Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT You Got Served!
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 10 | Aired on 05.20.2012
I mean, let's not drag this part out -- Paul Kinsey is now a follower of Krishna, complete with ponytail and shaved head and yellow turtleneck and draped fabric. And what can I say: this makes so much sense on a visceral level it seems unnecessary even to talk about it, but Paul has always been A) In search of an identity and B) Anxious to show everyone else in the world how evolved he is. Harry is predictably horrified, asking what happened before trying to beat a hasty retreat, but Paul gives him the usual spiel about how he used to be terrified of living life and now he's found his calling and whatever recruitment-speech dialogue. When Harry asks if he's even allowed to be in their holy house or whatever, some woman (following a woman's cause is C) for Paul) tells him that everyone is allowed to be there. This woman, by the way, looks so much like Rachel Griffiths around the time of Muriel's Wedding that when I looked up her credits, I was seriously amused to discover that she played a young Sarah Walker on an episode of Brothers & Sisters. Paul introduces the woman as "Mother Lakshmi" and, of course, Harry's attitude changes completely in the presence of nubile boobs and he consents to be led into the chanting area. I swear, Paul Kinsey continues not to be my cup of tea, but the beatific closed-eyes smile on Michael Gladis's face as he chants is making me laugh so hard it's compromising my typing. Lakshmi exhorts Harry to chant as well...
...while back at SCDP, Pete enters the conference room with news that Roger isn't coming as he's on "Battleship Row." Well, that's two episodes in a row they've worked in the titles of shitty current blockbusters. Can't wait to see how they get Men In Black 3 into the next one. The other partners are in attendance, but Joan is not and Lane explains that her absence will be better for his announcement at least. He goes on that "a recent pass of the books" has turned up a surplus of fifty grand and, as such, they'll be able to give out Christmas bonuses this year. Of course, the twin ideas that A) Joan would lose track of fifty thousand dollars and B) even if she did, Lane wouldn't hoard it like a crotchety British dragon are collectively ridiculous, but everyone's too jazzed about the idea of getting a check to notice. However, when Lane is like "Great, then!" and literally rises to go divvy up the money, Don suggests they hold off until the Christmas party. Lane tries to protest, but Pete seconds Don's motion and moves on to his Jaguar announcement. Lane, however, tries to get someone to agree with him and when Pete suggests they sit on the money for a bit, Lane pounds the table in frustration at which point Pete spits, "What ghost visited you, Ebenezer?" Don admonishes him, but Lane's behaving so strangely that I'm glad someone noticed. Pete admits, however, that he's mostly annoyed that no one other than Roger -- who's so in the bag he is the bag -- has given him kudos for the Jaguar news and asks Bertram for his reaction. Bertram, in his inimitable quavery voice: "They're lemons. They never start." I remember Jaguar having that absolutely unshakable reputation even when I was a kid; it says a lot for how sleek the designs have been that the company was ever able to survive. Pete stomps out and speaking of lemons, Lane looks like he's sucking on one. He's really not great in a crisis, is he? No wonder combat eluded him.