"You babble when you see him...and you've been avoiding him...ever since you got back from Key Largo," Christina says. Isn't that a song? "Did something happen?" She thinks, "You like him!" I know, she should totally pass him a note between the marketing and budget meetings, what with him going to both now. Willie says she might as well give up having a man around. Yes, Willie, kids do ruin everything. Christina says, "I wouldn't do that, cause you're having a boy." Way to ruin the surprise!
At some hoity-toity restaurant I'm not cool enough to even view through windows, Betty and Amanda are talking about the time Betty worked at Player and rode her motorcycle into that vat of women and Jell-O or whatever goop it was. "This champagne tastes so...expensive," she says. Where, I ask you, is her double-wide, she has that much class. Betty tells them she enjoyed her food but her Debbie Downer face tells another story. She excuses herself to go to the restroom.
In the bathroom, Betty calls her sister with a "moment of crisis." Betty, just borrow a quarter and put it in the machine and something with wings will come out. No, wait, she's upset because she's having fun on someone else's dime and she feels guilty. The pope would be proud of your Catholic guilt. Hilda tells her she needs to go have fun but be careful. "You live in the city but you don't actually live in the city." Good point.
Betty comes back to the table to find Euro and Trash gone, off to make some phone calls. Rut-roh. Betty tells Amanda that she was skeptical about their evening together, but she's had fun. They toast each other with expensive champagne just as their evening crashes and burns. The waiter brings over the check and says, "The gentlemen said you'd take care of this." Betty looks at the bill and gasps. "They stuck us with the bill!" Just pay it with Daniel's card and get the hell out of there. He won't notice.
This is more than we had to pay
the attorney to make Papi legal!
Amanda recommends doing a dine-and-dash and Betty explains that it's illegal. The waiter comes back over and Betty asks to see the manager. I'm guessing she's going to offer to pay off the bill by doing the dishes. For the next ten years.
Back at Mode, Molly shows up asking for her money. Honey, you should wait until you get to the hotel for that. "Is that sweet and sour?" she asks, adding, "Can I?" Yes, because you are wearing white so that would be the perfect thing to shuttle down your throat with chopsticks you have no clue how to manage. Daniel has apparently cancelled on her so she asks for a bigger check. Once again, klassy. Whoa, there it is, sweet and sour all down her dress. Didn't see that coming except we all totally did. Someone get a Shamwow and clean her up.
Really? You didn't see this happening? Really? Really?
He tells her that at least she has time to go home and change. Or she could have used the time to eat at home. "I'm a kindergarten teacher," she says, "I'm always covered in paint, paste and puke." Holy shit, I am so glad I have dogs. There is nothing appetizing about the three Ps she just mentioned people. I wonder if there is an outfit she can borrow from Mode? Everyone else does!
Back at the restaurant, Betty has grown some cajones and decides to see what she can get away with. She introduces herself to the manager and says they will be writing articles for the site about all things hip and cool and trendy and yadda yadda, and (cajones at the ready), "We'll be featuring you prominently this month," she says, as she hands her the bill with what looks like a library card in it (seriously, what credit card is white? I've seen silver, gold, blue, and I've even been in the presence of the mythological American Express Black Card - held by a total douchebag I knew, but I was totally impressed...but white? Help me out here).
The manager probably figured anyone with
that much eyebrow hair is going to sweat a lot
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Comments (3)
Good recap.
I agree that Molly didn't look so hot in that red dress. But I don't care for her, anyway. She has neither the raw sex appeal of models, nor the simple, honest, loyal personality that would make her appealing as a potential wife and mother. She DOES seems like a tease - someone who enjoys playing with men's emotions. Conman and Denial could both do better.
1 of 3 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on December 11, 2008 10:18 AM
I haven't finished reading the recap yet. I wanted to comment on this before I forget...
My mom's theory is that this episode was one of the ones that Lindsay Lohan got written out of, and replaced with Amanda. Because Amanda and Betty rooming together? Is too out there even in the Ugly Betty universe.
When is Ugly Betty gonna get a makeover? I can't stand her outfits. Two years working at a fashion magazine hasn't rubbed off on her at all? No wonder she's still an assistant.
2 of 3 | Posted by BlahBlah | Posted on December 11, 2008 11:37 PM
"Bad Ronald" was a movie from the 70s about a teenager guy named Ronald who kills a girl and his mother decides to hide him in a hidden room in their house and tell everyone he ran away. She dies -- another family moves in and he's still living in the hidden room. It's a really creepy movie and I was so surprised to see it referenced here
3 of 3 | Posted by murphena | Posted on December 13, 2008 5:51 AM