Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 390 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT The Devil You Know
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2012.05.13
Don's in the office, but instead of actually working, he's sitting and smoking and seeming bereft of ideas. Between Bertram's declaration that love had made him stupid and soft and Ginzo essentially being a one-man show, you could see how he might be feeling a little pressure. Sometime later, Don is leaving the office when he conveniently notices a light on in the Creative room; after he turns it off, he sees a folder of Ginzo's labeled "Shit I Gotta Do" and he opens it to see some drawings for Sno Ball (the shaved-ice drink, not the Hostess snack food). There's a pig getting hit with a snowball that I take to be a 1984 reference, but even though that might be lost on Don, he's as impressed with Ginzo's work as the rest of us are unimpressed by his disrespect for privacy and he settles in to read more...
...and later, Henry and Betty are double-parked waiting for the kids, I guess, and Henry is as unamused with the lateness as everyone around him is with his blocking traffic, so he dispatches Betty to retrieve her progeny while he circles the block. Cut to Betty checking her look in the mirror before ringing the bell; when Sally answers, Betty sends her to get her brothers before stepping into the apartment instead of waiting awkwardly in the hall. From her reaction, it's the first time she's been in the place and she helps herself to a little tour, which I guess it would be hard for Don to complain about given what we just caught him doing. Betty takes the place's opulent garishness in with some strong emotion, it being about as far away from the décor of her and Don's house (not to mention that of the Rye Town Francis Spookhouse) as can be and then she catches sight of Megan getting dressed through the glass to the bedroom. Luckily, Megan doesn't catch Betty staring at her and her bra and tight body, but things are still plenty awkward when Megan emerges and runs into her husband's ex. Betty stiltedly explains that they buzzed and are double-parked and Megan apologizes for losing track of time, adding that Don's running late. Betty offers that it's quite an apartment, but there's no smile on her face, which might be why Megan comes back with, "Thank you. I think you've seen most of it." Thankfully, the kids appear and after Betty promises that she'll get Sally the colored pencils that Don was supposed to supply, Megan says her goodbyes and the warmth with which she treats the kids is certainly most unappreciated by certain slowly-shrinking people. Everyone not originally from Quebec departs...