"Don't choke on your adult braces," Victoria says, as she dims the lights. She tells Betty she wants to show her a presentation they put together for an intervention they did for Matt. This guy just gets better and better with each episode, doesn't he? WHERE IS GIO!?!?!
Victoria clicks to a picture of Matt running a marathon...until mile 25 when he quit to follow his new passion, karate. He got to brown belt when he quit that to follow yet another passion, pottery. "And here..." she says, clicking to a picture of the mushroom on her painting from the ill-fated dinner party. "...why that's your mushroom cap on my painting, how did that get in there?" Then she shows Matt with a cow which I'm hoping he didn't violate. He was studying to be a large animal vet. "His dream died, so did Tiny," the elephant.
He's just waiting for Patrick Swayze
to spoon him at the wheel.
"Why are you showing me these things?" Betty asks. "It does seem odd given I don't care for you," Victoria says and I do a spit-take. I wish she'd adopt me, we could be rude together. "But your plucky, immigrant zeal could be a good thing." She tells Betty she wants Matt back in YETI. Betty tells her he's pretty passionate about art now, but Victoria says she doesn't want Matt to be one of those "incredibly rich men who never accomplish anything." You mean like Trump?
"I think if he finishes this program, he'll stick with publishing," she says. "Of course, I can't tell him that." Well, couldn't you put him in a financial time-out until he gets his shit together? Cut off the money and when he has to pay his own way, he'll shape up. Or live in the gutter. Betty says she doesn't feel comfortable telling him that and I'm thinking what does she have to tell him? Just invite him back into the group.
Victoria hands the contract to Betty and tells her good luck with the planetarium, she knows how important it is for her career. "It would be such a shame if anything went wrong," she threatens. I love this woman, threatening a plucky immigrant who is actually a plucky American.
Marc is like, "Wake up and smell the quid pro quo, of course she's going to take it away if we don't get Matt back in the group." He and Victoria would make a hell of a team, wouldn't they? Betty's upset because she feels like she's using Matt to finish the project, "Not seeing the problem!" Marc quips, but she also wants to help Matt finish something. Come on, Betty, didn't you see this when you first met him and he said something about almost finishing law school and almost finishing veterinarian school and...how the hell old is Matt?
Marc clarifies for her. He says he doesn't care about her relationship, but if they don't get Matt back into the group, they don't get the planetarium and if they don't get that their project and future careers are dead. "We're out of options at Mode. Just make it work!" he tells Betty. I love problem-solvers.
That's one way to get her out of her pants, spill lunch on her.
Over at Casa Marriage Proposal, Elena is being served lunch by Papi who manages to spill it all over the place. Elena is like, "Yo, what up, dawg?" and Papi gets on his knees and proposes. She accepts. This is never going to happen. And oh my God, I just realized as he hugged her he is still wearing his wedding ring from the original wife. Dude. Duuuude. Dude.
You didn't wear that ring while having sex
with her, did you? So, so bad, Papi.
Back at Mode, Matt stops by the cafeteria with a huge pile of art books. Betty asks Matt if he thinks it would be worth finishing YETI before moving on to the next thing. She says it's only one week, his art class doesn't even start until the following week, blah-blah-blah. Then he says what every girl loves to hear, "You sound like my mother." Betty stumbles and he says, "It's okay. Coming from you it doesn't make me want to break things." Mature.
Do you remember when he really wanted to meet Betty for a drink at that bar and when she showed up he did that cute thing by looking relieved and putting his hands on the bar and it made my toes curl? Yeah, that Matt no longer exists. Now it's sexoholic, mama's-boy, daddy-hating, spoiled rich kid. So close, and yet so far away from Gio.
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Comments (1)
Yes, I agree. Where is Gio? Betty has poor, poor taste in men, although after what Matt has turned into, even Henry is starting to look better. Ah, telenovellas! Or telenovas. Whatever.
1 of 1 | Posted by Allison | Posted on May 22, 2009 5:36 PM