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
Betty finds Salma in Daniel's office, leaving Daniel a note. Salma explains that she's hard at work on the NYW launch, and wonders if Daniel is coming in, too. Betty kind of manages to escape without saying, "No, because you broke his heart and he's trying not to vomit on my Disney sheets," but Salma chases Betty out to her desk, and explains that she left Daniel a whole bunch of messages. Is he ignoring her? Dude, you just saw him last night. He probably left his phone at the bottom of the bar urinal. Not that I've ever done that. No, really, I seriously haven't. But if I were a man, I'm pretty sure that would have happened to me sometime between 1996 and 2004. Salma worries that she wonât hear from Daniel before she leaves for Maine. Betty wonders what's happening in Maine, and Salma explains that Hunter's found some big house there, where they can raise their enormous brood of beautiful babies. She off-handedly notes that they'll probably get married in a lobster boat. This weekend. I have no issue with Salma wanting to get married and have a million babies, and also run a magazine, but the commute from Maine is going to bite. "'Married'?" Betty squeaks. Salma nods, self-satisfied, and very overly interested in Betty's reaction. And this is the first time I really suspected that Salma might be fabricating the whole relationship with Hunter in order to manipulate Daniel. Which she might not be -- it's just a theory -- but Salma Hayek played it that way. Betty awkwardly congratulates her and reminds her to pack her Dramamine. Salma sighs -- very obviously -- that she just doesn't know what to do: "I'm not sure I even want to go." Why, you ask? It's complicated. It has to do with Daniel. But he's such a womanizer....Salma doesn't think he would even care about her feelings for him. "Do you?" she asks Betty, sharply. Betty sputters that she has no idea and, in fact, must get back to work. "Me too. Got a plane to catch," says Salma, sauntering out.
Queens. Daniel -- totally green -- sneaks downstairs. Everyone is chattering in the kitchen, and as Daniel tries to get out the door, he overhears Hilda saying that they can't afford to buy a Christmas tree this year, because of Ignacio's legal bills. Justin is, predictably, disappointed. Daniel's eavesdropping has prevented him from escaping, because it is at this point that Ignacio comes out of the kitchen and forces Daniel into the dining room for some breakfast. I am pretty sure Daniel is still drunk. Which is the most disappointing feeling in the world. You're supposed to wake up feeling...not still drunk. Daniel sits down at the table, where Justin gazes at him adoringly, and Santos is equally impressed, due to the fact that Daniel apparently once dated Angelina Jolie. "A real player, bro," Santos calls him, and taps him fraternally. Eric Mabius is doing an awesome job of looking very, very close to vomiting throughout this entire scene, but I have to say that I find it REALLY HARD TO BELIEVE that Angelina Jolie would go for Daniel Meade. Don't get me wrong: he's super-cute, in that bumbling Hugh Grant kind of way, but there is no sexy oomph there. There's a whole other kind of oomph when Ignacio plops a plate of huevos rancheros in front of Daniel, however. The jig is up. He runs out to hurl.