Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 677 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Man-Boy Becomes A Man
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2010.08.15
Predictably, that's all Ken needs to hear, and they settle in to look at the menus as Ken says he's just glad to be out of the office. Pete asks how things are, and Ken says he's doing okay, but it isn't a love affair, although it's much better than McCann. "My mother was a nurse at the state hospital in Vermont, and that was the last time I saw so many retarded people in one building." How odd it is to see that Ken is no longer quite the happy golden retriever he once was. I could get used to it. Pete congratulates him on his impending nuptials, and divulges his big news, and I'm surprised given what a hen he is that Harry didn't blow up his spot there. Ken warmly congratulates him and says he can't wait to be in that position himself, although I'd imagine he's looking forward to the trying part just as much, and then goes on that while he knows they're all slaves to Don over at SCDP, he'd rather answer to Creative than "some old fart." I know Aaron Staton is still a series regular, so he's going to be around in some capacity, but I do hope he returns to SCDP; no one makes Pete behave more hilariously than he. Ken goes on that Geyer is supposedly hoping to turn Mountain Dew into Pepsi, "but the only reason Pepsi would do it is to make BBDO sweat. This whole idea that we'd get the bigger company is a joke! We'd just end up with a bunch of little pieces." Little pieces with large dollar values, true, but it's still too bad Harry's not hearing this, just so he could thank Bertram again for not leaving him to be a mid-level cog in the machine of McCann. Pete is sympathetic, but Ken laughs it off, saying they're still very lucky, and then muses, "Another Campbell. That's just what the world needs." Heh. Pete seems to take that with a sense of humor, which shows that he does keep on making strides forward.