Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 283 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT White People Problems
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2013.04.28
...and then we cross-fade to the end of the movie ("You blew it up!"). The credits roll, and father and son both look fairly blown away before Bobby asks if [SPOILER] the humans blew up New York. Don corrects him that it was "all of America," and that what they saw happened in the future. Bobby: "Jesus." That's what I would have said at his age! Don asks if Bobby wants to see it again, and the answer is basically, "Hell, yes!" I'm glad Bobby's this grateful, because Don's going an awfully long time without a drink here.
Abe, in a T-shirt, is typing away when the phone rings. He picks it up and says he needs another half hour, but it's actually the realtor calling for Peggy with the news that they didn't get the place. Peggy's crestfallen and asks what happened, and the realtor breezes that someone came in a little higher, and it wasn't meant to be. Of course, if they'd paid the price Peggy was prepared to, they would have gotten it, and the realtor does admit that the winning bid was under asking as well, but her reiteration that it wasn't meant to be and that "there's no other way to think about it" has merit from a mental-health point of view. After she hangs up, Peggy glumly tells Abe that someone else got the place, and when he gives a reaction easily described as "cursory," she asks if he even gives a damn. He tells her he's working on an emotional story, but she nails him good: "Stop being such a martyr. You're having the time of your life." Heh. She tells him that she feels alone in this, but that's kind of the point for him - he doesn't feel right expressing an opinion, since he's not going in on the place with her. She invites him to regardless, so he tells her he doesn't want to live on the UES, and goes on to opine that it's not diverse enough, not that he needs a reason in my book. He then tells Peggy about a photographer who was trailing him the other night and lives in the West 80's, which he admits is more rundown, but "that's why it's so cheap." You'll forgive me if I cringe a bit here. Peggy looks intrigued and then charmed by the idea of getting their own fixer-upper, and then comes over to stand by him and say she didn't realize he felt that way about the UES, and he apologizes again, reiterating that he didn't feel comfortable in having a say. Peggy, however, beams at him: "You're in my life. You're a part of my life." Sorry, Peggy's mom, but I think this turned out better than getting a cat.