Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C- | 13 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Through the Looking Glass
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 8 | Aired on 05.19.2013
This time, Don makes it down the hallway without falling into the 1940s, but he looks baffled at Dawn's empty desk (at least she's been in the episode, guy), and then when he enters his office, he finds Wendy sitting on the couch. She was in the scene he just left, so either he lost more time or this is another hallucination, in case you're keeping score, which I doubt at this point. She explains that he told her they were going to have a drink and watch the sun set, which I feel obliged to point out doesn't sound like more than fifty percent him. Soon, she predictably calls him "uptight," and then he notices that she's wearing a stethoscope around her neck, which she says she found in one of the offices. He tries again to get rid of her, but she tells him that his question was "Does someone love me?" He's stunned, but she replies that it's the question everyone asks. She then listens to his heart and tells him, "I think it's broken," and even for an underage hippie with appropriate props, that is an inexcusably bad line. Don is shocked she's able to tell... but it turns out that she was talking about the stethoscope -- ba-dum-bum. Finally, she leaves. I wish I had a debilitating cough right now to relieve my boredom.
Don's kids are watching The Prisoner, and I'll applaud their good taste, but in the interest of fair reporting I'll point out that the fact that AMC remade the series suggests there may have been some network encouragement there. The phone rings. Megan calls to Sally to get it; it's Don. Megan, dressed to go out, comes to answer. She asks where he is, as she has to leave, but he apologizes and tells her he's not finished. She doesn't know what to do about that and also worries about him working so much, but he tells her he's got a second wind before hanging up. Out of options, Megan offers Sally "some boots to go with that skirt," and Bobby isn't happy, but Megan explains that she's going to see a play, and "Jeff, my agent" (mm-HMM) is going to introduce her to some producers. They wrap up a few logistical details...
...and then we're back to the office, in which Stan is tying a tie around his eyes and standing in front of a poster-board wall; above his head is a drawing of an apple, so you can see where this is going even without Mathis' comment that Stan is "going to look like St. Sebastian." Still, hee. Stan tells them they have to go one at a time, so Ginzo steps up, a cup of writing implements in hand, and says he's going first because Peggy's drunk. "In fact, I believe I am the only person in the Time-Life building who is not out of his mind." Peggy, giggling, "But you hate him." Hee. I didn't think that was necessarily true, but still. Ginzo lets fly, and Stan puts up his arm to cover his face -- and then there's a pen stuck in it just like a hypodermic needle IN CASE YOU DIDN'T GET IT. Stan pops it out, observing the blood flowing from his arm with scientific curiosity, but even though he laughs that he doesn't feel a thing, Peggy drags him off to clean the thing up. After that display, I'm not sure anyone's dying to be the next son of William Tell here.