Be-Shure
"Be-Shure" is an episode from the ABC comedy-drama series Ugly Betty, which aired on December 11, 2009. It is the ninth episode from Season 4 and the 74th episode overall.
| "Be-Shure" | |
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| Ugly Betty episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 9 |
| Directed by | David Dworetsky |
| Written by | Gail Lerner |
| Production code | 409 |
| Original air date | December 11, 2009 |
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Plot
The story begins with the family getting ready for breakfast with Ignacio making potato latkes. Ignacio announces that he has invited his new girlfriend, Jean, over for a multi-culti Christmas–Hanukkah dinner. As Betty leaves, Bobby stops by, which upsets Hilda, even though Bobby was there to pick up Justin, while Ignacio holds up a Cabbage Patch Doll to show Bobby, who believes took a display of the baby Jesus 14 years earlier, which Bobby denied. After she leaves, Betty starts to feel queasy as does Hilda later on while she and Archie were visiting Macy's to drop a letter to support the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Claire and Daniel discuss hiring a new creative director despite the disagreements over Calvin running the company and Daniel being blamed for hiring Connor, while Marc is suffering from "Stockholm Syndrome", due to Wilhelmina no longer with the company. Cal later stops by to introduce Daniel their new creative director, a clueless Hollywood mogul named Denise Ludwig, whom Daniel is not happy.
Connor and Wilhelmina are getting hot and heavy behind bars, as Wilhelmina have been secretly been making surprise visits daily for the past two weeks, as they hope that as soon as they get the money back Wilhelmina will be back at Mode. When Wilhelmina returns to reclaim her job, Daniel tells her that it was filled. Wilhelmina then leaves, but prior to her visit, Marc suggests to Daniel, who wanted to get even with Cal by recovering the money, by enlisting Wilhelmina in an effort to get the money back. Hours later back at prison, Wilhelmina and Connor are interrupted by a phone call from Daniel.
Amanda later reaches Claire to tell her that a plane is ready for her flight to Rapid City, South Dakota to see her son Tyler. In Rapid City, Claire arrives at a bar and sees a bartender, who happens to be Tyler, after she asks him for a beer as a way to get to know more about him. As Tyler talks about his life, Claire listens to him, seeing that he has done well for himself and realizes that he has turned out pretty well. Claire then thanks Tyler for having a great conversation and leaves him a 2,000-dollar tip. As Claire leaves, she informs Amanda and tells her that she does not want Tyler to know anything about her.
Back at home Betty and Hilda arrive to help Ignacio, while at the same time they separately head to the bathroom to pee so they can see if they are expecting. During the ensuing chaos, both try to keep each other and Ignacio from finding out as they fight for bathroom time.the sisters panicked as they were hiding something, and after he left the two separately discover a positive on their sticks thanks to a mix-up with their kits and both believed that they might be pregnant. But just as the two try to keep quiet about their double pregnancy, the sisters try to keep their cool about the results and as they went back to the bathroom they saw the two sticks, but one turned up positive and the other negative. Betty believes that Hilda might be the one who is carrying but the two are not so sure and as Matt walks in on the two he sees Betty with the stick and is led to believe that Betty is the one with child. In the bathroom, Betty and Matt wait for a few minutes, then a negative sign appears, as Betty breathes a sigh of relief that she is not the one who is pregnant, even though Matt was somewhat disappointed. Hours later a devastated Hilda tells Betty that she is afraid to tell Archie about the pregnancy and that he is not the father, now that she knows that Bobby is. Betty thinks its time for Hilda to come clean. However, its Archie who decided that it was better to end the relationship, but because he felt that there was someone out there that deserved hilda.
As the evening finished, Ignacio was pleased that Jean liked the get-together and was looking forward to having an Easter-Passover dinner down the road, while outside Betty and Matt talked about visualizing their future together if they ever decide to ever have a family, then they kiss.
Notes
- This would the last episode in the series to air on Friday nights, as ABC announced on December 1, 2009 that it would move Ugly Betty to Wednesday nights starting January 6, 2010.[1][2]
- Although the series will be moving to Wednesdays, this episode showed yet another resurgence, as it posted a 3.3/6 overall, a 1.4/4 among 18-49s, and 4.8 million viewers tuning in, a 17% increase from the previous episode, thus resulting in its best numbers this season since "The Butterfly Effect Part 2" and its second best showing on Friday, as it beat a rerun of Medium to place second behind a Dateline: NBC exclusive on an interview with one of Tiger Woods' alleged mistresses, Jamie Jungers.[3][4][5]
- Macy's and the Make-A-Wish Foundation added to the list of product placements in this series, given the holiday theme of this episode.
- Ralph Macchio (Archie Rodriguez) is credited as a recurring star for the last time. This episode also introduces two new recurring stars: Nadia Dajani (Denise Ludwig), and Neal Bledsoe (Tyler Meade-Hartley).
- Chris Martin from Coldplay's version of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas plays during the final scene of the episode.
References
- "Ugly Betty" Gets a Prettier Time Slot, Los Angeles Times, December 3, 2009
- "Ugly Betty" Moving to Wednesday, Variety.com, December 1, 2009
- ""TV Ratings: Tiger Woods' alleged mistress on 'Dateline' boosts NBC Friday" from Zap2it (December 12, 2009)". Archived from the original on 2009-12-15. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
- "TV Ratings: NBC Wins with Tiger Woods, Ugly Betty up again; Dollhouse up a tiny bit" from TV By The Numbers (December 12, 2009)
- "Ratings: Ugly Betty, Dollhouse and Leno Rise" from TV Guide (December 12, 2009)