¿Qué Pasa, USA? (1977) — Season 1, Episode 2: Ay Abuela
Comedy • 30 min • 4 seasons, 39 episodes • ★ 7.3/10
Episode synopsis
After attending a wake and hearing that a friend of theirs has been placed in a nursing home the abuelos (grandparents) start to complain on how senior citizens are treated in the U.S.A. compared to their treatment in Cuba. Later Adela overhears the family say that they are going to take her to the nursery and she misunderstands and thinks they are taking her to a nursing home. Adela then sets out to prove that she is still young and hip.
About ¿Qué Pasa, USA? (1977)
¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.? is America's first bilingual situation comedy, and the first sitcom to be produced for PBS. It was produced and taped in front of a live studio audience at PBS member station WPBT in Miami, Florida and aired on PBS member stations nationwide. The program explored the trials and tribulations faced by the Peñas, a Cuban-American family living in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, as they struggled to cope with a new country and a new language. The series was praised as being very true-to-life and accurately, if humorously, portraying the life and culture of Miami's Cuban-American population.