Thursday, September 24, 2009

Gancho Wed 9-23-09 Blasts into the past??

Hey there... a bit of a brief one tonight. I've had the good fortune of being super busy helping to host an expert this week who is here from Honduras and has been speaking on the current political crisis. He is currently unable to return home now because the airports are closed. Please let's all hope and pray that this situation will not erupt into horrible violence. Sadly we are losing ground in that respect. I share my hope that the people will be safe.

So on to the recap....


We start with the cat fight and Mau telling Moni they need to talk at the office. She says they talked enough already and leaves. Coni yells at him for not just letting her go.

At the office Pau is lecturing Beto for reading the girly want ads and not working. She says she has to take that paper to Mau and he sees something in the paper and gets up suddenly and runs out.

More yelling from Coni about Mau worrying about Mona and him saying he has to go see Oski in the hospital. He leaves, she stays. He escorts drunk Rolo, who wants to confess something, that he admires Mau physically and as a pilot and he's too drunk to drive, he passes out.


At Oski's hotel room. Gabi is testing Xime with Vanidades tests, like the Cosmopolitan questionaires, and she thinks a partner could go out for cigarillos and after a year missing might still come back. Jero insults her as always. Oski moans and Gabi and Jero fight over who has been more dedicated. Oski gets nice to Gabi but she says she's sick of men. He doesn't give up so she agrees to be his friend.

Mau barely gets Rolu to the car when he drops the drunk because he sees Mona crying. He doesn't want to see her cry so she tells him to look away. She's used to abandonment. He wants to take her to the office but she wants to go home by herself. I was cracking up at this in the background, we see drunk Rolu fall off the car to the ground.

Now we find out what spooked Beto. He shows Estrella at the neighborhood the paper, then Mona comes home, and he tells Mona her Ma is looking for her.

Oski and Jero discuss their plan to strip Mau of his money and precisely when Jero mentions his own stripping (pun intended) Mau of his girlfriend, Mau comes in and hears this. He yells at Jero, who tells Oski to cover for him, but O doesn't and confirms Jero and Con had a wild night. Mau punches Jero and says all is true people said about his bad qualities.

Beto and Estre try to talk Mona out of her room to go see her Ma but she doesn't really want to. After Beto fails to break down the door she finally comes out and agrees.

At the hosp., Xime is muy happy to see drunk Rolu and goes on that Gabi told her they should get back together. Gabi tells her no way, she misunderstood. Mau comes in announces Coni cheated on him and watch Rolu for him. Xime calls Coni to warn her Mau knows she cheated with the Fantasma Vengador.

Jero yells at Oski for ratting him out and swears if he double crosses him he'll pay. He goes to blow out the vigil light in the chapel that he lit for Oski.

Xime keeps up with Rolu and confuses why Jero is so upset, thinking he's sad for Mau.

Mau runs into the thong store and can't find Coni. That's because she's at the commun looking for Beto and arguing with his Mom about whether or not he's a little boy. Insults fly. Coni finally loses patience and proclaims that Mau knows what's up and will kill them both. Nieves is impactada.

Mona, Beto and Estre approach the house where the Ma is listed to live and she freaks out, they help her to go through with the meeting. They ring the doorbell, an attractive lady opens and immediately asks "Valentina?"

Turns out she says she's her aunt. Another woman appears and Mona runs away and doesn't answer her question. Beto thinks the aunt looks like Dora the explorer. Both of these ladies are famous actresses we've seen.

Gabi and Oski argue again about her agreeing to be with him again. He lays a guilt trip on her and begs her to take him into her home. She agrees for only tonight.

Pau complains about why Sal has asked for so many capps. Turns out he's sulking about losing Gab. They chat about Oski not being so bad after all, he guesses. Pau tells him to get divorced already.

Jero comes in and teases Sal about gaining more wrinkles. Jero wants to chat about Fer and thinks he has an accomplice, that he and Sal need to cooperate to find out about this person.

OK, did anyone else get the commercial about an Obama Chia Pet??? WTF?

Nieves continues to yell at Coni for not controlling herself and Beto shows up and learns Mau knows. Outside Mona is crying about the woman not being her Ma or something, and always still hoping her Ma would want her. Nieves asks if she in fact saw her Ma. Estre says no, only God knows where she is, but Nieves anviliciously says to herself, hmmm, not only God knows, and she begs divine forgiveness.

Beto and Coni discuss what will come of the situation and Nieves tells them to calm down their hormones, she's going to talk to them.

Mona continues whining about how her Ma could have abandoned her and how could one do that to a child. Eventually Mona decides she has to look for her Ma to put this to rest. She doesn't know who her Dad is, and maybe even her Ma doesn't know. She has a foto of her Ma and a super good friend. She thinks the friend might know where her Ma is, and the friend's name is Alicia Rosales. Estre tells her to wait a second and comes back with the phone book.

Nieves gives the sex talk to her "kids" and says that not everything is sex well maybe sometimes but anyway Mau and Mona are guilty of the same thing. Eh, not quite.

Nieves thinks the pair should tell the truth and be pardoned. Coni is worried about the wedding being canceled and Beto is worried about the same with Mona. Coni thinks they should deny everything and Mau has no proof so this could be gossip by Jero or Xime. Nieves thinks he might and yells again for Beto to be honest. He pulls Ma out to talk alone. She keeps yelling at him and then notes something happened with Mona and her Ma and wants more info. Beto tells her the story about it being the wrong woman and she says of course because that witch Isabel would never put out an ad and anyway she doesn't even live in the city. Beto catches on that she must know something then. Nieves swears he'll be without a Ma if he says anything to Mona and he says she'll be without son if she tells anything of him and Con to Mona. They go in to talk.

