Apparently this blog turned 6 years old yesterday! And I never even started posting consistently until about sometime last year. That’s sad.
Previously on Rebelde Way: Marizza and Pablo agreed to fake date, but Pablo caught feelings and wrote a song for her, and now Marizza’s all twitterpated. Lulu, continuing the tradition of excellent teaching at Elite Way, is going to send the boys to a dance competition and not the girls, because sexism. Joaquin roped Tomás into his drug-dealing operation, which Tomás was too dumb to see coming until it happened. And something’s wrong with Nico’s dad (again, some more).
You know, it occurs to me that one of the things I love about Rebelde Way is that it’s like three completely different genres crowbarred into one show. Like, on the one hand you have your standard revenge/romance telenovela, and on the other hand you have “completely different teenagers come together through the power of music”, and then on a third hand, you have rich teen drama, like a low-budget Gossip Girl. It’s a glorious mess, and I love it.
So, opening monologue: Just kidding! We have another cold open! This is some dramatic shit. We watch Nico freak out about his dad again, and then we get to the opening monologue. You have to let the people you love know you love them, because you might only have today with them. Well, that sounds…anvilicious.
Mama Provenza tells Nico that his dad had another heart attack, and they run off to a private clinic where he’s being kept. Manuel and Marizza want to go and comfort him (Mia and Pablo are like, “Yeah, we don’t care that much about Nico.”), but only Manuel gets permission to go. Sonia, still on her responsibility kick, wails that Marizza can’t be let out of school by herself or she’ll get a panic attack and DIE. Marizza snarls that she’ll find a way out somehow (she doesn’t, though), while Luna cries over how sad Nico’s life is.
Mansilla rolls into the main office and sees Lulu, like, pretending to be Gloria at her desk or something. Just kidding, she has to use Gloria’s computer because she “[doesn’t] have one at home.” What year is this? Lulu’s not rocking a desktop computer running Windows XP that she has to share with everyone else in the house? Oooh, or one of those sweetass multicolor iMacs? Anyway, Mansilla tries to ask her out for coffee so they can work out whatever her damage with him is, but she snaps at him to back off. Mansilla’s like, “Someone at this school DARES TO NOT LIKE ME? This will not stand!” Seriously, let it go, Mansilla. He’s all like, “Why don’t you like me? EVERYONE likes me, except people who don’t like me because I’m TOO heroic and good at my job! Seriously, if you’re a nice character, you gotta like me, it’s the law.” Finally Lulu snaps at him that she doesn’t like when married people fuck around. “I’m not married,” Mansilla derps. “No, but your friends are,” she says, and storms off. Mansilla’s all confused, like he’s somehow forgotten about Dunoff’s wife perving on him every time they meet.
Nico goes to the clinic with Mama Provenza, where she cries over how sad Tatiana must be because she’s so close to Nico’s dad. Nico’s like, “Uh, I’m also sad, Mom.” They get an ominous call from some person telling them that it’s gonna cost hella money to keep Papa Provenza in this private clinic, and the Provenzas are aaaall out of money.
Back at school, everyone’s gossiping about Nico’s dad, except for Pablo and co. In their room, Tomás leaves the conversation and shiftily says that he’s gotta go give SOMETHING to SOMEONE in FIFTH YEAR. Don’t ask him who or why! Pablo and Guido are like, “Okay, we won’t.” Guido asks Pablo what’s going on with him and Marizza, and Pablo’s like, “We’re fake dating, don’t you read fanfiction?” Speaking of Marizza! She barges in and kicks Guido out (he leaves his own room without much of a fight, heh), and tells Guido that they’ve gotta help out Nico. She convinces him to give Nico the band’s money to pay for Papa Provenza’s clinic stay, so they just have to find a way to get out of the school and give it to him. Marizza actually mentions that they should give it to Manuel (who already has permission to come and go as he wants), but they don’t, because Manuel does not actually show up at all in this episode for some reason.
