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"Y Tu Tina También" (And Your Tina Too) is the sixteenth episode in Season 11, being the two-hundred-and-tenth episode overall.
Plot[]
When Tina is forced to listen to Spanish audio lessons in the library to improve her grade, she develops an unexpected crush. Meanwhile, Louise and Gene want to dunk Mr. Frond at the Wagstaff Spring Fair.
Full story[]
Tina writes her feelings.
On a rainy day, Tina is writing in her journal. She is depressed, as she feels spring is meant to be full of things like promise and growth, but nothing to her has been interesting besides mistaking a peeled potato for a bar of soap. Meanwhile in the kitchen at breakfast, Linda is on the phone with Mr. Frond, telling him that the rain will clear up by Friday, when the school fair is being held. She is excited, having been given a booth at the fair this year rather than cleanup committee like the past three years, but she is disappointed to learn they are only on the water booth, which she views as the lamest one. Tina comes in, groaning, and Linda tries to reassure her, saying she is just in a funk while her siblings mock her "moody teen-it is." Tina wants change, adventure, or a spring fling in the grass while lamenting the funk, and Louise tries to cheer her up by pointing out the school fair means a chance to finally dunk Frond in the dunk tank.
Walking on the way to school, Tina is still feeling down, as Louise continues to try and convince her that they can finally dunk Frond in the dunk tank at the fair. Tina points out they've never been able to do it, and Louise says that they are going to practice (which Gene is surprised by). Louise has found out that the dunk tank is being delivered that day, and proposes that they sneak over to practice for the next three lunch recesses; she will try and build upper body strength to be able to throw, Tina will tame her "wild arm," and Gene will try and work on fixing his overly complicated windups that only leave the ball on the ground. Then on Friday, they finally dunk Mr. Frond. Tina feels better imagining it, but then goes back when she steps in a deep rain puddle. In Tina's Spanish class, Mr. Grant is giving a lesson, where Tina is distracted when called on and doesn't give an answer. As the students leave, grant asks Tina to stay behind and talk, noticing how she is feeling down. Tina admits feeling like nothing new ever happens, and Grant tells her she has get her act together, as her last few quizzes have been bad. So he has signed her up for the Wagstaff language lab; Tina is surprised to hear there is a language lab, and Grant admits it's just cassette tapes on a shelf in the school library donated in the 1980s. Tina will have to practice with the Spanish tape during the week for her after-lunch breaks, until she can pass the weekly quiz on Thursday.
In the cafeteria, Tina is upset, and telling her siblings how she must go right after lunch to the library so she cannot practice with them. Louise complains about the situation and how Tina has the strongest throw when Frond comes up to mock them about wasting their school fair tickets trying to knock him into the dunk tank, which Louise tries to counter, before he says they will never get him and walks away, scaring a student doing so.
Tina imagines dating Rodrigo.
In the library, Tina is directed to the language cassette desk by Mr. Ambrose and begins listening to "Pack Your Bags, Spanish Edition," which simulates a trip for a week to Spain. Tina is bored meeting the Balthazar family, responding in Spanish without caring, until the voice for the teenage son, Rodrigo, comes on. She immediately perks up doing the first Spanish conversation with Rodrigo on the tape, even wondering if the voice is asking if she is single, before fantasizing about being taken to a plaza for a Popsicle with Rodrigo as mentioned on the tape. She knows they just met, and he's a voice on a tape, but Tina feels incredibly happy.
Tina's improved mood.
Later at the restaurant, Linda is writing words like "rad" and "skateboard" on the water cups as she thinks it will make the booth "cooler." Linda, Bob and Teddy all notice how Tina is in the back feeling better, humming and swaying with a broom for the last half hour. Tina answers in the affirmative that she is out of her funk, and sighs a happy sigh which Linda recognizes as meaning a spring fling. But Tina realizes she cannot say she fell for a voice on a tape and denies having a fling. Linda is just glad she's out of the dumps while Bob tells her not to be so cuddly with the broom.
Gene does his "interpretative dance" windup.
At Wagstaff on Wednesday, Frond is trying to intimidate confused students that they will never dunk him. Louise and Gene try to get Tina to come with them to practice, but she already ate, having snuck a tuna sandwich in and eaten it during class, explaining that she wants to listen to the tape so she can pass the quiz the next day. At the library language lab desk, Tina skips over lessons involving the other Balthazar family members to get to Rodrigo's latest lesson, a picnic in the park, where he instructs how to throw a Frisbee in Spanish as Tina tries to talk about how she feels connected with him. In the school parking lot, Gene's "interpretative dance" throw has improved to where it just ends up throwing the ball above his head. Louise asks him if he's noticed Tina being weirder than normal that week, and speculates that their mother was right, it is boy-related. She suddenly gets the idea that maybe that boy is studying in the library at lunchtime, and the two go see what Tina is up to.
The truth is revealed.
