Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 214 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT We're Not Gonna Take It
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2013.04.14
Peggy finds a container of "Quest Feminine Powder" and a folder with some attendant copy on her desk. Cut to her coming in to see Chaough and asking him if it's a new account, as she didn't get the memo. However, when Chaough reads from the paper in the folder that it "kills overly critical bacteria" and that the target audience is "professional women and other Olsons," he laughs that it's someone's idea of a joke. Peggy: "When you want them to be funny, they're useless." Hee, but I have to say that's the best work I've seen from them out of an admittedly small sample size.
Okay, I've been rooting for a Joan scene, but obviously I should have qualified that, as she's reading in her office when a familiarly disgusting voice cuts in: "Hello, gorgeous." I mentioned last week how that word coming out of a stranger's mouth was bad, but now that the speaker is Herb Rennet, the guy from Jaguar who demanded Joan's body, it sounds like oversexed, sweaty nails on a chalkboard. Joan handles his grossness evenly enough, even getting to use her intimate knowledge of him for good instead of evil, as when he tells her he knows part of her is happy to see him, she replies, "And I know there's a part of you you haven't seen in years." This actually shuts him up, and then Pete comes running in like he lost track of a mischievous canine, which feels about right. Herb waddles out, and Joan stares daggers...
...and then she marches into Don's office: "He's here." She heads straight to his bar and keeps her eyes on the drink she's making as Don watches her with wordless concern before eventually leaving. If not for his unwavering respect for Joan, would there be anything left to like about the character?