Mode After Hours: Stress-Orcism
October 26, 2009 by Tom
Here is the latest Mode After Hours, the webisodes of Marc and Amanda from Ugly Betty. This one is entitled Stress-Orcism.
This one is mostly Marc and Mandy physical humor, but gives great clues where Amanda’s storyline is headed.
It starts with Amanda putting the final touches on an outfit on Marc (complete with butt grab). Marc thinks the outfit is too plain, but Amanda says he looks good. Amanda says he’s stressed.
She then starts to show him the relaxation program she’s designed to increase productivity at Mode. Then she proceeds to almost kill Marc.
She first has both of them put on bright fedoras, and turns on relaxing ocean sounds, which Amanda has cranked up so loud neither one can hear the other speak.
She then uses an automobile buffer on his back.
Finally, Amanda puts electrodes on Marc’s face, and starts to hook them to a car battery – but Marc stops her before she can do any harm.
Then, Marc tells her, looking at the clothes they are both wearing, that her true talent is in being a stylist.
They hug, and he then grabs a lead from Mandy’s electrical contraption and shocks her butt.
This webisode gave me one of those “duh!” moments, and gave me a pretty good idea of where Amanda’s storyline is going. I think she is going to get close to Matt, not to become his lover, but to get him to give her Christina’s job. I mean, she would most prefer to marry a billionaire, or start out as a designer, but that’s not going to happen. BUT, working in the closet can lead to a career as a designer, as Christina showed.
I assumed at the end of last season that Amanda would finally try to weasel her way into being Daniel’s assistant (she always wanted the job). It never occurred to me that she might want Christina’s job, but she’s always in the closet anyway, knows her way around the sex room, and knows a thing or two about design.
When you look at it that way, it does seem like a perfect fit (Amanda will have to develop a work ethic, though).
I remember in Season 1 that when Amanda finally got Betty’s job as Daniel’s assistant, she hated it. That, or she realized she couldn’t compete with Betty. I don’t quite buy her as a fashion genius, either. Because while she certainly knows a lot about fashion, when she was assigned the “What’s Hot” page during the magazine crisis in Season 2, she blew it by sticking a model in the pizza boy’s outfit. She ended up crying in the Love Dungeon
oh She defiatnley going beocme his lover
and destroy her presdou friendhip with Betty in the process 
They even asking veiwers thier opinions about this love triangle:(. As much I hate the descruction of Amanda and Betty reationship denail will mot help me feel better what will if some one where to make me a nice Betty/ Amanda mongtage hightling the hightlights thier short but Woderfully strange friendship.
i don’t think she can take christina’s job either, it requires SEWING, and making items fit on the model. she can be a stylist/shopper though. Her wardrobe are pretty fantastic. She is good at “hmm, for your body, this dress/color would look good on you, and with those shoes!”
What geek said!