Thursday, September 27, 2007
Acorralada #180 Wednesday 9/26/07 Is he or isn't he . . .
Prudence is planning her wedding.
Sharon is talking to the shrink. She wants to be good but she doesn't know how. The family will reject her. Baloney.
Rodrigo and Fedora discuss Paco. Boring!
Diana tells Lala and Granny M about her nightmare. Poor Lala winces when she has to confront her son's bad behavior. I always feel sorry for Lala here, and I wonder at the generosity of this family to keep her around under the circumstances.
Max thrashes around the pool and then rehashes his situation aloud.
Fedora massages her legs. Nope, still paralyzed.
Max ponders aloud the fate of the various Irascibles. All bad.
Diana pleads with Fedora about something I did not pay attention to.
Octy calls Fedora. They trade the usual insults and then arrange for what seems to be a duel for the next morning. I can't wait to see this one. It seems to be at a site of train tracks, but I'm not sure what they mean.
Octy says goodbye to dead Iggy and pulls her wheeled suitcase out just like a stylish flight attendant. She has looked remarkably unscathed by her recent stay at Hotel Pigsty. Octy is wearing a wig to disguise herself from the police.
Rodrigo and Paco seem to bury the hatchet. They both have lost daughters. Isn't it sad... etc.
Octy checks into a motel and revels in the anticipation of the upcoming battle with Fedora.
At the bodega, Marcela and godmom rehash again. This storyline is beyond boring, and I still can't tell if godmom wants Marcela to be with Max or not. I think she never wanted her to be with Max, but once she was with him, she wanted her to hold on to him.
Yolanda is languishing in our favorite jail cell. Paco comes in. Why? To tell her the news, completely out of the blue, that Rene is getting married to a girl his own age in Germany!!!!! Way to cheer up the prisoner, Paco! Yolanda actually says she's happy for Rene, she wishes him well. Big Doormat, indeed! (I had a feeling they would resolve this storyline this way, but it's pretty pathetic and afterthought-ish. Pobrecita de Yolanda!) It appears that Paco is leaving also, so on the daily Rodrigo/Paco scoreboard, it looks like Rodrigo will end up with Fedora.
Max calls Larry to update him on all the action. Their mom is a fugitive! But Larry doesn't have to rush home.
Fedora tries to enlist Emilio's help in getting her to the duel, but he doesn't want any part of it.
Then, get ready for a shock: Iggy wakes up like a Zombie from Night of the Living Dead. How did he not bleed to death? And how is he so ambulatory? No one has given him a magic potion, so who knows.
Pancho and Prudence simper at each other some more.
Lala and Diana review how bad men are and how women always suffer. Diana has not told Max about her own pregnancy?
Now for a really hilarious scene. Silvia and the trannies are meeting with a new fortune teller at Emilio's apartment. Camila walks in and wants to throw the charlatan out. A really funny slang vocabulary lesson ensues.
The fortune teller waves her magic wand (varita magica) and says she will turn Camila into a dog. Camila calls her an estafadora (swindler). The trannies translate into "venezolano," or Venezualan dialect! In Venezuelan, that would be a "tracalera." Camila calls her a descarada (shameless or insolent one). In Venezuelan, that would be a vivarepa. (My venezuelan Spanish tutor never heard of that one even! Arepas are corn cakes, by the way. This reminds me of LFMB, where Alicia always called Lety a mustached corncake. But I digress.)
Finally Camila calls her a "groseria fuerte," which means a "groseria mayor" in Venezuelan. A groseria is apparently a rude word. The fortune teller leaves, telling Camila she will have years of bad luck.
Finally, at the end, there is another pointless scene involving Max and Marcela. Looks impactados all around.
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