Caray, Caray!

• I don't think "Cherubs Hospital" is a good name for a place where abortions are performed. Frida is shown into a room and while waiting for the doctor and looking at all the sharp scary instruments on the stainless steel table she loses her nerve and leaves.
  
  
• Emi invites Alejo to eat at the fonda. Chuy is furious to see him and, seemingly talking about mosquitos, says "We can't let these bloodsuckers in."
  Alejo leaves and Chuy fumes: "He can't just come in whenever he likes." "But you see how happy he makes Emi." Chuy throws her rose on the floor and crushes it, thinking it came from Alejo.
  
  Emi calls his dad, Alejo says: "All the Menchacas hate me, they're envious of anyone with money and power." "But they tell me envy is ugly!" "Everyone has a dark side, son, I'll teach you all about it."
  
  
• I don't recall Minerva getting fired, but it's happened. Tonight Isela has arranged a date - she and Minerva fawn over one of the Editorial Old Dudes. He leaves for the bathroom and while he's gone Isela shakes her boobs very vigorously and advises Minerva to use hers to seduce the Old Dude. "But he's only a few steps from the tomb." Isela: "Let's us marry this guy." "When you say us, mom, you mean you, right?" "No indeed, I mean you. You are the goddess after all. This poor old sucker will fall, we've won the lottery!"
  
  He's still in the bathroom and Isela croons away: "He has lots of company shares and no kids. Even better, he has a weak heart, his days are numbered." "I won't marry a guy who could be my grandfather." "It's our last chance to get rich." "You marry him, Mom." "Horrors, I can't sacrifice my body!" Minerva: "But I should get Johnny Depp, not Methuselah." Don Lauro comes back, apologizing for the prostate problems that keep him so long at the urinal.
  
  After a few more bathroom interludes, the evening is over and the old dude is happy. He asks: "How can you live in this impersonal hotel?" "Alejo took our mansion away and our penthouse is being remodeled." "I'd like to help but I don't know how." "Do you have a guest room?" "Yes! You can stay as long as you want, I'll send my chauffeur for you tomorrow." Score.
  
  
• Tizoc's pal in the band boasts of the huge house he'll buy when he gets famous, right on the beach, complete with gorgeous mermaids.
  
  Tizoc visits Fri's school. I thought these guys were what, college kids? But one owns an antro. ["A Mexican nightclub that usually plays techno, alternative rock, reggaeton, or hiphop. ... a sort of rave environment. ... you only see middle to high class people, dressed exceedingly fashionably, in Antros."]
  
  First the owner guy disses Tizoc but then he says he's had a cancellation... Tizoc and his buddy whistle happily and leave. The guy says Tay will be good for his business. His buddies all tweet up the event and there is a good turnout. There are posters of Tay everywhere. "Tay is dead" says Tizoc but the crowd is yelling for him.
  
  He's not dressed like Tay but his song, "Guerita mas fresa," is a big hit with the crowd. It's the song he wrote for Fri. The evening is a smash success - until Charly shows up and shuts it down. "You can't play until you pay the bills for being Tay. If you try performing again, you'll be singing in jail."
  
  
• Fri tells Mati she couldn't go through with the abortion. Mati says it's time to tell the family, and Tizoc - after all, she'll be showing soon. Poor Frida.
  
  
• At the fonda, Perla complains about doing dishes; she's a queen now and should not have the smell of food in her hair. Lupe and Carm complain that Perla complains all the time. Lupe says this model thing isn't going to happen. Perla insists "I was born to be a queen" and says she will reign over the street fair. She gets a phone call offering her an infomercial. "I need to check with my agent, I don't know if I'm free."
  
  Tomas wants to hear all about it. "There's this beauty product, a fat girl drinks it and then out comes gorgeous me." Perla preens, he pants like a happy dog.
  
  Perla shows up for her commercial which is advertising "Magic juice! Get thin in three days!" Sounds good to Perla, she wants some. Sadly, she finds out that instead of portraying the beautiful "after" customer, she is "Tree #3" out of which the juice pours!
  
  I love her tree suit. She has plastic ferns all the way up to her mouth so it's hard for her to talk. She's getting some of this "super magical" juice as part of her payment. The model who actually did get to play "After" jokes that the best diet is to only eat when there's a full moon.
  
  This situation reminds me of a famous joke which in my band we quote frequently when bad gigs happen (though we have never been asked to wear tree suits).
  
  

  There's a man in the circus whose job it is to follow behind the elephants, sweeping up their droppings. When asked why he doesn't find some other line of work, he replies, "What, and leave show business?"

  
  
• At RP dinner we find out (another missing chunk) Leo can't go to New York for some reason. AS complains about the stroganov. "Rich as we are we can't find a cook, but in the Nopalera there's Carm..." Mike laughs, she misses Carmelita. She denies it. Mati later says "You're mad because you're bored." AS remembers with a shudder that in the Nopalera she even worked.
  
  
• At Chuy's the family is glumly considering Tizoc's dilemma. No ideas come to them except Carm says they can pray to the virgin. Perla: "How about Tomas? He'll do it free because he likes me." Chuy doesn't her taking advantage that way.
  
  Later Lupita tells Carmelita the fonda is so busy, it's time to hire somebody to help, especially with her (Lupita's) situation being uncertain. Her rose of the day arrives. She sniffs it through the plastic.
  
  
• MA is dreaming of Lupita while Mati is trying to talk about juice: the business is evidently going well. MA tells her yet again he doesn't depend on family money. Mati approves and advises him to learn to whistle. When Trofeo shows up with the new juice bottles (the label says Innocence juice or something) it gives MA an idea but we don't know what it is.
  
  
• Perla chugs her magic juice, starts down the stairs, staggers, and faints.

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