Episode Report Card Potes: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Petra-gate
By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.25.2007
Then, Betty narrates, Trina got a phone call, and it turned into one of the worst nights of Betty's life. Turns out, Trina left. To go to the prom! In flashback, Trina says that she's sorry, but it's Sam Pappas -- she's had a crush on him since he put gum in her hair. His date got chicken pox, and he had no one else to go with. Hilda flatly says, "It's a prom-night miracle." Betty and her teeth and her Sally Jessy Raphael glasses angrily say to Trina that they made a pact on yearbook committee. Trina replies that Betty is sad and pathetic and will never have a boyfriend, then dumps a bucket of pig's blood on Betty's head. Trina and Hilda laugh and laugh. Cut back to the present, where Hilda says that she was there, and that's not what happened at all. Except, I would guess, for the part where Hilda laughed at her. Cut back to Hilda's version of the flashback, where Trina says that she knows it's sad and pathetic that she's leaving, but this is the closest she'll ever get to having a boyfriend. Betty calls her a traitor and tells her to go, all the while struggling to close her lips around her ginormous teeth. Trina asks her to understand, and Betty just gives her the hand. See, their mistake was planning an anti-prom of two. You always need at least three, so if one gets a last-minute date you can bitch about her all night then totally ostracize her at school on Monday and spread rumors about what a big slut she is.
Back in the present day, Betty says that maybe she embellished a little, but it FELT like pig's blood was dumped on her when Trina left. Justin says that Betty is "so theater." Hilda says that Trina called for days, but Betty wouldn't talk to her and totally shut her out because she made one mistake. Betty says it was a big one, and Hilda asks if it was worth it, with the follow-up question being who Betty ate lunch with for the rest of the school year. The answer, of course, is: the lunch ladies. Justin asks if it was Eleanor, because she's a total gossip. Why are lunch ladies always named Eleanor? Betty asks Hilda what she would have done in Betty's place, and Hilda says that she would have told Trina how that made her feel, which is exactly what Betty should be doing with Christina and Daniel. Betty says that it's too hard, and notes that Hilda said that jobs were just about paychecks. Hilda says that obviously this isn't true for Betty, and takes a curler out of her bangs. There is nothing sadder than a lonely flipped bang-curl.
Back at Mode, we see Henry in Daniel's office, simply saying, "Wow." Yeah, guess he knows about Petra. He says that he's never known anyone who's been blackmailed before, and it's so All My Children. Which he used to watch with his mother. He doesn't know why he just said that. Perhaps because there's nothing more adorable than a man who will watch SoapNet with you? No shame, Henry. Daniel is sorry for dumping everything on Henry, but he needed to talk to someone, and there aren't that many folks at Mode to do that with. Henry says that he misses Betty too. Awww. Daniel says that Betty warned him about screwing up, and though he was drunk, he never thought that Petra was underage. Henry thinks that Daniel was set up -- which, duh -- but Daniel says that it doesn't matter, and maybe he should just face the consequences. Henry emphatically says that no, Daniel needs to get Alexis to put Petra on the cover, and that he should tell her what's going on. Henry thinks the fact that Daniel is family will count for something. Henry needs to start paying better attention to what's going on at the workplace.