aqui no hay quien viva
New favorite Spanish show: aqui no hay quien viva...yeah i didn't think that combo of words made sense, but the show doesn't make sense so it's all good.
I was watching tonight and the very first scene of the show showed these nosey old women who live together in the apt. and they share a piso. They're old and unmarried so all they have to do is snoop into other peoples business. Well, one asks, '¿porque tenemos que madrugar para hacer las compras?' (I'm not translating, figure it out, welcome to my world) Then another answered with some Spanish jibberish and they went to leave but the door was closed.
The thing you have to know, is that here in Spain, and I imagine in other big cities as well, when the portero is not around, the door is shut and locked. To get out of the building (as some kind old woman showed me my first week here) you have to push this light switch looking thing on the wall and it buzzes and unlocks the door.
So the three women try to leave earlier than they're usually awake and they can't figure out how to get the door open because the portero is usually there and the door is unlocked. Haha, I saw a vision of myself in my head. So then they saw this sign that told them to push the buzzer to get out, so all three crowded around the buzzer, pushed, and tried to get out the door. They're old, though, and they took too long. Finally, the portero, Emilio, comes out and tells one to stand by the door while the other pushes the button. So they do it and they get out the door...
Ok, I thought it was hilarious and I probably laughed more tonight watching that one scene of this show than I have the entire time I've been here. The show proceded to go on for 2 hours! TV shows last forever here and they only have about 4 blocks of commercials that are probably about 10 minutes long for each block. They really treat it as an intermission to go do stuff. It's annoying. But this show is great and it's all about the people who live in this one apartment building where crazy hijinks ensue. They hold apt meetings in el videoclub, and, at the end, since it was Valentine's Day, the gay guy proposed to the other gay guy. The lesbian of the show found herself in trouble when this newly out lesbian told her husband she was a lesbian and he threw here and their 4 sons out on the street so she showed up at the other lesbians door...
Whew! And I thought ¡Mira quién baila! was good.
As Isabel put it, 'ese programa es la leche.'
Claro que si, Isabel, claro que si.
I was watching tonight and the very first scene of the show showed these nosey old women who live together in the apt. and they share a piso. They're old and unmarried so all they have to do is snoop into other peoples business. Well, one asks, '¿porque tenemos que madrugar para hacer las compras?' (I'm not translating, figure it out, welcome to my world) Then another answered with some Spanish jibberish and they went to leave but the door was closed.
The thing you have to know, is that here in Spain, and I imagine in other big cities as well, when the portero is not around, the door is shut and locked. To get out of the building (as some kind old woman showed me my first week here) you have to push this light switch looking thing on the wall and it buzzes and unlocks the door.
So the three women try to leave earlier than they're usually awake and they can't figure out how to get the door open because the portero is usually there and the door is unlocked. Haha, I saw a vision of myself in my head. So then they saw this sign that told them to push the buzzer to get out, so all three crowded around the buzzer, pushed, and tried to get out the door. They're old, though, and they took too long. Finally, the portero, Emilio, comes out and tells one to stand by the door while the other pushes the button. So they do it and they get out the door...
Ok, I thought it was hilarious and I probably laughed more tonight watching that one scene of this show than I have the entire time I've been here. The show proceded to go on for 2 hours! TV shows last forever here and they only have about 4 blocks of commercials that are probably about 10 minutes long for each block. They really treat it as an intermission to go do stuff. It's annoying. But this show is great and it's all about the people who live in this one apartment building where crazy hijinks ensue. They hold apt meetings in el videoclub, and, at the end, since it was Valentine's Day, the gay guy proposed to the other gay guy. The lesbian of the show found herself in trouble when this newly out lesbian told her husband she was a lesbian and he threw here and their 4 sons out on the street so she showed up at the other lesbians door...
Whew! And I thought ¡Mira quién baila! was good.
As Isabel put it, 'ese programa es la leche.'
Claro que si, Isabel, claro que si.