Hello Gasmii, sorry for the late recap, I have been busy procuring some employment and I had no idea how much a new job would cut into my recapping! Thanks for your patience, I recap much better when I can pay bills and you know, afford to eat.
This week, a new Meade joins the family!
We open this happy-go-lucky episode of Ugly Betty with a woman speaking at Y.E.T.I. (crap, I thought we were sort of done with this once Papi's heart crapped out) about the horrors of Darfur. To the woman next to him Marc says, "We get it...Darfur's a bummer, but who wants those images in their head?" and the camera pans so we see Betty crying.
No, this look really isn't helping.
"She amazing," Betty says to the woman next to her. "You're so lucky to be able to work for her," to which the woman replies to Betty that Mode sounds so much more fun, especially during "Fashion Week." More fun than Darfur?
"Fashion Week does not compare to Genocide Week," Betty says. Is that another Hallmark holiday, because they are really running out of ideas. The woman finishes speaking and Jodie (Bernadette's back!) says that it was both brilliant and depressing, but mostly brilliant. Betty gets up to talk to the depressing editor, and some tool interrupts her and asks if the jacket he is wearing is brown. Ironically, he's still too good for me.
...and it's ultrasuede...just like Madonna's skin!
"Yes," Betty answers, exasperated because he hasn't qualified this bonehead question by saying he's color blind. He stands up and starts complaining that he never had the box of 64 crayons that every other kid had, and I'm like dude, I'm sure you had the box of 8 that had brow in it. Then he starts talking about obscure colors like mocha and clearly Betty is trying to get by him to talk to the Darfur editor. "Or mudd...or treebark..." he continues and Betty tells them those aren't really colors. Have you been to Lowe's paint chip isle lately? They are!
Jealous, Sports Guy?
"Well, leave it to fashion girl to clear that up," he says. Fashion girl? Who the hell is he talking about? Jodie? Darfur lady? Me? Because I know sure as hell he isn't talking about Crayola-explosion blouse Betty.
"I'm not fashion girl," Betty says and Marc leans in and says, "I'm fashion girl." And how! Anyway, this guy introduces himself as "Sports Guy," then calls Betty "Fashion Girl" and says they are known as their magazines. I guess I'm "Coupon Weekly Girl." Excellent! Darfur editor overhears this trite conversation and asks Betty what she does at Mode. Betty is kind of the Meade's "get out of jail free" card.
Betty tells her that she's the assistant to the editor-in-chief (well, one of them), writes for their website, and oversaw a cover shoot. Darfur says, "Well, looks like you are well on your way to becoming a fashion editor." Okay, first of all, LOOK AT HER. Fashion is soooo not in her blood, although the glasses do smack of Anna Wintour. Second, just because you start out at one place does not mean you will get stuck there. If that were the case, people would be calling me "Pre-menopausal Blockbuster Girl."
Betty explains that she doesn't plan to stay in fashion, that's why she's in Y.E.T.I. The woman tells her to get off the fashion track and get other experience, otherwise fashion is where she's heading. THAT IS WHY SHE'S IN Y.E.T.I. Pay attention, Darfur!
Back at Mode, Betty is explaining her great idea to Christina about how she recommended to Jodie that everyone pair up with someone at a different magazine to get more experience. Christina warns Betty she's got enough stuff going on with Fashion Week and I have to ask, is it Fashion Week? I hadn't heard. About Fashion Week.
Does anyone see owls, because I can totally hear something hooting.
Marc is going over Wilhelmina's schedule with her and it's all Donna Karan coffee, Donna Karan lunch, and Donna Karan show. Willie's smart enough to be wearing Cavalli and tells Marc to give her the damn dress. Which Cavalli did not send over. And why is that please? Because that design house will burn.
Marc explains that since Willie has been dating Connor, she hasn't been out and about like she used to, so she's "fallen off the radar." Why-oh-why is she not parading Connor around like a prize? I know I would be. Willie has a conniption because "Wilhelmina Slater is the most important person at Fashion Week." I thought that was Mizrahi's mom. Am I wrong?
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Comments (3)
I don't work in fashion, but I do watch The Hills and The City, so I feel justified in rolling my eyes at this supposed fashion magazine..do fashion magazines even put on fashion shows? And why not hire Kelly whatshername or Whitney or something.
And you forgot to mention the old, father freaking out and driving off to the hospital without the pregnant person, makes me want to hit somebody...
1 of 3 | Posted by crt123 | Posted on February 27, 2009 3:42 PM
That smiley-face dress of Heinrich's was actually worn by Colin Firth's wife on the red carpet.
2 of 3 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on February 27, 2009 9:17 PM
Thanks, Dear Crabby for another recap. Sports Guy might not be Sandwich Guy but he's also growing on me.
I love how you opened the recap with a pic of the Lion King because that's exactly what was on my mind when I saw the birth scene.
3 of 3 | Posted by beatrice B | Posted on February 28, 2009 3:49 PM