Caray, Caray!

Mónica angrily tells her father, "I'm not telling you again!" She loves Pepe and she don't love Fraud. Then she apologizes, tells Enzo she loves him very much, but if she loses Pepe she'll never forgive herself. Enzo sighs heavily and asks himself why, since he's raised her from a baby, she's so much like her mother?

At breakfast, after Chela is toasted with orange juice, Lupita announces to the family that she thinks she's in love. (Who does this?) She promises to bring him to the house but asks them not to scare him off by making a big fuss.

A man we've never seen before sits in his study, surrounded by recording industry awards, and gazes mournfully at a photo of Manuel, Ana's would-be boyfriend. (I don't recognize the lad right away because he has a much better haircut in the photo.) In a flashback, hotheaded Slightly Younger Manuel tells his dad that all he wants is to be in a band. Dad says those are a dime a dozen and Manny's turning his back on his future. Manny says he doesn't want to study business and inherit the company. "All you've done is embitter my life!"

SLAP!! "Shut up, ingrate!" Dad shouts. Manny pulls himself up from the floor and storms out. Back from the flashback, Dad seems pained by the memory.

Pancho tells Chela he's happy she's back. Temo gets them to promise that they won't fight. (Ha!) Everyone cheers, including Chucha and Goya. Popeye is even given a line ("woof!").

Manuel has apparently disclosed his privileged background to one of his bandmates, and I guess everything's smoothed over beween them. He admits that things aren't going well with Ana because she likes someone else.

Pancho tells Chela that Rebeca is coming over later. Yes, she knows that Chela's there, she doesn't like it, but she'll have to accept it. This seems to cheer Chela up, but then Pancho reiterates that Rebe is the woman he loves. Chela's smile disappears. Pancho says Chela is his family, and she and Rebe will have to accept one another.

Pepe, Lupita, and Ana sit around at school when Alex shows up with a flower for Lupita and offers to treat them all to coffee. Pepe says he's hungry, so make it a breakfast. Alex agrees and says he's paying. Ana says "in that case, we'll get it to go." Pepe makes a snide remark about Alex's Daddy paying for it. Alex, whose father didn't even show up at the jail to yell at him and is probably dead, mumbles something like "he's not the one who paid" (I'm not actually sure) which kinda makes things awkward for a second. Lupita tells her siblings to behave. Alex wants to shake hands and make friends with Pepe. Pepe hesitates and asks if Fraud will disown him as a friend. "Fraud doesn't tell me what to do," Alex says, and they shake hands. Awwww!

Apparently Ana's attention wandered while this monumentally crucial alliance was being forged. She daydreams about Manuel and wonders how he's going to convince her.

Something is terribly, terribly wrong with Beto. He's enthusiastic, he's energetic, he's optimistic. They could get invaded by space aliens right now and it would be fine, because the numbers are gorgeous! Beeeeeauuuuuutiful! These profits are unprecedented! (Someone please double-check his math - he doesn't seem very reliable at the moment.) Beto says they owe it all to Pancho. Pancho tries to be modest about it. Beto adds that there's a rumor that Pancho and Rebe are an item. Rebe, who has been snuggling up to Pancho happily in front of Beto, tells him not to pay too much attention to rumors. Beto floats out of the room on happy invisible clouds.

Candy tells Pina she doesn't feel like doing the show today. Pina says she doesn't understand but tells her it's okay. Then she thought-bubbles that she doesn't want to tolerate Candy a moment longer and knows what she has to do to make sure that this is the end of Candy's life as an "artist."

Candy has filled Chela in on her great plan to carry on with Vince in secret. Chela tells her to have dignity, and Candy says "dignity hasn't done you much good." Ouch. she apologizes. Chela says Candy deserves better than to be treated as the "other woman." If Vince loves her so much, why doesn't he divorce Pina? Candy flashes back to Vice saying "for reasons that don't matter now, I foolishly put all of my property in Pina's name. If she finds out about us, she'll want revenge - she'll squash me like a cockroach!" Candy declines to share this with Chela and simply asks her to keep the secret from Pancho. "Candy, when are you going to have a normal relationship?" Ha, there's some irony. She apologizes.

Vice goes to see Dr. Cuckoo. He doesn't have an appointment, but insists it's an emergency. He didn't understand the story about the beetle and the cicada. The doctor does not agree that this is an emergency, but is too distracted to listen to Vice's panicked babbling because the clocks are about to strike the hour. CUCKOO! CLANG! CHIME! WHEEZE!! It's six o'clock.

Pancho lectures Rebeca about the friction between her and Chela. (Boy, I sure hope this part of the story is almost done.) Rebe is convinced that Chela's still plotting to win Pancho's love.

