Dear Crabby: What the hell? Have you forsaken us for alcohol...again?
Dear Couch: Sort of. I know, I know, it's been almost a month, but blame it on the holidays and their inevitable reruns that there have been no new Ugly Bettys! Plus, in my area Ugly Betty was pre-empted by Marlo Thomas and her St. Jude hour-long telethon from 2005 (at least they're putting their money towards the kids, I guess). Priorities, people! But we're back in rare form this week with heavenly highs and devastating lows, and Betty's wardrobe somewhere in the middle.
We open this week's Dram-o-rama with decorations of some sort going up in the Suarez household while Betty yammers on and on about her idol, Jodie Papadakis, who is running the Y.E.T.I. program. Suddenly I have the urge to head to Pappadeaux's for some raw oysters, shout out to my dad who treated a couple of weeks ago. Betty has been following Jodie's career "all my life" which again begs the questionhow the hell did she not know about Y.E.T.I. in the first place?
Hilda starts bitching about how she has to plan a party in three days, and I'm thinking that between her and Papi not really working all that much and Justin skipping school, it should be a piece of Flan. Betty babbles about how Jodie started at one magazine as an assistant and became editor in 5 years, and I'm thinking either it's an underground magazine or she bounced a few editors to get up the ladder that fast.
Why do you need magic when you can hypnotize them with Betty's outfit?
Hilda focuses Betty back on the reason for the decorations - her grand "re-opening." Oh, Hilda, really. What makes you think this is going to stick this time? She's considering hiring a magician (hate!) or music (too small a venue). Stick to doing big hair that night and you'll be fine.
Betty says she'll "borrow" some of the samples they get at Mode for gift bags as Papi shows off the new and hideously tacky neon sign that is now hanging in their living room window that says "Hilda's Beautilities Plus." But...it's facing IN! Gasmii, raise your hands if you saw that before even Betty had to mention it. How do these people dress themselves?
Seriously? Morons.
Back in the real city, Daniel is talking about how Elle magazine kicked their asses last month in sales, adding, "Was it classy to show Sarah Silverman on the cover sitting on a toilet? No." Actually, that i classy for her. Maybe Daniel's just upset because the video "I'm F#$%@*& Daniel Meade" isn't a YouTube hit. "We are not going to lose again," he says. Ooooh, big man.
"If we do, one of your dies," Wilhelmina adds. My GOD how I've missed that woman. What's even better, Daniel doesn't correct her. Heh.
Daniel wants anything they talk about in the conference room kept as proprietary, which immediately means Betty's going to botch this bigtime! Super-fun-yay! Is every good comedy based on Three's Company theory? Marc is Jack, Amanda is Chrissy, Betty is clearly Janet, Daniel is Mr. Roper, Wilhelmina is Mrs. Roper, Mode is the Regal Beagle, and I'm old!
Connor says he loves the whole good cop/bad cop thing they have going and Daniel explains that actually he's nice, Wilhelmina's not. "Can I help it if my balls are bigger than his?" No, you can't, but so are a mouse's, so that's hardly worth bragging about.
Willie's having a party Friday night and is hoping Connor can make it. Kegger! He says Molly has a pageant that night (I hope he means for the kids) but he's going to talk her out of going to it. Damn, this school has a lot of evening activities! I'm glad I have dogs where our evening activities involve hibernating on the sofa until Letterman comes on, then peeling my contacts off my eyeballs to go to bed and hibernate more. Damn you Midwest winters! Willie is going to bump Anna Wintour off the list to accommodate Molly's non-heavily-banged head. Excellent!
Explosive fashion! Wait, does it have lights
like a Christmas sweater?
The big Mode idea? They are going to have Keira Knightly model a vintage Halston "Fireworks Collection" dress for their next cover, because nothing says fashion than a flat boy-chested model in an outfit that has nothing to do with what you will be able to find at today's stores. Schweet. The dress does look kind of cool on paper, but then again, so did Communism.
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Comments (1)
Still don't feel any attraction for Molly's character (or any character in her attraction?).
Howeer, Willie and Connor could be awesome.
Karma nailed Papi for being so uncharacteristically insensitive toward Betty.
Thanks!
1 of 1 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on January 19, 2009 10:23 AM