Lots happened last week on Ugly Betty...but the most important thing (in my mind) is that something is going to catch on fire this week. Hope it's not the Suarez Hacienda, but I'm loving the drama. Let the crazy begin!

"It's 2 o'clock in the morning, that gives us 5 hours until your next meeting." Whoa, does Betty work in my department, because that sounds familiar.

"How can you sound so chipper, we've been up until 2am for the last 5 nights?" If you've been up until 2am five nights in a row, you're chipper because you are crazy and running on fumes. Trust me. Betty is all excited because if it's past midnight, Mode pays to send her home in a town car which is "pretty cool" they have free water. I would have thought the safety of not being attacked would have been the cool part. She tells Daniel to stay away from the mini-bar. Thank God he's sober this season.

Betty's getting another call...check caller ID, girl! She clicks over and "BETTY!" Screams Crazy Town Renee. "Daniel isn't home yet and I'm worried." How about trying his phone, psycho stalker? Betty tells her she has him on the other line and Renee demands to be put through to him. Can you do that with a cell phone? Mine is from 2000 - doesn't even have a colored screen, people. Betty wants to go over his schedule with him first, but Renee's all about the crazy now, and she must speak to him RIGHT NOW. Betty conferences Daniel in.

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Ugly Betty's Big Birthday Bash! She's turning 24 and there's no stopping That Girl! Except fate, which clearly hates her. Fate brings her friends prego Charlie, evil Amanda, complete tool waiter guy, stupid cup of hot chocolate, and manure. Why, why did she even wake up this morning? This is the Worst Birthday Ever in the History of the World, and it didn't even involve alcohol or the police. Bummer.

Alarm rings - 7:30 a.m. Seriously, what are Mode's hours? Well, Betty does seem to work 24/7, so I guess we can cut her some slack. Personally, by 7:30 a.m. I'm usually at the office, irritably caffeinated and doing my best to avoid the sales team at all costs (just kidding, if any of you are reading this).

I'm Claritin clear!

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Time to go to Mexico! Ole! The entire Suarez family is packed and ready to go off to the land of cheap lobster, mas margaritas and sunburns. And of course, the land of visas that will keep Ignacio in America.

But Betty's having a hard time getting the family out the door. Hilda is stressed about leaving, because she isn't ready for her upcoming wedding. Betty's suggestion that she find her wedding dress in Mexico doesn't go over well. I think Betty's confusing Mexico's reputation as a good place to buy cheap drugs with a good place to buy wedding dresses.

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What would you do if your illegal immigrant father had to return to Mexico to renew his visa and might not be able to return to America? Would you hire a really good lawyer? Get your own law diploma from an on-line law school? Picket city hall? Buy a fake ID on the black market? Start to sing that song from West Side Story - "I want to be in Amer-i-ca! OK by me in Amer-i-ca!"?

Well, Betty goes to get her nails done. OK, she is also on the phone trying to find a flight for Ignacio.

But does the show really want us to believe that Betty is the kind of gal who would turn to beauty regimes to relax while she tries to solve her family's problems? And if she was, wouldn't she have done something about brushing her hair first?

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Who's that climbing into Betty's bedroom? Answer I'd like: Henry. Answer I'd hate: Walter. Real answer: Hilda.

Hilda's sneaking back in after a night out with Santos. She's been hiding her relationship from the family, because she doesn't know how she feels about him yet. I did the same thing with my love for the show "Medium". I don't like to tell people that I watch it every week, because it's kind of cheesy, yet I watch it every week because it's also kind of fabulous. Just like Santos!

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Ugly Betty is finally back! They have really been stingy with the episodes the past few months, but let's hope that means they were saving them up to show us all at once. This episode opens with Amanda drawing a picture of Betty. She covers it up with a crossword when Betty comes by, but as soon as Betty leaves, she adds some hair to the eyebrows, which are "even bigger than I remember."

This opening scene leaves me with a few questions. Mainly: Does anyone actually believe that Amanda does crosswords? Are Betty's eyebrows really that big? Is Amanda secretly in love with Betty? She has to be, because I can think of no other reason that she'd be drawing pictures of her. I know this because every notebook I have from my younger days includes drawings of John Taylor from Duran Duran. And I wasn't drawing him for his interesting eyebrows.

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Bradford Meade is getting out of jail and returning to work at Meade Publications. The press is outside the Meade building, hoping to get an employee's perspective on the whole mess. Betty walks by, and puts up her purse to try to avoid the cameras. But she walks right into a bus kiosk, slamming her head.

And I start to worry that this is going to a cheesy, lame episode with wacky things happening because Betty is suffering from amnesia and doesn't know who she is. You know, like the season of Dallas that turned out to be a dream? But it wasn't! This actually turned out to be one of the funniest and funnest Ugly Betty episodes in a while. And I'm not just saying that because they didn't air a new episode for over a month.

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It's been a while since our last Ugly Betty, so let's quickly review. Betty loves Henry. Henry loves Betty. Betty broke up with Walter to be with Henry (yay!), but since he didn't know that, Henry got together with his ex-girlfriend Charlie (boo!). Brother Alex Meade has returned as Sister Alexis Meade and schemed to take over Mode and have Bradford arrested for Fey's murder. But unbeknownst to Alexis, their mother Claire has confessed that she is the one who murdered Fey.

Remember all that?

Good.

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Last week's exciting episode left us with a lot of questions. Could Daniel and Alexis work together? Did Claire Meade really kill Fey? How awesome will Queens be without Walter? And, most importantly, what are we going to do about Henry's new girlfriend?

I had some ideas on Henry's new girlfriend myself, and they rhymed with "blass flicking". But I figured I'd wait and see what the show did before trying to take matters into my own hands.

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Things are topsy-turvy in Mode world after the return last week of Alex Meade as Alexis, and the arrest of Bradford for Fey's murder. But there's no time to rest. This episode had twists, turns, more Meade family revelations, Walter hopes coming true and Henry hopes being dashed. It's almost too much to deal with!

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