Wilhelmina and Marc are walking down the hall when Willie spots someone wearing gladiator heels. She asks the girl if she is living in ancient Rome or if she'll be fighting a lion later, which you know, could bring in some money for the magazine. But unfortunately, this girl is doing neither so Willie demands she take off those nasty shoes, tells Marc to burn them, and fires the girl. I'm sure it's a real blow to be fired from a company who isn't even paying you anymore.
Marc decides to do a mental check on Willie which goes over as well as you might think. He asks if she's upset about Connor breaking her heart "just a little bit" but she says no, her mood is more about the fate of the company and the fact that her newborn baby won't STOP CRYING! I hear ya, Willie, I'm just glad I don't hear that baby. And shouldn't you be taking some kind of maternity leave, or was that benefit withdrawn with things like the 401(k), health insurance, and oh yeah, paychecks?
Willie tells Marc to pick up a few things for baby William and Marc says, "I did not sign up for this baby business." He looks at Willie's list and says, "Cashmere diapers, is she kidding?" I hope so, they would be very leaky. Amanda is all about shopping at baby stores because she loves sitting in the baby furniture and pretending she's a giant. Whatever gets you through your paycheck-less day, sister.
Amanda answers the phone (for once) and tells the person on the other end of the line to stop calling her there. "Leave me alone, you psycho!" she says. Wonder if she's talking to Edgar Winter from last week? No, turns out it's her mother. Oh, like we all haven't said that to our mothers at some point or another.
Marc tells her that it's been a year, would it be so bad to reconnect with them? Oh, yeah, I forgot about that storyline once Gene Simmons left the show. She's still pissed her parents lied to her about being adopted, and I'm sort of thinking she should get the hell over it. I mean, did you see their house? And she's an only child. Be angry AFTER you collect whatever they leave you in their will, duh.
This storyline is getting as irritating as the real financial crisis.
In Daniel's office that evening, he optimistically says, "The bad news is...our insurance doesn't cover us for a loss of this magnitude." Next time you should start out asking everyone how their weekend was, then go into the demise of the entire Meade Corporation. Also, I did check into this via my financial connection (a.k.a. "Dad") and there is something called Board of Directors insurance for when your top managers screw you Madoff-style and Daniel is actually correct, it would not cover something this large. Sucks to be you guys. Are those rats I see running out from the Meade lobby?
"And the good news?" Claire asks. Daniel says there is no good news and Willie is all up in his business about knowing how the good news/bad news concept works. Daniel volleys back, "If you're looking for good news why don't you ask your boyfriend, Connor?" Willie snots that Daniel stole Connor's fiancé so no wonder he wanted to steal from them, Daniel says she was dating him so how could she not know what he was doing, and Claire steps in and tells them if they don't stop arguing she's going to turn this car around RIGHT NOW!
Claire says that thousands of people are going to lose their jobs if they don't fix this. Claire's great idea? "A federal bailout." Oh you must be kidding. I mean, I can barely stomach bailing out the current jerkwads, but a fashion magazine? Suck on it, I'll just order Elle or Vogue or Bazaar or InStyle or Lucky or W or Cosmo or Glamour or Mademoiselle or Allure or Marie Claire. Get the picture?
Luckily, Claire was lucid enough this morning to read in her paper that the federal government is holding a panel hearing to consider a print media bailout. Because they are unaware of this series of tubes called the internet that is taking over print? This is going to be rich, unlike the Meades at this point.
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Comments (2)
Matt is sort of a super rich slacker version of henry. I actually like matt for betty, he would introduce her to new things that would cause some great situations for tv (betty in the hamptons??)
Just saw the Matt actor in a mcdonalds 'what can I get for a dollar?' ad, it was odd.
1 of 2 | Posted by carol | Posted on March 18, 2009 2:29 AM
Thanks for writing, Carol. Matt is adorable, meaning he must be hiding the freak somewhere (as we found out on the latest episode). I'll keep an eye out for that ad!
2 of 2 | Posted by dear crabby | Posted on March 23, 2009 9:19 AM