Episode Report Card Potes: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Don't Ask, Don't Tell
By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.21.2007
Cut to Alexis's office, where a mad kind of photo shoot is going on. She has a wind machine and a pink blazer and is crawling on her desk. Daniel doesn't stand a chance, man. She thinks they got the shot, and tells her crew to print up the proofs and get them to Graphics, because there's a midnight deadline. Wili enters and says that it looks like Alexis is enjoying her role. She sarcastically says that she loves what Alexis did with the office, which is now pink-hued, and adds that she read her letter from the editor, which is a scathing indictment of Bradford. Alexis says that Wili's looking at the cover, and asks if she thinks Bradford will like it. Wili answers that Bradford is a breast man; she just doesn't know if he'll like them on his son. I am so grossed out that Wili knows Bradford is a breast man. I hope she's talking about chicken. Wili asks if it's safe to assume that Daniel doesn't know about this. Well, not unless he and Bradford had a father/son bonding "breast man/ass man" conversation. Alexis says that he's clueless and will have no idea what's happening until the issue hits the stands. This cues a guilty look from Marc. Alexis runs off excitedly, and Wili notes that it's scary how easy this is. Marc says that she's evil, and that he's so going as her for Halloween. Hey, me too! Unless I have to try to seduce an old guy. Oops, spoiler.
Meanwhile, Daniel is in his office looking at some magazine stuff. Betty comes in and says that she read his letter to the editor. She tentatively says that it's good, but notes with some dismay that it's about shoes. Daniel says that Mode is a fashion magazine. Betty says that's true, but that with all that's going on with the Meade family, people are going to be looking to the letter from the editor as Daniel's public statement. She thinks he should write something more personal. Daniel says that he can't. Betty asks if it's too painful, and Daniel says that he literally doesn't know how to write a letter like that. Betty says that she reads Daniel's letters every month: they're funny and smart, and part of what makes him such an amazing editor. And...it turns out Daniel doesn't actually write those letters. Someone named Jeremy from Features "kind of writes them," and Daniel just signs his name. He says that he's not a writer, and is barely an editor. He is, however, a tool. I mean, seriously. Betty gives him yet another pep talk, telling him to write from the heart. She asks if he really wants his letter to be about how the pilgrim buckle is back. He says that it is, but this is, of course, not her point. She hands him a blank notebook, crumples up his old letter, and tells him he can do this. I half expect him to sit at home voting for Sanjaya all night instead.