Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 6 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Don's Ghosts, Coast To Coast
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 10 | Aired on 06.02.2013
Cutler asks Meredith if she'd step out, whereupon he announces that he just got an envelope addressed to "Sterling Gleason and Pryce," and Roger does kind of look appropriately terrified that he was lumped in with the two dead guys. Cutler's point is that whoever addressed the envelope didn't know their name because they themselves don't know it. This leads to some bickering about the bulkiness of using all the partners' initials, so Roger suggests they cut down to "SCDC," which would eliminate the two dead guys -- plus, he suggests, "Chaough." Ted isn't thrilled with that, but Don points out that an extra "C" has all kinds of problems, so Bertram pipes up that if it'll help, he'll bow out of the name "along with the other deceased parties." Heh. Roger won't hear of that, though, especially since it would unacceptably dilute the value of their brands.
It's clear this isn't going to be resolved, so Roger gets up to go, telling Ted to have fun with Chevy and Cutler to do the same with Manischewitz. Cutler asks if Roger has any special instructions, and Roger tells him yes -- "The guy in charge, just pick an eye and stick with it." Hee. Cutler cautions them that further delay in choosing their name will result in the world choosing one for them, which is probably true but is delivered with, like, Attack Of The Clones-level unwarranted gravitas that somehow makes me like Cutler more. If only he'd Yoda-ed up the syntax. Don and Roger ride an eye-roll right on out of there...
...and then we're on the plane, with Don actually doing some prep work, to which Roger, more characteristically, objects. "We're executives. Leave the drudgery to Ted Chaough and the rest of the underlings." I really would like to see the partnership structure of the new entity so I know exactly to what degree each partner's posturing is full of shit. Roger dismissively makes it sound like all the people they'll be meeting with are rubes. Don wonders if that's true, but Roger says his point is that they are big-city ad men and need to act like it, so, "Under no circumstances are you to trot out that drawl you do when you've had too many." Hee. Don still wants to study up, but Roger gives him a speech about them being conquistadores, and I'm not inclined to give him much racial benefit of the doubt after A, href="http://brilliantbutcancelled.com/show/mad-men/my-old-kentucky-home-1.php?page=9" target="_blank">"My Old Kentucky Home," so it's just as well we cut out of the scene before he gets another drink. Not before he orders one, though.