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
And so we swoosh back in time to the bar, where Carlo Medina tells Betty again that she's a legend: "You saved the Fabia layout in your first week." Betty waves this off, and says that she was just "doing her job." Carlo smiles, and asks, "What are you drinking?" "Um...mango margarita?" Betty offers cheerfully. Carlo makes an equally cheery face.
Cut to Amanda and Daniel getting ready for bed. Amanda complains that Betty talked about herself the whole night. "That doesn't sound like Betty," Daniel says, unbuttoning his shirt. I love the soap opera convention of making men do almost everything shirtless. This scene is fairly realistic, of course -- who goes to bed in his dress shirt? -- but I predict that eventually Daniel will have scenes where he gets an important work-related call in the middle of a shirtless Pilates session or a Swedish massage or a shower. "Get a drink in her and she would NOT SHUT UP bragging about the Fabia layout," Amanda says, as Daniel unzips her. This unzipping is not of the sexy variety, as much as it is of the "it's time for us to get some sleep and you can't undo your own zipper" variety.
Cut back to the bar, where Betty is not talking about herself, but rather giving all the credit for the Fabia save to Daniel. Carlo is impressed that Betty doesn't talk trash about her boss. It is at this moment that Amanda slides in between them. "You know, trash-talking is what I do best," she purrs to him. "Well, second best." Betty pokes her head around them and pipes up that she's really lucky to work for Daniel.
Back in the present, as Amanda is giving Daniel the so-called scoop about the networking event, Evil Marc is reporting to Wilhelmina that Betty was clueless as to how to handle herself at a networking event. "When she pulled out her business cards," he begins...
Cut back in time to Betty taking out her entire box of cards, surrounded by a whole mess of people. She enthuses that she just got her cards today! Marc, who is observing this from the bar, turns to some dude and dubs her "tragic": "She doesn't know we only invited her so that other people can see she exists." "She's like the real-life Snuffleupagus..."
"...only hairier," Marc finishes retelling Wilhelmina. But Wilhelmina is uninterested in his bon mots and want to know if he found out anything useful to her. Marc takes a giant, wheezy breath and promises to do better next time. Folding her arms, Wilhelmina asks Mark, "Do you know how many curly-haired, effete sycophants there are waiting to replace to you?" Marc heaves that he knows she has five of them on speed-dial. "Don't make me call," Wilhelmina warns him. Marc really starts wheezing in earnest, and leaves the room.