Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 1098 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Love And Marriage
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2007.08.02
Sometime later, Don is in the yard looking over the assembly instructions for the playhouse. Cut to him heading into the garage and grabbing a beer out of the refrigerator there. Well, if you're forced to engage in suburban rituals, I can hardly blame you for being sure to participate in the ones that are actually enjoyable. Sometime later, the playhouse is sort of maybe coming together, and the beer is definitely totally still being imbibed. The kids come running out, and Sally is too screechy-enthusiastic about the whole thing for my taste, but Don focuses her energy by asking her to get him another beer. Heh. The kids run off.
Inside, Betty and Francine are preparing appetizers, and Betty admits that she invited Helen Bishop, the DIVORCEE from down the street. Francine's aghast, and asks if Betty's seen her walking on "Tree Ridge," to which Betty nods. Francine: "Where the hell is she walking to?" Francine's going to be really confused in the seventies when jogging catches on. Betty exposits that Helen has two kids, a boy of nine and a girl of only two. She goes on that Helen was going to try to get a sitter for the daughter, and then Francine looks out the window and sees Don, now only in his t-shirt, working away on the playhouse. She smiles approvingly and sighs, "That man," and Betty returns the sentiment. You wonder whether they'd be fazed to know he's about to open his eighth beer of the morning, but somehow I think they'd take that news in stride.
Don has just emptied his bladder, and when he washes his hands, he looks around at the froufrou bathroom décor and looks ill. Not wanting to touch any of the flowery hand towels, he wipes his hands on his shirt. Heh. He heads into the kitchen, and Betty knowingly asks if he used the powder room. Don replies that it will appear untouched, but I didn't see him put the toilet seat back down. Betty says that the guests will be there soon, and suggests he head up to take a shower. Francine then playfully asks if he wants company, and they all laugh like this is a running joke before Don exits.