In the library, Louise and Gene ask Mr. Ambrose if Tina has been with a boy in there, but he says no, and that she studies alone in the language lab in the far corner by the window. As Tina is in the tape-world and leans in to kiss Rodrigo, Louise asks what she is doing, breaking the illusion, and is shocked that Tina is spending her after-lunch breaks there because she "has the hots" for a boy on a language tape. Tina tires to deny it, but gene asks why she was making a kissy-face. Later at home, the three are in Tina's room, with gene reading Tina's diary (and hearing how amazing Senora Balthazar's paella is), while Louise still cannot believe Tina fell for a boy on a Spanish tape. Tina says that she knows he's a voice on a tape, and denies being in love, just "hanging out." Louise is not sure where this exactly ends, and Tina is happy being with Rodrigo, but Louise says that once Tina passes the test the next day, she can focus on the "Dunkateers." Tina is still upset, as Rodrigo was going to take her to the beach the next day (but not really, just for lesson 10).
In the restaurant, Linda has found Bob's old baseball hat, and tries to get him to wear it backwards to look "cool" at the school fair, despite his protests that they do not need to make the booth cool, just to give people water. At school, the students file in for the Spanish class, with Tina speaking Spanish to Grant before sitting at her desk, who tells her once she passes, the tape will go to Jacob Weber, who has been out due to a broken tailbone. Taking the quiz, however, Tina keeps thinking of Rodrigo and wanting to spend more time with his voice. After the class, Louise and Gene try to get Tina to finally come along with them, but she says she flunked the Spanish quiz. The two are surprised as Tina had been getting better with her Spanish, but as they look over the quiz, they notice that not only was every question answered wrong, but there are signs that Tina erased her answers and put wrong ones in. The two are shocked that and upset that Tina flunked her quiz on purpose, and chose to keep spending time with Rodrigo's voice on the tape than the Three Dunkateers. Louise points out that Rodrigo is not real and from a tape form before she was born, which Tina admits, but that the way he makes her feel is real and flat out states that he's more real than their chances of dunking Frond. Louise gets mad at this and argues with Tina, who storms off. Louise doesn't want to lose their sister to a sloppy Popsicle-eating boy on a cassette, but Gene says she won't listen to them. This gives Louise an idea about how to get through to Tina.
Oh no, Rodrigo got eaten by an alligator.
On Friday, the school fair is in full swing, with Linda still trying to convince people that it is the coolest booth at the fair, while frustrated that while she got Bob to wear the hat, he refused to pierce his ear or wear fingerless gloves. At the dunk tank, Mr. Frond is sitting and in the words of Gene, being a "real dunk punk," insulting students failing to throw the balls to dunk him. Waiting in line, Louise notes that Tina should be in the library, and hopes their slapped-together plans works. In the library, Tina is listening to the tape, happy and fantasizing about applying suntan oil to Rodrigo in the beach lesson, when Louise's voice comes on the tape and tells her to look at the window at her siblings. Realizing that her sister recorded over part of the tape as Louise's voice chides her for ditching them for a voice, Tina fast-forwards to a lesson at a farmer's market when Gene's voice comes on and begins singing obnoxiously. Tina continues skipping over Gene interrupting on more of the tape's lessons (made in anticipation that she would skip over the first one) and finds a lesson with Rodrigo at the park picnic. While imagining it, however, Louise's voice comes back on and say Rodrigo was eaten by an alligator and died. As Tina screams in horror at what has happened, Louise's voice on the tape tells her they really want her at the fair, as even if somehow they miraculously dunk Frond, it would not be the same without Tina there to see it.
Tina saves the day.
Tina takes off the headphones and looks at her siblings through the library window, but Tina puts the headphones back on and the two think their plan has failed as they approach the dunk tank with rolls of tickets. Frond mocks their chances of their throws hitting the dunk target and asks Mr. Branca for his phone to check emails. When Gene's first long windup ends up hitting his leg, Frond asks Branca for a folder to his taxes. After failing all their throws and using up all their tickets except for one, Tina finally arrives and tells them she'd rather be there with her real siblings than with a not-real yet hot Spanish teenage boy a on a tape, and takes the ticket for a ball. Frond is so confident that Tina will miss that he asks Branca for his new laptop, despite Branca's reluctance. As Tina prepares to throw, she imagines Rodrigo standing over her shoulder and telling her from the earlier Frisbee lesson that she must point straight to release. Tina throws and releases the ball straight at the right time, shocking Frond as it hits the target, soaking him and his phone (while Branca is able to grab the laptop in time). The "Three Dunkateers" are satisfied, and leave to get snow cones (with Tina's babysitting money, as they used up the rest on tickets for the dunk tank).
Coolest booth at the fair.
At the water booth, Linda gives up and is frustrated that there is no way to make the water booth cool, even cursing the water, while Bob says that it's okay since water is water and they need it to live. Just then, a large group of students approach desperate for water, as they were at the chili booth, but it was way too spicy. When Jimmy Jr. praises the water as cold, Linda thinks he said "cool" despite Bob's insistence otherwise, and thinks that their booth "wins" (in spite of one cup having a cigarette drawn on it earlier by Linda, in an attempt to be "cool"). The Belcher siblings walk by and see the crowd, with Linda telling them that it is the "cool booth" and Louise decides to let her have the moment.
Videos[]
External links[]
- "Y Tu Tina También" on IMDb
- "Y Tu Tina También" press release via The Futon Critic
- "Y Tu Tina También" at the US Copyright Database
- "Y Tu Tina También" script via Springfield! Springfield!
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