Caray, Caray!

We open with Feo whining and pushing Sara to tell him who Sofi baby daddy is. Thank goodness she remembers that blood is thicker than ugliness and she decides not to betray her sister and tell him. Of course he keeps at the convincing until she’s forgotten the earlier concept and is about to tell him. Again gracias a Dios that Jimena decides to wake right then and scream for her miserable Ma or I think we’d be missing a hermano Reyes soon.

Helmut Head, aka Raquel, tells the bros Uribe that Crabbi is very ill and if she doesn’t get better soon they will have to postpone their weddings. Oh hurray, uh I mean bummer , he actually says hopefully, and Raq wonders que the heck, and he says oh he means hopefully she gets better soon, so the weddings aren’t postponed.

We get Vicente again and Sofi contemplates her new status as expectant mother and saying "hijo" over and over again. We flashback to a grito fest they had together at the river proclaiming they loved each other. She switches from saying hijo 20 times to saying Juan 20 times, and turns out in his bedroom, he’s thinking of her too.

In a courtyard the boys are painting and Juan says he couldn’t sleep last night from thinking about his Sofi. He paints on Franco who tells him to cut it out. He hopes that his happiness didn’t influence their relations with Jime and Sara. Oscar says well things didn’t go the way we planned, we intended to hurt these girls and we were the ones who ended up smacked! Franco tells Juan that all that matters now is him, Sofi and their niece or nephew. Now it’s Juan’s turn to scream it a million times. Un hijo!!! He screams. They argue about whether it will be a little boy chick, or a little girl chick (pichoncito/a) and Juan ends up caring only that it’s healthy and not as flippant as they are. In this frenzy of happiness the boys decide to demonstrate just how ready for father hood/ unclehood they are by declaring a paint war on each other and wasting a fair bit of paint (not really that cheap for them) covering each other.

I challenge someone to be the official counter of how many times un hijo is screamed by this bunch.

Eva is going to see Crabbi. G-Pa wants to go see her too, but Eva thinks that’s not a good idea, it’s better he stays behind and watches out for Jime. He guesses she’s right.

Doctor Sell out spins his web some more and tells Sofi, who is wandering the halls of the hospital, that Ma has to stay for a few days for observation and to avoid stress. He turns into Dr. Phil, though, and accuses her of being responsible for all that is happening. He advises her to reflect on all this stress she’s caused and to act with prudence or she will carry the death of her Ma and crazyness of her sister on her conscience. Sofi looks sad.

Evas comes upon Rosi and Luis playing on a park bench and decides that this would be a really good time to tell her, hey I’m your Ma. She tells her the whole story about giving up for adoption her daughter and that, oh, God has put her right in front of my eyes. Cara de impactada from Rosi.

Rosi counters with the brilliant question, so then are you telling me I am your daughter? Well yeah, that’s what that would mean. Eva begs for Rosi to give her a chance to get to know her. Eva says her heart is sure, but Rosi wonders if she could be wrong, and Eva assures her not. Something is telling me, maybe there is more we don’t know.

My reception fritzed out a little here, but I think Rosi told her something like, well, you can’t just show up here telling me you abandoned me and now you regret it and expect me to just accept you. Eva agrees she’s right, and not to ask for anything that Rosi can’t give, but she just wants a chance. Luis comes up and Eva learns this would be her grandson and she hugs him and says how beautiful he is.

Sofi thinks back to what the doc said to her about her Ma’s delicate condition. She enters the doorway to Crab's room but is met by Feo who tells her to not even bother entering because Crabbi doesn’t want to see her. She burst in anyway, only to hear the same thing from Wicked Ma who tells Sofi she doesn’t want to see her ever.

Poor Sofi, she runs to the Virgen. Feo closes the door, Ma slips out of her whacked altered state and the two of them start giggling like kids who just played a trick on their teacher. Pathetic.
Sofi cries at the Virgen for a while.

