Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 450 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT All the Real Girls
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2010.09.19
One of the Fillmore guys, a douche with a thick Boston accent, doesn't like it, saying that if he saw suits (or "jokiz," as he calls them) like Ken and Don in one of their stores, he'd figure their prices went up, while the youngest of the bunch disagrees just as vehemently, hilariously addressing the douche, also in a Boston accent, as "salt of the earth," as he says they can't depend on auto mechanics for their entire business. "Don't we have enough problems with the boycott?" Well, and with being racists, too. Don't forget that part! Don tells them they're at a standstill until they agree on a strategy, but Ken pipes up that they could market to both groups -- "Where the pros go, and everyone's welcome." Don retorts that that's not a strategy, "that's two strategies connected by the word 'and'," but Ken tells him he certainly can do both, and the Boston guys lean forward in anticipation of seeing two New York suits fight. It'll surely be more satisfying than Clay-Liston, right?
Before things escalate to that degree, however, a concerned-looking Megan enters, and no sooner has Don told the three of them to make up their minds and vote, Megan whispers something in his ear that gets him out of there immediately. The guy in the middle, who it turns out has a severe stutter, asks why it is that they have to convince Don, and it's too bad that no one in the room was present for the first episode, or they'd be able to supply the obvious answer: "So you don't end up like Jantzen."
When Don comes out to Reception, we see the reason for his chagrin -- Sally is there, accompanied by a grandmotherly woman we've never seen before. We quickly get the story -- Sally hopped the train to New York because she wanted to see Don, but she didn't have enough money, so she tried to hide from the conductor between carriages until the woman here found her. Don has Megan take Sally to his office so he can deal with the woman's disapproval in front of fewer people; he offers to pay her for the ticket and her time, but she only says that someone should be keeping track of Sally, adding that the types on that train are a most unsavory lot. I wonder if one of them is the guy that runs into Roger and Joan later. Don tells the woman he didn't know, garnering this response: "Men never know what's going on." For someone who wandered into the episode for two minutes, she's certainly got a strong grasp of its theme. Abe, who's still sitting out there waiting for Peggy, seems amused, as if he's not a prime example of what she's talking about, and then the woman and Don exit the scene...