Episode Report Card Jessica: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Lose The Boss?
By Jessica | Season 1 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.22.2006
Elsewhere, Wil and Marc get into a taxi and tell the driver to get them to JFK, and fast. "No highway, just side streets," says Wil. "Now, go!" Marc is continuing to attempt to explain his presence in the office on Turkey Day. He says that he didn't want to go home because his mother is always trying to set up him up with some girl who plays the organ at his parents' church. "I just wanted to watch the parade from a safe place," he whines, moaning and rolling around the back of the taxi, begging his boss to say something. "You know the name of hospital," Wil finally tells him. "You know the frequency of my calls. You stepped way over the line this time, Marc. I don't know whether I can protect you anymore." "Protect me from what?" he asks. Wil frowns: "The person you were trying to call is NOT amused." Marc looks shaken.
Back at the office, Bruno has a problem. In addition to the fact that he is an ass, he's seen Baby Chutney, and, man, is she hideous: "We're talking scary." Betty finds this hard to believe, but Bruno actually pulls out the old "ugly tree" cliché and tells her that the kid is going to need "extra lighting" and "yards of tape for those ears." Betty protests, but Bruno insists that the kid is heinous. "Then maybe your concept of what's beautiful is a little narrow!" snaps Betty. Salma watches from the doorway as Betty continues to chew Bruno out, informing him that his cover of Courtney Love "leaving rehab in a wheelbarrow of pills" was Mode's worst seller in seventeen years: "So maybe you're not the right person for the job." And then Betty fires him. And he quits. Salma is clearly impressed. "Who is this woman?" Bruno asks, as he pushes past Salma. "For today? She's the boss," Salma replies.
Across town, Wil and Marc are still in the taxi, but it appears that they are lost. "Do you know what JFK stands for...Pradip?" Wil asks their driver, quite tersely. Pradip notes that she told him to take side streets. "No! This is slow street!" she yelps, and then asks what he drove in the old country, "a goat?" The car screeches to a halt. "I do not have to drive nasty person!" Pradip tells her. "Fine. Leave him here," says Wil, glaring at Marc. But Pradip wants them both of them out. They exit the taxi in a huff, and find themselves in what Marc dubs "Dante's seventh circle of Hell." And without Wil's pricey, beautiful, cash-and-phone-filled It Bag, which she's left in the cab...
...much to Betty's dismay, since she desperately is trying to reach SOMEONE with some kind of authority. Salma strolls up and finally asks where the hell Daniel is: "You've been covering for your boss all day, havenât you?" Betty doesn't answer, and Salma offers to help. "You cannot be more involved than you already are," Betty tells her, and finally blurts that Salma broke Daniel's heart, he got hammered, and now he's in lockdown at Betty's place. Salma is processing this when Amanda storms in and asks whether Daniel fired Bruno. Betty euphemisms that they "weren't on the same page." Amanda rolls her eyes: "Well, Daniel better have a concept, because Team Baby Chutney is in the conference room, waiting for directions." Betty says that she'll be there in ten.