Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT "Do You Take These Teeth…"
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 10.17.2010
In a diner, Don returns from the bathroom or making a phone call or something to see the kids and Megan in a semicircular booth, and let's just say the way he stops and they do a camera close-up on his "I never noticed how beatifically Megan rounds out this family picture" expression is not the most subtle directorial choice I've ever seen. Anyway, after Bobby and Sally, have what I think is a short but spirited debate on creationism versus evolution, Sally tries to smack Bobby, which is pretty much how all such arguments end in my experience. The problem, however, is that Sally knocks over her milkshake, and I'm sorry, but I can't take this scene seriously after reading the Videogum recap I linked to above, so let's just say that Don starts to get mad, but even though Megan got some shake on what's her last dress, she's super-chill about it, and the best part is where Sally and Bobby look at each other in disbelief that the world isn't ending. Of course, Betty could conceivably pop out and scream, "Who do you think you are, their MOTHER?" at Megan, so maybe the kids are right not to get too comfortable. Anyway, Don also looks surprised, like he never considered that not freaking out at the kids is a possible response to a spilled milkshake...
...and then we cross-fade into him sitting pensively in his hotel room once again. Or make that Megan's hotel room -- she's still in bed, despite the fact that he's fully dressed, and when she stirs and asks if it's late, he says he wanted to let her sleep, failing to add, "UNLIKE SOME BLONDES I COULD MENTION." He tells her he couldn't sleep because he kept thinking about her, not specifying if said obsession has anything to do with the size of her TEETH, and goes on to say, "I feel like myself when I'm with you. But the way I always wanted to feel. Because I'm in love with you, Megan. And I think I have been for a while." Um...where to start? Oh, I know: NO YOU'RE NOT, AND NO YOU HAVEN'T. I mean, as has been noted all over the internet, Megan's strong relationship with Don's kids alone makes her far from the worst choice he could make in a new wife, but...no one said he had to get remarried, either. But that's him; Faye said he'd be remarried within a year, and honestly, the way he's talking seems to me to be highly reminiscent of the way he talked to Anna about Betty after he'd first met her. And surely he's being influenced by the fact that he's coming off a long period of severe depression, but ultimately, this is who he is; we can all see that he's completely deluding himself in thinking this feeling of infatuation he has is a solid foundation for marriage, but he doesn't. I mean, I would lay odds that most people wouldn't even concede that he's known that she's called "Megan" "for a long time."