Caray, Caray!

Lety decides they will proceed without Luigi. Tomas shows up and bumps into Oxi well, her chiches, and begs her pardon. She tells him she’ll never pardon him for what he did to her. Lety asks him to sit next to her. I love how at the giant table, everyone is crammed in on one side.

Lui tells Aldo to begin he needs to find out from his friend what kind of budget he had in mind because he wants to start developing it and now he’s like “with my hands tied.” Aldo tells him what you have to understand is that we are moving to another dimension now, I spoke with Lety and…Lui snubs him for being her friend. Aldo smirks.

Lety decides to begin, Mar picks up the phone and Lui tells Irma to pick it up thinking it’s Rulli and he wants her to tell him he’s busy (fawning over Aldo), but it’s not, it’s Mar who yells at him to get to the meeting Lui tells her not to yell “Miss Bitter Sourpuss” and he’s glad he’s not her husband, and this is why she’s going to stay an old maid! Aldo tells him he’d like to tell him something before he goes, but Lui says he’ll be back soon.

He asks Irma for his dark glasses, in case he pulls a face, Valerian root if they upset him and a magazine to entertain himself, and tells Aldo these meetings are intolerable. Aldo calls Irma “guapa” “beautiful” he’s such a flirt, and she is impactada. Not sure that was professional.

Didn’t know Celso was a bluesman, but he plays harmonica out front, and looks much sexier in his sleeveless duds than most security guys I see around. Dona Juli shows up out of nowhere casually strolling in with Moty. She says she can’t stand being alone in her house so she came to Conceptos, saying her whole family is there. Wonder how Moty feels about this trip? If Erasmo has the car, did they have to take the Micro?

Lopez decides to start being professional and offers everyone drinks or peanuts. They all decline except for Tomas until Lety quiets him. So Lui gets to the meeting and tells Miss Sourpuss that he arrived. He wonders what Lety and Tommy are doing there noting his tuft like Woody Woodpecker. Marcia yells at him to sit. He asks if they are going to raffle off the presidency. He suggests that they make him Miss President because it seems there are no prerequisites and Marcia agrees you have to have no special qualities as she beams death Lety’s way. Fer laughs falsely and suggests that we stop the jokes and continue. He grabs Lety’s arm affectionately and tells her to continue.

Lety tells the rest of them that the judge agreed to an extension in which to pay the debts, but it’s only for 3 months. Everyone is impactada, especially Marcia. Lety continues that it’s 2166666.66 dolares per month. (Actually, they have to pay 2166666.67 for two of them :) )

PM tells Juli she chose a bad day as everyone is in a meeting and she doesn’t think Lety can see her. Of course Simon goes on his rant about how things are heating up around there. PM tells Juli she can wait and they are concerned about the outcome of the meeting and whether they will have jobs.


Marci doesn’t understand why they accepted that condition. Lui- Do you think you’re going to rob a bank or how do you think you’ll pay for the number again but wrong last digit. It looks like we are in the hands of an enemy. Lety - We told the judge our backs are up against a wall, but he wasn’t listening to anything. Fer says if we don’t accept it the business will be liquidated immediately. Mar asks Lety if she has a suggestion as Presidenta, and Lui says that this woman isn’t Copperfield or a genius he asks how do you think we are going to resolve this gigantic problem?

Fer understands it’s difficult, but not impossible and he and Omar were trying to look at ways to do it, but they didn’t come up with anything. He grabs on the arm very tenderly for Lety to continue again, and this time Mar notices it.

Lety has a proposal to make. Luigi tells everyone to prepare to listen to some kind of horror. She has a project that is dedicated to the international market. Omar says, so you mean it’s not something that is aimed to be consumed here? Everyone is surprised at how brilliant Omar was to figure that out, wink wink. She says it will have to be broadcast here in our country too, but principally directed at making foreigners come here. Fer says so you think this is going to get us the money we need? Lety says she has to run the numbers but to start she thinks they can get the money. Lui sarcastically says - Hurrah Hurrah, Double Hurrah!

She continues explaining there are about 8-10 interested advertisers and she figures we can make about that number of commercials a month. Lui - This woman is cuckoo, she’s going to make us crazy. -You think we can make 10 commercials in a month? We aren’t breadcrumbs or little shellfish?

