Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A+ | 8 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT "Mr. Campbell. Who Cares?"
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2007.10.11
...and retreats to his office, where she catches him. They both apologize again, but when Harry tells her, taking off his glasses, "I'm drunk, I'm happy...I'm not myself," she sees that for the tacit invitation it is. She compliments his eyes, and there's a moment of anticipation and nervousness before they totally start macking and slam the door.
Probably much later, the TV announcer is saying that while California is still undecided, the candidates have gone to bed. As have most of the SC partiers -- Joan and Paul are the only ones still conscious. After Joan turns off the TV, Paul invites her to sit with him; after some preliminaries, she does, saying that he looks so different when he's drunk. Probably true, Joan, but I'd imagine the gallon of crème de menthe you had might be affecting your perception as well. As shown in the previouslies, it was implied in the first episode that Paul and Joan had dated at one point, or at least that there was some level of involvement somewhere along the line, and oblique reference is made to that here, with him asking if she's going to call him Orson Welles again, and her countering that he loved that. He looks at her adoringly and asks what he did wrong, and she tells him he's got a big mouth. He protests, but she repeats the accusation, and he cops to it. He asks if she liked the play, and she tells him no. Paul: "The meaner you are, the more I like you." I like Joan too, but I have to tell you, Paul -- that's kind of clichéd for an aspiring writer. He gets up and offers her his hand, asking her to dance, she accepts, and they do a little drunken cha-cha that's far more affecting than you might expect it to be.
The sun is up, and Harry awakens to find a half-naked Hildy on top of him. He kind of freaks, especially when he discovers that his glasses somehow broke in half. The scene is as uncomfortable as you'd think, with Hildy slipping back into secretary mode by telling him where he can find an optometrist, and then saying that he shouldn't be worried -- it didn't mean anything. It's the only response available to her, and we cut to her leaving the office full of worry and dread. Taking a bit of the edge off is that Allison then emerges from what I'm guessing is Ken's office. Seems only fair that she got to see his underwear.
Peggy arrives in a dull tan wool coat and hat combo that I think my grandmother owned, and is grossed out when she sees crème de menthe spilled in her wastebasket. In the break room, Ken, Sal, and Paul are downing some hangover-cure brew; Peggy comes in and dumps out her basket, and then sees all the lockers in disarray; she rushes over and sees that her extra shirt (nice touch, there) and spare money are gone. She's pissed, and when the boys are not appropriately outraged on her behalf, she tells them she's reporting the theft to Building Security. When she's gone, the boys snark on her...