Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 546 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Strange Bedfellows
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2013.05.05
Marie joins Megan, who's standing in her walk-in closet in a bathrobe, and notes that she's not ready yet. After a slightly snippy exchange about the dinner, Marie offers that she's overstayed her welcome, but Megan tells her she's glad she's there. Then Marie, the voice of experience, notes that she's talking like a woman who's been married far too long, adding that she knew something was wrong. "We have not had a fight." Hee. Megan tells her that Don has been distant to the point where she feels like she has to make conversation with her own husband, but Marie points out that she's "confounded everyone's expectations," adding that it's difficult to stand next to someone giving an autograph. True, but most people manage to do it without looking at their watches. Megan thinks Don doesn't care about all that, but Marie sternly demurs, saying he may think Megan belongs more to other people than to him. She's not wrong, but her analysis exposes the height of Don's hypocrisy, as these days Megan's a distant third behind Sylvia and Don's work. Megan, however, concedes her mother's point, and Marie goes on that it's easily fixed -- Megan needs to, in essence, dress more slutty. "The only thought he should have at this meal is how quickly he can get between your legs." It sounds slightly classier in French, but not much. Julia Ormond just rules, though, as we'll see even more in a moment. Megan giggles, and after Marie heads off to presumably get a jump on her evening's wine intake, Megan turns back to her closet...
...and then we're at the dinner, at which Herb's wife is babbling vacuously about shopping and whatever, and I could give specifics of why Marie is staring couteaux at her, but the fact that her name is "Peaches" probably gives you sufficient explanation. Herb winds up her story by telling the room what he always says when she comes home from a shopping spree -- "How much damage didya do, Peaches?" -- but while Megan laughs, Marie looks like she's getting ready to brain the entire table with one swing of a wine bottle. Watch out as soon as she gets to the bottom, people. Of course, her foul mood has its roots in the fact that Roger is not there. I have the feeling he got so swept up in his machinations with the Detroit guy that he forgot to call and tell anyone about it because I cannot believe for one second he'd let Don and Herb in the same room without at least some Accounts presence there. Speaking of which, Don returns to the table and admits he didn't get hold of, as Herb calls him, "Silver Bells," so Herb says he's done waiting, whereupon Marie starts to exit so fast that you'd see a dust cloud if not for Megan explaining that they're not leaving -- they're simply going to go ahead and order. Peaches explains that "Herb gets very peckish," and after Herb gruffly adds that he skipped lunch, Marie looks wide-eyed with shock that no one's going to touch that one.