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Ugly Betty’s season-finale love affair with America’s national pastime, at least as far a season finales go, continues. Lookie what’s hidden away in a small blurb in the NY Mets’ beat column in the New York Daily News today:
UGLY CITI: ABC’s "Ugly Betty" will be filming scenes for its season finale during Friday night’s game [tonight] at Citi Field. Characters Betty & Daniel are among those scheduled to be filming.
So, I guess we know, at least partially, what the “Curveball” episode title is all about. I’m sure the other allusions will have to do with unexpected changes in our heroes’ lives (Henry returning? Molly dying?).
Anyway, Citi Field is the home of the New York Mets (built as a replacement for Shea Stadium) in Flushing, Queens.
Do not be surprised if there’s some Matt connection (he is a sports writer, after all). It would be pretty awesome, also, if a couple of players made cameos.
However, it’s being filmed during the game, so perhaps America Ferrera and Eric Mabius will be in the crowd? But then again, how do you handle security and logistics for such an undertaking? I can’t wait to see what this is all about.
This is quite a step up from last season’s season finale, which was filmed in a park in LA. I love NY!
Image: Bauer Griffin
Yes, that is the exact reason I was hoping it would happen soon. Oh well, hopefully, Season 4 will include it.
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Ok Timmeh, I get what you’re saying. You cannot say that fans of sports teams or whatever don’t get that way when their players get traded away to other teams too though. Perhaps if its true what you say (its true what he says!) *ahem* then I can see as a actor wanting to branch out. Thank you peanut gallery for that echo. However, in so doing might I suggest that it may be wise to offer giving fans a taste by doing episode cameo appearances here and there. Just to show them no hard feelings. Lots of programs have had characters that only show up for few special episodes peppered throughout the season. Freddy has done great work in movies already but Betty needs her version of Archie. A guy that takes her to task about how she acts. Henry doesn’t understand what makes Betty tick in my opinion. He’d never tell Betty to stand up for herself if she wants a chair for her boss, fix a sink properly or laugh at something rude. Matt is even worse. He avoids conflict at all costs and doesn’t buy dinner. This is all while *knowing* he’s secretly wealthy?! If not Freddy, we need a Gio-esque character suitable of supplementing that type of character in her life. No Jack Black or Fundamentalist bible thumpers. Someone authentic to who she is. Kevin Bacon in Footloose-ish? A real Wally Cleaver if it has to be a white dude. Someone not afraid of respectably belting a wiseguy like Marc or Amanda in the mouth.
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[...] The cast and crew of Ugly Betty have been busy, busy, busy lately. Not only did they have the Friday night filming at Citi Field, but they also did a bit of shooting at City Hall Park in [...]
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Oh PLEASE! W-H-A-T-E-V-E-R!!!
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@ Karen: Boot to the head. *sound effect of someone being hit* j/k
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After thinking about it, I think it would be a great idea for the writers of Ugly Betty to bring Fey Sommers back. We never really got that much proof that she was actually dead except for the news paper articles and what Claire said. Maybe Claire was drunk and just thought she killed Fey Sommers. Even Fey Sommers tomb was empty in Season 1, what was up with that? In season 2, I always somehow thought they would bring her back. It would be a wonderful cliffhanger and an even better plot development for season 4. Think about the plot lines it would create for Amanda and Claire. The season could even focus on a mystery sort of thing like in season 1 (With Alexis as the mysterious woman.)
Who else agrees that it would be wonderful for them to bring Fey Sommers back. We could then see Claire at her best! =D
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And either way it seems like a better idea to bring Henry back.
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Oh come on! Haha! You want to bring back yet another white person for further UB subjegatation wrongfully to gentrification? That’s racist. Just like Marc saying Betty only got into YETI because she’s Latina. It makes no sense.
That’s grasping at straws not on my end, brotha! Let’s see, if we give Henry jheri curls, a mustache and boxing robe then who do we get?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVaX7hPacIU
*bites hand covering my mouth*
Eat me, latin baddie from Observe and Report!
This isn’t right, plain and simple. It could be much, much better and ABC knows this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Tv5f3agDw
Why try and stop progress? It sounds like an elaborate behind the scenes version of the UB ep where Salma Hayek broke Daniel’s heart on camera when Betty was hauled off by security.
Couldn’t do it on camera so now people have infiltrated behind the scenes? No dice, bro!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAESo2uv-po
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GB – oh, no you dih-unt!
Who did you just hand the race card to, Horta, or Timmeh? Either way, I just don’t get it.
Although I can never tell how serious you are :)
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Gio_Bravo, assuming you were referring to me, how was I being racist by saying they should bring Fey back? :o
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Fey was evil. Bringing back an evil white character to provide antagonism certainly doesn’t seem racist to me. And there is nothing in the show to indicate Henry is a bad person or represents racist ideals. I’m sure like all white people he has white privilege, but that doesn’t make him symbolic of anything.
The many Latinos involved in producing, creating, and writing this project certainly don’t seem to have a problem with sympathetically (or not sympathetically) portraying characters, regardless of their racial background.
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It’s a subject worthy of its own post, but I’ll add what I’ve said many times before.
The genius, sociologically, of this show is that the writers and producers use a scapel, not a sledgehammer.
They could have blown the trumpets and heralded each new goundbreaking character and situation. A “normal” Latino family! Interracial dating! A kid who looks and acts gay! A transexual! A gay man who isn’t swishy!
But, instead, each character…
is.
Just is. We, as viewers, can bring whatever baggage we want when we watch, but it’s our baggage.
It’s brilliant. Usually, TV producers can’t resist the sledgehammer, but Horta and crew pull it off.
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Oh I totally agree, Tom. See, I was brought up in remedial classes full of kids from the wrong side of the tracks, migrant farmworkers and children with learning disabilities. I found a way to annoy them all. Not so much in the radical way of looking to start trouble as seeming over the top like superstars you’d see on professional wrestling. In fact I’ve even met pro wrestlers before. I still have Razor Ramon’s autograph somewhere in my bedroom. Those kids saw me and they realized how stupid it was to get worked up over something trivial. I was making that job look too easy by giving them something to laugh at themselves about. If Screech were fictionally Dr. Bruce Banner on Saved by the Bell, I’d be the real-life Incredible Hulk counterpart built with a chin like Jay Leno or George of the Jungle. Some might even say I’m bronzed like the mighty Hulkster himself. The truth is, nobody is “racist” right now but its open season for that topic to be desensitized. It’s better I say it because the only people who take me seriously are people who know I’m capable of being a Hollywood genius.
What I say is true being out there and people can look at it pulling back the veil like Tupac albums or Sam Mendes’ American Beauty. I get all my words tongue-tied but you can feel me. Betty got glasses. She’s a smart girl. Time to use those brains figuratively like Matt Damon in Rounders against John Malkovich’s KGB. How many of y’all outside of me can tell Silvio or any of the staff what the symbolism is of the set on Season 2 premiere where Charlie, Henry and Betty were all in a telenovella? I’m giving ya just the facts, Tom. :P *raspberries*
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