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
Why, it seems that, over at Mode, The Book has turned up. Apparently, Wilhelmina sent Evil Marc all the way out to Queens to get it. Amusingly, he went in disguise: a burnt orange velour tracksuit. I adore Evil Marc. I just want to go shopping with him and make fun of people together. For example, he characterizes Queens as "the lost city of Hootchieville," which is unkind and actually untrue, but hilarious, and that's all I care about. I'm probably already going to hell anyway for that vibrator joke way back there. Evil Marc assures Wilhelmina that Gina went right for the cash: "Poor unemployed thing couldn't bear to miss another episode of Tyra." Heh. As Wilhelmina and Marc congratulate themselves on this coup, they remind us yet again that this scandal will make Daniel look totally incompetent, so that they can swoop in. It seems this show is not too terribly complex.
In the Town Car on the way home from Queens, Daniel wonders if he could get away with saying that someone mugged him for The Book. Betty could smash him across the face with a golf club. ["That reminds me of a girl I knew in high school who threw a huge party when her parents were out of town, at which the banister at a flight of stairs broke. Rather than own up, she decided to tell her parents she'd broken it falling, and had a friend throw a dictionary at her arm to break it and sell the story. Daniel is as dumb as a high-school junior!" -- Wing Chun] Or Daniel could go to Paris and never come back! Or Rio! He should quit, he says. These two need to get a little more fight in their game. Don't give up, pumpkins. Wilhelmina is not all that smart, and there are two of you! Of course, she's got Evil Marc. He might be smarter than everyone. Betty suggests that Daniel just blame her for the whole thing. Yet again, kids: sack up. Neither of you is out of this yet. Am I going to have to give inspirational pep talks to you every week, in the manner of a football coach with a second-half team? Daniel looks thoughtful, and tells the driver to take them back toMode.
When they get back, somehow Daniel ends up in a meeting where Natalie Whitman's PR Flack is screaming about the unretouched photos, calling the entire scenario "Mel Gibson bad." He screams and shrieks, but Natalie just wants to know how it happened. Daniel hems and haws and promises her that they're doing everything they can to find The Book. Natalie sighs, and tells her PR dude to just chill out and come up with a solution. He doesn't think she understands the severity of the situation, and yells, "NO ONE WANTS TO HIRE A FATTY." I suspect that is actually probably true. Outside, Betty eavesdrops on this and looks sad. She walks past the conference room and over to Amanda, who likens this situation with The Book to ritualistic Japanese suicide. "Seppuku," Betty tells her. "Like the beer?" Amanda asks. Betty just looks at her. "Rather than live with the shame of this screwup, wouldn't you rather just quit?" Amanda offers, as she hands over a box of Betty's already packed belongings, her abused bunny sitting right on top. Betty takes it, and sweetly says that Amanda really DOES belong at Mode, and that she truly hopes Amanda gets everything he deserves. Aw, look. Our little girl has learned something from Evil Marc after all: insincerity. Amanda just thanks her sweetly.