Ugly Betty Episode 3.09 When Betty Meets YETI

Nick Pepper returns, boasting about his amazing new job and Betty learns that it was due to his having graduated from YETI: the Young Editors Training Initiative. She rushes to apply, but she has only 48 hours to meet the deadline. Her family is skeptical when she tells them she's doing a fashion magazine as the project is supposed to represent "the real you." She explains that she's just being practical because she can use Mode resources to get her project done, including Christina's help in picking a cover outfit.

Marc is also applying for YETI, and he and Amanda laugh when they hear that Betty is doing a fashion magazine. "What's it called, Clashing Patterns Digest?" he jokes.

Betty suggests they might both get in, but he tells her YETI only ever takes one person per magazine. Betty is ready to give up, until her father reminds her of the magazine she and Hilda made when their mother was in the hospital. "You were able to make this whole magazine in one afternoon, because it mattered to you." She's inspired and pulls an all-nighter at the office to put it together. She wants Daniel's opinion on it before she does her presentation and is disappointed that he hasn't written her a letter of recommendation yet. He suggests she write it herself, saying she can write anything she wants. "Make yourself sound great."

Justin and Randy go to see the play Little Shop of Horrors, but Randy is embarrassed when his friends see him with Justin. Hilda surprises Justin with two tickets to a Broadway musical but he's crushed when Randy tells him he doesn't think they should hang out anymore. In front of his friends, Randy loudly says, "Dude, stop following me around. Get a life!" Hilda tells Justin, "You are going to meet a lot of people in life who don't get you. Screw 'em. All that matters is that you never change who you are." He asks her to go to the musical with him. "Just because Randy's an idiot, doesn't mean we should waste perfectly good tickets," he decides.

When Wilhelmina sees Molly kissing Connor goodbye at the office, she confides to Marc, she doesn't understand why Connor's with a "mousy schoolteacher" instead of her. "He's competitive, he's shrewd, he's hot, he's me," she says. "He's the Malehilmena," Marc agrees. She conspires to get Connor alone by scheduling an out-of-town client meeting for the two of them on the day that Connor was supposed to speak at Molly's school.

Connor feels terrible about letting Molly down, so he asks Daniel to speak to her class in his place. Daniel's a hit with the kids, thanks to a game of Red Rover and Molly tells him he's great with kids and that "You are not the Daniel Meade that you read about in the tabloids." Daniel is having such a great time with Molly, he doesn't make it back before Betty's presentation.

Betty unveils her "B Magazine, a lifestyle magazine for young women that tells them it's okay to be confident, to be yourself." She's sure that she's nailed it, until Marc appears with his "A-List magazine." Instead of just a cover and letter from the editor, he's assembled a complete magazine with the help of famous designers and writers. Still, Betty's the one who gets in. She tries to cheer up Marc, but he bitterly tells her that she got in only because, "You help them meet their quota. You're the token ethnic girl. It may be ugly Betty, but it's the truth."

Connor and Wilhelmina celebrate the success of their meeting by ordering in room service and a bottle of wine. "So, Will," he asks her, "no men in your life, or are men just disposable to you?" She tells him that the men in her life have all been "disappointments," and he says that's because she's a "very formidable woman. I'm sure they have trouble keeping up." She thinks she sees an opening and makes her move, but he tells her she needs to "get used to" the fact that he's engaged. Marc asks what their next plan is, and she tells him she's given up. "If he wants to marry that do-gooding gremlin, that's his choice."

Feeling she hasn't earned it, Betty gives up her YETI spot to Marc, insisting he deserves it more. But Daniel makes a few calls and gets her back in by telling them that she works for Player magazine, and he's finally written that recommendation letter: six pages. "I'd be lying if I didn't say I wanted you to be my assistant for the next 20 years," he tells her. "But I know you're going places. In 20 years, I'll probably be your assistant." Marc is thrilled that Betty's gotten in after all and the two of them eagerly discuss their upcoming schedule.