Fer tells everyone to listen to her plan and grabs her a third time after yelling at Luigi again. Omar wants to know what the product will be. Lety says Mexican cuisine. We are selling our traditional cuisine to the foreigners, so that foreigners come to Mexico for the cuisine. At that Lui gasps. That project is mine! He drops some Valerian. The way he goes through that stuff he should just have a flask of it like the Abogados. :)


PM tells Juli why they might lose their jobs because of their breakfast escapade with the Guapote. She says he’s also a friend of Luigi. Julieta says you wanted to go to breakfast with him and that’s why you were late? Pm says yes, they almost fired us, but as it turns out, that man is also friends with Lety! Simon argues about whether he is that good looking.

Pm assures her, “Yes Julieta he’s verrrry attractive!” Just then Aldo walks up behind her.

Lui - Not even the valerian is helping my mimisqui now. What anger! Mar wants him to explain but he says no. Lety wants Lui to explain why he thinks the project is his, Fer says leave his anger for later, they have to concentrate on this and he grabs Lety a fourth time.

Aldo greets Juli and tells her he’s heard of grand cooking, and they should discuss recipes. Juli tells him Lety told her he too is a great chef.


Caray, right about now, I’m sick of these meetings.

Lety explains the project with the Resturant Association’s interest in promoting Mexican cuisine. Mar thinks it sounds logical. Tomas offers how much publicity money the industry spends a year. Lety talks about advertisers on the telethon and Mar isn’t convinced they can handle such a large project. She thinks it’s too risky. Besides this is coming from a woman who may know a lot about finance but nothing about production.

Luigi agrees and appears to nix the project. Mar thinks their aspirations are too high and Fer thinks they should listen to the plan. Lui says Fer doesn’t count anymore. Lety says yes he does. Fer questions him since he said it was his project originally. Lui wants to handle it with elegance though, and doesn’t think Lety has any clue about that, that she is naïve and looks at everything ignorantly thinking what you don’t know won’t hurt.

Fer tells her not to worry about Lui’s smart comments and her reaches to grab her arm again, but misses and rubs Tom’s. Tom affectionately pats him back. Fer is oblivious, until…..

Lety says this idea of cuisine isn’t completely mine, that my friend is the knowledgeable one. M-So can we learn who is your friend? Lety says sure, Aldo. Fer is impactado. NOOOOOO!!!!

He doesn’t think he’d like to work with him, if you were asking him. He doesn’t want Aldo on the project. Lui - Your boyfriend, Mar, isn’t even capable of give a good and logical explanation. Luigi remarks that he is close-minded and is mad that Fer doesn’t want Aldo involved. Marci wants to know what he has against him. F- Nothing concrete, just that he doesn’t strike him well.

Lety tells him that’s not a good argument. He does good work. Aldo will give us a great opportunity to pay the debt at least for this month, no? M- You don’t want to support the cuisine tourism? Fer studders then finally admits he has no better proposal so we have to study this.

Juli is talking to Aldo, telling him how wonderful Lety has been since she came back, that she even painted a beach scene on her wall and she’s more sure of herself, and content etc. PM agrees but is still trying to flirt with Aldo. The phone rings and PM tells Simon they need him upstairs for something. Jealous Simon doesn’t want to go.

Aldo was thinking of taking a walk, and he invites Julieta to go with. She agrees.

Back at the Junta, Lety says each commercial brings in about 200,000, so Omar works his little brain to come up with the idea that if they can produce 8 or 9 commercials we can almost get to 2mil. $. She thinks they make up the rest with radio spots or other venues. Lety says we still can’t count on anything but I think we have the talent to pull this off.

Luigi wants to know where the storyboards are for each of these commercials and essentially whines about being able to accomplish the task and thinks she’s dreaming. He complains that she wants him to dedicate himself to the naconess. Lety thinks he’s talented enough to handle it.

Lety - We can count on the support of Fabiola and Gregorio and other directors under your supervision. Omar says they have the two studios they haven’t paid for yet and now they can make use of both. Again everyone is just charmed with his brilliance. Mar says before anything else we have to make sure there are enough advertisers interested in participating. Lety says Aldo is worrying about that with his friend Gui. Mar snottily says she thinks of everything. Fer like a proud papa agrees, then shys back when Mar gives him the death look again and he pretends to write the names of the assistants.

Aldo is talking to Guillermo and received good news that the project is going to be marvelous. He tells Juli that Lety is very talented and wonderful like her Mother and that she is lucky to have her. Aldo says how much Juli reminds him of his mama, that she was so sweet etc.. She passed away. Juli touches Aldo lovingly and tells him they need to go back to Conceptos. Aldo agrees because he wants to go see Lety.

