Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 635 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Oh, Canada
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2012.04.29
Don's up at the podium waiting for one of the ACS board members to finish jabbering about him; Roger whispers that there's baked Alaska for dessert, but they won't light it on fire yet so as not to wreck the speeches. Sally: "You're wrecking the speeches." Hee. Roger retorts that she's a mean drunk, eliciting a melodious laugh from Marie, which Roger certainly can't help but notice. Don finally gets his award from three people whose combined age looks to be about 847, and Roger opines that he should be by Don's side. Sally: "Go get 'em, tiger." Hee, but the last person we see looking Roger's way is Marie...
...and then we fade to a bit later, with Don and Megan returning to the table. Sally examines the award, which Don offers to her with some words about how lovely she is and how he's looking forward to her growing up. Roger then returns with a Shirley Temple for Sally ("It's time to start tapering off"), and then tells Don he promised "Frank from Ford" that he'd come over and say hello. But Roger, for his part, casts a glance at Marie, who's up from the table chatting with some random old woman, and the next thing you know, they're bellying up to the bar and Marie is telling him how she's been watching him all night, and he's so full of life and ambition. This is Accounts-level flattery to a man like Roger, so he listens, rapt, as Marie goes on that when she was younger, she was always up for trying everything, and I have to deem it rather unfortunate that she refers to this tendency with the expression "get a taste." They flirt some more, with Marie correctly telling Roger that there's a little boy inside him, and then they both agree that they should never stop trying, and should have everything they want. And this is one of the big themes of the episode, but I'm just wondering when these two are going to start talking logistics.