Caray, Caray!

Pablo:

So very funny! Loved this whole recap.

I just knew Chatita would figure out that Marcia was really Martha. Chatita has good instincts that is for sure.

I think Rogue is going to make a very bad impression on Tracy. He really doesn't have a clue what is going on at Avon, only Alma really knew, and now Chucho of course. Can't wait to see who Tracy is.

I had to laugh at Val's little continuing game with Roger. I liked the itching powder and also the setting the alarm ahead. Didn't like that Moronica was so very mean to Val. I hope Val tells Chucho all.

That electronic bebe thing is strange. Xochi is so not into that, and Ferny actually looks like he is trying, I really wonder where this is going to go. I had to laugh at the secretaries when they were trying to figure out when Xochi was preggers.

Can't wait to see what Tracey does at Avon and if someone checks on Marcia in the manicomio. She doesn't look well at all!
 

Thanks, Mads.
It looks so much better with the corrections.

Yes, I want to see Tracey taking off her shoe to rub her feet against Jesús' leg, a very old trick indeed! so cliché, anyways, what did we expect? The monkey from CI can not do everything now that he is back in the plot!!
 

Great recap, Pablo. I especially liked your titles and multi lingual approach!

One thing that I am finding particularly annoying
is the whole Marta/Marcia subplot. Why Jesus feels like he has to be more than cordial to "Marcia" the twin no less of the woman who kidnapped his daughter is beyond me. Makes no sense. Is down right stupid. She gets to visit at Alma's house. She never should have gotten pass the initial intro at Avon. The real Marcia could not be that stupid? Could she? Guess so as she spends her time in a drugged stupor wondering about it all. Looks like Fernando is joining the stupid club with his electronic baby. Rogelio is a member too thinking he can just "quit" and walk away from the mob. Paty will join him there stupidly, too, since she is clearly smitten by him one more time and given some time will probably forgive him the baby w/ crazy Veronica. Just too much stupidity going around for any of it to be funny. Oh well, on to another episode.

Jarifa
 

Ony 35 episodes more to go and that's it. The monkey sure does not know how to fill them up, right?
 

Ony 35 episodes more to go and that's it. The monkey sure does not know how to fill them up, right?
 

Sorry, that was my twin brother Blapo, who is dislexic and with aid of the stoopid captcha, made this mistake. Please forgive him, I am sending him to save the hairy mexican eagle... ushala!
 

Sorry, that was my twin brother Blapo, who is dislexic and with aid of the stoopid captcha, made this mistake. Please forgive him, I am sending him to save the hairy mexican eagle... ushala!
 

Bravo, Pablo!!
I am in agreement with what you wrote- someone please shoot Paty.
I love the piece about Vero, it is so true and I agree, men and diets make me nuts. LOL
Does Tracy look like Alma?? I wonder.
Julia, thank you for your recap, I didn't get a chance to comment yesterday.
 

Pablo and Blapo, thank you for the episode count! It adds a positive note to the locura!

Jarifa
 

Thanks so much Pablo.

I was sad to see that Aida is now wearing the stupid Avon uniform. But why doesn't Julio have to wear it? Hmmmm....

Fernando's interaction with the electronic baby actually made me laugh, as did the confusion from all about just how and when Xochi was pregnant. Perhaps because it was the only comedy in this comedy last night. That, and Val's picapica and alarm trick on Rogue.
 

Nice work, Plabo! Diets are indeed a leading cause of insanity. (And obesity, I suspect.)

Thanks especially for "en Barcelona" (I'd never heard that one before) and "un no se qué que qué se yo."

Rogue's nightmare about Vero's baby with Chucho's face was the best laugh I've had with this show in weeks. Maybe months.

Pablo, believe it or not, it really WAS Marcia's idea to switch places with Marta. For some reason, she didn't consider that something might go wrong. DUH.

So Tuesday's avances with a shot of Mad Marta followed by a shot of Valentina crying really was a deliberately misleading editing trick. Actually, I think I would rather have seen Vale crying because of Marta than because of her own mother, but that's not exactly a surprise.


Hey, I just thought of something. Usually in a TN, if someone disses their mom, it's an automatic death sentence. Does "you're mala" count as dissing your mom if she really is super-mala?
 

I wonder if we'll ever find out the truth about Xochi's father. I'm still thinking about it because supposedly Xochi's mom picked out her sperm donor with the hope of getting a blue-eyed blond child - yet this child was given an Aztec(?) name.

We already had doubts that any part of Barbara's story was true, but I think we mostly suspected that she was lying about the father. Now I'm wondering if SHE was even Xochi's real mother. Wouldn't she have given her daughter a European name?

Unless she really was the mother, but it was the father who picked out the name.

I keep thinking Panfilo could be Xochi's father, from a relationship he had before he met Mari's mother - but I think we already discussed that idea and dismissed it. No?
 

I can't see Panfilo as Xochi's Papa, but I could see Augusto possibly! Wouldn't that be a hoot? Or Sebas, but then again, maybe not. Xochi has lots of brain power and so far I haven't seen an older gentleman with that kind of brain power. That's what I am looking for, cause we know Barbara wasn't great in the brain department.
 

Sperm donors are usually people who do that in order to make ends meet, so I don't see Augusto or Sebastián selling seed. Pánfilo is the only one that we know of, but there's always the element of surprise...
 

Oh, Mads, you're right about Augusto. Statistically speaking, it seems quite plausible. The guy really got around.

I still consider Sebastian a suspect, too.

The only reason I thought of Panfilo is because of Xochi's name. Xochi's name would have been picked out by someone who LIKES Mexican names, and that doesn't seem to be her mother.

