The Elite Way election drama continues! Pablo’s been running his campaign while doing his best impression of his mafioso dad, but after being abandoned by half of his friends (read: Tomás) and drinking himself into a stupor, he’s starting to have doubts. Marizza’s trying to bring him back to the light side, but Sol would rather that not happen, as she needs Pablo’s connections to jump start her modeling career. It’s too bad she’s not a main character, because then stardom would just be handed to her without her parents even knowing about it. Life is rough out there for the secondary characters.
Sol wants Pablo to choose between her and Marizza once and for all, and Pablo’s like, “Yikes.” Marizza snarks that he should call his daddy to help him make the choice, but Pablo snaps that he doesn’t need to do that. He flounces off with Sol, to the surprise of no one except poor Marizza, who looks all crushed.
Hey, we haven’t seen Maria Jesus in a while! Sonia very passive-aggressively laughs at her from her car, and Maria Jesus is like, “O…kay,” and keeps walking. Sonia gets all offended that Maria Jesus didn’t say hi to her — even though Sonia didn’t say hi either, but instead was just pointing and laughing at her like a totally normal person — and in her ire, backs up her car and hits Martin “Octavio” Andrade. Martavio, if you will. Uh, why was he creeping behind her car, anyway? Sonia’s stranger danger really ought to be going off, especially when Martavio tells her that now that he’s a teacher, he wants to talk to her daughter. Sonia wrongly assumes that he wants to talk to Marizza because he thinks that she’s a troublemaker, not that that makes it any less weird. She snaps at him that if he pisses her off again, she’ll get him fired. Hmm. On second thought, Marizza’s garbage personality did go somewhere — they just took it and put it on top of Sonia’s already-awful personality and made her twice as terrible for this season.
Pablo goes back to his room and finds a letter from Guido, confessing to stealing the money from Pablo’s campaign. He promises to pay Pablo back. With what money, Guido? Oh, God, please don’t tell me Guido’s poor put-upon parents are still bankrolling their ungrateful son.
Guido has very nice handwriting for a dude. Most of the boys I went to school with had handwriting like serial killers.
Mia has a nightmare about Manuel making out with that fifth year rando. Feli and Vico have to wake her up, while Sol and Pilar are less than impressed with her dramatics. Heh. Honestly, though, I totally forgot Pilar even lived with them. Sol is pissed that Mia woke her up — I would be too, really — and goes up to yell at her. And then I guess she and Pilar have to listen to Mia wailing about Manuel for the next five minutes, too. Mia swears that she’s going to forget Manuel, and from now on, she’s going to be a new Mia. Is the new Mia going to be wiser to Blas’s tricks? I can dream.
The next day, Pablo wakes up to see that Guido’s gone, and Rocco hasn’t seen him, either. Tomás offers the use of his phone to call Guido, but Pablo’s like, “I’ll call him, but from MY PHONE.” Petty!
Lola’s woken up all early to try and intercept Franco. “Why do I have to get up?” whines Bianca. “Because you only exist in relation to my plotlines, duh,” Lola doesn’t say. Bianca tells Lola to give up on Francisco, because he’s never going to love her. Hee. Bianca is mean this early in the morning, and I love it. Lola’s like, “Stop saying words.” She’s convinced that Francisco not-entirely-rejecting her at the party means that he secretly loves her.
Francisco, meanwhile, is all pumped that his matchmaking efforts worked and that Manuel made out with that fifth year rando. Does she have a name? I feel like she mentioned it and I just ignored it. Anyway, Manuel says he doesn’t feel like being in a relationship, but he’s down for making out with her, and Francisco’s like, “And that’s all that matters!” Then he runs into Laura, and she tells him that she’s too busy with schoolwork to go out with him this weekend. Francisco’s douchey ass doesn’t like that at all, and he snaps at her that they made a deal that she would go out with him this weekend. She tells him they can do it next weekend, and he’s like, “But you said THIS weekend!” What a baby. They take their argument all the way into the cafeteria, conveniently where Lola’s sitting. She overhears them and wants to know what they’re talking about. Laura’s like, “Uh, I just made a deal with Francisco, which does NOT involve going out with him, and nobody needs to know about it, so there,” but then Augustina rocks up and Francisco’s like, “Well, I think Augustina would definitely like to know about it!” Laura doormats and tells Francisco that she’s free all weekend.
