Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A+ | 572 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Much Nothing About Ado
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2008.08.31
The ribs have been served and the girls have been stripped to their two-pieces, and it's at this point that Don tells Betty he has to go. Betty points out that this is not the point at which most heterosexual men would leave, failing to realize that it's a perfect time for said men to take off if, as Don does, they plan to be having intercourse as soon as they reach their next destination. He spins some yarn about checking in at the office, and bails despite his wife's obvious disappointment. He doesn't even say goodbye to their hosts, but manners sometimes give way to time concerns on television. Don leaves...
...and from a pay phone outside calls Bobbie, who tells him she has to change their plans, as she's spending the day at the beach with her eighteen-year-old son. "I don't know why I never brought him up." I'd suggest that it's because mention of family makes infidelity somewhat less appealing as a general rule, as Arthur so kindly demonstrated, but something in Bobbie's voice suggests that she's actually acutely aware of this. She mentions that Jimmy's going to be in Kentucky for the next ten days, and offers to stay out at the beach house and have Don join her. "You never saw it." He tells her not to bring that up, and she's surprised that he doesn't think about the accident, as she does all the time. Don is not so much interested in these "feelings" that she seems to be having, and ends the conversation by saying he'll call her. Bobbie: "I'd like that." You know I've always hated this relationship, but it was never because I thought Bobbie was too good for Don. Until now.