Episode Report Card M. Giant: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Four Thanksgivings And A Funeral
By M. Giant | Season 1 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.15.2006
In her kitchen, Wilhelmina gazes at us in horror. I don't know why she's horrified; we're the ones who seem to be stuck inside a turkey, looking out. "Desperate times call for desperate measures," she sighs, and picks up the phone to call -- who else -- Martha Stewart. "This is why I should always screen," Martha whispers to the chefs who are flanking her at what looks like her TV show's kitchen set. When she hears that Wil is cooking a turkey, Martha acts like a big jerk, mocking, "Maybe I could run a fashion magazine! It'll be like Freaky Friday!" Martha needs to keep her ham in the oven. Wil says that it was going fine until she looked into the turkey and found the bird's "luggage" inside. She pauses, listens, and finally asks, "So you want me to put my hand where?" I have to say, Martha's kind of the one coming off like an asshole here. Besides, I know I've been to at least one Thanksgiving when the host didn't know about the turkey's contents being in there until after it had been cooked, and I'm still alive.
Back at Bradford's lunch, Hunter's a big hit with everyone, so of course Daniel is dying inside. He asks how Hunter and Salma met, and Hunter says that it was on a plane back from Kenya, where Salma was working on a photo shoot and Hunter had been working for the Peace Corps. "I figured there had to be more to life than modeling and racing sports cars," Hunter shrugs. He tells a story about setting up an irrigation pump, and starts to get misty at the memory of "those tribal kids' faces when they saw fresh water for the first time." Daniel tries to relate: "Once I helped these kids open up a hydrant on 76th Street, and they were just like, 'Wow.'" Unlike the guests at the party who have fallen silent. Awkward.
Meanwhile, Bradford is entering some fancy back room by himself. He dumps his club soda into a vase and makes to fix himself a real drink. Suddenly, Fey appears in the doorway, and then walks off again as soon as he sees her. "Fey?" he says, frozen in wonder. I assume he's frozen, at least, or else he'd probably try to follow her. Which he doesn't.
Bradford does claim to Claire, after the commercial break, that he did go after Fey, but that she "just disappeared." Was that before or after he mixed himself the drink he's holding now? Claire takes the drink out of Bradford's hand and samples it with her finger, saying that Fey was just some "wishful hallucination." Daniel comes up to ask if everything's okay, and Claire leads Bradford off with his arm in one hand and his drink in another. "He's just had too much to drink. I've got him," says Claire. "Ironic, isn't it?" Daniel tries to snag the drink out of his mom's hand before she goes, but she's too quick for him. Nobody will ever see that drink again.