Mia tells Feli that she’s been thinking, and it is pretty weird that she doesn’t know anything about Blas. “Oh my God, you’ve finally seen the light!” Feli says. Hee. She starts ranting about how Blas is evil and dangerous (and she’s not wrong!), but then Mia beckons Blas over to tell him that she’ll go sailing with him. “…were you just screwing with me?” Feli asks. Also hee! Mia tells Feli that this is part of her plan to find out the truth about Blas.
I feel that, Feli.
Tomás and Pablo have apparently put aside their differences in their search to find Guido, because Pablo rocks up to Tomás in the cafeteria to tell him that he hasn’t been able to reach him. Tomás is like, “Try harder!” and Pablo scrambles off to keep looking. Wow, what an important conversation to have shown us. Then Ana gives Tomás back his homework, and snaps that this is the last time she’s going to help him. I mean, I’m totally on Ana’s side, re: Tomás being a dick, but she shouldn’t have been doing his homework for him in the first place. Ana starts to get her rant on about how Tomás doesn’t love her and all that, but then Fernanda shows up and plants herself in Tomás’s lap.
All the kids go to class (isn’t it a Saturday? Whatever), where love drama ensues. Manuel comes in and Mia promptly starts macking on Diego, because she is TOTALLY OVER Manuel and DOESN’T CARE ABOUT HIM AT ALL. Francisco reminds Laura that she’s contractually obligated to go on a date with him this weekend, and she snaps at him. Marizza’s like, “Is he bothering you? Do you need me to sic Lujan on him?” Heh. Laura suggests that they focus on the campaign instead of her personal life, and Marizza groans that she’s tired of the campaign. Why don’t they just vote now and get it over with? All the kids agree, probably because they’re exhausted from Pablo and Marizza’s 24/7 mud-slinging. Sol protests that Pablo hasn’t agreed to it, and Feli backs up Sol. “Go focus on eating,” Marizza snipes. Ah, the return of Marizza’s fat jokes. After all the compliments I gave her on growing as a person, too! Everyone starts arguing, until Martavio comes in and shuts them down. He jumps at a chance to yell at Marizza, so he has an excuse to keep her after class for a “talk.” Ew, that looks so gross written out.
Papa C is predictably salty that he can’t remove Sonia from the fashion campaign, but then he flashbacks to her saying she wouldn’t leave the campaign for all the money in the world. A lightbulb goes off, presumably.
Pablo goes to Gloria and BSes that Guido’s sick, so he won’t be going to class. Gloria gets all huffy that Pablo’s trying to pull a fast one on her: she already knows Guido’s not in school, because his dad is sick and he had to go stay with him. She wants to know why Pablo was trying to lie, and Pablo sputters that it was a joke. Two seasons of being trapped in a school with these psychotic kids, with nothing to do but file papers and lust after Dunoff have really worn Gloria down, and she totally snaps: “A joke? A JOKE? I am WORKING here!!!!” Pablo’s like, “You need to get laid.” After he leaves, she breaks down: “I do need…a house…and a husband…a couple of kids…a dog…” I do so love these occasional reminders that Gloria’s not mentally stable at all.
Guido shows up to his adorable parents’ butcher shop, where his dad is looking pretty healthy. He’s like, “Hello, it is I, your son, here to help you out!” “Oh, so you remembered you have parents,” Papa Guido deadpans. Heh. Lest we assume that Guido is capable of interacting with his parents without being an ungrateful ass, he tells his dad that he’s just here to make money, and once he’s made enough to pay Pablo back, he’s out of there. And so he’s just gonna go work the cash register or something far away from the meat — “No, no, no,” his dad says. “You’re gonna be an employee, and you’re gonna finish grinding this meat.” Man, I love Guido’s parents. A music montage of Guido miserably smashing the meat ensues, and it is glorious. Guido’s misery feeds me.
