Caray, Caray!

RGV Chick: I've gotten in touch with Kirby. He's doing fine down there in FL.
 

Gosh--Where to start. I'll have to put my beanie on and hope for some Rays of Remembrance to filter through. How many telenovelas have we watched where the consensus was that it or they were beanie moments. Some had to be affixed tighter than others.

Let's just start with Te Doy La Vida--How many brown bottles of some "medicine" or ok, poison have we seen that is administered with droppers. I see the need when infants and toddlers up to a couple of years are prescribed antibiotics and are given via droppers.

But, even the real bottles are not brown or lacking labels and they have great big droppers. Also, I think only tn characters don't taste something "off kilter" when a pill has been crushed into a glass of water or there is poison in a cup of coffee.

Some writer tried to come up with something that sounded right and chose the sedative for horses, which, according to Jimmy, won't be detected in the body. However, as much as I searched on Google for anything that sounded like lexbutrol, this medication is an antibiotic for bacterial infections in horses. It has since become popular as a recreational drug and seems to have a positive effect on depression. Clenbuterol is the closest I could come to something used in horses, but it is for horses with COPD!

The real tranquilizers and sedatives don't have the same sounding name. The recovery rate is within 30 min. to an hour. Some of the stronger ones actually could be harmful and the horse goes through withdrawal symptoms.

Does anyone remember the substance that was found in Rogelio's Del Fuerte cattle and they had to go to extreme lengths to keep from having them all slaughtered? Wasn't it something that ended in "...buterol?"

So much for an UN-Beanie moment.
 

That was meant to be recreational drug and depression in humans, duh.
 

Well, most recently, my beanie popped right off when Julian got hit by a train and bounced back to his evil self in no time.

P.s. Steve..thanks for letting us know that Kirby is okay. I miss his beautiful wildlife and moon photos and his spicy, funny observations.
 

There have been countless beanie moments in telenovelas, but the my all-time favorite tn for beanie content is Cuidado Con El Angel. It had many, but the best:
MariChuy lost her sight and her lawyer hero became Mexico's TOP eye surgeon by studying "en Los United" for SIX MONTHS, performed surgery on her and restored her sight, then went on to assist in her BRAIN surgery to fix her!
Not to be outdone, MariChuy herself then went on to help her arch enemy deliver a baby out in some field ... without even disturbing the tight jeans the woman was wearing!
 

ANONYMOUS 8:57
You took the words right out of my mouth! That was my Ultimate Beanie moment...both the sudden pivot to eye surgery expertise and the birth through a pair of blue jeans scene. Both were mind-boggling. But one can forgive all when watching William Levy walk the beach in a pair of tight white pants, verdad?
 

Steve, thanks for the update on Kirby!

Anita, great kickoff for the “beanie” discussion. Those little brown bottles do seem to get around, don’t they? I too wonder how it is that those being given the drugs NEVER notice a difference in taste. And how odd that these drugs which are non-traceable are so easily accessible! It doesn’t surprise me that you couldn’t find any info on the lexbutrol. There have been several drugs mentioned in the TNs that we can never find.

SusanLynn, what a miraculous recovery! Those run rampant in TNs. I remember how Sebastian Rulli would get tortured, beaten, and bombed in “El Dragón” but always ended up with nary a scratch!

Anon 8:57 and Judy, I didn’t watch “Cuidado con el Angel” but, WOW, that does sound like a “Best Beanie” winner! A surgeon with several areas of expertise, hmmm. I do seem to recall watching some TNs where the doctor/surgeon seemed to be the only one in town. And I can’t even imagine someone giving birth while wearing tight jeans...OUCH for the baby!

One of my beanie poppers is when a protag moves to a huge, over-populated city (like Mexico City) and their obsessed leech manages to follow them and find them...usually within a day or two. That happened in “ Enamorándome de Ramón” when Ramón returned to Mexico City and his ex-gf followed him and found him right away. It also happened in “Sin Tu Mirada” when Doc Mask followed Marina and found her right away too. Those are the two that I can think of right off the bat, but I’m sure there are several other examples.

Another beanie popper— an illegitimate child or one given up as a newborn, grows up and coincidentally works for or is in close contact with a parent who, for most of the TN, makes the child’s life miserable. Example: “El Privilegio de Amar” and more recently, “Me Declaró Culpable.”
 

I get a minor Beanie Moment every time something calamitous happens among our characters on a public sidewalk, street or park and no one else notices. I'm reminded of when Leo the Low gets it in a shootout with his henchmen and the super supermen, all the while, people are still going about their business as though nothing at all was going on.

Or the frustration of watching someone who has been found lying down (for whatever reason or by whomever) and instead of calling for an ambulance, doctor or 911, kneels there and begging the person to respond--and people who gather around just stand there.

Or the number of times we have to endure a doctor's dire prognostication after an injury or sudden illness when we all know the person is going to pull through.

I just realized these aren't so much beanie moments as tropes or plot propellers. Ah, well, same thing, different tn.
 

Anita, "I just realized these aren't so much beanie moments as tropes or plot propellers." Whatever they are, they are fun to read...and I'm nodding all the way through. So an alternate title for this page could be "WHAT POPS YOUR BEANIE?" LOL

The TN that came to mind when I read about kneeling by a "downed" person and not calling 911 was "El Color de la Pasion." There was a whole discussion on how Mexico handles (or doesn't handle) emergency calls. Good stroll down memory lane!
 

It's also odd that in the comments, once a "new" beanie moment is analyzed and dissected ad nauseum, the next time it happens, perhaps in another tn, it is just of passing interest or reason to snark.

We can add the notion that if you faint, you are pregnant, according only to telenovelas. I remember what fun we had on El Tal, trying to figure out if Don Piggorio was pregnant since he had fainted. Great times.
 

Anita, "I remember what fun we had on El Tal, trying to figure out if Don Piggorio was pregnant since he had fainted." OMGoodness, what a laugh that must have been!
 

Oh my favorite beanie moment was Alejandro's (SR) 7-year coma in Argentina where he justs pops his eyes open, looks around, rips the IV out, and sprints onto the streets of Argentina like a footballer ready for action after being in a 7-year coma.

Time jumps are usually just a, "oh here we go again". But that one needed my steel reinforced construction hat from work.

Sometimes I should wear it during complete episodes of novelas though.


 

I wish we could "like" comments on here! These are all funny!
 

Or when identical twins are adopted by different families and don't encounter each other until they're adultes. Mundo de Fieras had that with Cesar Evora as the twins. Does this actually happen in Mexico? It doesn't happen here anymore.

Or the other identicals trope of one being good while the other is evil (or extrovert vs introvert), even when they grow up together.
 

Thank you for this page, Rgv Chick! And thank you everyone for the trips down memory lane.

It has been fun to read all the comments here. I cannot recall any specific telenovela beanie hat moments right now, but the on Anon@8:57 posted regarding CCEA is one of my favorites. I watched that show on and off because it was just so ridiculous. :-)

 

What fun!

Excellent comments all and I love doris' beanie.

Will have to ruminate on this a bit. Long day and I was just able to read Urban's recap.

Diana