Condorito is a famous cartoon character, a personification of a funny condor living in a fictitious town named Pelotillehue — a setting typical of many small Chilean provincial towns.
Condorito was created by the Chilean cartoonist René Ríos, known as Pepo. In spite of his Chilean origin, Condorito is very popular throughout Latin America, where the character is considered part of the general popular culture, and has a growing readership in the United States as well. Condorito and his friends are featured monthly in a magazine that carries the name of the main character, as well as a deluxe "best of" magazine entitled Condorito de Oro.
One peculiar characteristic of Condorito is that the character that goes through the embarrassing moment and/or serves as the butt of the joke in a given strip almost always falls backwards to the floor (legs visible or out of frame) in the final panel. This classic comic strip "flop take" is accompanied by the ¡PLOP! sound effect. From time to time, this is replaced by the victim of the joke saying Exijo una explicación! ("I demand an explanation!"), usually as a twist or downbeat-ending.
