Grin and Bear It (Ugly Betty)
| "Grin and Bear It" | |
|---|---|
| Ugly Betty episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Tucker Gates |
| Written by |
Veronica Becker Sarah Kucserka |
| Production code | 204 |
| Original air date | October 18, 2007 |
"Grin and Bear It" is the fourth episode in the second season of the comedy-drama TV series, Ugly Betty. The episode was written by Veronica Becker and Sarah Kucserka and directed by Tucker Gates. It is the 27th episode overall, which aired on October 18, 2007.
The episode begins in an auditorium, a student is reading his love story. Betty is crying, impressed, and starts to cheer as he finishes. Everyone in the class looks at her like she’s crazy. The teacher asks Betty what she liked about the piece (mockingly). Betty replies that it was sweet, and that she felt his pain. The teacher says “This is what I felt”, and runs his nails down the chalkboard. He then goes on a tirade about “finding your voice” and opening old wounds. “If you have nothing to write, try killing yourself”, he says. He assigns a 1000 word essay on “Your most defining moment”.
Back at the Suarez home, Ignacio is preparing breakfast, and tells Betty her story was great. She tells of her plans to get published, get promoted to editor, then run her own magazine. Betty tells her dad that she had sent her story to Daniel for evaluation. Justin walks in the room, dressed in a leather jacket and with a snarly attitude. He tells Betty he flunked his math test, and doesn’t care. Hilda defends him.
At MODE, Daniel is arriving with Alexis. She has too much makeup on, and is wearing her top very low-cut without a bra. She is having trouble walking in heels. Amanda sees her takes her to the ladies' room to help her out.
Marc sneaks into the love dungeon and sees Amanda there with Halston. Amanda has been having no luck at all in the search for her birth father, so Marc suggests she look at old issues of MODE, which always had pictures of Fey at various parties – to see which men she socialized with at the time.
Wilhelmina is leading a staff meeting. Daniel and Alexis walk in as Wilhelmina continues, but Daniel asks her to move so Alexis can sit down. Wilhelmina obviously feels disrespected but does so. She reminds everyone that she is leaving MODE to run Meade publications, and the Meade family. Wilhelmina comes to talk to Bradford about her future, only to have Bradford tell her she can run any magazine she likes, but MODE (Claire owns that). Wilhelmina later meets with all the other editors of all the other magazines in Meade publications: including an extreme sports magazine, a cooking magazine, and a men’s magazine. She doesn’t like any of them, then tells Marc that her plan has fallen apart.
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