Feo congratulates Ma that now Sofi will do whatever she wants. Ma thinks not so fast, she thinks Sofi is very hard headed and not that easy to dominate. But, she says she’s going to continue the farce and for now, the most important thing is to worry about that stupid child she’s expecting and make sure that it’s never born or my family and your disgrace will never end. Feo tells Crab that they were made for each other. There is more weird hand-kissing. Feo swears that Sofi’s hijo will never be born. Never. Yep, definitely a suegro loving abuelo killer. Oh my.

Crabbi says they have to think about this well, and Feo assures he’s got the best plan, he asks to sit on the bed with her.

Sara spits fire at G-Pa and tells him Jimena is sleeping and he shouldn’t go in. She only wants to protect her sister. He tells her he only wants to help and she needs rest, so stop being stupid and let him in. He tells her she doesn’t know what really happened and Crabbi always lies. Sara says Crabbi’s not capable of lying. Poor deluded Sara.

Rosi is talking with Ofi. She says she was so moved when Eva hugged her son, and she really wants someone to care about Luis that way, she needs a family. So, she’s going to accept Eva whether she is or isn’t the real ma, and maybe one day she can accept her as if she were.

Eva was looking everywhere for Sofi, who tells Eva she’s not with her Ma because Ma has banned her from fake hospital room.

Feo confirms that he’d do anything for Crabbi, and that it’s his way of showing his great affection. More weird looks and hand kissing.

Eva tells Sofi to understand that Ma is probably under stress. Sofi says none of this would have happened if she would have let me divorce, though. Eva tells her to have patience and worry about the baby. She wishes that her mother was more like Eva. OK this has to mean something too, I’m thinking. Eva tells Sofi about her encounter with Rosi, she didn’t get a pardon exactly but this is a step. Sofi wants to get close to her too because she is her sister, and maybe she’ll learn to care for us.

Padre Tad is at the hospital, the nurse tells him Gab is still delicate, and Feo takes the opportunity to tell the Padre that he contributed to her upset with his criticism and judgments. Tad swears that Feo made all this up and that he won’t get away with what he wants. Tad says he’s very persistent and will come as many times as needed. Tad tells him not to provoke the winds because this could make a great storm. Tad reminds that he knows much about Feo, who thinks that Tad can say nothing because of the secrets of confession, but Tad warns him not to be so sure, because he wrote his superiors and if they deem it warranted, he can tell all.

Our brothers Pollock are wiping themselves off in the church, congratulating themselves for finishing earlier than they thought. Yeah, but did they get the paint mess cleaned up? They decide to go home to take a bath and then Oscar says they need to arrange things for Quintina by hurrying over to the Commisario.

They throw coins to decide who gets the first shower so as not to run out of hot water. and Oscar wins. Next, they throw between Juan and Franco, and it keeps coming up heads. Juan discovers that the coin has two faces and that Oscar was cheating so they grab him. I’m thinking this is a useless exercise because surely after those three hotties get in, the water won’t need any external heat. ;) They then throw Juan in the cold shower with his boots on and we are advised by the blur that in this country we missed another ass shot. Damned censorship.

Helmut head (Raquel) visits Crabbi and because she’s so bad off, she thinks they should decide to postpone the wedding. Uribe boys are thrilled to wait as long as Crabbi needs. Raq agrees they’ll wait. I think Crabbi didn’t realize this complication of her little farce.

Juan proclaims the money means nothing to him. Juan pulls out the map and says now that a baby is coming we have to get back what belongs to us. He thinks here is the village where they lived. Franco reminds him that Agustin can help but Juan thinks he’s still kind of confused and doesn’t have the head for this right now.

