The Simpsons, 100%. Even to this day you can watch them almost nonstop every weekend on open tv. Together with football and news channels, it's the default option when you just want the TV on the background.
Don't know if i'm in the latest generations, but born in 1996 and i watched it religiously until the late 2010s when i stopped watching TV at all, but i had bought all the 8 official DVDs of episodes Televisa launched and bought 2 plushies (that i still have), and also watched the animated version once in a while. But i don't know how current kids are, after the death of the author and not being shown in television anymore, maybe i'm the last generation of true fans.
Many shows/movies aimed at the Black/African-American audience in the US end up becoming more popular in Brazil than in the US. Besides the ones you mentioned: My Wife & Kids, Kenan & Kel, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Diff’rent Strokes.
I had a hard time finding Americans who have watched any of these shows.
They were all on Irish TV and some were very popular. Clearly we are black at heart. But the show that was far more popular in Ireland than the US is Scrubs.
I was going to mention this. She is going back to Brazil btw. [https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7WmdBRRkJs/](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7WmdBRRkJs/)
Aside from the obvious DBZ, a lot of Mexicans in the older generations are obsessed with K-dramas.
Younger generations have normalized watching anime (used to be seen as something weird), nowadays it’s really common.
Brazilian older women loooove k-dramas too. We call them "dorameiras." They're quickly substituting telenovelas.
I don't judge because I also love kdramas. Does 29 count as "older woman?"
Brazilians are the biggest fans of the Wayans family, [Marlon Wayans](https://youtube.com/shorts/DVU0pwjfiXI?si=84Ge5eyCMOgXbepy) acknowledged that once.
Mexicans are the biggest weebs on Earth. My mother is 60, and even she watched tokusatsu series as a kid. So from the boomer generation onward, people have been increasingly exposed to Japanese media to the point that nowadays it is exceptionally common for people to watch anime.
Man I feel like I'm living in a cave. I see all the time people saying how korean soap operas are famous and how people are obssesed with them, but as a dude in my 20's I don't know a single person that watches them or even acknowledge they exist. With which group are they most famous? is it young girls or older people?
Same with Mexican novelas, is it still famous or are they a more 90's generation thing? I know Chaves, Chapolin and Rebeldes (I think it's Mexican?) of course, but for the life of me I can't name a single other Mexican show.
Currently K-Dramas and that Chinese Historical show
There was... And still kind of is... An obsession with Turkish dramas like Fazilet and her daughters, Forbidden Fruit/ Fruta Prohibida?
Anime in general is quite popular.
The Simpsons is well liked.
Fast and the Furious unfortunately.
Also Scarface. Yuck.
And know lots of girls that like Friends.
Besides the obvious ones(The Simpsons, anime in general.). At least in Mexico I would say the Fairly Oddparents, specifically the first 4 seasons and it's movies because those were the ones that were released on open TV
We costantly cycle between telenovelas from different countries. Back then it was manily mexican or brazilian, then the turkish ones, then korean dramas, not sure what wave we're on now since i'm not a big tv watcher.
2000's Brazilians were pretty obsessed with Mexican telenovelas, La Usurpadora, Carita de Angel, La Fea Mas Bella, *Café, con aroma de mujer*, *Cómplices al rescate*, *¡Vivan los niños!* (here known as Carrossel), *Amy, la niña de la mochila azul*, *María la del Barrio, Chiquititas* and so on.
Nowadays I would say that anime in general is stronger than ever (even though Brazilians were kinda weebs since the 80's with Saint Seiya, Yu Yu Hakusho and DBZ) also k-dramas are becoming popular, specially because streamings like Netflix are making excellent dubbed versions.
El Chavo is really a big thing in Brazil. We call it "Chaves", because of our translation into Portuguese (most characters have Brazilian names btw).
Recently we had [an exhibition about it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGjwPIVoaOo) in a museum, and you have crowds coming and making long queues to go inside, people coming from other cities and TV shows showing it.
