Episode Report Card Potes: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT East Side Story
By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 23 | Aired on 05.16.2007
Meanwhile, Daniel enters his office and pops one of his pills, which he's taken to storing in an Altoid tin. Betty says she's never seen mints so small, and Daniel distracts her by noting that Henry's at her desk and she should go and make awkward small talk with her little friend. Betty quickly asks for a mint, saying that she just had an onion bagel. Daniel tries to talk her out of it, and she actually breathes in his face. That kind of behavior should be decried by employee handbooks everywhere. For a minute I totally thought that Daniel would give her a pill, and that Betty would get all wacky on the junk, too, which would really make things interesting with Henry. But, no such luck.
Betty approaches Henry, who says a) that "ringle" is his new favorite word, and b) that he knows it's her when she says, "It's me." Oh my God, TLA, TLF!!!! Okay, calm down, Potes. Betty wants to talk somewhere private, so she drags him off to...the copy room. That's what happens when you don't have access to The Secret Love Dungeon. Betty has to shout over the running copier, and keeps getting interrupted by people who, you know, want to make copies. Where is the guy going, "Betty. Betty Bettarino. Sweaty Betty. Betty Davis thighs"? Betty tells Henry that she did a lot of thinking in Mexico. She realized that you rarely get everything what you want in life, but if you don't fight for it, you have even less of a chance. So here she is, fighting. But not literally, thank God, because she'd most certainly get her glasses broken. She's fighting for Henry. She says that she knows he's still with Charlie, but the two of them would be amazing together. They each know what the other one is thinking, they laugh at the same things, and Henry makes her mouth go dry whenever he walks into the room. That actually sounds like it might be a disorder. Henry gets a big smile. Betty asks only that when Henry rejects her he does it quickly. Like ripping a Band-Aid off...of her heart. Okay, there has to be a song with that title somewhere in the world, right?
But wait! Henry is not going to reject her. He broke up with Charlie, because there's someone else. Someone who makes his mouth go dry. And it's Betty. Just as they are about to try out their arid kisses, Amanda bursts in to see who's hogging the copier. She hilariously says, "Ewwwww. Dorcus interruptus," and Betty and Henry yell at her to get out. She does, and she calls out to the rest of the office that Betty's in heat. But no matter. Henry says that they need to have a real date. Their first date. As a crowd gathers and someone asks, "Is that the guy who looks like C3PO?" they agree on tomorrow at eight. Henry leaves and Betty gets a big smile on her face. She opens up the copier and accidentally hits the "go" button, which results in a copy of big, smiling, Betty. Which is not how copiers work at all, but if you can suspend your disbelief long enough to think that Betty and Henry have easily achieved unfettered happiness ten minutes into the finale, I think you can kid yourself about the workings of Xerox, too. Commercials.