At least they don’t censor this. Mas tangas for Oscar. He comes out in his speedo and is done already so Franco goes to take his turn. If I were only a fly on that wall. Sigh. Oscar tells what with everything that’s happened they haven’t looked through the papers, and Juan says now is the time because –say it with me kids- he going to have an hijo. Count anyone? Oscar smiles and says lets read. Juan is trying hard but he can’t remember anything. What I don't get is that Oscar is always bearing himself. His body isn't bad by any standard, but the other two guys are workout junkies and have those six packs to prove it. Why can we never see those two in tangas? Oh well, I take what I can get. I noticed there is a lot of manly affection in this novela. Bet the gay guys like this show as much as the non-gay gals. :)

Speaking of that, my apologies if you saw this before, like you wouldn't mind seeing it again, but if you didn't, I just have to share the original version of the naked swimming hole scene from a few weeks back. Too bad it's a really small screen. Did I mention I dislike this censorship? :)

Ok sorry, back to the novela.

Jimena wakes out of her dilusional stupor and Sarita is right there to warp her thinking again. Jime begs for Oscar over and over and wants Sara to go look for him.

I think Oscar says it’s good they are making the complaint to the authorities because Juan needs to work or else they’ll end up bankrupt. Eva and Sofi come up and the 3-1 bros ask how her Ma is. Oh and they clue her in that Juan’s in the house alone, and they will be gone on errands all day. Eva encourages her and she decides to go in and see him. Eva wants her to be happy.

Franco thinks it’s great Oscar told Sofi this and hopes she goes to see him. Oscar says he has to see Jimena. He goes to see Eva about this and wants to see Jime and express his well wishes for Ma and Eva tells of Jime’s trip into looney land. Of course this compels him to see her immediately. Back at the house Jime is still asking Sara for him and Sara wonders what to do.

Eva begs Oscar not to go because Sara is taking care of her, that this condition happened once when she was a child too, and well with all that happened lately, Sara is being a big beatch, really. Jime won’t recognize you anyway. What, she’s not in a coma now...


Of course Juan is in the shower soaping himself oh so well (I love this show) when Sofi comes in to the house calling for him, so of course what she does is hug his clothes and herself instead of running right to him, despite knowing he’s alone, for a long time.... Silly girl, she’s pregant? Is that right? :)

Suspense music plays as Franco paces back and forth at the commisario. He has to wait for his brother to arrive. Where is his brother? Well....

We get a nice ass shot of Oscar, who approaches the sleeping Jime in her room. He lays down on the bed when Sara comes in and yells that he needs to leave. She spits more fire about him being here and threatens to rat him out but won’t because her sister is sick and asking for him. She mentions she’s just taken a tranquilizer. He whispers to Jime he misses her and thinks of her every second and hopes she’s better soon, it hurts him to see her this way, he loves her. Sara spits more fire after getting slightly romantically jarred by his words and thinks it’s a good thing Jime is sleeping and doesn’t hear his lies. He says they aren’t lies. Sara tells him that he betrayed her when Jime saw him hugging Rosario. He thinks she nuts. Then he remembers the night Rosi was upset looking for his brother. He swears there is nothing between them and tells the story that Rosi was upset and he comforted her only. He apologizes and tells Jimena now he gets her change of heart. Sara keeps spitting that the Reyes only came to harm them. He wonders where she got that idea and she tells him not to see Jime anymore.


The non-existent love scenes are getting to me though. I guess maybe we are supposed to imagine that because Juan is drying Sofi’s wet hair that she joined him in the shower. No doubt because she was turned on by the smell of his clothes.

Juan says he’s the happiest man now that, yes, he’s going to have an hijo. She agrees it will be the miracle of their love, even though he fought with her Mom right before she was going to tell him. He apologizes about what he said to her Ma, and she agrees he’s pardoned. She says Ma’s difficult, but she’s Ma and so we have to look out for her. Sofi confirms that she is willing to do what it takes to defend her love and her child. Juan tells her to recall what Tad says that God tells the woman to abandon her mother and father to go with her mate. He begs her to go far away with him...and I didn’t catch her reaction because my recording stopped. Juan does say that the only thing that matters to him is to be by her side embracing, for always, and she echoes for always. Amazingly Vicente does not. I have confidence he will soon enough.

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