Episode Report Card Jessica: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Lose The Boss?
By Jessica | Season 1 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.22.2006
Mode. Wil is complaining about "the animals" who used her office as "a prom limo" the day before. Marc feigns innocence: "What's wrong with people? Why can't they be satisfied with watching the parade? And The Sound Of Music for, like, the eightieth time?" I can tell you from personal experience that the eightieth time is just as delightful as the first. Wil cocks a brow and asks if that's what Marc did for Thanksgiving. Marc lies that he left Schenectady right before "the Von Trapps escape from the Nazis." Why would you leave then? There are only, like, ten minutes left at that point. And who wants to leave before the reveal that the nuns removed the carburetors from the Nazis' cars? Or the part where dreamy Captain Von Trapp talks Young Nazi Rolf into not selling them out? Or the part where they climb over the mountain, singing? Okay, fine: I totally love The Sound Of Music. Wil whips a cashew out of her pocket and announces that she found it beneath her chaise. We flash back to last week, when Marc and Amanda called Fey from Wil's phone, just in case all the trypophan from your turkey meal made you forget that Marc did not, in fact, spend Thanksgiving with the nuns. Wil delicately sets the offending nut on Marc's hand: "Who on this staff would willingly eat something that's fifteen grams of fat per serving?" Marc stutters, but is saved when the phone rings. Wil gets it, and tells Marc to "study the teeth imprints." He pretends to, while she talks to Bradford, who tells her to turn on FashionTV. This week, the host is the delightful Isaac Mizrahi. Isaac, I ordered a pair of your leopard-print ballet flats from Target six weeks ago! Where are they? See what you can do about that. Isaac sayeth: "Rumor has it that Tim, Chloe, and baby Chutney will be stopping in Gotham for a layover on their way to Prague." Does this mean we'll all get a look at Baby Chutney? Isaac hopes so, because he's beginning to think Chloe has been nursing "a slab of swiss cheese." Will listens to Bradford, and then squeaks that "Tim" (hee) and "Chloe" (hee) have chosen Mode to "reveal Baby Chutney." (Hee hee.)
Queens. Despite its being the Friday after Thanksgiving, Betty is going in to the office to get some work done. Ignacio is annoyed, both that she's working on a holiday, and that she's leaving him to babysit Drunky McMeade. Betty assures her father that Daniel will be conked out until she gets back, but adds that, if he does come to, Ignacio should offer him breakfast and be nice. "Don't MURDER HIM" is what she means, but does not say. Also, Ignacio shouldn't mention Salma to Daniel: "He's in really bad shape." Ignacio shakes his head: "Who is this woman?" Santos -- right on cue -- strolls in wearing a (rather covetable) kimono. One obligatory Memoirs Of A Geisha joke later, Ignacio somehow manages to suppress the urge to stab his deadbeat almost-son-in-law with his paring knife, and just mutters that he misses the days when Santos snuck out in the middle of the night. Betty goes off to work.