Charges.com.br is a Brazilian humor website, created in February 2000 by the cartoonist Maurício Ricardo Quirino. It consists of 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. In addition to these charges animadas, the site has other minor features, such as the piada do dia (joke of the day), which 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 and to people sending a message just asking to be published) and add some comments to them. The site also has some Flash-powered games, which were also themed generally on recent events.
In 2006, it won the iBest Prize for Best entertainment site, by popular jury.Editorial ≈ Charges.com.br Since 2012, animations have also been made available through their own YouTube channel. The animations ended in 2022, due to declining popularity and low financial return due to YouTube limitations.
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 charges-okê are published about once a week along with other regular charges. 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.
Cotidiano Or Everyday Life in the literal translation, is known for its political tone and other elements. Cotidiano is currently available on uol.com.br and on Amazon Prime Video.
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).
Tobby Entrevista was eventually canceled in 2019 and Tobby has since made small appearances in other Charges.com.br series.
In 2022, after the character made minor appearances in the other Charges.com.br series, Tobby returned to have a new show called "Tobby Podcast" inspired by YouTube podcast videos for a short time.
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.
The series was slowly being discontinued in the late 2010s, mainly in 2020 when crossovers with Só Levando became frequent.
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), headed by a criminal organization. The series is starred by Bezerra, an alcoholic middle-aged man who creates plans to try to get rich and support his wife Bernadete (with whom he has an open relationship), his eldest daughter Suelen (a young adult who pretends to be studying medicine, but in reality 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
An anime series centering on 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). This was the first series to contain sagas and a final, not returning to production since the end of the fourth season.
After the end of the series the characters were gradually incorporated into the same universe as the other series with very frequent appearances in the latest animations made between 2020 and 2022.
Pedreiros Zoeiros Or Mocking Bricklayers in the literal translation, is a sketch series focused on a two bricklayers Pedrão and Jerônimo (the latter usually portrayed as an unseen character) who often make fun of people (usually controversial artists) who often appear walking in front of the construction area where they work.
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 Todo Mundo em Casa! (lit. 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.
Crossovers were frequent until the last animation released in 2022 called Adeus (lit. Goodbye), where an end-of-the-world arc occurs with Earth being destroyed by a meteor called Shorts (a reference to YouTube Shorts) making an analogy to the decline in popularity of the animations after they were moved to YouTube with constant demonetization due to the mature content in many of the animations even with Mauricio Ricardo trying to diminish the mature content over time.
Characters Tobby Tobby: Whose real name is Tobias, is the website interviewer from the Tobby Entrevista series, 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, according to the character due to the decline in the audience of his show. 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 a resident of Lamento and at first working at the pirate radio on the hill until becoming one of Coisa Ruim's henchmen. As Coisa Ruim's henchman, Tobby has bonded with the alter ego "Sr. K" (wearing a Guy Fawkes mask and wig inspired by V for Vendetta) pretending to be the leader of Kuduro Hill which was also in possession of Coisa Ruim, but unknowingly. However, as Sr. K he ended up showing mental problems and madness to the point of considering his alter ego as a real person until in the 2021 saga Natal Louco he was captured and hospitalized in an asylum where it was revealed that he always suffered madness for believing that his interviewees (including fictional from films and cartoons) were real. After being released from asylum Tobby returned to appear in 2022 in a new podcast series called Tobby Podcast.
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. The character continued to appear with Tobby until 2010, already at colonel status (as shown in Tropa de Elite 2) with his last appearance in 2011 in a saga of his own in London. The character was initially considered real within the Charges.com.br canon until 2022 saga Natal Louco where it is revealed that (like all of Tobby's other interviewees) he was just a figment of Tobby's imagination since Tobby suffered from madness.
Espinha e Fimose