Caray, Caray!

I didn't have a tape, so this is on the fly.

It seems the company Fern and Lety crossed the Atlantic to deal with has already pretty much decided to go with some competitor. Fern says: in order not to have wasted the plane flight, let's have some fun. He wants to take Lety to the Big Game.

They visit a building with a giant stone-ball-rolling-in-water sculpture out front (Fern tries to impress Lety with his understanding of the mechanics of this sculpture but she ignores his pseudo-scientific explanation). They meet up with two tv "color" announcers who compete to see who will give Fern tickets to the game. Don Eugenio, Omar Chaparro, Don Corleone (isn't he in the Mafia?), and Toño de Valdes are mentioned.

While these two announcers are joshing with Fern and Lety - they've taken to her - Fern gets a cellphone call from Marcia. He lies and says he's in his club back in Mexico. "But that sounds like Omar Chaparro and Toño de Valdes," she astutely accuses. He says, "Oh, it's just the tv," and the guys pretend they're doing game announcing as Fern holds the phone up to them. Marcia closes: "I'll call when you're less busy." As Fern and Lety depart, the famous guys leer a bit and say: "Enjoy your forbidden love!" Heh.

Fern tells Lety: "There are no hotel rooms in Hannover." "Ay, Don Fernando, how can such a big city have no hotels?" He explains, it's that they're all booked - they'll have to stay in Munich and just go to Hannover for the day.

They walk along the highway and have a picnic. Lety tells him how mean Alicia is to the cuartel, and she sticks her nose into everything. He says: "I know she's incompetent, but she isn't that bad, I can't run her off, there'd be trouble with Marcia." Lety says Alicia is like a daughter of Minerva and Zeus. This reference goes right over Fernando's head as it goes over mine.


Meanwhile, Omar is in trouble with Marcia for spending so much time trying to get tickets (for Fern) to the BIG SOCCER GAME MEXICO VS ANGOLA which is taking place the next day in Hannover. She says he's unprofessional. He calls Fernando to say, no luck with the tickets, but Fern gloats because he's got tickets already! Omar says: "Your little gargoyle brings you luck! It's the luck of those who don't bathe!"

When Alicia asks Marcia: "Why do you still want to marry Fern?" Marcia muses: "Sometimes I think it's just for vengeance."

There's lots of boogying in the street in Munich. Luigi looks adorable dressed in green.

Lety and Fern are all relaxed and affectionate and she gets lots of kisses. He says, "All the grief of the trip was worth it now, just to see you so happy." A particularly good kiss is interrupted by a cellphone call from Omar, who tries to talk to them in German. Lety hauls out the dictionary and it turns out he's saying: "We're right in front of you!" Yes, Luigi and Marcia are having Omar take their picture at some monument and Omar, looking past them as they preen for the camera, sees Fern and Lety, clearly visible smooching in the background. Omar's talking faux German on the phone so Marcia and Luigi won't understand he's telling Fern: "Run for the hills!"

Lety panics and skitters off, thinking Fern is following. Fern tells Omar to take Marcia and Luigi off to a hotel. Then he notices Lety is lost.

Lety wanders the streets and ends up at the train station, hoping Fern will find her. She cries and sits on a bench. And sits. And sits. Meanwhile, Fern hopes she will find her way back to the hotel, but she doesn't remember its name. He asks the receptionist in his utterly adorable English: "Have you seen a short woman with glasses and a moustache and hair like a lemon?" "No."


He gets Omar to come to his hotel lobby and Omar asks, "Why are you so worried? The way she looks, nobody will bother her. Let's have some schnapps (the subtitles said 'snacks')!" Fern is way too upset for that. Omar taunts, "This looks like L-O-V-E!"

Fern hails a taxi and combs the city unsuccessfully. The next morning - while he is sitting, despondent, outside his hotel - it suddenly occurs to him to try the train station. He runs over there (very cute in his sneakers) and finds Lety asleep on her bench. He smiles hugely in relief, scooches next to her with a sweet smile, touches her head and wakens her with a kiss. Lots of hugs! She says: "I felt so alone - I don't know any German." "Lety, I would have died if I hadn't found you - I felt so bad!" "You were really worried?" "You have no idea how much." Really sweet kisses, sigh.

At the game in Hannover - "Lety, don't dance provocatively, you're making me jealous!" Lots of shots of Mexicans celebrating in the street. Fern and Lety: Dance, Kiss, Honk on Horns, Repeat. Lots of name-dropping.


Marcia has been calling Fern's home number over and over, and getting no response. She is always complaining on the phone to Alicia who says, "I hate to put fuel on the fire [sure you do], but he's probably out with his lover."

Next day, Marcia, Omar and Luigi are in a sports bar or lobby. The BIG GAME is on and Omar is watching but Marcia and Luigi, once more, have their backs to the action. Luigi is explaining that HE likes football cause the players are so sexy and have such great glutes. Over their heads, Omar sees on the tv a big juicy shot of Fern and Lety in the stadium.


Will Marcia discover Fernando has been lying, lying, and lying some more?
Will she run into him in Munich?
Will Mexico win the BIG GAME against Angola?
Will Simon fall off the roof?

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