Marcos gets riding gear for his jumping competition, and he and Lujan are all excited over his new #looks. Lujan volunteers to wash and iron her man’s clothes for him, because that’s what giiiirls are supposed to do. Marcos says he has to go out and practice, and then Fernanda rocks up and bonds with Marcos some more over their mutual riding connections. Lujan seethes.
Pablo is walking around school in the ugliest shirt known to man. Is he not one of the richest kids in Buenos Aires? He can’t buy a shirt that fits (and isn’t so hideous)? Anyway, he awkwardly tells Tomás about Guido’s dad being “sick”, and Tomás awkwardly sympathizes. It’s so hard, having to be amicable for the sake of the children. Pablo wants to go see Guido, but Tomás is like, “You can’t leave, the vote’s today.” Pablo’s like, “Say what?”
(Dig that pay phone behind Pablo! #2003)
Marizza’s in the cafeteria, busy ranting to Laura and Lujan about the injustice of Martavio calling her out. They’re actually pretty unsympathetic, perhaps because they’re becoming wise to her behavior. Then Pablo runs in to yell at her about changing the election date to today, and Marizza’s like, “What, are you scared of losing?” Pablo blusters that he SO ISN’T, and Marizza’s like, “Well then, having the elections today should be fine!” and Pablo’s like FINE, and Marizza’s like FINE! I would definitely trust these two to run the school for me!
Gloria tells Dunoff that she’s made some inquiries as to what happened between Etchamendi and Bustamante. Dunoff’s like, “Do tell!” and Gloria’s like, “Well, I talked to this secretary, idk her name, we’re like not really friends, and she didn’t tell me much, but I kind of found out a little, which is that Etchamendi and Bustamante…EAT LUNCH TOGETHER.” Dunoff’s like, “No way!!!!” Gloria promises to find out more information so that Dunoff will love her.
Papa C comes to see Mia at school. He tells her that he’s off on another business trip. Dammit, Papa C! I’m starting to feel abandoned! He asks her how things are going with Manuel, and she mutters that she doesn’t want to talk about it. Papa C’s remarkably blase about blowing that topic by, and he’s like, “Okay, whatever, the dude lives with us and all, but I guess it’s none of my business.” Instead he shows Mia the ad campaign with Sonia, and asks her to convince Sonia to back out of the campaign. What? He really thinks Mia, Sonia’s #1 fan, is going to do that for him?
“The years pass, but the mistakes are the same,” Hilda sighs, grading papers. HEE! Blas rolls in to the teachers’ lounge and tries to threaten her over her talk with Dunoff. “I don’t like when people go behind my back,” he tells her. He snaps at her that next time she has a problem, she can say it to his face. “If you’re done, I’m working here,” Hilda snipes. Ha! Dismissed, Blas! He tries to smug his way out of the conversation with a dig about how they ~understand~ each other now, and Hilda doesn’t even look up from her papers. Then Carmen comes in, and Hilda tells her that she saw what she saw: Blas and Mia in an inappropriate situation. “It’s the student’s fault,” Carmen says immediately. We already knew defending pedophiles was one of her hobbies, so whatever. Carmen starts ranting about how pretty girls think they’re better than everyone, and they think they run the world, and she clearly has never gotten over being bullied in high school. Hilda’s like, “Oooookay,” because she is awesome.
Marizza goes to yell at Martavio that she’s not going to let him punish her. “I’m not going to punish you,” Martavio says, all surprised. Marizza’s like, “Okay, then what’s this about?” “You’ll see,” Martavio says, and then he grabs her and drags her off. Not creepy at all!
