Episode Report Card Jessica: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Box And The Bunny
By Jessica | Season 1 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.04.2006
Meade Café. Betty has microwaved a plate of empanadas. All the Mode-ys (Modeys? Modies? Mode-ites?) seem totally grossed out by the smell -- all except for Betty's Lunch Table of Normalcy with Christina and Zelda and Nancy. I don't know which is Zelda, and which is Nancy, but one of them -- the mealy-mouthed, stringy-haired one -- just announced that she is a vegan. I'm going to decide that the vegan is Nancy, simply because I used to know a vegan named Nancy. Anyway. Christina asks Betty how much retouching they did on "Miss You Do The Math," and Betty rolls her eyes that they have no idea. Zelda cracks that if the Photoshop wizards got hold of her, she'd come out looking "like a pre-crack Whitney." Betty thinks Natalie looked great just the way she is, but Christina reminds her that they're not in the business of selling "just the way you are." She sighs that "perfection sells fashion. It's all fake and unobtainable, but no one seems to get it." Enter Amanda, who wants to know if Betty is trying to suffocate them with "that putrid smell." She's mid-nose wrinkle when Natalie Whitman comes up, complaining about the café's "non-caloric spacefood," and nabbing herself an empanada. There is a lot I can chalk up to artistic license in this show, but I find it hard to believe that Natalie, were she stuck at Modeduring lunch, for some reason, couldn't have someone run out and fetch her whatever she wanted to eat. Nevertheless, she comments to Betty that Natalie might was well eat all those empanadas, since they're going to Photoshop her down to Nicole Richie-size anyway. At this, Amanda bursts into fake, braying laughter. Natalie ignores her, and takes a seat at Betty's table. Amanda sinks into a seat behind them, presumably to eavesdrop. "So how do you guys put up with working here?" Natalie asks. Because Hollywood is full of totally normal women with no body issues at all and this obsession with her weight is something she's never faced on the West Coast. I really do enjoy this show, and I know it's not supposed to be realistic at all, but I'm so sure Natalie hasn't already had to deal with seeing herself on the cover of Star magazine under the headline, "IS SHE PREGNANT?," with her beer belly circled in pink.
Cut to Fey Sommers's Lair of Secret Recuperation. Wilhelmina tells Fey that she assumed Bradford was behind Fey's hot, hot non-death, but that she doesn't know how to prove it. Once he's in jail, though, they can take over the company! Wilhelmina is a moron if she thinks Fey has any plan other than to use Wilhelmina to get her job back. Fey notes that they have to get rid of Daniel, too.