Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 762 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT The Cat is Out of the Bag…
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2009.10.25
Annabelle shows up to dinner wearing the sixtyish sixties version of a fuck-me dress, and seeing Roger's full martini glass, expresses surprise that he waited. Roger: "This is number three." Before even starting dinner? I know we're well past the time of Prohibition, but that still sounds illegal. Roger is also smoking even more quickly than usual, and if he's nervous it's with good reason, as Annabelle allows him exactly one business-related comment (about a focus group Don has already put together) before calling an end to that line of discussion and telling Roger he's really the only thing she remembers from her pre-married days. He does not return the sentiment, however, so she asks if when he saw Casablanca, he didn't think of her, obviously trying to sell the idea that theirs was an epic love that ended due to circumstances and wishes beyond their control. Roger, however, does not see any similarity other than the fact that she left him for someone else: "That woman got on a plane with a man who was going to end World War II, not run her father's dog-food company." She tries to counter this obvious truth by saying he was adrift at the time, only good for spending money: "You walked around like you were hoping to be a character in somebody else's novel. The boxing?" I'd imagine he kept his bouts quite short, because after a few rounds that smoking habit of his would certainly have been scoring a TKO. Roger, however, is not really interested in hearing her reasons for breaking his heart, as he still remembers them. He says he picked himself up and married Mona, joined SC, and then got shipped off for the entirety of the war. "And when I came home, I went to work while you were watching Casablanca. And I got blamed when we lost the account." Annabelle somewhat apologetically denies knowledge of that, but Roger isn't really interested in that either, instead pointing out that she's rich, so why not sell the company and let someone else peddle the horsemeat, but she counters with, "And do what?" Aaaaand there's the season's theme again. The waiter then turns up with Annabelle's wine order, and when she tries to say she didn't want a whole bottle, Roger assures her he'll help. She raises an eyebrow like "Now we're getting somewhere!" Honey, I think you're underestimating Roger's tolerance. NOT THAT I BLAME YOU.