Episode Report Card Potes: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sofia's Choice
By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.10.2007
And then...Wilhelmina is coming! The office is in a panic. Marc tells a staff member to cover up her hideous dress, because she knows how Wilhelmina feels about floral prints. He then yells, "MOVE IT, THE SHARK IS IN THE BOX!" as he goes to meet Wilhelmina at the elevator. And then he is entirely surprised to find Wilhelmina looking and feeling good and taking the first casual day of her life. He asks about her jeans, and she happily says that Ted took her to an outlet mall -- which she pronounces in a way that indicates that her mouth is completely unfamiliar with that word combination -- where she shopped next to fat people. It's like living with the aborigines for a day, really. She then asks a guy carrying a box with his belongings how his holiday was. He replies that he was sending out résumés, because Wilhelmina fired him at the holiday party. She says, "As if it never happened, Carl," even though he just told her his name is Kevin. This is totally providing lots of fodder for the folks who have been saying for twenty years that Wilhelmina really needed to get laid.
Meanwhile, back at Casa de Suarez, Constance shows up at the door. She tells Ignacio that she heard he asked for a new case worker. She kindly says that maybe this wasn't a good fit, and wishes Ignacio good luck. He thanks her and closes the door. She then knocks furiously and, when he reopens the door, screamingly asks if he's out of his mind, informing him that he can't just get a new case worker, and that she's not a pair of socks he can return at the 99-cent store. Constance pities the fool, man. She reminds Ignacio that he's an illegal immigrant, and she and either make this easy or lojack his ankle like an IROC-Z. She asks whether she's made herself clear. Well, not to me. I don't know what any of those words means. Ignacio knows he's screwed. Screwed-er.
Meanwhile, Betty interviews Amanda. When Betty first arrived, Amanda hated her, of course. Betty asks if this is because of how she looks, but Amanda angrily replies that it's because she had been angling for Betty's job for months, and then Betty traipsed in there with her bushy eyebrows and awful bangs, and Amanda was like, "THAT took my job?" They really make Betty seem like she's the yeti or something. Amanda confesses that, at a certain point, she became envious of Betty. Betty is a bit flattered until Amanda says that she can't show up one day in an out-of-season handbag, whereas Betty shows up all the time looking like a yard sale and doesn't care. Amanda says it's like Betty was genetically engineered without the fear gene. She gives Betty props before telling her that none of this means Amanda likes her or anything.