Betty is listening to Gio but loses interest as quickly as I did when she saw the first issue of Hot Flash magazine. At first I thought she was looking at the hottie holding it, but then realized he's probably gay and she wants to see her article. Ripping the magazine out of the guy's hand - she finds her article waaaay in the back of the magazine. It's smaller that what she wrote and clearly edited by a 13 year old with a limited vocabulary. Natch. Betty is upset that it's not even her article anymore.
"I want to be honest with you," Claire tells Betty when they meet. "The article was too safe." Hey, Betty's a safety girl. Betty is devastated, but says what anyone wanting to get ahead says:
"Thank you for the constructive criticism and thank you for the opportunity." She'll cry in the bathroom later.
"Betty, what do you want to be when you grow up?" Claire asks.
"I want to be you," she answers. Christiane Amanpour would have been a better answer, but sure Betty, make your hero a greedy alcoholic murderer who ignored her children growing up. That works too. "I want to own my own magazine, like you." Betty, Claire inherited her magazine empire from her dead husband, who only put Mode in her name for tax reasons. If you want to own your own magazine, you may consider going to business school instead of cleaning up after Daniel.
Claire tells Betty to start taking some risks, which is easy for rich people to tell poor people to do, especially in Oprah's magazine. Leave it all behind to start a school in Somalia! Don't worry, the rewards of charity will pay your bills! If you are rich already!
Cut to poor Hilda eating tater tots over lunch with Coach. These two were made for each other. Did he really bring her lunch from junior high? He included the green Jell-O too. Unless he's going to smear that all over her, that was a total waste of a lunch hour. Then they start this whole geological conversation about heat and pressure and remember why I took biology instead.
Are you sure you can use Jell-O in place of K-Y?
Alexis comes by Daniel's office to talk about his great job on the Mode softball uniforms and asks if he's been there all night. It seems Daniel has been working hard on a presentation for the past couple of nights because they need the advertising dollars. Alexis suggests using their Creative Director and Daniel says absolutely not, which makes sense since the advertising shouldn't be part of the Creative Director's job, hello! "I just don't trust her." Alexis says he doesn't seem to be trusting a lot of people lately. Yes, being stabbed in the back by your sibling will do that, sis.
Marc and Amanda are at the reception desk admiring themselves when Betty asks if she can be on the cheerleading squad. They make her try out for it with lots of jumps and Marc takes a picture of her - to prove to everyone she actually can get off the ground. Sadly, there are no uniforms in frump size, so Betty's out as little Lord Frenchboy walks in. Amanda wants to dress him up and put makeup on him. Of course she does.
She gets more air than Michael Jordan
Daniel is making his presentation to Chanel 2.0 and is failing miserably. She is confused with the demographics Daniel is showing her (the blonde color must be natural), and Marc echoes her confusion to give Willie her entrée into the conversation. Hope Willie can save the day, although not in that offensively fluffy-fronted dress. Seriously, there is just too much going on with the top of that dress - buttons, pockets, huge collar and belt. What was going through her botox?
My God that dress has a lot of accoutrement. Don't make eye contact!
Willie tells the woman that although Daniel's presentation is accurate it makes her head hurt...wah! She tries to appeal to Chanel 2.0's heart. Blech. They are raising money through the Mode/Elle softball game - why don't they donate the money to the children's charity Chanel 2.0 is the chair of? Damn, think how pissed PETA is going to be when they find out their earmarked donation is going to children. I am duly horrified as well...always pick animals over kids. Because animals are cute and kids grow up to be adults who just get in my way on the road.
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Comments (3)
I agree...I think she went somewhere, maybe Rome, by herself to think. Remember 90210 when Dylan wanted to take Kelly on a trip around the world and Brandon proposed and she chose herself? I think it's exactly like that... And I agree also that there will probably be some type of new magazine for Daniel where Betty will work...not sure how it will all tie together, but that's what I think!
1 of 3 | Posted by LNNC92 | Posted on June 2, 2008 9:51 AM
Nice recap. I think most non-entitled people are going to have sympathy for Willie (who deserves/earned the job) over Daniel (who inherited and feels entitled to it). His sibling is a creep.
Betty's obviously going somewhere - but probably not with Gio or Henry. (The show couldn't stand her moving to Arizona, or leaving Meade publications, for that matter.)
Daniel could be the poster child for why many "regular" people resent spoiled, entitled children of the rich. Sort of a male version of Paris Hilton.
2 of 3 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on June 2, 2008 9:56 AM
useful recap thanks, but whats with the crappy religious jokes,,,"shiiite muslim"?? thats rude.
3 of 3 | Posted by ibbywee | Posted on September 24, 2008 4:39 AM