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
...whereupon we cross-fade to a rather nicer set of cars, as we're in a Jaguar showroom and from the appreciative look in Joan's eye I think we have a clue as to what Greg's alimony checks are going to go toward. Don coaches Joan to look at her watch and after she obliges, a salesman appears and asks what he can do for them. Don: "We got tired of waiting for a cab. Thought we'd buy a car." I have the feeling he didn't hear lines that suave on the used-car lot. He asks about one model and the salesman tells him it's nice and sporty but still can accommodate kids going on to inquire if they have any. Don pauses and deferentially looks at Joan, but she's up for the performance and brightly says that "altogether," they have four. The salesman tells them the car is for the American road as it has "too much power for England" and having witnessed firsthand how people drive across the pond, I'm going to have to disagree. Don pointedly adds that he hears England's "dampness is murder on the electrical system" but the salesman evenly tells him they've worked that problem out. Joan then draws a breath as she catches sight of a bright red two-door the salesman describes as "the most beautiful car ever made, the XK-E" and given how the thing is obviously the automobile equivalent of Joan herself you'd think they could give it a more feminine name. The guy is up for taking them out for test drives, but one at a time as there's not enough room for three. Joan playfully but pointedly asks why she and Don would want the guy along, but that's kind of the guy's point as that beautiful interior leather really doesn't do so well with stains. Don, however, has places to be and upon finding out the asking price is $5,600, he forks over a check for six grand. "If we don't come back, consider it paid for." Nice, but for that price aren't you going to ask for floor mats?