The audio in this episode is skippy as hell. I did my best, but damn that was annoying, and it definitely cut out a couple of words in every sentence.
Opening monologue: We have to be brave enough to say how much we love each other, even if we’re scared of getting hurt. Yeah, whatever, they do this all the time.
So Blas is mad at Marizza because she punched him, even though it was the greatest thing to have happened within the past twenty episodes. He drags her off to see Dunoff, and Dunoff’s like, “So you hit a teacher,” and Marizza’s like, “I mean, he physically and verbally abuses all of us constantly,” and Dunoff’s like, “Stop saying words.” Unfortunately for Blas, he does not get to get his punishment on, because Gloria runs in and tells them that Mansilla’s been kidnapped. Marizza feels like a dick for being mean to him now.
Back at Casa Colucci, Papa C has found out that Mercedes is a telenovela villain. And it only took him a hundred episodes! Mercedes begs him to let her explain, but Papa C’s like, “We are never ever getting back together!”
The 13-year-old kidnappers have tied Mansilla up and are pushing him along the sidewalk next to the school, in broad daylight. And nobody is noticing this? The 13-year-olds deserve to get away with it, at this point. Then some woman named Rosario rolls up, and Mansilla’s all like, “Hey, Rosario!” like we’re supposed to know who she is. She tells the boys that she just wanted to talk to Mansilla. Uh, then maybe don’t ask a bunch of disaffected youths to do your work for you.
Lujan finds Marizza in Dunoff’s office, and Marizza reams her out for not consulting her about running away. “I don’t care what you decided!” she barks. Oh, Marizza. And now, enough about Lujan’s problems, it’s time to talk about Marizza. She tells Lujan that Simon’s ex wants Simon Jr. to grow up with a mother figure who’s not an actual teenager, but Marizza is conflicted: a toddler’s future, or Simon’s D? Tough choices.
Mia comes back to see Papa C crying in his office about how he’s going to be alone forever because everyone he loves is dead and/or a telenovela villain. He apologizes to her for not believing her about Mercedes (but not for not believing her about Manuel), and they hug and cry. Papa C says he has to thank Sonia Rey, and Mia’s like, “She’s gone.” They act like it’s totally shocking and there’s no way they can get in touch with her now. Don’t tell me Sonia left the country over Papa C’s love drama.
The 13-year-old vandals are forced to return everything that they stole. The adults — sans Mansilla, of course — are appalled that they broke into the school and stole everyone’s stuff. Manuel’s like, “Don’t you see that they only stole food and school supplies?” They just want to get an education! Or maybe those are the only things you can steal in a school, Manuel. Mansilla’s like, “Give me five minutes alone with them and I’ll speechify them onto the path of moral righteousness!”
Over in Sonia’s dressing room, she totally has not gone anywhere that would warrant dramatically saying that she’s gone. She’s running around shrieking for Pepa, as is her wont. She’s all aflutter that Mercedes revealed herself to Papa C, but then snaps back to being depressed over Marizza. She makes up her mind not to let Marizza go out with Simon. Whatever, like she’s ever successfully disciplined Marizza in her life.
Speaking of discipline, Dunoff makes Gloria lock Marizza in the laundry room. Hee. I mean, I can understand the desire to just lock Marizza away somewhere for a while.
Simon’s ex goes to see him and she’s like, “So I hear you’re dating a high schooler,” and Simon’s like, “If I want to screw around with high school girls that’s none of your business!” and she’s like, “I’d really rather you not bring actual children around to parent our son,” and Simon’s like, “Don’t you ever think about me? MY needs?”
Mansilla tries to speechify the disaffected eighth graders into going back to school and like, not taking shady jobs from random women off the street anymore. They’re all like, “We’re too disaffected for you to change us!” Rosario barks at them that she asked them to speak to Mansilla nicely. Who is this woman, and why didn’t she just talk to Mansilla her own damn self? Dunoff pulls everyone outside and tries to get Mansilla to sign the report on the kids breaking into the school, but Mansilla rips it up. He’s like, “They don’t need punishment! I’m going to invite them into my house and turn them into productive citizens and they are going to LIKE IT.” Oh, this can only end well. I mean, being that it’s Mansilla, it actually will, but I can see several flaws in this approach were you to do it in real life.
