Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 374 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Roman Holiday
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2009.10.04
Betty enters the living room and regards the monstrosity from last week with what thankfully appears to be distaste, but even if that's wishful thinking, whatever she's feeling prompts her to call Sally. They sit down on one of the tasteful couches in the room, and Betty tells her she thinks Ernie is very nice, but she still doesn't want Sally running around "just kissing boys" -- boys are supposed to kiss her. She adds that the first kiss is very special, and when Sally protests she's already had that, Betty smiles lovingly and says she's going to have a lot of first kisses, and she's going to want them to be special so she remembers them. "It's where you go from being a stranger to knowing someone, and every kiss with them after that is a shadow of that kiss." She urgently asks Sally if she understands, and when Sally seems to get it, she gives her a kiss on the forehead and tells her to go play. She then gets out a chainsaw and has a grand old time carving the monstrosity to shreds. Well, not yet, but I'm going to keep at it until it happens for real.
Trudy's got dinner on the table when Pete gets home. She of course is not her normal bubbly self, but after they sit and she embarks on an impersonal recitation of her day, Pete interrupts her: "I don't want you to go away anymore without me." He reaches his hand out to hers, and after considering for a moment, she chooses to take this as both an apology and a promise not to stray again, and smiles: "Good. I won't." She's like The Giving Tree, this one. The tension lifted, she asks what happened at work, and Pete tells her Paul invented a contraption that can shoot a water balloon across the office. "We filled it with ketchup." If that's true, I bet Moneypenny really is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Francine is over at Betty's explaining that she left the kids with Carla because the board called a secret meeting about the reservoir. "I think they reversed us." Well, there's my answer about Francis's mindset. She then playfully asks how Italy was, and upon deducing from Betty's coy responses that she had a good time, tells her she and Carlton went to Lake George for a week after their daughter was born. "No problems, no kids. It was magical. We have to do that again." Betty doesn't look like she needed the reminder that she's back in suburban hell, although she might also be pissed that Francine went for a whole week and she only got a lousy two days. Francine then tells her they have to be vigilant about the reservoir, but wink-winkingly suggests that it would be a good excuse to ask for more help from high places. Betty, however, doesn't want to play, and says she's done with that. "We made our stand." Francine's mind heads across the Atlantic again, opining that Madrid would do the trick, and Betty confesses she's never been. Don then arrives home, and Francine says she needs to be going: "From what I hear, you two must be very tired." Oh, Francine. Don't make me come over there. Betty, an unamused look on her face, goes back to cleaning up...