Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 6 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Tit For Splat
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2007.08.30
Anyway, we can deduce from the bespectacled Roger's end of the conversation that Mona is taking a last-minute trip out of town, and Roger orders her to bring Margaret with her; Bertram then enters, so Roger disconnects, and Bertram tells him that "the Nixon boys" are going to be stopping in at the end of the week. Roger asks if Nixon himself is coming. Bertram: "No, thank God, otherwise I'd have to move the piano out of my office." HA! Actually, if you have three minutes and want a more complete picture, check this out. It's not as funny as if W. had been caught on camera playing the nose flute, but it will do until that happy day arrives. Bertram flops down and hopes aloud that Nixon's people decide they need Sterling Cooper, and then scolds Roger for smoking so much: "It's a sign of weakness!" Dude, I don't know if that's the word I would use, given that smoking even one of those unfiltereds would be enough to kill me dead. Bertram, however, goes on Hitler scored all that appeasement at Munich by holding their meeting in an old palace that forbade cigarettes: "After an hour and a half of not smoking, Neville Chamberlain would have given Hitler his mother as a dance partner." Thinking of Hitler dancing is taking me to a Mel Brooks kind of place, which is probably not what Bertram intended. Roger, for his part, is unmoved by the story, so Bertram gets up to go with a "Good night, Peanut." Don't know if there's a story or a reference there. Nonetheless: Hee.
And it is in fact time to say good night, as Paul, Ken, and a couple randoms are heading out, with Paul announcing, "Last one to Chumley's gets to wheel Kenneth Cosgrove, published author, home in a baby carriage." Having seen Ken, I wouldn't call that the hardship assignment Paul is making it out to be. Joan, with a valise on the desk in front of her, watches them go with mild contempt, and then Roger comes out and sidles up behind her. She sees him, though, in the mirror she's using to touch up her makeup, and he dishes about Mona and Margaret going away, adding that Mona's mother fell down the steps. Joan: "You're really blessed!" Joan just went up a notch in my book -- I always appreciate a character who does some of my work for me. Roger invites her to come to his place, but Joan is clearly not into the idea, and then a blonde woman joins them, whom Joan introduces as her roommate Carol. From Carol's goofy reaction, either she knows about Joan and Roger, or she wants to bed him herself. Not that the two are mutually exclusive. Roger asks "Miss Holloway" for a private word about an "accounting question," but once they're out of earshot, he tells her that another time, the two of them can go away, maybe to Puerto Rico? Joan: "I don't care if it's Cuba. I need a little notice." I sympathize, girl, but you still might want to see the place while you have the chance. Roger good-naturedly tells the girls to have fun. I don't know; this is why I said in the last recap I don't see this relationship as tragic -- to me, that means that both participants want more but can't get it, and while Roger sort of tepidly (and I don't really believe him) expresses that desire, Joan is quite clear that this is as far as she wants things to go. They can be tragic figures individually, but that's a separate issue, to me. Anyway.