Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: "The Long Lead Story"

So you know how the trailers for last night's week's episode "The Long Lead Story" had this voiceover saying something like "Will two broken hearts" blah blah blah over a shot of Matt and Harriet looking all serious in a balcony? Well, nothing happened, I'm sorry to tell your Matt/Harriet 'shippers.

Yeah, I'm not all that shocked myself. I guess NBC will want to leave the fireworks until sweeps, right?

Vanity Fair Martha O' Dell, still on set for her story on the show under Matt and Danny's leadership, bets Matt $100 she can get him to talk about Harriet, specifically his relationship with her. While in the midst of scrambling to write 15 minutes of material less than a day before the next show, he avoids Martha's questions about how Matt didn't break on the show until Harriet was cast. Why did it take two years for Matt to begin producing his best work? Simple -- he was just trying to impress Harriet. With that, he hands over a $100 check to Martha.

Of course, this occurred towards the end of the hour, so how did Martha occupy herself while Matt was taking his sweet time? Martha talked to Tom, who took the blame for spilling the dirt about the Bombshell Babies' boot debacle, and to Harriet herself, who revealed that as a child she became a Christian and a comedian at the same time. Church plays can have that strange affect on people. She was similarly tight-lipped on her relationship with Matt, though revealed a lot about her family (father drank, mother brought her to church, her real first name is Hannah, and she has six brothers), and confessed to being a Judy Holliday fan. I'd like to point out that if you don't know who Judy Holliday is, then go out and rent Born Yesterday and Bells Are Ringing right this second and watch them. Seriously -- Judy Holliday was brilliant, people.

Elsewhere in the Studio 60-verse, Danny helps Jordan land a highly anticipated drama about (wait for it) life at the U.N. because he has this sort of writer's street cred that impresses the drama's hotshot playwright creator, and because Jordan passed on a reality show that, were it actually be in production, would probably be watched by way more people that are reported to be watching Studio 60. And when I say Studio 60, I mean the real show, not the show within the show. I think.