El Chavo: The Animated Series

El Chavo is a Mexican animated series based on the live action TV series "El Chavo del Ocho", created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños for Cartoon Network Latin America. 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. With the series, Televisa began a marketing campaign which included merchandise tie-ins. For the series' launch event, a set was built (imitating the computerized background) on which the animation was explained. Many elements of the original series, including most of the original stories, were included in the animated series. Despite the show's acquisition by Cartoon Network (Latin America), it was the channel's most popular show until 2015 (when it was succeeded by We Bare Bears).

Dubbing History
The series was dubbed into 52 English episodes and aired in Kabillion's video-on-demand, with some changes. The theme song and most of the character names were changed, but the original theme song can be heard during the credits of nearly every episode. Spanish cuisine was Americanized, and the setting changed from Mexico to New York City. Episode titles were changed to idiomatic English.