Episode Report Card Potes: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sofia's Choice
By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.10.2007
Cut to the strip club, where Betty attracts Hunter's attention via some cash. She asks him if he's ever been hired to pretend to be someone's boyfriend. He says it happens all the time, especially if a woman wants to make a guy jealous. Betty asks if that's what he did for Sofia Reyes, and Hunter asks if Sofia's already giving him recommendations, before walking away. Betty is stunned!
Back at the parents' house, Betty calls Daniel and says that she needs to talk to him about Sofia. Daniel says that it's perfect timing, because he just proposed. Oh no! Daniel says that if it hadn't been for his talk with Betty earlier, it might never have happened. Sofia gets close to the phone and yells a thank-you to Betty. Meanwhile, the bachelorette party is doing a conga line. Daniel asks if there's something Betty wants to tell him, and she hems and haws before awkwardly yelling her congratulations and hanging up. Commercials.
When we return, Wilhelmina walks into her bedroom, where Ted is sitting on the bed, putting on his cowboy boots. She says she got them two tickets for Cosi Fan Tutte at The Met. And she got him a pair of Ferragamo wingtips, because you can't wear cowboy boots to the opera. And then, quite tragically, Wili spies Ted's packed duffel bag on the floor. She asks what's going on. Ted says that he had a long talk with his wife today. They have a daughter together, and his kids don't need another ex-stepmom. He says that his family's pretty broken, and he has to try and fix it. Oh, just leave the bitch and go with the new hot lady. Isn't that the natural order of things? Wilhelmina asks what chance a roadrunner and armadillo have anyway. It's true. I mean, you haven't heard of an infertile mule-like breed of roadadillos popping up spontaneously in the southwest, have you? She tells Ted to keep the shoes, and not to step in any cow dung. See, I would have taken Wilhelmina for the type to actually have a truckload of cow dung shipped to his house. Or ranch, I guess. I know she's a dragon lady and all, but it's pretty sad.
The next morning, Sofia is getting made up in her office when Betty comes in to offer her coffee, and Sofia asks if she got the coffee in Hunter's jock strap. Well, that sounds like an infection waiting to happen, doesn't it? Seriously, people, if you see coffee grounds in your jockstrap, call 911. It's not good. Betty is shocked that Sofia found out about her investigation, but Sofia asks Betty if she didn't think Hunter would let Sofia know that a mushy Latino girl with braces was asking questions about them. Betty asks why Sofia would hire someone to pretend to be her fiancé. Sofia says that she knew Daniel's reputation, and that being just another single girl wasn't going to be enough to drive him to be with her. Betty asks why Sofia would want or need to drive someone to be with her. Because she's a psycho, clearly. Just then, Ruthie says that Sofia's ride to Rise And Shine America is there, and that Daniel's already waiting. Betty asks if Daniel is going with her, and Sofia says that they're going to announce their engagement together on-air. A concerned-looking Betty says that she'll get a few things together and go with them, but Sofia tells her to stay there and finish her article, and that she expects it to be done by the time she gets back. Dunh dunh!