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
...and speaking of people doing things they regret before they've even started, let's cross-fade to Lane stealing back into SCDP after hours. After entering his office, he gets out the company checkbook and I won't drag this out: using a canceled check for reference, he forges Don's signature onto a check made out to himself for seventy five hundred dollars (his share of the bonus that hasn't been distributed yet), signs it himself to make the required two partner signatures and then looks at it, wide-eyed at what he's just done. Of course, he's pretty wide-eyed at the best of times, but you can really see it without the glasses.
The next day, Harry finds Peggy and asks why she didn't bring Paul in when she hired Ginzo. Peggy tells him he wasn't submitted and wonders if she was supposed to, adding that he "rolled downhill" through several agencies. "Last I heard he was in house at A&P." Harry wonders what agency that is, but Peggy clarifies she means the supermarket. Hee. Harry asks her if she'll give him a second opinion on Paul's Star Trek script and I wondered for a moment if the show was crossing us up by it being good, but no -- it's horrible and if you need evidence, the race in opposition to the Negrons is called, amazingly, the "Caucasons." Peggy, hilariously, laughs that now she's not going to get anything done, but Harry's in no joking mood as Paul really thinks the script is going to change his life. Peggy's a little touched that Harry wants to help Paul that much, but counsels him that he needs to be honest and tell him he needs to write something better. Harry protests that what he produced was really hard for him, but Peggy isn't impressed: "Then he shouldn't be doing it." Well, honestly. Writing is a business of rejection; you don't need to go in with the handicap of being terrible. This not being what Harry wanted to hear, he stomps off. And he didn't even leave the script!
Don's lying on the couch when Dawn buzzes that Pete is there for him; Don wearily gives his eyes a little half-roll before sitting up, smoothing his hair, and asking Dawn to send him in. Pete wants Don to go check out some Jaguars and suggests he take Megan to "see how they deal with a couple." Don's like, yeeeeah, I'll do that and Pete understandably misinterprets Don's lack of enthusiasm at bringing Megan for misgivings about the whole idea and opines that if Pete had got them in the running for a car a year earlier, Don would have kissed him on the mouth. Don: "Maybe you and I should go as a couple." That's the sort of line that would normally produce slashfic, but as long as I've been on the internet, I'm still naïve enough to hope that no one actually ships Don and Pete. (Don and Roger? Absolutely.)