Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 677 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Man-Boy Becomes A Man
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2010.08.15
Back in the focus group, Faye takes a bite of a Danish and then "confesses" that "sometimes" she watches her weight, and the girls giggle, and my God, how exhausting must it be to have to lead them by the nose to get them to do every little thing? I'm waiting for her to give input on their breathing technique. Also, her comprehensive insincerity in this situation makes me think her self-deprecation when we met her was horseshit. Anyway, with pastries now flying freely, Megan feels comfortable enough to pipe up that she doesn't use Pond's, as she's "of French extraction" and as such has beautiful skin -- in fact, her mother only uses water on her face, and she does the same. By the way, now that I get a good look at her, I see that the casting director must have been the third person that watched Jack And Bobby to the very end, as Megan is played by Jessica Paré, who played Courtney, who was the daughter of -- wait for it -- John Slattery. If Bradley Cooper is going to show up as Bertram's long-lost son or something, I can't say I'll be upset. Faye draws Megan out about her routine, prompting Peggy to opine that Faye is "amazing," and somewhere, Joyce gets a very hopeful feeling and has no idea why. Another participant starts to talk about the night cream she uses but happens to mention her boyfriend in the process, and that's where things start to go downhill, as her neighbor generalizes about boyfriends being unappreciative, and Night Cream Girl confesses her guy dumped her a year ago. Allison then gets in on the act, saying it's worse sometimes when the men notice your beauty, and then gives Don a quick look through the mirror glass, like, is the slow class tuning in this week?
Thankfully, we get a break from that session, as Pryce comes into Pete's office to find out how it went with Tom, and Pete has to tell him he didn't get the chance to break the news. Pryce suggests he take care of it ASAP, especially since, to Pete's irritation, Roger already told Pond's that it had been dealt with. Pryce starts to leave, but Pete calls him back, prompting Pryce to lean back out from around the support beam, and I'm starting to think that thing should get separate billing in this episode. It's gotten more screen time than several of the series regulars. Pete tells Pryce his happy news, and Pryce opines, referring to the Tom situation, that it "should take the sting out of all this." Pete looks a little hurt, but Pryce, to his credit, apologizes and shakes Pete's hand, saying that it's "the very best news." As far as SCDP is concerned, he doesn't know the half of it.