Sara is arguing with Simon to get him to deliver boxes. He seems to think even though he is the messenger he is above this task. Sara chides him that maybe he’s not man enough to handle it. He says not to make fun of his physical attributes. He calls her Senorita giant giraffe etc. She tells him not to pretend to be high society. He says there are few like him. He makes comments about them being traitors with PM etc. He ends up taking the boxes.

Lety continues: We have to run a campaign that is attractive but also sensible. Lui still is complaining that she wants everything at once, speed, quality, and economy. She thinks we can process this. Lui - Quality requires time etc. Let -He has infinite talent… She says he can have his wonderful career later, but in this moment his job has to give up the luxury of all that and be…… Lui is insulted that his artistic freedom is getting compromised. Lui- Why do we have to keep listening to this woman. Fer thinks he’s exaggerating. They go back and forth. Talent has it’s own rhythm etc. He doesn’t think she has the right to interfere with the production. Lui- That doesn’t give you the right to meddle in my area that is production.

Lety asks Mar’s opinion. Mar thinks that Lety is getting into an area that she doesn’t know anything about. Mar thinks that Lety might be marching them down the wrong path and they’ll end up worse off than they are. Fer thinks we have no other option but to listen to Lety.


Lety continues that something else is important to her, that they shouldn’t use the fancy sophisticated models as they always do, that they should use real people that look 100% Mexican. This is the final straw and Luigi is on the precipice of a whopper of a mimisqui! He asks her if she is truly expecting that they hire nacas and chichimecas! She says yes whichever of them you want together with the products to make this food, but we really have no option except to hire all Mexican women. She wants normal people to advertise these traditional products. Lui has a panic attack, and begins to cry like a toddler who dropped his lollipop on the sidewalk.


Outside the cuartel hears the screams and speculates about what might be happening. They argue about whether Lui is an enemy of the cuartel and if he was fired.


He calls for Irma that he can’t breathe and his Valerian is gone. Lui resigns. He says her proposition is against his very being. He has to maintain his prestige etc. and stylize his models etc. Lety says she knows and is no expert in those things, but it’s not logical to have Europeans and Yanks selling traditional Mexican food products. Tomas says well they could hire people who are 60% or 70%. Lety tells him not to be racist.

She makes a PR pitch for all things Mexico. Lui jokes about her wanting to reinforce the image of a traditional ranch guy in a sombrero drinking his tequila near his horse and maguey plant. Lui thinks well maybe he could get his friend Salma Hayek to do them a favor, but she’s going to be very expensive. Lety smiles and says no, she thinks Salma is very involved in another project right now. Wink Wink [sly reference to the US version of Ugly Betty, by the way]. He thinks the idea will fail, she thinks it will be a success. Lui says look who’s talking, the most beautiful ugly girl….da dum dum dum…

The cuartel discuss the boxes and that no one knows what’s in them except that Don Omar asked them to come out of his office and into the cellar. They make fun of Simon and his computer classes etc.

Lui -My concept of beauty enters through the eyes. Lety tells him he needs to change that concept. You can’t criticize everything that doesn’t fit into your little box of esthetic beauty. She says there are many beautiful things native to their land, muscles of workers from the country etc. There is a lot of beauty there. Lui - Now you are going to tell me that when you look in the mirror you see a beauty? Fer defends Lety against Luigi’s comments. Mar makes a look and Fern says, well she’s the president. Lety thanks but no thanks to the defense but I don’t need because I’m right. Tomas watches on. I swear there is a magnetic field hanging over him emitting static and attracting his hair, that or he rubbed it with a balloon before he left his house this morning.
Lety says when she watches TV she doesn’t identify with any of those beautiful models and Mar actually agrees.

We should do these commercials with sincerity and honesty. A company like this will have a much greater impact than one who is fake. Fer agrees completely with Lety and grabs her arm yet again.

Lui indignantly agrees he can create anywhere. He can do 20 houses within 100 meters then. This pleases Lety and Fer marvels at her parenting skills with Lui.

Lui runs out screaming, Aldo is there and asks him if he’s ok. Irma brings Lui a Tila tea (calming), and Aldo a tea of Flor de Azar with Jamaica (cleansing). Lui starts to say how bad everything is and Aldo says nothing can be that bad. Lui continues that everyone is against him and that he’s getting a triple mimisqui. He excuses himself and goes back in.


Bravo EE UU, but man, not liking this late Fea.... :)

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