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By Potes | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.03.2007
Betty and Christina head to lunch, and Christina quite correctly says that it's Daniel's fault for spending so much damn money so irresponsibly. Betty, however, feels bad because she messed up the expense report. Christina says that all of the Mode bigwigs abuse their expense accounts, especially Wilhelmina. A skinny bitch compliments Betty on her Gucci, and kindly concedes the last salad to her before asking Christina if she's carb-loading for a marathon. Christina retorts that we all can't live on laxatives. We can't? I wish someone had told me this before! No wonder I've been feeling so weird. On the way to a table they run into Amanda, who calls Christina "seamstress" in a very Karen Walker type way. Amanda tries to convince Betty to trade her Gucci for Amanda's season tickets to the opera, so that Amanda can then trade the Gucci for her Louboutin boots. Christina says that Amanda is crazy, because if Betty wants to hear fat Italian guys screaming, she can open her window. Because she lives in Queens, you know. When they sit down, Betty asks Christina how much the bag is worth. The answer is $4,500, though with the pickle that Betty has sludged on it, that's probably knocked down to $4,200. Betty gets a certain look in her eye and funny soft music starts playing as we get a close up on The Bag That Is Obviously Going to Save the Ailing Father. Fashion heals! It's true.
Betty walks down the street in Queens as Walter stalks after her. She tells him to just go home and leave her alone. He looks really sad, and also like he is wearing too much bronzer. He peers through the window of the pharmacy, where a sad-looking Betty passes the bag across the counter to a gleeful Maria. Back at home, Betty tells her family that she went to see Maria, who gave 15 refills on Ignacio's prescription. Hilda asks how she managed to do that, and Justin asks where her Gucci is. Everyone knows what's up and is kind of sad about it. Hilda says that it's not fair that Wilhelmina gets to blow 25 grand in Rio and Betty has to trade her swag. Betty says that it's okay. Hilda says it's not okay, and Betty snaps that that's just the way it is and leaves the table. Hilda follows her into her bedroom, where Betty holds a picture of herself with Mama Suarez. Awww. Betty asks if Hilda remembers how angry she was when their mom gave Betty her purse. Hilda does. Betty was three, and, as we already might have heard a few times, used the bag to carry around her crayons. Betty says that she's figured out why their mom gave her the bag and not Hilda. She knew how it would make Betty feel. Betty says that Christina says that fashion is good for the soul, and that when she was walking around with her Gucci today, she felt like she did when she was three and holding their mom's purse. She actually felt pretty. Oooh, it's so sad! And, wait, hey! I know how everything can be remedied! Betty should totally go on Extreme Makeover! That would be one bad-ass crossover. Think about it as we head to commercials.