Back at Justin's school, he excitedly tells Randy of the Broadway tickets he has. You can tell Randy wants those tickets but his friends are watching and he'd rather be cool. He tells Justin he doesn't want to hang out with him anymore. "Dude! Stop following me around, it's pathetic! Get a life!" he says, walking over to his football friends.
Nice hair. Did you get caught in last week's tornado?
At Mode Betty is attempting to talk to Marc who is handling the situation like a pro, by wearing a sleeping mask. "Marc?" she says. "Marc isn't in right now but if you leave your name and number he will never speak to you again, you odious sea cow, Betty. Beep."
Someone's handling this maturely.
Betty tells him his presentation was amazing (how did she get to see it?) but maybe they just saw how much she wanted it. Oh no she didn't. He says, yeah, right, because he didn't want it. "I don't want to be an editor. I didn't go to F.I.T. or spend a summer abroad studying menswear in Milan or spend the last four years of my life slaving for the best Creative Director in the industry who doesn't even know or wouldn't even care if I applied to Y.E.T.I." Geez Louise, why is he working there? He should get a job with his new best friends Badgley and/or Mischka!
"Maybe they just liked my concept better...who knows why they picked me," Betty says. Marc starts laughing like he knows why they picked her. Betty's all like, WTF?
"Do you really think what you spent 2 days on is better than what I spent the last three months working on?" he spats. She just looks at him. "You're really going to make me say it?" Marc asks. Betty still doesn't get it. "You help them meet their quota," Marc says. "They picked you, Betty Suarez, of Queens, because you are Latina." Dude, isn't she Hispanic? I get so confused. "You're the token ethnic girl."
Betty starts to sputter, she can't even get anything out. "Wow," she finally says. "Marc, you have said a lot of really ugly things to me in the past, but that is by far and away the ugliest."
"It may be ugly, but it's the truth," Marc says. She storms away from him. Marc? Not so much my favorite right now.
Hilda and Papi show up at Mode to surprise Betty and generally humiliate her in front of everyone by singing and offering up Mexican food. She pulls them into Daniel's office and tells them what Marc said. They are pissed. Well, turns out Betty called them and they didn't deny it. Oh my God, they are the stupidest organization ever! Why would they admit that?
Hilda says who cares why she got in, she got in! She says Betty needs to take every advantage she gets which, yes and no. Hilda tells an inappropriate story about how her girls help her get to the front of the meat line at the butcher shop. Yes, this is exactly like that, Hilda. Papi starts up with the story about how when he and Betty's mother came to the U.S., they wanted to start a better life. Actually, they were just trying to avoid a murder charge in Mexico.
He says that when he first came here, he was discriminated against because he was Mexican. So now, if being Mexican helped, take it. Except Betty was born here, so she's American, but since her mother was still married to that man you thought you killed, your marriage wasn't legal and she's really a bastard. Let's see if she can get into Y.E.T.I. on that one!
Betty wants to be accepted because she earned it. Does she really think she did what with Marc's entire magazine put together and her 12-hour cut-and-paste session?
Nice dinner, ha, ha,
THE BED, THE BED, THE BED!
Down in Key Largo, Willie and Connor are having dinner in her room, with low-lighting, wine, and her girlish giggle. They do make a nice couple, but she's so devious and until he shows me his bad side (not bad-boy side, meow, his bad side), I'm guessing this isn't going to work. He asks her, "No man in your life?" Is he completely oblivious to the almost-marriage, posthumous surrogate baby? Live under Ayers Rock, much? He figures she's just too formidable to keep up with.
Willie asks about Molly. "She's a peach," she says, "but a school teacher doesn't seem like a natural fit for a powerful business mind such as yours."
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Comments (5)
Excellent recap.
I wasn't so upset about what Mark said to Betty - I thought she had a lot of nerve thinking she "deserved" it just because she wanted it. She was acting more like an entitled Paris Hilton type.
It was a pretty good episode overall... starting with Amanda in the tbu.
BTW - Vanessa Williams used to be married to handsome former Laker Rick Fox. Does anyone know if they are still together? (Just curious.) I couldn't find anything on the web.
1 of 5 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on November 28, 2008 1:41 PM
Here is an explanation to why all the costumes are so zany:
Episode 3.01
The Manhattan Project
Trivia:
• This episode marks the show's return to New York as well as the return of Patricia Field ("Sex and the City") as the show's Costume Designer. Betty's look will probably evolve, which is only normal for anyone who spends so much time surrounded by fashion-obsessed people. She won't be getting "beautiful," but she will be a little more fashion-forward, yet with the expected Betty-fied touches.
• Rebecca Romijn (Alexis) and Christopher Gorham (Henry) are now credited as Guest Cast.
2 of 5 | Posted by elmo | Posted on November 28, 2008 2:00 PM
Vanessa Williams and Rick Fox have been divorced for a while now, although I believe they are still friends. In fact he appeared on an episode of Ugly Betty (last season I believe)
3 of 5 | Posted by blazergirl | Posted on November 28, 2008 4:15 PM
Thanks for the great recap and writing so much. Love the captions under the pictures.
4 of 5 | Posted by User Name | Posted on November 30, 2008 1:23 AM
fire@will:
Blazergirl's right. Vanessa and Rick Fox are divorced and still friendly. Several months after their divorce, Vanessa even mentioned during an interview with Howard Stern that they are still VERY FRIENDLY with each other when the need arises. ;-) That was years ago, but I assume they are still cool since he played her love interest on Ugly Betty several years post-divorce.
Also, I totally agree with you about Betty acting like an entitled Paris Hilton type (or like America Ferrara's real-life She-ro, Hillary Clinton), when she assumed: a.) that she wanted the YETI award more than Marc and therefore, b.) she should get it just because she pulled an all-nighter.
With every episode, I am growing to dislike Betty more and more, but her assumptions (or as I like to call 'em, her Betty-isms) in this episode were so wrong, it surpassed her usual Bettyness. Marc has natural talent when it comes to fashion. Also, he actually cared enough to line up all his ducks THREE MONTHS EARLIER than Betty. How Betty came to the conclusion that SHE should present a fashion magazine is...beyond me. Her complete lack of self-awareness is annoying as hell.
This show's constant underlying moral message is that inner beauty is better than outer beauty. I'm all on board with that message, but I don't buy that Betty's beautiful on the inside, either. She always has these cracks where her "ugly" side shines through and someone (usually her dad) has to remind her to stop being overly judgmental, critical, etc. And those traits would all be less annoying in her if she weren't constantly pulling the self-righteous act and judging everyone else for their moral flaws.
Funny how "moral" Betty didn't mind at all that Daniel wrote that B.S. letter saying she was an employee from PLAYER in order for her to qualify for the YETI with Marc. How long did she work there? Like 3 days?
I don't have a problem with what Marc said to her about being a token because all signs point to Betty being a token choice for them. Her presentation wasn't better than Marc's. By the way, Betty stole that idea of "B" magazine. There's already a "BE" magazine on the shelves.
It's a credit to this show's writing and ensemble cast that I still watch this show despite disliking the main character so much.
5 of 5 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on December 6, 2008 8:47 AM