Thursday, August 21, 2008

Querida Enemiga - Wed 8-20 - Time to pay the piper or pay him off....

Snorty yells at Sara to get the human resources guy because Jaime is sacked and Art will take his place.

She sees Art in the hallway and tells him that he will be promoted. He asks her to talk, then spills that he saw her two timing her boyfriend and if she talks so will he.

In the clinic Val is hoping someone will help Don Gumaro get the treatment he needs by forking over some dough.

Snorty is meeting with HR when Sara bursts in to take back her envelope with those lovely pictures. Guess she had second thoughts. She reviews them just to make sure they are there and leaves.

Lore hopes her application for the scholarship will be considered and tells Rossy the teachers agreed to help her. She says Erni agreed to help her. They are on their way to see Monica. Turns out Rosy runs into her male buddy again who says they will make a great pair, of waiters of course. Lore takes the opportunity to mention that Julian isn’t coming and new guy of course asks who that is to which Lore is sure to tell him it’s Rossy’s boyfriend. Later she yells at Rossy for being flirtatious because he is throwing his eyes at her and she cares a lot about Julian.

Later new guy introduces all the various workers and Rossy thinks he would be a good PR guy. In the kitchen, Erni is introducing the kitchen team to each other when Monica goes in to tell him everyone is waiting. He tells her she didn’t need to hit his car that way and she shrugs it off. Soon they all come out and Lore is surprised to see Erni and he is happily surprised to see her.

Erni tells Moni that Lore is one of his best students and confirms she’s on her team.

Abue of course later yells at Sara for busting in earlier without knocking. Of course Sara apologizes. On her way out Jaime comes in for his lashing and Snorty kicks him out of her sight.

Erni gives the troops a pep talk that they are the life of the restaurant blah blah blah. Moni takes Gaytan aside and smacks him down for telling Erni he’s the soul of the restaurant because he’s already so arrogant or something like that. Something is up with her. Bro says it will work to their favor so what is so bad.

Pau is getting G-Pa to play Sudoko which is good for his memory. He complains about Sara again and hopes Al opens his eyes and gets rid of her.

Betti is walking home and Ivan is playing ball and stops her that he tried to e-mail her but it was wrong. She says her name, her birthyear, and her G-pa’s age. All of which he can surmise except for the last. She tells him to use his imagination. So he does. He follows her, rings her apt and gets her birthdate from her Mom under the guise that their information is wrong a lot of the times at school and they want the birthdays so they can celebrate everyone’s. Ma is skeptical but gives up the birthday. He then craftily says G-Pa looks really young so how old is he. After a few yogurt or ice cream mumbles Ivan repeats what he thought G-Pa said: ok, 69, but G-Pa corrects him to 64. He has his e-mail address. G-Pa knows what he was up to even though Ma didn’t figure it out.

At the restaurant Lore and Erni discuss that the other didn’t know they were going to be here.
Lore wishes she was in the kitchen. Rossy runs up that Mon wants to see her. Rossy raves about Erni’s looks. Moni comes up and yells at them to leave Erni alone and that’s an order, because they are on her team. OK, this chick is starting the kitchen/waitstaff rivalry already? She’s not much of a restaurateur because harmony between the front of the house and the back of the house is pivotal to success. Duh.

Anyway,

Chalo surprises Sara by hanging out near her car, I guess he wants some. She tells him to scram and not do that because Arty has already found them out. Chalo doesn't get the big deal, but Sara reminds him something about Arty potentially screwing things up with Snorty and then their whole puppet show will be exposed. She slaps some sugar on him and kicks him out, driving off worrying she's late to meet Al.
Sara goes to hosp to tell old man Gamuro her abue will pay his bills. Al and Val are of course pleased and think highly of Sara for being the conduit.


Barb comes in to yell at Jaime for falling asleep at the conference table and that this is the lowest of the low; he can't explain what happened to him. It always amazes me how these people cruise along in life without any weirdness and then one person shows up on the scene and all of a sudden bad things start happening and they never put two and two together. IF they did these novelas would be over in 40 episodes I guess. Oh well. And no concern about his health from any of these folks. Nice.