Mia tells the girls about Lulu screwing them out of the dance competition, and the girls are appropriately shocked and appalled. Nevertheless, they roll over and take it after about five seconds. “I guess that’s that,” Feli says morosely. Mia’s like, “Aw, hell no, it’s not over yet!” She charges Feli with taking the rest of the group and complaining to Dunoff, while she’ll get Mansilla involved. ~*~Rebelde~*~
Marizza calls Sonia and asks if she can get permission to visit Nico. Sonia refuses. Marizza’s like, “You’re not letting me do whatever I want? WEIRD.” She snaps that she’ll find a way to sneak out and hangs up. Cutely, Pablo hears this and is kind of like, “Ay yo I got u”, and calls Papa B. I think this is the first time calling Papa B was actually the solution to a problem. Papa B shows up to the school and signs Pablo out all, “I came to see you, my favorite child! Here, have some money so you can take your lady friend on a nice date, because I’m fucking with you emotionally.” Pablo’s like, “Well, I’m actually gonna go see my friend’s sick dad” and Papa B’s like, “Haha, but really. I know where you’re going. For real. For real for real.” Pablo’s like, “Ooookay, in that case, yes, me and Marizza are gonna go out and bang.” Papa B’s like, “Way to go, have some more money.” Heh.
At the clinic, Mama Provenza is still crying over Papa Provenza. Some heartless nurse rocks up and is like, “You dudes gotta pay up right now or we’ll kick you out. I am completely expressionless.”
Her face looks like this the entire scene.
Admittedly, she does rightly point out that Papa Provenza could stay at a regular hospital. I don’t know if Argentina has universal healthcare or not, because even the Wikipedia summary on it is really confusing, but it’s probably less expensive than a fancy clinic. Mama Provenza and Nico fret.
Mia finds Mansilla to complain that the boys get to go a dance competition and not the girls. Mansilla’s like “Bwuh?” and Mia snaps at him not to pretend like he doesn’t know what she’s talking about. “You know everything that goes on here!” Heh. Mansilla rolls off to get his righteous anger on with the administration, again, some more. Meanwhile, Feli’s mission to talk to Dunoff fails hardcore: they ask Gloria to let them in his office and she’s just like, “Have you met me? I am going to cockblock you from that door forever.” Blas shows up and is needlessly dickish to all the girls, except Mia, who he hits on some more after the rest of the girls leave. GROSS.
I HATE HIM FOREVER.
Luna cries in the cafeteria because she doesn’t have permission to go see Nico. She wails to Sandra that she wants to be by his side — not because she LIKE-LIKES him OR ANYTHING, she’s just super sad for him and needs to be near him! Sandra, against her (and everyone else’s) better judgement, gives Luna permission to go.
Sonia’s dressing room. She’s all like, “Yo Pepa, are we still successfully fucking up Papa C’s life” and Pepa suggests that Sonia should just like…let it go. Sonia snarls that she has to have THE LAST WORD with Papa C, and I gotta remind you that this whole thing started over Dunoff. Sonia don’t love herself. Then she calls Manuel to ask him where Marizza is. Manuel, being in some indeterminable location away from the rest of the main characters, tells her that she’s not with him. Sonia immediately assumes that Marizza’s busted out of school and runs off to go make a big deal out of it, and possibly hit on Dunoff some more.
Pablo arrives at the clinic and hands the check over to Nico, who has a meltdown of gratitude. Pablo pats him on the shoulder and is generally being really nice to him. He even gives him Papa B’s cash as well as the check. Who is this person and what did he do with Pablo? Nico runs off to go give the money to his mom, and Pablo hangs back in the room and waits for him. Some guy comes in and cheerfully introduces himself as the Provenzas’ rabbi. Pablo freaks out: a rabbi? Like, the kind Jewish people have? Scare chord! When Nico comes back, he finds Pablo chilling with the rabbi, and Pablo glares at him all angrily. Oh, I see, Pablo was just being nice so we could watch him turn back into a dick after finding out Nico is Jewish. That’s harsh.
Mansilla asks Sandra why Lulu doesn’t like him, and what she thinks he should do to MAKE Lulu like him. Mansilla’s getting a little creepy with this, I must say. So when Lulu comes in, Sandra starts talking up Mansilla like she’s his wingman or some shit. Then she spills Luna’s entire life story to Lulu for some reason, while Mansilla comes in and brings Cata some textsbooks. Cata looks at him all confused like, didn’t we stop caring about that ten episodes ago? Mansilla’s like hell yeah we got forty minutes per episode to cram shit in, we’re bringing this plotline back! Sandra’s like, “Look, he uses his free time to help pathetic high school dropouts! Can you dig it?”
