Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Betty Bobs Her Hair
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.06.2008
Betty's flyer for the rooftop party does look, as Amanda describes it, like something promoting a rodeo at a women's prison. It's got a rainbow flag background, with Betty's gigantic awesome face staring freakishly out at you and a cartoon bubble coming out the mouth with relevant details. Cut to Amanda's flyer, which is black with white lettering:
the roof
friday
get on the list.
Betty doesn't get it, like, they won't even know where or when it is, and Amanda patiently explains that if they want to get in bad enough, they will figure it out. If you make it hard to get on the list, the whole party is full of people who are desperate to be there, which means they will all act crazy and think they're having fun even when they're not. "Trust me... roomie," she says. She's got that funny voice she does sometimes that's like ten times more crazy than her regular voice, where she's like whisper-growling about inappropriate things, and I love it, and it gets a workout in this episode because everything she says to Betty ends with that. Like this intense, kind of sexual threat.
"Paris Is Burning" by Ladyhawke plays during the expected montage of people IMing and texting and phoning and whatever, all, "what is the roof?" and "who has the list?" and "what's the 411 on the roof?" but my two favorite conversations are, #1: "ru on the list?" and "bitch im always on the list" and #2: "can I b ur +1" with some totally nerdy guy going, "2 late!" Amanda sneaks up on Betty an hour later and shows her the guestlist, which is up to 300 already. Betty starts to realize that Amanda is awesome, but then immediately clamps down on that feeling, because once you stop feeling sorry for yourself you realize that Janis Ian is no better than Regina George, and the best thing we can do for ourselves in life is to be a cunt to nobody at all in this world, instead of feeling like any amount of mistreatment lets you off the hook for being a jerk yourself, and she's not there yet. This seems to be a theme with this show, and also Stylista, where it's like the point of the show: being a victim doesn't make your behavior anybody else's responsibility, so grow up and show some character.
Wili's got a headache trying to have her meeting with Connor, because life is so hard when you have to drink water out of a glass and there's no money for whatever photo shoot thing she wants to do, plus getting ready for the big party, and Connor works some of that Connor magic on her, massaging her headache away and suggesting they share some scotch. He says a girl like her's gotta have a '61 around somewhere, and she points at the cabinet: "'48." He says older is always better, and she distractedly says, "I wouldn't know, I've been the same age for years." He hands her the drink and tells her she's the reason he's there, because he wants to learn from her or something, and when their hands touch around the glass, "Let's Get It On" starts playing and Wili hallucinates that they are making out hardcore. She snaps out of it, ducks even touching the scotch, and tells him she just remembered her dinner plans. Good girl! No crushing on company time! Don't lose your focus! That's how Daniel got took! She runs away, telling him Marc will reschedule, and Connor's confused.
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