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Kimmie holds up her hands, one higher than the other. "Editor...assistant....Editor...assistant. In just two weeks I've gotten higher than you have in two years." If I were Betty it would be so on. I would totally float a rumor Kimmie got to where she did by sleeping with Daniel (who wouldn't believe that?), then I'd float a rumor about genital warts. Faster than planning a murder, and less jail time.

Wait...who's this nerd and how did he get past security? Oh, it's one of the Mode accountants, a.k.a. "Not Henry," who is telling Daniel, Wilhelmina, and Claire that the magazine industry is getting hard and like the fashion industry, they'd like "not to see red." Oh, accountant humor, please stop. Not Henry might tell them that doing two photo shoots each month is part of the problem. As an aside, Wilhelmina is wearing a really cool necklace that looks like some kind of piece of machinery, and I'm pretty sure it's what is keeping her head connected to her body. Like RoboEditor!

Wilhelmina and Daniel could not be more bored with the meeting, what with all the numbers and pocket-protectors, so they get up to leave, but Claire does a motherly smack down and tells them that although Alexis had the occasional impulse for murder (don't we all? The difference is we don't act on them or at least know enough not to get caught), but she also had a keen mind for numbers. Murder by numbers! Sting, is there anything you don't know?

Claire, if you don't graduate from clown college,
you have to give the costume back.

Claire suggests bringing in someone to run the business. "Dear Claire," Wilhelmina snots, "Setting us straight like a poor man's Sally Field." When I first watched this, I thought she meant Sally Struthers and I was like, Claire's not stealing food from children now, is she? Claire recommends they hire a CFO.

Okay. Let me get this straight. The Meade Empire does not have someone designated as a CFO, just nerdy accountants. So, it's like there are a lot of Julie McCoys and Issac the Bartenders, but no Captain Stubing to STEER THE SHIP? I hope Not Henry is embezzling money, because by the time they find it's missing, he could be in Cabo with a hot chick, new pecs, and hair implants.

All more qualified to run Mode than Daniel or Wilhelmina.

Back at Betty's pied-à-terre, Jesse offers to help her bring in some groceries. "So what's the guitar for?" Betty asks. "Do you have a gig? Am I using that word correctly?" It's open mic night at some coffee shop and he's headed over. That'll pay the rent.

Betty suddenly provides TMI to him by saying she's only an assistant, doesn't have business cards, doesn't get noticed, and just brings people breakfast. He calls her "Super-B" and says, "You strike me as a dreamer." And Jesse, you strike me as a pot smoker and perhaps drinker of the bong water. Then he sings some advice, "Go for it Betty, no need to get sweaty." He doesn't know her very well, does he? She uses dress shields to avoid pit stains.

The fungus just crept up from my crotch,
what's a girl to do?

We fade into the next day where Betty's outfit isn't much better than yesterday, and Kimmie is in the conference room dressed in some kind of vest of fungus, talking a mile a minute. "The manager said, 'Are you Kimmie from Mode?' and I said, 'Yeah,' cause I am..." oh, it's like listening to teenagers at the mall. Marc and Amanda stop by to say hello in equally heinous outfits (seriously, Costume Designer, less costume, more design), and Kimmie says, "Busy, busy, let's talk later," and totally blows them off.

Blows off Amanda and Marc? This is gonna be good. "Did she just give us the Busy-busy-let's-talk-later blow off?" Amanda says. "We invented that blow off!"

"Yes we did," Marc says, "to remind all the little people that we are king and queen of prom." I usually just wear my crown to work as a reminder to people. Of course, I did have to smack down that prom queen to get it, just like Queen Elizabeth.

Wilhelmina and Daniel come into the conference room talking about the "Sizzling Hot" ideas for their March issue. "I was only blind with rage two times," Wilhelmina compliments them. I can't wait to use that at my next AA meeting! Daniel runs through the list of who provided them with hot ideas that will end up in the magazine, including Kimmie who found the sizzling hot club (go figure). Betty starts to hear Jesse's "Betty Sweaty" song in her head.

Daniel tries to escape the hideousness of her outfit.

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