Snorty wants Vasco to work for her and tells of her benevolence to the old guy to regain her image.


Next we see Jaime is packing to leave and Barb is stifled for a moment. Jaime asks Barb for a divorce, that their marriage is a failure.

Next we see Barb run in on Snorty and Vasco "bonding" (hee) and she screams that jaime just asked her for a divorce (nice way to break it to your kid) Then, the servant runs in and announces to all of them that the police are downstairs with a warrant for the arrest of Snorty and Jaime.

Jaime is resigned that this would happen but Snorty is still defiant as they descend the stairway. Snorty warns Jaime not to say a word and yells at him to keep his mouth shut.

Al thanks Sara for her good deed and promises to take her wherever she wants to go. Of course she wants some of that hunk so guess where they end up.

Back at the mansion Snorty is saying she won't go until she gets her lawyer present, but the po po won't wait they say he can meet us at the station. The Police are ready to handcuff the pair but Snorty protests and does not want to be handcuffed. She will go wherever they want but refuses to be shackled

Vasco tries to intervene and call lawyers but can't reach them and complains that she is an old lady and shouldn't be handcuffed or treated this way, they aren't murderers. None of this works and in the end the police get their way, and their persons, in handcuffs, leaving right away. Ah, the power.

Mucho Press bug Abue at the station and she tells Vasco to seek Sara, because she will clear her name. Omar and Zully observe this and Omar feels a little bad, because after all this is his brother and Ma. Sheesh

Naked Sara holding Al's sheets tight to her bosum doesn’t answer the phone in favor of pressing activities and makes kissy face with Al.

Di and Julian watch this all unfold on the tele and Di thinks Vasco must be upset. julian says it not as bad as her getting back with Bruno and thinks she is making a big mistake. She says he's the baby daddy and nothing changes that and Bruno's a renewed man and so forth. Julian still says dumb move.

Rossy and Lore discuss with Ma how Monica appears at war with Erni. Maru thinks they were novios. Lore doesn't agree, that she didn't think they really knew each other, but yep Moni was rabid. She says she's stuck in the middle because one is her boss and the other her professor.

Erni bugs Ivan, who turns out to be his nephew, and shows up to borrow a laptop about not touching anything else in the house and taking off shoes. He gets mad and decides he'll use a friend's instead and Erni calls him ungrateful and ill mannered and Ivan calls him nasty and mean and thank goodness he has no kids or they would have fled a long time ago.

Betti gets a message and wonders how he got the e-mail.

The Spinsters are playing cards with the new inductee Val, who during gossip session, tells that Arty’s only friend is his Mommy. Girls cheer to that and laugh.

Arty is having a discussion with none other than said Ma who wants Val put in line and Ma doesn't want a libertina in the house.

Vasco goes to see Di and wants to come in but Bruno is there so she thinks not a good idea. She's sorry she didn't tell him earlier that she's back with her baby daddy. Vasco doubts Bru has changed, but he hopes so for her sake and if not well, he can answer to him.

Next day Sara is at home chatting with Al on the phone about how wonderful there evening was and he saying how could it be otherwise with you, whiny Barb storms in without knocking and breaks the news that the baby snatching pair have been detained. Sara is impactada.
Sara barges in to the lesser house greeting a wet toweled Julian...mmmm...and wants to know where Ma and Pa are. Julian yells at her for storming in that his parents aren't there.


Maru and Lore are running and extolling the age virtues of this passtime (curious if you do it in Mexico City, because I would think the pollution counterbalances any health effect) Zully catches up to the runners to tell them news.


Maru worries about Jaime while Lore and Zully go on about how they deserve this and should pay for what they did, etc....

Sara comes upon them and yells at her Ma wondering how she could do this and she does the whole threaten to leave again crap. Lore defends Zully, that if Sara can't show some respect, well she is there instead to defend her Ma, and we end with a smirky Sara face. I'll really be satisfied when the evil ones get their's in this show.

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Good morning "K". Thanks for cranking this out in the midst of all that's going on in your life. Really appreciate it that you took the time.

On the Suduko puzzle that Gramps was doing. Just finished a book on age-related memory loss and Alzheimer's Disease (senility runs in my family, alas) and one study shows that crossword puzzles (although I realize Sudoko is something else) are the "least protective".

