Episode Report Card Potes: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Giving Up The Ghost
By Potes | Season 2 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.21.2007
Cut to Mode, where a bedraggled Wili limps in, with Marc's assistance. She looks like a combination of Mary Poppins and Mystery from The Pick Up Artist. Marc says that if he's said it once, he's said it a thousand times -- nobody pushes Wilhelmina Slater into an open grave! I thought that's where she caught up on her beauty sleep?
Quick cut to the Suarez family, who are getting ready to decorate the tree, complete with Ignacio's Christmas kidney stone ornament. Traditions, I guess.
Cut back to Mode, where Wili says that she always feared that this day was a possibility. But she was prepared. She tells Marc that they must do something now -- something beautiful and final, so that they'll never forget that they were here. Marc hopes this isn't a murder/suicide type deal, because he and Cliff have A Chorus Line tickets for that evening. Wili, who has cleaned up remarkably well, dials a number on her rotary phone, and up pops a neon encasement with a disk that reads, "Medusa X" on the inside. Wili rips open the wallet she gave Marc for his birthday, and retrieves the key for the case; the disk rises out. Wili says that it's something the Pentagon cooked up -- date one of the joint chiefs, and it's amazing the access you'll have. She plugs the password "Retail" into a computer, and has to assure Marc that they're not dying -- Mode is.
Just as Betty is telling Hilda that Mode will get along fine without her...
...Medusa X goes into motion. A super-evil animated Medusa Wili pops up on screen, and then we see that all the Mode files on every computer in the building are being deleted. Henry, at his desk, sees his Betty screensaver taken over by the Wili-dusa logo, the lights go out, and Wili, basking in a red glow, calmly says, "It is done." If there were ever a time for a giant "Mwah ha ha!," this would certainly be it. I guess that can be said of all Wili's recent scenes, though. Commercials.
When we return, Hilda is complaining that she wanted a pink fake tree this year instead of the lovely real one they currently have. Justin notes that pink is the new green, and he and Hilda agitate for white lights and tinsel. Betty says no way, because this is tradition, and Hilda tells her to get off her balls. Literally, her Christmas balls. I am going to start sticking ornaments under people's butts just so I can say "Get off my balls." Just in time to ruin this halcyon Christmas fun time, Henry calls Betty's phone to tell her that the computers at Mode have crashed and the book has disappeared.