Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 214 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT We're Not Gonna Take It
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2013.04.14
Benson goes to walk him out, but Raymond stays behind - whereupon he informs Ken and Don that they are to have no further contact with Timmy. This isn't because he doesn't like their performance - "you guys are doing a bang-up job" - but because he doesn't want "that polished Polack" coming in and taking advantage of all the hard work he did making Beans and Sauces into something. He works up a head of steam about how he taught that kid everything he knows - the fact that I'm not even paraphrasing does suggest your imagination could use some work, Raymond - and has gotten nothing but disrespect in return, so his position is that if SCDP even so much as sends Timmy a Christmas ham, "well, I'd rather retire than watch that guy screw my girlfriend." I wouldn't consider this the most subtle way of getting to the point, but anything to get Don to see that sleeping with his neighbor and friend's wife is a lapse in judgment he from which he might not return. Raymond stomps out of there, refusing Ken's offer to walk him out, whereupon Ken can't believe how weak Raymond is. Don, however, defender of Mohawk Air back in the day, tells Ken that although he knows Ketchup is the Chivas Regal of accounts, Raymond's business was instrumental in saving the company, and as such they're going to need to follow the "dance with the one that brung ya" credo (looks like everything Don knows, he learned at the Best Little Whorehouse in Pennsylvania), and maybe now's a good time to take a little break so we can all push the crushing irony off our shoulders.
Wife Number One is lazily getting dressed as she informs Pete he's out of toilet paper before telling him she might come back to town that Friday; Pete's essentially like, "How nice for you." She doesn't seem to pick up on his noncommittal tone, but after she chatters at him for a bit, he sits on the bed with a salesman's smile and says he really needs to get back to the office. "Can you move it along a little?" She doesn't look thrilled, unsurprisingly, but in his defense, one of the cardinal rules to having a successful affair is not to let it make you late to things.
In the building's laundry room, Megan is berating her maid with a list of cleaning-related transgressions when Sylvia enters. The maid says she's sorry, but Megan fires her anyway; when she's gone, Megan apologizes to Sylvia before bursting into tears. Sylvia suggests they go upstairs, and when Megan tells her she doesn't want to go back up until the maid is gone, Sylvia is like, "Along with your silverware." I mean, I wasn't thinking of it in exactly those terms, but there's a reason security escorts you from the building when you get fired, you know?