Caray, Caray!

Judy and I are doing tradesies again tonight. Enjoy your evening Miss Judy!I realized that in this show there are a lot of people pretending to be someone else. Mari is Victoria, Gretel is Manolo, Eman's pretending to be Ilitia's husband, she his wife, Juana is Fedra, someone is el Lirio de Plata, etc. It's very confusing!

We get a few flashbacks from last night and a tantalizing preview of Mari making a crank call to Fedra. It’s kinda creepy except for Fedra’s horrified look so OK, we’ll be cool with it.

From last night: it’s up against the wall for MariVicki. Will Eman kiss her?

Ilitia won’t tell Brandon the truth about Agent O. He begs her to give him something against Orangey. Her beautiful eyes well up with tears and he starts guessing the truth. Tell him!! But she denies that Agent O raped her. Gah!! Then she wants daddy’s gun back but of course Brandon’s got to keep it for evidence of something or other.

Brandon suggests that since Orangey is her BFFs boyfriend that Ilitia is jealous. She tells him to remember that he is the first one she came to when she needed help. He let her down and she’ll never forgive him. He gazes pensively at her wake.

MariVicki pushes Eman away. She flashes back to Eman and his gordita then tells him he’s a damn liar. He wants to know who sewed these seeds of hate in her, was it Mari? Why does she hate him so much?

They stop talking and try to communicate via mental telepathy. She thought bubbles that she hates him because he destroyed her life and her dreams. He thought bubbles what is going on with this woman? There’s something about her but it’s not her looks. She thought bubbles “Kiss me you fool”. He thought bubbles “I can’t resist you”.

There is a knock at the door and MariVicki leaves Eman puckering up to the empty air. She hugs Andres her rescuer.

Oliver and Doris are dancing up a storm. Dang he’s got the moves. Me next, me next! Frowny Gretelman arrives and sucks up some suds for consolation. The winners of the dance contest are…Oliver and Doris!! Ollie’s so happy he even hugs Manolo, whose flattened chest heaves and huffs in heightened ecstasy. So near and yet so far.

Andres is surprised to find our duo at the office after hours, much less half clad. He asks Eman why didn’t he just use his keys to get out? He knows he has a set because he made copies for Andres. This is a good excuse for MariVicki to slap Eman AGAIN and stomp out of the office. She grabs his pants for good measure as she and Andres head for home. Eman gives her a parting flash of his undies so she takes his jacket too. Now we know how he ends up wearing her black and white headbands, I mean skirt and top.

Doris, Ollie and Gretelman are in the club basking in their victory. Doris runs into Mari’s old friend Carolina who takes a shine to the suave Spaniard. Gretelman raises his fake eyebrows with interest. That is until he’s forced onto the dance floor. I wonder who’s gonna lead?

Axel bursts into Delicia’s room to tell her that he feels awful about the way he treated Mari. He needs to call her in Spain right away. Delicia sighs in exasperation. Mari is married and living in another country, now out of my room young Mr. Dumbass.

Poor Axel, rebuffed by his only friend he wanders the halls and overhears his parents talking about him. Momster dearest is on a tear and snarls that he’s got his memory back and she fears he’ll regress to his prior predilections and become a mockery of society. Emiliano regrets the way he treated Axel before and asserts that his son is a marvelous and noble human being. He orders his wife to respect Axel’s decisions. Fine but these four walls are driving her crazy and this is a good excuse for her to escape, probably for some much-needed horizontal therapy.

Axel smiles and tells his father how much his words and support mean to him. Whew! At last these two are on the same side.

Uh oh, a slow song breaks out in the club. Gretelman squirms with discomfort and Ollie tells Doris he thinks Mano bats for the other team. Doris says he’s just timid. The cute Carolina puckers up for a kiss and Gman scrunches his/her face in disgust.

It’s time for a father to son talk. Emiliano truly regrets the way he treated Axel before. Axel tells him he always thought Emiliano preferred Eman because he was the champion, the winner. Axel never felt that his dad was proud of him. Emi takes responsibility for Axel thinking that way and he’ll support Axel in whatever he wants to do. Axel says music is his life. Emi’s ready to help, let’s start with tuning the guitar! (OK, he didn’t say that exactly.) Ax sez there’s a problem, Bernardo stole his guitar.

Caro comes on too strong to Gretelman “el timido” and he pushes her onto the floor. Oops, bad move there Gretel.

Brandon gets home and Consuelo, big chops grinning like a hungry she-wolf, lunges in his general direction. She’s thwarted by Mama Gladiola who wants to dote on her son. Consuelo huffs off and Glad asks Brandon does Consuelo seem a bit jealous to you?

Ilitia recalls her pre-wedding morning of horror and Brandon’s words that if Malicio ravaged her it’s because she was looking for it. (Really, that’s an unbelievably dreadful thing to say in any situation. Shame shame shame on you Brandon!!) “It’s a lie,” cries Ilitia. As she bites her knuckles Emanuel tries to sneak into the house wearing MariVicki’s super-stretchy headbands. And he’s got the pantyhose on too!