Lola interrupts Laura’s studying, and wants to know what Laura agreed to with Francisco. Awkward. Laura tries to blow her off, saying it’s between her and Francisco. “If it has to do with Francisco, it has to do with me, because I’m in love!” Lola wails. Yikes. Laura sighs that fine, she’ll tell Lola the truth, and only the truth: if Francisco agreed to pretend to be Lola’s boyfriend, Laura would…do his laundry for a month. Yup. That’s totally what happened. Lola heaves a huge sigh of relief. She’s like, “Omg, I’m so glad you didn’t agree to go out with him or anything, because THAT would have been really upsetting!”
Martavio hauls Marizza into Dunoff’s office and makes a big deal out of her behavioral problems and how he really needs to have a talk with her dad, and only her dad, and if Marizza could tell him everything she knows about her dad right now, that would be awesome. Marizza snaps that it’s none of his business where her dad is.
Manuel’s fifth year rando gushes over Erreway to him, because like everyone in this entire school, she looooves Erreway and has tons of their posters! Oh, so they’re selling posters with their faces on them, and their parents still don’t know what they’re up to? She tells him she’s seen them perform a few times, and Manuel wonders why he’s never seen her. “Oh, that doesn’t matter,” she says. Uh-oh, my stranger danger is going off. Manuel looks a little weirded out that he’s dating a fangirl, but then he’s like, “Whatever, she’s hot.” She wants to know when Erreway’s getting back together, and Manuel shrugs that he doesn’t think he’s going to go back to the band, seeing as they have more personal problems than ABBA. The fifth year rando is like, “But you have to!” See, even she knows that Erreway must always have four members. She tells him that they can overcome their personal drama with the power of music — her mom used to sing, so that’s how she knows that music heals everything.
Mia very subtlety comes out and asks Blas how the fuck he has enough money to buy a boat. He BSes that he’s just boat-sitting for a friend and runs off in a hurry. Mia is suspicious, as she should be.
Hilda goes creeping around, looking for…evidence of Blas’s wrongdoing? It’s unclear. She looks in the cupboard under the stairs, but all she finds is Manuel and the fifth year rando making out. She’s all, “I demand an explanation!” Dang, Hilda, idk what they can tell you. Hilda hauls them off to Dunoff’s office to get their hormones under control.
Lola tries to invite Francisco to Marcos’s jumping competition, but he blows her off hella rudely. Francisco goes off to chat with Laura, and he’s super smug about having maneuvered her into spending time with him. He’s being pretty douchey, I must say. Laura’s clearly uncomfortable around him, but he keeps rubbing their agreement in her face, plus he was unnecessarily mean to Lola. He’s yanking these two around like a total dick. Their uncomfortable banter is interrupted by Lujan, who tells them that the voting is about to begin.
An aggressive guitar plays as all the students cast their votes. The voting seems to be done by them picking either a PILAS or Fuerza Motriz card off the table and putting it in the box, right in front of Lujan and Pablo. Can’t they see who everyone’s voting for? This seems unwise. My grammar school elections had better security than this. Marizza comes by to cast her vote, but then it cuts to Lujan and Pablo arguing over whether or not they can count the votes without her. What, so she just came by to vote and fucked off to wherever again? Okay, whatever. A ton of kids are pressed to the window outside, because clearly the fourth year election is the most important one in the entire school. Shouldn’t the student council president be a senior? I think I’m putting more thought into this than any of the writers did, so I’ll stop now.
Lujan gets all violent in the middle of the argument, as is her wont, and Blas has to intervene. He takes the votes off to count himself, and Mia wants to use this opportunity to snoop around. Feli and Vico volunteer to go with her. Sadly for Mia, they walk into Dunoff’s office right as he’s reading Manuel the riot act for being CAUGHT with THE FIFTH YEAR RANDO in a POSITION SUGGESTIVE OF CARNAL ACTS. “They were about to have sex!!!” Hilda shrieks. Mia faints dead away. Oh, Mia.
