Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 6 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Tit For Splat
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2007.08.30
Fade to later, as many, many cigarettes have been consumed, and Don is serving a chocolate cake that has "Mommy And Daddy" written on it in white icing. I think after this episode, the words "Fight A Lot" are going to be added to future baked goods, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Betty explains that Sally got a frosting machine, and Roger remarks that Sally writes like her father -- "simple, to the point, colloquial." Good thing he's talking about the style, because I doubt Don has used the words "Mommy" or "Daddy" in his entire life. Roger lights his and Betty's cigarettes but tells Don to get his own, citing the "three on a match" rule, and Betty, who's definitely seeming a bit lit here, asks for an explanation. Roger gives the traditional wisdom about trench warfare that everyone knows, but Don suggests that ad men came up with that story as a way to sell matches. Roger: "You tell your kids there's no Santa Claus?" Probably. Betty rubs Don's shoulder and disagrees with me, saying he'd never do that, and then asks Roger to tell another story, but a true one. Roger says that his father was in the trenches, but presumably since that was in World War I, he used a bayonet. We get some clarification that Roger was in World War II, while Don served in Korea, and Betty tells Roger Don never talks about the war. Roger chats a bit about serving in the South China Sea. "The Pacific was all about gasoline. People forget that." Yes, I personally have certainly never heard of such a thing. Roger then tells a war story that basically boils down to him taking his unit after a recon plane that, from the sound of it, was pretty defenseless; they shot the guy down, and even went to check on the wreckage afterward. Don notes that Roger got a medal in the war, but Roger says it wasn't for that. "It was for drinking." And never was a medal better earned. The salient point here is that Roger asserts that people who served in Korea, like Don, will never live up to the glory of people who served in WWII, like him.