Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Limping Across the Finish Line
By Monty Ashley | Season 3 | Episode 23 | Aired on 05.21.2009
Betty and Matt talk on cell phones as they appear in tiny little 24-style windows. Betty tells Matt that she's willing to move in with him, and they banter about him painting the kitchen her favorite color. Man, what is it with this show and guys painting their kitchens? Betty is happy. She's got a job interview, she's moving in with her boyfriend, and there's a rainbow! But at the end of the rainbow... is Henry! Oh no! How will Betty handle the revelation that her old boyfriend still exists? Answer: by dropping her coffee and staring blankly.
Betty walks up to Marc and Amanda, who are hanging out at Amanda's desk and making fun of Betty's outfit. Apparently, they have puzzled out her rotation and knew that she'd be in last Tuesday's clothes. Wait, Betty reuses clothes? I assumed this show was like the Howells on Gilligan's Island, so everyone has an infinite amount of new clothes. Betty wants to know if Amanda has any messages for her, but the only ones she has are comically old, like "Bradford needs to see you in his office immediately". And she has one for Marc that says "Marc, let's try again. I can't live without you. Toby." Betty starts rummaging in Amanda's workspace, which I hate. Amanda shoves her away, asking "Why are you all up in my grundle?" Grundle? Finally, Betty admits that the reason she asks is that she saw Henry. Amanda says that she might have been imagining it, because sometimes you see people after they die (foreshadowing!). Marc exposits about Henry having moved to Arizona with his slutty ex-girlfriend.
It's time for The View! Two of the View people will be interviewing Daniel. It's Joy Behar and, um, a blonde one. Hasselbeck, I guess. They want to talk about how Daniel used to be a horndog, but he wants to talk about the magazine. The one that's not even going to hit the streets for awhile if they still haven't settled on a cover idea. Behar and Hasselbeck interrupt him repeatedly, and the audience is full of people with those same signs as before. Joy coins the term "Faniels" to describe fans of Daniel, and then she demands a lap dance. That's a weird show.
Wili is watching the show in her office and sums it up with one word: "Bitches." That seems pretty concise. Marc comes in to report that there are lesbian rumors about Victoria, and that Wili should play tennis, because he's made her a member of her tennis club.
Betty is reading the Y.E.T.I. Student Handbook at her desk and idly refreshing Henry's Facebook page, which he has updated to say where he's currently eating dim sum. It's a place in Chinatown, which does seem to make sense. I had dim sum in New York's Chinatown once, after I went to a TARCon. It turned out that the day of the dim sum was also Chinese New Year, so it was possibly the loudest meal I've ever had. Another of Henry's updates involves a parade of circus animals walking around Madison Square Garden, but I don't have an anecdote to relate to that. Suddenly! Marc roars in and tells Betty that it's time to go get interviewed. After calling her a "horny little hamster", he tells her it doesn't matter if Henry hasn't called her and insists they go. As Betty sits there, Henry's page updates so now he's at Cafe Blini. Marc comes back and makes her focus.