'Ugly Betty': Confessions of a shoplifter

small thing, but it's pronounced: guy(like the pronoun)-row

episode was just there. Nothing seemed to happen.

No Marc/Amanda scenes = bad.

No Christina at all (don't think she was in the last ep either) = puzzling. You'd think they'd want to at least give us a baby update every ep as that was a major story point this year (and the only real holdover from last year).

"- Claire's story this time was the only one that really felt like the old, heartwarming Ugly Betty episodes were coming back."

That's exactly what I said last night!

My favorite line --"Isn't that Bird-er?"

fyi, I have always heard it prounounced "yeer-oh." And "guy" is a noun, not a pronoun.

I don't have anything against Molly or Connor, but I am not really interested in the relationships -- I, too, think they are kinda boring.

Of course, I knew Liz Smith, but were the other women that Betty interviewed famous or were they just actresses playing a part?

if papi has elena, remind me again why betty needs to live at home, when she could be back in her manhattan apt.?

B*O*R*I*N*G

This show definitely needs to go on hiatus and hire some new writers before returning.

The storylines are not working. It's as if the writers have given up. The Conner/Molly characters need to leave. They add nothing. Wilhemina has been reduced to a giggling schoolgirl. Totally out of character. Marc and Amanda have disappeared. Papi falling for his nurse? Way too predictable and of little interest. And yes, why is Betty back at home if there is a F/T nurse there?

Maybe the show's production should have stayed in LA.

I agree with most of the comments here. Her Dad does not even need her!!!

My big problem with the whole show is not so much with the braces being on (full metal train tracks) for at least 6 years, but the fact that no-one seems to notice how awful, horrible and terrible

Betty dresses!!! Even a "normal" job would have changed her dress code, let alone a fashion magazine!!!

I'm wondering whether they had Betty move back home because Ana Ortiz is pregnant. Betty's family has always been an important part of the show, so it might be too difficult to show the home front if Ortiz' condition has to be camouflaged.

Yeah, Betty is losing the battle with freshness. Seems like every week they're either rehashing old plotlines or remaking the show. Dull, dull, dull.

And to nail the coffin shut (I hope) on this particular topic--the word "gyro" is pronounced one of three ways, depending on where the person saying it is from. "Yee-roh" is generally the traditional pronunciation, based on Greek heritage and other factors too complicated to get into here (and that spelling is not accurate, either, as there is a slight dip in the Y, producing a near-dipthong, approximating "yee-uh-roh" but said fast, and with the R taking on a near-D sound...whew!). "Hee-roh" is just a lazier way of saying it the first way, usually said by folks of Greek heritage, but who have been away from their homeland for many years, or by people who are not Greek but are trying to sound that way (it also is to make it more aligned with the word "hero," which is another term for a submarine sandiwich/grinder/hoagie/whatever. "Jye-roh" is an Americanized pronunciation that is slowly replacing the original, since that's how it looks, and will probably be how it's pronounced fifty years from now (the fourth pronunciation "guy-row" that was mentioned is another one that is not accurate, but is accepted in most places in the United States).

The only reason I know all that is because I used to eat often at Union Station in St. Louis at a Greek sandwich shop that served "yee-rohs" with lamb freshly shaved off the leg. The owners used to cringe when people would order "jye-rohs" or "guy-rohs," but unlike the Soup Nazi, they would serve people anyway.

Personally, I thought the episode was pretty enjoyable! I love that Ignacio has found someone and, although Betty was a bit selfish, is it really that hard to understand where she's coming from? She obviously had a very strong connection with her mother and misses her. Elena, although kind, threatens those memories in Betty's mind.

Claire rocked; I'm fed up with the Connor/Molly thing (A quick piece of trivia: Molly voiced a Sailor scout on Sailor Moon. Hun? *I sound like the Global channel*)

As for Christina, if anyone stuck around to watch the credits, you would have seen the preview for next week: our favortie designer is going to be going into labour on the catwalk at Fashion Week next Thursday! However, I'm really worried for her because I heard a rumor that she's leaving the show. I hope they don't kill her off giving birth to Spawn!

As for amazingness, I absolutely adore what Daniel did for Claire and very little can trump the sexiness of the way Connor kissed Willie after she blurted out that she loved him. What a wonderfully humanizing scene! Even if we love to hate Wilhelmina, I like it when the claws retract every now and then.

As far as the rest of it goes, I think this Molly story is getting old. Daniel tries every week to surp*** how Connor treated her and, even though she re***ures him, he still feels second best. While I feel sorry for him, I think he either needs to find a way to regain his confidence or he'll spend the rest of the relationship living in Connor's non-existent shadow. Rumor has it, as well, that Molly's time on the show might be numbered, too. I read somewhere that there's a CHANCE (and I repeat, CHANCE) that her character could be written off with death. I'm not sure; just p***ing on what I read!

I look forward to next week; what happens with Connor when Wilhelmina suddenly has a newborn by her dead ex-almost-husband?