Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 495 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Short Goodbye
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2010.08.08
Don turns up at the office and realizes that the front door is open; inside, he finds Pryce, who wonders why he's not in Acapulco. Don tersely explains that he didn't feel like it, and Pryce replies by saying he had too much to do to go to England, and his family will be back soon enough. Don asks if he can help himself to a drink, but Pryce does him one better, breaking out a bottle he says is "rather special" that his father sent him for his birthday. Don asks what it is, getting this response: "Who knows. He's one of those alcoholics who thinks that he's collecting." Heh. They drink, establishing that Pryce Senior was definitely drunk when he made this recommendation, and Don starts to leave Pryce's office, but Pryce tells him that he made a discovery while going over the company's records: "Although things are precarious financially, it's been a magnificent year." I guess that means he'll be hiring a new assistant. Don raises a glass and leaves...
...but I don't know why he even bothered, as when we return, they've both obviously been drinking quite a bit. Pryce is lying on the couch in his office when Don calls to him (Pryce's answering "WHAT?" is hilarious); when Pryce comes out to the break area, Don suggests they go see a movie, and rattles off some choices; when he gets to Send Me No Flowers, Pryce is like, "No," and that's a little Catskills for this show but it doesn't mean I didn't laugh. Sometime after, they've got their coats on and Don is filling up a flask, but they still haven't settled on a flick. Pryce suggests The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg, and Don appreciatively notes it's got Catherine DeNeuve in it...
...but instead, we cut to them drinking and watching Gamera. Ha! Pryce loudly opines that the film is very good, and then Don drunkenly tells him there's something going on in the theater - hand jobs. Pryce is appropriately intrigued, and asks how many of the theatergoers Don thinks are so engaged; then, when some woman asks him to keep it down, he babbles some gibberish in what he thinks is a Japanese accent, cracking Don up. Pleased by the affirmation, he keeps it up...