La familia P. Luche is a Mexican television sitcom created by Eugenio Derbez

Eugenio Derbez

Eugenio González Derbez is a Mexican actor of film and comedy television. He created the television series of XHDRBZ, Vecinos, and La familia P. Luche. Derbez is also a Formula Three Auto racing driver.-Life and career:...

. The series first aired in 2002 on the channel Canal de las Estrellas

Canal de las Estrellas

Canal de las Estrellas is one of the cornerstone networks of Televisa, with affiliate stations all over Mexico, flagshipped at XEW-TV in Mexico City. Many of the programs of Canal de las Estrellas are seen in the United States on Univision, Telefutura, and Galavisión...

, and was later syndicated on the American channel Univision

Univision

Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...

 the next year.Canal de las Estrellas - La familia P. Luche, Retrieved January 5, 2011. It is a spin-off

Spin-off (media)

In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...

 of a regular sketch on the XHDRBZ

XHDRBZ

XHDЯbZ . The show was a Mexican sitcom produced by Televisa and broadcast by the Canal de las Estrellas network. XHDRBZ emulates a television channel that broadcasts sketches...

comedy-sketch program.

In the series, the characters live in a fictional city called "Ciudad P. Luche" where clothes and other objects are wrapped in plush

Plush

Plush is a textile having a cut nap or pile the same as fustian or velvet.Originally the pile of plush consisted of mohair or worsted yarn, but now silk by itself or with a cotton backing is used for plush, the distinction from velvet being found in the longer and less dense pile of plush...

. The word P. Luche, is a pun to the word plush in Spanish: peluche. The show is similar in style to the American sitcom Married...With Children, in that it depicts a comically dysfunctional family. The sitcom won a TVyNovelas Award for "Best Comedy Program" in 2008. Its working-class rival Una familia de diez

Una Familia De Diez

Una familia de diez is a Mexican family television sitcom that centers around the López household; a middle class Mexican family that constantly endures hilarious situations. They live in an apartment which barely holds living space for them. The series premiered on March 22, 2007 on the channel...

, was also nominated.

Ludovico P. Luche

Ludovico P. Luche (portrayed and created by Eugenio Derbez

Eugenio Derbez

Eugenio González Derbez is a Mexican actor of film and comedy television. He created the television series of XHDRBZ, Vecinos, and La familia P. Luche. Derbez is also a Formula Three Auto racing driver.-Life and career:...

) is the patriarch of the P. Luche family. He tries unsuccessfully to manage his dysfunctonal family consisting of an aggressive wife, a dim-witted former police officer who was confused to be his son, a bright and just daughter, and his precocious little son.

He is not smart, he works for Don Camerino who owns a large company that is one of the most important in "Ciudad P. Luche". Ludovico's next-door neighbor is his friend. He and his family live in an tall apartment, which is later sold to a blind man when the family lives five years lost in the tropics, which was actually Cancun, Quintana Roo.

Federica Dávalos de P. Luche

Federica de P. Luche (née Dávalos) (portrayed by Consuelo Duval

Consuelo Duval

Consuelo Dussauge Vidal is a Mexican theatre, film, television, and voice-over actress. She is best known for her various comedic characters in La hora pico and her role of "Federica Dávalos de P. Luche" in the sitcom, La familia P...

) is the aggressive, name-calling matriarch of the P. Luche clan. Her housemaid, Excelsa, never does any of the housework, so she has to clean up after everyone. When Excelsa is reproached by Ludovico P. Luche, Federica defends her and explains that she has nowhere else to stay.

Federica is a woman in her late 30s, who probably married Ludovico in her early 20s. They bore Bibi their only legit child. After Bibi's birth, Federica gives birth to an Asian-looking child, which is a product of her liaison with the milkman. Ludovico and Federica decide to send him to summer camp. There, the Asian son hypnotizes another child and sends him back to his family in his place. Their third (adopted) child Junior, was actually a policeman who was looking for Federica after she had ran him over. To hide the incident, Federica strikes the police's head with a cooking pan. After a few strokes and different personalities, the police develops a child character; and the family take him home.

Junior P. Luche

Junior P. Luche, formerly Comandante Alighieri, (portrayed by Luis Manuel Ávila) was actually a policeman whom Federica ran over. However the family struck his head several times with a cooking pan which caused him to suffer amnesia. Federica and the P. Luches stopped hitting him until he developed a childish personality and decided to adopt him. His distinction between the other children is that he has a beard.

