Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 214 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT We're Not Gonna Take It
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2013.04.14
Unsurprisingly, Rosen and Sylvia are already seated when Don arrives, and Sylvia of course doesn't look any too thrilled to hear about Megan's "indisposition." Rosen, however, obliviously brings up the foreign events of the day, one of which is the incident involving the U.S.S. Pueblo in North Korea. Rosen then goes on a weird little rant that manages to be both belittling and respectful toward the Vietnamese and the North Koreans but does end with his correct assessment that the U.S. is losing in Vietnam. Rosen then gets a call from, everyone expects, his service, but rather than stay alone with Don, Sylvia beats a retreat to powder her nose. Well, at least her judgment is better than Don's, not that that's saying much. Don sits back down for a lonely Old Fashioned and smoke...
...while a frustrated Pete informs the women that there's no answer at whatever friend or family member's place he just tried on Wife Number One's behalf. Trudy says in Pete's direction that they should find her a hotel, and then goes to get some ice for Wife Number One's badly swollen face. Once Trudy's out of the room, Pete gets a snarling expression on his face and wonders what Wife Number One said to her husband, while Wife Number One nudges Pete out of the way for the least likable person in the room when she - somewhat playfully, no less - tells him to take her to the city, as she wants to be with him. I mean, not to make light of the domestic violence, but since she's doing it herself, I don't feel too bad in saying I kind of want to slap some sense into her. When Trudy returns, Pete reports that the Old Greenwich Inn has rooms. Wife Number One asks if Pete can take her there, but he suggests a taxi, whereupon Trudy tells him not to be silly - she'll drive Wife Number One (who I think is in her nightgown under a jacket?). Pete of course then backpedals and says he'll do it, but Trudy won't hear of it. "It's best this way." Her tone gives nothing away, which is just as well, because her words contain enough foreshadowing to chill Pete to the bone.
Rosen and Sylvia return to the table with the news that Rosen has to go in to work, but Rosen insists that the two of them stay because he doesn't want to fall out of favor at the place, as if famous heart surgeons generally have trouble with that sort of thing.