Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 491 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT A Change Is Gonna Come
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2009.11.01
Pete comes in to see Harry for some sympathy: "I found out yesterday that Head of Accounts is going to Kenny and his haircut." Hee. Harry sympathetically says he heard, and lowers the volume on, as a reader emailed to tell me, an episode of As The World Turns. And the same reader informed me that he still remembers that scene being interrupted, and that the woman in it is now ninety-one and still appears on the show. Awesome. But does Harry seriously have to watch TV all day now? Not that I of all people have a theoretical objection, but it does seem like it would make it hard to get anything else done. Pete asks Harry if he was consulted, and Harry grimly replies, "After the fact." They agree that the news is not good for Pete, who breathes that he has no future there before asking how Harry got where he is. "You made your job up." Harry demurs, however, saying he merely used the fact that other agencies have TV departments and SC didn't. Pete sadly muses that there's no analogous road for him to take with Accounts, and there's kind of a weirdly-timed cut out of the scene...
...that leads us to Don coming in to see Pryce and bitching about the memo he got informing him that the guy he wanted to hire to replace Sal is too expensive for them. Don gets heated, in more ways than one: "Do you want me to walk you through a delivery schedule?"
Another oddly-timed cut ensues, and I'm now thinking that was done purposely to stir up feelings of unease in advance of what's about to happen. Because Duck, watching TV, sees a news announcement about "an attempt" on JFK's life that they know at least wounded him. There's a knock on the door, though, and Duck lets us know something about his priorities when he switches the TV off, and the fact the he even goes so far as to unplug it suggests he's not so much interested in giving Peggy a say about whether or not they're about to, um, go to the printer. And thus they commence their trip without delay.
Don continues to press his point until Pryce picks up the phone and suggests he call Powell. Don instead says he'll just go complain to Bertram. When he's gone, Pryce gets a phone call, and is like, "What?"