Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fashion Roadkill!
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.09.2008
Except it's what they think because you said it in a fucked up way that made them think that, which I hate because it only exists to set up the next joke, where he climbs down Betty's throat and complains that someone with her skin tone should be more sensitive to prejudice... Except it's dumb, no matter how funny he is saying it, because: what prejudice? What, you got profiled as somebody who admits to a crime and then acts offended that people think you committed it? How unfair. I'm prejudiced against people who mangle basic English in order to set up jokes that don't even make sense, just like Betty Suarez. And don't be mad, because I'll tell you right now the end of this episode is awesome and justifies any amount of shitty writing and lazy, uncommitted acting, which the rest of the episode is chock full of. Well, not justifies exactly because there's never any reason to shoot for anything other than excellence in all your endeavors, but the disinterested writing and acting are a lot easier to overlook when you know what's coming is so great.
Anyway, Amanda and Marc make crazy faces for awhile -- I mean crazy -- while Betty explains why that joke, from setup to follow-through, was useless, and Marc's like, "Okay, I have a secret. I'm not hiding it, I just don't want anyone to know about it." See above regarding how this joke also makes no sense. Betty sighs, all aggrieved as though she wasn't twice this retarded and with the same syntax about ten minutes ago, "Marc, that's the same thing." He takes them to see his Wilhelmina Real Doll. It's ...Not to be insensitive, but Vanessa's face went plastic crazy at some point I don't remember, and in this episode I would say she's easily as lifelike as Marc's doll of her.
Sometimes when Marc's angry, he yells at the doll at night. Flashback to a second ago, where he slaps the doll and it goes spinning around. Amanda points out that this is not only hot but "hardcore," and Marc admits that he later apologized to the doll, like, "I know she's not real, but she's still scary." Betty asks why he was so mad, and he reiterates about his years of loyalty and suddenly Wili hires "this little Mayan fireplug" and promotes her above him. Which was a scheme he was in on, and eventually brought down, last week, some time between slapping mannequins and being totally adorable. He gets on his high horse about how he licks Wili's boots not only because he likes it a little bit -- "they're fancy" -- but because he too has dreams and wants to succeed in the magazine world. Urie always sells these random moments where Marc rises from his nihilistic lunacy and suddenly gives a fuck so well. Anyway, he got all worked up working the faux Wili over, and don't we all know how that goes, so when Christina got between him and the elevator, he shoved her pregnant ass right out the way. And the last thing he saw? Claire Meade, lunging drunkenly at Christina's throat.