Sunday Morning Funnies: Chico's Angels

For a lot of gay men who grew up in a certain generation, Charlie's Angels was a ray of light every Wednesday night. With its three kick-ass heroines going undercover to fight crime and solve murders—and still have time to look fabulous doing it—the show was escapist corn of the sweetest kind. Of course, it was only a matter of time before a bunch of gay men adopted it and made it their own.

Chico's Angels began as a stage show in the basement of a Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles' trendy Silver Lake neighborhood about "three little Latin girls who went to the police academy... and didn't graduate." Through five years and four episodes, these Angels (Kay Sedia, Frieda Lay and Chita Parol) have fought crime in cha-cha heels and provided belly-laughs galore with their perfect comic timing and their obvious fondness for that '70s show that inspired them.

Like everyone else, we're extremely saddened by original Angel Farrah Fawcett's ongoing struggle with cancer, so we're going to lighten the mood a little bit by posting four bite-size webisodes from Chico's Angels above and after the jump. (And stay tuned for the online debut of two brand new webisodes this summer, plus the return of Episode 2: Love Boat Chicas on stage.)

Say it with us, kids: "Hola, Chico!"