Sonia sends Papa C the tape of Mercedes, presumably after it’s been fixed, since we’re in some kind of alternate universe where you can recover information that wasn’t recorded at all. Papa C thinks it’s just Sonia being dumb and refuses to listen to it. I mean, whatever, he already broke up with Mercedes.
Everyone gathers in the cafeteria, wondering what happened to Marizza. For some reason, Vico says Mia is looking for her. Like Mia cares if Marizza is missing, although I guess they’re also some ambiguously close amout of time to their Gran Rex debut. (Note: As mentioned later in the episode, their performance is tomorrow. I hope they’ve figured out a setlist by now.) Pablo’s like, “Marizza’s missing?…looking for her would probably help prove my love for her and all that. BRB.”
Mia goes to flirt Marizza’s whereabouts out of Blas. She mentions that they need Marizza for the band, and Blas snarks that they’d better start looking for a replacement. What? They can’t keep Marizza locked in the laundry room forever. I mean, for one, eventually they have to do their laundry.
Dunoff calls Sonia to the school to tell her that Marizza hit Blas. Sonia’s like, “What the hell, I have to talk to her,” and Dunoff’s like, “You can’t be doing that, we locked her in the laundry room.” Jesus, Sonia, if there was ever a time to get up on your high horse and start browbeating the school, now would be it. But then Simon comes in looking for Marizza, and Sonia BSes that Marizza went on vacation. Simon is suspicious, but accepts this and leaves.
SUFFER, YOU CREEPY DOUCHE.
Sonia realizes that Dunoff has Marizza’s cell phone and is like, “How can you treat my daughter like this! Like she’s a terrorist!” Heh. One time when I was in high school, the dean confiscated my cell phone. Somehow, I don’t think that line would’ve worked on my school. Anyway, Sonia says she’ll accept Marizza’s punishment, but on one condition — and if they don’t accept her condition, she’ll call Papa C’s girlfriend, who’s a lawyer, “and a very good friend of mine.” HEE!
Marizza is storming around the laundry room, kicking shit over. They really should’ve anticipated this when they locked her in there. Pablo comes by to rescue her, but the door is locked and he can’t open it. Marizza is less than impressed.
Simon asks Lujan and Luna if they know about Marizza’s vacation. They don’t, but then they’re like, “Makes sense.” What? What are these two doing? They see Pablo walk by with a bunch of snacks, and Lujan’s like, “You’re gonna get fat.” Hee! Pablo BSes that he’s just hungry and runs away.
Mia brings the money to Manuel, but tries to tease him before handing it over. Manuel’s all pissy and just grabs it from her, which Blas witnesses. Blas is all, “The only one allowed to manhandle Mia is me!”
Gloria tells Mansilla that Renata was pretty worried about his whole kidnapping misadventure. Could it be that Renata liiiikes him? Mansilla’s like, “Did you just say she likes me?” “No, you said that, not me.” Hee. Etchamendi rocks in and says he’s expecting mail from a…Noel Espinoza, it sounds like? Hey, I went to school with a girl named Espinoza. We did stage crew together and every time we lifted a heavy object she would yell, “ESPINOZA!” Sorry, I just remembered that. Anyway, Gloria weirdly repeats Etchamendi’s request in a thick valley girl accent, and Mansilla’s all salty because he’s pretty sure Noel Espinoza is Renata’s boyfriend.
Pablo comes sliding down the laundry chute to bring Marizza food. Romantic! For a second I thought it was gonna be a whole thing with them being locked in there together (man, it’s been ages since anyone made out in the laundry room), but then Marizza asks Pablo to bring her her phone and he just crawls right back up the chute. She asks him to tell her mom and her friends that she’s in there. “And Simon?” Pablo adds. “…just bring me the phone,” Marizza says. Oooh.
Marcos and Lujan muse on how weird it is that Marizza left without saying anything. “You were gonna leave without saying anything to me,” Marcos reminds me. Lujan’s like, “You’re still on that?” and Marcos gets all whiny about how Lujan doesn’t care about him. She tells him that she heard him asking his dad to take him out of school, and he changes his tune and says he just wants to be with her. Even if they have to live under a bridge and Lujan has to catch insects for their dinner! They hug and make up, and then Marcos’s dad walks in. He wants to talk to Marcos alone, and lectures him on his relationship with Lujan and how he’s too young to love, blah blah blah. He thinks Lujan is a bad influence and refuses to pull Marcos out of Elite Way. Marcos is like, “Our high school relationship will last forever!” and his dad tells him that they’re going to take a trip to Europe this summer, and when Marcos comes back, he’ll have forgotten all about Lujan. Europe makes you amnesiac, it’s true.
