Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Limping Across the Finish Line
By Monty Ashley | Season 3 | Episode 23 | Aired on 05.21.2009
Henry and Betty are on benches in the park. He expresses sympathy for her job being stolen. He also admits that the reason he kept updating his Facebook with his precise location is that he wanted her to find him. Betty tells him she's moving in with Matt, and he looks a little sad, but asks if she loves him. She does. She tells him that he was her first love. Wait, Henry was her first love? What about the feeb from the first season? The one who worked at the electronics store. And Gio! Have you seen Grindhouse? That guy kills zombies, and that's a good trait in a boyfriend. Anyway, Henry says that Matt's a great guy and Betty says that Chloe is a great girl. They both laugh at Chloe. Nice. Betty decides that she'll just have to accept that she'll always be a little bit in love with Henry.
Henry says that he guesses this is goodbye, and then they hug. And kiss. And keep kissing. And, with the inevitability of television, we pull back to see Matt watching. He looks sad and walks away. I don't know if this counts as a standard television misunderstanding, since that kiss did go on a little long for something that was supposedly purely platonic.
End of episode! Except that this is a two-hour finale! So... never mind! We keep going!
Betty tells us about a dream she has, in which she's eating a hot dog when Antonio Sabato, Jr. walks up, speaks in Henry's voice, and kisses her. Then Matt calls her a cheater.
Back in the waking world, Hilda tells Betty that no matter how guilty she feels, she absolutely should not tell Matt that she kissed Henry. If it meant nothing, let it lie. Betty says that Matt's coming back from his painters' retreat (so it's been at least a few days since the kiss) and she plans to tell him.
Justin comes down to the living room because the nominees for the MAMA awards ("Magazine And Media Association") are being announced live, and they're like his fifth favorite awards show. Hilda assures him that he's very cultured to have so many favorite awards shows and that he's sure to get into "that performing arts high school." [Because the performing arts are all about the awards. - Z]
Rachel Maddow appears to be announcing the nominees. It's a guest-star-palooza! Over at Wili's pad, Marc brings her a bite of bagel in time for the announcement of "Best Fashion Magazine Issue of the Year". The Mode Magazine Wedding Issue gets a nomination, which Wili is not thrilled about sharing with "that drooling idiot." [It's already been nominated for an award? Hasn't it been out for, like, a day? - Z]