Pablo - we're not suggesting these people as paid sperm donors. We're suggesting them as people Barbara might have been involved with at one time, because we are skeptical of Barb's story about the sperm clinic based on this one time when she thought-bubbled "if only Xochi knew the REAL truth."
 

OooohhHH, you mean there's more ''truth'' behind the ''truth''. I forgot about that. So now that Barbra can not tell the real truth only she knew, how would we find that out?

OK, this twist gives for another 50 or so episodes... and another headache!
 

I've also wondered if Barbara could have been a relative of Rogue's (that Rogue doesn't know about) just because she, like Rogue, was so obsessed with DNA. But Rogue might turn out to be a nicer person than Barbara ever was!
 

Yeah, Pablo, that's the problem. The only way this is likely to be answered would be if the father actually knows of Xochi's existence and comes forward. In which case we would have to wonder where the hell he's been all this time!!
 

Pablo and Julie:

You are both so right, but I am like a dog on the scent so to speak. Rogue would be a good candidate as a brother for Xochi, her name means flower right? I've been thinking maybe she was given that name not so much for the nativeness so to speak, but the meaning of the name. Also, the only one with brain power to match hers, other than the DNA thingy like Rogue, is Rico Suave. He spouts poems off at the drop of a hat and also pithy sayings. Xochi has the type of brain that retains trivia, and how things work. Hmmmm... points to ponder.
 

Thanks, Pablo! For the recap and for the education on the dichos.

I think if Barb had gotten knocked up by someone wealthy and successful, she would have milked that for all it was worth. My guess is that Xochi's father is someone who is poor or embarrassing to Barb for some other reason. Or, another possible explanation is that she was raped, possibly incestuously? That is dark for a comedy, but that was the situation in Mi Pecado and was why Lucrecia's mother resented her so much.

The hospital room in Rogue's scary dream had the same ugly armchair as Nick's hotel room!

Can't they get rid of those stupid uniforms? Why do they need uniforms in an office that is for internal company workings and meetings, and not for serving the public? Everyone who works there knows who the secretaries are; they don't need to be readily identifiable to anyone else.
 

Ah Pablo...not mincing words today, are we?

"After this meeting Cantu will need clean underwear."

I'd say only a guy would come up with that, but actually my beloved Cap'n Sylvia Sharkbait would probably say that too! Anyway, it was funny.

Now on what drives women mad. It's MEN. PERIOD.

Here's my reasoning. Women only go on diets because of MEN. Ergo, it's men, men, men who drive us mad in a circular fashion. And we still love you for it!

Took me a mo' to catch onto "en Barcelona" but I love it. And especially love "un no se qué que qué se yo". Can't wait to say it but I'm going to have to practice a lot or I'll mess it up completely.

I watched about 5 minutes of this last night but it was the 5 minutes with Valentina and the itch powder. Plus her incredibly well-enunciated "Tú eres mala mamá." Figured that was as good as it was going to get and turned off the TV.

So thanks for filling me in on all the rest, Pablo. And for making me laugh (which this show no longer does)and for all those useful expressions.
 

I too mourn Elias' passing to Nueva York and yes he was the life-sacraficing chef h-o-t hawt and Gabriel in Zacatillo. White t-shirt and jeans for more than one capitulo what a hoot!
 

And so when Vero told Rai to get the hell out of Dodge, did she walk all the way to Chatita's by herself? Oh wait, Chatita is at Alma's. Where did Rai go ???
 

Rai must know Monterrey's sewer system like the palm of her hand, LOL!
But if Sansón made it from Fernando's apartment to Jesús neighborhood, in the complete opposite of the city, why not Rai who has a opposable thumb?
 

Pablo, Gracias, gracias. What a fun filled recap. I am convinced the recaps and comments are the only comedic features of this neurotic ball of silliness.
 

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Rai has been to Rogue's house several times without any explanation as to how she gets home. It is so bizarre.

I'm remembering how in UFCS there were multiple discussions with Pancho, the limo driver, Chela, etc to explain how people were getting from here to there throughout Toluca. This is the same director, isn't it? Guess he didn't care go through all of that again, but he could have at least given Rai a bike!

Or showed her hitching a ride with Saturnino!

Oh well. 7 weeks to go.
 

I'm guessing Rai must have mastered the city bus system, and the mysterious older brother must keep her supplied with bus fare. I guess the director thought we had enough of these technical details with watching Chucho get around with Val early on, and Maricela's difficulties with having to take 3 buses to get to work. Rogue's house seems like a place that would be a hike from a bus stop, though. Rai should teach Val her ways, so the next time Val needs to run away from her mom, she won't get lost and scared.
 

Well... this is a TN and surgeries are performed in seconds, people come back from the ''further'' and little girls are not afraid of being abducted and sold in Thailand.

In the beginning, when they thought nobody was paying attention, they said Jesús lived in ''TopoChico'' (way up north), but Chatita keeps saying she lives in Nuevo Repueblo (I want to think she is not remembering, otherwise, the continuity lady has a worse problem than Chatita).
The Purple Towers are way down in the south side and Valentina's school was in San Pedro (make that a triangle, which Jesús traveled like he had a sport car and there was no traffic).
Since I am sure Rogelio's house doesn't exist, or better yet, is not in Monterrey, they have not mentioned the area ''where it is located'', but Monterrey is big, has traffic problems and everything is very far, including juárever is in the area we could call ''downtown'' (imagine 40x40 blocks).
Rai better have a good explanation or I am going to start thinking that she is asking old guys for rides in their automobiles...
 

This just confirms my theory that Rai is Hermione Granger, and she knows how to apparate.
 

Before we go to the next episode, let me just mention that the spilling of Cantú's drink during Rogelio's quitting from the mob, it was metaphoric. That inspired me to say that he would need clean underwear.

I can not wait until tomorrow, to dish about Tracey, lusty old woman!