Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 3 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT White People Problems
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 5 | Aired on 04.28.2013
...and then she's over greeting Peggy, who's delighted to see her. After some talk about Megan's show - Peggy tells her that her mother and sister both watch, and then funnily declines to answer when Megan asks if they hate her - Peggy introduces the president of CGC, "Jim Cutler," who as I mentioned in the recaplet is being played by Harry Hamlin, whom I haven't seen on my TV since the halcyon days of Veronica Mars. And it could be the tuxedo, but as then, he's looking impossibly good for his age. Cutler gives Megan a compliment that would be skeevy coming from someone worse dressed, and after he sits down, Peggy explains that Cutler's the head of accounts; dropping her voice, she adds, "He's like Roger with bad breath." Aw.
Peggy goes on that she just wants to do well because CGC has no finalists, while Megan confesses that she only came because it seemed important to Don. Peggy agrees that it must be, as the two of them are the only finalists for SCDP, and they don't even work there anymore; Megan adds that the campaign for which she's there was for Beans, which isn't even a client anymore. Poor Ginzo - if his work had been better, maybe he'd be here instead of fending off match-made dates from his father. Peggy turns the subject to her apartment, saying that it might work out that they're "neighbors," although as a practical matter I'd put the chances of Don ever walking from Park over to York as about as good as Beans returning to SCDP. Megan asks if Peggy's really buying a place, so Peggy reflexively explains that after paying off her debts and helping her mother out, she still has a tax problem. Megan, however, tells her not to apologize - it's a nice moment that illustrates how ingrained it is even for career women to disclaim their own success - and tells her she deserves it. She then heads back to the SCDP table...
...at which everyone's now seated: Don, Harry, Pete, Joan, Ken, Stan, and Roger. Joan whispers that they're at the worst table in the room as far as the ability to see goes, and then Roger introduces Don to a "Randall Walsh," a bow-tied, bespectacled guy who screams "quiet serial killer," although the fact that he's being played by William Mapother could be a contributing factor there. Roger explains that Walsh is in insurance and wants to come in for an official meeting, and Walsh "hey, man"s some déjà-vu nonsense before Roger shoos him away. When he's gone, Don asks what the hell that was, and Roger, with a smile both wry and dismissive, tells him not to worry about it. Well, it's kind of hard not to, Roger, but a flicker of the lights lets us know it's time to sit down...