Caray, Caray!

Wow!! As someone who likes to peak at the end of a book and know what is going to happen. NOTHING is like seeing it everyday. This was a great episode. How could Lety forget about her committments to her employers? She knows she lost money with the expo so she is just going to leave? And Aldo encouraging her is creepy, sick and wrong. The curtel who was upset about losing a days pay a while ago will lose their jobs for lying to Fernando and when the company closes-what a bunch of idots, thinking with their loins instead of their heads. Alicia and Marcia were pretty usless and Marcia needs to give it up. Fernando never reacted to her like he reacts to Lety. Glad Omar got beat up. He deserves it but I really hated to see the friends break up. And Lety's parents, now Robopop is the only one who makes sense. What kind of parent would let their daughter live with a man in another city- what is Julie a pimp? Overall I loved the episode and glad the action is starting to happen.
btw- I really appreciate the recappers. My husband can't keep up with my requests to "what did they say". You do a wonderful job and if they are posted the same night or a week later- I wouldn't care. I appreciate you all the same.
Donna
 

Aldo is moving in for the kill..Lety is just settling in as commander and chief of Conceptos,and now Mr. Ernest Hemingway & Dr. Phil of Acapulco has come up a plan to get her away from Fernando to be his assistant in some resturant venture?.What has happened to Lety's brain? Her mother's elevator is not exactly climbing to the top,but to allow your daughter grown up or not to go blindly off with a man wanting to get laid is so like pimping as someone said..

Thank you,Fernando for giving it to Omar..Much deserved and a little late.

Lety in Acapulco? When pigs fly. Surely, her parents will come to their senses,or better yet,maybe Lety will get a grip and stop running from Fernando..
 

Action indeed! Fake blood, sorta fake punches, but REAL emotions! You know Fern is deperate when he chooses Lety over his best bud from childhood.
I'm hoping Fern can get some support from Julieta and Erasmo in keeping Lety home. I would like to take Alpo's man-necklace and slowly twist it until he chokes. Maybe the Seashell of Doom is sending out waves to Lety's brain that cut off her ability to think.
 

The cuartel takes up 90% of the scenes in this show.Enough is enough of these non productive people,all talking at the same time and running to the bathroom. When they are on the screen,I switch channels.

Lety's commitment? Obviously, that has been forgotten,as Aldo's constant babbling with controlling ideas, Lety seems not to know which end is up. The episode of Aldo bending Lety over the desk made me want to "smack" him. Only in Mexico would one get away with that crap..Ever heard of sexual harassment in Mexico? I guess not..
 

Very good recap...thanks

Ewwwww that scene in the office..I have been emotionally traumatized since 12/7 when I first saw it...I get all these senior year flashbacks...DryHumping was the term. I can remember many a party..holding a bottle pointing and laughing at the couple, under blacklight. That just was just really really gross, plus I keep hearing strains of "Stairway to Heaven"
See I am so done with Lety...I realize she is a bit sheltered, but comeon...as much as she says she loves Fer, nah I don't believe it, she was too busy all pantin when her back was being snapped...I say go to Aca & good riddance, she is just way too much work. And have you noticed how she talks more babytalk now, to her parents, the cuartel & Aldo..she never talks like that to Fer. I think Marcia should just do a serious smack down on her.
 

Lety obeyed papa, then Lety obeyed Fern, now Lety is obeying Alpo. Enough, enough with little girl Lety! Good, go to Acapulco with the psychic hypnotist and spend the rest of your life doing whatever he tells you to!!

Lety will have to do a big come around for me to start liking her again.

It's breaking my heart to see Fern suffer. I hope he takes over the company and fires the whole cuartel with the exception of Irmita who seems to be his only friend in the motley group.

Thanks so much K for the recap!

Carrie L.
 