Gloria tells Dunoff that Blas is being a total dick, and Dunoff’s like, “Yeah, but what can we do?” Then Sonia comes running in, wailing that Marizza snuck out of the school. Gloria and Dunoff are just like, “Again?” Heh. Of course, if they’d bothered to check, they’d see that Marizza is sitting in history class with everyone else, but then Sonia wouldn’t have a reason to run around like a chicken with its head cut off for the next half hour. Anyway, in class, Marcos bumps into Hilda and she hella overreacts and starts insulting him. Man, I had a teacher like that too, in the seventh grade. She told us we were annoying and should go play on the freeway more than a couple of times. And then she was shocked that we didn’t like her all that much. Marizza sticks up for Marcos as always and snarks on Hilda’s appearance. Hilda, who can dish it out but can’t take it, gets all offended and sends Marizza to Dunoff’s office.
Thinking that Sandra’s thawed Lulu out some, Mansilla rocks up to her and suggests that she should find a way for the girls to compete too. “Everyone has the right to participate,” he tells her. Right on, Mansilla. Lulu’s all “WHATEVER” super snippily. Sandra and Cata watch from the counter and are like, “Well, this isn’t working.”
The clinic. So the band money has saved Papa Provenza from immediate eviction, but NOW he needs an operation and they can’t pay for it. Drama! In the midst of this, Luna shows up. She and Nico are fairly non-awkward around each other; he sniffles about how scared he is and she comforts him. They stare dramatically at each other because they’re still in love, blah blah blah. Nico cries that the worst part of it all is, now he’ll never be able to apologize to his dad. He finally tells Luna that he’s Jewish (to which her response is, “And I’m Christian, so what?”), and wails that he betrayed his dad by lying about who he is! He was afraid of discrimination, but he shouldn’t have tried to hide his family. Luna beams and tells him that the important thing is that Nico’s ready to tell the truth now. She leaves and Nico is all aflutter. He still has no money for his dad’s operation, but I guess that’s forgotten now.
Dunoff’s office. Sonia and Marizza argue, as usual. Marizza doesn’t think she should apologize, and asks Sonia what she should do about Hilda’s abusive, power-mad ways. Sonia’s like, “I think you should talk to Dunoff and listen to what he says, because he is a bastion of wisdom and good judgment.” Marizza’s like, “Are you new?”, but has to go in to talk to Dunoff anyway. Papa C rolls up and snarks that Sonia’s looking remarkably healed. Gloria, in the background, is all awkward because you’ll recall that she thinks Papa C has a thing for her. Dunoff comes out with Marizza, and says that she’s going to make a public apology to Hilda. I bet she won’t, though.
Cafeteria. Pablo tells his lunch table that Nico has been Secretly Jewish all along; everyone gasps in horror. Well, not really, but they’re all like, “No WAY, having a Jewish classmate is some MIND-BLOWING shit.” The only one who doesn’t freak out is Mia, bless her. She says that she doesn’t see why Nico being Jewish is such a big deal, and she’s sad for him because she can’t imagine what life would be like if Papa C died. Oh, Mia, it feels good to love you again. Over at Marizza’s table (sans Marizza), Lujan’s like, “Dude, what Hilda did to Marcos was fucked up.” Guido leans over and is like, “Nahh, we should all make fun of Marcos at all times.” Lujan flips out and threatens to unleash her fists of fury on him. There’s no point to this second part of the scene; it’s just funny.
Pablo finds Marizza in the gym, and they commiserate about their crappy parents. He says he probably wouldn’t even care if it were Papa B in the hospital. So emo! He’s brought his guitar along with him for contrivance purposes, and tells Marizza that at least they’ll always have music. Marizza’s like, “Soooo…were you thinking about ~someone~ when you wrote that song?” He says no, but it is dedicated to her. Marizza is all twitterpated.
Lujan gets a response from her tutor about Blas. Whatever it is, it’s ~shocking~.
Lulu and Mansilla take their problem to Dunoff and he’s like, “Dang, I have enough issues with all the kids fighting, and now you two?” He also calls Lulu “Lucia” and she tells him to call her Lulu. Dunoff’s like, “Ohohoho, I suppose I will~” all pervy. Ick. But before they can get anywhere, Gloria interrupts them and says it’s time for Marizza’s public apology to Hilda. Which…Dunoff has to be there for, for some reason? They all rock into the lounge, and everyone’s gathered to hear Marizza apologize. You know it’s not gonna happen though, because “Bootylicious” starts playing in the background. Sure enough, Sonia storms in and is all like, “Hey, NOBODY makes MY daughter apologize for anything!” Marizza is smug.
Clinic. Nico sits at his dad’s hospital bed and is about to confess everything to him, but then his dad’s heart monitor starts going crazy. Papa Provenza goes into cardiac arrest and dies while Nico’s screaming for someone to get in there and help. Dang, this is genuinely traumatic.
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