Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 3 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Yesterdayland
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 6 | Aired on 04.22.2012
...we cut to Don in the car; however, it's a flashback to when he, Megan and the kids had just returned from Tomorrowland. A sleepy Sally awakens and wonders where they're going and when she's informed that their destination is the Rye Town Francis Spookhouse, she understandably expresses an aversion to going. She wonders when they can return to Disneyland, but Don merely tells her to go back to sleep before starting to whistle "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." Wait until she's really asleep, Don, or Sally will think you're taking her to see the Beatles again. Megan, amused, notes that he keeps telling Sally to stop singing that song and Don, with equal levity, admits that now it's stuck in his head...
...as it is in the present. Unfortunately, instead of a family, all he has for an audience is a commercial for ice milk, which even comes in orange flavor and I don't say this often, show, but that perhaps is A BIT MUCH.
Don trudges to his apartment door and attempts to open it, but finds the chain on, which simultaneously brings him relief and anger. He calls Megan's name and tells her to open up and when she informs him she doesn't want to see him, he threatens to kick in the door if she doesn't open up. And really dear, I know you're very upset, but the man's going to make good on that, so you might as well save yourself the inconvenience. Megan, however, does not listen to me and Don is true to his word and is inside the place with one swift kick. He tries to tell her he said he was sorry (mmm, I don't think that actually happened, Don, unless answering machines were around in 1966), but she doesn't want to hear it and I should note that she's even more upset than she is angry. He says he stopped every twenty miles to phone (overkill, guy), but she calls him a pig and tells him she had to ride six and a half hours on a bus and then had to find her way home from Port Authority, from which she couldn't get a cab at five in the morning. "Try getting anything but an offer!" Well, I'd imagine Don would get quite a few of those. Soon, Don is chasing Megan around the place and as I said in the recaplet, it is just as far from sexy as can be and when he grabs her and they both fall down the steps to the ground in the stupid sunken living room, she starts crying in earnest, probably at how pathetic a scene this is as much as anything else. Hysterically yet honestly, she asks how he could do that to her and he admits he doesn't know, but tries to chalk it up to it being a fight, nothing more. But she won't accept that: "Every time we fight, it just diminishes us a little bit." To say nothing of the door. Seriously, that line is pretty terrible, but let's address the sentiment: I don't know that I'd entirely agree, but it's certainly true if, like Don, you learn nothing from it. Megan staggers to her feet and says she has to go to work (I guess they took off on a Thursday?), but Don, still on his knees, grabs her around the waist and holds her tight, silently begging her forgiveness before breathing that he thought he'd lost her. Eventually, she caresses his hair and when he looks up questioningly, though obviously still distraught, she nods. He buries his head in her again in relief...