By Sabrina Cognata

Welcome to the continuing saga that is UGLY BETTY this week producers have more in store for viewers in the form of odd plot twists, gratuitous nudity & lies!  Could we expect any less from prime time television and a highly hailed comedy?  I think not.  Moving right along, when we left dear Betty (America Ferrera) last week Henry had shown up at her door telling her Christina informed him of Charlie’s tryst with the dentist.  Now that Henry is unsure of the unborn child’s paternity he tells Betty they can be together.  Too bad Henry, but Betty has cleansed herself from your hold last week and she tells you that you have to wait and see what the outcome will be before the two of you can be together.  HOT!  It’s about time that little chunkster starts taking up for herself in the form of good old self confidence and not having to fall back in the arms of her former beau.

Amanda on the other hand is having some man problems of her own.  She’s got the paternity results back from the lab and she tells Daniel there’s a possibility they could be half brother and sister.  If Bedford really is Amanda’s father they’re half brother and sister that have been sleeping together for the better part of their working relationship.  Gross.  The two talk it over and finally Amanda rips open the envelope and reveals that Bradford is not her father.  WHERE IS MAURY POVICH WHEN YOU NEED HIM?  Amanda jumps into the wheelchair ridden lap of Daniel and the two kiss.


Most of the episode revolves around the black and white masquerade ball.  Daniel wants a special motorized wheelchair for him to use at the event and Betty is back up against a wall looking for a way to get that wheelchair from New Jersey to Manhattan.  While trying to figure out this conundrum she goes to get lunch from the sandwich guy.  Turns out the Sandwich guy has been replaced by a cute Hispanic guy from the neighborhood, Gio.  Initially, the two flirt, but when Betty tries to tell him that he’s made her sandwich wrong he tells her she’s wrong and jumps into the elevator.  Betty runs to Daniel complaining how rude Gio was and finally Daniel makes a call to deal with the situation.  Gio gets fired and comes looking for Betty to blame her for him getting the axe.  Betty follows him downstairs and the two banter, finally she asks him if he will take her to New Jersey to get the wheelchair & he agrees.  He better agree since Mode’s gonna pay him and he’s out of work anyways.  On the way to pick up the chair Betty tells Gio about her plans to become a writer and how she has to get experience working in a magazine, as an assistant, so that she can gain the ability to someday have her own magazine. 

In the department of subplots, Wilhelmina faces the prospect that Alexis’s amnesia is impeding her ability to marry Bradford, Alexis’s father.  Wilhelmina decides the best way to get Bradford to unpostpone their wedding is to get Alexis to condone her father marrying Wilhelmina.  Turns out that snarky bitch Wilhelmina is right and once she gets Alexis to think they are super best friends forever Bradford decides the postponement was unnecessary.  Justin on the other hand is having a hard time dealing with the passing of his father.  He wants to find a way to remain bonded with his father as the two had nothing in common.  He decides that he wants to learn how to play basketball and goes to Daniel and asks Daniel to teach him the basics.  Now that Daniel has gone through the accident his heart has grown and he takes Justin down to the basketball hoops and shows him the ropes, so to speak.  While down there, Daniel gets excited, jumps out of the wheelchair and slam dunks a basket.  I guess someone is busted for lying about being a cripple.


Hilda, Betty’s sister, discovers Daniel is not as lame as he’s making out & goes directly to Betty.  Once Daniel is in the electronic wheelchair Betty begins to grill him about his current physical limitations.  While this is happening Daniel is trying to work the silly machine and crashes it into a table and jumps out of the chair before he ends up all messy.  Betty watches this happen and tells him how disappointed she is in him.  The next day Betty tells Daniel that she needs a little time for herself and she’s taking a lunch time writing class.  Daniel agrees that this is a great idea.  On her way to sign up for the class she passes by her desk and Gio has left her a sandwich made to her specifications.  He even put a cute ribbon around it.  OOH, COULD THIS BE A NEW LOVE INTEREST FOR OUR SQUATTY, FROGLIKE PROTAGONIST?  God I hope so cause I think Gio is so much cuter & fun than Henry.  Speaking of Henry, he catches up with Betty as she is getting into the elevator.  He asks if the sandwich is a present and Betty says no.  Then she tells him she is late for an appointment and they can talk another time.  Then Betty looks down at that sandwich in her hands—is it a present or not?