Charges.com.br

Charges.com.br is a Brazilian humor website, created in February 2000 by the cartoonist Maurício Ricardo Quirino. It's known for its animated cartoons, made with the Macromedia Flash program. Due to their success, the cartoons are even shown on television stations, such as Rede Globo, which shows every Tuesday on the Big Brother Brasil on a day of elimination.
The "charges animadas" (see below), which the site presents daily, are the main feature of the site. There are other minor features, such as the "piada do dia" (joke of the day) that publishes jokes sent by the site's visitors, and the "emails comentados" (commented emails), in which the site's owner will publish some of the
emails sent to the site (which can range from site feedback, to relationship advice, to lame jokes, to people sending a message just asking to be published) and add some comments to them. There are also some Flash-powered games, also themed generally on recent events.
In the year 2006, it won the iBest Prize for Best entertainment site, by popular jury. Since 2012, animations have also been made available through their own YouTube channel.
"Charges animadas".
The term "charges animadas" can be translated as something along the lines of animated cartoons. However, in Portuguese, the word "charge" is used to refer to editorial cartoons. These works consist of Flash animations of short length, showing some humorous, generally related to recent events and situations.
Charges-okê.
The term charge-okê is a fusion of the words "charge" and "karaoke", properly adapted to Portuguese. It refers to some of the site's "charges animadas" that consist on musical parodies of popular music hits. The parodies are usually sung by a character who has something to do with the lyrics. For example, Brasileiro e sua consciência - Lonely, published on January 26, 2006, is a parody of the hit "Lonely", sung by Akon. The modified lyrics talk about the indecision of a mid-class Brazilian on which candidate to choose in the Brazilian president elections in 2006.
The charges-okê are published about once a week along with other regular charges.
Tobby Entrevista.
Or "Tobby Interviews" in the literal translation, is the way who Mauricio use to criticize and satirize a specific famous person and/or pop culture work, where Tobby, the interviewer (a cynical and sarcastic person with nanism, that uses Jimmy Five's shirt, Mickey Mouse hat and have the "Zacarias bald head") ask questions to the interviewee (who can be a spoof of a person or famous character) where they unintentionally make fun of one another.
In 2007 with the success of film Elite Squad in the country one of the interviewees was Captain Morrimento (a parody of Captain Nascimento), who took over the program (besides lowering Tobby to be his assistant) and changed its name to "Capitão Interroga" (Captain interrogates), which the Captain interviewed guests often beating them up. In 2008 after some requests Tobby returned to the program, but with the direction of Captain Morrimento (but Morrimento left the program later in 2010).
Espinha e Fimose.
Or "Pimple and Phimosis" in the literal translation, is a recurring shown in charges (that satirizes teenager`s social acts and behaviors), and the most famous characters in the cast, where 2 teenagers (who share their last) attempt to make sex with attractive girls and/or get some money with they witness scams, but their plans often(though not always) fail, due to they lack of planning or luck.
Só Levando.
A web series inspired in American adult family cartoons like The Simpsons about a poor family who lives in a favela known as Morro do Lamento (lit. "Hill of the Regrets") that is headed by a criminal organization. The series is starred by Bezerra, a middle-aged father who is drunk and supports his wife Bernadete (with whom he has an open relationship), his eldest daughter Suelen (a young adult who is studying medicine, but secretly works as a prostitute to support the family) and Johan (an adopted German descendant boy who is influenced by Afro-Brazilian culture and raps about social problems).
Among the other characters in the series are Coisa Ruim (a crime boss who works in drug trafficking and acts as the big boss of Lamento), Otoridade (a former police officer who serves Coisa Ruim), Beringela (another of Coisa Ruim's main henchmen), Consuelo (Suelen's best friend who is a transsexual prostitute), Robalho (a corrupt and greedy senator who works in partnership with Coisa Ruim), Juke & Box (Johan's rap friends) and Dona Geralda (a middle aged lady who serves as a running gag due to her bad luck).
