Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 10 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Toeing The Line
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 9 | Aired on 05.26.2013
On a country road, Don pulls into a gas station and tries to get the young attendant's attention, but he's too busy leering at a woman leaning into her car -- who emerges, holding a map, and turns out to be Betty. Don calls to her and after she jumps a little, she looks at him pleasantly enough before wondering if he's also lost. Don approaches his ex-wife and sends the attendant to fill his tank before asking Betty where Henry is. She tells him he's coming the next day and then the attendant returns with her directions, which, as she points out, are a bit lacking in actual road names. Don, however, tells her to follow him, and I'm pretty sure the gas-station attendant isn't the only one who's getting hot all of a sudden.
Ted, Pete and Peggy return from a pitch meeting, presumably, and Moira tells them that Fleischmann's called to request some more recent figures. After Pete tells them he'll handle it, Ted asks to speak to Peggy, so they go into his office, wherein he berates her for apparently having touched his hand during the presentation. Peggy tells him she didn't even notice doing it, but Ted is working up a head of steam now about how she then smiled at him. "I never should have kissed you!" It never ceases to amaze me, in an era known for its adultery, how so many people on this show can be so legendarily bad at it. At least Don's track record in that department is decent, if hardly perfect. Peggy pulls Ted away from the door -- good thinking -- before telling him that she assumed they were forgetting about that little incident. "I forgot it." I think she's trying to make the situation manageable even if the statement is untrue, but Ted tells her he hasn't forgotten it, and even uses the L-word in describing what a cliché the situation is. He wonders if the feeling is entirely one-sided, adding that that would help him get over it, but Peggy can't stick her lie and tells him that she thinks about it. Ted, however, says he's considered all the angles and they can't pursue their feelings. He sits down, and when she asks if he wants her to work elsewhere, he tells her no but steadfastly refuses to meet her eyes. I actually like these two together, but I'm also not going to object to one character on this show putting good judgment above all else.
At the camp restaurant, Bobby wheedles a grinning Betty into performing "Father Abraham" with him, and it's cute, but then Don enters the building and Bobby excitedly runs into his arms. Don asks Betty if he didn't tell Bobby he was there, but she smiles that she wanted it to be a surprise. Bobby then waves to a kid he explains to his parents is "Bobby Two," while he's "Bobby Five," and this bit of meta I can get behind. Betty asks if there's no Bobby One anymore because of Bobby Kennedy, but Bobby says no -- he just went home. Bobby Five, ladies and gentlemen! After Bobby offers to get the waitress so Don can have a drink (hilariously, Betty both wryly and regretfully replies "No" when Don asks if that's possible), Bobby and Betty then do the long version of the song for Don and soon, he's joining in. Surely no one is going to need dessert after this.