Caray, Caray!

Pablo:

Thanks so much for this fantastic recap.

Poor Dona Susana. One of her loves dies and the other has a heart attack. I am glad she is staying with the secretaries. Chucho was so sweet with her.

Discua is still trying to process what happened with Ferny I think. She actually winked, just once. She still loves him. I wonder if she will seek to get him back at some point.

Rogue is the biggest idiot ever but his Sanson was so cute in that Santa Claus outfit. I was glad that Ferny sicced the cops on him and Delia is no dummy. She knows they are somehow involved.

Well, Patymelt got her wish for Christmas, even though she doesn't know it yet. She'll be all happy when she finds out.

Pablo,

Thanks for all the dichos and all the customs you tell us about : )


 

The Uranus joke made me laugh so hard! I also really liked "if the light is too bright, it's blinding". So philosophical!

Also, you have inspired me. I'm giving up on debating whether to call him "Jesús" or "Chucho". From now on, he is Juicy to me!

Elías must have found a credit card that works...too bad for him Juicy found a better present, in the tianguis, no less.

Sansón in a Santa suit! That was the best part.
 

Sansón was Santa? Oh that's too funny, especially after we all thought he was going to be a reindeer.

Pablo, I almost fell over backwards with your wisecrack about Discua being from Uranus, bwahahaha! And you are so right, one should always avoid the middlemen, especially Roge even though he doesn't actually want to do anything himself. (But then we wouldn't have so many laughs.)

Thanks for the great dichos in this recap.

Pablo and others, by the way, maybe you can help me out with a saying that I heard? "La tinta más pobre de color vale más que la mejor memoria." Does it mean something like "You'd better get it in writing" or does it have another nuance of meaning?

Super recap, thanks!
 

Pablo, thanks for such a funny and insightful recap! I especially liked Susan not being able to believe how two men could fall for her at almost the same time and the dead squirrel on top of Sebastian's head.

That big spinning clock was just great to show the passage of time.Since this novela is so goofy anyway I wish they would do more things like that. It helps the beanie work better. Poor Jessica!Who knows what awaits her with Dr. Frankenstein. I was cooking and missed Sansón in his Santa suit. I will have to take a look for it on my tape.

Jarifa

Jarifa
 

Thanks! Now that I read the comments I realize I missed a few things... ;-(

CSS: This is the first time I hear that saying, but yes, it's gotta mean that you have to put everything in writing so you never forget. Good one!
 

Oh, I look forward to these Wed. recaps. And I DID put the coffee down right before reading " Susana turned around when she heard the noise and couldn't believe how two men could fall for her almost at the same time!" and the homage to the squirrel. Hysterical!!

You know, and maybe it's just me, but there is a business to run. I understand everyone is so concerned, but I feel for the poor non-TV smucks who are lifting the heavy weights of running this office. They deserve a raise.

So maybe we finally get the Card's secret lab reveal? Being it seems to be a flat surface he works on, I'm thinking a sculture/picture of some sort? Metal image of Jess perhaps? Watch, it won't be creepy at all but really cool. (Or at least I rather hope so.)

Poor Susanna. Not so much that she lost her husband, which was very sweetly done but expected, but now she will be hooked up with sourpuss Sebastian. My guess on the heart clutch---he realized that he actually had one watching two people who really know what love is.

Loved the dolls!!! But I hope that Christmas doesn't turn into some macho contest between Chucho and Elias. You know Val will love the doll and I really don't want to see Elias, though acting weird, be hurt. Oh, and I hope Vero chokes on the meatloaf...Happy holidays!!

Daisy
 

Just got back to town and finally caught up on episodes -- many thanks to Madelaine, Julie, Julia and Pablo for the three base hits and the score. You guys are awesome!
 

Hope to read the comments as well later on. I hate to miss any of the wit & wisdom.

I'm headed off again on Sunday, but fortunately to the Land of Spanish Language TV on Basic Cable (Florida), so I should be all set!
 

Pablo, I'm kind of relieved to hear that even you miss some details when you are recapping. It's hard to do a recap and catch everything, isn't it?

You never heard that dicho before? I thought about it a lot before the light bulb more or less went on over my head. Thanks for thinging about it and commenting on it.

Daisy, the way this show teases us and then...NADA...I think you are probably right about what Cardenas is doing. His project will be very benign. Maybe he's taken up Ikebana.
 

Well...
I thought I was part of the winking patrol and I didn't comment on the one and only Discua's wink. I got carried away by the squirrel...

Then I forgot to mention Sansón in his Santa outfit, being flattered by Rogelio, who thinks the dog is way smarter than many of the humans who surround him...

But I am happy because we all are part of the whole, and we have the TN covered, frame to frame, all through the ca. 64,000 of them!!
 

Pablo...this was outstanding. Every paragraph and heading witty and clever. But my favorite?:

"Saved by the Belle".

Outstanding use of language. Super outstanding when we take into account that English is your second language. That just blew me away.

Thanks as always for the dichos. You are a rich resource as well as being flat out lots of fun!
 

