Episode Report Card Potes: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sofia's Choice
By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.10.2007
And then, at the Mode offices, a completely white-clad Wilhelmina (except for her sunglasses and black gloves) walks off the elevator. Poor Kevin cheerily wishes her a good morning, only to have her retort, "Didn't I fire you?" Oh yeah, she's back, baby.
Back at MYW, Betty overhears Ruthie and the wheelchair lady discussing the cover for the first issue. Ruthie says that her nerves got her all blotchy, thinking that maybe Sofia wouldn't pull it off. She holds a mock-up of the cover that features a photo of Sofia and Daniel together. Wheelchair Lady says that Ruthie should never doubt Sofia, and adds that the article is great too, and that she doesn't think Sofia slept a wink the previous night writing it. Please. She's had this thing in the bag. Betty comes over and tries to peek. We then see the headline: "From Fling to Ring in 60 Days." Betty asks if she can read the article, and Wheelchair Lady says that Sofia doesn't want her to read it yet. Betty agrees and sounds all docile before snatching the article out of Wheelchair Lady's hands and pushing Ruthie. She rushes to the elevator and furiously presses the close button as the wheelchair bears down upon her. But Betty makes it! And I have to say, I love that Betty will throw down with a handi-capable person. She starts reading "the rules to getting any guy to propose to you in 60 days or less" as we see brief flashes of Sofia acting out each of these rules. "Pique his interest." By showing your boobs! "Stay in close proximity." By invading his office! "Give him a taste." By kissing him in a bar! "Make yourself unavailable." By hiring a stripper to pretend to be your fiancé! "Create a ticking clock." By...putting a microphone next to your watch!
Betty runs in to the closet find Christina. She says that it was all a lie, and that Sofia set Daniel up from the beginning. She used him to get her cover story! There's nothing I like more than to see an undercover bitch exposed. Commercials.
When we return, it's time for Rise And Shine America. The host says that Sofia is there to talk about the launch issue of MYW, and her engagement to Daniel Meade. We see the bit with Betty running in from the beginning of the episode, but of course she's too late and "Adriaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!" and is hauled off by security. The Rise And Shine America hosts ask Sofia about her magazine. She says that she created MYW in order to fill a void, because there are no modern magazines that make a woman feel empowered. Because you know what really makes you feel empowered? Learning how to bag a husband in two months. Trust me on this one. Next month: "Want to make him commit? Get knocked up!" Sofia says that her magazine isn't about overpriced clothes and wrinkle creams; there are some real articles. One of the hosts notes that Sofia used herself as an example for the first cover. Daniel starts to look a little funny. Sofia says that statistics would say that she shouldn't be there, but she is. She has a new magazine, and is newly engaged to the most notorious bachelor in New York City. I think the proper phrasing is "Playboy Himbo." Sofia says that she got Daniel to propose to her in sixty days, to which the male host says, "Wow. Sixty days...that's, like, two months!" Heh. I think that's supposed to be Matt Lauer. They ask Daniel if that's true, and he sort of stammers and says that he guesses it's been exactly sixty days. Quelle coincidence!