"They really did remove your balls in the operation," said Wilhelmina (Vanessa Williams) to Alexis (Daniel's post-op transgendered sister, played by Rebecca Romijn) on last night's episode of Ugly Betty.

The episode entitled "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," while not about the military, was definitely chock-full of our favorite characters at MODE Magazine trying to disguise hidden agendas or pretending to be something they're not, and finding the cojones to be true to themselves.

At the show's opening, Bradford Meade (Alan Dale) attempts to block his former son-turned-daughter, Alexis, from becoming a part of the family's magazine business. While he's clearly uncomfortable with her new gender, mother Claire (Judith Light) reminds her husband that she in fact owns the magazine (he put it under her name as a tax shelter), and is making Alexis co-editor in chief with their son, Daniel (Eric Mablus). Did I mention mom is under arrest and handcuffed to a hospital bed?

In the meantime, Wilhelmina's gay assistant (and partner in crime), Marc (Michael Urie) gets his tighties all in a bunch because his mother, Ms. Weiner (played by Broadway diva Patti Lupone) has come to New York City for a cat show, and to visit her "heterosexual" son. He convinces Betty (America Fererra) to pretend to be his babe...

(More after the jump, or read our new article on this gay-heavy Ugly Betty on the AfterElton.com front page.)

Back with the Meade's, things don't go so well for Alexis and Daniel's new magazine partnership. She hatches a plan to take over the magazine sending it to press the night before it's scheduled. In one of the campiest scenes in a very campy show, cameras click and bulbs burst while Alexis strikes poses for an undercover re-shoot of the magazine cover. She and Daniel had agreed to both writing the letter from the editor, and Daniel admits to Betty that he can't write, and someone else ghostwrites his piece every month, further adding to his inferiority complex as the less smart, less athletic, and (now) less beautiful sibling.

The straight charade begins when Marc and his high-society, cat-obsessed mom have dinner with the fam at Betty's home in Queens, when the two pretend (very badly) to be lovers. The jig is nearly up when Betty's "swishy" nephew Justin (Mark Indelicato) marches in wearing a FREE CLAIRE T-shirt, and threatens to blow Marc's cover. But loveable Justin is quick to catch on and falls in line with the game.

That is, until a dinner coversation about musicals. Marc and Justin totally bond over their feelings of hurt and disgust at Dreamgirls' Best Pic Oscar snub, and then all hell breaks loose. When Betty and Mark leave to re-group, Marc says of Betty's bedroom, "So this is where all the tragic happensc" He alerts Betty to Alexis' plan to print the magazine early (in fact that night), and Betty runs to the rescue.

Back downstairs, Ms. Wiener is mortified by Betty and her family, calling Betty's sister a hussy and Justin "swishy." Marc uses this already uncomfortable moment to come out to her, which she rejects as a phase, and ultimately, rejects him.

When Betty reaches Daniel he thinks about chasing Alexis--a recurring daydream he has during the show of always being behind his sister (when she was his brother). Daniel finally decides to stop pursuing his sister, letting the magazine--and her pouty lips--go to press. In doing so, Daniel accepts himself.

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