Episode Report Card Potes: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sofia's Choice
By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.10.2007
And THEN it is Betty's first day on the job at MYW! Where people wear normal clothes! She walks off the elevator and gets a big smile on her face. We hear somebody off-camera sternly say, "You are NOT wearing that sweater vest." Betty braces herself for the insults to which she has become so accustomed. She then turns around and says, "You don't like it?" to a girl who is totally her Caucasian geek twin. Caucasian Geek Twin --whose name is Ruthie, and who is played in a genius fashion by the same woman who plays Amanda -- says that she doesn't like the sweater vest, she LOVES it and almost bought it at Ladies for Less! Oh, Betty has found her people! Betty asks, "40 off?" and is affirmed rather than ridiculed. It's sweet. Ruthie instantly knows that this is Betty and gives her a big welcome, saying that she heard Betty was a total star at Mode. Betty gets modest. Ruthie says she doesn't know how Betty did it, and that her rosacea flares up if she even stops on that floor. Ha! Ruthie walks Betty to her office and says that it's a lot different at MYW, and that she couldn't find a better place to work or a better boss than Sofia. Betty agrees, saying that Sofia is so kind and supportive. We'll see about THAT, won't we? Ruthie will share an office with Betty, and asks her to promise to lend her the sweater vest if she gets a hot date...or any date. This is where Betty should be like, "Yeah, there's this guy Walter I know..." Betty plops into her desk chair and says that she's home as Ruthie kind of creepily pops around the side of her computer and waves. And at this point, I thought the show was going to go all Single White Female on us, which also would have been awesome.
And then, we are back in bed! With Wilhelmina and Ted! Wooo, hot stuff! Wili (I can call her this now that she's been properly laid and is all relaxed) says that she never thought she'd say this, but that she misses Texas. Well, everything's bigger in Texas, or so I've heard. Ted says he was worried about her the first day when she plopped her Jimmy Choos in cow dung, and she says that's not as bad as Ted calling them "Jimmy Poos." Uh...heh? Now I'm starting to get uncomfortable. Go back to being silent and kind of hot in a dirty way, Ted. Speaking of hot, Wili looks amazing, and I covet her lacy purple nightie. Her phone rings, and she says that she guesses it's time to get back to reality. Ted says he wishes she could have some of the calm she had when they were in Texas. He tells her to be a little more armadillo and a little less roadrunner. Those southerners always try to get folksy on your ass, don't they? Wili is all, "Much like Potes, I like you better when you don't talk." Ted explains that the armadillo doesn't move very fast, but gets his stuff done nevertheless and has some time to enjoy the sun. Whereas the roadrunner never stops. He has feathers flying everywhere and is running all over creation, and he doesn't have any fun. What about when he makes an anvil fall on the coyote's head? What then, Ted? That sounds like plenty of fun to me. Wili asks if the dead animals that they saw in the middle of the road were armadillos, and Ted says that he never said they were smart -- just relaxed and happy. I'll take this as foreshadowing. They start smooching, and Wili's phone rings again. She turns it off and chucks it on the floor in favor of some hot lovin'.