A lot of YouTube channels in Brazil are dedicated to the series and have millions of views. Like [this one](https://www.youtube.com/@CanalViladoChaves/featured) and [this one](https://www.youtube.com/@CanalForumChaves). And to this day, a [forum](https://www.forumchaves.com.br/) still with good movement.
It's funny, because most of the episodes we watch are from the 1972-1980 season, so they ended more than 40 years ago. But we still watch it and laugh with it. It's really rare to have someone who doesn't like it.
There is this music critic, called Regis Tadeu, which made a video about hating this series and it was probably one of the [most downvoted videos from YouTube history](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKFb2lcuO_E) (when YouTube had downvotes).
Don't mess with El Chavo in Brazil.
Some are the same and some have changed. Don Ramon - Seu Madruga. La Chilindrina - Chiquinha. Kiko keeps the same. Nhonho the same. Dona Florinda the same too.
It’s a funny story actually, for the first 2 or 3 dubbed episodes they actually called it seu Ramon, but the dubbing director felt that it didn’t sounded quite right. Someone said that he looked like stayed wake all night and seu madruga just sticked, _but_, he is still named Ramon, and that is kind of common knowledge in Brazil, so in a a weird semi-official/collective head cannon madruga is just his nickname who’s everyone calls him in the Brazilian version (seu is just don in Portuguese)
Oh there's one anime in particular that is really popular here and almost unknown everywhere else, and has been airing religiously since 1990... "Cuentos de los hermanos Grimm". It has only one season and every single Colombian has seen the show multiple times.
Probably no longer the case, but growing up I remember the adults in my family watching Matlock, McGyver and Walker Texas Ranger in an endless loop. Same episodes over and over.
A bit later I think they added Monk and Inspector Rex (comisario Rex) to the loop. Once cable came, that changed.
I grew up in the late nineties for reference.
When that Pablo Escobar shit came into fashion (2007, before Netflix), some people started to talk with a paisa accent in the small town in the middle of nowhere where I was living in.
Glad to have achieved cultural victory. Lots of people watch our media more than they watch their own local media. Murica, Fuck Yeah🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The Simpsons, 100%. Even to this day you can watch them almost nonstop every weekend on open tv. Together with football and news channels, it's the default option when you just want the TV on the background.
In Chile it was the same up until 7 or 6 years ago, they were in open air tv everyday on one of the biggest channels, nowadays only on cable.
Do adults watch it too?
Specially adults, the ones who grew up with them. The new generations watch it too tho, it isnt fading away.
People in Bolivia protested when some channel changed the Simpsons prime time slot. Lmao
Many brazilians love Everybody Hates Chris and White Chicks. Younger people love anime as well
I believe El Chavo del 8 is also beloved in BR. Maybe not so much with the latest generations, I might be wrong tho.
You are right
Don't know if i'm in the latest generations, but born in 1996 and i watched it religiously until the late 2010s when i stopped watching TV at all, but i had bought all the 8 official DVDs of episodes Televisa launched and bought 2 plushies (that i still have), and also watched the animated version once in a while. But i don't know how current kids are, after the death of the author and not being shown in television anymore, maybe i'm the last generation of true fans.
Many shows/movies aimed at the Black/African-American audience in the US end up becoming more popular in Brazil than in the US. Besides the ones you mentioned: My Wife & Kids, Kenan & Kel, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Diff’rent Strokes. I had a hard time finding Americans who have watched any of these shows.
They were all on Irish TV and some were very popular. Clearly we are black at heart. But the show that was far more popular in Ireland than the US is Scrubs.
Also My wife and Kids, Fresh Prince of BelAir
White Chicks? lol That's random. Here in PR people love Eddie Murphy's movies like Nutty Professor and Norbit.
It's mostly thanks to the dubbing, which adapted a lot of jokes and is overall just plain better
I think it's probably bigger in Spanish speaking countries than the US too. A lot of people seem to really like it.
