Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 472 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT …And The Clio Goes To…
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2010.08.29
She kicks the girls out, to Stan's amusement; but when they're gone, the two of them start bickering, with the douchebag saying she hasn't brought him anything that's gotten his "juices flowing," and he doesn't know why she doesn't accept that "man's natural state is nude," and instead of bothering herself I don't know why Peggy doesn't get Joyce down there to advocate for her on that front. Peggy asks Stan if Don's yelled at him yet, and when Stan says Don doesn't scare him, Peggy bites out, "So that's a no." Heh. She says their deadline is Monday and she isn't working this weekend, and Stan at least doesn't tell her she's cute when she's mad, which is probably the best we can expect from him.
At the Waldorf bar, Don's talking to some guy ("Ned Elliott from K&E") who opines that he's lucky the Glo-Coat execs aren't attending. "The minute you win, they know the ad's arty and then you're out of business." Heh. Roger joins them, and after Ned tells them what he's there for, he takes his leave, but no sooner is he gone than Ted Chaough appears to greet "Pebbles and Bam-Bam. Leave any drinks for the rest of us?" Seriously, did they? Chaough introduces his uniformed companion, Major General Something Or Other, and then heads off with a weak comment about how Don and Roger weren't there last year. When they're gone, Roger, continuing to drink like a large-mouthed bass, laughs that the guy in uniform is "General Rufus T. Bullshit" -- Chaough hired an actor to impress someone, and he's seen the guy before in a commercial spot.
Elsewhere, Pete is telling Joan that a "that" we didn't see onscreen was not a business proposition, to which Joan replies, "You catch more flies with honey." Since we have no idea what they're talking about, it seems like the only point of that exchange was to set up Pete's ensuing line of "Oh, look -- actual flies," which, especially since that's a terrible line, is uncharacteristically sloppy work on the part of either the writers or the editor. Anyway, the "flies" he's referring to are Ken and a guy who's apparently part of the Birds Eye family (literally, Pete later says his surname is "Birdseye") who's been with Ken all the way back to SC, and the latter wastes no time in dropping the bomb that he hears the "old team" is getting back together. As Pete shits a brick, Ken is like, "Ixnay, upidstay," but the guy isn't done as he cheerfully offers this about Geyer: They don't have Don.