Bibi P. Luche

Bibi P. Luche Dávalos (portrayed by Regina Blandón) is considered the "plain" one by her family, similarly like Marilyn Munster

Marilyn Munster

Marilyn Munster is a fictional character in the CBS sitcom The Munsters, originally played by Beverley Owen with actress Pat Priest later assuming the role. In the original series she is the daughter of Lily Munster's sister, with Herman alluding to her "plain" looks coming from Lily's side of the...

 from The Munsters

The Munsters

The Munsters is a 1960s American family television sitcom depicting the home life of a family of monsters. It starred Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster and Yvonne De Carlo as his wife, Lily Munster. The series was a satire of both traditional monster movies and popular family entertainment of the era,...

. Bibi is just and correct always, and has developed a great knowledge from studying, a hobby that her parents dislike her to do and plead her to act "normal".

In the first season, Bibi is about 11 years old. She is smart and has good grades. She dislikes her family's injustice, which causes her to be reproached by her own family saying "Porque no eres una niña normal" which translates as "Why aren't you a normal girl". Bibi wears purple clothes-she is the only one in the family (and series) that does not wear plush.

In the second season, Bibi is about 16 years old. She has grown into a young lady during the family's residence at Cancun, Quintana Roo. Of the P. Luche children, she is the only legitimate child of Ludovico P. Luche and Federica Dávalos de P. Luche. She attends school regularly and studies in her room, which isn't as bright and extravgant as the rest of the house.

Ludoviquito P. Luche

Ludoviquito P. Luche Dávalos (portrayed by Miguel Pérez) is the smallest child of the P. Luche family. He is a troublemaker at times, but he mostly agrees that his sister is the "weird" one. He is the son of the Milkman and Federica P.Luche. In summer camp the real Ludoviquito hipnotized a rich boy and made him think he a son of the P. Luches'.

Excelsa

Exelsa, formerly Elsa, (portrayed by Barbara Torres) is the maid of the P. Luche clan. However, she is known for repelling to perform her labor chores and siting all day watching telenovelas

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

 and being served food by Federica. She is from Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

. In the episode "Los padres de Exelsa" her parents travel from Argentina to visit her. However she lied about her occupation and status, telling her parents that she was the rich owner of the apartment and whose husband was Ludovico P. Luche.

In the episode "Exsimio, el novio de Exelsa", Exelsa's ex-boyfriend (portrayed by Juan Soler

Juan Soler

Juan Soler Valls Quiroga is an Argentine actor and former rugby player and model. He is married to Argentine actress Magdalena "Maki" Moguilevsky with whom he has two daughters.-Personal life:...

) arrives from Argentina to take her back, but Ludovico later discovers that he is a thief.

Recurring characters

• Martina (Dalilah Polanco) is the wife of Flavio, and the P. Luches' next-door neighbor.

• Flavio (Pierre Angelo) is the wife of Martina, and the P. Luches' next-door neighbor.

• Chela (Silvia Eugenia Derbez) is the apartment manager, she somewhat nosy and bitter.

• Cristi (Catalina López) is the P. Luches' blind neighbor and wife of Rigo.

• Rigo (Pablo Valentín) is the P. Luches' blind neighbor and husband of Cristi.

• Lucrecia Dávalos (Mercedes Vaughan) is the sister of Federica, and the girlfriend of Don Camerino.

• Don Camerino (Juan Verduzco) is the boss of Ludovico, and the boyfriend of Lucrecia. He owns half of P.Luche City and everybody always says that after his name in form of question("Don Camerino, owner of half P.Luche City?")

• Abuela Francisca de Dávalos (Nora Velázquez) is the mother of Lucrecia and Federica.

• Abuelo Lauro Dávalos (Sergio Ramos "El Comanche") is the father of Lucrecia and

Federica, and the husband of Francisca.

• "Gober" is the P. Luches' family dog.

