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By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.17.2007
Cut to Hilda getting doors slammed in her face all over Queens. She can't even get a job as chip chick. Awww. She returns home and listens to the answering machine, which includes one message from Justin's teacher, saying that the cupcakes were amazing and that she'd pay money for them. The wheels in Hilda's brain and cleavage start turning simultaneously.
Back at the office, Amanda has sorted Daniel's mail into three piles: people who are kissing his ass, people whose ass he should be kissing, and people with huge asses. Ha! She then starts to give him his periodicals before realizing that they all contain stories about him being dumped. She stomps off to go fire the mailroom, and Daniel picks one of the magazines out of the trash and gets all sad. On cue, Betty comes in and sees what's going down. She tells Daniel that the underside of his desk is roomy and fetal position-appropriate. He says that he's fine. Betty, getting all chipper, says that there's a swimsuit casting at 10, and that she's sure he'll want to go. He says that Wilhelmina will take it, and Betty is shocked: "Hotties! Big boobs!" to up the ante, but Daniel just asks Betty never to say "boobs" again. He says that he's been gone for a few weeks, and has a lot to catch up on. When Betty leaves, he goes back to reading all about how pathetic he is.
Betty goes to Amanda and says that Daniel's in so much pain. Amanda snottily says that he's fine. Betty says that he's not, and that they have to get him back on the horse. Amanda tells Betty to trust her that Daniel's been riding every horse in Rio for the past two weeks. Betty says that they need to boost Daniel's confidence. Amanda says that Daniel doesn't have a confidence problem, though there was one time when he was really drunk... Betty wisely cuts her off as she gets another one of her brilliant ideas. She tells Amanda to put an 8 PM appointment on Daniel's schedule for the night: she's going to get him another horse to ride. She comes back saying that that didn't sound as dirty in her head. Oh yes it did, my little Bettina. Commercials.
When we return, Betty and Christina scheme. Betty says that fixing Daniel up with someone like Jennifer Aniston would be amazing. And really, I am totally an Aniston sympathizer, so for a minute I was all excited that maybe Jen would find some happiness. And then I remembered that this is a TV show, and thus she won't be able to ride down the aisle on a unicorn at her wedding to Daniel. Christina says that fixing Daniel up isn't in Betty's job description. Betty says that she knows, but that she still feels so guilty. She then muses, "What about Tara Reid?" Christina: "Dinner with Tara Reid, breakfast at the free clinic." Oh, poor Tara Reid. That was a little bit of a cheap shot. Would it have killed them to make it Paris Hilton? But also, no one likes herpes. Betty says that she'd love to get Gisele to go on a date with Daniel. Christina tells her to make it happen. Betty notes that she and Gisele don't exactly go to the same Laundromat (and if they did, Gisele could fit a whole lot more clothes per load), and Christina tells her to call up Gisele's representative and set up a dinner date. Betty is amazed that celebrities do such things, and Christina asks if Betty thought Tom and Katie met at church. Again with the low-hanging fruit! No pun intended. Betty notices a mannequin dressed in a lovely outfit. She says that it's beautiful, and asks who made it. Christina says that it was the sewing mice, who are very talented. Wouldn't it be awesome if the plague spread through Mode? But Betty realizes that it's one of Christina's own designs. Christina is pleased at Betty's compliments, and says that she's submitting it for consideration in the Mode "Designers to Watch" show at Fashion Week. Betty is excited, and says that this will be the start of Christina's amazing career, but Christina says that she enters every year and is one of thousands of applicants. And the judge? Wilhelmina. Yeah, you can guess how that would go. Betty says that Wilhelmina will die eventually, and Christina deadpans, "No, she won't." Heh.