Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 529 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Yesterdayland
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2012.04.22
Looking like she's shed a tear or two, Peggy slugs a shot that looks like it would be considered a double even by this show's standards...
...and then enters Reception, in which Bertram, shoes off and reading the paper, remarks that everyone has somewhere to go. Peggy flatly tells him she's going to the movies...
...and then she's chomping popcorn and watching the offering, which, while seemingly set in Africa, does not look like The Naked Prey to me. Then, apparently catching a whiff of some cannabis from a guy in the row behind her, she turns and tells him he's going to get in trouble, which results in him offering her a toke. She accepts, although without any line as funny as "I'm Peggy Olson, and I want to smoke some marijuana." The guy takes the opportunity to join her and they pass the j back and forth, probably not registering the fact that the scene they're watching talks about going "back to the drawing board." Just as well, given what Peggy's been through.
Sometime later, Peggy is good and high and, as such, is providing commentary loud enough to get shushed from their unappreciative fellow moviegoers. Her new neighbor then takes the opportunity to put his hand on her leg, but she grabs it in favor of playing the game on her own terms. And these terms entail her undoing the guy's pants and giving him a handie right there and this behavior would be dubious enough to begin with, but I just heard the woman on-screen say the name "Elsa," which immediately sets me straight as to the film -- it's the family-friendly Born Free. Of course, in an episode rife with the missing of absent mothers, this choice is strongly thematic, but all I can think of is: Peggy! Not in front of the lion cub!