Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 349 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Hitting The Fan
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2010.10.03
Don returns from the funeral and is surprised to find Megan still at her desk, and then tells her once she gets the campaign briefs from Ken's accounts, she can go. As an afterthought, he asks her to send Peggy in, so at least this is starting innocently enough, but after he pours himself a drink (what's the over/under today?), he notices that the Clio has been repaired and is sitting on his desk. But lest you think it's some sci-fi plotline where the Clio mysteriously reassembles itself no matter how many times he breaks it, Megan appears and, after telling him that Peggy's off celebrating her Playtex success by having her boyfriend lick the lipstick off her teeth...I mean, "gone for the day," she explains that she thought in the end, he wouldn't want to get rid of the award. Don mildly tells her she's mistaken as he takes the files from her, and she starts to leave but turns back to ask if he'd like her help. He warns her that what he's about to do is a bit complicated, but she expresses her desire to learn, and by the way, I wasn't as bothered by them as some people, but I do have to note for the sake of thoroughness, especially since they're going to come into play in a moment, that Jessica Paré's teeth are absolutely enormous, and even if I went in that direction I might find them a little off-putting to make out with. Don, however, has no such hang-ups, but somewhat skeptically asks, "Really," so Megan tells him that she thinks learning some more advanced stuff would help her avoid mistakes, and besides, she thinks she might like to be a copywriter someday. Don is surprised at that second bit, but consents to have her sit with him.
However, it doesn't take long for him to start asking her personal questions; she's from Montreal originally, and came to New York because "for an artist, it's Mecca." Okay, I take back what I said about not being overly bothered -- with this closer camera setup, those chompers are taking up half the screen, so you'll forgive me if I don't get more than a bit of Megan telling Don how she's an artistic person and whatever, and then she giggles about how she knows everything about him and has him on her mind all day, and yet he doesn't know the first thing about her. And look, she does a pretty artful job of seducing him, but I'm really starting to worry that THE TEETH are coming for me, so let's wrap this up: She ends up kissing him, and while he tells her he can't make any mistakes at the moment, she replies that she only wants him now, and backs that up by assuring him that she's not going to come in crying the next day. And not that I didn't like Allison, but that was hilarious, especially given that Megan was in that stupid focus group. Anyway, they settle in...