Mucha Lucha was a really cool show with an even cooler production and history, let’s talk about some behind the scenes trivia, background characters and their origins, and even all 25 episodes of the first season!
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The real irony of the My Hero Academia comparison, is that Mucha Lucha actually stuck the landing and is fondly remembered to this day. So yes, Ricochet's odds are very favorable when stacked up against Deku as one of them hit the books long before settling on a career path, carefully studying the Code of Masked Wrestling for his entire life.
glorious cheese of the sea…. may be a reference to a sea of cheese (song from 1991)
Dude flamenco is from spain lol not México
Starring Turonga Leela and Bender Rodriguez
The expression cheese of the sea could be referencing SpongeBob..Maybe.. Only cheese from the sea that procrastinates.
I feel old
0:41 flamenco is not MEXICAN CULTURE
What if the founder of the school must keep his attack going in order for the school to exist?
Mucha Lucha was the GOAT for me growing up! I'll always prefer the style of the first season over 2 and 3, and I'll still forever be salty that Rikochet was recasted once the 2nd season ended…though I do find the joke they made in 3's first episode very humorous all's considered.
I still have almost all my childhood stuff from it like the Mix-A-Lots and a Signature Move Megawatt as well as a throw blanket. I used to have the fishing pole, but idk what happened to it. Apparently it was also recalled at some point… This and Nacho Libre were the only times I saw the actual wrestling, but shows like El Tigre made me fall in love with the mask designs more than the actual wrestling. All these had me asking for a Lucha Libre mask growing up, and I did manage to get one! Also I always admired Rey Mysterio, but as much as I wanted figures of him, I never got any. Also also this show is what caused my dad to start called me El Rey lol!
The second this show aired in Mexico, back when I was a kid, I saw many ads for it and how big the advertising was for them selling even pogs in bag of chips, yeh those were still a thing back then. They were in bag of popular chip brands, basically our way of getting kids to getting snacks and free toys. I always saw my time and made sure to do my homework before I can catch it on tv, sadly some days I couldn’t and so I missed some episodes (no reruns or cable on my end😔).
But yeh to this day I can’t stop remembering the opening to the various characters and how I just felt in love with the show itself and appreciated how it was really connected to my childhood and culture. It just spoke to me as someone who’s Mexican and enjoy me some silly cartoons and happen to have a bit of my childhood in them.
It's wild how obvious it is that the show was done in Flash if you're looking for it, but how easy it is to miss or forget when you're NOT looking for it
I'd love to see more of this series
Mucha Lucha was one of my favorite shows growing up, and now as an adult that can appreciate animations. I cant help but love how this was made on Flash animation yet this show came out swinging and hitting hard. Like Flash didn't have the best track record of making animations when some people used it as a short cut to animate there shows, but Mucha Lucha made it work so well for them.
My first exposure to lucha libre was the guy from the Jackie Chan adventures.
Well for fans of Mucha Lucha and wrestling, the creator of the show teamed up with the creator of the 10 year long running Supershow the Game wrestling card game to create "Super Lucha!", it's running on Kickstarter right now with new Luchadors and was funded in 37 minutes. We've already hit the first stretch goal of $40,000 and currently sitting at $51,275, the final goal is $100,000 to unlock the final Luchador. So if anyone is interested spread the word to your friends and help reach the goal so we can unlock all the Luchadors, comment in the comment section of the kickstarter too as at 500 comments we'll unlock a new card "Room Full of Rocking Chairs". I didn't much watch Mucha Lucha but I met the creator of Supershow and he was a cool dude and I'm looking forward to seeing future collabs with the two of these guys.
I def wanna get to the movie, it was so good lol
I still scream Mucha Lucha!!! In my head till this day Love this show.
Fun fact: Mucha Lucha is one of the only shows that can be upscaled to 4K because it was made with all vectors
I loved this show when I was little, it was one of the few I would go out of my way to watch whenever it was on back in the day.
