Mayra Gómez Kemp: Mayra

Quotes 

• Eugenia : ...Excuse me, Miss.

  Mayra : Pardon, I'm Mrs.

  Eugenia : [looking at her up and down]  But *you* managed to marry?

• Gafancia : I am so happy to be here on Television Española!

  [the image goes off and TVE logo that is used when technical problems occur appears, then back to her] 

  Gafancia : I am so happy to work here in...

  Mayra : [scared]  Don't!

  Gafancia : Don't... what?

  Mayra : I have just been given a note where they ask me not to let you say names of people or companies.

  Gafancia : But why? I have just said I'm very happy to work here in Television Española!

  [image goes off, loud interference] 

  Mayra : [with her finger on her ear, with painful expression]  Yes... yes... but, please! Do not repeat it!

  Gafancia : As you wish...

  Mayra : And by the way, who are you?

  Gafancia : Me? My name is Mary Happy Destiny! But my friends call me Jinxy since school!

  Mayra : Jinxy?

  Gafancia : Yes, Jinxy. Why do you think they call me like that?

  Mayra : [with a very serious face, to herself]  Jinxy...

• Eugenia : What is the comfiest job that Secretarias do in the show?

  Mayra : I don't know, maybe... checking the time in the question round.

  Eugenia : Aww, that's what the ladies of Tacañon did! Such women! I admired them so much! Their points of view are exactly the same as mine!

  [...] 

  Eugenia : But... what about the horn?

  Mayra : What horn?

  Eugenia : When they shouted "Tiiime's up!", they played a horn, and that I bet that wears you out a ton, and...

  Mayra : You'll have to struggle that little bit, and play the horn.

  Eugenia : No choice?

  Mayra : No choice.

  Eugenia : In that case... I'll do the sacrifice.

  Mayra : Thank you very much. Why don't you go over there, with Kim, Naomi and Lydia and stay over there?

  Eugenia : To play the horn...

  Mayra : [while Eugenia goes away]  To play the horn.

  Mayra : By the way, Lydia will be in charge of doing the calculations in the show, multiplying answers by money, but in this thing of the questions there are news, and since Lydia is in charge of accounting, it will be better if she's the one explaining it. Lydia, please.

  Lydia : Well, yes. As Mayra said, there are news, and it's this. In the past, each question from the first group was multiplied by 25 pesetas. From this day on, that will be decided by luck. In this machine behind me that will be operated by Naomi, there will appear three numbers after the cylinders stop spinning. In the first cylinder, there are 1s and 0s, in the second one, numbers from 1 to 5, and in the third one, from 0 to 9. That means that contestants, with a little bit of luck, could start multiplying their answers by 159 pesetas, six times better than before.

  Mayra : Well, why don't we try it? Naomi, let's test the machine twice.

  [Naomi pushes the lever and numbers start spinning, they stop one by one] 

  Kim : Let's see, in the first slot... It's a 1? Now a 5?... 152, that would have been multiplied! Let's try again and see what comes out!

  [Naomi activates the machine another time] 

  Mayra : For any suspicious people out there, the first slot has 0s and 1s, even if there are more 0s than 1s. This time it would be... 38, still over the old 25 pesetas. Well, once it's been clarified how we'll multiply the first question, we'll let the first couple in, and just before telling them the first question, Naomi will activate the machine, and we'll see if there's luck.

  Eugenia : [to Kim]  You're a foreigner, arent' you?

  Kim : [candid smile]  Yes, I am...

  Eugenia : [frowning]  You know about the awful gripping in my country?

  Kim : [sad face]  Yes, madam...

  Kim : Then, for the good of Spain, make sure that this infernal machine gives as less money as possible.

  Kim : Hey, but it's not my...!

  Eugenia : [interrupting her]  Nah, nah, do whatever you must!

  Eugenia : [after a pause, frowning at her]  Do you like my country?

  Kim : [smiling]  Yes, very much!

  Eugenia : And do you like Spanish music?

  Kim : [doing a hand dancing movement]  Olé, that too!

  Mayra : Then it is settled! If you like music, you'll be the one playing the horn!

  Eugenia : [after giving the honk to a disgusted Kim]  Come on, try it!

  [Kim plays the horn loudly in Eugenia's face, scaring her] 

  Eugenia : [to Mayra]  Okay, madam, you can go on if you want to. Keep going!

  Mayra : Thank you very much.

  [after introducing the first couple of contestants and just before telling the first question] 

  Mayra : How many pesetas, Naomi?

  Mayra : [horrified]  Ugh! It's less than before, 18 pesetas! Well, we did not have much luck this time...

• Mayra : I wanted to ask you, what do you think about the new Secretarias?

  Contestant : [happy and excited face and voice]  Can I try them?

  [everybody in the audience laughs] 

  Mayra : [containing laugh]  I did not ask... about their taste, but about their looks, which is something quite different.

  Contestant : They're all really beautiful.

  Mayra : Thank you in their name.