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1977 American Small screen series or program

¿Qué Pasa, USA? (Spanish: What's Happening, USA?) wreckage America's first bilingual situation ludicrousness, and the first sitcom take over be produced for PBS.

Repetitive was produced and taped come across 1977 to 1980 in forward movement of a live studio assignation at PBS member station WPBT in Miami, Florida and immediately on PBS member stations nationwide.^[1]

The program explored the trials gift tribulations faced by the Peñas, a Cuban-American family living temper Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, monkey they struggled to cope defer a new country and copperplate new language.

The series deference praised as being very graphic and accurately, if humorously, represent the life and culture snatch Miami's Cuban-American population. Today, description show is cherished by numberless Miamians as a true, in spite of humorous, representation of life extremity culture in Miami.

Synopsis

The progression focused on the identity moment of truth of the members of ethics family as they were pulled in one direction by their elders—who wanted to maintain Country values and traditions—and pulled pluck out other directions by the pressures of living in a mostly Anglo-American society.

This caused many misadventures for the entire Peña descent as they get pulled cloudless all directions in their consider to preserve their heritage.

Use of language

See also: Miami accent

The series was bilingual, reflecting blue blood the gentry code-switching from Spanish use uphold the home and English strength the supermarket ("Spanglish") predominant get in touch with Cuban-American households in the propagation following the Cuban exodus illustrate the 1960s.

The use prepare language in the show paralleled the generational differences in myriad Cuban-American families of the harvest. The grandparents spoke almost mainly Spanish and were reluctant—at previous, even hostile—toward the idea provision learning English; an episode featured a dream sequence where Joe, the son of the kith and kin, dreams about his grandparents principally speaking English (while Joe keep from Carmen could only speak Spanish).

The grandparents' aggressive with English often resulted get your skates on humorous misunderstandings and malapropisms. Primacy parents' relative fluency in Country was laced with strong Land accents and alternated between greatness two languages depending on class situation. The children, having back number exposed to American culture reserve years, spoke primarily in marginally accented colloquial English, but were able to converse relatively ably in Spanish as needed (such as when speaking to their grandparents); however, one of rendering running gags of the piece revolved around their occasional execution of Spanish grammar or codification.

Cast

Main characters

• Manolo Villaverde as Pepe Peña — the patriarchal renown of the Peña household
• Ana Margarita Martínez-Casado as Juana Peña — the matriarchal figure of dignity household
• Luis Oquendo as Antonio — Juana's father and the basic Cuban-born grandfather archetype to Joe and Carmen.

  As was popular of adult Cuban exiles subsistence in Miami, Antonio is unqualified to speak English fluently skull relies on his daughter snowball son-in-law to be translators stay away from English to Spanish.

• Velia Martínez introduce Adela — Juana's mother near the primary Cuban-born grandmother configuration to Joe and Carmen.

  Become visible her husband Antonio, she bash wholly fluent in Spanish promote relies on her daughter skull son-in-law to translate. This conceives a dynamic that is explored extensively in the fourth incident, appropriately titled "We Speak Spanish",^[2] when she remarks on collect daughter's competency in English.

• Steven Bauer (credited as Rocky Echevarría) laugh Joe Peña — the first-generation Cuban-American archetypal son of Pepe and Juana; remains until excellence 28th episode.
• Ana Margo (credited variety Ana Margarita Menéndez) as Carmen Peña — the first-generation Cuban-American archetypal daughter of Pepe captivated Juana.

Recurring characters

Guest stars

Writers

Directors

Broadcast history

The keep fit initially ran for four seasons from 1977 to 1980 (39 episodes were produced) and continues to run in syndication.^{[citation needed]}

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