Os Trapalhões
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| Os Trapalhões | |
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 From left to right, above: Mussum and Zacarias; below: Dede and Didi |
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| Format | Comedy |
| Created by | Wilton Franco |
| Country of origin |  Brazil |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Rede Globo |
| Original run | 1977 – 1993 |
Os Trapalhões (aka The Goffies) was a Brazilian comedy group and also a Brazilian television series created by Wilton Franco[1]. Its members were Dedé Santana, Zacarias, Mussum and their leader Didi Mocó, that was played by Renato Aragão. The name Trapalhões is derived from the Portuguese verb atrapalhar, which means the opposite of helping or to do something the wrong way. It was aired by Rede Globo from 1977 to 1993.
Zacarias died due to respiratory failure on March 18, 1990, but the group didn't come to an end until July 1994, when Mussum died due to an unsuccessful heart transplant.
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[edit] Celebrities
[edit] Didi
The leader of the group who however, in some scenes, was treated by his three friends as the most worthless member. A very clever man from Ceará with a peculiar manner of speaking. He rarely ended the scenes with bad luck or as the loser, in which he "fought" enemies or even his own friends.
[edit] Dede
Interpreted as a "second in command" role. He was the most serious one and acted as the brain of the group. His masculinity was always mocked by Didi.
[edit] Mussum
A black man who was proud to say that he came from Morro da Mangueira, a slum in Rio de Janeiro, also with his very peculiar language. His greatest passion was drinking cachaça (the most common distilled beverage in Brazil), which he called "mé" (or "mel", Portuguese for honey). He was always the butt of jokes and nicknames because of the fact of being black, as to be ironically called Maizena (Corn Starch, a white food) by Didi.
[edit] Zacarias
A little man with child's voice. Always wore a wig due to baldness.
[edit] Main cast of supporting actors
[edit] Dino Santana
Brother of Dede Santana. Interpreted several secondary roles in the series and in some Trapalhões' films. He also was a secondary actor in the series Dedé e o Comando Maluco, where Dede played the role of General Dedé.
[edit] Carlos Kurt
A tall blonde man with a very bad look and huge eyes. He often played villain, bully and other enemy roles in the series and in Trapalhões' movies. He died in 2003.
[edit] Roberto Guilherme
An obese and bald man with whom Didi always had fun by taking off his wig. Also played a large number of antagonist roles, sometimes along Carlos Kurt. Though he played numerous secondary characters, the most memorable of them was the Sargento Pincel (Sergeant Brush).
[edit] Tião Macalé
A very funny toothless black man that always ended the scenes with the word Nojento (Disgusting). This quote make him very famous both in the series and in Brazil. He died in 1993.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Os Trapalhões at IMDB.
