Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 450 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT All the Real Girls
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2010.09.19
Bertram is sitting out with Miss Blankenship as they both do the Times crossword; he asks for a three-letter word for a flightless bird, and when she supplies "emu," he tells her it starts with an "L." Miss Blankenship: "The hell it does." Couldn't have said it better myself. Don arrives and asks for coffee and for her to let him know when Faye arrives, getting this reply: "It's hard the way she breezes past me." I'd suggest Miss Blankenship come back to haunt the place, except with the things that go on here I think any ghost would be the one that would end up traumatized. When Don heads inside without replying to that comment, Miss Blankenship tells Bertram in reference to Faye, "She's pushy, that one. I guess that's what it takes." Bertram looks around all, "You say something?" and he's always been one of my favorites but if this is all they're going to give him to do it's time to ship him off to a Japanese pasture somewhere.
Joan comes in to see Roger, looking quite relaxed, and thanks him for his thoughtful way of apologizing. After some characteristic banter, he seriously tells her that it'll be okay, but she replies, "People love to say that!" Fair. Roger suggests they go out to dinner, but this only gets Joan's hackles up about how he must be expecting something, which seems perhaps a little unfair but is still understandable given where her head is. I'll leave any jokes about Roger's head to him -- I'm sure he's made them all before. Joan exits...
...while Peggy comes out to Reception to find Abe waiting for her. Turns out he wrote a piece for her that he claims expresses what he was trying to say the night before without his "abrasive tone," but given that it's entitled "Nuremberg On Madison Avenue," I'm not sure quite how smoothly it's going to be received. He says he'll wait while she reads it, so with a somewhat puzzled but pleased smile, she heads back into the office...
...while in the conference room, Faye is giving a presentation to none other than three people from Fillmore, with Don and Ken, who you'll remember brought the account to SCDP, also in attendance. The pitch is that men have the desire to get their hands dirty, but some of them have become so domesticated out in the suburbs that they don't know how to fix their cars. She goes on that her research shows that men will spend a good amount of money for the satisfaction of doing manual labor, and "ladies love a man who's good with his hands." I'm seeing Roger Sterling lines everywhere now.