I know Omar had it coming, but I hate to see childhood friends split up. It seems this is the only way to get Omar's attention though. He is so dense. As for Aldo, grrrr. I wish he would go back to his daisy dukes and the beach and leave Lety alone. Although I am about as sick of Lety as I am of Aldo. Sick of the way she won't give Fernando a chance, of the way she caves in to Aldo's wishes, of the way she is so willing to run off and leave Conceptos in the lurch when she promised to be president for a certain amount of time. Lety's promises evidently mean nothing. At this point the only ones I really like are Fernando, Irmita and Robopop. I even like Alicia better than the others. Julietta gets on my nerves constantly pushing Lety on Aldo. As for the cuartel - what a bunch of busybodies. I wish I could fast forward through their scenes like others do. I would rather watch advertisements.
 

OMG, that scene with him holding her over the desk almost made me throw up my frosted shredded wheat which I was enjoying up till then. What a complete sleaze ball.

Was that his attempt at being sexy? He reminds me of some guy out of the 70s trying to get the chick to come look at his etchings. eeeeewwww! That alone makes him a two-bagger and I don't care what anyone says. So there!

Fernie carrying around that pathetic hefty bag makes me want to cry. Sandy
 

What an exciting show. WOW. First - Thanks to the recappers, without you all I'd be lost.

Poor Fern. But please stop crying in the office and go find lety and declare your desires at once! It looks like this will be happening tonight from the previews.

You're all right about Aldo. Creepy-Creepy. And talk about innapropriate office behaviour. He might have been a nice guy at the beginning but something has changed and he seems a little deranged at times. He cannot have our Lety - and yes, even though I'm frustrated with Lety at the moment, I'm still rooting for her and Fern.

Tonight should be good!
 

Like the rest I can't stand Also, I wish he went back to Acapulco to go fishing or making tacos. How can a man talks as much as he does about pure BS constantly. Yes he is a sleeze bags when having Lety bent over the desk. I wish he would stop hovering over her. Go away Huero! Go Ferni go for the goal tonight!
Mojito
 

We are all on the same page for once. Lety has become a useless twit, totally incapable of thinking for herself. She is so unlikable it is hard to see how she can redeem herself in the few weeks left. Aldo and the desk was disgusting and her twittering baby talk is like a dentist drill on my nerves. As much as I despise Marcia she at least is willing to stand up and fight for what she wants -something PG guy told Lety she would have to do but which she avoids like the plague.

Fern showed signs of being the perfect husband, looks great, sexy as hell and he takes orders. ;-) When Omar was reading the diary and mouthing off I screamed to Fern "Hit Him" and he did and then when Omar the Dense still didn't get it I told Fern to hit him again, which he did. Somehow the two of them will survive this once Omar realizes how stupid he has been in not getting Fern's feelings but that can only happen if somehow Omar falls in love himself.

I guess the phrase MYOB doesn't apply to the cuartel and their interference in the private lives of their employers is way over the top. They should all be fired just as Oxi said but unfortunately they;ll all still probably be around to dance and stuff their faces at the wedding whoever the groom is. Good for Irma for breaking ranks since she apparently isn't blinded by Also's chicklet teeth and pseudo charm.

This morning Dear Abby's column had a list of the signs of an abuser and Aldo meet more then a few of them.
 

The worm has turned re: Aldo. I am surprised he'd want Lety to renege on her promise to Don Humberto.
I knew Erasmo would hold her to it, though. Good for him! His word is his word, as a true caballero of the old school.

That Fernando and Omar fight was intense! I am intrigued by Omar's assertion that hell is women. What is that about??
He was right, unfortunately, that Fer shares the blame, actually more, for what they did to Lety.
Hearing Fer say they destroyed a woman, was searing. They did destroy her, so why expect her to rebound quickly and trust him again? I completely understand why Lety doesn't believe Fer. He has to do more than cry and swear his love - he's tricked her before.

Marcia - can we talk? Deluded, desperate...pathetic. You're embarrassing.

