Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Cook Like Betty Crocker/Look Like Donna Reed
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.20.2008
Ignacio gives her the Young Immigrant story about how he was mistaken for a Puerto Rican and when he corrected him the guy said, "Mexican? Even worse." That's ... I don't even know if I'm supposed to laugh at that so I'm going to say I didn't. "If being Mexican helped this time? Fucking good." Betty replies to the one piece of good advice her father ever gave her with yet more pooh-pooh face, and it's not out of character, but I wish Ignacio had talked more, because that's the part I really have no way of understanding, but also I can't believe I just said that.
Wili pours the wine and they discuss free-spirited, forthright Molly ("Yeah, she's a peach," Wili says) and she tries to get him to admit that they have no reason to be together. He says the differences were once aphrodisiac... "And now?" she asks, and he finally figures it out after about a month: "And now we're engaged." Then they flirt some more and drink the entire bottle of wine.
Justin comes in like a hurricane that just got dumped, and he cries on the stairs and won't talk about it, and it is very heartbreaking, and Hilda's like, "How on earth could that have gone wrong?" Because she's the only person more deluded about acceptable public behavior than he is, she is really flummoxed.
Daniel reads the kids' thank you notes, giggling adorably about one addressed to "Danielle" which ends, "You are old!" He calls Molly to thank her for the thank you notes, and she compliments him on the macaroni earrings he made, and they laugh and laugh. Also laughing are Wili and Connor: he's drunk and she's dumping her wine in the ice bucket. "You know Wil, I disagree with everybody at the office: I think you're great!" She takes that in stride, and he absentmindedly spins the empty bottle around on the obvious faux-fur blanket they're stretched out on, and she gets right up in there and he calls this "Spin The Bottle" a very dangerous game. She totally almost gets him to kiss her, and it's sexy. He goes, "You are very hard to resist," and she goes, "Then cut it the fuck out," and he almost does, but then he runs away and tells her pull it together and stop trying to bone him. Like he just noticed everybody always trying to bone him! And then she's alone on the ugly stupid blanket like, "Nuts."
Betty visits Marc's desk with a packet: "Here. You're in. You were right, your presentation was better, so I'm out. You're in." He explains to her that she's acting insane -- her outfit's pretty cute also, I'm noticing -- and that as a person who has been on the receiving end of discrimination his whole life, I guess for being unbearably adorable, and that he would run with this advantage in a hot minute. "MARC. You are a gay man in the fashion industry. Tell me how sad your life is again." He tries to tell her that this earns him nothing and them some random queen appears out of nowhere and gives him Madonna tickets because of the secret underground Gay Mafia.