I was going to mention this. She is going back to Brazil btw. [https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7WmdBRRkJs/](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7WmdBRRkJs/)
Who’s she ?
She's plays Rochelle Chris's mom on Everybody Hates Chris.
Ah ok
Aside from the obvious DBZ, a lot of Mexicans in the older generations are obsessed with K-dramas. Younger generations have normalized watching anime (used to be seen as something weird), nowadays it’s really common.
Brazilian older women loooove k-dramas too. We call them "dorameiras." They're quickly substituting telenovelas. I don't judge because I also love kdramas. Does 29 count as "older woman?"
From a teen perspective, 29 is old
NOOOOO
so true, my mother has been binge watching kdramas nonstop.
Here kdramas is super popular now as well lol. Netflix BR is even full of them because of this.
Brazilians are the biggest fans of the Wayans family, [Marlon Wayans](https://youtube.com/shorts/DVU0pwjfiXI?si=84Ge5eyCMOgXbepy) acknowledged that once.
White Chicks, Scary Movies things?
Yesss!
A new Scary Movie is being planned although I don't think the Wayans will be involved.
I haven't watched the 5th movie, and as the Wayans won't be involved with the 6th, I'll skip this one too.
Mexicans are the biggest weebs on Earth. My mother is 60, and even she watched tokusatsu series as a kid. So from the boomer generation onward, people have been increasingly exposed to Japanese media to the point that nowadays it is exceptionally common for people to watch anime.
My parents too, mazinger Z, candy candy, speed racer anime being on mainstream since at least the 70s
It was probably her son's but I once saw a 60-something year old woman wearing a Rias Gremory t-shirt on the microbús.
... I hope it *was* hers, because what dude would expose their mother to High School DxD?
Asumí que era cosa de «necesito algo para salir rápido al mercado, a ver, aquí está la camisa esa de José, orita vuelvo». No que conociera la serie.
I don't know if there are people watching, but "La rosa de Guadalupe" It's still on air.
The Simpsons and Brazilian novels
Anime Korean doramas Mexican novelas
Man I feel like I'm living in a cave. I see all the time people saying how korean soap operas are famous and how people are obssesed with them, but as a dude in my 20's I don't know a single person that watches them or even acknowledge they exist. With which group are they most famous? is it young girls or older people? Same with Mexican novelas, is it still famous or are they a more 90's generation thing? I know Chaves, Chapolin and Rebeldes (I think it's Mexican?) of course, but for the life of me I can't name a single other Mexican show.
Apart from The Simpsons and Reggaetón, those Turkish soap operas were very popular.
Elif
Currently K-Dramas and that Chinese Historical show There was... And still kind of is... An obsession with Turkish dramas like Fazilet and her daughters, Forbidden Fruit/ Fruta Prohibida?
Netflix Turkish dramas are huge with the boomer crowd lately, my mother-in-law can’t get enough.
Yeah as a gringa looking for telenovelas to practice Spanish, I was very surprised to find Turkish shows streaming on Telemundo!
you need to see "yo soy betty la fea" if you want to be part of the latin gang :V
Anime in general is quite popular. The Simpsons is well liked. Fast and the Furious unfortunately. Also Scarface. Yuck. And know lots of girls that like Friends.
What’s the problem with Scarface?
Es muy violento, viteh.
Es demasiado bacano 🗿
It's such a low quality film that has no place being nearly as popular as it is, imo.
>Also Scarface. Yuck. Ay 😞
Besides the obvious ones(The Simpsons, anime in general.). At least in Mexico I would say the Fairly Oddparents, specifically the first 4 seasons and it's movies because those were the ones that were released on open TV
DB FUCKING Z
In particular one? maybe Jujutsu Kaisen. Chilean? 31 minutos or Los Pulentos, maybe Morandé con compañía?
Dragon ball in Mexico is the most popular piece of foreign art in the country.
We costantly cycle between telenovelas from different countries. Back then it was manily mexican or brazilian, then the turkish ones, then korean dramas, not sure what wave we're on now since i'm not a big tv watcher.
