El Chavo Animado (seasons 1 & 2)

El Chavo Animado (El Chavo: The Animated Series in English) is a Mexican animated series based on the live action TV series El Chavo del Ocho, created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños for Canal 5 and Cartoon Network's Latin American feed.

After several years of successful reruns of the original series, on October 21, 2006 Televisa launched in Mexico and the rest of Latin America an animated version of the program by Ánima Estudios to capitalize on the original series' popularity.

El Chavo Animado also aired in English via Kabillion's on-demand service in North America.

Why These Seasons Rock

 * 1) Very faithful to the source material, since they adapted a great majority of episodes correctly and make them more fun.
 * 2) *Sometimes they surpass the original episode in quality.
 * 3) **In "El desayuno del Chavo" they changed the horrible and sad ending that the original episode or name had with something cute and touching.
 * 4) **In "La Guerra de la vecindad" they changed the final crude where Doña Florinda wait for Don Ramon to kill a satisfying ending where she gets what she deserves.
 * 5) *Some original stories from season two are creative and fun.
 * 6) Some characters retain the same characteristics that they had in the series and make them just as charismatic.
 * 7) *Paty has a more important and significant role in this series than in the original series (probably to reinforce the role of female characters in the series since La Chilindrina was removed).
 * 8) Good and amazing soundtrack
 * 9) Mostly decent voice acting, is faithful to the live-action series.
 * 10) *The Brazilian Portuguese dub also respects the adaptations of the original series.
 * 11) Attractive and good character design.
 * 12) Lots of good episodes like:
 * 13) *"Los globos" (Which was a great way to start this program, if we don't count its pilot episode)
 * 14) *"Una mosca en el café"
 * 15) *"Satanás"
 * 16) *"Los yeseros"
 * 17) *"Toques a ritmo de vals"
 * 18) *"Falta de agua"
 * 19) *"El juego de béisbol"
 * 20) *"El Chavo lavacoches"
 * 21) *"Fútbol Americano"
 * 22) *"Un ratero en la vecindad"
 * 23) *"La mascota de Quico" ("Considered by many as the best episode of the Chavo"
 * 24) *"Una broma de gran peso"
 * 25) *"Los bomberos"
 * 26) *"Limpieza en la vecindad"/"Pintando la vecindad"
 * 27) *"El desayuno del Chavo" (Which corrected the depressing ending the original episode had.)
 * 28) *"El Justiciero Enmascarado"
 * 29) *"Historias de terror"
 * 30) *"El dinero perdido"
 * 31) *"Las aguas frescas"
 * 32) *"Don Ramón lechero"
 * 33) *"La vecindad en guerra"
 * 34) *"Se busca"
 * 35) *"Los dientes de leche"
 * 36) *"La novia del Chavo"
 * 37) *"Los juguetes de papel"


 * 1) Like the original they teach very good morals.
 * 2) The animation of season 2 was very good and an improvement to that of the first season.
 * 3) The idea of adapting El Chavo del Ocho into a cartoon wasn't bad. In fact thanks to that, it resurrected the charm of the original series, increasing the large number of Fans that the original series had.
 * 4) Likewise, the character designs are pretty good looking.
 * 5) Aside from a few voices, the Spanish original and English and Portuguese dubs have quite good voice acting.
 * 6) * Related to that, the Spanish voices of Don Ramon, Ñoño, Sr. Barriga, Doña Clotilde and La Popis are similar to their original actors.
 * 7) Some character design changes were good and even necessary for the animation, as now Señor Barriga's clothes are brown instead of black and the shirt under Godinez's overalls is green instead of yellow.
 * 8) Popis has become a much more likable character than her original version of the live-action series.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) As of the third season, the series began to decline dramatically showing more fanciful and childish plots than the original.
 * 2) *Season 2, while not bad, is considered the weaker of the first two seasons at the writing level.
 * 3) The animation, although not bad, is bland and cheap, the character movements are incredibly stilted, sometimes the characters' mouths don't move, and the backgrounds are in low-quality CGI,although it improved a little in the second season.
 * 4) La Chilindrina, one of the main and most popular characters from the original live-action show has been completely removed due to a royalty conflict between Maria Antonieta de las Nieves and Chespirito, so her roles had to be replaced by Ñoño.
 * 5) Some of the voices are annoying, such as Chavo's (depending on your view), Godinez's and Quico's in the original Spanish version and Ñoño's in the English dub.
 * 6) Most of the earlier episodes are just remakes of some live-action episodes. Some of them are halfway adaptations, for example, for the episode of The Churros the third part was absolutely ignored, and in the episode of Quico's Rat there's a reference to the previous part which was not adapted.
 * 7) Even before the thrid season, the good seasons had bad episodes like:
 * 8) *"Insomnio" (That it does not adapt correctly to the homonymous episode and left the first part that was a remake of the episode unfinished "Los pantalones de Don Ramon")
 * 9) *"La venta de churros" (depending on your view)
 * 10) *"Fotos buenas, regulares y peores" (depending on your view)
 * 11) *"Cuéntame una de fantasmas" (Considered the worst episode of season 1)
 * 12) *"El gran premio de la vecindad" (That I started season 2 in a mediocre way)
 * 13) *"¡Cómo suben los alimentos!"
 * 14) *"Cuidemos el agua"
 * 15) *"Canta, Chavo" (depending on your view)
 * 16) *"¡Esas llantitas, Señor Barriga!"
 * 17) *"Vamos al circo"
 * 18) The English dub is overly localized. References to Mexican culture of any kind are poorly erased out, Tangamandapio was renamed to Upsidedowntown, characters' names were changed, etc. Also, the English dub only lasted for two seasons.
 * 19) *Most of the English dub names are awful, Ñoño for examplo had his name changed to Junior, which doesn't make sense because in the original he and his father have different names.
 * 20) *Also, in this dub, the opening theme has lyrics and they're pretty cheesy sounding, however it later switched back to the original theme.
 * 21) *Not to mention there are bad and annoying voices like Chavo or Godinez (Gordon) who have the voice of a child in real life. And while technically they are, their voices just don't fit. Other bad voices would be Quico (He sounds more jerk than he really is and sounds like SpongeBob) and Ñoño (Junior).
 * 22) *However, there are some clever English names, such as Miss Pinster/The Witch in 71 (Doña Clotilde) being a pun on 'spinster'.
 * 23) From season 2 onwards there was a unnecessary introduction of many new characters such as Rubia Margot, Hercules, the baby Panfilo, El Justiciero Enmascarado and a unnamed scientist. Characters who ended up not even pleasing the biggest Chespirito fans. Additionally, El Justiciero Enmascarado plays the role of El Chavo and Señor Barriga's idol, but if they wanted a superhero for El Chavo to look up to, why not make a crossover with El Chapulín Colorado instead? They already had some crossovers in the live-action series, so there should be no trouble for the them to interact in the animated series.

Trivia

 * It is the first Chespirito program to be dubbed in English, which is unique since a lot of Chespirito programs were never dubbed in English.
 * It has a pilot where it includes Chilindrina and there are rumors that this was the first animated series and that it is now lost media.