Caray, Caray!

(Cara de) Well, this explains the cray-cray!
At a glance


-- Adrián’s sainted Pops was never a saint! Bazinga!

-- Mr. Peanut Butter & Slime learns that he has been officially designated as Nuria’s baby daddy! Bazinga!


A closer look


At the beach of silent love and thwarted reconciliation, Paulina had a full two minutes to tell Adrián that she is carrying his unibrow baby but she squandered the precious time talking about the kiss she shared with Camilo and “omitted” to mention. Adrián doesn’t want to hear her anymore: You are dead to me! Shouting out: “I’m pregnant!” would’ve shut Adrián right up but it’s more aesthetically-pleasing to squeeze out a few pretty tears by the seashore while an adorable blond cherub consoles you.



At Consorcio Murat, The Gonz learns that his older spawn is with spawn. He is absolutely outraged: How could she get herself pregnant? Is this how he educated her? Nuria points out that her father has no moral authority to be giving her lessons right now. She refuses to be a single mother when her baby’s father is willing to marry her. The Gonz understands now why his daughter was in such a hurry (premura) to tie the knot! Please, Daddy! Give my baby a daddy and my baby daddy his job back! Treat him right, Daddy! He’s going to be the father of your first grandchild! The Gonz softens up. He heads to Leonel’s office to give the accidental father his job back... and the happy baby news! Leonel is shocked but he tries to dissimulate it as best as he can. The Gonz is too engrossed in his own tirade to notice. He warns Leo that he’s only hiring him back because he doesn’t want his grandchild to be born out of wedlock (fuera del matrimonio). So you can forget about being my trusted employee or receiving any special treatment! Sí me entiendes, ¿verdad? DRINK! And make my daughter happy, you jacka$$!


After Mauricio is taken home, Paulina-waa-waa starts waa-waaing to Camilo by one of her favorite waa-waaing spots: The beachfront promenade. I couldn’t tell Adrián I’m pregnant! He found out you kissed me! He believes I cheated on him! He must think this baby isn’t his! My baby won’t have a daddy! Vitch, please.


At the nearly-defunct marketing agency of Jaime Córdova, Odette quizzes Adrián over his encounter with Paulina. Why did he go to see Pau? Nope. Adrián says he didn’t go to the beach to see Paulina. Jaime’s revelation made him feel awful so he went to get some fresh air, precisely in the very location where his rendezvous with Paulina were going to take place. He encountered Mauricio there and couldn’t leave him alone. Then, something truly unexpected happened, Paulina showed up to the place where they agreed to meet and where Adrián had been waiting for her! What are the chances, eh? Odette wonders whether Pau managed to tell him that important thing she wanted to tell him. Nope. Adrián admits that he didn’t let Pau get a word in edgewise. That woman hurts him and he can’t wait to get the heck out of here and go to Spain, that way he can no longer bump into (toparse con) her every time they agree to meet. Odette’s eyes light up with bunny-boiler anticipation: Yasss! In Spain, you will forget Paulina forever! Niahahahaha!


At Casa Murat, Pau scolds Chelo and Beto for their irresponsible behavior and dangerous negligence.


Back at Consorcio Murat, Leonel asks Nuria about her supposed bun in the oven. Is it peanut butter and Nutella? one of her ploys to get him rehired? Nah-ah! Mi amor, we’re gonna have a baby! This little peanut in my tummy is my father’s first grandchild and a great advantage for the two of us! Leonel pretends he is happy to become a father and form a family with the woman of his dreams. However, in a private conversation with his friend Ariel, he reveals his true feelings. He hates the idea of assuming the paternity of a child he didn’t sire! And to think he will have it with a brat like Nuria, to boot! He has now connected the dots and it is all crystal clear in his mind: That’s why Nuria was so eager to bunnyhop with him! She needed an idiot to pin the baby on (achacarle el escuincle)! However, Leonel recognizes the great opportunity this situation presents him with and is ready to ceize it. This baby is his winning lottery ticket (billete premiado de lotería)! Thanks to him, Leo will manage to put together the jigsaw puzzle (armar el rompecabezas) that will take him from rags to riches. Oh, how Leo is going to enjoy seeing old man Gonzalo eat his words (tragarse sus palabras)! Ariel asks whether his friend will confront Nuria at some point about her baby-pinning maneuver. “Of course not! You must never reveal the ace you have up your sleeve (Nunca debes de sacar tu as debajo de la manga)!” It’s best to let Nuria think she fooled him, then later, once his future is secured, Leo would show her that nobody plays him for a sucker!


