Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 373 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT It's a Gi…Boy!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2009.09.13
Pete's busying himself with his demographic research until Hildy buzzes him with the news that his "Uncle Herman" is on the line. He urgently picks up the phone and asks if "Aunt Alice" is all right, and on the other end, Duck Phillips asks who it is. After they establish their identities, Duck says he used his real given name, "Herman," so as to keep the contact with Pete a secret, but Pete informs him that he actually has an Uncle Herman, and he's ninety-one. Heh. After I note with some disdain that Duck has three gold duck sculptures decorating his wall, he tells Pete that he's at "Grey" now, and they should have lunch. Pete's leery of the idea, but Duck talks him into it. From his clarity and focus, I'm guessing he's sober again, which is unfortunate in that he can't blame the décor of his office on being hammered.
Don arrives home and answers the ringing phone; it's "Suzanne Farrell," Sally's teacher. (Heh, no wonder she could dance so well around the maypole.) Suzanne seems nervous, inebriated, and somewhat intimidated by Don, which would make her the perfect woman for him if she weren't on the other end of a phone line. She apologizes for her behavior that morning, and when he expresses confusion, she explains that her own father died when she was eight, and as such she may have felt a little closer to the situation than might have been appropriate. Don looks like he feels a connection with her, although this time there's no music playing and he's not cinematically feeling up a lawn, but whatever's going on between them is interrupted by Betty calling his name, as it's time to go to the hospital. Don has an amusingly uncharacteristic and endearing moment where he says he has to get his keys and Betty points out that they're in his hand...