Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 386 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT You Got Served!
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2012.05.20
...so when he and Megan get home, it's no surprise that Don's rather more monosyllabic than usual. Megan good-naturedly calls him on it and he initially claims he's just tired, but she doesn't believe him and points out she's heard him say worse things about advertising than were expressed in the play. Having been refused a graceful exit, Don opines that people buy things because it makes them feel better. Megan points out that he loves when people make fun of acting and adds that she didn't think what they saw was such a strong stand against advertising, just consumerism. Don: "Well, no one's made a stronger stand against advertising than you." I mean, why split hairs when you can just stomp on the whole scalp?
In a diner (they took a cab here?), Harry's talking about his daughter and family and then tells Paul he doesn't have a job for him at the moment. Paul, however, says that Harry can still help him and produces a script. You'll remember that Paul wrote plays, so that's surely what Harry thinks is happening here when he asks if Paul has been writing again and Paul intones, "I think it's the most meaningful work I've ever done in my life." You guys, Paul Kinsey in Krishna robes said that. If you do the math, what else could it be but a Star Trek spec script? It's called "The Negron Complex" which I'm sure has nothing to do with race and I can't blame Harry Crane at all for asking in all seriousness, "Are you kidding me?" But no, turns out Paul has been watching episodes "through the window of a pizza parlor on MacDougal" and I'm sure the patrons of that establishment really appreciate the audience and he feels that he's made a good effort at "matching the moral complexities tinged with adventure that draw people to it." You guys, I mentioned it was called "The Negron Complex," right? Harry looks at the script like it's dripping with pus before trying to claim he can't cross the line of getting it to NBC, but Paul isn't so Krishna-d out not to have deduced that with the amount of media buying Harry does from them, he's likely to have just a bit of influence there. Busted, Harry asks if the story is about Hare Krishna and gets this response: "Well, not literally. But they don't tell literal stories." This is the sorriest I've ever felt for Harry and I haven't forgotten the time Don caught him walking the office in his tighty-whities. Sensing Harry's enthusiasm for this errand is miniscule at best, Paul gives a sob story about how he doesn't even fit in with the Krishnas and he thinks no one likes him except Lakshmi. "Will you read the script?" Harry probably can't stand to hear himself say yes out loud, but the look on his face suggests that's the reluctant answer...