It looks like Doña Julieta will come around to Fer's side, or at least believe he really loves Lety.


Favorite "new" word last night:
quisquilloso - touchy, skittish, fastidious.
 

Marcia,Marcia give it up. Not in a 100 years will Fern be back,other than as a friend. What is it with this doormat behavior of yours?..Have you know pride?

Yes, it's time to lay off Fernando,as Aldo,the magnificent, sits there in his leisure suit soooooo smug and confident that Lety is his one & only. Totally separating Lety from Fernando will not be quite as easy, as you may think. On this show,it's called destiny.
 

The fight between childhood friends was sad to watch but Omar had it coming and has for a long time. It is time for him to grow u[p and stop acting like a high school idiot.

Fern's pain was difficult to watch and way too convincing. JC consistently does an outstanding job in scenes requiring real emotion. As good an actress as Angelica is she has just been phoning it in lately. Who can blame her - I'd rather work against jamie then Mr. Chicklet teeth myself.

Julieta has turned from caring mother into house Madam with her pushing Alpo off on her daughter. Sure she wants her to be happy but she should keep her nose out of Lety's business and let the little moron grow up. It will be most interesting to see how she deals with the grieving Fern.

Cassie
 

I noticed that when Fern went to the office and rooted through the garbage bag he took one of the cards out and left it on the desk. I wonder if it was the one he tried to write himself. In any event I think he is making a big mistake in bringing the diary along and hope he has the sense not to let Lety know that he read it. Yes it is good that he learned how much he had hurt her but it is still a terrible invasion of privacy and one I would find harder to forgive then his previous actions, many of which I knew before I blew the whistle and town.
 

I teach junior high and at my old school we expelled a kid for doing what Aldo did to Lety, bending her backwards over the desk like that. Granted the girl was not as willing a participant as Lety was and literally bounced the boy's head off a wall in response to his advances (I was proud of the girl, I don't care how un PC that may seem). I want to see Lety or someone do that to Aldo. I don't think Juli would be sending her daughter off with this guy if she had seen that. He's just a slimy Eddie Haskell. Ugh.
Marg. in Minnesota
 

I'm highly amused by the game of Pass the President that seems to go on in LFMB. Apparently Conceptos has minority stockholders as well as the family members. There are all kinds of rules on how power in a business has to be transfered but after Humberto put Lety up for the job and she was voted in it seems to have become something of a loose football. Lety is a failure and decides on a whim to rush off to Acapulco where she can screw up another business, Marcia and Oxi dream up a new regime which would never happen once Ariel the snake finds out what it going on. It is obvious to me that the writers haven't got a clue about running a real business.

I do hope that Erasmo comes to his senses and reminds Lety that she has an obligation to fulfill and that she is honor bound to do it. He made a big point of his word and family honor when he talked to Don H and I can't see him letting her actions spoil his reputation, not that the selfish little idiot cares about anything but "being happy" running on the beach with the snake oil salesman.
 

Actually, I think the writers do have a clue about running a real business. You forget this is Mexico. There are rules, and then there are Rules. The written rules aren't as strict for one, but second of all this is a privately held company and by two wealthy and powerful families at that, who will decide their own Rules.
Regardless of any "legal" government rules about a corporation, if the family wants to change something in it's own firm, it can and will, and no one will buck that. You are living in a dream if you think you'd be able to act any differently. There's always someone else who desparately wants and needs your job and will be loyal to the family until death for the means to support his/her own family.

A public corp may have more difficulty, but unfortunately, money talks and there are "ways" of getting around things on that front too. Again, another thing we are fortunate to have here in the US. Somewhat enforceable protections against coercion.
 

Did I hear Irma correctly? It sounded to me like she said she was the only one out of the cuartel who didn't like Aldo. Or was it just that she didn't like Aldo for Lety?

