Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 743 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT My Left Foot…
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2009.09.20
Don lies awake in bed, an uncharacteristically goofy smile on his face at the prospect of moving to the land of bangers and mash. On the other hand, his five o'clock shadow has reappeared with a vengeance...
...while Sally lies awake as well, looking terrified. The nightlight is like, "This is going to be a barrel of laughs."
After a shot of the main floor, Joan brightly appears next to Hooker, who's just been greeting the British ambassadors. He tells them that Joan was the office manager before he (oh, Lord, he's taking her place?) but she's "off to greener pastures." The three men, one of whom is of course Saint John Powell, or Mistah Sheffield if you prefer, the other two being "Mr. Harold Ford" and the youngest, "Guy MacEndrick," greet Joan, and then Hooker takes them on a walking tour of the sights of SC as Joan surreptitiously whispers to one of the girls to let everyone know the Brits are there. Soon, Pete accosts the group, and Powell certainly greets him warmly enough, which suggests to me that he did in fact take notice of his coup with Bronzo, again making last week all the more bizarre in retrospect. MacEndrick is similarly warm, saying he's very impressive and he knows everything about him, but given that he repeats the same greeting to Peggy almost verbatim I'm not completely convinced of his sincerity. Olive, however, is like, "Sincerity be damned -- that dude is fiiine," and while I'm guessing it's been a while for the old girl it's still not like I disagree. I mean, he was on The Tudors. They don't cast ugly.
Cut to the group entering Bertram's office, in which handshakes are exchanged and MacEndrick displays extreme enthusiasm for meeting Don. Probably wants to get a handle on Don's particular American genius at picking up women, not that he needs the help. Powell proceeds to give MacEndrick a verbal tongue bath about both his education (Cambridge and the LSE) and post-graduate career before the group withdraws to have a chat with Pryce, but not before plans for lunch at one in the conference room are confirmed, and MacEndrick undresses Don's brain a bit more with his eyes before leaving. Bertram seems utterly befuddled by the whole interaction, while Roger playfully, and astutely, notes that the suspense is killing Don...