Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 415 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT There's That Past, Informing the Present Again
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2010.08.22
Cut to Sally and Bobby watching TV (a news program about the Alabama attacks, by the way) when Phoebe, the nurse from next door, shows up, and Don, I'm not one to take Betty's side but having a babysitter while you have custody of the kids kind of isn't the idea, I don't think. But Don's got a date with Bethany, Jane's friend that we haven't seen since the season premiere, so Phoebe is up, and she brought her stethoscope for the kids to look at, which impresses Bobby. Of course, given his age, that's not too hard -- in fact, he's about the only person on the show more easily amused than Roger. Phoebe asks which one it is, and Don, thinking she's referring to the stable of women he has on hand, fixes her with a look, but she clarifies she meant which restaurant in case she needs to reach him, and he tells her Benihana's. Oh, ah so. Sally's the one who asks about Don's date, and when he tells her Bethany's name, she petulantly replies, "I don't like that." Heh. Don informs her that her approval isn't necessary, although he may feel differently when he arrives home...
...because sometime later, Bobby and Phoebe are watching cartoons when Sally emerges from the bathroom, and I hope Phoebe has some digitalis in her doctor's bag because she almost keels over -- Sally hacked off some of her hair. Bobby laughs that she looks like a "Mongoloid," which...okay, and Phoebe sends him off to bed before luring Sally over to the couch with the promise that she's not mad. What she is, however, is afraid that Don might actually deprive her of her life over this, but she's distracted from such thoughts when Sally points out that she has short hair and Don likes it. "Are you and Daddy doing it?" Phoebe is shocked, but Sally goes on, "I know what 'it' is. I know that the man pees inside the woman!" Well, that probably has hap...you know what? Never mind. Phoebe suggests she talk to her mother about such things, but Sally mutedly tells her she doesn't want to, and Phoebe may not be in a position to say this but you and I certainly are: I feel you, girl. Sally tells Phoebe she just wanted to look pretty, and Phoebe softens and leads her into the bathroom to attempt some damage control. And I'm sure Sally's reason will work on Betty with equal effectiveness!