Previously on Rebelde Way: Feli and Mia figured out Vico lied to them about Augusto, but not before Feli enlisted Marizza to run him off. Hijinks! Marcos’s dad was emotionally abusive to him again, and Lujan’s all invested in trying to fix his life problems. Dunoff caught wind of the school’s illegal drug trade, and decided the path of least effort was just to start expelling people left and right.
Holy God this was a long episode. I’m supposed to be on vacation, dudes. But alright, let’s do this! Opening monologue: I want to be ~*~rebelde~*~, and do things my way. And now I have Frank Sinatra stuck in my head.
We pick up where we left off. Dunoff was just telling everyone that two students have been expelled, and Tomás and Joaquin sweatdrop. Dunoff fakes them out, though, and says that the two expelled kids are the ones from fifth year that Mansilla caught in the courtyard. Everyone’s all shocked, like anyone cares about the kids in fifth year. Dunoff wants to clarify things “before ill-intentioned rumors start running wild.” Ha! Dunoff, your own daughter’s probably already put out a notice in the newspaper. He yells that they were expelled for falling below the “average” (I’m assuming grades-wise), before anyone starts assuming it was about something like drugs, because THAT would be CRAZY. Everyone’s like, “Dude, you can get kicked out for getting below a C?” and Dunoff blusters that this school is all about discipline (since when?) and rigorous academic achievement (since WHEN?), and HE IS WATCHING THEM ALL! He and Gloria storm off, and Mansilla shakes his head.
Some restaurant, which is an entirely new set than the previous restaurants we’ve been at. Papa C’s out on another date with Mercedes, who’s gone so far as to straighten her hair for this occasion. She finally brings up that she’s afraid Papa C will fuck her over again, and he’s like, “I totally won’t,” and she’s like, “Oh okay, we cool then.” Man, I hope she’s less of a pushover when she’s arguing in a court of law. They make out, until they’re interrupted by a call from Mia. She cries that she’s not feeling well, but if Papa C’s too busy for his only child, he doesn’t have to come see her. If something really terrible happens, the school will call him. “Or the hospital,” she sniffles. She’s laying it on hella thick, but Papa C agrees to come see her. Mercedes kind of rolls her eyes in the background, which on the one hand made me laugh because it’s so obvious what Mia’s doing here; on the other hand, she doesn’t know Mia’s not really sick, so she’s being kind of a dick about Papa C’s kid.
Vico and Feli come back to the room, and Mia confronts Vico about the Augusto thing. Vico denies it, and they all get into a shouting match until Feli makes Mia choose a side. Mia picks Feli, and Vico’s all shocked. She lied about Mia and tried to fuck up Feli’s relationship, but that doesn’t mean Mia shouldn’t choose her! Hee. Mia tells Feli once again that Augusto really likes her, and she should give him a shot. Feli is all cheered up by this, and totally fails to mention that she already bawled Augusto out and told him never to talk to her again.
Pablo’s room. Tomás is losing his shit, while Guido and Pablo try to calm him down. Guido says that Dunoff expelled the guys in fifth year and Tomás and Joaquin are off the hook. Ha! Guido, that would mean that the plot is actually progressing, and we know that’s not happening any time soon. Tomás wails that he’s never going to be off the hook, and Joaquin’s going to make him his drug mule for ever and ever. Chill out, Tomás, I’ve checked and Joaquin’s not even in the second season of this show. Pablo tells him that they’ll stick with him — right, Guido? “Oh, uh…yeah, I’m with you,” Guido says. Heh. They storm out to get their righteous anger on with Dunoff, and run smack into Papa B. He tells Pablo to pack a bag, because they’re going on a trip to spend some quality time together. And that’s the last of Pablo in this episode! Tomás and Guido leave, much less righteously.
Manuel meets Vico in the laundry room. You’d think he’d be a little less hasty, seeing as some sort of misfortune always befalls him here. Anyway, true to the nature of the laundry room, Vico’s immediately all up on Manuel. She tells him she wants to get back together, but Manuel shoots her down. Vico cries that she feels all alone because she fought with Mia and Feli, and Manuel’s immediately all ready to kick Mia’s ass. Heh. Vico so totally has his number.
Nico calls the clinic and they tell him his dad is doing better. He tells Luna that he’s going to fix everything with his mom and stay at Elite Way and fight for their relationship, blah blah promises that I’m sure will be broken in two episodes blah. They make out.
Predictably, by the time Papa C arrives, Mia’s miraculously recovered. She needles him about where he was, and he finally admits that he was having dinner with someone — but not like, an attractive female lawyer someone. It was business meeting with a very fat old boring guy and Papa C was totally hating every second of it. Totally. Mia passive-aggressively tells him that she’s happy she didn’t interrupt anything important, and they hug while rolling their eyes at each other. Heh.
