Friday, January 20, 2012

Una Familia Con Suerte #87-88 Thu 1/19/12 Roses are red, Violeta is back, Pina is angry and Vince gets a smack.

After some dilly-dally repeats, we’re back where we left off, with the family surprising Chela for her birthday with The Only Mariachis In Mexico (seriously, watch enough telenovelas and you will recognize these same guys everywhere) and breakfast tacos with the whole casa popular. How freaking early do people get up to have time for parties before they go to work? Once they sit down to eat, the kids admit to Pancho that they’d really rather live at the mansion; it’s closer to school and their various amors and has band rehearsal space. He agrees to move back. Pancho’s sidekicks load La Burra with boxes while Ana lounges inside telling also-lounging Candy that she has a plan to give Chela exactly what she wants for her birthday.
Meanwhile, Vins is surprised to see Meli at breakfast at Casa Fresa, but he quickly names her queen of the house, to Pina’s dismay. Vins agrees to authorize Pina’s show. Frauddie tells them that Pepe won the Avon car design contest and Vins says they have to interfere.
Over at Avon, however, Enzo tells Frauddie and Vins that the contracts are signed and Pepe is designing the car, and it would cost a fortune to get out of it. However, they haven’t picked the driver yet… Frauddie still has a tantrum about driving the car Pepe designed. Honestly, I don’t know this delicate petunia manages to drive a racecar without having the vapors. Or biting his tongue off, since he is always letting it hang out.
Down at the auto shop, Moni and Pepe admire the car and smooch. A bunch of suits arrive along with Frauddie, who is gagging and sticking out his tongue as usual. He whines about the risk to his precious cuerpo, getting in this nacomobile, and Moni says at least there’s nothing for the world to lose, then. Pepe reluctantly agrees to pose for publicity photos with Frauddie. Frauddie makes ugly faces with his tongue threatening to poke out in the pictures. I’m starting to think he needs some sort of tongue sling or brace to keep it in.
Pancho and Vins power struggle at work. They have to meet exactly halfway between their offices, with their seconds, for a duel. Pancho declares his team is in charge of sales, personnel, and money. Vins’s crew is in charge of marketing and a bunch of other terms that mean marketing to make it sound like more.
Ana drops by the office to be rude to Rebeca and confirm that Pancho will definitely be home by 9.
The sidekicks deliver the boxes to the mansion. Chacho introduces Cheto to Goya and Cheto drools and drops to his knees and proposes marriage to her. Goya is a tad nonplussed.
The non-busy members of the family also arrive, and Candy gets Chela all dressed up and primped and tells her to come downstairs exactly at 9 for her birthday surprise. Downstairs, Candy confirms with Ana that everything is ready, and they and Lupita and Temo skedaddle.
Pancho arrives home, Chela comes downstairs, and they wonder where everyone else is. Chela quickly deduces that her surprise is some alone time with Pancho and some sultry lighting. Pancho is not happy about this, but he’s thickheaded enough to agree to dance with Chela after she puts on the CD Candy left, which is coincidentally “their” song (apparently they danced to it once before). They get rather too cozy.
Moni tells Enzo that she and Pepe are hiring an investigator to find her mother. Enzo tells her she’s wasting her time, and if she finds anything she won’t like it. Moni says he seems to know more than he claims, and it hurts her to know that he won’t tell her the truth.
The rest of the family is back at the casa popular with Ana’s band. The band decides to have an unplugged jam session with improvised instruments. Alex and Frauddie park right in front of the gate, as everyone always does, and Fraudster once again coaches Alex about his insecurity. Hilariously, Frauddie says “Hola, nacos” to some people on the street, then nervously dashes away. Once they’re in the courtyard, Frauddie the snake is charmed by Ana’s singing. This is not lost on Alex.
Back at the mansion, Rebe rings the bell, holding lots of gifts. No one answers so she walks around the path and sees Pancho and Chela dancing cheek to cheek. She angrily goes back to the door to ring again. Inside, however, the chandelier commits suicide for no discernible reason and Pancho pushes Chela away just in time. Chela decides her sister, QEPD, must be the phantom, and she answers the door and she and Rebe are really snippy. Rebe snidely asks if she’s interrupting something. Chela flirtily thanks Pancho for such a special night and excuses herself, happy to see Rebe so annoyed.
Rebe yells at Pancho, and he pleads Not Guilty By Reason of Birthday. Rebe thinks Chela planned the whole thing. Pancho says it was just dancing, the way he’s danced with Chela oodles of times. Oddly, that does not help his case. Pancho agrees that Rebe is right and that he’s too thick to ever catch on to these stupid Chela matchmaking schemes until Rebe yells about them.
