Episode Report Card Jessica: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fey's Sleigh Ride
By Jessica | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.18.2006
Cut to Mixer Betty telling Carlo that Daniel is smarter than people think. As an example, she tells Carlo that their feature shoot is a post-apocalyptic Christmas: "We rented tanks and it was all Daniel's idea! Tanks!"
In the bathroom, Marc swiftly spits, "Ooh Betty looks like you're the leak too bad you didn't really fit in here anyway." In unison he and Amanda sing, "Ta!" Betty reminds them she only mentioned the tanks: "You guys talked to him too." Amanda asks Marc what he told Carlo.
Cut to Mixer Marc bitterly watching Betty surrounded by a bunch of laughing assistants, as he violently rips napkins to shreds. Carlo comes over and notes that it's unlike Marc to be all alone. "I just don't understand it," Marc whines. "She's like Liza at the Pride parade. BETTY, BETTY, BETTY!" Carlo smiles that they all just want to hear about "the post-apocalyptic Christmas spread." Marc sniffs he can't believe Betty's taking credit for that when Wilhelmina was the one who found the obscure Vietnamese designer to provide the flak jackets.
Bathroom. Betty notes they have tanks and flak jackets, but that there was more to the leak than that. Marc imagines that "the cosmo fountain" (a.k.a. Amanda) might have spilled something too. "I had one drink," Amanda protests.
Cut to Mixer Amanda, surrounded by four empty cosmo glasses, with another in her hand. She asks Carlo what Isabella is doing for its holiday issue. Carlo shrugs that he's much more interested in her and what they're doing at her magazine. "Well, since you asked, Mode is using one of MY ideas. Do you know Planet Of The Apes?" Carlo tells her that he went as Dr. Zaius for Halloween one year. Amanda spills that they're shooting the Statue of Liberty scene...but with Santa buried in the sand, holding up the New Year's Baby. That's...hilarious. "I only know the movie because I dated a geek once," Amanda explains. "Maybe you will again. Buy you another drink?" Carlo offers smoothly. Amanda pounds her last drink and coos an assent.
Back to the bathroom, and the present day. "Carlo is STRAIGHT?" Marc wonders, as Betty announces that they all have to go to Wilhelmina and confess. They both grab her in horror. "Have you been smoking one of your ponchos?" Amanda wonders. They point out that they don't actually KNOW they're responsible for the entire drama. There were LOTS of other details that none of them spilled. "Like the scrap metal reindeer!" Marc squeaks. Amanda says that they just have to hope the real leak comes forward. But Betty, of course, wants to come clean. She'll keep Marc and Amanda out of it, she says, and starts to head for the door. Marc and Amanda block her way out and tell her that there's really no way for her to do that. Betty rolls her eyes that they can't ALL get fired. Amanda tells her that, actually, they can: apparently, the entire photo department of 2003 got canned for just mentioning the words "sepia-toned" at a party. Betty sighs. She just doesn't like lying. Marc hugs her. "Neither do I," he says. "Okay, that's a lie! But we're just asking you to omit. It's like a secret. OUR secret." Amanda catches her snap and tells Betty that she's "one of [them]" now: "The assistants club. We have to protect each other." Betty hesitantly agrees to this. "We're all in this together," Marc tells her, grabbing Amanda and racing off with her, leaving Betty behind.