Feli sneaks into Marizza’s room and tries to wake her up. “No, Feli, don’t eat me,” Marizza mutters. Rude! Or possibly Marizza has to shoot Feli down because Lujan’s already on that duty. ANYWAY, Feli tells Marizza that this was all Vico’s machinations, and she and Mia have made up, but she needs Marizza’s help. “To get revenge on Vico?” Marizza asks, popping up in bed. HEE! But no, Feli just wants Marizza’s help getting Augusto back. Marizza’s like, “No revenge, not interested.” They have some mildly funny back-and-forth, and finally Marizza leaves a half-asleep message on Augusto’s answering machine about how Feli still loves him, and Lujan wakes up and kicks Feli out.
The next day. Luna is waxing romantic about Nico to Marizza and Lujan, who are a little disturbed. “Doesn’t it bother you just a little that he’s going around with another girl?” Marizza asks. “No,” Luna says. Oh, Luna, learn to love yourself. But on the topic of guys who are emotional disasters, Lujan sees Marcos through the classroom window and gets all weepy over him. Bizarrely, even after like twenty episodes of this, Luna and Marizza still haven’t picked up on Lujan “Fists of Fury” Linares getting emotional every time she sees Marcos. Still, she makes Marizza go talk to him. Marizza asks what happened with his dad, and Marcos shrugs and says it was the usual. “Anything you want to talk about?” she asks. “No,” he says, and walks off. Heh. Marizza is all pissed that he dared to blow her off.
Cafeteria. Feli cries some more over Augusto, and Mia’s like, “To be fair, this is kind of your fault for listening to Marizza.” Heh. She says she’ll only help Feli if Feli promises never to speak to Marizza again. “But we’re in the band together,” Feli points out. “That’s singing, not talking,” Mia snips. Knowing Feli, she’ll probably take that literally and start singing everything she has to tell Marizza, like this is an opera. That’d be funny for like the first two minutes. Anyway, she promises not to talk to Marizza.
Classroom. Fernanda, Belen, and Random Amanda are back to their usual schedule of hanging around Guido and Tomás, hoping for more than two lines per episode. Joaquin motions Tomás out of the room, and tells him that they can’t deal drugs inside the school anymore, but now they can move their operation out of the school and make much money! As usual, Tomás futilely tries to get out of Joaquin’s clutches, and Joaquin reminds him that he’s already sold Tomás out, and he’ll get Tomás expelled for real this time. Poor dumb Tomás.
Hallway. Manuel comes storming up to Mia and starts yelling at her about Vico. “Are you done?” she asks. “I AM NOT DONE!!!” he yells at her. Yikes, calm down. “Who do you think you are, the Aztec Avenger?” she asks, just as the econ teacher rolls up and catches them fighting. Manuel sniffles that Mia has a problem with Mexicans and keeps calling him an Aztec, and oh, how it hurts his feelings, he may even write a strongly-worded letter! Econ teacher gets all nervous and tells Manuel that they’re not all racists (I think Nico would disagree), and tells Mia she can either write a twenty-page econ paper, or she can apologize to Manuel. Mia chooses the paper. Hee.
Mansilla calls Papa C and Sonia in to work out their issues, and suggests that they exchange parenting ideas so they can figure out where they’re coming from re: their children. I mean, that would require Sonia to have any kind of consistency with regard to Marizza, and for Papa C to actually spend time with Mia, but nice try, Mansilla. Mercedes calls Papa C, and Sonia eavesdrops on the conversation.
“Hi, Pablo, it’s Tomás. Please come back to school and help me, Joaquin is making me sell drugs outside of school now.” It’s a good thing Tomás was so specific in his message, because Nico walks by and overhears the whole thing.
Econ class, which is like the only class these kids have anymore. Econ teacher busts Mia reading Sonia’s background check on Mercedes instead of paying attention in class, and she BSes about how they shouldn’t be letting foreigners (especially Mexicans!) into the country. Manuel listens to this with a weird lack of expression, which could be ominous, or maybe just bad acting. After class, Marcos rolls up and is like, “Marizza, it was hella rude of me to not tell you everything about my dad’s visit. I forgot I’m obligated to tell you all the details of my personal life,” and they run off so he can tell her about his dad. Lujan watches them sadly.
Cafe with the weird paintings. Mama Provenza tells Nico that now that his dad is on the mend from his heart attack, he can’t have any stress at all. You know, I think I had more than a couple of YA books where “keeping something important from someone who just had a heart attack” was a major plot point. Is it that common? Anyway, they’re just going to pretend Nico never wrote that letter, and they’ll pull him out of Elite Way and everything will be fine. Nico hesitantly tells her that he wants to stay at Elite Way, and she’s all like, “This will kill your father! The only thing that could make this worse is if you’re going to break up with Tatiana!” Nico’s like, yikes.
Marcos tells Marizza about his conversation with his dad, and she tells him that Papa Aguilar’s visit was a good thing: “He came because he cares about you, not about your brother who’s dead, buried, and being eaten by maggots!” Tactful! Marcos is into it nevertheless, and Marizza tells him to stop trying to be so perfect and start being ~rebelde.
