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
Back at the office, Amanda reads Marc's message and gasps. She shoves a bagel the size of her head into her mouth and starts frantically texting back.
Wil, in fact, has decided to start haranguing Marc about where Amanda spent her holidays. Marc lies that she went to Vermont, but Wil sharply notes that it would have been VERY DIFFICULT for her to make it back to the office today if that were the case. Marc is saved by the bell when his phone buzzes, or so he thinks. Wil grabs his phone and reads his text: "Forget the cashews. You're the one who had to be Nancy Drew." Marc swears he can explain. "You held that nut in your hand and you lied to me!" yells Wil. Marc sputters that he never touched those cashews! "Oh, no, that was Amanda," Wil deduces. "You are the one who made those phone calls! You are Nancy Drew!" Marc begins to wheeze. I'm surprised his airflow remained unobstructed for so long. He swears that he didn't learn anything. Nothing! Just that Wil has a friend in a surgical hospital who likes to chat. He doesn't know what she likes to chat about, though! He was drinking and dialing! "Oh, you are DONE dialing, Nancy," says Wil, tossing his Razr out the window and into the river. "I still have free minutes," Marc calls piteously after it. My cry would have been, "BUT I DON'T KNOW ANYONE'S NUMBER!" Take this moment to back up your phones, kids. As if in punishment for destroying such a lovely piece of electronic equipment, they promptly blow a flat, to Wil's dismay: "We can't stop here! I have to go meet Baby Chutney on the tarmac!" The driver is unmoved. Marc wheezes.
Back at the office, Betty places yet another call to old Drunk Daniel. "Is he upright?" she asks Ignacio, who answers the phone. "Technically, yes," says Ignacio, and hands the phone to Daniel, who's now wearing the Mexican blanket like a poncho and holding a package of peas to his head. Salma comes up behind Betty and tries to take the phone from her. "Is that [Salma]?" Daniel asks wretchedly. "Don't tell her it's me. I can't deal with this today." Instead, Betty pretends that the connection went bad, and hangs up. "Did he ask about me?" Salma asks her. I would crack that their relationship reminds me of one in junior high, but all relationships are like ones in junior high school. Betty stutters that she couldn't hear anything.
Betty's next exciting duty is to look at the outfits for Baby Chutney that Bruno has come up with. She and Christina stare in horror, since each is worse than the last -- but then the last being actual chain mail, in homage to a King Arthur movie Tim did. "Can this be tailored?" Bruno asks of the chain mail. "Maybe with a blow torch," Christina retorts. Bruno loves it. He thinks it's edgy. Betty protests that they REALLY need to wait for Daniel, because she kind of doesn't think he'll go for the baby chain mail. At the very least, it's bad for Baby Chutney's sweet little baby skin. Bruno snorts that he isn't about to "take critiques from someone who trims her bangs with a lighter." Oh, that's mean. I'm saving that one for later. "Your boss has five minutes to get here, or he forfeits his vote," announces Bruno, storming off.