Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 683 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT European Gay-cation
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2008.10.12
Later, Don has managed to secure some slightly more casual clothes, and when he appears in the bar, he sees a woman who from the back looks a lot like Betty. Intrigued, he approaches, but of course it's not her, as we see when she and her friend choose that moment to get up and leave without even a glance his way. I think maybe it's time to stick with brunettes, Don, because blondes do not seem to be your friend lately. Don orders his usual Old Fashioned, and then a silvery guy with a European accent of indeterminate origin approaches and tells Don, "My friends and I have been speculating about you." I've used that line, but I think I would have been reticent to do so in 1962, Smeeth's openness notwithstanding. The guy, however, says they wondered who he is and what he does, and, not put off by Don's brusque "Why?" asks if he's an actor. Well, not by trade, at least. After confirming that Don is neither an actor nor an astronaut, he motions to a young woman and her older companion and tells him the former would like to meet him, "only if you are none of these things." Heh. He introduces himself as a Viscount, "Willy," and then the young woman as "Joy," and her "friend," who gravitates to Willy's side, as "Rocci." Joy, who's considerably younger than the other two and also speaks without an accent, tells Don she saw him by the pool and thought he looked comfortable alone, so she wondered if he's expecting someone. He tells her he is, and politely declines Willy's invitation for him to dine with them. Willy laughs: "That never happens!"