Papa C and Sonia finish writing their essays on child-rearing. Mia comes in to greet Papa C, and Sonia sneaks off with his cell phone. She asks some lovestruck teenage boys how to figure out what number was last dialed, and they fall all over themselves to help her. Ah, the days before you could lock your phone. Meanwhile, back in the teachers’ lounge, Papa C refuses to listen to Mia once again when she tries to tell him Manuel is a weirdo. I can’t wait for Manuel to finally try to stab him, and then he’ll have to eat his words.
Manuel tells Feli that he’s sick of the way Mia treats everyone, especially what she did to Vico. Feli’s like, “Vico said what?” and sets him straight on the whole Augusto thing. Manuel is shocked, for some reason. Apart from when they dated for 2.5 seconds, has Vico ever been nice to him or any of his friends? Ever? Anyway, Augusto shows up and he and Feli make up. He tells her not to worry about Vico, and they agree to meet up at the school on Saturday.
Joaquin takes Tomás to some bushes in the school courtyard and passes him some more drugs. Oh, when he said they were going to start dealing drugs outside the school, I thought he might have meant metaphorically, to people other than students. As usual, I was overestimating this show. Also as usual, Joaquin passes his drugs right in front of another student. In this case it’s Nico, whose Boy Detective senses start tingling. And I wrote that before the show started playing the Spiderman theme song. Ha! Tomás like, tries to shove the drugs under another bush, catches Nico watching him, and Nico has to like, flip and roll on the ground out of sight. This whole thing is hilarious.
Mia finds Sonia in the cafeteria, and the two of them put on a big fight in front of Marizza, while muttering to each other that they need to meet up to discuss Mercedes further. Cata watches their bad acting, amazed that anyone is buying this, probably. Sonia goes back to sit with Marizza, and the twitterpated teenage boys come back and give Papa C’s phone to her. Then Belen comes in and is like, “Quick! We need a dance class scene, because that’s the only time I get to do anything!” Marizza runs off, but makes Sonia promise to turn the phone in to Gloria. The second Marizza leaves, Sonia runs over and tells Mia that she got Mercedes’s phone number, so now Mia can harass her whenever she wants. The camera cuts over to the door to show Marizza, Belen, and some random third girl watching this exchange.
Manuel finds Vico in the science room, and yells at her for lying to him. She breaks down and cries that she just wants to have friends, and a boyfriend like Manuel. I…fail to see how stirring shit with Mia and Feli accomplishes any of that? Anyway, Manuel’s like, “If you keep going like this, you’re going to be alone for the rest of your life.” Way harsh! I dig the bass they’ve added to the sad, ominous music, by the way.
Dunoff calls Pilar into his office to ask if Joaquin’s on drugs. She says she doesn’t think so, and Dunoff’s like, “What do you mean, you don’t THINK so?” Pilar’s like, well until he actually pops some pills right in front of me, I don’t actually know, do I? Dunoff tells her that the fifth year students gave him Joaquin’s name, and Pilar’s like, “How dare they accuse my not-boyfriend! It was totally Tomás!” Does anyone even like Joaquin anymore at this point? Are he and Pilar just some sad outcast couple? Just wondering. Anyway, Dunoff muses over the coincidence of Pilar and Joaquin both naming Tomás.
Some new substitute teacher comes in and asks them to turn in the homework. The class lies and tries to convince her that they didn’t have any, and she snaps that she totally knows that they did, but now she doesn’t want it, and they all have to write her a paper instead. She’s kind of psycho about the whole thing. Marcos, for some reason, decides that the substitute’s assignment is the hill he wants to die on, and throws down his glasses and draws the Rolling Stones logo instead. ~REBELDE~
Sonia comes into the office to see Gloria, who’s killing time by doodling “Gloria Colucci” all over her Post-Its. Hee! But also, definitely a good idea to hand the man in question’s cell phone over to her. Dunoff comes in and tells Gloria to go get Tomás, and she mutters that she has better things to do, like stroking her face with Papa C’s phone. Yikes. She also gets halfway through typing something on the phone when Papa C comes in and picks it up. Gloria tells him Sonia dropped it off, then asks if Papa C got her present. Papa C totally has no idea what she’s talking about, but tries to play it off like he does.
Mansilla is trying to get Tomás to do some garden therapy again. He tells Tomás to talk to the plants, and Tomás says, “What am I supposed to say? ‘Hi, I’m Tomás, I’m going to plant you.’” Hee. Mansilla tries to get Tomás to talk about his feelings, but then Gloria rocks up and says Dunoff wants to see Tomás. This exact thing happened at the end of last episode. I can only hope the conclusion is less anticlimactic this time.
Papa C meets up with Mercedes, and she sees the message from Gloria on his phone. It’s all twitterpated about how bad she wants to bang Papa C, and Mercedes gets all huffy over the mystery sender. It’s weird because the message should look like it was sent from Papa C’s phone, but whatever. Papa C remembers that Sonia dropped his phone off, and jumps to the conclusion that she must have written the message. I guess from first glance, Gloria doesn’t really seem like the type to send dirty text messages and rub cell phones all over her face.
Dunoff tells Tomás that he’s expelling him, because he knows Tomás has been selling drugs. “NOOO!” Tomás wails. I feel bad for laughing, but I did.
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