Episode Report Card Potes: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Thousand Words By Friday
By Potes | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.23.2008
The next day, Wili walks into her kitchen and, without looking, admonishes Christina for trying to steal the yogurt again. However, it turns out that the yogurt thief is Daniel. Who, you know, is back to banging Wili's sister. Wili isn't pleased. She tells Daniel that he's a fool and doesn't know what he's getting himself into. She promises him that he'll regret it, and he looks like he might believe her a little.
At the Secret Love Dungeon, Marc , wearing amber-tinted shades, tootles on a Casio keyboard as Amanda debuts her lyrics: "Gene Simmons/Fire breather/Blood spitter/I am your little girrrrrrrrllllllllll." Still better than Philip Roth, I say. Marc feels like he's heard it before. He asks Amanda what she would say to Gene Simmons from her heart if he were there right now. She picks a kickin' beat on the keyboard and freestyles, "A psychic told me your name/And I was glad/You didn't return my calls/And I got sad/I promise if you meet me I won't be bad/I just wan the chance to call you my father." Marc can only hope that one day he'll have an illegitimate daughter who will sing him a song that beautiful.
Meanwhile, Daniel and Alexis feel kind of bad about how they treated Claire, the kind mother who had the foresight to hire a really caring nanny. As they talk, Claire enters, and says that the nanny wasn't that caring, and used to tie them together so that she could go to the movies. I'm going to have to file that one away. Turns out Claire's been busy with the knitting class Daniel signed her up for, which she hates. But! She now knows what she's going to do with her life. She was inspired by all the women in the class who were just like her -- their children were done with them, and they were bored. There has to be more out there than knitting and bingo, says Claire, so she's going to start a magazine for women of a certain age who aren't ready for that "ice floe." And she's going to call it Hot Flash. Alexis and Daniel thinks she's crazy, especially when she says she's going to need an assistant, a full-time production staff, a suite of offices on the seventh floor, and start up capital in the range of $2 million. Daniel wants to have dinner and talk about this, but Claire doesn't have time, what with all the Hot Flashes she must bring into being.
Elsewhere at Mode, Betty has her second interview with Phil Roth. Though it pains her to admit it, she tells him that his tricks actually do work. On some girls. Phil thinks it's cool of her to admit that, since smart girls usually don't get it. Betty assures him that the article will be unbiased, and that his concerns about her were completely unwarranted. Phil doesn't know what concerns she's talking about, since he never talked to Daniel about Betty's close-mindedness. Oh yeah. Betty's been tapped but good.
Betty tries to take revenge on Daniel by holding a cinnamon stick in front of his nose and then revoking it. Daniel tells her that he lied to her because it was the only way he could think of to make her write the article. She was quitting because she was uncomfortable, and if she wants to be a real writer, she can't just write about her neighborhood, her family, and kittens. Hey, leave the kittens out of this. There's nothing wrong with what Betty knows, says Daniel, but she should try to know more -- to step out of her comfort zone. And she did! And the article was really good. However, she's not actually getting published. Alexis pulled the story because, now that she's a woman, she thinks Phil Roth is kind of a pig. But! Daniel tells her that there will be more and better assignments. It sucks, but Betty thanks Daniel for having faith in her, and gives him the coveted cinnamon stick.