Episode Report Card Jessica: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT After Hours
By Jessica | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.08.2006
Instead of that, we get my worst nightmare. A close-up of Walter, whining that he doesn't get to go to Atlantic City. Betty explains that this assignment is a huge deal for her career, and Walter actually hits his head against the door jam as she moans that he got them tickets for the live stage show of The Price Is Right. "And you know I rule at Plinko!" Hilda spies on them from the living room, as Betty very unenthusiastically invites Walter to come stay with her at the hotel. Walter WHINES so, so nasally -- like, dude, get your adenoids checked -- that he doesn't WANT to stay at some STUPID NEW YORK HOTEL; he's going to ATLANTIC CITY and he's WINNING a DINETTE SET. With this, he storms out. Is it mean if I admit that I hope he gets hit by a bus? At this, Betty looks pained, and Hilda tells her that "that wasn't much of an invitation." Oh, mind your own business. Betty says that Atlantic City isnât going anywhere. "No, honey, but your boyfriend might," Hilda responds. ONLY IF MY PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED.
50 Prince Hotel. Betty sort of tosses her roll-y bag down the stairs to the hotel's sunken lobby. Why does she have a roll-y bag if she's only there for two nights? How many sweater vests is she bringing? She enters the lobby, and tells herself there's nothing to be afraid of: it's just a hotel and she's there to do her job. She goes up to the receptionist -- who looks just like my friend Dave, if my friend Dave were a gay hotel receptionist in New York City, which he is not, unless he is living a very double life -- and checks in. Dave compliments her orthodontia ("bright," he says, blankly) and, once he notices that she's from Mode, announces that they're delighted to have her. Take a seat, he invites her, saying that a bellman will be right with her. But don't most reviewers make reservations anonymously? So they get the same quality of service that the regular schmoes get? You know, I have to say, I have some issues with this episode. It's the first one for me that really didn't hang together in terms of the little details like this. This show is usually smarter than that. Anyway, Betty reaches out to grab a green apple from the reception desk, but Dave stops her. "That isn't real," he says. Betty smiles and puts it back. You'd think she'd be hip to phony foodstuffs, seeing as she's got all those plastic grapes at home. So, she goes and takes a seat in this round, Plexiglas seat, which of course tips over and rolls all over the floor, with her caught in it. That is so Susan Meyer. Next, Betty will fall naked into the bushes in front of her cute plumber neighbor.