Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 635 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Oh, Canada
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2012.04.29
Well, we don't hear that part, but when Sally excuses herself to go to the ladies' room, it's fairly noticeable that Megan and Emile are the only ones left at the table. Megan slides over and tells her father she's happy he came, but for all his faults, Emile's tuned in to what his daughter's feeling, and asks why, then, she looks so sad. He brings up the "big bean success" (heh) and asks if all this is really Megan's passion; trying to deflect the line of inquiry, Megan asks in French why he's speaking English to her, but he won't be swayed: "Because you have changed. I always thought that you were very single-minded about your dreams, and that that would help you through life. But now I see that you skipped the struggle and went right to the end." Megan defensively tells him she's only at the beginning, but Emile tells her all this wealth that someone dropped into her lap is bad for her soul, like Marx thought. He tells her not to let her love for Don stop her from doing what she wants to do, and you can see these words hitting her right in that huge apartment where she lives, but she begs him in French not to do this tonight, and, finally switching to their native tongue as well, he relents. It's interesting -- Peggy's taking an unconventional path, and her mother's punishing her for it, while Megan's choice -- finding a rich husband -- is certainly more common for a woman back then, but she's also being condemned for it. The common thread is that they're both being told by a parent, who despite a fraught relationship should know them quite well, that the path they've chosen is going to make them unhappy. Whether that will prove to be true, we can only wait and see, but it's worth keeping an eye on...
...but for the moment, our eyes are going to be quite busy, as Sally, probably already having used the bathroom and now looking for Roger, opens a door and finds him, back to her in a chair and legs wide open, getting serviced by one Mrs. Calvet. And if one of Roger's lifelong dreams was to get an Earth-shaking blowjob, I'm pretty sure he can cross that off his list. I have to give props to Ms. Ormond, both in effort and execution here; that neck is looking positively boneless as she goes to town. Sally, however, is not quite old enough to appreciate such nuances, and beats a hasty, shocked retreat. Hopefully this is the last time she walks in on someone giving her date head, but I wouldn't count on it.
In other disappointments, Don is chatting with Ed, who's sufficiently lubricated to tell Don he should get off his business entirely. Don doesn't grasp Ed's meaning, saying that clients like his work, but while Ed agrees wholeheartedly, he laughs that they don't like him. Don's face falls, but Ed's tongue is still far ahead of his brain, and he goes on that "this crowd" will give him awards and all, but they'll never work with him after the letter. "I mean, how could they trust you, after the way you bit their hand?" Oh, shit, I admit this little unpleasant truth, I did not see coming, and Don didn't either, and when Ed finally digests the look on Don's face, his expression collapses as well, making me think he was telling Don all this at least partially in the spirit of commiseration rather than vindictiveness. He asks if Don wants another drink, and all Don can really do is weakly accept...