Dragon Ball Z
2000's Brazilians were pretty obsessed with Mexican telenovelas, La Usurpadora, Carita de Angel, La Fea Mas Bella, *Café, con aroma de mujer*, *Cómplices al rescate*, *¡Vivan los niños!* (here known as Carrossel), *Amy, la niña de la mochila azul*, *María la del Barrio, Chiquititas* and so on. Nowadays I would say that anime in general is stronger than ever (even though Brazilians were kinda weebs since the 80's with Saint Seiya, Yu Yu Hakusho and DBZ) also k-dramas are becoming popular, specially because streamings like Netflix are making excellent dubbed versions.
El Chavo is really a big thing in Brazil. We call it "Chaves", because of our translation into Portuguese (most characters have Brazilian names btw). Recently we had [an exhibition about it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGjwPIVoaOo) in a museum, and you have crowds coming and making long queues to go inside, people coming from other cities and TV shows showing it. A lot of YouTube channels in Brazil are dedicated to the series and have millions of views. Like [this one](https://www.youtube.com/@CanalViladoChaves/featured) and [this one](https://www.youtube.com/@CanalForumChaves). And to this day, a [forum](https://www.forumchaves.com.br/) still with good movement. It's funny, because most of the episodes we watch are from the 1972-1980 season, so they ended more than 40 years ago. But we still watch it and laugh with it. It's really rare to have someone who doesn't like it. There is this music critic, called Regis Tadeu, which made a video about hating this series and it was probably one of the [most downvoted videos from YouTube history](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKFb2lcuO_E) (when YouTube had downvotes). Don't mess with El Chavo in Brazil.
What are the names I wanna know
Some are the same and some have changed. Don Ramon - Seu Madruga. La Chilindrina - Chiquinha. Kiko keeps the same. Nhonho the same. Dona Florinda the same too.
Seu Madruga jaja
It’s a funny story actually, for the first 2 or 3 dubbed episodes they actually called it seu Ramon, but the dubbing director felt that it didn’t sounded quite right. Someone said that he looked like stayed wake all night and seu madruga just sticked, _but_, he is still named Ramon, and that is kind of common knowledge in Brazil, so in a a weird semi-official/collective head cannon madruga is just his nickname who’s everyone calls him in the Brazilian version (seu is just don in Portuguese)
Everybody hates Chris, Simpsons, Chavez (but rare now), previously a lot animes like Naruto, DragonBall
The Simpsons. I feel like everyone is familiar with them.
Perhaps 15 years ago. Not anymore.
True most people I talk to are in their 30s and we all grew up watching the Simpsons.
# 31 Minutos
Oh there's one anime in particular that is really popular here and almost unknown everywhere else, and has been airing religiously since 1990... "Cuentos de los hermanos Grimm". It has only one season and every single Colombian has seen the show multiple times.
Some media quotes Argentinian INFOBAE as an actual source of information.
Desinfobae
Turkish, colombian and peruvian telenovelas. Also anime and hentai :(
Malcolm in the middle
Probably no longer the case, but growing up I remember the adults in my family watching Matlock, McGyver and Walker Texas Ranger in an endless loop. Same episodes over and over. A bit later I think they added Monk and Inspector Rex (comisario Rex) to the loop. Once cable came, that changed. I grew up in the late nineties for reference.
When that Pablo Escobar shit came into fashion (2007, before Netflix), some people started to talk with a paisa accent in the small town in the middle of nowhere where I was living in.
Obviously DBZ but just in general Anime
Turkish soap operas, the simpsons, DBZ
Glad to have achieved cultural victory. Lots of people watch our media more than they watch their own local media. Murica, Fuck Yeah🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Bro, you guys literally have a monopoly on the entertainment industry worldwide.
We are the defacto rulers of all humanity. I don't know why the Chinese media hasn't become more popular though.
Most countries are dominated by US media.
El chavo del 8, it's a legendary show that everyone loves here