Willie says that is ridiculous to think that Manny could wash her car. Marc says, "He is totally hot! He looks like Taye Diggs!" to which Wilhelmina snaps, "What is it with white people and Taye Diggs?" Haha! We find him less threatening than Seal? Marc says he'll call another nanny but Willie says forget it, he already knows the layout of the apartment. He can stay. Uh-huh. Then she has Marc book her for a Brazilian. Unrelated. Uh-huh.
This is what's with white people and Taye Diggs.
Exactly!
Betty tells Marc and Amanda that the Sexification of Betty was the worst story ever told and she wants her money back. They tell her she must have done something wrong, and I'm thinking they are winning more than Rice-a-Roni on this game show. She tells them the whole night was a disaster - she threw herself at him and he ran away. Marc's assessment? MATT IS GAY! "Or a virgin!" Amanda says. "Or a woman!" Marc says. "That feels right," Amanda says. I'm going to go with virgin.
Betty says she wanted to talk to him about it but he's working through lunch. Amanda challenges her to go over and talk to him and Betty says fine, she'll do it. Marc and Amanda decide to join her so she can buy them lunch first.
Outside of Matt's building Betty tries to decide what to say to him. "You'd better think fast," Amanda says, "Richie Rich just left the building!" D'oh! They decide to maturely follow him to see where he goes. All over town judging by the musical montage we see. Too bad Matt's peripheral vision doesn't work, otherwise he'd see these three doofs across the street.
Matt waves to a someone then we see him hug a blonde woman. "He's totally two-timing you!" Amanda says. Poor Betty. Hard to believe that mailbox hides you that well.
Air kiss!
"Let's get this show on the road," Marc says, "I'm starving." He shoves Betty out from behind the mailboxes, she screams, and Matt sees her. She tries to hide - behind her hand - and he says, "Betty, what are you doing here?" Behind Betty we see Matt and Amanda walking by pointing to the buildings as though they don't know her. J'adore them both.
Betty, where did you go? Invisibility cloak?
Betty walks over and says she's still confused about last night and then says, "If you're with her, that's fine. Well, it's not fine...oh God, I wish I wasn't here right now." Then you should have left with Marc and Amanda, I would have!
Then the blonde lady looks at her I begin to wonder if Matt's into cougars because she ain't so young. She looks like an adult. "I'm Helen," she says to Betty. "My therapist," Matt says. Oh crap. Oh crap crap crap! He's Nutty McNutterson and I bet he was at the same hospital as Willie's sister. They probably set things on fire together, this time it just happened to be Betty's naughty bits. "Why don't you join us?" Helen says. That's presumptious. Will she have to go Dutch on this appointment?
Couples counseling is really a sucky date, Matt,
especially on your monthaversary.
In Helen's office, Matt says, "Betty, I'm sorry I said I had to work through lunch, I just needed to see Helen." Betty says she doesn't know what she's supposed to say. Helen says, "You can say anything you want to say or not say, or you don't have to say anything, which is a great movie but a bit of a sleeper when it first came out, now an anthem for our times." She must be of great help to Matt. And she didn't really say the last part about the movie, that's poetic license without the poetic.
Betty tells Matt she's sorry about last night and that she was trying to push him into doing something he didn't want to do. He says that's not it at all. She says, "Tell me if you're not attracted to me of if you just want to stay friends." Unlike the rest of Manhattan who totally wants to bed her in every episode. He says, "I am attracted to you," and his looks says he'd ravage her right now if Helen wasn't there, and even that isn't really stopping him. So what is? Oh, Gasmii, this is going to be soooo bad, I can feel it. He looks at Helen and she nods.
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Comments (6)
Dear Crabby -
Excellent recap (of a show that is getting sillier by the week!)
No seriously, the first season of this show, I was in love! And look, I completely understand that this is based on Spanish soap operas, and therefore reality must be suspended during viewing, but come the FUCK on!
So, Matt is super rich and hides that by "forgetting" his wallet a bunch of times therefore making the financially unstable girl pay for their dinners/coffees/whatever. Not very creative writers, I think they should've had him "forget" his wallet because he doesn't actually have one - he's homeless and living on a bench at Penn Station! I don't know - something a little more gripping like that.
And, now he's had a lot of sex with a lot of different women? Um, WHAT? I hate that story line, while they were sitting in the therapist's office I thought he was going to be like, I have an STD or something a little more realistic - not, I'm a man-whore. I love how he's being treated like a "nice guy in recovery from a difficult life of random sex" whereas if this were a woman character, she'd be written off as a nasty slut. Ugh - seriously, Gio left and brought all the creativity of this show with him!
Sorry for the rant, but GRRRRRRRrrrrr!
(I do kind of love the councilman though, something about Karate Kid at age 45 is still pretty adorable!)
1 of 6 | Posted by carmelicious | Posted on March 24, 2009 9:57 AM
Good recap once again, too bad it's for a show that appears to be in steep decline.
I was disgusted by this episode (Betty prances into bed with a sex addict?!). Seriously creepy content. I don't plan to watch anymore, but I may drop by and read your recaps anyway. Yes, they are that good.
I am a Gio fan and like seeing your mentions of him. You seem to have a fond memory for the character (thank you!) unlike the show. Why? Why God? Why was he dumped from the show?
Curious, did pickle = Gio?
2 of 6 | Posted by bgroman | Posted on March 24, 2009 5:56 PM
Great recap. I'm not ready to abandon ship, but it does seem to have lost something. I'm hoping Rebecca R will return soon. I also miss Gio (please sign the online petition - haha).
Amanda and Mark are still great together (or separately).
One thing this show has in common with a lot of others - they incorporate the real life economic crisis into the storylines. I watch TV to ESCAPE (okay, ignore) my own problems; not to be reminded of them.
The promiscuity aspect - not to mention the STD possibilities - of Matt's past is a real turn-off.
(I'm a man who never understood how anyone could go to a prostitude - even before the onslaught of AIDS - you just don't know WHERE that thang has been!)
When it comes to sex partners, less is usually more. Some things don't change.
3 of 6 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on March 25, 2009 7:55 AM
Okay, call me naive, but what's a "carwash", metaphorically speaking?
BTW, who wants to know about anyone's pubic hair removal? When did it become pubic knowledge?
Also, I did not recognize Ralph Macchio until I saw his name in the credits and figured it out!
4 of 6 | Posted by scottywrangler | Posted on March 27, 2009 8:44 AM
Great recap as always! I can't even stand to watch the lame ass show anymore so I just come here to find out what happened.
5 of 6 | Posted by E-fo | Posted on March 28, 2009 9:16 AM
Before, I couldn't get past the fact that, while Matt is reasonably cute, he and Betty have no real sexual or romantic chemistry. They were okay though only so-so as friends (do these actors even bother to run lines together to give them some semblance of making a connection?). As a couple they're just bleh. Now I can't get past the fact that they have no chemistry plus he has a serious, not easily treated mental illness and maybe a long history of spreading STD around. And she hearts him? This girl who decided she "just didn't have those feelings" for a sane guy who unabashedly adored her and was so hot his kiss made her moan with desire and dancing with him got her all squirmy. Damn, you're right she should run call Gio!
6 of 6 | Posted by Livia | Posted on April 10, 2009 10:30 PM