Chiquilladas was a Mexican

Mexico

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 sketch and musical show that used only children as actors. First aired on Mexican television in 1982, it ran until 1993. During its run it was the first to showcase various Mexican artists including Carlos Espejel

Carlos Espejel

Carlos Espejel Leguizano is a Mexican telenovela actor and comedian, best known for his roles as "Chiquidrácula" and "Carlinflas" .-Biography:...

, Aleks Syntek

Aleks Syntek

Raúl Alejandro Escajadillo Peña , better known as Aleks Syntek, is a Mexican singer, songwriter and producer. He is married to Karen Coronado, sister of talkshow host Ingrid Coronado.-Biography:...

, Lucero and Anahí

Anahí

Anahí Giovanna Puente Portilla, better known as Anahí , , is a Mexican singer-songwriter and actress. She gained international fame after being cast as Mia Colucci in the hit Mexican telenovela Rebelde, and as a member of the Latin Grammy-nominated pop group RBD..- Acting career :At the age of 2,...

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Characters

During its run, it portrayed various characters and sketches that appeared in various broadcasts.

Carlinflas (portrayed by Carlos Espejel)
Was a kid impersonation from famous comic character Cantinflas

Cantinflas

Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes , was a Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter known professionally as Cantinflas. He often portrayed impoverished campesinos or a peasant of pelado origin...

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Chiquidrácula (Carlos Espejel)
A comic version of Bela Lugosi

Béla Lugosi

Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó , commonly known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen. He was best known for having played Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version, as well as having starred in several of Ed Wood's low budget films in the last years of his...

's Dracula

Dracula (1931 film)

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, who tried repeatedly to give other kids "meyo" (a corruption of "miedo", fright).

Pituka y Petaka
Two indigenous sisters who always made scams on foreign tourists.

Popeye and Olive
Lucero portrayed as Olive Oyl

Olive Oyl

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, and Alexs Syntek featured as Bluto

Bluto

Bluto is a cartoon and comics character created in 1932 by Elzie Crisler Segar as a one-time character, named "Bluto the Terrible", in his Thimble Theatre comic strip . Bluto made his first appearance September 12 of that year...

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24 Horitas
A spoof of the main Televisa

Televisa

Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...

 network (at the time) 24 Horas. Petaka was cast as Jacobo Zabludovsky

Jacobo Zabludovsky

Jacobo Zabludovsky Kraveski is a Mexican journalist. He was the first anchorman in Mexican television and his TV news program, 24 Horas was for decades the most important in the country.-Biography:...

. Pituka appeared as "Tacha" saying comic poems, impersonating the actor Hector Kiev (Tacho Lopez Cuarzo), who gave sport forecasts on the real news show, using a black charro suit. Also Ginni was called "Bolita Ayala", alluding the newscaster Lolita Ayala. She send the news focus back to Jacobo through a "bolita de papel" (paper-ball)

60 Minutitos
Was a spoof about the investigative television magazine 60 Minutes

60 Minutes

60 Minutes is an American television news magazine, which has run on CBS since 1968. The program was created by producer Don Hewitt who set it apart by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation....

. Carlos Espejel was the principal reporter and Ginni appeared as Virginia Leteme. A running gag was that some of the news was related to Virginia's cat.

Ha-Mon
A comic version of He-Man

He-Man

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, where the character was fat and used his body as a battering ram. Also, his quote was "Por el Poder de mi panza" (By the Power of my belly).

Awards

Year	Ceremony	Award	Result
1983	1st TVyNovelas Awards Premios TVyNovelas The TVyNovelas Awards, also known as the Premios TVyNovelas are presented annually by Televisa and the magazine TVyNovelas to honour the best Mexican television productions, especially telenovelas. Instituted in 1983, the award ceremony is held in Forum Mundo Imperial in Acapulco...	Best Children's Program