At Casa Murat, Chelo is feeding Mau his dinner when Nuria arrives and makes it clear how much she hates seeing the child back at home. “How’s your Ma?” asks Chelo. Nuria doesn’t know because she has better things to do, like organizing the wedding of the century! She doesn’t have the time nor the disposition to play nurse to her mother. Leave that for sweet Paulina! Chelo’s curiosity is not satisfied: “What’s gonna happen with your parents now that La Seño Inés knows the truth?” “None of your damn business and stop being so metiche/nosy!” For once, the whole audience nods along in agreement with Nuria. She orders Chelo to let Mau eat alone and run to the kitchen to fix her a dinner platter. NOW! When the meddlesome housekeeper leaves, Nuria proceeds to tormenting the helpless child. FF>>


At the hospital, Pau confides to Karen what happened with Adrián earlier. Karen tells her she should have blurted out she was pregnant. Pau disagrees because her clairvoyant abilities told her that Adrián would deny being her baby’s father. “I’m gonna raise this baby on my own. Adrián will go to Spain and will never find out!” Vitch, please. She makes Karen swear that she won’t tell Adrián. I mean it, Karen! Swear you’ll go along with my stupid and cruel plan! The topic of conversation changes to Flavio. How does Karen feel about him? She sorta likes him but she still has feelings for Camilo. The Gonz swaggers into the waiting room, a letter in hand. He asks Pau to give it to her mother and make sure she reads it. Pau says she can’t promise the second part.


Pau visits Inés and informs her that the human embodiment of Argentinian Dulce de Leche, Dr. Gastón Mijares, came to visit her earlier. Isn’t he just the sweetest? Yes, he is! *Swoon* Pau hands her mother the letter and Lupita D’Alessio starts belting out one of her tunes for scorned women. Inés tears the letter and instructs Pau to tell her dad that the next time he and Inés talk will be with their attorneys present. Inés doesn’t want to be married to The Gonz for a single day more.


Back at Casa Murat, Chelo breaks up with Beto before they’ve even had a chance to start officially going out.


Flavio closes his entire restaurant to organize a special candlelight dinner for Karen. He doesn’t know what spell (hechizo) she used on him but he likes her and muuucho! Come one, boo, be my boo! Karen tries to let him down gently. Erm... Well, I like having you in my life but it’s too early, yada yada yada. Flavio tries to contain an outburst: “It’s Camilo, right? He’s the reason you’re rejecting me?” Yes, he is! Now can we shelf this awkward moment and get to the awkwarder part of sitting through a three-course fancy schmancy meal with a guy I’ve just rejected?


The next morning, Raquel goes to see Inés and to give Pau a chance to go home and rest. After Raquel leaves, Pau confides to Camilo that her mom is divorcing her dad. Camilo is impressed by Inés’s courage. Pau agrees. Her mother is very brave for chosing to give up the luxuries and starting over. Vitch, please. Start over? Are you tripping? Inés is entitled to half of everything The Gonz owns! HALF!


Later on, Camilo clumsily proposes to Pau: “Let me be the father of your child! Accept to be my wife!” Pau is touched and piles on the compliments: You’re admirable, you’re rare, you have a heart of gold, wait for it, I decline your proposal! “I won’t marry you just to get out of this problem! I won’t do this to you! Instead, I’ll just keep using you as an emotional crutch, giving you false hopes and denying you the opportunity to move on with your life!”


Julieta is rubbing up against the walls of the psychiatric hospital and loudly pleading with her late lamented father to come to her rescue. The doctor witnesses the scene from afar and mentally adds another 3 years to Julieta’s loony bin reclusion.


At Consorcio Murat, Nuria reproaches Camilo for being a nosy parker: “What are you, 5?” She should know since she is the authority on meddling and immaturity. She accuses him of being jealous of her happiness as well as fearing that she and Leonel would supersede him (desplazar) and take away his power. “I don’t know how you do it, but every time you open your mouth, you spit out (escupir) pure nonsense. Besides esteem, what I least feel towards you two is fear.” Sss! Double burn! He walks away like a boss and leaves the overgrown brat seething and stomping her feet, demanding that he apologize to her fiancé! Vitch, please.