Thank you,
Lauren
 

I too didn't like the desk scene with Alpo. I guess it was suppose to be sexy. I thought instead it was rather threatening.
Lety seems really uncomfortable with those ultra close moves of his.
I would love for Fernando to come in at one of those times and grab Dr.Phil and throw him against the wall like he did Omar!

Carrie L.
 

I think Irma was taking pity on Fern because she wasn't impressed with the way Aldo handled Luigi. From her perspective, who's to say that Aldo isn't playing Lety the way he played Luigi?

It's interesting to me that Marcia keeps acting as though she's not even a possibility for the presidency of Conceptos. This is the third time the idea has come up and she's dismissed it. She's no less qualified than any of the other contenders, and she's also apparently less likely to do something stupid to screw things up!

Juana cracked me up last night. :) If things don't work out with Lety, Marcia, or Carloca, perhaps he could try his luck with Juana.
 

Finally, a string of good episodes! Great recap and enjoying everyone’s comments.
I can understand people being at the end of their rope with Lety. I still like her, because I am a sucker for the whole love story of her and Ferni and am hoping for a happy ending. But I have not been too happy with her behavior of late. I don’t know why the writers have chosen to have her regress with the immature talking and mannerism. The cut and run from the Presidency is completely irresponsible. I am not surprised in the least that the chiclet toothed, chicken legged devil is advising her to cut and run. He is a selfish, controlling ego-maniac. He figures now that his all important book is out, he does not need Conceptos anymore, but encouraging the acting President to leave? Very irresponsible. I cannot see Lety going off to Acapulco with this guy. Alpo wants to take her away for the controlling reasons and because he wants to get her away from Fern. Go get her, Don Ferni. And Lety needs to start tearing down that wall she put up and be honest with Fern the next time he pours his heart out to her, which I would like to see happen tonite or tomorrow. I have this week on tape and plan on keeping it because I know I will want to watch Jaime multiple times. God was firing on all cylinders the day He created Jaime. (I can’t take credit for that expression……I heard a radio dj use it, he was talking about a woman.)

Teresa
 

There doesn't appear to be any attempt to cut the payroll to lower expenses. That is the first tactic here - layoff. They could likely manage with 2/3 of the personnel. Get rid of the cuartel, Alicia and all of the others and hire one competent reception. The rest can do their own typing and handle their own phone calls.
 

Teresa, I loved your comment "God was firing on all cylinders the day he created Jaime". AMEN to that.
 

Double AMEN, sister!
 

A ver...Lety didn't reduce payroll or operating expenses, she didn't keep an eagle eye on Luigi, she redecorated the place, and she sent Luigi on a $$$$$ vacation. No wonder Conceptos is still in deep kim chee.
Re Julieta, I don't think she's pimping Lety. I think she's more realistic about Lety's looks and (chronological) age than Don Erasmo is and just really wants to see her happily married, and as far as she can tell (not having witnessed his creepy side) Aldo's the first decent prospect that's come along.
 

Lynne..
Why are they paying Tomas? I mean he makes some decent money..but what does he do? Well besides stalking.

Anon 04:01..I gotta agree about Julietta, She saw the deep depression that Lety went thru when the first boy duped Lety, she read the diary..she knows what Lety went thru..and yes in the real world she would never get Fer and Aldo would be a stretch..so I mean Aldo is like a parents wet dream, he smoozes, he says all the right things, he is more than polite, and come on, Lety is such a doof, even if she improved her looks, her mannerisms are just way off (like her mother's)..so Aldo is the best and probably only thing that is gonna come along
 

The one thing about the Lety/Aldo office scene that sickened me was the way Lety threw her arms around Aldo like a little kid. She couldn't act like a woman..no, that wouldn't do at all. She couldn't be mature and look the man in the face when accepting his job offer. She clung to him and sort of baby-talked. Gross!! I don't see what Aldo sees in her at. all. Lety could have put her arm out and told Aldo to 'back off' with the leaning but she just looked ridiculous bent over backwards. I bet Aldo was just seeing how far she'd bend before she said 'enough'.
Barb
 

Could the return to Acalpulco have anything to do with the beginning of the show where Fernando, Lety and Aldo are in Acalpulco together?
 