Back at the casa popular, Frauddie is actually talking to Ana, and complimenting her, no less. She is all aflutter. Manuel tries to mark territory but Ana brushes him off. Pepe and Moni arrive and there is much friction and tongue outage. Alex drags Frauddie away, probably to a tongue doctor. Pepe gives Ana a hard time about consorting with the enemy.
Pina sets up another scene of seduction in her boudoir, this time with magic drops in the champagne and a saloon-girlish ensemble. Vins drinks up when she toasts to the memories of that one good time they had once in Monte Carlo. Pina claims she totally trusts him to manage THEIR assets, even though earlier she tried to interrogate him about what other secrets he might be keeping. Eventually Pina’s magic champagne of champions has Vins feeling fine and frisky. Pina suggests she’ll stay out of Avon business if he’ll…well, he imagines Candy there in Pina’s place and hops in bed. The camera ducks behind a candle and Pina shrieks.
Meanwhile, over at the big house, Pancho is trying to get Rebe liquored up with toxic-looking green drinks by the fire. Rebe tells him about Mike, finally: he was her boss in Miami, they had a romantic relationship, he screwed up and got fired and blamed her, and the relationship went down the tubes. They take advantage of their alone time to get smoochy and horizontal and relieve a few buttonholes of their buttons…until the whole family walks in.
The next morning, Vins stumbles around breaking things and shrieking and Ado tells him he looks horrible.
Candy’s and Pina’s programs are on television at the same time, different channels. Pina’s in notably perky form watching hers until Arnoldo calls to tell her that Candy is on channel 18. Oh Noes! Ado pep-talks her and Pina resolves to stomp Candy like a cockroach. Ado also sees the magic bottle and seems to figure out Pina’s improvement in mood.
Over at the office, Vins swills some grim curative and swoons about Candy while Arnoldo tries to talk some sense into him. This doesn’t work so Arne suggests they go buy jewelry to win Candy’s affection back.
Chacho and Cheto fix the chandelier. Chucha serves them lemonade and Cheto is all over her and tells her she is just like his first wife. First? How many times has he been married? None, heh heh. One surely cannot imagine why. He even dredges up a flower for her out of nowhere.
Chela is off in the other sala with Jessinia, who is spreading out all her occult stuff. Chela tells her about the haps of the previous evening. Candy interrupts their séance and while she’s talking one of the candles melts right on over and sets the table scarf on fire. They think it’s a sign from Laura.
Alex hears Frauddie conspiring with a mechanic named Walter to finish Pepe off.
Sandy yells at Vins that if she can’t have him, then no one can!
Ana does her modeling session. Rebe is nice to her, so of course Ana is bratty as usual and runs off. Unfortunately, she is klutzy in the high heels and she stumbles and knocks a cart over onto Frauddie in the lobby. They stand there dippily ogling each other for awhile. I can’t remember but I would assume Frauddie’s tongue hangs out. He invites her out for coffee…but they have to keep it a secret, so he will pick her up on the corner at 8.
Moni meets with the detective and gives him all the information she has, which consists of an old photo and some fake names.
Enzo meets with Violeta!!! She is snobby and sarcastic about his name and status change. Enzo tries to buy her off to leave the country, but she doesn’t need money. Violeta claims she wants to see Moni after so many years of being sick and struggling ALONE to overcome her emotional problems. Enzo begs her, in the name of the love they once had, to stay away from Moni. Violeta makes fun of him for thinking they were ever in love. Ouch.
Chacho advises Pancho not to let his kids manipulate him and control his romantic life. Pancho admits that he is afraid of alienating Ana.
Ana squeals to Lupita about her fantastic luck in scoring a date with Frauddie the Frog. Lupita fails to convince her that she’s just one more fly for his tongue to catch and she should stay away from a guy who is such a jerk to Elena and Pepe.
Moni goes to the taller for smooches and to ask Pepe if it’s possible maybe her mother is a bad person. If so, Moni, I’ve already got the moniker for her: Evileta. Vile-etta? Violenta?
Enzo interrupts the one person at Avon who actually works, Arnoldo, for a head and shoulder massage and to unload his moany Moni issues.
Vins gets Popeye to deliver his gift to Candy. Chela rolls her eyes rather than be impressed at Popeye’s delivery skills.
Next door, Sandra tells Pina that Vins and Candy are amantes. Pina is stunned but realizes that she is right. She yells that she will KILL Vins!
Vins obliviously stands right outside, blowing kisses at Candy and inviting her out for champagne that night. She won’t commit.

