Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 5 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Don's Ghosts, Coast To Coast
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 10 | Aired on 06.02.2013
Roger, dressed in a navy sport coat and an ascot (!), meets Don outside the hotel. Don makes a mildly dismissive comment about Harry, but Roger tells him that he got them three big meetings, and while Don may have forgotten because Chevy fell in his lap, "big accounts require a golf and dining offensive." Yeah, I mean, when Roger is telling you to be more appreciative of other people, maybe it's worth taking notice. Without new business Don would surely have fired all their clients by now. Harry pulls up, still, to Don's disgust, driving the Mustang, and as "Harper Valley P.T.A." kicks up...
...we cut to the party, at which Harry introduces Don and Roger to the blonde hostess, who tells them where they can find the food, booze and joints. She escorts them into a parlor in which there are all sorts of mod people and hippies chatting and milling about; after she leaves them, Roger leers appreciatively, but Harry cautions him to go with the flow, as these people "don't dig business cards." Sure. Don then sees a diminutive guy outside and recognizes him as Danny, and Harry informs them he's "Daniel J. Siegel" now, a major producer. He left New York two, maybe three years ago? I'd be jealous of a fictional character if not for the saving grace of him looking absolutely ridiculous. The hair alone is making Ginzo look put together by comparison. Danny warmly greets the [NAME] group, and Don at least sounds sincere enough as he asks what Danny's up to these days. Danny tells them he's taking care of bidness before introducing a tall woman named "Lotus" who's made up entirely of Native American jewelry, weed and sunglasses. Roger tries to show off with a "Danny is short" joke, and while several wide shots have made that an indisputable fact, the comment is still beneath him. Roger continues to try to score points off Danny, and on the one hand, while Danny's being so irritatingly '60s Hollywood that he's kind of asking for it, Roger is clearly only doing it to impress the stoner chick, so I'd like to follow Don and Harry as they head to the bar. But no, we hear Roger tells Lotus that he and Danny used to be related, and then the best he can do is another short joke, while Danny drops of bunch of names that are legit impressive before taking Lotus away, so I guess Danny won that round, not that Roger even remembers Danny's name once he catches sight of a blonde in a bikini walking by. Also, Danny's apparently making Alice in Wonderland, which certainly makes sense for this season.