Episode Report Card Potes: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Secretaries Day
By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.02.2007
When we return, Marc is dressed like the love child of He-Man and Prince Valiant. He tries to get Amanda into the spirit by telling her to imagine thirty guys dressed just like him serving tourists with bowl cuts and fanny packs. He tells her that The Middle Ages is going to be delicious, just like Britney shaving her head. Amanda says that was fun, but then it got sad. Marc says that then it became fun again. It did? Oh, I guess it did. But not as fun as Paris going to jail. Whee! Marc asks why Amanda doesn't want to come. She says that she'll tell him, but he can't say a word to anyone. He swears on the abs of Mark Wahlberg, so she knows he's serious. Amanda asks if he remembers how before she came to Mode she was an actress. Marc gives a patronizing "Mmm-hmmm." Amanda pulls out a DVD that has her name and picture on the front, and Marc says, "Shut the front door! Your acting reel?" The two run off to watch it. As they do, they pass Betty, and Amanda yells, "Hi, Grandma!"
And you know who else catches Betty? None other than Henry, of course. He asks if he can crash the Administrative Professionals party. She's surprised, and he says that he's a bit of a Dungeons and Dragons geek. We shall call him Zerthimon, prophet leader of the githzeri. Or whatever. Seriously, how did people, including my brother, ever play this game? What's wrong with a nice, simple round of Yahtzee? Henry says that he also has a soft spot for castles and chivalry and (motioning to Betty) princesses. The two have a moment of sexual tension that would make Volothamp Geddarm blush. Betty recovers and says that she'll put him and Charlie on the scroll at the door. Henry says that Charlie won't be coming. Oh, is that so? It is: she's been waiting for blanket space at Astor Place so she could sell her jewelry, and someone else's bout with bad chicken made her wish come true. Betty gives a cheer for Charlie, and for salmonella. Henry says, "I shall see thee in the middle ages, my lady," and Betty calls him a dork. But not in the way Amanda would call him a dork. She calls him a dork in the way that indicates she likes to snuggle naked with dorks.
And then, we are smack dab at the beginning of Amanda's acting reel, which looks like the credits to Xanadu. Sadly, she wasn't actually in Xanadu, though. We see her in the bit part of a nurse on a soap, and as the girl on the other end of the Hot Kitty Chat Line. Hey, that number looks familiar. I think my cat, Miss Itty, has overcome her lack of opposable thumbs and found a way to drunk-dial. Eh, you need to amuse yourself somehow when you've turned fourteen and constantly smell of tuna. And then, there is the money shot. We see Amanda skip out toward the camera in a wench costume. She leads other similarly dressed folk, some of whom are holding plates with giant leg of beast. Yes, Amanda was the head wench in the greeting video for The Middle Ages, which is played on a loop at the front door. She says that the other losers at Mode will never let her live it down. Marc says that if she doesn't go, everyone will just make fun of her behind her back. If she does go, however, she'll know who to punish tomorrow. And that seals the deal. She's going.