Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C | 11 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Mergers And Yak-Quisitions
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 7 | Aired on 05.12.2013
Roger announces that he and Cutler have parlayed the Clio news into an early meeting with Fleischmann's Margarine, and Cutler adds, "They want to be Ted and Don's first love child." Ew. After Meredith points out that this should wait for New Business and is rebuffed with all due respect, Ted thinks the Fleischmann's news is "groovy," and I don't necessarily take issue with him using such parlance, but even the raddest hippie would probably think twice before using it to describe margarine. Meredith starts reading off company names for Ongoing Business, and when she announces "The New York State Thruway," Pete brings up Mohawk Airlines -- brushing aside Meredith's renewed protests for going out of order -- and says that the rep, Henry Lamont, considers the Thruway account a conflict, so they should resign. Cutler, however, thinks this is a stretch, and when Ted points out that the Thruway is a limited media budget compared to Mohawk, Cutler counters that the client is New York State, and they give the money for their buy up front. Roger: "And you already spent it." Pete wonders why Cutler didn't tell them that, so Cutler shoots back that perhaps they should have told him that their disaster with Vick's was going to cost them Clearasil as well. As Cyril was fantastically so fond of saying this season on Archer, "Burn." Never to be outdone in contests to keep it classy, Pete sardonically asks why Cutler didn't tell them that Gleason was dying, but Ted pipes up that he's going to be fine. It's only because I just caught this again on TV that you're getting this reference, Ted, but I'm not sure that I agree with you one hundred percent on your police work there. Don chimes in that he knows the Mohawk client, so he and Pete will fly up there. Nobody points out that the last interaction Don and Lamont had ended on terms that were less than good, but Joan does add that Ted will need to join them as well. It then comes out that Ted's a pilot, news at which Pete looks as delighted as Don looks terrified, particularly when Ted offers to take them all up to Mohawk. Don can't really object, though, and then Clara comes in to tell Pete there's an urgent phone call for him, so he stands and announces that however they're going, they should do it the next day. When he's gone, they move on to the next client, who belongs to Burt Peterson and Ken, and that's not the first time we've heard that pairing in this meeting, which surely would get Pete's goat...