Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 893 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Company Woman
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2012.05.27
...while in the conference room, Juliet is "auditioning" to play the part of a jaguar, purring and crawling around on the table. I'm not sure anyone asked for this, but they don't seem too bent about it either. Meanwhile, Ginzo, staring at Don's closed office door, muses that "she just comes and goes as she pleases." Stan's like, hot redhead in stockings crawling around on the table and Ginzo decides to watch the show. Well, it's either that or go listen at Don's door, I guess.
Trudy, apparently having just put their daughter down, comes to sit with Pete, but instead of trying to enjoy their quiet time together, Pete informs his wife that "if and when" they get Jaguar, he's going to need a place in the city. Pete, could we wait to focus on all the tail you plan to pull in the city until after you're done whoring Joan out? My stomach lining isn't what it used to be. As usual, I thank God for Trudy, who tells him no way, no day -- his love affair with Manhattan is over and by the way, why aren't they even trying for a second child? Pete: "I'm using all my energy putting my foot down!" Pete, with the length of your legs, how much energy could that take?
Joan arrives home to a mother wondering where she was as its eight o'clock and there are some unappetizing smells as the refrigerator is out. And so many people thought this was a lame signal of Joan's financial worries that I'm surprised I didn't see any headlines reading "A Fridge Too Far." (Thanks, Homer Simpson-going-on-disability episode.) Joan wonders why Gail didn't call someone to fix it and Gail replies, "His wife won't let him come here anymore." Hey, I'm not going to begrudge Gail a piece of blue-collar tail if that's what she's into, but she then wonders why no one will believe that she and "Apollo" are just friends and you'd do better to own it, lady. With as trying a day as she's had, Joan isn't exactly up for the usual mother-daughter snittery and snaps that they can afford to get someone else, getting this response from her mother: "Get a colored girl in here. They're used to getting bossed around." Joan looks like she's ready to get right back on the bus to Midtown, but Gail isn't done as she points her acid tongue in Greg's direction; when Joan asks that she not talk that way around Kevin, Gail counters that he's just a baby. "He doesn't know we all wish his father was dead." Both of them -- based on this episode -- if we're bring honest. Joan basically throws herself on her mother's mercy and when Gail ascertains that she's been drinking, she has her daughter sit down and heads to the bar to pour a round, which I'm thinking is actually not the first for either of them.