Vins walks into the slaughterhouse, gets caught up on the situation, tells Sandra he will fire her, and awaits Pina’s slap, which is swift and sure in coming.
Tomorrows: The rage of Pina.

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Julia, Mil gracias por su resumen estupendo. I loved the falling chandelier and the bending candle. Lots of cute moments of comedy. Ana is a fool but such a little ass to her father and Rebe that it is clear she cannot think about anyone but herself. She will make a bitchymodel, already she has the haughty attitude.

Violeta is goint to be a scandelous addition to the circus. And I kind of felt sorry for Pina with Sandra's meanness and spite. I wish the slap had looked more realistic. More fun tomorrow!
 

This is my first time reading your blog, and it is hilarious!

Ana's immaturity is so annoying...Candy and Chela, too. How many times does Chela have to be devastated after walking in on Pancho and Rebeca kissing for her to get that he's really not into her?! The show is so crazy and so funny...I just love it.

Thanks for blogging about en ingles!
 

Just great Julia...your whole tongue theme with Freddie is amazing.

Favorite quote is "much friction and tongue outage", but sounds like Freddie may be Melinama's favorite diss "a mouth breather". I will have to be more aware of his lolling appendage from now on.

Missed the first hour due to a great OSU women's basketball game, but you certainly made it sound interesting. Muchas gracias.
 

Great recap, I love it! Isn't it amazing and wonderful how these little tiffs get resolved so swiftly in the show? In other shows they would drag on for weeks.
 

Thank you so much Julia for this great recap. Loved the line about Frauddie and the vapors. lol. Loved your title too. Ana and Frauddie he does look taken with her. And meeting Ana in secret, like Vins and Candy.

That potion that Pina put in Vins' drink, was that called Lust? I looked it up in my Spanish/English dictionary and it was the closest thing I could find. I guess I was wrong yesterday and they actually did it. You were right yesterday about the date-rape drug.

Violetta is mean. I like your name Eviletta.

The best part last night was the seance scene with candle bending. As soon as they mentioned Lara's name it bent. I wonder if Chela tried to tell Pancho that she liked him before Laura and Pancho married?

Ana is so rude. Rebe has always been so nice to all the kids. Temo was rude to her too. Chaco is right. Pancho has told them over and over he is in love with Rebe, he really ought to put his foot down.

Sandrucha was mean to tell Pina. What did she hope to gain? And of course she left out the part where she used to be the lover of Vins. Poor Pina, I am glad she smacked Vins. I wonder how Vins is going to get out of this one? From the advances it looks like Pina catches Vins and Candy going out.

And Frauddie scared about driving a car that Pepe designed? He wasn't afraid to drive the car Pepe owned though lol.
 

"Not Guilty By Reason of Birthday"

LOL Julia! Wonderful recap. I love the title as well. :)

Wow! Violeta is an Amazonian b!tch. She really is quite tall and quite mean. Now I can understand a bit more why Enzo wants Moni away from her. Imagine what kind of mother she would have been. But now I don't get why Enzo would try to turn Moni into a rich snob like her mother. Wouldn't it have been better to focus on things like empathy and kindness instead, if he was trying to avoid making a mini-Evileta? Luckily, Moni got her "nice" genes from somewhere else.

