Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Boned By The Lohan
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.23.2008
"I should thank you. But I won't. Because I'm popular, and popular people aren't nice to unpopular people. That's just the natural order of things. ...Still waiting on that coffee, Granny Pants."
The music and moralizing of this show would seem to suggest that Kimmie is the bad guy here. I'm not buying that. This is, again, a case of Betty tripping on her own bullshit. Kimmie's working for Kimmie, which is fine. Betty's working for ... I don't even know what. That same smug superiority that has come to define her and act as her downfall every episode this season. And this is the perfect example, because like: No, popular people aren't nice to unpopular people. That's the definition of the word. And, as usual, your response to that is completely your business. If you don't like being unpopular, fix it. If you get more out of feeling sorry for yourself and being the martyr victim of unpopularity, then that's what you're going to do. The bizarre arrogance and unentitled beliefs of superiority of dorks is one of the defining limits of our culture right now. But like, our behavior only ever descends from our priorities, and Betty's priority, apparently, is to railroad herself at a rate twice that of everybody else railroading her. Does Ugly Betty hate Ugly Betty too?
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