And guess which activity turned out to be the "most protective"?.....ballroom dancing!!

So if it runs in the family, get on your dancing shoes. I'm just hoping the aerobics I choreograph will help me.

Julie....Sent an e-mail to Schoolmarm and asked her to forward it on to you. Would have gone back and deleted the offending blogs but didn't find your remark until this morning.

My apologies, Julie, I consider you a mentor. Hope I can make amends.
 

Ballroom dancing helps prevent memory loss? Cool! Now if I could only remember the steps. Maybe they'll do another "Bailando" in the near future and I can refresh my memory.

Wouldn't you know there would be strife between the front and the back of the house? Couldn't they come up with something a little more original? But you're so right, harmony betwixt the two is pivotal to a successful restaurant. Sounds like both Ern and Moni have a learning curve coming up, and I wonder who will help show them the way?

Thanks K, can't wait to read the rest of your recap. I didn't get to watch last night so I don't know what happens next. Will Snorty see the pictures or will Sara snatch them back in time?
 

I was wondering about some of the names of the minor characters. In the credits, three names I didn't recognize were Clara, Catalina and Silvia. Clara is apparently the hostess in the restaurant. So maybe Catalina is Ickturo's mom, and maybe Silvia is Ernestor's sister. Anyone know?

I also thought it was funny that Ivan, Bettina's new possible boyfriend, is Ernesto's nephew! Small world again.
 

Judy, please check your email. I think we have had a big misunderstanding.

BTW, you (or anyone) can email me by clicking my name on a comment or recap. That takes you to my profile page with a link to my email on it.
 

Hombre - your guesses about those characters are probably right, but on the other hand sometimes people show up in the credits ages before they appear on the show - especially big-name guest stars. Example: Niurka in FELS. This gives you lots of time to fill up with anticipation (or dread!).
 

Hi Julie...So glad we got things straight. Yes, I completely missed your smiley face caption. Whew! Glad that's over. I was stressing about it, have to admit.

Yes, Hombre de Misterio...I'm pretty sure Silvia is Ernesto's sister's name. And Schoolmarm clued me in that the restaurant owner is Raimundo (although I still think of him as Herbierto from Juan Querendon).

And the other might be Arturo's mom's name but I prefer to think of her as NAMELESS! One of the least sympathetic characters, although this show seems to have lots of 'em.
 

HOMBRE DE MISTERIO, IF YOU LOOK UP IDMB.COM AND BRING UP QUERIDA ENEMIGO, YOU WILL GET THE NAMES OF THE CAST WITH THEIR LAST NAMES IN THE NOVELLA AND THEIR REAL NAMES. I'M SURE YOU WILL COME UP WITH THE INFO YOU WANT.
 

HOMBRE DE MISTERIO -- I THINK I GOOFED. IT'S IMDB.COM
 

IMDB is a great resource, but it's not always complete, especially when it comes to telenovela info.

The page for Querida Enemiga does list some of the actors and who they play, but most of the characters are listed only by their first name there, just as we see them in the credits. It doesn't give Catalina's last name, and I don't see a Silvia or Clara listed at all - not on the main page nor on the Episodes Cast page.

Funny story - when I bought the Destilando Amor soundtrack, there were photos of some of the characters inside. There was one character, I forget her name, she was an older woman. I waited and waited and waited for this character to join the story... she never did!
 

Thanks for the speedy recap K =) The title is quite apropo given what happens to Sara and Snorty!

Sylvia, Sara does manage to rescue the photos when she barged into Snorty's office, thus interrupting the meeting with the HR guy and royally annoying Snorty, hence the riot act she read her later.

From Wednesday's thread - JudyB, I’m not a huge fan of anchovies, though I can have a little anchovy paste in a Greek salad vinaigrette. I thought I had had a thin layer of Marmite in cucumber sandwich once, but years later when my English roommate gave me a cracker with some, I found it downright repulsive (and the smell didn’t help). Sooo, it’s possible I’d be ok with a thin layer of Marmite with something else if I didn’t have to prep it myself and deal with the smell, but it’s probably more trouble than it’s worth.

