...when she meets Daniel in the elevator. Daniel goes ape-shit on Betty when she gets to the office. Betty says she's not happy at Player but Daniel says he is. She decides to take the job with Wilhelmina, and does so wearing a tragic, tragic tunic/jumper/bandage that puts the focus on her left boob. What the hell? What normal person would wear that?
Blue boob! Blue boob! Blue boob!
Walking through the halls of Mode (which seemed to have warmed back up from last week's chill), Christina and Betty are talking about keeping an eye on Wilhelmina. Well, it's worked so far...not at all! They hug while Wilhelmina and Marc watch. "Christina must have a doughnut in her pocket," Marc quips. I'd be hugging her too if that were the case. Hope it's a Boston Cream!
Marc welcomes Mode's new employee by offering her a mimosa but then rescinding it saying if Betty gets the filing right he won't beat her with a bag of oranges. I find potatoes work much better, Marc. Not as much give in the skins. "Don't eat or drink anything he gives you," Christina warns. She should have warned her about that hot pink patent-leather eight-inch belt. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Back at Player, Daniel finds out his son's grandparents have filed for custody for DJ in France. Now that puts a little hitch in the immigration papers. I'm surprised they didn't fly to New York to collect him immediately after that completely unsupervised field trip. Nice going, crappy French teachers.
His lawyer/stripper (seriously, doesn't she seem like dippy eye candy and not someone who should be advising him on legal matters?) says he should probably find out what DJ wants before getting into a huge custody battle that could last years. She leaves and I notice Daniel's office looks like a page out of IKEA. Unnecessary plastic objects are perfect for this economy. Dejected, Daniel walks out to where Betty used to sit, and looks at the coffee cup she left behind. It's a picture of her making a thumb's up. I would have left that too!
Crabby: Stripper or lawyer?
Daniel: Can't she be both?
Betty is bringing a cappuccino to Wilhelmina during an important meeting with an advertiser while Marc preps her on what to do/not to do. He says to stay invisible which is going to be hard to do in that outfit. Seems like Willie should have sent Betty for some grooming and personal shopping before bringing her aboard, but the waxing itself may have taken too long.
Wilhelmina is trying to get the advertiser to buy more ad space (which, again, would she be working on this or would the AD SALES team be working on it?) but the advertiser, in a wonderfully 60s avocado green sparkly ensemble complete with turban is not interested. They've had no "uptick" in sales after advertising over the past two years. Then she steals Willie's coffee right off the saucer Betty is holding.
I'm going to have to face it, I'm addicted to love.
Betty tries to escape but the advertiser asks if Betty uses her cosmetics. Betty hems and haws then says no. She says she can't afford them, to which Marc interjects, "I do! I'd rather starve than go without your night cream." Which probably costs the same amount as feeding a small village somewhere we don't care about.
The advertiser says they are coming out with a budget line, but she doubts the Del Rios budget customers are looking through the pages of Mode. Betty says that her sister keeps Mode at her salon - I'm sorry, her "salon," and that all the women talk about Mode all day long. You know, the two women that show up to Hilda's salon by accident each month. Wilhelmina and the advertiser are all excited about the deal that Betty just helped closed.
Betty is all excited about how she helped Wilhelmina although Marc says Willie needs no help. "She totally smiled at me," Betty says and Marc counters, "That wasn't smiling, she was showing her teeth!" Just like all of my family photos! GRRRR!
"Betty!" Wilhelmina yells. "In my office. Now." Then she flashes her Orbitz smile/teeth, including the sparkling white "ding" that goes along with stuff like that. I wish I had one of those.
Orbitz for your dirty, dirty soul?
Betty goes in and begins to apologize to Wilhelmina, but instead of yelling at her, Willie gives her a list of things she needs for the launch party. Perfume, bee pollen, cleansing milk, and the tiara Catherine the Great wore to her wedding to Peter the Third. By the end of the day. You know what? Still better than working at Player.
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Comments (1)
Another FINE recap - and a good episode! (I may give minor demerits for anti-GOP bias).
"Betty, I think I'd like to go back to
having Marc do my collagen injections." - LOL Brilliant screencap
In real life, Hilda should stop and ask herself if she really wants to be married to a man who cheats on his wife. But this is a teleno-nothing, so I think this we should get used to the dating-married-guys plots.
1 of 1 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on October 7, 2008 9:26 AM