Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 5 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Strange Bedfellows
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 6 | Aired on 05.05.2013
Benson is waiting patiently in what I'm guessing is that same house of ill repute we've seen the SCDP men in before, and when a, um, staff member emerges, he asks her if it's possible for him to pay for his "friend." She tells him it is in theory, but it's too late for that, and then Pete comes teetering out with some silly macho words, although the fact that apparently Benson's fake name in the place is "Curious George" is fairly amusing. And look, the character may be a toady, but James Wolk is rather hot enough that I think he'd be able to negotiate a discount in here. All this fun, however, comes to an end when a well-built African-American employee sashays out of a room and walks on by, after which emerges her client -- Tom Vogel, Trudy's father. Well, I guess her liberal leanings run in the family. It's a contest as to who looks like he got hit with the colder water, but Pete eventually recovers to say hello, and Tom responds with a fairly stunned "Good night." Benson, sharp as a tack, asks if Tom isn't a client, but Pete just looks terrified, as well he might. Think of the next in-law dinner!
Pete comes into Ken's office with "a high-level Accounts question," and after Pete then waves away Benson and his two coffees (gotta love that character continuity), Pete gingerly tells Ken what happened at "that party house" on Lexington Avenue; as he puts it, he saw his father-in-law emerge from a room "with the biggest, blackest prostitute you've ever seen." Pete! I thought people like you didn't see color! After laughing for a bit, Ken tells a story involving running into one of his teachers at a dirty movie when he was a kid, the point of which is that neither of them could say anything, as it was a situation of mutually assured destruction, and since Pete's situation is as well, he can rely on Tom not to spill. Oh, Ken. That logic didn't work on Veronica Mars and it's not going to work here. Pete is mollified, but that doesn't last long, as Ken gets word that the British guys from Jaguar are on the line. Geez, Ken has gotten fired from a lot of accounts lately through no fault of his own, right?
Oh, here's Don, sauntering in like he owns the place (well, you know what I mean), and when he asks Caroline if she has any idea where Roger has been, Caroline tells him no as if the topic is the furthest thing from her mind right now. Of course, this is explained when Pete comes storming down the stairs -- actually falling on his ass in the process, which is AMAZING -- and lights into Don for having "harmed the company irreparably." A crowd is already gathering as Don, voice raised as well, tells him they'd already lost the Jaguar account, as Herb was going to bring in "some kid to write copy." This does nothing to calm Pete down, and soon, he's practically screaming that they had a public offering underway, which is now RUINED!