Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "No Crimes, Real Peeps, Saddle Up"
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.04.2008
Amanda says they can just go to an ATM, but Betty explains for the eightieth time that she is skint and has no more money. "I can't pay my rent this month!" she screams to the sky, and Amanda shrugs. "We'll pay the rent next month. What are they gonna do, kick us out?" Betty, having finally had it, is like, "AMANDA. REALITY." She starts to go off about how this was a bad idea, and then changes her tune to more about how Amanda, the house-sharing, and their entire lives are the bad idea. "It's not just tonight, Amanda. It's everything. You really don't take responsibility for anything, do you? Not when you run up my bills, or let your dog pee on my clothes, or eat all my food..." Amanda blames Bad Ronald, and Betty screams amazingly, "There is no Bad Ronald! It's you! Bad Amanda!" She storms off, and Amanda feels the tender shoots of a sadness feeling pushing up into her garden.
Having fled to Queens and the incompetent arms of her father, Betty whines and screams and screeches, and he reminds her she'll never be homeless really, and she complains about how she let herself "get sucked into Amanda's black hole of irresponsibility," and then of all things, Ignacio becomes awesome. "Don't be so hard on yourself. Or her. She didn't mean for the money to be stolen." Betty says that Amanda's MO is doing horribly destructive things without meaning to do them, and this is but one example, and it all stems from how she's never had to work hard for anything. She thinks life is one big night on the town, but it's not. Life is hard!" Ignacio explains The Thing About Betty, which is that while she was raised to work hard and be responsible, it's also the suckiest thing about her, because she has inhuman expectations of herself and everyone else, and manages to focus on the ideas and self-image of perfection rather than actually living her life. Betty's not feeling this, because it's her entire personality, so he just tells her to get her ass back to Manhattan and learn the things Amanda has to teach her.
Wili drunkenly suggests naming the baby Abelard, and Christina, full of mocktail faux-drunkness, disses Abelard and suggests Hamish. Neither of these people should be naming babies. Wili scoffs that they might as well name him Angus, and Christina remembers a "lovely tussle in the hay" with an Angus once, which Wili finds adorable because she is drunk. She explains that she wasn't avoiding the gender of the baby out of any kind of reason other than wanting to pretend the baby is hypothetical because once it becomes real then she will have to think about how bad she fucked up her daughter and the relationship with her daughter. "Well hey, you've been given another chance. Just don't do anything stupid, like naming him Abelard." Christina, when you're right you're right. Full points. Daniel calls for closet permission to get something for a size six, and Christina tells him to look in a particular area, and Wili's like "Um, Daniel is not a size six," and Christina spills about how he's now dressing Connor's fiancée Molly. Wili is intrigued.