Previously on Rebelde Way: Tomás and Pablo broke up 🙁 Marizza made Mansilla believe that she and Marcos are dating, which will surely lead to some wacky hijinks. Speaking of Mansilla, Dunoff’s wife keeps hitting on him every time they’re in the same room together, so that’s weird.
Also like…in the interest of forcing myself to finish these in a timely manner, I’m going to try (try) to get on a regular posting schedule of Tuesdays & Fridays. Two a week seems fairly manageable, and then I’ll be able to finish this show in *checks* 3 years! Which is better than the 10 years it probably would’ve taken me if I kept being so lazy.
Opening monologue: Growing up means figuring out who your real friends are. This is accompanied by a clip of a shirtless guy surrounded by a bunch of other guys with clothes on, for no reason that I can think of. Are these the fake friends? They do look sort of judgmental.
The kids are finally in a class that isn’t ethics. It looks like some kind of science lab? It’s a really small classroom, I should add. This doesn’t seem safe. The teacher tells them that their grades depend entirely on passing the lab work, to which all the students groan. That sounds like a set-up for project partner shenanigans to me! Weirdly, the teacher mentions that they’ll be covering Avogadro’s number and atomic theory in the same class. Anyway, she tells them all to pair up. Tomás looks sadly on as Pablo and Guido get together. Marizza and Lujan initially pair up, but Mansilla pops his head in the classroom and Marizza remembers that she’s pretending to be banging Marcos on the DL. She smoothes to him that she’s always wanted him for a project partner. Marcos is just like, “OMG, a GIRL wants to hang out with me.”
Class is dismissed after five minutes, as per usual at this school. Pilar is randomly friends with Tomás again, and asks what’s up with his face. He tells her that Pablo hit him, and they walk off together. Marizza is snippy about this for no reason that I can see. Mia and Feli walk by and tell her to stay in her own damn lane, and Marizza calls Feli a cow. Again.
The dance teacher comes in and tells them that the dance auditions will be tomorrow, and she passes out the rubric. That was fast! Mia already has a dance prepared because she’s a cheating cheater, but what is Marizza’s group supposed to do?
Cafeteria. Pablo hangs out with his new bestie, Guido. Oh, man. I know losing Tomás was soul-crushing for Pablo, but he can do better than Guido. We can all do better than Guido. To prove my point, Guido’s like, “A+ beating up of Tomás, bro!” He says that if Pablo really wants to regain his coolness, he has to get revenge on Vico. Oh my God, I thought we were done with this whole revenge thing. But who am I kidding? We’re never done with revenge on this show.
Mansilla tells Marcos that he wants to talk to him about “the weekend”, in front of the entire class. Manuel’s like, “What happened over the weekend?” and poor Marcos has no idea. Manuel points out that the teachers don’t have the right to meddle in the students’ free time. I’m saying! I mean, actually, if they’re getting into shenanigans on campus, then yes, that is very much the administration’s business, but as far as Marcos knows, Mansilla’s just getting on him for not wanting to hang out with a teacher during his free time. Manuel tells Marcos that teenagers have rights, and parents adults just don’t understand. ~*~REBELDE~*~
Sonia comes to visit Marizza, and Dunoff pervs on her in front of God and everybody. GROSS! He tells Marizza about the whole psychologist thing, and reminds her that if she doesn’t give therapy a shot, they’re shipping her off to Italy. Again: Dunoff literally has no authority to send Marizza anywhere. He can kick her out, but it’s not like he can force Sonia to give up custody. Whatever.
Manuel and Nico have their super top-secret conversation about the Society in the middle of the school, as usual. Nico wants to pin the blame on Marcos, for…reasons. I mean, we know Marcos has some kind of violent backstory lurking under his sweater vest, but he’s never done anything particularly shady around Nico or Manuel. Well, anyway. Gloria comes in and tells Nico that his father has had a heart attack. Scare chord!
Guido rolls up to Pilar’s locker and asks her if she can put something in the newspaper. Pilar gets all defensive about how she totally doesn’t write the newspaper, she doesn’t even KNOW the people who do, and Guido should just like, leave the paper over there and someone will find it. Guido’s like, “For sure, I’ve already forgotten that I found out you’re the writer of the newspaper.”
