Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 8 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Coming To A Boil
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2007.10.04
Betty and Don are on the couch watching The Danny Thomas Show; noting that his eyes are fluttering, she gets up and turns off the TV, signaling that she's ready for bed. He tells her he'll be up, but he's just going to check on Roger first…
…but it's actually Dr. Wayne with whom he's checking in, and he's not pleased, as Betty seems even more unhappy. Well, that may be, but as far as we know, her hands aren't shaking anymore, which was the initial problem. I'd think you'd view that as progress of a sort, Don, especially since it means your children are in less danger of flying through a windshield these days. Don tells Dr. Wayne that it's to the point where he's afraid to leave her alone. He fails to add that said fear seems to be alleviated by hot Jewish tail. Wayne suggests psychoanalysis, as opposed to the current regimen of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as a means of expediting things, but cautions that would mean a minimum of three sessions a week, and optimally five. Don's basically like, "Yeah, I'm not paying for your new yacht," and hangs up.
The boys are in the conference room when Peggy comes in for her presentation, and given how badly her date went, I'd imagine she did some last-ditch research recently. She nervously launches into it -- she calls the product "The Rejuvenator," and says it gives you the "flush and glow" that you "might" have after exercise, but that you definitely had as a young girl. "Isn't it nice to feel that way whenever you want?" She throws in a bit about a sensible diet before wrapping it up, and Freddy is impressed with the copy and the "nice end-run around the weight loss." Ken, however, asks what the belt actually does, and Peggy's words are used up as she looks to Don, who sucks it up and says it "provides the pleasure of a man without the man." There's some copy that could be used today. The boys guffaw and make gross comments about "Mitch's" wife as Peggy stands uncomfortably; Freddy, as usual, has a little bit of sensitivity for Peggy's feelings as he explains that Mitch's wife is "very attractive." Of course, part of her is probably upset that they don't seem to be lewdly into the fact that Peggy used the belt, but, to turn Freddy's phrase back around on him, you can only expect so much from a dog playing the piano. Don gives Peggy some constructive criticism on the pitch, and then Ken realizes that Freddy's wife has one; when he points this out, Freddy starts for him, but Don gets between them and tells Freddy and Sal to get on their jobs. Sal: "I'll get arrested just doing the layouts." HA! Don and Pete both give Peggy muted compliments as they leave, and Harry pauses to tell her, "Freddy's wife does not look like Mitch's." Hee. Ken, as is consistent (he and Freddy have been the most complimentary of her work), sincerely tells her, "Good work, Pegs," and then Peggy's left alone to collect her materials.