Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 1098 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Love And Marriage
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2007.08.02
On the train home, Don settles wearily into a seat, and then the conductor hands him a newspaper, saying he dropped it. Don takes it with curt thanks and hands over his ticket, and then lights a smoke. From the pensive and somewhat distraught look on his face, we're to infer that he actually has feelings for Rachel. Oh, Don. Selling nylons doesn't seem quite as fun now, does it?
The next morning, Betty's already bustling about when Don's daughter Sally comes running in and tells Don to wake up, as it's her birthday. He grabs her and growls that it's not her birthday, just her party day, and Betty chimes in that he has to put together the "P-L-A-Y-H-O-U-S-E." Sally seems a little old for the spelling thing to work, but maybe she's a little S-L-O-W. Don jokes, "How am I going to put together a pony?" Sally takes this at face value and runs off yelling to her brother that she's getting a pony, causing Betty to give Don a slightly chastening look. I think it was worth it. Betty then smiles that there's a bacon-and-egg sandwich for him on the range, and leaves. Don focuses on the cufflinks on his nightstand, as if to emphasize how much he'd rather be with Rachel than trapped in this suburban marital prison. But...bacon-and-egg sandwich, Don! Are you made of stone?