Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 649 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Equal Opportunity Idiot
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2012.03.25
Masters and Johnson have finally arrived, with Megan measuring every resentful step and barely grunting a reply when Don bemusedly tells her to have a good day. When Don arrives at his desk, he finds Caroline with a potted plant and awkward but sincere birthday wishes, and Don thanks her, but his attention is taken by Roger, who comes toward him dancing and singing "Frère Jacques," even twirling and sticking out his ass in the process. Given the way his morning's going, I have a lot more sympathy for Don coming in late. After Caroline tells Don there's a partners' meeting in Pete's office and heads into Don's to deposit her gift, Roger shows Don the ad, but Don is in no mood, and before they head to the meeting, he sternly tells Roger, "We don't make fun of each other's wives here." I wonder if he's talking about the office in general or just the two of them, because even they know their two wives are the top candidates. Roger, however, says he was merely ribbing Don for being happy, which I can believe, especially when he adds that he wants Don to be happy. "Somebody should be." Don begrudgingly lets go of his anger, and the two of them head off...
...while Pete is practically pulling his hair out waiting for them, asking Caroline, "What, did they stop for a drink?" Hee. Pryce and Bertram are already on Pete's little couch, but when Don and Roger arrive, they hilariously stand behind the support beam so you can barely see a bit of their sleeves. When, at Pete's behest, the four of them have squeezed onto the couch, Pete informs them that Mohawk is coming in, and then we get to the point of having the meeting in this room -- Pete thinks that as someone who's bringing in so much business, he should have an office appropriate both to his worth and to host clients. Don and (especially) Roger don't respond particularly favorably at first, but Pete rattles off his (rather long) client list, and Bertram, at least, gets it, telling Roger, "He's suggesting you give him your office." Given that Bertram, it seems, doesn't have an office himself, you can see where he'd be much more inclined to hear Pete out. Roger is dismissive, of course, and you can reliably expect Don to be on Roger's side, but Pete's confident enough in the other two to ask that they put it to a vote. Probably knowing that he could lose, Roger swings his dick around and exits, while the others kind of dither about, and seriously, someone with the authority to do so is going to have to put Roger in his place, particularly since Pete tells Don, the last one in the room, that he's not sure he'll bring Mohawk in unless his request is met. Don's like, great, another headache...