Tonin.
It was a series in anime style. The story revolved around the adventures of Tonin a country boy who becomes "the chosen hero" to be travel in the time to defeat his enemies. In the beginning the shorts was created as a parody the Japanese TV series, such as anime, but with time was approaching subjects increasingly serious though without losing its comedy with the parodies. Lasted four seasons "Tonin, The Ninja Who Came from the Countryside" (2008-2009), "Tonin - The Return of Those Who Were Not" (2009-2010), "Tonin, Ninja From Hell" (2010-2011) and "Tonin - Saga Final" (2012). It was the first series to contain sagas and a final, not returning to production since the end of the fourth season.
Crossovers.
In 2013 there was a saga entitled "Transando esse Transa", which was a crossover between the series "Espinha & Fimose" and "Só Levando" with appearances by characters from "Tobby Entrevista" and "Tonin" (in their versions of the dimension created in the epilogue of last season). This saga introduced Dinho Star, a retired 70s rock singer who was an old friend of Bezerra and one of Lesado's fathers. This saga also showed the first meeting between Espinha and Suelen, in addition to introducing Tonin as a wealthy businessman who owns a dairy factory.
Some small crossovers between the series continued to occur in some animations released later, with Espinha still interested in winning the love of Suelen, Espinha meeting Coisa Ruim, Dameshana meeting Maria Joana, some characters appearing a few times in Tobby Entrevista and Pedreiros Zoeiros, and Jerônimo being revealed Bezerra's lost brother.
In 2020 a series divided into 6 seasons entitled Everybody at Home! has been published. The series not only brought together "Espinha & Fimose", "Só Levando", "Tonin", "Pedreiros Zoeiros" and "Tobby Entrevista" (Tobby now unemployed) again, but it reconnected some events that occurred in the Tonin series and connected them to the other series, like: Coisa Ruim and Lesado being old friends, the origin of the Coisa Ruim's evil and Lesado's mental problem is that they met the Oracle in the past which made Lesado gain infinite knowledge and Coisa Ruim be possessed by Vilano-san, Tonin from the original timeline and Aparecido traveling in time, Tonin from the new timeline still having the "chosen one" status and able to summon the Oracle, in addition to the existence of another dimension from which Dameshana changed the life of the Bezerra family for the better.
Characters.
Tobby Entrevista.
Tobby: The website interviewer, famous by his ridiculous clothes; obnoxious and sardonic personality; and usual lack of luck. His main job is interviewing (and annoying) his guests, something that usually end up in Tobby being either humiliated or physically harmed. He wears a Mickey Mouse hat and a similar shirt to the Jimmy Five (Monica's Gang). The character remained in his role as an interviewer until 2019, when the "Tobby Entrevista" was canceled. After that Tobby only returned making small appearances in the series "Pedreiros Zoeiros", until in 2020 he was moved to become a regular character in crossovers with "Só Levando", becoming one of Coisa Ruim's henchmen.
Capitão Morrimento: A spoof of Capitão Nascimento from the film "Tropa de Elite", known for being a straight and practical, but also rather than an amoral, violent and short-tempered cop. right after Tobby point out some advantages over his job, Morrimento become delightful and forces Tobby to give his job to him, but Morrimento eventually gets tired of his job as an interviewer and gets out of it. unfortunately to Tobby, Morrimento become the director of his program, constantly scolding and nagging both Tobby and the guests even for the slight. Fortunately, Internet users eventually grew weary of Morrimento and forced him to withdraw from the program, but he still makes occasional appearances on the site. He seems to be superhumanly strong, having once single-handed stopped Superman from fly away, and even the Hulk could barely support his slaps over his head.
Espinha e Fimose.
Espinha and Fimose: Two teenagers who always try to have sex with some girl whom they consider "hot", but rarely do well in this task. Espinha (literally, "Pimple") has this name due to his '"pimple fashion", and is known by his navie and inattentive personality, and by his poor grades. Fimose (literally, "Phimosis")(who has this name due to his pink cap) on the other hand, while not much more intelligent or responsible than Espinha, is the straight man from the duo, and the unofficial leader.
