Caray, Caray!

Oh my Julia..one of your best.

"why is this show not over?" Indeed. And it even ran about 10 minutes over its already too-long two hour time slot.

Other favorite lines (among a gazillion)

"dominating the nursing home bingo game by then."
"Most upstanding of all the standing-uppiest"
Pants-Free Pilot Candy.....get ready for some turbulence"
"Recapper out of steam. Condensing now."

Yes yes yes...you guys are the hard-workingest of all the hard-working recappers. And sooo funny.

I'm ready to stash Pancho in a time capsule and send him into outer space. His beady vacant eyes, and shrieking crazy clown voice are the absolute worst.

But he's brought out the best in all you desperate recappers. Thanks for efforts above and beyond.
 

Julia- You deserve a special prize for this recap. Not only was it superb, but SURPRISE, you just recapped THREE episodes! Really. I looked up the episodes. This was three episodes combined. There were no repeats from the previous night, there were hardly any commercials, and it went on for nearly an extra 15 minutes. (I'm sure they probably cut some party stuff too.) No wonder it felt like the neverending episode. By doing this, there are now exactly 4 weeks left of double episodes. The show should end on a Friday four weeks from now (end of May).

Fun party. I'm curious about the tradition of the song that the people outside the door with the nativity and the people inside the house on the other side of the door sing. Anyone know more about this tradition? Kind of unfair for the adults to get to beat the pinata and not not let the kids have at it. They totally let Doc Oc easily break it open.

I just don't understand why Vince thinks he can break the law, get away with it, and has the right to be mad at everyone else when they call him on it. But I understand even less why Candy would want to be with a man/child like that.

Arnold's love life is getting very complicated. Will Barb and Ray fight each other for Arnie's love?

I could not stop laughing when they showed two cocks fighting before Freddy and Adrian starting brawling.

Ketita finally says what we've all been thinking. Sandy and Chacho should get married before popping out babies. They looked at her like this was a totally novel idea. LOL!
 

Julia you have outdone yourself! This was too funny. Loved these lines:
Inspector Detector Hotness Projector (Hot Tomas)
Cirriculum of Arnaldo School of Kissing (Fred even remembered Ana
and the improved kissing)
Flying Candy Air too funny

Alot of this episode was so funny. Rai fainting, Barb fainting and the cock fight. Too funny.

Agree with Vivi about Vins. He has always gotten away with everything and now he can't understand why he can't. I don't get why Candy wants to be with him either.

Pina has changed. I am really liking her with Sebasi and she is finally enjoying herself. I am glad she didn't help Kari. What was up with Kari? Freddy told her he didn't love her, but she runs to Pina? I think she is going to be a stalker like Adrian. She just won't let go

Vivi- I liked that traditon of people in the house and outside with the manager and the singing. I've seen this in another TN before but didn't know what it was either.
 

Julia thanks for your recap. I don't know if I was tired when I realized this but Pancho is as annoying as you describe him. Also I felt for you last night; I wasn't recapping and I said out loud, when will this be over. And now Vivi tells us it was three episodes. Thanks for taking one for the team indeed.
 

Wow missed this one last night, all I can say is thank you Julia!
 

Julia thanks for your recap. I don't know if I was tired when I realized this but Pancho is as annoying as you describe him. Also I felt for you last night; I wasn't recapping and I said out loud, when will this be over. And now Vivi tells us it was three episodes. Thanks for taking one for the team indeed.
 

Here's a link about the posada song.

I really enjoyed the party, but then the show kept going and going and going. THREE episodes?! No wonder it took forever. I thought I was being really slow. And there was way too much Vicente having the same tantrum over and over. I'm sick of him.

I love the "what is wrong with you?" expression Sebastian keeps making at Pancho.
 

OMG Julia, screamingly funny. It was another one of your dialogue-recaps that finally hooked me on this show. I'm glad that the calculations show we have another month to go, now that I'm finally getting some of the jokes.
 

Oh, here's a nice write-up on the Posadas tradition. They used to do this in Southern California, too.

http://gomexico.about.com/od/festivalsholidays/a/posadas.htm
 

Hey Vivi, tell us about the Bday crab feast.....inquiring minds want to know.
Where did you go, and were the crabs good?

Another four weeks of this TN...whew!!!
Unless they roll out more amazons, I will just read this blog to keep up.....

JudyB, I see a couple of your Buckeyes went in the first round last night......congratulations.
 

JudyB.....sorry no Buckeyes went last night, maybe tonight.
 

Another record-breaking recap, Julia. Thanks! (I hope that's the last TRIPLE anyone ever has to recap!)

I wondered about Kari and Moni's friendship too. Kari used to be a sane and sensible girl - in fact, she's the one who persuaded Moni to give Pepe a chance. But ever since she bought into Pina's obsession with social classes and blue eyes, she's been a total idiot. Maybe Moni reached a point where Frida was actually better company than Kari.

I vaguely remember reading about the posada tradition in my high school Spanish class... but did not even recognize it when I finally saw it 20-somethingcoughcough years later.
 

Yes Anon#1....First time in many years, perhaps ever? that a Buckeye hasn't gone in the first round. But last year was a very strange year.
 

Anon#1– My mom, aunt and I decided to go fancy and combine yummy/fancy crab cakes with art and culture. We went to Gertrude’s Restaurant, which is in the Baltimore Museum of Art. A perfect combination and a great activity for a rainy afternoon. Many thanks to you and everyone for the nice birthday wishes!
 

Julia, This is a masterpiece and great sacrifice at the same time. I have been swamped with photo exhibition prep so have watched the epis late each night on tape but now am enjoying this with morning coffee before going off for the day and still there is last nights epi to go. OMGawd it seemed like 5 episodes. Thanks for the info on the end of our torture Vivi.

Your take on this silly end pieces was so hilarious, Julia. The best stuff has been quoted but ready for turbulence and inspector with hawtness projector and his self knowledge that he is too good looking for boring work. All of us agree that Vice is a pain in the pattutti. I have been a stanch pro-Pancho fan but sheeesh he is boring me silly and the dumb plot details are so unnecessary so they can parade more stars across the scenes.
A treat next Monday for you faithful ones: JP Cruzer has agreed to give us another of his fine renderings of the mayhem as I get ready to hang the next exhibition for May 5 & 6. My pueblo's art studio tour, wish you could all drop by for a laugh and even a wine tasting as I will be in the Corrales Winery: photography, painting, wine tasting and views of the mountains beyond the vine covered field. Think about it!
 

Cheryl, if I could go, I definitely would. Wine and fine photography among the mountains would be a disorienting but welcome break from my daily madness of sitting in a windowless area while being thrown under a bus by the very people I'm supposed to be helping. (How's that for a mixed metaphor?)

Your, JP's, and everyone else's recaps are also a welcome relief from my daily madness. I won't miss the two-hour installments, but I WILL miss the Lopez family and our little gang here when this silly circus is finished. (Of course we'll have a different circus and a new gang, and maybe it will be just as fun, but it won't be quite the same!)