To his credit, Ernie hasn't started the "kitchen vs wait staff" war, but apparently Monica has (even referred to Lore and Rosi as part of her gang). I thought she'd be more professional than this, but Ernie's been pushing all the wrong buttons on her lately. Hopefully the staff won't get caught in the middle of the pissing contest.
 

Hi Margarita...well, now I know the background of your marmite experience. It DOES have to be a very thin layer and I think butter does a nice job of neutralizing it a bit.

Marmite can also be added to homemade gravies to make them a little darker and richer tasting. The Europeans seem to consider it a health food since it's made from vegetables.

On that pissing contest between kitchen and wait staff....for sure it'c coming! These telenovelas seem to be one long pissing contest with some romance and "learning my lesson and growing up" thrown in.

In the meantime though, I'm hoping to enjoy a few more of Ernesto's fabulous smiles. What a set of teeth that guy has!
 

Yep, Ernesto rocks. And he can cook!
 

Ok kids, second half up, albeit brief, and from memory...sidebar posted, hope you enjoy!
 

Thanks K! I'm going to grab a sandwich and read the rest of your recap during lunch.
 

Thanks again "K". Know you probably squeezed the rest of this out on your lunch hour.

Interesting question on whether or not there are any health benefits to jogging in a city with high air pollution.

Presumably you're breathing the crappy air whether you're aerobically fit or not...so does having a strong heart and lungs help you deal better with the pollution?...or are you just subjecting your body to more stress?

I always hate seeing people jog along busy streets and highways (and not just for pollution but also for the possibility of being hit) but that's because I know there are quieter streets and better areas all around. So why the highway?

Apropos of that, I was once jogging on a quiet street and some gay blades driving in the opposite direction actually swerved all the way over to scare me and almost hit me. Glad they swerved back just in time....NOT FUNNY MCGEE.
 

K, regarding your comment about Jaime passing out and nobody being suspicious...que the hell was up with that? How could they not have been suspicious that something was amiss? Maybe his wretched ma and wife, who like to see the worst in everyone, just expected him to screw up the meeting, eh? I'm glad Jaime's dumping Barb, and just think how pissed off Snorty will be when he starts dating Maruja!

And the biggest surprise of all, Zully and Omar really did call the cops on Snorty and Jaime. Frankly I'm shocked, I didn't think they'd actually do it. I'm not sure what Sara will threaten them with now that she has already moved out. Maybe threatening to move back in?

Great recap Kris, thanks for getting it up by lunchtime!
 

Sylvia - Sara moving back with with them? LOL, what a cruel thought!!

The question is, is Sara spiteful enough to subject herself to such torture?
 

I too have noticed that imdb.com is sorely lacking in details for novelas, usually they show each character as being in only one episode. Also, when I'm curious as to what a character (like whoever the hottie mamacita was in Pasion who had her dead baby switched with Camila and Ric's live baby, or who the actress was playing the boobie mcbooberson lady who was always with La Paisana) is named or who the actor/actress is, it doesn't really help at all. And then esmas.com only ever has the main 10 people or so with pics showing what characters they play. I guess I need to try looking on Spanish language sites for that information.
 

Kris, thanks so much for the great recap! I had wondered the night before how Sara was going to weasel out of the pictures she left on Snorensia’s desk. Very clever, interrupt a meeting and grab them.

“Barb comes in to yell at Jaime for falling asleep at the conference table and that this is the lowest of the low; he can't explain what happened to him.” What really astonished me is that a guy fell over looking dead on a table as he was talking and NO ONE CALLED 911!! In my school, we would have had an ambulance there fast. I was incensed for poor ol’ Jaime.

“Erni bugs Ivan, who turns out to be his nephew, and shows up to borrow a laptop about not touching anything else in the house and taking off shoes.” Anybody up for yet another coincidence? Or, could it possibly be bordering on overkill that Bettina’s new admirer is Ern’s nephew?

Jeanne
 

Cute title, K!

Jeanne
 

I think having Ivan be a relative of Ernesto's is simply a gimmick to keep the number of cast members down. All the comfort (and discomfort) of family, minus the expense of additional actors!
 

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