Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 1034 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT A Turkey Lurkey Christmas To You, Jerky
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2010.08.01
That fetus Mark who accompanied Peggy to Don's shows up at Peggy's door (she looks like she's moved on up to the East Side, by the way) with some Christmas cookies that "Sheila" from "the station" baked, and he adds that Sheila's sixty years old so we don't get the wrong idea, like, I appreciate the effort, but you've got such a baby face I think I'd be more comfortable with Peggy dating Glen. Despite that, Peggy and Mark start kissing, and when she tries to slow him down, he asks if "Rasputin" is home, and Peggy laughs that "she" will hear him. I don't even want to guess who that might be, if we've even met her before, but I want to recap the flirting between Peggy and Mark even less, so let's wrap it up: He wants to do her, she wants to wait, and he wants to be her "first." Hee hee hee. Poor naïve fetus. He goes on to tell her that in Sweden, people make love at the drop of the hat, prompting this response: "You're never going to get me to do anything Swedish people do." So, do you vaguely remember how Karen, Peggy's old liberated roommate, was Swedish? Me too. HA HA HA! Anyway, Peggy kicks him out, but not before some more uncomfortable-to-watch kissing that's punctuated by this remark: "I want you to think about that." I'm laughing again, but it's a lot less mirthful this time. Ew.
Don staggers into his hallway to find Phoebe cleaning up some vomit from the party; he drops his keys in front of the door and slurs that he's coming from work, prompting Phoebe to ask if he works at the White Horse Tavern. If he did, they'd have had to expand, I'd imagine. Anyway, after Don tells her he doesn't hate all Christmases, just this one, Phoebe gets the door for him and puts him into bed, easily throwing off his attempts to seduce her while mentioning that her father was a drunk. He asks how she can work in a hospital, but she tells him she loves it -- "everything happens there" -- before bidding him goodnight.
The next day, jaunty music plays as Joan is overseeing all the preparation for Operation Make Lee Garner Happy, while Freddy is chomping on corned beef and pitching a bunch of over-the-hill actresses to Peggy. Peggy tries to keep it civil while shooting him down, but when Freddy suggests they go with the angle "Use Pond's, or you won't ever get married," Peggy has had more than enough, and tells him while she's pitched his name on countless occasions for freelance work, everyone's right about him. "You're old fashioned, you know that?" Well, at least she's not referencing the drink, but this still goes down worse than the corned beef, and Freddy takes his leave, ostensibly to get dressed for the party. And on the plus side, he doesn't refer to Peggy as a tomato on the way out.