11:10
AFAIK, they just made that up in the spot as something grand to be thankful for
It's common to call out some saint when something really good or really bad happens in Mexico (which is what I feel they were going for), but television has… a rocky relationship with that kind of expressions
One of my favorite examples of this (even when virtually no one talks about it) is an episode of Ed, Edd and Eddy where, in the dub, Edd says something to the effect of "by the sweet potato maker holy mothers of Cuautla"
13:29
Reference to the separation of fighters in Lucha Libre where you have rudos (literally translated as the rude ones) and técnicos (literally translated as the technical ones), the rudos fight to win and tend to stretch the rules as much as possible to do so, while técnicos fight for the honor of the sport and always follow the rules
Fun fact for each, the referee decides how much can rudos get away with, so they never touch him, even when ruled against, and the whole honor and rule following makes técnicos the crowd favorite by a landslide and really popular rudos tend to end up switching sides to gain in numbers
20:45
That's a tradition of the masked fighters, at the beginning of their carrier they must choose of they want to be masked or not, and if yes, they must not do a public showing without it except if they lose it on a challenge (which is, indeed, disgraceful)… the burial thing is a bit extra, but deserved for the one an only El Santo
42:22
I think that's just two japanese things together, Sumo and having technology more advanced than everyone else, as I myself can't think of anyone that could be being referenced here
But Double Ninja Ninja is 100% inspired by Octagon, I have no proof but neither do I have doubts
45:49
Como on, aren't you gonna translate that name? 😂
I wonder if this series was inspired by Kinnikuman or at least the M.U.S.C.L.E. toyline. The idea of battle comedy transforming super wrestlers probably originates from Kinnikuman, in the second opening he even turns into a ball and gets kicked around kinda like Richochet. Masked Toilet also brings to mind Benkiman from Kinnikuman, who is a humanoid Aztec Squat Toilet. It could entirely be coincidence, but it's fun to draw connections and trace inspiration.
Alrighty, Coby, you are based. Mucha Lucha is a legend for me.
Ricochet calling music the "hot sauce in the burrito of life" is a quote I never knew I wanted to use so badly
Nope. My first exposure to lucha libre is Rey Mysterio.
flamenco is spanish (spain)
Fun fact: el santo only took his mask of 1 time on camara and died about a week later
8:40 you just say Lucha school would not be understood, but Mucha Lucha would be?
There’s also had a pretty good game on the Cartoon Network website.
This show was awesome. I’ll admit if I see a sponge cake truck too, I’ll step up to it.
Masked dog got that dog in em
Dood. Flamenco is from spain, not from mexico.
My favorite character has to be The Flea's pet fish, Senor Fishy Fish lol
I loved this cartoon! It's partially responsible for my love of pro wrestling
Why was the fleas voice actress so good? After I watched her do the voice every time the Flea spoke It got more impressive. That lady has skill
A show i loved as A kid but when i rewatched it as A adult i can see its flaws and its got A lot.
The flea was my first crush…
That last episode where Ricochet is acting like an American General is more than likely a reference to the movie Patton.
Mini Toro could be a reference to the Bull statue of Wall Street.
That mummy sounds like the Omega Metroid from Metroid Fusion
I do know that the people who worked on this show did a few shorts on Nickelodeon!
(Originally known as “fudge puppy productions”)
Some of these shorts included HOT CHUNCKS a very aggressive vegetable snout and schoolyard safari!
Thank god it wasn't a fever dream😂❤
The bit of ricochet falling from the pyramid and the same yell beign played always kills me, its so good
I'm hoping for a Swat Kats retrospective at some point. 🙏
That show was formative for me.
you just unlocked a core memory.
The Flea's spleen lives in my head rent free
Flamenco is not Mexican, it’s from Spain.
I absolutely loved watching mucha lucha growing up, the flea is still the best character!
I just realized that Buena Girl kind of has bad parents. They're so perfect that they're oblivious to their daughter's struggles and that's hillarious
Loved this show a lot back in the day