Daniel comes in and saves the day with PhotoShop. What a genius! Then he says he wants to "mix things up in the magazine" and move some items around. When is the last time he read the magazine let alone edited it? He says, "I'm always looking for meaning in my life everyone except the one place I can get it." Your pants? "Right here." Oh. "I love this job." Claire hugs him.
Chinese finger torture is the worst, especially when there isn't one on your fingers!
Back to Casa Placenta, where the ambulance took so damn long to get there, Charlie is now 9cm dilated (don't we live in the US? Call it approximately 4.5 inches. And do they actually measure or guestimate?). They can't move her. Betty, be sure to call The Rug Doctor tomorrow, you are going to need it. And if Daniel is back at the office, where is Papi with that soy milk? Or did he get as frustrated with this episode as I did and just headed off to bed? Oh wait, there he is, handing Betty a small towel. Hope it's the quicker picker upper. More screaming! Here comes Henry. Betty hands him the towel and takes off.
Yet another 3-way Betty is so not into
Back at Mode, the Meades are drinking mead (I thought Claire was on the wagon?) and toasting each other when the lights dim and a sonogram appears on the wall. Wilhelmina walks out and says "That is a sonogram of my baby. Of your father's baby. I'm having your father's child."
Kubrick's 2008: A Space Oddity
"Oh dear God," Claire says. Drink up!
"My only concern is protecting it and giving it everything it deserves," she says.
"And what would that be?" Daniel asks.
"One third of the Meade empire." Nice move. Would Bradford's sperm been considered part of his estate? Because I'm wondering where the loophole is going to be on this thing.
Looks like Claire picked the wrong week to stop drinking
Betty is in the kitchen and Papi is trying to give her tea. She'll have none of it, mostly because it's hard to enjoy calming tea when someone is screaming in the background. She should have called a caterer so they could have cleaned up the mess. Then we hear the baby crying and Henry says, "It's a boy!" Betty watches from the kitchen and realizes that is pretty much it.
Now I can go on Maury as a baby daddy. Score!
Henry is holding his son and smiling at her, and her dreams of the cross-country romance are as smashed as that poor piñata is going to be. Henry is not going to make time on the weekends to see her, because she's just been moved to #2 on the list of most important things in his life. She turns to Papi and cries. I cry because this was an absolutely moronic and insane Ugly Betty.
Remember what Vince Lombardi said: "If you don't win, you're out of the family!"
Next week - Betty and Henry make a clean break, Betty and Gio make out (sort of), the Meade/Slater feud fuels up like the Jets and the Sharks, and Willie's lipstick looks a little too red. Hopefully it won't suck, and the Crab will lighten up a bit.
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Comments (4)
With the writers strike, are they trying to cram in too much story to finish up the season? There's so much going on it's hard to keep up (or care) anymore. Bad episode. Lame. Get Charlie and Henry the hell outta there.. get Christina back to work where she belongs.. get Willie & Mark & Amanda back to their old scheming. Thank God that blowhard Gene Simmons is out, too. Sheesus.
The awful music at the beginning was New Kids on the Block, if I remember my horrific boy bands correctly.
1 of 4 | Posted by Memememe | Posted on May 16, 2008 8:07 PM
Let me first say that I adore you, Crabby! This season hasn't been very good so far, but this episode truly made Ugly Betty jump the shark. On second thought, the show jumped the shark the second we found out Charlie is pregnant. Why was Henry dipping his stick in that when he really loves Betty?
They're complete martydom is what binds Henry and Betty to each other, and is what makes me wanna throw up every time I see them together now. I don't know if the writers can dig this show out of the hole it's in.
Meme is right. The song at the beginning of the show is by New Kids. What's worse than me knowing that? I also know the title, the ironic (and clearly foreshadowing) "I'll be loving you forever..."
2 of 4 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on May 18, 2008 8:43 AM
Oops, I meant to write "Their complete martydom..."
3 of 4 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on May 18, 2008 8:47 AM
Why all the bitter Crabby? I love a snarky recap as much as the next person but it seems you have no love at all for this show.
Certainly this wasnt the best episode but it is still a fun and mostly original show that is A LOT better than half the crap out there.
I dont love it all but I dont think the show has jumped the shark. Whenever they bring Mark and Amanda together; they make it all worth watching.
4 of 4 | Posted by Jelliepair | Posted on May 19, 2008 10:33 AM