Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 425 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Beyond The Veil
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 1-2 | Aired on 2013.04.07
Abe enters Peggy's office with two hero sandwiches, both decidedly non-vegetarian, and asks how it's going. She tells him she's doing an exercise Don taught her, which is to write a letter to a fictitious acquaintance describing the wonders of her new headphones. It doesn't sound like a bad idea in theory, but I have to wonder whether its efficacy is going to be compromised by the fact that Peggy doesn't really have any friends. Abe is happy that "this unjust war is finally having an impact on commerce," and I found Abe's hippie babbling a lot more tolerable when his appearance was more presentable. Two flunkies enter and ask if dinner was ordered for them, and Peggy's like, "No," but Abe offers to share, which is nice, but then again, with all the Commie ideology he spouts I guess he kind of has no choice.
The two guys claim to have three separate ideas, but in reality, they merely pitch three variations of the same concept. Peggy's right to point this out, but this is the way she does it: "If you can't tell the difference between which part's the idea and which part's the execution of the idea, you're of no use to me." Sounds like her execution could use a little work, but Peggy's not about to stop there, as she goes on that she's been in their shoes, and they're hoping that their ideas will spark her imagination, she'll come up with something brilliant, and then everyone can go home. That doesn't actually sound so bad to me, but her point, I guess, is that they need to work harder to get her ideas going, and she punctuates that by handing over her sandwich and saying they can split it, "because you're not going home." From their reaction, I'd guess this isn't the first time something like this has happened, but when they're gone, Abe notes that she was "a little rough," and some workers don't respond to that. She's not offended, but does tell him the guys know they're lazy; she then lets him get back to listening to the music (as she enlisted him to come up with relevant adjectives for the headphones). As she watches him chair-bop, she looks loving at first, but her face suddenly gets serious, signaling An Idea has formed. And those two underlings may have gotten a talking-to, but it looks like their little plan worked, more or less. And they got a free sandwich out of it!