Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 283 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT White People Problems
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2013.04.28
It's the cocktail hour, and with drinks in their hands, Don and Megan check out their table, which in terms of location has a lot in common with the apartment Peggy saw. Megan commiserates with Don that it isn't fair they put all the big agencies up front, but she brightens when she sees Peggy across the room. Don tells her he's going to wait for the group, and he must still be pretty sore about her pitch if he's declining an organic chance to evade Pete. Megan points out that he can't avoid her forever, but Don says he's not. "Tell her that no matter what, her laxative radio spot is the sentimental favorite." Heh. Megan gives him a faux-dirty look...
...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...