Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 373 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT It's a Gi…Boy!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2009.09.13
...and then an older nurse is helping Betty into a wheelchair while wondering if it might be a false alarm, and Betty's like, "This is my third kid, bitch, do I look new?" The nurse sends Don off to "the solarium," and in this era I'm surprised that's not code for "bar," but then again, it's not going to turn out to matter. As Betty gets wheeled down the hall, she looks back at Don's shrinking form, and then we stay with her as her attention becomes occupied by a janitor who looks like her father from the back. We're of course meant to think the imminent birth is bringing up memories of her father, which is a nice alternative to the birth and death in the same episode I was so glad they avoided last episode, but the janitor is obviously actually being played by Ryan Cutrona so it's hard to fault her here. Soon after, Betty is futzing with a pen as she tries to fill out some forms, and she gets the nurse off the phone to inform her through her pain that she's not planning on breast-feeding the child, and also that her water never breaks, which is a nice departure from TV protocol. She asks when "Dr. Aldrich" will be there...
...while Don leafs through a magazine in the solarium. The only other person in there is a shaved-head-sporting guy named "Dennis Hobart," who asks a nurse that looks like half of Debra Jo Rupp for some information. The nurse tells him that his wife is fine but the baby's breeched, so they're calling in a specialist, and this news freaks Hobart right the hell out, considering no one had even talked to him for a hour. Once the nurse is gone, Hobart comments to Don that being an imminent father isn't what he expected, and pulls out a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red as he adds that he brought it because he thought it would be a party in there. From the way Don is eyeing that bottle, you just might get your wish, cowboy. They start drinking as Hobart complains he's been there all day, and he even called in to get off work -- he's a prison guard. He and Don bond as Don seems genuinely glad of the company, but when Hobart asks if he throws the ball around with his son, Don goes serious: "Not enough." Child-actor laws can be so restrictive. The conversation breaks after that line, and Don rips out an ad for a convertible from a magazine...
...and then we're back with Betty, who's being told by the nurse to get on the bed. "I'll shave you, and then give you a quick low enema." Sounds like she should buy her a drink first.