I'm loving the "Wicked" references in tonight's Ugly Betty...

[Elphie10]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 8:36pm

Tornadoes in Kansas? "No good deed goes unpunished?" Anyone else thinks this is less than a coincidence?

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 8:47pm

I bet people on the Off-Topic Board will care.

Or not.

[withoutlovewithoutU]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 9:14pm

Well... Tornadoes in Kansas isn't really a stretch and the phrase "No good deed goes unpunished" was around waaay before Wicked.

[sally1112]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 9:14pm

There was also a Guys and Dolls reference..."I got the horse right here..."

[withoutlovewithoutU]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 10:58pm

That I loved!

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 12:11am

I really don't think it was a Wicked reference. Tornadoes are common in Kansas which is probably one of the reasons the location was chosen for The Wizard of Oz and the no good deed phrase predates Wicked. It was a coincidence, maybe, but I don't believe it to have been a direct reference.

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 12:18am

well, im sure it wasnt a direct reference to wicked... although, Betty Suarez Loves wicked... duH! there was a complete episode last season dedicated to it, and the plot lines were woven together.. so although its just coincidence, she does love wicked :)

[B3TA07]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 12:23am

We are all acutely aware. Thanks.^


I am already getting a headache of all the people thinking Stephanie J. Block singing "no good deed goes unpunished" in 9 to 5 is a reference.

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 12:27am

its not... i mean, when ppl said it was, i listened, and couldnt even hear it... cuz its not! lol the words may be there, but unless it sounds like it, its not a tribute

and, sorry for posting that if everyone was aware lol, im sure some ppl werent!

[B3TA07]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 12:29am

I know it isn't. lol

[binau]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 3:03am

Did anyone think there was an intentional "Into the woods" reference when that guy said it to Vanessa Williams?

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 3:20am

I didn't...

[binau]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 6:02am

How can some guy saying you ready to go "Into the woods" to Vanessa Williams (or whatever it was) be a co-incidence, they must have known it has puns

[Patash]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 8:40am

Oh come on, guys. With the previous Wicked mentions (even scenes from Wicked when Betty and her date went) do you honestly think it was just a coincidence that they picked Kansas to have a tornado and that Betty ends up being called Tornado Girl, complete with t-shirts. You don't give those writers much credit for being clever do you? Of course it was planned!

[bardolator]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 9:01am

If I were Dolly Parton, I'd flip the lines in "Shine Like the Sun" and give that one to one of the other actors.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 11:32am

I'm annoyed over the Queens accent the character of Justin seems to have much more obviously than he used to. I understand he lives there, and his mother has one too, but for some reason his character is starting to annoy me and I don't want to be annoyed by him because he's a great character.

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 12:17pm

see, im starting to love him more, because its not as if they try and make him seem not gay... and he is such a flamer now! i love it! he is so funny now!!!!