Hello Gasmii! The season finale of Ugly Betty does not disappoint, what with it's intrigue, interviews, job-stealing, love-child aborting/adopting, Henry-returning, sexoholic living in sinning, Betty-cheating, Justin-dreaming, career-ruining, hopes-crushing, Molly-watching, ghost-whispering, cover-modeling, bride-dying, mother-drinking, investor-meddling, co-editor snaking, features-editor-dying, pigeon-picturing, magazine award-winning, Matt-revenging, and private-investigating...phew! Let's begin!
Sweet Moses, I need to get a life!
We open with Suzuki telling us it's day 7 of Molly Watch, and I'm thinking New York has peaked. How awkward would it be to be leaving a hospital with a bunch of people cheering you on from your terminal disease? "Gimme a T! Gimme an E! Gimme an R,M,I!...Gimme an N - A - and an L! What does that spell? TERMINAL! Go Spartans!" Suzuki says Daniel, once a "man whore" has been transformed into a devoted husband. Of 7 days. "It's Prince Charming and soon-to-be-Sleeping Beauty," Suzuki says. Hey! That's my job!
Molly is wheeled out by a doctor (again, best insurance ever!) and Suzuki mentions all the well-wishers. "Even that clown has taken time out from entertaining those sick kids," he says, as Betty exits in a clown-like ensemble and balloons. Can you blame Suzuki, people? No, no you can't. The best part? The clown music they are playing. How many Bettys can fit into a little car? Probably 2.
Cut over to the gym where Daniel and Betty are watching this on TV and Betty is bitching because Suzuki never remembers her and she's been to his house (where she discovered his heterosexual Jersey ways). Daniel is on the treadmill and Betty is telling him The View is interested in having him on. Oh, crap, I hope this isn't a show cross-over, particularly with that insipid View. Betty squirts water into Daniel's mouth and we realize that she will be an assistant forever.
Betty reminds Daniel she has her YETI interviews the next day, and Daniel knows she's going to end up with something good. Like squirting water down Anna Wintour's gullet? She squirts more water into Daniel's mouth as Cal comes into the gym asking Betty what it's like to be working for the most beloved man in New York City. She's working for Michael J. Fox now?
Cal stops by because he has nothing better to do than haunt the halls of Mode and tells Daniel he'll be advertising at the new CitiField. He gives Daniel and Betty seats to the game and Daniel says he hopes Molly is up for it. Cal, in a typically sensitive way, says he hopes so because he's arranged for Molly to throw out the first pitch that night. Nothing like giving a cancer-ridden woman who has just left the hospital after collapsing something physical to do on national television, Douchey McDoucherson. Even I wouldn't have done that! "The press will really eat that up; really promote the wedding issue," he says. Ass. Daniel says he's not comfortable asking Molly to do that, what with his soul disagreeing with this, so Cal tells Daniel to do it instead.
In typical Wilhelmina fashion, she's in her office talking about what a good person she is, ahem, and how she really deserves to be on The View talking about their wedding issue. Who ever volunteers to be on the The View? Isn't an appearance on that show part of some kind of community service/punishment? "Just because dumb Daniel is lucky enough to marry someone with cancer, I have to take a backseat?" she says. We are cut out of the same mold, Willie.
Here comes Claire telling Wilhelmina to re-think the cover of the wedding issue. Why would you be promoting it if it's not out yet, dumbasses? Willie says the reason Claire doesn't understand the cover is because it's about fashion. "It's generic and Cal agrees with me," Claire says. Nice passive-aggressiveness, Claire. Why not just cut Willie's breaks? Willie realizes that Claire and Cal have some kind of connection and she wants to know more about it so she can "rip it apart!" Sweet.
Over in Betty's hallway, Matt brought her a fro-yo or something for her post-breakfast/pre-lunch slump. Dude, she has like 4 snacks tucked into that time period. He brought his first painting, and when he unveils it I projectile vomited my popcorn. It's a painting of Betty with Betty's head and Kate Winslet's body from Titanic with a nightgown, and sunflowers all over the background. Betty covers it immediately.
It's horrifying in it's likeness. From the neck up.
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Comments (3)
I must have lapsed into a coma (or a comma) about half-way through, because I didn't remember anything after that. But, thanks to your thorough and excellent recap, I don't have to watch it online.
1 of 3 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on May 29, 2009 10:04 AM
THE RECAP CUTS OFF!!!! WHERE IS THE REST OF THIS BRILLIANT RECAP?!?!?!
This is how it ends: "Over in Willie's apartment, she is..."
I am reserving my unadulterated praise for this recap until the rest of it has been posted!
2 of 3 | Posted by slumrville | Posted on May 29, 2009 10:32 AM
Sorry guys - totally my fault, that's what happens when you try to get a finale done before leaving for a business trip - we'll get the rest up when I get back to my home computer - sorry - thanks for reading!
3 of 3 | Posted by dearcrabby | Posted on May 30, 2009 11:24 AM