hurtado stealing Doña Florinda's panties.
 * 12) * Señor Hurtado and Quico getting scared by Don Ramón's shotgun.
 * 13) * Chavo thinking that Don Ramón will use his shotgun to threaten people to give him money, when in reality he wants to pawn the shotgun to get money.
 * 14) * Don Ramón trying to disguise that the broom is not a shotgun for Doña Florinda with Florinda calling Ramón of drunk.
 * 15) * Chavo throwing Doña Florinda's panties out of his barrel.
 * 16) * Quico laughing at Chavo as Chavo says he came back to the village with "his head in the high" while Chavo threatens to punch Quico if he continues to tease him because this.
 * 17) Ricardo de Pascual's performance as Señor Hurtado is amazing, being almost as good as that of the main actors on the sitcom.
 * 18) Señor Hurtado's look is interesting in both versions, looking like a greaser in "El Ladrón del Señor Hurtado" and having a more criminal-like look in "El Ratero Arrepentido".
 * 19) The scene in which Chavo is framed, is called a thief by the villagers and leaves the village at night saying goodbye to his barrel is considered one of the most heartbreaking and saddest (if not the saddest) scenes of the entire show.
 * 20) Amazing Ending: Chavo tells his friends that he had gone to church to pray wishing the thief would regret what he did and become a good person, Señor Hurtado ends up hearing this and regrets giving back everything he stole in the village. The episode ends with Hurtado giving a torta de jamón to Chavo.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) La Chilindrina is not present in "El Ladrón del Señor Hurtado".
 * 2) The episode starts with some unfunny jokes like: Chavo and Quico talking about the (offensive) names they gave to Don Ramón, Chavo picking his nose, Don Ramón getting scared by Doña Clotilde, Chavo saying that "the donkey gets stuck next to the wheat", Don Ramón saying that there is a M in the word "village door"...
 * 3) In one scene Don Ramón accuses Chavo of having stolen his shotgun, even after learning that Chavo was not the village thief.
 * 4) The 1982 remake and the remake of the animated series are very inferior and more bland, in the first for not containing the presence of Quico and Don Ramón in the cast, since the actors had left the series at that time and having Popis and Jaimito replacing them, in the animated series it's because for removing tone from the sad and emotional scenes in favor of comedy in addition to once again counting on the absence of Chilindrina.

Trivia

 * 1) The 1976 version is considered a cult classic in Brazil, mainly because it had reruns for several years on SBT.