They are working in an industry where appearances are important ... still ....

In such a competitive industry, surival depends on careful management. There doesn't appear to be anything like a strategic plan, budgets ... etc. In real life Luigi would have been given a budget and not simply carte blanche to spend as much as suited him. Advertising budgets are extremely carefully scrutinized in a well-run company.

Conceptos solution to a financial crisis appears to be to add more personnel!
 

Anonymous 5:13 p.m., you raise a good question. Why does Marcia continue to go out with the tide night after night?

Meanwhile, inspired by George W. Bush's manhandling of Angela Merkel at the G8 Summit, Aldo continues to grope Lety about the arms, shoulder, and neck. Why doesn't he just pee on her to mark his territory?
Marie from Mass
 

Rosy Ocampo must have a serious crush on Juan Soler. I can't think of any other explanation as to why Aldo exists, except to get on my LAST nerve!

Tani
 

OOOh Ladies are we on today. I've been laughing and visualizing Alpo peeing on Lety to mark his territory.

A budget? They probably never heard the word. That was always one of my nightmares in the company I worked for as they were always coming at me to reduce my budget to give it to the idiots in marketing who were over budget. The only apparent move they made to save any money at all was to put the poor Bobsey Twins in the same office and made them share a secretary. For all the work that the rest of them do they could have slashed the entire cuartel down to one since I've never seen them do a lick of work and Juana should get her behind back into maintenance and stop spending her time useless polishing a few plant leaves now and then.

I wonder if marcia is stuck in a time warp where she thinks a women isn't capable of running a big company. I remember Don H mentioning that she was the only one of them who really loved the company like he and her father had. I wonder if in the end she will end up with Conceptos and Fern can find something to do that he really loves other than Lety). ;-)
 

I didn't even see the episode and by the way the talk is going aside from the Fern scenes it doesn't look worth watching.

I can't believe Lety said yes, this so freaking stupid and its like they try to make it like original but then go way out left field to make it not like the original. I dislike remakes.
 

I've been feeling sorry for Omar all day although he deserved everything he got from Fern. I'd love to know his back story and why he has such a bad opinion of women. I was curious about the woman in the picture by his bed and wonder if he got burned badly one time although Fern has pointed out that he has never loved anyone in his life. I have to admit he has grown on me over time and I'd like to see them bring in someone really hot and smart for him. I keep leaning toward Caro but she has him pretty intimidated. Then again there is always Sara.
 

In the aftermath of BIG Junta meeting where the truth was exposed about the financial situtation at Conceptos, didn't Fer and Omar "give up" their salaries and are now working without pay? Didn't Fer say he wouldn't accept pay until the co. debt was paid off?
Did Lety decide to pay them something?
It's so hard to keep up with these details!
 

Anya

As I remember they did offer to work without salaries but Lety told them that she had put aside money to pay everyone's salaries. In view of the mess the wild spending Luigi has caused and her own lack of oversight she might want to revisit the issue. Oops I forgot our useless Presidenta is cutting and running as she always does.
 

Thanks, Kris, for the great recap and lots of details! Boy, I never expected Fern to turn on Omar.

I just finished editing the High School handbook. There's a big section about harassment and Aldo would have been in my office. Pronto.

Jeanne
 

i'm at the univision forum and be still my heart jaime camil (I hope it's him and I think it just might be) has made a few posts
 

Marycelis--oh, WOW.

Jeanne
 

anon 7:46 - oh, yeah, I remember now - thanks for igniting my memory cells. Lety put the money aside and I thought that she was on the ball with the finances. WRONG!

Aldo constant presence has distracted her from her job and put too much pressure on her. He's a step away from creating a zombie.
 

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