Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 415 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT There's That Past, Informing the Present Again
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2010.08.22
...and then he's telling Chaough, "You know I'd much rather shoot your Honda commercial." Heh, nice twist that Don's plan involved the director being unscrupulous and opportunistic; it lends some real artistry to it. Chaough tells him he doesn't have a Honda commercial, and his ensuing question of "Why the hell did they call you in? They know I have you booked," is certainly close enough to the mark that you'd wonder if Chaough might see through this whole scheme, especially since an older dude I take to be Pryce's CGC counterpart wonders how SCDP can afford it. However, Chaough instead tells his secretary via the intercom to get "that kid who worked for Draper" in there, and while we wait to see which old cast member is getting work this week, he comes up with an idea for a commercial involving a guy wearing a racing helmet on a Honda tearing through a subway tunnel with a train right behind. When he emerges from the subway and removes the helmet, though, the reveal is that it's a sexy girl. The CGC bean counter is like, that's great, we'll bring a girl in a helmet to the pitch, but that's not what Chaough has in mind, especially when Smitty (aw) appears and, in answer to Chaough's questions, says that Don certainly doesn't think rules in general apply to him. When he gets a faraway look on his face and calls Don a genius, though, Chaough gets annoyed: "Why don't you go work for your boyfriend? Get out!" I thought at first that was a firing, but Chaough adds that Smitty should give him twenty different words for pimples. Sounds like a tall order, but I have the feeling he'll knock two off right away with "Ted" and "Chaough." Anyway, the zit in question has decided that they are shooting this damn commercial...
...and then Operation Hook, Line, and Sinker continues as Peggy and Joey wheel SCDP's Honda up to a sound stage. They keep a watchful eye on one particular door, and when the light that signals they're rolling goes off and the CGC bean counter emerges, they make a big show of "quickly" and "quietly" getting the thing into another door. The guy goes rushing back in to report...