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Ugly Betty - There's No Zoning Laws In This Dojo

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Connor has ushered the heads of the company and the various magazines off to a woodland corporate retreat, but the scenes there are refreshingly free of the usual ropes-course/trust-fall clichés. They are not free of crazy, however: Claire Meade spends the second day of the retreat dressed as Tim Burton's brain, and nobody even notices. Wili and Daniel have left the final look at this month's issue to Betty, and just after she's approved it -- and its "fashion tornado" cover shoot -- a real actual (non-fashion) tornado rips through Kansas, killing like a billion people. PR nightmare, Peter Parker!

So Betty and Marc set out in search of Daniel and Wili to recall the issue before it goes out -- and Amanda comes along, because what is the point of this show otherwise -- in Cliff's car. Stressing about his upcoming gay marriage issue, he crashes into a tree on the way to the retreat lodge. One thing you might not know is that between the island and upstate, there's a place called Arkansas where the people all wear bib overalls and chew on hay while drunk-driving, it's a whole mess. Anyway, Betty finally hires a skywriter and gets Daniel to call her, but he and Wili make a last-minute publicity-stunt decision and send the issue out anyhow.

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