I'm liking Cheto more than Big Boy. I mean, one can only take but so many flatulence jokes. I hope he comes back cured. But Cheto and Chucho are right about Pancho putting his foot down Ana (and Temo too). Enough is enough. Those brats need to be put in their place.

The ghost of Laura definitely does NOT like the idea of Chela and Pancho together. I hope Chela takes the hint and moves on.

Pancho and Rebe need to take the make out session to her apt, if they want to relieve any more buttons. Ahem...
 

Gracias, Julia. This was wonderful.

I loved your snake image when Frauddie was "charmed" by Ana's music. Looks like he's going to end up falling into his own trap.

Now that I know that the actress playing Meli is Castro's real life daughter it makes their scenes even more hilarious. I loved them sticking their tongues out at one another at the breakfast table.

I was never sure whether I thought that Pancho was going to end up with Chela or with Rebe. But all this conspiring of the kids against Rebe is making her look like the sympathetic one who will win out in the end. That Ana is so bratty. I enjoy Chela's smirks though. Now that she is signing up for school it is obvious that she will have a big turn around soon and will be intelligent, confident, gorgeous -- and real competition. -- Do you think that she will end up working at Avon too? Then she and Enzzo can get in each others faces in anger until they put their faces together in other ways.

I loved the business meeting at the front line-- complete with seconds -- and "About Face" military moves. This show is very clever in those little ways.

Julia, I liked the nicknames -- Frauddie the Frog.
and your takes on Violetta names.

My word verification is aultery -- only missing a "d" -- just like Vins & Candy keep almost making it.

Güera
 

I wanted to see Chela, Ana, and Temo eat some crow as they admitted that they all (except Chela and Pancho) want to return to the mansion. Alas, everyone was too nice to point this out and rub it in.
 

Oh, "Popeye Vision" of Vince was hilarious! For a second I thought he would deliver the necklace to Chela who would mistakenly think it was a b-day gift from Pancho. But Popeye is a very smart dog. Love how he and Vince then bargained for a visit to see Abeja after he helped Vince with that little favor.
 

Welcome, Amber!

The best parts of this show are the details that are hard to recap, especially when you're trying to cover two hours. But I loved the dueling body language and the way the characters tease each other.

So Cheto's thing is not his big nose (which looks like a normal nose to me), it's that he immediately proposes to every woman he meets? Weirdo.

I agree, Enzo makes no sense. He was poor and dumped by a snotty rich dame, so he's trying to turn Moni into a snotty rich dame who will leave Pepe just because he isn't rich? Because if Enzo can't be happy, no one can be happy?
 

What an enjoyable episode that seems like everyone had a good time with last night.

Welcome to Amber. How fun that you have found us. I hope you come to play and study with us. It is the cheapest way to learn Spanish you can find. And the bloggers here on Caray Caray are the nicest, wittiest group imaginable.

I am glad to see Freddie the fraudulent frog acting more human and showing a softer side with puppies at least and perhaps Ana will bring him around the other side of his snobbery. I just hope Elena gets a new hobby instead of betrayng her one true friend Lupita out of malicious jealousy. I really dislike it when women characters do this to each other. It sets such a false example for younger women watching. And we don't need any reinforcement of witchy women fables among our esteemed male population here either.

I am so glad that Melli who speaks quite clear and standard Spanish is making naco Temo explain what some of his slang expressions are. It helps me learn the unconventional terms too. She is a real delight and so cute with her Tia Pina (mommy). She makes us see Vins in a kinder light too. He is obviously so charmed by her even though his over talk to Pina is all about when are we getting rid of her.

my verification word is imessen. I guess it means: I messen around?
 

Julia, simply stunning recap, one of your best. I loved how you kept "sticking it" to Frauddie by ripping on his tongue. That lolling tongue habit of his is disgusting.

