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''El Chavo del Ocho'' (often shortened to ''El Chavo'') is a Mexican television sitcom that gained enormous popularity in Hispanic America as well as in Brazil, Spain, United States and other countries. It centers on the adventures and tribulations of the title character—a poor orphan nicknamed "El Chavo" (which means "The Lad"), played by the show's creator, Roberto Gómez Bolaños "Chespirito"—and other inhabitants of a fictional low income housing complex, or, as called in Spanish, ''vecindad''. The show's theme song is "The Elephant Never Forgets" by Jean-Jacques Perrey based on Beethoven's "Turkish March" Op. 113. ''El Chavo'' first appeared in 1971 as a sketch in the ''Chespirito'' show, which was produced by Televisión Independiente de México (TIM).〔 In 1973, following the merger of TIM and Telesistema Mexicano, ''El Chavo'' was transmitted by Televisa and became a weekly half-hour series, which ran until 1980. After that year, shorts continued to be shown in ''Chespirito'' until 1992. At its peak of popularity during the mid-1970s, ''El Chavo'' was the most watched show in Mexican television and had a Latin American audience of 350 million viewers per episode.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Adiós al Chavo del 8: murió Roberto Gómez Bolaños )〕 The Portuguese dub, ''Chaves'', has been broadcast by Brazilian TV Network SBT since 1984, and is also seen on the Brazilian versions of Cartoon Network and Boomerang. Since May 2, 2011, the show has been airing in the United States on the UniMás network,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://tv.univision.com/unimas/article/2011-04-29/el-chavo-se-muda-a )〕 though the show was previously seen on sister network Univision and its predecessor, the Spanish International Network. The show has also spawned an animated series titled ''El Chavo Animado''. The show continues to be immensely popular, with syndicated episodes averaging 91 million daily viewers in all of the markets where it is distributed in the Americas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meet El Chavo, The World's Most Famous (And Richest) Orphan )〕 Since it ceased production in 1992, the show has earned an estimated US$1.7 billion in syndication fees alone for Televisa.〔 Certain episodes of the show are available to be watched on Netflix. ==History== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「El Chavo del Ocho」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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