Chiripiorca comes from El Chavo del Ocho, the Mexican sitcom created by Roberto Gomez Bolanos, known as Chespirito, first aired in the 1970s and beloved across Latin America and Spain. Played for laughs around Don Ramon, played by Ramon Valdes, the invented word became shorthand for a sudden, twitchy fit brought on by stress or annoyance. Clips and quotes from the show have circulated for decades in reruns, then online as reaction audio in Spanish, where saying someone got la chiripiorca still means they comically lost it.