"Popeye Vision", hee! This was my favorite scene of the evening. I've heard some actors say they never want to act with children or animals. Well Sergio Sendel has no problem with it at all. The sum of their parts is definitely the most hilarious. He's fantastic with Popeye and Melly.

Welcome Amber! I'm so glad you found us. I hope you stick with our study group.
 

Julia, thanks for a super recap. I enjoyed every single slam to Frauddie, especially "Honestly, I don’t know how this delicate petunia manages to drive a racecar without having the vapors."

Chela had been telling herself that she had Laurita's blessing. It burns me that she thinks she's "entitled" to Pancho. Well, now Laurita has signaled to her a big "No!" Yay!

Madelaine, They never showed a scene of Chela prior to Pancho and Laurita's wedding day, but I doubt Chela ever confessed her feelings. At the wedding she was shy and timid, and when Laurita said something like "I hope you find your true love too," Chela just looked uncomfortable.

I'm so ticked with Ana for her rudeness to Rebe, but she looked cute in the blue dress and I like her band better unplugged.

Welcome Amber!
 

Thank you Niece in MD. I didn't watch this TN from the very beginning and I always wondered if Chela had ever done that. You are so right that Chela thinks she is entitled to Pancho. Now hopefully she takes the hints lol.

Welcome Amber.
 

In the first episode we see Chela mooning over Pancho on his wedding day, then she shows a video to the happy couple of their courtship. It was basically her stalking them with her video camera as they went on each of their dates as youngsters. So basically she has been crushing on Pancho for a very long time. I think Pancho and Laura just brushed it off as nosey little sister behavior.

Welcome Amber!
 

Tks so much Julia.


I'm not very happy that Familia will be on at 7 with Talisman on at 8. My 1 hr devoted to TN's is turning into 3.

No one seems very upset about the chandelier falling, reminds me of War of the Roses, except that s/b at the Irabien casa.

Ana is very pretty, but I knew there was sth wrong, she has no neck.

I think Violeta is Sebastian Rulli's ex.

Sure was, lujuria = lust

That Popeye is some smart dog & he is adorable, as is Abeja, best couple in the TN.

Did I get this right, Enzo changed his name????? I didn't catch what Violeta called him.

The face off between Pancho troops & Vicente troops is hysterical.
 

Variopinta- Enzo's real name is Facundo Jimenez. He made up this Italian-sounding name for himself (Enzo Rinaldi) and Evileta was making fun of that. She would have really laughed had she seen those acots and slicked back hair he was sporting until recently. :)

I wonder if his name change was legal? And does this mean Monica's name is real/legal? He admitted to his buddies that he even gave Moni a false maternal last name, so that she wouldn't know Violeta's real last name.
 

that's ascots
 

I am wondering if Chela will do a Pygmalion on herself, like Toula Portokalos, and get attract somebody really amazing and have the finale have a double dose of My Big Fat Mexican Novela Wedding. Not that 90% of finales don't have them.

I was wondering whether Popeye would take the gift to Pina instead, but Popeye has his priorities straight!
 

Welcome Amber -- I forgot that earlier. You're going to love this group.

Güera
 

Tks Vivi
I knew I could count on you to fill in what I couldn't get.
Violeta must have been really bad for Enzo to go to those extremes UNLESS there is sth else Enzo wants to hide. But it sounds like Violeta ran off with s/b else.
 

Yikes! Between all the recaps and comments I missed this week, I've got 12 pages of catching up to do. (No, I don't HAVE to read them before I do my own recap, but I prefer to.)

I will say that I'm warming up to Meli. I don't know if anyone's asked/said yet, but she reminds me of the little girl who was in QE a few years ago and she looks to be the right age... anyone think it's her?
 

Thanks for your recap Julia. Your comments throughout this were hilarious!

I think/hope Ana and Temo will get a bit of comeuppance with their current crushes in relation to Pancho/Rebe. But until that happens, I hope someone just gives them some good old-fashioned discipline.

This whole Laura not liking Chela going after Pancho is quite funny. But I like Julia's suggestion that Enzo and Chela will eventually be together (and their interaction on Wed made me think this).
 

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