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Adult Swim\u2019s history of odd, risky shows is now more than two decades old. But to this point, they\u2019ve never had a Spanish-language series. <\/em>Women Wearing Shoulder Pads is the first AS show to be presented in Spanish, but it\u2019s no less odd and risky than any of the shows that came before it.<\/em><\/p>\n Opening Shot:<\/strong> A girl picks up a cuy (a guinea pig) from a barn and brings it home, making the cuy\u2019s companion tear up.<\/p>\n The Gist:<\/strong> We then flash forward to Quito, Ecuador in the 1980s. Marioneta (Pepa Pallar\u00e9s) is greeted at the airport by her assistant Coquita Patines (Gabriela Cartol). Marioneta was visiting her family in Spain; she doesn\u2019t get along with them, but they fund her use of \u201cthose filthy beasts;\u201d she markets cuys as cuddly pets everyone would want.<\/p>\n As Marionets directs a commercial promoting cuys as furry family members, while discouraging Ecuadorians from cooking the rodents, a young actress asks her to find someone to deflower her virgin mother, who had her via artificial insemination.<\/p>\n The cuys Marioneta have been getting lately have been shaggy at best. When she asks about it, Coquita tells her that cuy breeders have cut her off, at the behest of Do\u00f1a Quispe (Laura Torres), a cuy butcher who is the CEO of the country\u2019s most successful restaurant. On a talk show, Do\u00f1a Quispe decries the new trend of having miniature cuys as pets, and blames \u201cthat Spaniard\u201d for the trend.<\/p>\n Marioneta tries to find a way to get the flow of cuys going again, so she goes to a cuy-fighting arena to seduce Espada (Kerygma Flores), a cuy fighter who appreciates the history of cuys in Ecuador, where they\u2019re bred for battle or food. But when she gets back to her apartment, she\u2019s greeted by an unwelcome visitor<\/p>\n