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    Doña Florinda/Mrs. Worthmore
    "Come on Quico, do not join with that riffraff!"
    Gender: Female
    Type: Cranky neighbor without a clear reason who hates poor people and always slaps Don Ramón for no reasons.
    Age: Unknown (possibly 30-40)
    Species: Human
    Portrayed by: Florinda Meza (original series)

    Erica Edwards (animated series)
    Marta Volpiani (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
    Kate Higgins (English dub)

    Status: Alive
    Media of origin: El Chavo del Ocho


    Doña Florinda (known as Mrs. Worthmore in the English dub of the animated series) is one of the main characters of the Mexican TV series El Chavo del Ocho, played by Florinda Meza in the original series and Erica Edwards in the cartoon version. The character participated in all seasons of the classic series, the Chespirito series and the animated series. The character is a widowed middle-aged lady who is the overprotective mother of the spoiled and selfish boy Quico, being known for playing an antagonistic role in most episodes.

    Por Qué Ella Dia Juntarse Con La Chusma (Why She Day Hang Out With The Mob)

    1. She is rude and grumpy with all the inhabitants of the village where she lives, always being in a bad mood and easily getting angry with her neighbors. She shows to be nice only with her son and her love interest Professor Jirafales who lives outside the village.
    2. She is responsible for torturing Don Ramón's life by frequently blaming him for things he did not do and violently slapping him as a form of punishment for Don Ramón's actions (that are often not made by him).
      1. Sometimes Florinda attacks Ramón hard enough to leave him in a cast, with bandages and bruises.
      2. She almost never lets Don Ramón explain and defend himself against the false accusations made against him, always slapping him in the face before he says anything.
      3. In one of the episodes she even almost killed Don Ramón by mercilessly assaulting him with a pan that he used to volley an egg that accidentally landed on her hair, thus causing for Don Ramón to go unconscious for the rest of the day that made his daughter La Chilindrina cry.
      4. In an early episode she also shows hypocrisy, as in a scene where Quico is angrily chasing Chilindrina down, Chavo tells her about that and says that men should not hit women. Doña Florinda excuses Quico's action explaining that there are some women who take advantage of this to abuse them. Later on the episode, when she's about to beat Don Ramón, he reminds her of this argument, but she simply claims to, in fact, be part of the kind of women she was referring to and then slaps him anyway.
      5. In one of the episodes Doña Florinda presents El Chavo with Don Ramón's pants that were on the clothesline without Don Ramón knowing about it.
    3. She disrespects the financial conditions of her neighbors, taking advantage of being the richest in the village. Because of this, she often refers to her neighbors (mainly Don Ramón) as riffraff (chusma in the original Mexican dub).
    4. She always defends her son from the bad deeds he does with her neighbors, claiming that he is a good boy and that he should not get involved with the mob. In addition, she is also responsible for spoiling her son by often giving him expensive toys and money.
    5. She is main responsible for having influenced her son Quico to behave like a selfish boy who disrespects his neighbors by calling them of riffraff (mainly Don Ramón).
    6. At times, she shows that she wants to impose order on the village, to the point of wanting to be more authoritarian than the owner of the village Señor Barriga himself.
      1. In one of the episodes she creates a ban on animals and toddlers in the village.
      2. She forces Don Ramón to clean up all the dirt in the village.
      3. She seeks to occupy the entire space of the clothesline in the village to the point of wanting to prohibit Don Ramón and Doña Clotilde from also using the clothesline.
      4. She tries to forbid The Festival of the Vecindad, and she tries to stop Don Ramón from building the pallet, and only accepts it when she hears that Professor Jirafales is coming to the festival.
    7. In some episodes she shows hatred towards animals.
    8. At the end of the episode of the piñata party Doña Florinda drops the pinata on Don Ramón's head (knocking him out) for no reason.
    9. In one of the episodes when Señor Barriga "kills" Don Ramón by crushing him and flattening him turning Ramón into a paper (in a cartoonish way), Doña Florinda is seen watching this scene with great satisfaction.
    10. While Florinda Meza's performance as her is great, it's not as good as her acting in El Chapulín Colorado, a trait similar with Carlos Villagrán as Quico.
    11. She in the animated series has become a much more aggressive and mean woman than in the original, to the point of never showing her gentle side with Don Ramón as she used to do in a few episodes of the original series.
      1. She is also seen slapping other innocent men besides Don Ramón.
      2. As said in RQ# 7, she is shown like an irresponsible mother who never scolds his son Quico by his bad actions, and sometimes, she even supports her son's tricks and bad pranks, sounds familiar?

    Cualidades Redentoras (Redeeming Qualities)

    1. She is not always interpreted as a rude and grumpy woman who despises her neighbors and in some episodes she demonstrates being kind to Don Ramón and admires when he does a good deed and proves to be a good example for children.
    2. In the episodes that occur after Quico and Don Ramón leave, Doña Florinda is portrayed as being more calm and less rude to her neighbors, especially in the episodes when she works in her restaurant becoming a more likable character.
    3. Even though she is dating Professor Jirafales, she does not forget her late husband Federico.
    4. She shows at least being kinder to El Chavo and Doña Clotilde sometimes.
    5. Some of her moments and lines are at least funny and memorable.
    6. Florinda Meza does a great job portraying her, though not as good as her performances in El Chapulín Colorado.
    7. At least she always teaches Quico for not letting playing in the street alone, and always punish him in the right times, sadly, she doesn't do this in the animated series, making Quico a Karma Houdini.
      1. In other words, she looks like a saint mother in comparison with Rochelle Rock.
    8. Despite being a Karma Houdini, she rarely gets punished for the bad actions that she does for Don Ramón, if you are a Brazilian fan or understands portuguese, see here
    9. Although not confirmed, she probably was made to be hated due to her antagonism and make the public sympathize with Don Ramón.

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