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By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.25.2007
Back at the Cosmetology Institute, Betty tells Hilda, who has put Betty's hair in a confounding assortment of clips, that maybe she needs to find new friends who won't let her down. Hilda kind of shyly smiles and nods, and tells Betty that this is her "wise hairdresser's nod," which you have to do even if you're not listening. She says that Betty is too hard on her friends, and always has been. Justin, who's under the dryer, agrees. Betty is outraged and rips off her smock to leave, but Hilda stops her with two words: Trina DiPaolo. Betty has a look of even further outrage.
Meanwhile, Henry approaches Daniel at Mode. Daniel says that if Henry is looking for Betty, she's not there. Henry knows, and is actually looking to talk to Daniel about the $75,000 check Henry cut for him. He notes that it's kind of a big miscellaneous expense. Daniel hands Henry the check and says that he's not going to need it in prison. He will need something to hide those sad puppy dog eyes, though. Reow! Henry looks stunned as we head to commercials.
When we return, Betty is still outraged, and can't believe that Hilda would even say the name "Trina DiPaolo" to her. Justin asks who Trina is, and Hilda says that she was Betty's best friend all through high school, until Betty ended it. Betty says that Trina was the one who ruined it, when she ruined their anti-prom. The anti-prom, of course, was a celebration of how much they hated the prom. Can I have an anti-work? Anybody with me? Hilda interjects that she loved her prom, and nine months later she had a wonderful reminder of it. Oh, poor Justin.
Betty explains that she and Trina had planned their anti-prom for months. They knew that no boys would ask them, so they ate cookie dough and rented Carrie. It sounds kind of fun, even if it was designed to mask the pain inside, and was surely mocked far and wide as a pathetic display of patheticism. We flash back to Betty and Trina sitting on the couch, decked out in their taffeta prom gear. Betty is covering her face with her hands, because Carrie is scary, yo. Hilda comes in and says, "Oh my God, you two losers are actually doing this?" Aw, supportive even in Betty's younger years. Trina tells Betty that she can look, and Betty uncovers her face to reveal... teeth. Like, of Mr. Ed proportions. There are other elements too, but the teeth sort of push their way to the front of the queue. Hilda barges her way onto the couch and notes that John Travolta used to be cute. "What happened?" she asks. Scientology causes bloating, I guess.