Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 246 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT It's 1962. What Else Is New?
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2008.07.27
Peggy approaches Don's new secretary, "Lois," and asks when she might be expecting Don. Lois conspiratorially tells Peggy that Don said he was going to the movies. "Pinocchio." Peggy starts to walk away, but turns back and somewhat nastily (although it is possible that she was giving some constructive, if stern, advice) suggests that Lois imagine that Don is there whenever she talks about him. In any event, she succeeds in getting her point across, and walks away triumphantly. Now if she can only make a man feel like shit, she'll be having a really good day.
Don is chowing down in a bar, and if Ken could only see him, he'd be perfectly justified in doing a Debbie-Reynolds-on-Will And Grace "I Told You So" dance. He notices a guy next to him reading a copy of Meditations In An Emergency, and asks if it's good. The guy pointedly tells Don he doesn't think he'd like it, and Don doesn't continue the inquiry, as being psychoanalyzed by some random person probably isn't going to do anything for his blood pressure.
Joan enters Roger's office, and they have a sharp exchange, the gist of which is that they're no longer seeing each other, and while Roger is being attentive to Mona and Joan has a new doctor boyfriend, neither of them is quite over each other. There's also the fact that Joan's rack looks even bigger than it did last season. Given the sheer magnitude of the boobs in question I felt they deserved their own sentence. Duck comes in to see Roger, and Joan takes off after some brief repartee, leaving Duck to tell Roger that he thinks the Martinsons Coffee account needs some young people on it, and he's not pleased that Don has Freddy on the job. Roger asks if Duck brought his beef up with Don, but Duck asks if Roger didn't describe himself as a bridge between accounts and Don. Roger: "Doesn't sound like me." Hee. I missed you, you arterially-challenged Silver Fox. Duck, however, keeps pushing young people, specifically young writer-artist teams, even in the face of Roger's heartily-inhaled cigarette smoke. I hope he's at least cut down on the dairy.