Martavio is still lecturing Marizza. He’s decided that she needs structured artistic time to channel her aggression into something productive, which is actually a pretty decent idea. It’s almost like these kids would be less insane if they had any kind of extracurriculars at this school. Of course, being Marizza, she’s sculpted a butt with a cigarette? a thermometer? stuck in it. Edgy!
Mia rants to Feli and Vico that the fifth year rando has stolen her man. Maybe blame Manuel for following wherever his dick leads him? Feli muses that maybe it’s a good thing that Mia and Manuel broke up, since otherwise it’d be Mia about to engage in carnal relations in the cabinet. And we all know how those girls engaging in carnal relations are! Vico takes umbrage to that, and then she and Feli get into a fight — Vico calls Feli a prude; Feli protests that she’s not against sex “in the appropriate place, at the appropriate time.” Heh. Vico tells her to get herself to a nunnery, quite literally. Mia’s so upset that she doesn’t even wanna play girl detective any more. No! Dammit, Mia! WHEN WILL BLAS STOP ESCAPING?
Lola is all salty over Francisco ditching her, and decides to stalk him to find out why he doesn’t love her. “And you’re going to help me,” she tells Bianca. “Why me?” Bianca wails, because apparently she has amnesia and doesn’t remember what’s happened in nearly every episode before this. Bianca says that she already promised to spend time with her mom, and she’s never lied to her parents before. “You’re kidding,” Lola says. She’s like, “What’s more important? Your parents, or helping me stalk my crush?” Bianca caves, as usual, but then she calls her mom and her mom’s incredibly pushy and won’t let Bianca cancel. I’m thinking maybe Bianca has a troubling home life.
It falls upon Feli to tell Blas that Mia can’t go out with him anymore. She keeps calling him “Señor Blas,” which makes me laugh more than it should. Carmen overhears their conversation and smiles all evilly to herself.
In the office, Marizza and Manuel fret over the voting results, until Fifth Year Rando snaps at them to focus on her. “This is my future here!” she says. Eh, that’s what you get for making out with Manuel. Next time, love yourself a bit more. Lujan comes in and tells them about Blas making off with the votes, and they have to hold Marizza back from storming out. Let her go, guys! I haven’t seen Blas get punchd in ages!
Pablo tells Diego and Tomás he got Guido’s address from the office, so he’s going to go see what’s going on. Awkwardly, he says to Tomás, “If you want to come along…I don’t have a problem with that.” “Well, if it’s for Guido,” Tomás says. Aw! Just kiss and make up, you two! They leave Diego in the dust, and Ana beams at them as they go. What the fuck, Ana?
Sonia comes to the school to defend Marizza’s honor, and she and Martavio get into an argument. As usual, Sonia’s like, “Marizza did nothing wrong!”, although if I have to be fair, she really didn’t, this time. Marizza’s punishment is to look through a book of inspirational activities and pick one to channel her ~rebeldía~ into. That seems pretty mild for Elite Way, but of course she doesn’t like it at all. Martavio takes the opportunity to suggest that he, Sonia, and Marizza talk outside while Dunoff disciplines Manuel.
Dunoff turns to lecturing Manuel and the fifth year rando, with Marizza’s ass sculpture staring at them all the while. Dunoff says the entire faculty (so, what, like four teachers) have to meet to decide on their punishment, and in the meantime, they’re suspended. Seriously, has this school never heard of detention?
Pablo and Tomás roll up to Guido’s neighborhood, and they’re all appalled by how poor it is. Tomás wants to turn around and head back to school like a total baby, but Pablo pushes them on. Inside, Guido’s taken to the whole butcher business quite well, and he’s selling meat left and right (that sounded better in my head). He turns and sees Pablo and Tomás walk up, and the camera zooms in all dramatically. What will Guido do, you guys? Do you think, in the span of 150 episodes, he’s stopped being such a douchebag?
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