Lesado: A mentally affected 40-year-old man who cannot discern reality from fantasy due his abuse in use drugs and suffer of frequents lapses of memory. Despite his mental instability, Lesado is straightforward person, being well aware of his condition and being an honest and intelligent (though deranged) guy, or was Espinha and Fimose claims, he is "crazy, but not stupidy!".
Lipo: A naive, awkward friend of Espinha and Fimose. He seems to be quittenly dim-witted, often misinterprets what the others say to him and has very low grades (even though he has more detication in his studies than Espinha and Fimose). Regardless to this, Lipo is, in contrary to Lesado, "stupid, but not crazy" being well aware of his surroundings and of his limitations, indicating that he is more straightforward than he appears to be. despite being less experienced in pick-up arts, Lipo has much more success and luck in this area than Espinha and Fimose.
Vera Diva: An intelligent and serious teenager who is on friendly terms with Espinha and Fimose, but doesn't hide her displeasure over their immaturity.
Tonin.
Tonin: A boy who was the protagonist of his own series. He was born on a farm as the first of several children of her greedy father Tião Dois Dentes (lit: "Tiao Two Teeth"), at 12 years old he was sold to two ninjas of feudal Japan to save the past of a villain. During his adventures he was gaining new allies, powers in hell a ninja half brother, a girlfriend former-villain and plus travel time several times. At the end of the story he dies, but is saved in an alternative version of the future going to be a normal boy from the country.
Vilano-san: The main villain of the Tonin series. He is an ex-ninja who is a sorcerer from Feudal Japan and an old rival of Pai-Meio (from which he cut off his legs in the past) who was responsible for tormenting the village of Pai-Meio until the arrival of Tonin who was chosen by Pai-Meio to defeat Vilano. Vilano was introduced as a powerful sorcerer who had immortality after winning a duel against the Oracle in the past that made him become invulnerable to everything except dairy products. Vilano is killed by Tonin at the end of the first season after having his skull destroyed by Tonin's hard cheeses, however, he is resurrected by Oracle without his invulnerability. At the end of the second season it is revealed that he is Tonin's biological father. In the third season he allies himself with Pai-Meio and dies definitively at the end of the season, at the same time that he is revealed as Aparecido's biological father.
Dameshana: One of Tonin's allies. At first she was introduced as a demonic vampire (which look was a reference to Morrigan Aensland of Darkstalkers) serving as Vilano-san's henchman who during the first season acted as a secondary antagonist for Tonin helping Vilano-san. However from the second season onwards she allied herself with Tonin becoming a full human at the end of the third season. At the end of the fourth season after making a pact with the Devil she is responsible for altering the course of Tonin's timeline at present, preventing him from becoming a time-traveling ninja and managing to advance in time to marry Tonin as a adult.
Aparecido: Tonin's younger brother and one of the main villains. At first he was introduced as a baby in the first season, being the youngest son of Tião and Creusa in 2006. He starts to have a greater focus on the plot from the second season, where after 10 years it is revealed that he was Tião's only son left (after he became governor in Rio de Janeiro) becoming a mean and violent boy that becomes Tonin's enemy aiming to become Tião Two-Teeth's only heir. In the third season he discovers the space-time portal and travels to Feudal Japan for the first time where he meets Pai-Meio and Vilano-san. After Aparecido kills Vilano-san at the end of this season, he ends up lost by space-time (because Kaipiro messed up in his calculations) returning in the fourth season as an old man (claiming to be Vilano-san's successor) having learned witchcraft during his decades traveling through space-time. He tries to get revenge on Tonin, but ends up being killed with him at the end of the season. Dameshana subsequently prevents his birth in the new timeline.
Só Levando.
Bezerra: José Bezerra