Caray, Caray!

• Mrs. "I'm so alone" Pina has a special guest on her show: Mariano Osorio, musician and radio personality. His theme: everything is better in the family. ??
  
• Lupita is a wet blanket all night, she doesn't want to leave the kids of the barrio and is afraid.
  
  Candy, on the other hand, is quite ready to never mend clothes again. She reassures Lupita: Pancho will be making so much money, they can feed everybody in the barrio - and still buy leopard-skin skirts!
  
  Lupita tells the kids she'll be there every day (Elena will take over otherwise). Tomás shows up to ask her forgivenness but she doesn't want anything to do with him.
  
• Pepe takes three buses to go see Monica because she asked him to. She wants him to plead with Pancho to un-fire Enzo (her dad). He says ok, but "we are cuadernos - cuates - amigos" now (I guess cuadernos hang out on the street corner together - like homies).
  
  Pepe does ask his dad to reconsider: "Dad, you said you wouldn't change and look, you're already acting like an emperor. You'll ruin his life - and he has a daughter, did you think of that?"
  
• Vince is adapting to new circumstances - he's wearing a sloppy track suit with a t-shirt hanging out instead of his customary natty tie, and he is trying out eastern religions. "In Tibet they say nothing is important, everything passes. Let us enjoy nature, Abejita."
  
  His calm is rattled by the very noisy arrival of Poncho's truck, full of family. They pile out and refer to Beverly Hills (hillbillies being implied). Pancho runs over to say hi to Vince and cheerfully invite him over for some cold ones and comida tipica but Vince thinks that's too greasy even for his dog and might give her taxoplasmosis. Pancho: "You named your dog for an insect??" Popeye and Abejita make eyes at each other, as predicted.
  
  Vince goes to tell his wife about their new proletarian neighbors. Pina opines silently: "When Fer dies, we'll be out in the street and my secret will be worth nothing."
  
• Mo's dad forbids her to see or talk about el mecánico ese. He also says she can't work at Avon any more.
  
• I'm sure you don't need me to describe Pancho's family romping through the mansion, jumping on beds, criticizing the art (Joan Miro) and nearly breaking a Ming Vase. They ask the servants to use tu with them. Chela enjoys the kitchen and she and the cook plan to get along splendidly (this is not what would happen in real life).
  
  The yard is huge. Ana is very happy and tells Lupita to take off her rotten egg face. Candy's delighted to see leopard skins everywhere and is even more delighted to hear she can take the cheslong (chaise longue) into her room. "I am an authentic diva now!"
  
• Rebeca comes to see how the move is going. Pancho says the house is so big he needs a GPS. She has more clauses to talk about! Pancho complains: "You didn't tell me the nephew would be our neighbor. And Fer told me she had nobody! That was another of her lies!" "He's a hypocrite, just out for her money."
  
  She tells him Pepe, Lupita and Ana are already signed up for (pre-paid) university and that Temo will be going to private school (ditto). All this paternalistic benevolence rankles Pancho but he admits he slept through the fine print so he has nobody but himself to blame.
  
  Rebeca is afraid Pancho is going to try to fire Vince too. But, instead: "Am I in charge, or am I a puppet?" He says since he's in charge he will now use his power to: make Vince president!
  
  Rebeca quickly quells this rebellion, pointing out that he promised to be president, and that it's time for him to start doing what he promised: running the company.
  
• Pepe comes up to the Avon receptionist and asks for Monica's office. Her dad shows up and takes him up - Monica isn't there.
  
• Alex calls Lupita (who's looking to move into the guest room because it's not as huge as the other bedrooms) and she hangs up on him, but it turns out he's on her balcony and he nags her to be his friend.

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