Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 3 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT White People Problems
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 5 | Aired on 04.28.2013
In response, Walsh claims to be quoting Tecumseh when he starts chanting - my closed captioning reads "Heya howa howa" - to which Roger replies, "I had forgotten that." Hee. Everyone rises, and after Walsh tells them this is an opportunity - "the heavens are telling us to change" - and Roger makes a wink-wink reference to Mapother's time on Lost, the meeting breaks up. Ginzo trails behind Walsh and asks if he really talked to Dr. King's ghost - he actually sounds genuinely interested - and Stan follows along to see the show, leaving Roger to explain that he owed Walsh, as he talked Roger "off a roof" once. If he's being literal, I'd imagine acid was involved, which makes sense from every angle. Don says he just wants to go home, and when Roger tells him someone's going to do Walsh's idea, Don's not playing: "Not us." Roger exits, and Don packs up quickly...
...because he's got an urgent date with some booze and his TV, the latter of which is showing grim scenes from D.C. with commentary that the firefighters haven't been able to handle the sheer volume of calls. The phone then rings, and Megan calls from the other room that it's Betty, and Don's supposed to pick up the kids. Don winces, but grabs the phone and asks if Betty really wants the kids in the city at the moment. Betty's unimpressed, though, and tells him that Don gets out of every opportunity to see them. "You don't even know how strange they're acting." Don points out that the news is very upsetting, but Betty replies that Don forgetting about them is too before finishing with this whopper: "I guarantee you'd go to Canada on your knees to pick up your girlfriend." Extra points for "forgetting" that Don and Megan are married, and Don bitterly puts the phone down before announcing that he's going to get the kids. Considering he downs the rest of his drink in one gulp, Betty, you might have done better to leave him be. Megan emerges in a bathrobe and remarks that Betty's a piece of work, and Don gives her a look that's like, no argument here...
...but we're spared the frosty greeting the parents surely had as we cut to Don driving the kids home; they're all piled in the front seat, which is just as well, since at that age I would have been scared to be in the back with sirens wailing all around me. Even Don looks discomfited by what he's seeing, so I hope Megan didn't put away the bar. (Good one, right?)
Cross-fade into Papa Ginzo coming into the kitchen to find his son at the sewing machine in a wifebeater and boxers, and I wish we'd gotten this welcome sight in a merrier episode, but I'll take what I can get. Not so Papa Ginzo, who, after explaining he's going to work on a Saturday because he doesn't want to be in front of the TV, berates his son for his lack of stitching ability before adding that he also can't cook or clean. "You don't think there's a reason you have all these flaws?" He's not the easiest to like, but his point that Ginzo needs a girlfriend is valid enough, even if he follows up by basically being all "Unless you're a fagola?" Ginzo assures his father he likes girls, but Papa Ginzo tells him that if that were true, he'd be in bed with Beverly right now, and when Ginzo tells him no one's in the mood, Papa Ginzo demurs: "Now's the time when a man and a woman need to be together the most!" He gets in a good one (and the episode title!) about the animals going two by two in the flood: "You, you gonna get on the ark with your father?" Heh. Ginzo assures his father that he can find his own girls, which I hope doesn't mean he's rejecting Beverly just because of how she came to him, although now that I think of it, you couldn't really blame either of them for thinking a first date on the night of an assassination is a bad omen. Anyway, Papa Ginzo gives up, grumbling that he'll bring Ginzo a sandwich when he returns. I hope he's talking about food, because in the other arena I think it would be best for Ginzo to go one at a time first.