Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 214 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT We're Not Gonna Take It
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2013.04.14
...unlike Roger, who uttered not a word in the meeting, but now comes into Don's office: "That was the deftest self-immolation I've ever seen." Don denies knowledge of what he means, but then Pete comes in and blasts Don. "I still have [Herb's] spit in my hair!" There are only a few minutes left, so I really don't want to pause to make a joke that will make both you and me ill. Pete asks why Don can't follow the rules, and Roger mildly backs him up in pointing out that Herb's a client, but Don wants to make sure We Get It: "And so we just keep saying yes, no matter what, because we didn't say no to begin with? You know what this is - it's Munich." Pete is unimpressed by this textual theme and storms out, which is just as well, since there's precedent for these three discussing war ending in punches being thrown. This leaves Roger to turn to Don and lightly note that his mother would have pointed out that Don's options were dishonor or war. "You chose dishonor; you might still get war." Don: "That was Churchill." Hee. Unfazed by Don's historical knowledge, Roger bails...
...and then we cut to Pete contemplating the remains of his horrible day when Benson, sunny as ever, pokes his head in and says he doesn't know how Pete does it, being the first to arrive and the last to leave. Pete sighs that he doesn't either, and remarks that he's glad it at least seems like he's doing something he loves, but Benson drops the façade, at least a little, in telling Pete that he spent a year in finance "watching identical men in identical suits sneak drinks out of a desk drawer while counting other people's money. You make this look a whole lot better." Pete does look like this speech makes his day at least one percent less of a wreck, but when Benson offers to get him something from downstairs, he asks if he'd grab him some toilet paper, since he was supposed to get some for his wife and he forgot. Benson's happy to do it, and he probably wouldn't even care if he knew that it was for Pete's new permanent-residence bachelor pad, but even so, Pete looks lost and alone as the scene comes to an end. Too late, but now he knows to underestimate Trudy at his peril.