Episode Report Card Couch Baron: N/A | 126 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT My Dinner With Awkward
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2008.08.10
Harry gets Ken's paycheck by mistake, and when he can't resist taking a peek, he's chagrined to learn he's not in the same monetary league. His wife is similarly upset, but tells him to demand a raise instead of feeling sorry for himself. Instead of doing that, however, Harry reaches out to a friend of his at CBS, who doesn't have a job for him but does have a controversial show involving abortion in need of sponsors to replace the ones that have pulled out. Soon, Harry, Don and the rest of the SC boys (it'll save time if you just start assuming that Peggy is one of them) pitch the idea to, of all people, the Bel Jolie guy who made a pass at Sal last season. He turns them down, but the attention gets Harry promoted to Head of the newly-created Television Department and a small attendant raise. Harry neglects to mention to his pregnant wife that abortion is behind his newfound success, which is the better part of either valor or wussdom.
At the stables, Betty and her friend run into the young guy from the first episode of the season and his fiancée. Next time out, though, it's just Betty and the guy, and he confesses to Betty that he thinks about her, but she firmly and somewhat surprisingly wards off his advances. SC is representing a potato-chip company called Utz (really), with a commercial starring a horribly obnoxious comedian/actor who aggressively offends the owner and his wife. Don is called in to clean up the mess, part of which includes firing Lois as his secretary, leaving Joan to fill in on a temporary basis. Don dresses down the actor's wife in more ways than one, which makes it even more awkward when he has to take the Utz owners out to dinner with his most recent conquest and her cuckold. The dinner starts off inauspiciously enough, but when the actor's wife tries to blackmail Don, she gets a glimpse of what the man is really like as he gets physical with and threatens her, and before you know it, the actor is apologizing and even restraining himself from a beach ball of a setup. On the way home, Betty cries tears of joy that she and Don are seemingly a team these days. Well, at least she's crying, right?
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