Dear Crabby: Can this show get any better in terms of reaching a telenovelas high this season?
-Couch Ass Groove
Dear Couch: Any better, and you'll have to be writing to Dear Happy. And no one wants that!
-Crabby/Happy
Glad to see the Biore strips are working, Betty!
This was ONE SWEET episode of Ugly Betty that offered the telenovela viewer everything! I don't smoke but could have used a cigarette after this one, it was so satisfying. When we last left Mode, Christina had fallen and was unable to get up. Let's re-join the show already knee-deep in intrigue!
Betty is being interrogated by a better version of Coach (HOTT) and my first thought is, does the Meade Empire have ANY lawyers? Seems like we've had a few situations where they could have been useful, particularly now. And if Cops, Forensic Files, and my own personal history have taught me anything, lawyer up before answering any questions. Duh.
I'm like Coach, but with a real job.
The investigator asks Betty if she knows where Daniel was last night. At the party, gloating? "Do I know where Daniel was last night?" She finally stutters out. Perfect stall tactic, any policeman or person who watches Cops, Forensic Files, and has committed misdemeanors knows. Ahem. The editors take us back six hours earlier...to see that Betty is eating Cap'N Crisp cereal. Oh, sugary morning delights, do you ever quit? You do when Betty answers the phone and become so distracted she pours coffee over the cereal. What a waste of caffeine and sugar!
Papi has called to see if she has enough locks on the doors. Just like my own Papi! Paranoia masked by concern. Betty says she's fine and safe, and realizes someone took her umbrella. That she left outside her apartment. In an umbrella stand she clearly placed there. Move to Des Moines if you are going to pursue that kind of risky behavior, damn.
I bet she smells like wet dog.
A soggy Betty gets to the office ("A big improvement!" Amanda notices) and she greets Daniel and DJ who apparently is skipping school that day. Betty offers to go on a "dry cleaning" run for Daniel since he's off the track-suit track. Betty should hire that kind of crap out. Daniel throws her a very dusty rain coat. What was he rolling in, cement mix? AT THE BOTTOM OF SOME STAIRS? He also tells her he was supposed to get his mother home last night but stepped out...he wants Betty to say that they were up late packing up at Player magazine. "I thought that was the simplest explanation," he says. Sounds like someone got lucky!
The devil wears Prada...ties. And he's a bit of a dick.
They are interrupted with Marc making a huge announcement that Wilhelmina Slater is in the hospital. This exudes a round of gasps I wouldn't have expected from the crowd. I would've thought snickers and cheers would have been the sounds of choice. He tells them that Christina fell down the stairs and is unconscious, but that (thank goodness), "Baby and Wilhelmina are fine." Well phew!
"Marc! What about Christina!?" Betty blurts out.
"I'm sure that she's...you know what? I didn't ask." Oh, Marc, you are my favorite.
Betty flees to the hospital through a wind tunnel because she's dry and somewhat presentable. Christina's head is wrapped up and her arm is in a sling, and between the wide-open door and windows, she has no privacy. Good times. "Christina, are you alright?" Betty asks. Clearly she is not, Betty! Christina says she doesn't remember much, except that someone pushed her.
Wow, that looks...expensive.
On TV, Suzuki St. Pierre reports on the Baby Mama Drama with the "Meade-Slater Baby Crisis" story. Well, more interesting than the "AIG-WAMU Money Crisis" story, and much better dressed people. St. Pierre wonders did she fall, or could she have been pushed by one of the Meades, or more importantly, one of Wilhelmina's "frienemies." The best part of that is they show Martha Stewart. Heh. You know who else would have been awesome to show as a frienemy? Paula Deen.
Watch it or she'll cut you with her Wustöf knife that she bought at Sur La Table!
Wilhelmina, wrapped up like a chic Mother Theresa, is shown giving a press conference. "I will not rest until the person who threatened the life of my unborn child," she passionately begins as Marc leans over and whispers something to her, then continues nonchalantly, "and others...is brought to justice." She offers $100,000 to anyone with information.
Hard to look somber when you're the lead singer of the Miami Sound Machine!
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Comments (4)
Great recap - and certainly one of the best Betty episodes yet. The paternity reveal at the end caught me totally off guard.
1 of 4 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on October 13, 2008 10:14 AM
Wee-hoo! Here we go... Seriously, past two episodes were like "and....annnd....?" we were going to give it one more ep before just waiting for the DVD, when BANG!!! Now That's what we're talkin about!
2 of 4 | Posted by killbondnow | Posted on October 13, 2008 2:21 PM
Yay, Gio's back! I actually liked Gio better when he was mean to Betty intially then when he liked her and was after her. They have better "hate" chemistry!
3 of 4 | Posted by blazergirl | Posted on October 13, 2008 2:51 PM
I totally died and yelled "NO!!!?" out loud at the end. I assumed that they would make Daniel not be the father eventually but ALEX!! I died. I am just...this show is the best.
4 of 4 | Posted by pixiegal262 | Posted on October 13, 2008 3:45 PM