Episode Report Card Jessica: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fey's Sleigh Ride
By Jessica | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.18.2006
Meanwhile, Wilhelmina is interrogating staffers, department by department, about the leak. As the first department clears her investigation, Marc picks up the phone.
Cut to Betty, on the phone: "You don't have any reindeer. What about a big goat?" Her other line rings, and she puts the goat herder on hold.
Cut to Amanda, with a huge bag of food falling on her face. She struggles to answer her own ringing phone. Mark conferences them both in to report that "Style" still has jobs. Betty thinks that's great, but Marc corrects her that it's "horrendous." The three of them agree to pray that Features goes down when they're all called in at noon.
The magazine is in a flurry of activity until the Features meeting. An increasingly stressed Marc reports to Betty and Amanda that Features all also passed muster. At this news, Amanda starts shoveling nuts into her mouth. She pours chips down her gullet, right out of the bag. Half of them land in her hair. Next, she starts in on a corn dog.
By the end of the day, every department has been cleared except for Beauty and Accounting. Amanda, hoovering a Moon Pie, notes that "those virgins in Accounting didn't do it." Marc, pacing in and out of the frame, says they're just going to have to hope that "those sluts in Beauty did."
Later, down in the Closet, Christina is cursing the "filthy rat" who leaked the spread, while Betty watches and Justin admires a black frock Christina's got on the dress form. "I think I'd belt it," he says, as Christina reflects that she thinks the leak is "that bitch Skinny Carol." She then sends Justin off to get a belt, and tells Betty to let him stay and help her. "I've got some elf costumes to fit later on and little people make me sort of nervous," she confesses. I have to say, I'm sort of off the Christina bandwagon after last week when she wouldn't hook Betty up with a makeover. Also, I get the construction of the "skinny Carol" joke, but no WAY is Carol the one with that nickname among the "normal" Mode staffers, unless every single other person at Mode is also "Skinny So and So."
Betty's heading back to the office with dinner when Bradford's car pulls up alongside her, as though he is Mr. Big and she Carrie Bradshaw. He asks her if Daniel's gotten any of those weird phone calls lately. He covers his interest in this by making up some story about a disgruntled woman who wants to sue the magazine, or some such. Betty says that they got one of those calls this morning, in fact, although it didn't make much sense: "She said that you've been acting very strangely [sic], and you have many secrets, and one of them is in the music box?" Bradford "wonders" where this "music box" might possibly be. Betty shrugs that this caller person isn't very forthcoming, and Bradford just drives off.