Quick! It’s been a whole episode since we’ve had a dance routine!
Mia interrupts everyone in the main hall with her dance group’s performance. Oh, Mia. Marizza and Lujan legitimately panic, because their routine is actually pretty good, and Marizza also didn’t bother to read the rubric until now. Oh, Marizza. She’s all appalled to see that they have to have costumes, although I fail to see how this is a problem. I mean, can’t she just call her mom? I guess it’s kind of shitty for the dance teacher to demand costumes from a bunch of high schoolers, some of whom are on scholarship, but it’s not like this thing isn’t already a massive show of favoritism for Mia and Marizza anyway, so whatever. Marizza puts her glasses on and says she never gives up without a fight. Woo! Time for a training montage, Bring It On-style! Well, I’d watch it.
Cafeteria. Manuel needles Feli about not actually participating in the dancing part of Mia’s dance group. Could it be that Mia doesn’t want Feli to be in the group? WHY MUST THE COLUCCIS DESTROY EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH? Dude, Manuel, chill. He calms down and says that the thing with Nico’s dad is just stressing him out, and Feli’s like, “Just eat your feelings! That always helps me!” Oh, Feli.
Marcos goes to meet with Mansilla. Mansilla coughs and then starts off with, “Well, you know, for me, love is a beautiful thing.” Oh, God, please stop there. Of course he doesn’t. “But you see, we need to talk about safety.” “The safety of the school?” Marcos derps. Mansilla’s like, “No! DID YOU USE A CONDOM WHEN YOU HAD SEX WITH MARIZZA?” and Marcos gets the vapors and faints dead away. Heh.
Back in Marizza’s room, she tries to training montage her group into shape, but one of the girls has already punked out. An excellent time for Pilar to come in! She’s predictably klutzy, and Marizza’s all appalled that no one’s picking up the dance she’s showing them for literally the first time. Marizza hands the choreography off to Lujan after about five minutes, and Lujan promptly goes mad with power and starts making them do push-ups. Jesus Christ, Lujan, they have to present this dance in like two hours. Pilar trips over a step and Lujan promptly kicks her out. Pilar, naturally, goes running to tattle to the dance teacher, who’s like, “That sucks. Here’s some drugs.” No, for real:
I mean, I can’t judge because I take a Tylenol every time I have something even remotely resembling a headache, but I’m not sure how that’s supposed to help with Pilar’s emotional problems.
ETA: It’s been pointed out to me that those are actually tissues. (There’s a clinking sound when she pulls it out of her bag that made it sound like pills or something, and the video quality wasn’t helping any.) I’m leaving it as it is though, because I really wouldn’t put it past the teachers here to be like, “Pop some pills instead of coming to me with your issues.”
Lounge. Manuel is fighting with the phone, which isn’t working, so he can’t call Nico. Guido’s like, “If my phone had any battery, I’d lend it to you, but it doesn’t, so…no.” Heh. He suggests that Manuel just borrow one from one of his friends. Of course, all Manuel’s friends are poor, and cell phones are the realm of the wealthy, as Clueless has taught us. Manuel has a better plan: he’ll just sneak into Mia’s room like usual and use Feli’s phone. When he waltzes into the room without knocking (naturally), he sees Feli dancing. Shock! Feli totally can dance! She lied to him! Manuel’s all offended, like he hasn’t been lying to Feli since episode one. Also, she’s dancing to “Rock DJ” by Robbie Williams. I have to bring this up because all of this show’s music choices delight me. Anyway, Manuel talks Feli into confronting Mia about being on the dance team. This will go well.
Manuel calls the hospital, but is shocked to find out that Nico isn’t there. The hospital receptionist tells him that they’re at the temple. “What temple?” derps Manuel. Oh snap! Now Manuel knows…that Nico belongs to one of the religions that worships at a temple? He could be Mormon, for all Manuel knows.
