Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A+ | 11 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT "Mr. Campbell. Who Cares?"
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2007.10.11
Back at the office, the party's still going on, and Ken and Blue Panties Allison come out from Paul's office as Ken says he couldn't find any absinthe. Paul's cheesed that Ken went in his office, and gets more so when Ken produces a one-act play called "Death Is My Client" that Paul apparently wrote. It's funny how these guys all write in their spare time. They'd totally be competing for blog hits if the internet had been invented yet. Ken starts to read it aloud, and Paul loses his temper and keeps trying to grab it away...
...but then, everyone's solemn and a model of decorum as they're getting ready to do a reading of the play. HA! I swear, the way this show keeps zigging when you expect it to zag is just brilliant. Sal and Joan are the principal players, with Hildy reading the stage directions, I think, and Paul's the overly-invested director, even smoking a pipe as he mutters to himself. So funny. Everyone else is set up on chairs watching; when Sal makes a comment about not being some "boorish natural like that hat [not familiar with that particular sense of that word, but that's what he says, and the closed-captioning agrees] Cosgrove [Ken's surname]," Ken guffaws in disbelief and is like, "That's crackerjack, Kinsey." Paul looks sullen as he thinks, "Just wait 'till my next one, ass." The scene ends with Sal and Joan stage-kissing; everyone applauds, but Joan's got this "Oh, I SEE" look on her face. I hope she does -- she'd be the best fag hag in the whole wide world.
The crème de menthe is at critical levels, but that's not stopping everyone from dancing to polka music; Sal and Joan match each other's moves expertly, a touch I loved. Ken quiets everyone, though, as a critical return is coming in -- Nixon has carried Ohio. (That one's true.) Everyone cheers, and Harry happily kisses Hildy on the lips, but she looks at him for a moment, and then returns the favor with one that crosses the line. Realizing that, she breaks it and apologizes, saying she's very tipsy; embarrassed in turn, he leaves...