Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 6 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Beyond The Veil
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 1-2 | Aired on 04.07.2013
The two guys claim to have three separate ideas, but in reality, they merely pitch three variations of the same concept. Peggy's right to point this out, but this is the way she does it: "If you can't tell the difference between which part's the idea and which part's the execution of the idea, you're of no use to me." Sounds like her execution could use a little work, but Peggy's not about to stop there, as she goes on that she's been in their shoes, and they're hoping that their ideas will spark her imagination, she'll come up with something brilliant, and then everyone can go home. That doesn't actually sound so bad to me, but her point, I guess, is that they need to work harder to get her ideas going, and she punctuates that by handing over her sandwich and saying they can split it, "because you're not going home." From their reaction, I'd guess this isn't the first time something like this has happened, but when they're gone, Abe notes that she was "a little rough," and some workers don't respond to that. She's not offended, but does tell him the guys know they're lazy; she then lets him get back to listening to the music (as she enlisted him to come up with relevant adjectives for the headphones). As she watches him chair-bop, she looks loving at first, but her face suddenly gets serious, signaling An Idea has formed. And those two underlings may have gotten a talking-to, but it looks like their little plan worked, more or less. And they got a free sandwich out of it!
Betty finally returns to the Rye Town Francis Spookhouse, the Christmas tree lights giving the only illumination of the first floor, and heads up the stairs, where she sees Sally on the phone. Betty approaches Sally's doorway and greets her, but Sally holds up a finger and mouths for Betty to give her a minute before shutting the door. Betty's like, whatever, and heads in to see her husband, telling him she had some errands to run. He doesn't seem suspicious, although he does take note of the large rip in her coat, and she lies with him and tells him she's happy he already ate, "because my feet are frozen." I'd imagine, but the point seems to be that she looks grateful for what she has, even if one of the things she has is an all-too-typical teenaged girl.
At SCDP, Pete and Don greet each other in front of the latter's office with their typical low-level dislike, and then Pete informs Don that since he was "under the weather" the day before, he thought he'd remind him about the Sheraton meeting. Don tells him to cancel it, but Pete's like, their bosses are in next week and they just sent you to Hawaii, so how about no on that? Don doesn't have a reply, so when Pete's gone, he asks Dawn to get Stan into his office before handing over Dinkins' lighter, explaining that he got it by mistake, and could she get it back to him? NOW WAS THAT SO HARD, DON? All the unnecessary agita over it is an example of how this episode seems really forced in spots. Dawn asks if Don would like to enclose a note, but he declines...
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