Marizza’s group finishes their rehearsal and are hanging out in the gym when Mia’s group comes in to practice some more. Mia tries to shoo them out, but Lujan graciously lets them have the floor. She tells Marizza that this way they can see what Mia’s group has prepared, except…didn’t they already see their performance earlier? Like, in the hallway? Well, whatever. Naturally, Feli chooses this moment to come in and confront Mia in front of God and everybody. She tells them that she wants to dance in the group, and Vico immediately starts laughing in her face. Vico’s so unpleasant. I don’t understand how she became friends with them. Mia doesn’t back Feli up at all, and they leave her on the floor to cry. Dammit, Mia! Why must you make it so hard to love you sometimes?
Pablo’s room. Guido brings him some food and Pablo tells him to fuck off. Guido’s like, “I will never! Not until you learn how to be a man!” Guido is way too invested in this. He tells Pablo that the whole school is making fun of him for getting cheated on, and he has to go fight them to prove he still has a penis or whatever. Pablo’s like, “Ah yes, hello emotional abuse my old friend.” Man, I cannot stress how much this is none of Guido’s business. Anyway, they head off to go confront Tomás at the pool table. All the guys there make fun of Pablo for “wearing the horns” (being a cuckold, which sounds really lame and old-fashioned in English, but idk how else you could translate that). Pablo challenges Tomás to a game of pool to prove his masculinity. There’s a lot of phallic cue-waving in this scene, I should add.
Mia’s room. She wails to Vico that Feli’s making her life so haaaard. Clearly they have to accept her — except clearly not so clearly, since they’re in here debating what to do — but she so obviously doesn’t fit in! WHAT DO. Vico’s like, “Let’s just ice her out until this whole thing is over, problem solved.” Mia spinelessly goes along with this plan. Mia! Why do you do this to me?
Back in Marizza’s room, she and Lujan pat themselves on the back for not being shallow like Mia, although you’ll notice they didn’t invite Feli to join them either. Marizza calls her a “poor elephant.” It’s kind of hilarious how completely un-self aware she is. Anyway, Marizza comes up with a brilliant idea for their routine, but before she can put it into effect, Gloria pops up to remind her about her therapy appointment. Uh-oh! How will Marizza go to therapy and pull off her dance routine?
If your answer was “Use Luna, like always,” then you’re correct! Just when I was thinking we hadn’t seen her yet, she comes in just in time to get roped into Marizza’s hijinks. She’ll go to the therapy appointment as Marizza, while Marizza and Lujan rehearse their routine. And the teachers at this school are so incompetent, it just might work!
Manuel’s room. Marcos tells him about his talk with Mansilla, and Manuel has a hearty laugh over his predicament. Then Nico comes in and tells them that there was nothing wrong with his dad; someone just made him think his dad had a heart attack to fuck with him. “Who?” derps Manuel. “I don’t know!” Nico says. COME ON, YOU GUYS. Thankfully, the Society has left their calling card. It’d be funny if they went through all that trouble to torment Nico and he couldn’t even figure out it was them.
Marizza’s room. She calls Pepa and asks if she remembers a piece from one of Sonia’s tours. This is a little bizarre to me, because…does this mean Marizza is just ripping off one of her mom’s performances? Isn’t that cheating? Whatever.
Pablo and Tomás’s Pool Game of Life or Death. Pablo wins and everyone’s like, “Winning a game of pool totally proves your girlfriend cheating on you is no big deal!” For some reason. I won’t pretend to know how teenage boys’ minds work. They all walk off, leaving Tomás alone. I guess he’s doomed to hang out with Pilar again.
Manuel comes across Feli crying and is like, “So did it go well?” Come on, Manuel. He’s pretty decent about it, actually, he lets it be about Feli and doesn’t immediately start crazying about how terrible Mia is.
In the cafeteria, Pablo and Guido bond over winning the dick-measuring contest pool game. All the guys are back on Pablo’s side, especially when they see a new edition of the school paper, which has a story about Vico called “The Story of a Prostitute.” Yikes. I’m assuming that’s what Guido gave to Pilar? That’s really gross of him, and kind of needlessly cruel for Pilar to publish. But whatever. Someone’s put a copy in Dunoff’s office, and some random guy gleefully says that Vico will get expelled when he reads it. And you know what, I can totally believe that, because expelling the victim of a malicious rumor instead of the person who started it sounds like exactly the kind of thing this unrealistic school would do.
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