I like how there are a bunch of screencaps from the show on the wall, by the way.
Sonia comes to save Marizza from the laundry room. She agrees that the punishment was harsh, but reminds Marizza that she shouldn’t have hit Blas. False! We should all hit Blas, all the time. She tells Marizza that she cut a deal with Dunoff so that Marizza can perform with the band tomorrow, but in the meantime, she really does think Marizza should reflect on what she’s done. Marizza’s all confused by her mother actually disciplining her.
Manuel finds out that the envelope Mia gave him doesn’t have the money in it after all. Instead, she’s given him a letter from his mom, telling him that his father wasn’t perfect, but he was still a good man and Manuel should chill on the whole revenge thing. Oh yeah, I don’t know if I remembered to mention it, but there was a side bit about Mia calling Manuel’s family in the last episode. Manuel’s mom tells him that she’ll support him if he comes back to Mexico or stays in Argentina, and she’ll be proud of him as long as he doesn’t stab anyone. Manuel gets all emotional and starts crying all over the letter.
Manuel confronts Mia about his mom’s letter, and is all pissy that she called his mom and messed with his family. She’s like, “As opposed to you stalking my family for a year?” and he’s like, “…that’s fair.” Hee. Mia agrees to give him the money after the show. “Do you not want me to leave?” he asks her, and Mia blusters that she just wants to make sure he won’t ditch them and leave Erreway without their all-important four member lineup. Manuel grudgingly thanks her for the letter and gives her a hug. Dammit, it’s so hard to be mean about Manuel and Mia when they’re being cute. Blas catches them hugging, but Mia covers and says they’re worried about finding a replacement for Marizza.
Mansilla tries to convince Renata that inviting the eighth-grade delinquents into his home will in no way end badly, because they just need affection and Mansilla’s mad teaching skillz. He thinks it’s another way to get his project off the ground (whatever that project is! We still don’t know!) and Renata’s salty because she thinks it was Rosario’s idea. Mansilla blows her off and waltzes out.
Dunoff tells Pilar his personal problems, for some reason. Nobody on this show has any boundaries. He whines about how he has to do some kind of family reunion thing with her aunts and grandma, and Pilar’s like, “Your life is so hard. Plus there’s that whole thing with you and Gloria. Man, they would really love to hear about that.” Dunoff sighs: “What do you want to know about Mansilla’s resignation?” HA!
Pablo tells Marizza couldn’t bring her her phone, and she’s all mad because she wanted to find Simon. Then Pablo busts out some pillows and says he’s gonna spend the night in the laundry room, since they have the show tomorrow. That’s the weakest excuse ever, but God love him for trying.
Peter comes to school to tell Mia that Papa C is hella depressed and she needs to come home before he crawls down a bottle or something. Mia can’t leave, as she’s super busy with the band, and Sonia agrees to go check on Papa C in her stead. He’s all sad in his ugly-ass pajamas, and she insists that he has to go out and party his problems away. He gives in, mostly because she starts stripping him out of his pajamas until he agrees to change. Oh, Sonia. They go out to dinner and she tries to cheer him up and he’s like, “Dang, can you give a guy at least 24 hours to get over his telenovela villain fiancée?” He’s upset that he has such tragic taste in women, and he didn’t trust Mia, either. Sonia’s like, “Well, parents fuck up with their kids all the time. I mean, look at me.” Papa C’s like, “Yeah, but did you ever tell Marizza that her mom is dead when she’s actually alive? ‘Cause Mia’s mom is actually alive.” OH SNAP! Damn, Papa C, that really is a fuck-up.
The band has a meeting, and Mia tells them that she doesn’t know where Marizza is — she tried to get the information from Blas, but he wouldn’t tell her a thing. Did Pablo not tell any of them that she’s locked in the laundry room? All they know is that Pablo said she’ll be back by tomorrow. Why is it such a secret? Whatever. Blas overhears Mia yelling to God and everyone about how she was using him for information, and he’s like, “Our love wasn’t real? I AM SHOCKED!” In revenge, he calls Papa C and tells him to go ahead and have his campaign event at the Gran Rex tomorrow, ’cause Blas has a surprise for him.
Am I surprised that Blas is the one to fuck it all up for them in the end? No, I am not. Punch him again, Marizza!
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