Paulina returns to live at Casa Murat because her mom and Mau need her and because homeless life is not going to agree with her.


At Consorcio Murat, The Gonz instructs his secretary to fill the house with flowers for Inés’s return from the hospital. Because flowers have been scientifically proven to cause amnesia. After Paty walks out, Alfonso demands to know why Leo is back working at the consortium. The Gonz tells Alfonso about the peanut... baby. He asks him to assign all the confidential stuff to Camilo and erode Leo’s power little by little. The Gonz adds that this matter needs to be treated with the utmost discretion. He confided the truth to Alfonso because, as Nuria’s godfather, he deserved to know. However, The Gonz doesn’t want his daughter to be the subject of gossip (andar de boca en boca). Sí me entiendes, ¿verdad? DRINK!


At Agencia Córdova, Adrián tells Odette that he has just verified that the university in Spain received all his paperwork, including a copy of his clean criminal record. Everything is A-OK with his scholarship (beca). Odette asks whether he enquired about her application too. Vitch, please. Adrián advises her to call and check it for herself. Odette finds out her application has been rejected because she applied too late. Har har har. (By the way, the “Spanish” accent of her interlocutor was awful, just awful! I dread the moment we get to the Spain portion of this show.)


At the psychiatric hospital, Julieta demands to know when she’ll be allowed out because she has asked her deceased father for help and he refused. I’m a sane person who speaks to imaginary dead people! Get me out of here! The doc asks her if she was there when her father died. Julieta says she doesn’t know. Doesn’t remember. The doc wants to help her remember in a way that doesn’t hurt her: Hypnosis through deep breathing and a slow countdown.


Alfonso tells Camilo that Nuria is preggers. Talk about discretion. “Whaaat? Nuria is pregnant as well?” blurts out Camilo. Alfonso is taken aback: “What do you mean by ‘as wells’?” It’s just a figure of speech, Pops. Camilo changes the subject. He recounts his failed marriage proposal to Paulina. His father feels he ought to take things slowly. Winning someone over takes time and patience, sonny.


Back at the (DIY) hypnosis(-ish) session, Julieta tries to recall her father’s death. She was 18. It was a Sunday and Adrián was out playing with friends. Long hypnosis short, Daddy Olmedo made Julieta promise to take care of her little brother. He then confessed that he was about to embezzle all the money of the Ezquerro business and run away but The Gonz discovered everything and beat him to the punch. The Gonz pre-embezzled the embezzler! Har har har. Julieta begged and begged but Daddy Olmedo fired the gun!


Across town, Adrián has just been handed a copy of his father’s death certificate, which he had requested earlier today. He reads through it and his gorgeous hazel-amber eyes widen in shocked disbelief: “My dad committed suicide!”


A quote from the capítulo 




“No sé cómo le haces, pero cada vez que abres la boca escupes puras estupideces. A ustedes lo que menos les tengo, además de aprecio, es miedo.”*


*Camilo belittles Nuria and Leonel in one fell swoop: “I don’t know how you do it, but every time you open your mouth, you spit out pure nonsense. Besides esteem, what I least feel towards you two is fear.”



Your viewing vocabulario

(these definitions are context-specific, unless otherwise indicated)


premura = haste, hurry, urgency.

fuera del matrimonio = out of wedlock.

toparse con alguien = to bump into someone.

achacarle algo alguien = to blame something on someone. “Achacar” means to blame, to impute, to attribute guilt or responsibility.

escuincle(a) = a usually pejorative term for child in Mexican Spanish.

billete premiado de lotería = a winning lottery ticket. “Boleto” is the more common term for ticket in most of Latin America. “Billete” tends to be used for bank notes. In Iberian Spanish, “Billete” is used for both ticket and bank note.

armar el (un) rompecabezas = put together the (a) jigsaw puzzle.

tragarse sus palabras = to eat your words, to eat humble pie.

un as debajo de la manga = an ace up the sleeve.

hechizo = a spell.

desplazar = to displace, to supersede, to oust, to supplant.

escupir = to spit out, to spew.

andar de boca en boca (andar en boca de todos) = Lit. “To go from mouth to mouth (to go in everyone’s mouth)”, i.e. to be talked about, to be the talk of the town, to be the subject of gossip.

beca = scholarship.



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