Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Cook Like Betty Crocker/Look Like Donna Reed
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.20.2008
Betty rushes into the office and drinks a bunch of coffee and does insane dances and basically creates the magazine I was describing earlier. By next morning, she's zooming around like Kate Moss with her hair looking fifty times crazier than normal. She now looks like that woman on The Simpsons with the cats all over her. And she sounds like her too. She crawls up Daniel's ass about the recommendation, which we all know he's going to flake out about, and he tells her to write it herself and he'll sign it.
Connor rescues him from her crazy eyes and wild hair and all, and asks Daniel to go speak to Molly's class. Daniel makes it super obvious that he's crushing on Molly, and yet again you see that of all the things Connor is good at, blatant sexual attraction is not one. But you know, I bet he is so used to having that shooting at him from all directions at all times that it doesn't even register. As smooth as Wilhelmina is, I bet like the guy at the butcher shop acts the same way around Connor. Anyway, he agrees, and Betty's like, "Stop doing your job and favors for your coworkers and start paying attention to me!" but he has to go crush on Molly some more, so he pulls a pencil out of the tangled insane mess of Betty's hair and takes off. There is an entire desk's worth of random shit in there.
Later -- with pencils in her hair -- Molly watches Daniel be adorable with all the little kids, which has nothing to do with his job and has everything to do with him being awesome. Other options the kids offered as alternatives: Dancer, Monkey, and Chinese Person. Obviously they are making these choices with an eye toward getting into YETI. He tells Molly how much he loves kids and wants them, missing DJ a little bit, and then they sort of fall in love with each other a little bit, and giggle. They both laugh like dorks, it is fabulous.
Betty finally gives up on Daniel with her usual brokenhearted lack of foresight and heads in to meet the YETI panel. I wish Pilar Mejia were on this show every week, she's amazing. Betty tells the panel that while she loves working at Mode, she's over the concept of selling women the image of the thing they want to become: why not celebrate what women already are? They are as bored by this as you just were. Pilar proudly watches her elaborate, saying that she wants to serve the young women who want to be inspired beyond celebrities and clothing, and the female panel member says this is her daughter. Welcome to B magazine, which has Betty's Boleyn necklace in the middle of the cover and lots of famous and powerful, awesome women. Tagline: "Be thoughtful, be confident, be yourself. B magazine." Panel and Pilar love it, and she pulls out her editor letter.