Quico (El Chavo del Ocho)

For other uses, see Quico.

Federico Mátalas Corcuera
El Chavo del Ocho character
First appearance	Las Adivinanzas (1972)
Last appearance	Todavía no es Hora de Clases (1978)
Created by	Roberto Gómez Bolaños
Portrayed by	Carlos Villagrán
Voiced by	Sebastián Llapur (El Chavo Animado) Doug Erholtz (El Chavo Animado; English dub)
Age	9 years old
In-universe information
Alias	Quico (in El Chavo del Ocho) Kiko (in Kiko Botones)
Gender	Male
Occupation	Primary student (in El Chavo del Ocho) Bellboys in a Hotel (in Kiko Botones) Store employee 'La Sorpresa' (in ¡Ah qué Kiko!)
Family	Florinda Corcuera (mother) Federico Mátalas (father, deceasead) Popis (cousin)
Religion	Catholic
Home	Flat 14 in Señor Barriga's neighborhood
Nationality	Mexican

Recreation of the set of El Chavo del ocho, where Quico lives in apartment 14.

Quico is a character from the Mexican television sitcom El Chavo del Ocho. The character, for legal reasons, is also known as Kiko. He was played by Carlos Villagrán in the original series and in the animated series his voice is provided by Sebastián Llapur. In the English dub version of the animated series, he is voiced by Doug Erholtz.

He is the only son of Federico Mátalas and Doña Florinda. His full name is Federico Mátalas Corcuera; according to the deduction of the full name of Doña Florinda, Florinda Corcuera y Villalpando, Vda. de Mátalas Callando. However, on Chespirito's official website it is stated that his name is Federico Bardón de la Regueira..

Personality

Quico is 9 years old, although in one of the first episodes he said he was about to turn 7. He is the only son of Doña Florinda, who idealizes and consents to him, which is why he usually shows the caricatured personality of a naive, spoiled child. and pretentious. His mother has instilled in him the belief that the neighbors there are not up to his standards and he makes classist comments about it, treating them as «chusma» («rabble» or «riffraff»). However, Quico is not completely convinced of it. His father is orphaned, since he, who was an officer and captain in the Mexican Navy, died when his ship sank and was devoured by a shark (or a whale). Hence, in the series it is said that "Federico descansa en pez" ("Federico rests in fish") and not in peace.

Although he has good feelings and is very affectionate deep down, he is an extremely conceited and manipulative child, he demands all the attention for himself and spares nothing to achieve it. Sometimes he gets hurt or beaten in fights with Chavo and he manages to get his mother to always defend him, but she spends her life beating Don Ramón whom she arbitrarily accuses of what happens to her son based on slapping or other aggression. . Generally, he hides behind the mask of being the "rich" in the neighborhood, showing off everything he has; if someone gets something, he boasts that he has, or can easily get, something better, like the expensive toys he likes to outshine the ones that Chavo makes for himself.

His mother doesn't regularly get mad at him, but it happens when she calls him "Federico" with great force, which causes him to say Es que tú me dices Federico cuando estás enojada conmigo (Is that you call me Federico when you're mad at me) even though he forgives him almost immediately. Quico loves his mother and tries to obey her, but always looking for his own interests above hers. He gets involved with his friends like El Chavo, La Chilindrina and Ñoño, despite the fact that Doña Florinda tells him not to hang out with "the chusma". Quico asks his mom for things, who pampers him excessively.

Quico has a very characteristic gesture when he is about to do some physical activity (play soccer, baseball, run, etc.), which consists of moistening his earlobes with saliva, for which he sucks his index finger and then rubs against his earlobes. Then, by way of preparation, he does an exaggerated simulation of the movement he is going to do (if he is going to kick a ball, he kicks the air or the ground with great force; if he is going to throw a baseball, he moves his arm in a certain way). very energetic, etc.), until finally it does, almost always ending in a catastrophe or accidental blow.

He's a complete airhead and his many clumsiness make him quite comical. He is extremely clumsy and at the same time attentive and awake, and he is also Professor Jirafales' headache, so he is very patient.

In 1979 exactly, after the episode "Clases de primeros auxilios" ("First aid classes"), in a chapter in which Doña Florinda takes Chilindrina and Chavo to a cinema to see El Chanfle, the character of Quico was never seen or mentioned in the series again. His absence is explained by Doña Florinda when asked by Don Ramón why he did not go with "His son", where he replies that "My son" (they no longer call him Quico), had gone to live with his godmother, la rica (the rich) to no longer be among the chusma.

Typical clothing

He wears a sailor suit, referencing the outfit upper-class boys wore in the early to mid-20th century. The suit is black in two pieces. The upper part has a red tie that ends in two white stripes, the shirt has a "V" neck and long sleeves. The pants are replaced by knee-length shorts and are combined with a yellow, blue (black in the 1977–1978 seasons) and red cap, yellow knee-high socks and white sneakers. This character underwent a change in his clothing when Carlos Villagrán renamed him "Federrico" and later as "Kiko", giving him white with red details in Federrico and red with white details in ¡Ah qué Kiko! instead of the classic black.

Kiko

After leaving the cast of El Chavo del Ocho, Carlos Villagrán could not embody Quico again, because the rights of the character were owned by Roberto Gómez Bolaños, so he decided to rename him Kiko, by doing this, he evades a possible demand from Roberto Gómez Bolaños since that copyright does not contemplate "The use of similar words that sound the same as the registered word".

From 1981 to 1986, Villagrán worked on three projects with the character of Kiko in Venezuela. The first was Niño de papel. The second project was Federrico together with Ramón Valdés, focused on the adventures of the character, often parodying El Chavo del Ocho, despite the name change, it was technically the same character. The third was Kiko Botones in 1986, it showed the character as a hotel bellboy in Caracas (it represented an already adult Kiko but with a childish mentality). In 1987, he received a proposal from Canal 13 (of Mexico) to carry out his own program called ¡Ah qué Kiko!, together with Ramón Valdés, however due to his partner's state of health, the project was suspended for a short time to be resumed by Sergio Ramos now working on the plot for "don Cejudo".

The use of Kiko or Quico depends on the context in which it is used, if one is referring to the series El Chavo del Ocho, Quico should be used, since that is the name that Roberto Gómez Bolaños conceived, now if one is talking about projects outside of Chavo del Ocho carried out independently by Carlos Villagrán after his departure from the Mexican program, should be named as Kiko.

External links

• Quotations related to Quico (El Chavo del Ocho) at Wikiquote
• Information sheet at Chavodel8.com