Mari gets home wearing Eman’s shirt and pants (that miraculously fit) and is intercepted by Netty who wants to know what she’s doing with Eva’s ashes and other things that Mari would never but never let out of her possession. Eh? MariVicki has the commercial break to think up an excuse.

Gladiola joins in the inquisition and the two lovely matriarchs form an impenetrable barrier of righteous indignation. Netty goes off on MariVicki but MV’s not about to be bullied, she tells Netty that if Netty thinks she’s there with bad intentions then she’ll just pack her stuff and go that very night. The battle of the jutting chins ensues.

Ilitia scolds Eman while he scratches his legs. Eman, those pantyhose sure can itch if you haven’t depilated properly. She demands to know how he can go out of the house in such a getup. (Fachas, I couldn’t find a good translation. Help?) He says it’s not a getup, it’s evening wear. Fine, she wants to talk about the wedding night debacle but then remembers she demanded an explanation. What’s with the getup? He says he worked late, had to borrow an outfit from the company, and now he needs to take a bath. (That’s it for the cross-dressing, it just kind of petered out, no pun intended.) Ilitia mutters he’s up to something and she wants to know what it is.

Brandon writhes on his bed showing off his six-pack and muttering that Ilitia is driving him crazy. He throws a vase, breaks it and thinks about their hot kiss. Speaking of crazy, Consuelo sneaks in and announces she wants to spend the night with him and make sweet love. Ah Caray, he says, while more or less checking her out.

Oliver scolds Gretelman for pushing Carolina. Gman gets very indignant, s/he tripped and s/he doesn’t attack women, OK? Ollie says it’s very clear, Gman doesn’t like to be around women. Gman leaves in a huff and Doris follows. Oliver’s all Que the hell with those two? “Claro” sez Caro, those two are in love.

Netty grabs MariVicki, shakes her and demands to know what she did with Mari!! MariVicki thinks fast and says Mari wanted Vicki to deliver Eva’s ashes to Netty because she thought Netty deserved the honor of watching over them. (I think that’s what she said.) Netty makes some great facial contortions and hopes she didn’t hurt Vicki’s little arms.

Consuelo is all over Brandon like white on rice. I’ll give her one thing, she’s very focused. She persists. He weakens. Will he or won’t he?

More sucking face but this is over at the big house. Gross, it’s Spiderus and Nereida sharing toxic spit. They are interrupted by a bang on the door and Emiliano’s booming voice. Spidey pushes her under the bed, tucks it into his pants, answers the door, and gets a punch in the face. Hooray for dad!! Kick the goat-sucker out! He reminds Spidey he’s nothing more than an employee. Spidey says he was just following Fedra’s orders. Axel reports that Bernardo also smacked him in the face. This gets Spidey a punch in the eye for good measure. Emiliano tells him to pack his bags, turn over his keys and leave. (I swear Spidey thumbs his nose at Axel.) Nereida is agog at the performance and Spidey tells her Axel is going to regret this. This was probably my favorite scene of the evening.

Brandon sees Ilitia in his bed, smiles, then shakes the image away. It’s Consuelo underneath him, yelling “Si, si” and grabbing his head.

Ilitia tells Eman she’s not ready to sleep with him yet although she’s not entirely happy that he’s sleeping in Mari’s old room. She still blames the stupid fatty for all their problems. He tells her sorry but Mari is the woman he has loved most in his life.

Emiliano listens to Axel croon his sad song and tells him how impressed he is. He can’t believe he didn’t know about Axel’s talent all these years. He says Netty was right, their house has lots of money but not enough love. Axel asks “you’re in love with Netty, right?” Dad says his feelings toward Netty are pure and honest. Axel says if you love her then dump the Momster and fight for her. Emi says he’s bummed that none of his kids is happy and he needs Axel more than ever.

Netty apologizes to MariVicki and they make up. Netty asks Vicki to promise that Mari is fine. Vicki thought bubbles a bunch of crap about how she’d love to tell Netty who she really is but she can’t, she simply can’t. After Netty leaves MariVicki vows she can’t reveal her true identity until she fulfills her promise to Tia Carlota, to destroy Fedra Curiel and make her suffer as much as she made her mother suffer. Works for me.

Fedra is at Lowrenzo’s love shack and cheers herself up by reminding him of how she punished him that one time. He wants to change the subject and ease her tension. “Call me your queen,” she wheedles. Blech.

Her phone rings, oh goodie the crank call! Fedra answers and the mysterious voice that sounds exactly like Marianela tells Fedra that soon everyone will know the truth…that she’s really Juana Felipe Perez!

Mañana = Mari and Gretel plot against Fedra. Fedra sees a headline proclaiming that she, socialite hostess, is the most corrupt in the country. Vicki gets Eman in trouble with Ilitia


Dicho (Garduno said this to Brandon last week when Brandon kep pestering him for information):

Otra vez la burro al trigo = Here we go again with the same old crap. It’s the same old story. (Lit. Once again the female burro goes to the wheat.)


Fachas – getup, appearance (I think)

Me decepcionaste = You let me down

Me sacas de mis casillas = You’re driving me crazy

Mofas de la sociedad = taunts of society

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