Pablo, you truly ARE the Man!!!!!
I love the dichos.
I can't stop laughing at: two men falling for Susana, Samson as Santa and the juicy meatloaf. Xochy's need for punishment as a friend.
Since when was meatloaf a holiday tradition???
Although Roger feels that Discua brainwashed Ferny and the lawyer feels that Ferny is brainless, the dummy outwitted them both.
 

Thank you, Pablo! Your best recap yet.

I don't know what planet Alma is from, but I KNOW it's not Vulcan.

"Jesús is there, and we all know what that means, she loves Rogelio!!" LOL! Yep, and she needs to spend as much time with him as possible so that she can remember how much she loves Rog. It's to everyone's benefit, really!

I liked "Saved by the belle," but I LOVED "right there he fell to the floor as tall as he was." That's right, the bigger they are, the harder they fall! Or at least the taller they are, the farther they fall!

Is anyone worried that Susana's drinking too much coffee lately? ;-)

Do we think Vero invited Martha to dinner because she WANTS her to get together with Elias and get him out of Vero's life? Or is Vero just oblivious? (I won't see this episode till this weekend, so I'm just wondering if we had any hint of that?)
 

Julie:

You always, always come up with some good points! I think Vero is never clueless, unless it has to do with Juicy Chucho, lol. I think she is trying to set Elias up with someone to get him out of her hair and Marta is the obvious choice. I know she knows about Maricela, I think, but maybe she feels that Marta is a better choice for him.

Pablo:

Never worry about missing anything. We all miss something and the commenters always fill in, no worries ; )
 

Maybe she thinks Meatloaf looks like a fruitcake? LOL!
Well, she have her traditions all mixed up, so instead of turkey she will start with THE OTHER RED MEAT.

She said that the smell of raw meat was something she was starting to like a lot! She doesn't need to eat Jesús alive, just count how many licks it takes to get to the center!

Also, it doesn't sound like she means other than have ''poor'' Marta, who is not ''lucky enough'' to have ''a family'' to spend Christmas with, over for dinner.
I think is more like ''see how good I am now, I am doing charity'' (and I am eating meat, and it's red).

Martha has relatives but they don't get along. Maybe she, like Alma, can not help herself. She should try to analyze herself into getting her family back. Anyway, maybe is true that therapists are the ones who need the therapy the most!!
 

Hah Pablo...I thought about that too when Marta said she didn't get along with her relatives. Well, I once knew a marriage therapist who had already been divorced twice so what does that tell you?
 

If Vero REALLY wants to be pretentious, she should have GOOSE for Christmas dinner. (Imagine a turkey that's made entirely of dark meat. That's goose! It's INCREDIBLE!)

But goose isn't RED, so maybe it's not good enough for Vero! You can, however, stuff it with chestnuts.

Ugh, Pablo, you are probably right about Vero's motivation for inviting Marta. If Marta can tear her attention away from Eli for a moment, maybe she'll realize what Vero is up to. In any case, I don't think it's customary for therapists to see their clients socially; but in TNs, it's de rigueur. At least for female therapists. But that's not sexist or anything, nope!
 

If she wants to really appeal to the meat-eaters, she should be serving Turducken. With various forms of meatloaf as the stuffing between layers.

And raw meat, really? Raw meat smells gross. I think she's been breathing too much aerosol sanitizer.
 

Maybe tests will reveal that Rohellio got Sebas an inferior-quality black market heart and bribed the doctors to install it since it was good enough to buy him time to court and marry Alma, he thought, and that is why it went bad again, and Alma will no longer feel obligated to him.
 

Ha. Entirely plausible.

Maybe Marta is Yuri's sister, and that's why she "doesn't get along with her family"!
 

Blue: good one!
 

Maybe she's Rogue and Fern's sister!
 

All plausible theories! She's GOT to be related to someone else in the story, right? A telenovela isn't over until the familial and romantic links are a Gordian Knot.
 

Before it's too late, Pablo. I had to tell you. I was rolling on the floor, down the aisle and out the door laughing. The mailman wondered what had happened. There was *No Way* I could explain.

This is as good as it gets, folks, until maybe next week. Every action deserved one of your verbal reactions. Tooo Tooo Funny.

I was out most of the day, so I had to pick my tns to comment on. I can see everybody here enjoyed your narrative.

Don't know what inspired you to start commenting and then recapping, but Amigo, you definitely belong here.
 

Thanks!
I try...
I think it was thanks to PESE and then I saw you had some other TN and since I was starting to watch PEAM, I stayed. I liked the way the blog is done and the rest is history. When I was invited I said yes, hoping one day I could measure up to the pros.

Thanks for the support!
 

Well Pablo, you are a treasure and I'm so glad that you joined the recapping team. Both you and Tablet Jefa were new voices for me.

TJ, had you recapped before? Because your recaps are also a delight. I have had the extreme pleasure of enjoying previous recaps by the other PEAM members and many of the commenters and the more the merrier I say. And it DOES teach us Spanish!