Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 425 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em!
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2008.10.19
Betty rings Sarah Beth, who we can see right away is not completely psyched to talk to her, to tell her that she thinks she may need to put Sally in private school and ask her about the one her daughter attends. After a short response, Betty says she hasn't seen Sarah Beth at the stables, but she did read in the paper that Tara and Arthur are getting married the next weekend, and she hopes they'll be happy together. It's hard to tell if Betty's just engaging in idle gossip here or if she's doing something more nefarious -- it seems from her tone like the former, but it's hard to forget how deliberately she set Sarah Beth and Arthur up, so I have to go with her playing a rather cruel game here in order to act out her resentment over Don's infidelities. In any case, her words cut Sarah Beth to the bone, and she cracks, telling Betty in a whisper that she can't stop thinking about Arthur, and she thinks Raymond, her husband, knows. She confesses that she made a terrible mistake, and Betty asks why she'd do that. Sarah Beth is startled, and points out that Betty wanted him too, but Betty loftily tells her, "There is a difference between wanting and having." She's right -- like right now, I want a glass of wine. But I will not be having a glass of wine until I take a break and go pour it for myself. Speaking of which, excuse me for a moment. Anyway, Sarah Beth tells Betty that she did everything she could to encourage her, and she's an awful woman. Betty stands up and puts a righteous hand on a faithful hip as she practically yells that no one made Sarah Beth sleep with Arthur. Sarah Beth hangs up, and I hope Betty doesn't actually put Sally in that school, because that would make for some seriously awkward PTA meetings.
Peggy returns to her office, in which a serviceman has just finished up with the machine. Speaking the language of the over-invested, he tells her to inform all her "little friends" that it's a delicate instrument. "If you want it to work, you have to treat it with respect." If only more bosses applied that philosophy to people. For her part, Peggy looks like she wants to treat the guy like a Popsicle.