Season 1

1. "Pilot"
2. "The Housekeeper"
3. "Ludoviquito's Birthday"
4. "The Ashes"
5. "The Bomb"
6. "The Golden Cousin"
7. "Don Camerino y Lucrecia"
8. "Ludovico Goes to School"
9. "Ludovico's Gay"
10. "Ludoviquito's Girlfriend"
11. "Brad Pittin"
12. "The Pet"
13. "The Nasty Video"
14. "The Competition of Claims"
15. "Jealous, Suspicious and Pathetic"
16. "Anniversary Gift"
17. "Christmas Special Bloopers"
18. "Federica Disappears"
19. "Commander Alighieri"
20. "The Challenge"
21. "Bibi's Boyfriend"
22. "The Trip to Acapulco"
23. "Sports Peluchevisa"
24. "Ludovico is Santa Claus"
25. "Federica's Pregnancy"
26. "Bibi is normal"
27. "Exsimio, Exelsa's Ex-Boyfriend"
28. "Flavio is Cheating"
29. "Ludoviquito Will Be Famous"
30. "The Trip to Cancun"
31. "Ludovico Can't Sleep"
32. "Visits"
33. "The Laughter Of Excelsa"
34. "Big P. Luche"
35. "Bibi's Happy First period"
36. "Junior's Real Father"
37. "TV"
38. "We Travel"

Season 2

1. "Lost"
2. "Home, Sweet Home"
3. "Friend's Convenience"
4. "Back to Work"
5. "Playing Dead"
6. "Anniversery Gift II"
7. "Work's Efforts"
8. "Blind Date"
9. "Big Confusion"
10. "Dogs Racing"
11. "Bring Back my Children"
12. "Let's Go to The Movies"
13. "Wrong Way, Ludoviquito"
14. "Excelsa Got a Mango Stuck"
15. "White kidnapping truck"
16. "School Reunion"
17. "A Kidnapper's Secrets"
18. "Excelsa's Parents"
19. "Husbands Cartridges"
20. "False Idendity"
21. "Picnic"
22. "Bibi y Dedotes"
23. "Quinceañera"
24. "Golden Children"
25. "A Dream of Telenovela"
26. "Searching for a Father"

Background

The series first started as a sketch in "Al Derecho y al Derbéz" and "Derbéz en Cuando" showing Ludovico, Federica and an Asian kid starring as Ludoviquito, but when it aired it showed the change of Ludoviquito actors and the other 2 kids. The explanation behind the change in actors for Ludoviquito was that he was not really Ludovico's son, but rather the product of a tryst between Federica and the milkman. While at summer camp, Ludovico manages to hypnotize the richest kid in camp to switch places with him. Ludovico and Federica don't even notice the difference, and not even the fact that he continually repeats "Yo soy Ludovico P.Luche (I am Ludovico P.Luche)" like a zombie makes them curious. Ludovico accidentally snaps Ludoviquito out of his trance, and the poor child begins to cry once he realizes what he's stuck with.

Seasons 1-2

The first season aired from 2002-2004 with frequent reruns of the episodes. The season finale stated that soon the second season would be produced (with the actors leaving a "goodbye" message like in the promotional commercial). The second season marked the show return at the end of the first quarter of 2007 (continuing with the plot that had ended the first season years ago, in which a plane where they were traveling crashing in an island and the family having passed around 5 years living there, to compensate the years that had passed after the first season.), with the show now produced in a 16:9 (HDTV format) and airing constantly new episodes, using the same actors as in the first season (including the fact that the kids starring on it had grown up a lot).

New season

A third season was announced to be in production in December of 2010. Eugenio Derbez, the producer of the series, admitted that the new season will introduce a new character to the sitcom.

Setting

• The sitcom is centered on a plush-wearing family who lives in a city called "Ciudad P. Luche" (P. Luche City). However in the "Perdidos" episode, when the family lived mistakenly in Cancun for five years, Cancun's residents did not wear plush, nor in Acapulco
  Acapulco
  Acapulco is a city, municipality and major sea port in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico, southwest from Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semi-circular bay and has been a port since the early colonial period of Mexico’s history...
  
   where they went for a vacation. So, it can be assumed that only in Ciudad P. Luche, people wear and use plush-related objects.
• The P. Luche apartment is the setting most of the time. It is an apartment in a tall building where its exterior appears in an animation piece. Inside, the sofa and rug are made of plush, and the home's walls are covered in brightly-colored wallpaper.

Awards

Year	Ceremony	Award	Result
2004	TVyNovelas Award	"Best Comedy Program"
2008	TVyNovelas Award	"Best Comedy Program"