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On another note with this story line, the little versions of Betty, Gio, Amanda, and Daniel at the school dance were a cute little gimmick, but I don't think the writers took it quite far enough. And I'll admit, had they taken it farther, I probably would have complained that it went too far. But it just seemed they could have used the genius idea to comment on events a bit more. Couldn't little Gio and little Betty have hooked up as foreshadowing of what's (hopefully) to come between the pair? Shouldn't little Amanda have slapped little Daniel or at least pranced around him a bit to make him jealous? She should have been best friends with Justin, who's a little Marc in some ways. Okay, I've obviously thought about this too much, but you get the idea.
My second-favorite kindling romance on Betty is what's going on between Hilda and Justin's gym teacher, Tony. (Again, my eyes melted tonight every time Eddie Cibrian showed up on screen.) Honestly, Hilda is running around like a boy-crazed schoolgirl! Even Justin is being more sensible than her. It's interesting that Tony didn't see — or maybe just wasn't admitting that he saw — what Hilda was trying to do early in the episode. Saying that she was at the school to do something for the PTA, which she just joined, Hilda waltzed into Justin's gym class in her cutest dress, with her flirt level at full throttle. But it wasn't until the dance, when Justin straight up told Tony that Hilda was into him, that Tony turned on the heat himself. It was only too fitting that the heat he brought was in the form of a hot cup of soup! The cute guy gave the very sick Hilda a little broth to make her feel better. More melting, more melting....
And the last romance: Marc and Amanda's! Finally, Mode's dynamic duo is back together. (The banter was there, but I kept waiting for them to pull out a ''Nelly Ripa'' reference. Maybe that's totally over, but it just kills me, and they haven't used it for too long!) Of course, the revival of their friendship wasn't totally perfect — at least, at first. In the time they were apart, Amanda had taken to filming a reality show, perfectly titled Daddy's Little Girl, with her recently discovered father, rocker Gene Simmons. Truth was that Gene was just using her as a show premise and wasn't even her real dad. The always in-touch Marc detected that and mentioned that Gene wasn't so into her off-camera, which set Amanda off. But they came back together, in one of the most touching scenes of the evening: ''I'm sorry you still don't know who your family is,'' Marc said after Amanda told him about Gene. ''Yes, I do,'' she responded, with a twinkle in her eye. Awwww! Again, just so happy they're back together. Marc summed up my feelings exactly after he and Amanda sent out the e-mail blast of Betty kissing Gio: ''Oh, Mandy, how I've missed this.''
Okay, so while the romances of the evening were really good, let's be honest: The main event was Wilhelmina's return to Mode. In true Willy fashion, she said, ''Let's do this, bitch!'' and sashayed back into the offices dripping in out-for-blood red, via some popping lipstick, a flawless wrap, a shiny belt, and killer heels. Her goal: crush the Meade family. And she's well on her way to doing that. At the end of the episode, she had recaptured the creative-director position at Mode and successfully turned Daniel and Alexis against each other — and that was even after they'd made a pinky-swear promise to work together! Truth is, Willy is the best person to run Mode, and the shrewd Alexis recognized that. Meanwhile, the increasingly dopey but always sweet Daniel (how nice was it that he got Betty a writing assignment for Hot Flash?) went on Larry King Live to talk about Willy's return. I love that in wacky Betty world, the viewers of Larry King Live care about — or even know about — the internal strife at a fashion magazine. My question: Daniel can't even come up with a replacement concept for an issue of the magazine, but he's smart enough to book himself on a national talk show? Right....
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