Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A+ | 2166 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Float Like a Butterfly…
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2010.09.05
...but when she returns to Don's office to tell him she's taking off, he's second-guessing his idea, worried that they're abandoning the toughness angle. Having had just about enough, Peggy builds up a head of steam before saying that she was supposed to be at dinner an hour ago, and it's her birthday. Don, reasonably enough, asks why she didn't tell him, and when she angrily tells him that she thought what they're doing would only take a second, he asks if he's supposed to feel sick that he ruined her birthday, and wonders if she knows when his birthday is. Peggy: "I was your secretary!" Miss Blankenship or no, I'll take that as a yes. Don drunkenly tells her to get over birthdays and get gone, and she obliges on the second part...
...only to hesitate at the elevator. Oh, Peggy! When Trudy said twenty-six was still very young, she didn't really mean it!
Cut to Mark getting another call, and Peggy tells him that she won't be able to make it at all, adding that no one asked him to do this. Now the angry flip, Peggy? That's beneath you, but you'll get your punishment, as after Mark blurts that she told him she'd never had a surprise for her birthday, Peggy's mother has had enough of this crap and grabs the phone, chewing her daughter out for not appreciating the fact that a nice boy likes her. When Mark gets back on, Peggy apologizes again, especially for the part where he had to spend an evening with her mother, but Mark won't be placated, so Peggy goes on the offensive once more, saying that her mother has never even had a job so obviously couldn't understand, and by the way, he used her birthday "to get in good with a bunch of people who drive me crazy!" Mark asks if he should have invited Don, then, since she never stands him up, and the way the family peanut gallery exchanges "Ooh, girl" side-eyes at that one suggests their evening hasn't been a complete loss. He adds that he's into the evening for forty bucks already, so if she doesn't mind, he's going to enjoy his dinner, but when she mutters that she can't believe he's going to stay, that's it -- he dumps her and hangs up. Anita assures him that it'll be fine: "Couples fight. Ask Gerry." In a hilariously somber manner, Gerry nods, and I don't know that I could stand to be a regular viewer, but if they gave these folks a spin-off I'd watch at least an episode or two.