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
Back at Casa de Suarez, Daniel hands Betty his newly completed letter from the editor, which seems to have actually been written by him. It's called "He Ain't Heavy, She's My Brother," which is still kind of a douchey title, if you ask me. He asks Betty to edit it and run it by Alexis, noting that it has to get to the printer the next morning. Betty says that he could have emailed it, and he says that he wanted to see her face when she wasn't disappointed in him. I'd say "Aw" if that wasn't so pathetic. He admits that Betty's pep talks make him feel peppy, which is actually kind of sweet. Marc comes in and asks what she's doing, and she says that she wants to read the letter Daniel worked so hard on. Marc tells her to forget the stupid letter and rejoin the beard party. Betty says that it isn't stupid. Marc replies that it might not be, but that Daniel is, since the letter will never see the light of day. He spills that Alexis has redone the entire issue, and that it's already on the way to the printer's, so Betty should come back to dinner. Betty, of course, takes off to go after Daniel. Marc protests, and loudly tries to make it into a lover's quarrel about her ex-boyfriend. She calls him an idiot and leaves, and he yells after her that they're going to talk about this in couples counseling. Commercials.
When we return, Betty and Daniel are in a car, stuck in traffic. Daniel can't believe that he was stupid enough to trust Alexis. Betty says that it wasn't stupid, he just wanted to believe in the good in people. She notes that the printer isn't that far away, and the two of them grab the letter to the editor, get out of the car, and run.
Back at Casa de Suarez, Jean asks Marc if he doesn't think it's weird that Betty ran off with her ex-boyfriend. Marc gets all serious-like, and says that there's something he needs to tell her about himself: "I...am...breaking up with Betty." D'oh. Jean looks sympathetic for a minute, and then says, "Thank God." Marc asks with surprise if she didn't like Betty, and Jean says that, with that hair and that face, what would her grandchildren look like? Marc looks around and seems embarrassed, even though that's totally something he would say. To Betty's face. Marc says that Betty and her family were pretty nice to them tonight, which starts Jean off on a tirade about Ignacio being an illegal immigrant, Hilda being a slut, and -- wait for it -- Justin being "swishy." She says that Hilda doesn't even say anything about it, and that it makes her sick. Like dining on contaminated cat food, probably. And that is the tipping point. Marc tells Jean to shut her mouth, and that she doesn't get to talk about the Suarez family like that. He says that they did a really nice thing for him tonight. And then he gets stuck on "swishy." He says, in a trembling voice, "You want to talk about swishy? Well open your eyes, mom, and look at your own swishy son." Oh my God, I can't take it! I totally cried when I saw this for the first time. Jean Wiener looks at Marc and says that she's going back to the hotel. He tells her that she doesn't get to leave, because he may never again be this brave. He says that he loves her, but that he is what she thinks he is. She tells him not to say it, and that he's confused. Marc is SO not confused. He says that if his mom wants to get to know him, it has to be the real him. Jean pauses for a moment, and then says that if this is the life he's chosen, she has no interest in knowing the real him. Oh my God! I know. Tears. She leaves and I want to give Marc a giant hug.