Saturday, April 10, 2010

FIRST LOOK! Ugly Betty recreates infamous Dynasty fish pond fight scene with Wilhelmina Slater and Claire Meade.


You're seeing it here first.

I just finished watching it, and the penultimate episode of Ugly Betty that just went out in America features a wonderful Dynasty visual in-joke that seems to have slipped past everyone.

South African viewers will get to see the second to last Ugly Betty episode on Tuesday, 6 July on M-Net when Wilhelmina Slater and Claire Meade re-enact Dynasty's famous fish pond fight scene.


In a tip of the hat to one of modern television's most iconic TV scenes, Ugly Betty just recreated the infamous fish pond fight scene of the eighties super soap when the evil Alexis and the blonde Krystle gets involved in a cat fight, tumbles into the fish pond and continues to go crazy and claw at each other. Now Wilhelmina and the blonde Claire do the same in a cool homage to Dynasty when they clash at a MODE photo shoot and fall into the fish pond!



For the awesome Ugly Betty sequence of events recreating the Dynasty fight scene, click on READ MORE below.




Wilhelmina Slater oversees the latest MODE photo shoot with a studio mock-up looking like a Roman Greco fish pond and models standing on a platform in the middle of the water. If you've ever seen the Dynasty TV moment between Alexis and Krystle, this is exactly how that starts as well with a wide angle scene of that lily pond and the mansion behind it.

Claire Meade shows up and accuses Wilhelmina Slater of influencing her son. Wilhelmina has some good one-liners ready.


An angry Cleare Meade and Wilhelmina Slater start to rip each other's clothes off as the MODE photo shoot is suddenly interrupted by the two women's cat fight.



They both fall into the water . . .


. . . and continue their tussle!




Wilhelmina Slater tries to escape and get out of the fish pond and the water, but Claire Meade grabs her from behind and pulls her back in for round two!



Some crew members eventually jumps into the pond to separate them and break up the fashion fight.


Ugly Betty, Tuesdays, M-Net, 19:30