Episode Report Card Jessica: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Box And The Bunny
By Jessica | Season 1 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.04.2006
After Betty hangs up the phone, Papa offers to call Gina's parents, while Hilda says she's going over there to "show her a WHOLE NEW USE for her curling iron." Dirty. Betty tells them both that she's an adult, and that she can handle this herself.
Cut to Betty's face plastered against Gina's doorjamb, begging her to please, please, please give The Book back. Gina slowly tortures Betty by ripping up the newspaper and pretending it's actually The Book. "Maybe you learned a lesson," Gina sneers. "No one screws with Gina Gambaro." Enter Hilda, from behind her. "Maybe YOU learned a lesson: Gina Gambaro should always latch her back door." Hilda unlatches the front and lets Betty in, and with that, it's catfight time! Betty looks for The Book while the other two girls scream and pull each other's hair. They're really getting into it when the town car arrives for Betty. She calls off the cavalry, but they can't extract their bracelets from each other's weaves. It's really very funny. Betty trudges off to her doom as Gina yelps that now they owe her for her f'ed-up extensions too. "Guess we owe you four thousand dollars and fifty cents," Hilda retorts. Oh, snap.
Meade Publishing. Daniel, going up to his office, tries frantically to close the elevator on Wilhelmina's face, but mechanics are against him, and she makes it in there with him. She appears to be wearing a white tulle curtain threaded through the first few buttons of her suit jacket as she wonders what he thought of The Book, reminding him that they have to go to press tonight. Daniel lies that he will be ready to give notes at their 10 AM meeting. Daniel, you adorable moron. You're the Editor-in-Chief. Just delay the meeting a couple of hours, and if anyone gives you grief, tell them to bite you. Overall, he tells Wilhelmina, he thinks the magazine looks good...except for those unretouched Natalie Whitman photos: "Lucky I caught that, huh?" He says he's surprised that she missed it. He notes that Wilhelmina is probably just reaching that age where she should start thinking about getting some glasses. "Happens to everyone," he smiles, walking out of the lift. Point to Daniel Meade.
In the Closet, Christina is on the phone with a sobbing Betty, who's being chauffeured to the office. Betty tells Christina the whole sad story, as Wilhelmina's driver/stooge eavesdrops. Oh, Betty. You fool. When you have to talk about things you've screwed up at the office -- or the co-workers you want to destroy -- everyone knows you do that standing outside, where you can see everyone who is close enough to overhear you. Haven't you ever watched spy movies? Betty mopes about this whole terrible mess, and threatens to quit again. I hope she doesn't do that every week. Suck it up, sweetpea. We've all had moments where we've screwed up to the point where we'd rather just quit than deal with it. It's called being a working adult. I mean, I feel her, but we can't have her threaten to quit every week. ["Yeah, JESSICA." -- Wing Chun] Mid-mope, Betty discovers a picture of her bunny stuck in the pocket on the back of the passenger seat. He is all tied up and being tortured. "Maybe I don't belong at Mode, and my Bunny is paying the price for it," Betty sighs into the phone. This non sequitur totally flummoxes Christina. Finally, Betty just decides to tell Daniel the truth. As she tells Christina this...