Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 386 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT You Got Served!
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2012.05.20
Hilariously, Harry is chanting his little heart out and it may be the smoke-filled room, but if he's sweating so much from this bit of activity I think he might want to join his local Y. When the chant is over Harry says he should go, but after determining that he's hungry, Lakshmi sends Harry to get some food with Paul. Cut to a cab (it's dark now, although it could also be like 4:30 in the afternoon given the time of year), in which Paul keeps on with that hilariously beatific smile as he regards his old friend. Despite his chanting enthusiasm, Harry cautions Paul he's not joining up, but Paul tells him he doesn't want him to before admitting he's hung up on Lakshmi. Harry's all va-va-va-voom about that, but Paul informs him that she used to be a girl named Janet "whose promiscuity led her to drugs and prostitution" and we're all glad she found Krishna so she could get over the latter in particular. Harry asks what Paul's story is then and Paul tells him he was at rock bottom and had really degraded himself. I'm sure he's exaggerating in that Kinsey way, but it's still worth it so Harry can ask "At McCann?" Hee. Paul doesn't clarify what exactly the circumstances were that sent his life into the toilet, but goes on that while he loves what the movement has given him, he doesn't know why he has to live his life that way to praise God. Harry wonders if he's being made to stay, but Paul says the problem is Lakshmi -- he wants to make a life with her only not as a Krishna, but as a former runaway she won't leave unless she knows she won't end up back on the streets. Harry takes this as confirmation of his fear that Paul was only after money, but Paul assures him that's not the case. That's how they get you, Harry! Run!
So there's a little play (America Hurrah, as a shot of a playbill helpfully informs us) going on and amid the stark set design and business formal wardrobe, a guy goes into a monologue that -- given his recounting of vomiting thanks to a TV spot -- is not exceedingly subtle in its condemnation of advertising. Also not particularly subtle is the bored/offended combo written all over Don's face...