Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 2 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT The Grass Is Always Greener
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 4 | Aired on 04.21.2013
Scarlett's on the phone, eyes toward the wall, when Joan saunters up. When her approach to Harry's door fails to get Scarlett's attention, Joan deliciously says she's sorry to "bother" Scarlett, but is Harry in? Scarlett ditches her phone call and tells Joan that Harry's in a meeting. Joan, continuing with the wonderfully disingenuous concern, advises Scarlett that if Harry has any guests come in, she should inform her, "because he had someone come yesterday and you weren't here." Scarlett at least is nowhere near as clueless as Meredith because she clearly knows she's in trouble even as she smiles that she must have been in the ladies' room. Joan, holding up a time card: "No. And it's strange because you didn't leave until 6:47." Scarlett attempts to explain that she needed to buy the gift for Clara, and she wanted to go at lunch but got stuck at her desk, so she left Harry on his own while she dealt with "company business." She tries to have Joan sign the card, but Joan's like, not so fast -- you never came back, and you had Dawn punch your card. Scarlett continues with the LIES, saying that she and Dawn were working together, and they were all over the place, but mostly in Accounting. Joan: "Thank you for clearing that up." Hee. She takes off...
...only to march down the internal stairs straight into Dawn. She sharply calls her name, prompting Dawn to treat us to the amusing sight of a walking flinch. Joan informs Dawn that Scarlett told her everything, and then Scarlett appears on the stairs and frantically gestures at Dawn with all the subtlety of Basil Fawlty trying to communicate the name "Dragonfly" to Polly without his wife catching on. This scene, however, ends considerably more quickly, as Joan sees Dawn's eyes move to the stairs -- how can you blame them, with the train wreck in front of them -- whereupon Joan swivels her head and loudly fires Scarlett, and props to the background woman who freezes on the stairs in response. Hee. Scarlett begs Joan to reconsider as Dawn looks on in horror and fear of whether she's next, but she gets a respite when Don's voice comes over the intercom requesting her to get Stan in to see him before the partners' meeting. Joan, however, promises Dawn her time will come, so Dawn walks off looking shell-shocked; meanwhile, Scarlett tries one more plea, saying "girls do it all the time," but Joan tells her to get out before she really embarrasses herself. I get what she's saying, but she's got a lot of ground to cover to compete for Worst Firing Ever.