Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Women On The Verge Of Kicking Some Ass
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 09.14.2008
Everyone stands behind their chairs as Betty announces that they're going to be taking a little trip around the world -- they'll start in Spain with gazpacho, then move to Japan for rumaki, and then Duchess County for leg of lamb with mint jelly, accompanied by egg noodles from Germany. Also, there's burgundy from France, or a frosted glass of beer from Holland. Well, Don, apparently she can tell the difference between Paris and Amsterdam. Duck asks if Don brought a case from work, joking that Don will do anything to win an argument, but Betty quickly lets us know that she bought the Heineken. Don adds that he's not allowed even to pick where he sits, which gets an appreciative laugh from everyone except his wife, who looks around warily as she asks what's funny. Duck tells Crab that he wants to be in business with someone who knows his stuff, and explains to Betty that Don thought she was the market for the beer. Betty's like, oh, that is funny. "What an interesting experiment." Yes, that's how every happily married woman thinks of herself. Petra then gives Betty a choice between her sitting down or falling down, so Betty has everyone take their seats while she pours wine for the people that want it. Roger offers a disappointingly canned toast, and then Betty sits with a look that clues us in that whatever Don may know about her demographic, he's still in for a surprise.
Peggy pitches the "Night To Remember" idea, saying that it holds "the wholesome promise of the kind of hand-holding that eventually leads to marriage." The women on the committee disagree, however, with one of them saying she doesn't like how close the boy and girl on the poster are dancing. "Leave some room for the Holy Ghost." Heh. An oldie but a goodie. Peggy reluctantly accedes to Father Gill's idea of them doing a box step, but when the objections keep on coming, Peggy's eyes go dark, particularly when Father Gill wonders if they could "try something else," and the "someone else can easily be arranged" is evident on her face for those of us who know her well. As the meeting breaks up, she and one of the committee members ask to speak to Father Gill, but he tells the latter he'll talk to her tomorrow, so the women file out. Once they're gone, Peggy tells him that he didn't have to agree with the committee -- in fact, he's not supposed to, given that he asked her to do the job based on her expertise. He decides to agree with her now, which seems both wise and easy given that the committee's gone, and that's enough to mollify her. She apologizes if she was disrespectful, claiming that she's very tired, and he somewhat awkwardly tells her that they'll both be prepared next time. Heh.