Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 546 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Strange Bedfellows
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2013.05.05
At home, Don grabs Megan as soon as she comes into the bedroom despite her protest that Marie needs an aspirin, and I'd like to chalk this up solely to Marie's advice, but I think he's feeling turned on by his dismissal of Herb more than anything else. Soon, they are Doing It, and Marie, sitting in the living room, can't get Bottle of Wine Number Three open fast enough. The phone rings, and when she hears that it's Roger, she tells him not to bother apologizing, and her ire then only increases when she realizes he called to talk to Don. Roger tries telling her "you were next, I swear," which is what every woman, ESPECIALLY Marie, wants to hear. She berates him for dragging her out to dinner with "that disgusting man with his disgusting wife. She's the apple that goes in the pig's mouth." Marie would have livened up that Hawaii season premiere, I tell you what. Roger deliberately tries to tell Marie that "something came up," as if Marie's the kind of woman who's going to fall for lines that will eventually be used on The Brady Bunch, and Marie awesomely calls him out for speaking slowly so she'll understand, and fires back with this deliciously enunciated delivery: "Forget. My. Name." She didn't eat anything, and she's not even slurring in her second language! She hangs up, and it's hard to make that more genius, but Marie does so anyway by proceeding to (a) swig wine directly from the bottle, and (b) hang up immediately when Roger tries calling back. And given that the phone call gave her a respite from her daughter's background moaning, she must be really mad at him.
Benson is waiting patiently in what I'm guessing is that same house of ill repute we've seen the SCDP men in before, and when a, um, staff member emerges, he asks her if it's possible for him to pay for his "friend." She tells him it is in theory, but it's too late for that, and then Pete comes teetering out with some silly macho words, although the fact that apparently Benson's fake name in the place is "Curious George" is fairly amusing. And look, the character may be a toady, but James Wolk is rather hot enough that I think he'd be able to negotiate a discount in here. All this fun, however, comes to an end when a well-built African-American employee sashays out of a room and walks on by, after which emerges her client -- Tom Vogel, Trudy's father. Well, I guess her liberal leanings run in the family. It's a contest as to who looks like he got hit with the colder water, but Pete eventually recovers to say hello, and Tom responds with a fairly stunned "Good night." Benson, sharp as a tack, asks if Tom isn't a client, but Pete just looks terrified, as well he might. Think of the next in-law dinner!