Caray, Caray!

This is actually Ezra's recap. Thanks, Ez!

Why did Vince sit on a nest? He's hatching a plot!

Vins meets the Japanese boss' wife at the airport. She's in full kimono and hair-chopsticks, but speaks 100% Mexican Spanish. Vins is clearly straining to maintain the charade of being Pancho, even making up some stuff about vegetables to sell it some more. She is fascinated with everything Mexican and says so, prompting Vins to step it up with his Pancho-isms (mainly just saying "chido" a lot).

In an impressive display of cultural literacy, an erhu plays traditional Chinese music in the background as they part ways (but they'll have dinner later).

Tomas is trying to console a moaning Lena. She thinks Fred is still after Moni. Tomas frowns, and is clearly thinking about juicing him some tangerine, but decides to stay with her, promising, somewhat ominously, that he will "fix" the situation. She cheers up a bit, even giggles.

We had a lot of dull, whiny, awful-child-acting-y scenes with Pancho and Chela and Temo rehashing the same old routine. Nothing new. Temo asks Pancho why he won't marry Chela. At some point Fers shows up, wearing a lot of makeup (my mom points out) for someone who basically hangs around all day at home.

Pina is wearing that gray sack of a dress-skirt. The doorbell rings, and the maid shrieks like one of those dogs who only barks at visitors who ring the bell. It's Candy, who came at Pina's request. They'll have Tequilas, or at least that's what they think. The maid drinks it all before it makes it to P and C. Basically, Pina will bow to the focus group and bring Candy on the show, but makes a hilarious show of emphasizing that it's STILL HER SHOW (hugging herself as she delivers these words) and she'll be the boss.

Beca, in Guanajuato and wearing some seriously crazy shoulderpads, ignores Pancho's call.

Ana gushes about Manuel... she really was excited about him, but she's still thinking about Freddy. She's concerned about Lupe, and tears out of the room to go see her.

Now that Vins and Pina know what Freddy was really doing in Brazil, they call to bug him. Pina is mad, Vins plays it cool (knowing that he has an interest in supporting infidelity). He says he'll give Pina the phone. Freddy says NO! I FORBID IT! but gets an earful from Pina anyway.

Ahh, Chela slips on the old apron, but insists for Pancho that she's cooking for Temo and Temo only. there is some mention of "lolo's guitar..." what's that mean? anyway, she flounces off and Pancho sniffs the food saying that there's nothing like "sazon de chela..." yum/ew.

Lena is back to moaning, this time with Pepe. She's convinced that he'll go back to Monica, but Pepe doesn't want to believe that, for obvious reasons.

On to a cute scene with Pina and Vins. Vins is primping for his dinner-date(poorly) as Pina holds a mirror up to help him (poorly). The yuriko/yuri [the singer] pun is sorely belabored. There's some excellent physical humor with the mirror and the perfume and stuff, and Pina reminds him that they're not done discussing "the hug" and "the bag." We always think she lets him off the hook for his lame excuses, but she doesn't forget. Then she suggests that she come to the dinner, and Vins tries to bolt. BUT guess who shows up? Pancho! Now Pancho wants to come to dinner, and Vins, playing the gentleman for once, insists that he'll take care of this dull business and let Pancho go home to his sick kid. They go back and forth for a bit, slap each other jovially on the shoulders, and then do like 5 rounds of cheek-kissing. Best moment of the show.

Pina is quizzical about this display, and Vins, virtually twisting his Snidely-Whiplash [villain from Rocky and Bullwinkle, often found either waxing his moustache, tying Nell to the railroad tracks, or serving as foil to Dudley Do-right] moustache-tips, explains that he's got a hot plot in his hands that he can't explain right now. Soon, Pancho will be dethroned.

Pancho's buds take a breather from hitting on the maids to inform him that Vins is clearly up to some machinations in that twisted brain of his. To drive home the point, they growl and make lion noises. Pancho looks nervous.

Dinner with Yuri: Vins is trying to psych himself into the Pancho role. Fortunately, she needs little convincing. Turns out, she's really into "Mexican folklore," by which she means poor brown people and the way Vins is trying waay too hard to imitate them. She invites him up to her room and commences to pounce (despite his protestations). Nice to see the tables turned on him for once!

Update from Ezra's mom: Here is a painting of "la guitarra de Lolo." Lolo is a member of the pop band Miranda and the quote «Es un solo/¡Es la guitarra de Lolo!» is from a very noisy song called Don, which became their biggest hit although they (according to Wikipedia) don't like it. For some reason this phrase became a meme. Anybody know why?

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