Episode Report Card Jessica: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fake Plastic Snow
By Jessica | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.29.2006
"That is SO WRONG," Amanda announces in a staff meeting. She is not talking about her own habit of wearing formal shorts, or the situation in Beirut: it seems that Mode needs to save money, and is therefore holding its holiday party at the office, to be organized by Betty. Speaking of Betty, Daniel announces that she's taking a position at MYW -- which I thought was actually called NYW this entire time. Whoops! In my defense, MYW and NYW sound almost exactly the same ["plus NYW seems like it probably would stand for New York Woman; what the hell would MYW stand for?" -- Wing Chun]-- and that anyone interested in being his assistant should pass his or her résumé along to Betty. It is worth nothing that Betty is wearing a red sweater with Santa embroidered on it. As everyone files out of the conference room, she wonders what Daniel thinks he's doing. "Something you're far too loyal to ever do," he replies. Betty wonders who will take care of Daniel when she goes, because her working relationship with Daniel is all about crossing the boundaries of appropriate office behavior. Daniel shrugs that they'll have to find someone else, reminding her, "Sometimes, we all have to take leaps of faith." He asks her to come with him to his office, because there's something he needs to tell her. Let me guess! He's got a secret love child in Indiana, and he'd like Betty to pretend to be its mother when Social Services comes to investigate! Or he needs a kidney transplant, and Hilda has agreed to give him hers! Or he's actually a woman!
Marc and Amanda leave the meeting. "Would it be inappropriate to throw a going-away party and not invite her?" Marc asks, nodding at Betty. Amanda giggles. They're cute, but we all know that they both secretly sort of love her. "You know who would be perfect for that job?" Amanda asks. "Anne Hathaway!" Marc chirps. Please, that whiny pain-in-the-neck? She'd be more annoying to Marc and Amanda than Betty is, with all her "I find fashion tiresome" and "I'd like to write for The New Yorker, though I can't properly conjugate a verb," and her habit of throwing perfectly cute Bedazzled Sidekicks into fountains. "No," says Amanda. "Me." Marc chortles...until he realizes that she is totally serious. "Oh, of course. Yeah! Love your confidence!" he covers, rolling his eyes.
In Daniel's office, Betty agrees that Salma's whole We Were On A Break! plan makes no sense at all. Daniel concedes that he's never been good at fidelity, but says he's also never felt this way about a woman before. With this, he pulls out a bunch of wee blue boxes from Tiffany, each of which contains a gorgeous diamond engagement ring, and lines them up in a row on his desk: "I'm through with being a bachelor. For good." Betty's jaw drops. "Oh my GOD! Are you serious?" she asks. "I mean, congratulations. It's great!" Daniel tells Betty he knows what she's thinking, but adds that when you know, you know. And he does. Know. Betty tells him that she's sincerely happy for both him and Salma. And she's relieved that he doesn't plan to test Salma's theory, since "Belle Jolie" is sending over its lingerie line today, "on their models." Daniel looks up from this Row of Diamonds, and his jaw drops.