Now that the clocks have chimed, the doctor is just regular crazy and not top-of-the-hour crazy. He switches seats with Vice and instead of clarifying the cicada/beetle story, he tells a new one:

A giraffe wanted to get to the leaves at the top of the tree, but no matter how he stretched, he couldn't reach. An ant called up to him, "give me a lift and I'll get you those leaves." So the giraffe put the ant up in the tree and thanks to the ant, the giraffe was able to dine on the tenderest leaves at the very top of the tree. (I guess the ant climbed to the top and cut the leaves down.)

"How does the story end?" asks Vice.
"The ant ended up at the chiropractor."
"Oh, of course, why didn't I think of that. Tell me something, doctor - who paid the chiropractor?"
"The ant, of course - who else? Hahaha!"

The doctor tells Vice that Candy is an addiction. He has to stop seeing her ASAP to avoid financial and emotional ruin and end up crazy forever.

Pancho and Rebeca are about to start dancing in his office when Enriqueta walks in on them. Some fancy-pants magazine wants to do a piece on Pancho. He doesn't want to do it. Too bad, it's going to be good for the company.

Dr. Cuckoo calls Enzo to tell him of Vice's unscheduled visit. Enzo reminds him that he hired him to break up Vice and Candy. Dr. assures Enzo he can take care of it.

Pepe tries to sneak up on Mónica in her office, but his phone gives him away. She tries to ignore him while he turns down a date from from some girl he danced with at the party. He tells the girl on the phone that he's already in love. Rather than be charmed, Mo asks him about Celeste and he gives another smooth Pepe answer about how much he prefers Mo. Mo is grumpy and says he sounds a lot like Frauddie. Pepe said if their relationship were a little more serious, he wouldn't pay any attention to anyone else, not even Celeste. She says she already told her father she loves him, but they're not a "we" yet, she needs a little more time. He says she can have all the time she needs. (I think she needs a good five or six minutes.)

And now for the news you've all been waiting for: the bathrooms at the Casa Popular Daycare are coming along nicely. Whew! Alex gives Lupita some earrings. (I would have asked for Granny's house instead.) She regrets that she doesn't have anything for him. "Yes you do!" "Where?" "Right here!" And he kisses her.

Candy and Ana eat ice cream. Ana still disapproves of Candy being with Vince. She rehashes about the band and the guys wanting to be her boyfriend. She won't reveal who's the guy she really likes, but he doesn't know she exists. And she thinks Vice should get divorced.

Fraud is at the gym doing bench presses. "One... two... three..." Alex approaches. "...hundred," Fraud adds. He notes Alex's serious air and guesses that "the girl" broke up with him, or maybe it's "what happened to your parents." No, that's not it. He just warns Fraud not to expect too much of him and then he won't be disappointed.

So Mara, the lady from the magazine, is meeting with Pancho and Rebe. He calls her "Lara" by mistake, eek. In fact, he uses more wrong words than usual, with Rebe constantly correcting him. He talks about Candy's scandal at the Paraíso and says he doesn't want to be famous. (Now he calls her "Rara.") She says all of Mexico already knows his story. They just want to show his human side. (Wait, what side has he been showing so far? Cyborg?) Rebeca shows her to the door. Pancho asks Rebe to be with him when they do the photos; she says no, he'll be with his family and everything will be fine. FAMOUS LAST WORDS!

At dinner, Pancho yells for Candy so loudly it upsets the dog. He tells the family about the magazine coming to the house to do a feature on them. (This time he says the woman is "Amara.") They'll soon be the most famous family in Mexico!

It turns out that Pina is friendly with Mara. Pina wants Mara's magazine to do a story about Pina Opina and say something about Candy that will ruin her forever.

Pancho says the whole household will be included - even Chucha, Goya, Chacho, and Popeye. Chucha asks about Nico. (Last time we saw him, I think he was planning to have a colonoscopy... and he NEVER CAME BACK!!) He's gone to visit his sick mother. Now Chucha and Goya are eying Chacho like he's the last man on earth. Candy is all excited and regales us with an apparent product placement for a hair treatment that she didn't buy from Avon. Maybe it will make her hair fall out and she'll have to use an Avon product to fix it.

Mara says there's no way she can print any intrigue about Candy, but agrees to do a story about "Pina Opina" in general. Pina wants them to do it tomorrow so it will be in the very next issue. Mara says she can't do it tomorrow and the next issue's already full because of a last-minute story they're doing. (Strangely, she does not mention WHAT that last-minute story is!)

Alone, Pina wonders what kind of story could possibly be more important than her radio show.

Chacho is excited to hear that Chela's here to stay, and asks about her alleged boyfriend. She says he moved in with his mama in a faraway town. There is more exciting chattering, but Pancho's head is someplace else. "I'm thinking about something I have to do tomorrow," he says mysteriously.

Next morning, he takes out his phone and fluffs his hair. It must be time to take pictures!

Next time (ONE HOUR EARLIER STARTING MONDAY):
Popeye dons a necktie for the photo session. Elena tells a Televisa microphone that she's pregnant by Frauddie. Mara's mag identifies Chela as Pancho's wife. Will hilarity ensue?

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