At the poetry slam, Matt tells Betty he's glad they could talk with Helen today. "It was weird," he admits, but good. For him! Matt sees a girl across the room and waves. Betty's all up in his business as subtly as she can be, asking, "Who's that?" Matt says she's a girl he knows from the coffee shop near his apartment, and swears that's the only place he knows her from. Or can remember. Betty slams her martini.
Betty, I didn't sleep with every person in here.
Just the women!
Wilhelmina yells to Manny that his shirt is in the washer and will be ready for him soon. She comes back into the living room and Manny is singing You Are My Sunshine to the baby like Connor did. Willie, in a moment of weakness, breaks down crying. She throws herself on the sofa and cries. So sad!
DRAAAMA! Or as it's called in my house, Monday morning.
At the poetry reading, some guy is talking about his "insecurity blanket." Bet he sees the same shrink Matt does. Daniel comes up to Molly, apologizes for being an ass (which time?) and tells her she should read the sex poem. You know, if I were dying I sure as hell wouldn't want to deal with bullshit relationship problems like this. Ugh!
Back at Willie's, she's in Manny's arms saying how she never should have let Connor in because now he's all in his dreams. He should really get out of her dreams and into her car! Manny holds her and talk about some hot, melted caramel surprise! Willie says what she needs is sex. Manny says he doesn't think she needs sex and she says, "Oh just take your pants off!" Like this guy is going to say no.
But Manny says he thinks she doesn't need sex, but instead to work things out so she can close the door on "this Connor guy and focus on your baby," he says. She thanks him and says he really helped her. "And since now we won't be having sex, you're fired," she says. Lawsuit! "Get out!" Nice.
You don't want me? You're gay. Get out.
Or pull my finger, then get out.
Molly finishes her poem and luckily all we have to hear of it is the applause. Phew! Molly runs offstage and past Matt and Betty, and the waitress comes over to give Matt the bill. She leans over and whispers something to him, and Betty hallucinates seeing the girl in a white t-shirt with number 108 on it. She looks around the room and all the women have white t-shirts with numbers on them. Come on, Betty, lots of the girls he slept with were probably at Yale and in Rome, not just New York. He's an international man of mystery sex.
You know, if you put them together,
you'd have the square root of a Matt sandwich!
Betty stands up, grabs her stuff and says she's going to stay goodbye to Daniel. If she's smart she will run, run, run all the way home and call Gio. I'm sure he has his own baggage but is smart enough to keep his number on the down-low.
At Casa Catfight, Councilman isn't sure what the hell is going on. Thank God he works in government where it won't matter. Hilda says she didn't think he was her type but he is. He says he has a type, too. "I think I sort of go for the bad girls," he says. And the dumb ones if tonight is any indication. Hilda laughs. "You think I'm a bad girl? You loved it...two girls going at it over you..."
Kiss me! I can't do my Howard the Duck imitation forever!
"It was really hot!" he admits. They decide to give it another try and he says, "I'm not always such a nice guy." ZZZZZZZ. They go to kiss and Papi walks in on them. "Oh my God," Papi says, "I'm going to start wearing a bell." Why, did you get your wings? Oh, Papi.
Matt and Betty are walking down the street and Betty's like, "I'm going to get a cab." Matt asks is she wants to come up and see his new wall color. The only thing Betty should be seeing is your negative AIDS test as your wall color is the least of her worries right now. Betty's like, yeah. Guess when you call her one in a million it's true and she doesn't really care for that.
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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