Mona goes through the book calling every Rosales to see if they know of an Alicia. Imagine that... she's about to give up, but the last callee says they do have a relative or aunt named Alicia but know nothing of her for many years since she went to live in Moroleon, Guanajuato.

Beto sneaks Coni out but then Mona rus up ready to tell about her interesting news and wonders what Coni is doing here. Likewise Mau shows up and calls out for Coni. Beto swears he did nothing.

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Thanks for the link to Guanajato, Kris. On the MEPS line, people have been discussing travel and several have mentioned that area.

"Anviliciously"....wow, you are the queen of neologisms! Will have to remember that one.

Was out last night so appreciate the fine recap all the more...and sending you lots of affection and energy for helping out with that poor, stranded visitor from Honduras. Good thoughts for one and all....especially you, amiga.
 

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Thanks Kris. Good job. I was starting to get a bit worried about you since we haven't heard from you in the last few days. Sounds like you have your hands full.

Nieves has certainly become quite the busybody. I'm now very curious as to what secrets about Moni's parentage she is guarding. She, as you pointed out spoke of Isabel, yet Moni says her mom's name is Alicia. Hmm, have I missed something?

From what I saw last night in the coming attractions, it looks as though we'll be seeing much more of Ximena (yea!) and Rolu (boo!).

After last night's revelations, I don't see how Connie and Mao, and Beto and Moni will continue on as novios, but I bet they will.

Carlos
 

Hahaha! I couldn't believe the Obama chia head. It's part of the USA patriot set, no? Find them now at your local CVS pharmacy!

Thanks for the Moroleon link. I went down the rabbit hole on that one, as usual. Last night I spent over an hour poking around the Veracruz link that Jarocha provided. Of course that had FOOD involved so there you go.

I think Moni pointed out her ma is from Moroleon which is why they also glommed onto the contact. I think Ma's name is Isabel, Ma's friend's name is Alicia. Or the other way around.

Anviliciously made me laugh out loud, good one amiga. I think that one is a keeper.

Uy! Will Beto and Coni admit what they're doing before they find out that Mau thinks it's Jero not Beto? That would be cool. Methinks Coni is gonna be in big trouble.

Kris, I can't believe you were able to pound out your recap while hosting your visitor, amazing. I know we all wish him well while his country teeters on the edge of violence and economic hardship. I hope they lift the lockdown (i.e. curfew, ha!) soon so he can return. I'm sure many US folk are following what's happening in Honduras and keeping our fingers crossed for the citizens.
 

So--Nieves has even more secrets than we suspected. I've been thinking about her constant comments to Monita about the bad outcome of romances between poor young women and rich young men. Maybe she's speaking from personal experience. Could there be a wealthy and cultured father waiting in the wings some place for Beto? Could it be that she is truly trying to protect Monita and not just looking out for her own meal ticket?

Great recap. --And so timely. I'm impressed.

---Guerra
 

Guerra, a rich, cultured dad for Beto? I like how you think. Nieves is far and away the most complex and inscrutable character if we exclude Ximena, who is actually from another dimension.

Carlos
 

Kris, thanks for the excellent recap. I wasn't able to watch this show, but reading your recap, I feel totally up to date.

Have Coni and Beto actually gone all the way yet? I keep thinking they were interrupted each time. The only time they weren't, he had performance problems. Of course, they've definitely gone farther than Mau and Moni, but Nieves doesn't believe that.

Ah, Nieves. She apparently knows secrets about both Beto's and Moni's parentage. How come we never see her gossiping with someone her age? That would be normal, so they should have a character for that role. We've seen several love interests for her, but no one else her age in the barrio. Also, I wonder if we'll ever see Paula's father. Probably not - sort of a repeating joke like Alicia's maid in Tontas.
 

Hey there, sorry for the brevity. Like I said before, I am terrible at first drafts and so I read this over and corrected some pronouns and stuff so folks could tell better who is doing what. That's always a shortcoming of mine.

Yes, Mona's Ma's name is apparently Isabel, the friend in the foto, whom Mona seeks, is apparently Alicia. What is weird is that if Mona knows the friend's name, she must have known her own Ma's name, and so it's beyond me why she's not also calling numbers to look directly for the Ma...obviously this is a dramatic plot of some sort - I'm sure the friend will be found and will be some actress we know and there will be a whole storyline there too. Anyway, always interesting at least that there is another angle.

Yeah I wondered the same thing about the deed doing with C and B..I don't think they've made it quite yet...

I'll be reading the other recaps probably sometime today too, so I'll comment on those later.
 

As much as I can't stand Rolu he really was the highlight of the episode, first when Mau dropped him to go see Moni, then when he fell off the car, then when Ximena was molesting him in the hospital.

Yes, Moni did say her mother was from Moroleon. Maybe she didn't start looking for her mother directly because there are even more Lopez listings than Rosales, and her mom wasn't listed under her own name. Maybe we'll get a field trip to Guanajuato.
 

Great recap Gancho!

Julie I agree with you, Rolu was great. He is much better when he is drunk and he is still handsome so no one can really blame Ximena right?

Alicia is on Moroleón, I don't think a novela has ever used that city before so congratulations on Gancho for being the first haha.

Coni and Beto have tried endlessly to do the deed, but they haven't gotten any luck yet.

Jarocha
 

Hi Jarocha...just got to read your and Sylvia's interesting exchange on yesterday's line about Veracruz and it's cuisine. Wish I had some right now! Thanks for that interesting link.

My son hijacked the computer last night for homework so I didn't get to read the later comments. Very interesting.
 

Thanks for the recap Kris. I am amazed you were able to do that and host a guest!

Thanks also for your recap Judy. All my communication links went down yesterday (computer, phone, cell). It was a complete nightmare. Hopefully I'll be back on-line tonight.
 

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