Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 234 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT The Grass Is Always Greener
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2013.04.21
Harry, sipping coffee from an ABC mug, is sitting at his desk, and I guess one of the benefits of the office expansion is that he no longer has a support beam through the middle of it. Ken enters and barks (for his usually mild-mannered self, at least) about some closing dates for Birds Eye, leading Harry, not unreasonably, to invite him to maybe chill out a little. Ken collapses into a chair and explains that he spent the entire weekend hearing from his father-in-law about how much the world hates Dow Chemical. And while I could listen enraptured to Ray Wise reading the phone book, I'll admit that sitting politely as the manufacturer of napalm complains about his lot in life wouldn't be my first choice of weekend activities. Ken adds that every one of Ed's complaints was directed against him and SCDP, prompting Harry to wonder if Ken's finally been turned into a neurotic. I'd say it takes one to know one if I weren't completely sure that Harry would concede the point. Ken's like, I know this is counterintuitive, but ceasing to drop napalm on children can actually have a surprising positive effect on public image, but Harry's off on another train of thought: "I know you just came here to complain" (Hee) "but I actually think that I can help you." Ken sighs that it's true -- he did come in there to complain -- but Harry wonders if Ken could pull off a meeting with just the two of them and Ed, and Ken is sure he could, as long as there's a good reason. Scarlett then comes in with Harry's breakfast, and to his credit, Harry seems appreciative of Scarlett without being disgusting, and when Harry gives her a name to ring for him, she confides in Ken that Harry has great ideas, so apparently the appreciation is mutual. Is Harry Crane finally growing up?
Stan and his beard march through the office to a room marked "Private," into which they disappear as spy-caper music plays, and Ginzo wonders if they could get this clock with a camera in it he saw on a spy show into the room. The older lady, about whom I'll point out we STILL KNOW NOTHING after four episodes, doesn't look up as she notes that getting into the room would sort of obviate the need for the clock, but Ginzo is undeterred by such cold logic as he goes on that he's guessing the secrecy is for a military account. "And I would guess they picked Stan because he has no conscience." Hee. Benson wonders what "Project K" could possibly refer to, and given that he was the only one of these guys present at the initial meeting with Ketchup, it's a little slow of him not to figure out what "K" might stand for here.