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Chico and the Man

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Ed Brown, aka The Man (Jack Albertson), owns a garage in East Los Angeles. Brown is an old Anglo bigot, who berates Chico (Freddie Prinze Sr.), a young Latino-Hungarian American man, when he comes into his garage asking for a job. However, despite their opposite racial backgrounds and personalities, Chico is portrayed as more upbeat and Brown is cold and demeaning, they eventually form a bond. The show was the first primetime show set in a Mexican American neighborhood. According to the comedian duo Cheech and Chong, Chico and the Man creator James Comack, was inspired to create the show after spending time on tour with them. In an interview Comack stated that he originally had planned to create a show about a Chicano and a Nisei. Ed Brown shared many of the same characteristics of Archie Bunker, in that he unapologetically used ethnic slurs to degrade Chico. The show played on the “fish out of water” trope, in that it pitted a WASP versus a young Chicano man in a clash of cultures. Often times Chico, responded to Brown, with statements praising Chicano culture.

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