All the ingredients are ready, and Anna and Marika go to work, making the ricotta ball mixture. They share with us a common saying about prezzemolo (parsley).

Eva talks to her girlfriends about what she witnessed, and in the meantime, Dante has an unpleasant encounter in front of the restaurant. Ferruccio just happens to be sweeping up there.

Daniela discusses how the imperfect is used to describe actions in the past that are happening contemporaneously.

There's one contestant left, but the questions keep on coming.

The narrator goes over the vanishingly small number of expressions coined during Mussolini's time that are still in use today. The song that gives the series its name is provided in full.

This new episode takes place in the world of beauty contests. Manara seems slightly distracted in both his dreamworld and the real world.

How much is too much? Marika explains about quantity, and shares some common idioms about quantity and degree that can come in very handy.

Anna and Marika provide the list of necessary ingredients for this Calabrese specialty. This recipe calls for sheep's milk ricotta. When you go to buy ricotta in Italy, storekeepers will ask if you want cow, sheep, or goat ricotta. You can also specify a mix.

There are problems in the kitchen: Eva is mad at Dante and doesn't trust him. There are problems in town to which Eva is a witness.

After the war came TV. It changed everything, and provided a new way to unify the Italian language and teach people reading and writing.

Inspector Rivera is very much appreciated at Police Headquarters, and so is Manara, but for different reasons and by different people.

Daniela concentrates on the modal verbs essere [to be] and avere [to have] in the imperfect tense.

We're down to two contestants: Agnese and Francescopaolo. Carlo's seven questions are pretty tough and involve international material.

Back at the restaurant, there's a little tension in the kitchen, and in the dining hall the girls get together to drink to their success. They do get a little scare, though, when a familiar face appears.

The segment looks at the Royal Academy of Italy's dictionary of Italian, which was filled with quotes from Mussolini. By the end of World War II, the dictionary had gotten to the letter “C.”