Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C- | 581 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Through the Looking Glass
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2013.05.19
After Stan runs in, wearing the same clothes as the day before (and if he was up tripping all night, I can't believe he left Don alone that whole time) and babbling about how he has six hundred and sixty-six ideas, Peggy suggests Don lie down, but Don tells her to look for soup. "You'll know it when you see it, and it's gonna crack this thing wide open." Peggy looks like she's figuring out they probably should have had a memorial for the Chevy account along with Gleason. She turns to Cutler and asks if he sees the mess he made. And speaking of, how did he get through the funeral without doing ten inappropriate things? (Another Twin Peaks parallel.)
This time, Don makes it down the hallway without falling into the 1940s, but he looks baffled at Dawn's empty desk (at least she's been in the episode, guy), and then when he enters his office, he finds Wendy sitting on the couch. She was in the scene he just left, so either he lost more time or this is another hallucination, in case you're keeping score, which I doubt at this point. She explains that he told her they were going to have a drink and watch the sun set, which I feel obliged to point out doesn't sound like more than fifty percent him. Soon, she predictably calls him "uptight," and then he notices that she's wearing a stethoscope around her neck, which she says she found in one of the offices. He tries again to get rid of her, but she tells him that his question was "Does someone love me?" He's stunned, but she replies that it's the question everyone asks. She then listens to his heart and tells him, "I think it's broken," and even for an underage hippie with appropriate props, that is an inexcusably bad line. Don is shocked she's able to tell... but it turns out that she was talking about the stethoscope -- ba-dum-bum. Finally, she leaves. I wish I had a debilitating cough right now to relieve my boredom.