El Chico del Barril

El Chico del Barril is a 2014 spoof-action film produced by Touche Films and aired on EnchufeTV through YouTube as a genre and respect for intellectual property. It shows the main characters of the Chespirito series in an action plot that includes shooting, blood and passion.

Production
A group of Ecuadorian Internet comedians called "plug TV" has achieved great international repercussion thanks to "El Chico del Barril", a fake trailer published on YouTube of a supposed movie based on "El Chavo del Ocho", where the characters and phrases This children's television classic is immersed in a dark plot, full of action, violence, firearms and lust, with obvious allusions to films such as "The Da Vinci Code" and "Stray Dogs". This audiovisual work at the level of Hollywood has provoked an acid controversy at the Latin American level, especially in Mexico, where "Chavo" and the other characters of the Chespirito factory are considered national heritage. The most faithful followers of the program repudiated that characters associated with white and family humor appeared in a plot loaded with toxic emotions. Paradoxically, the geniuses of "PlugTV" managed to get people like María Antonieta de las Nieves and Carlos Villagrán, who have spent years with their characters, to agree on something for the first time in a long time. The two, in addition to Edgar Vivar, have expressed their discontent with the parody, with "Chilindrina" being the most emphatic in pointing out their fury and rejection, even threatening to sue the Ecuadorian comedians. On the other hand, the Mexican giant Televisa, through Roberto Gómez Fernández, son of "Chespirito" and jealous guardian of his copious audiovisual heritage, asked YouTube to remove the video from the web for the purpose of protecting intellectual property, which which was given to him. However, the hit trailer (over 8 million views at the time of writing) was picked up hours later. Gómez Fernández explained the reason for this change of opinion through his Twitter account: “Considerations about the El Chavo video: the production is great and the handling of black humor is extraordinary. The atmosphere and violent tone are certainly unsettling, but in no way do they seem to mock the characters or the play. The guys at Plug TV are talented, they know what they're doing. I don't think there should be legal action."

Trailer Cancellation
Last Friday, July 11, the EnchufeTV sketch titled 'El Chico del Barril' was temporarily blocked on YouTube due to a copyright claim made by Televisa, owner of the rights to the characters of the comic 'Chespirito'. This fact generated various reactions, for and against said action.