Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 11 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Here's a Question For You
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2007.08.10
...and then at home, Don is looking at the artwork again. The phone rings, and Betty manages to use one of her no free hands to grab it as she finishes up dinner. It's Helen, her hair in curlers, who tells Betty that she's supposed to be stuffing envelopes at Kennedy headquarters that night. Well, she's too liberated for her neighbors and she's attracted to philanderers. What did you expect? Anyway, Helen's babysitter canceled on her, so she asks Betty to watch the kids. Betty's not thrilled with the idea, but her inability to say no wins out. She hangs up and looks at the kids in the room with Don...
...and then she's showing up at Helen's door. Helen's son Glen is playing the piano, and Betty compliments him, but Helen tells him not to wake the baby. She also tells him not to iron, and clarifies for Betty that she gives him five cents a piece. "He loves doing it." Show, you know I love you, but you'll have to pay me a lot more than a nickel to go down that road. Helen mentions her job at the jewelry store, and after some more of their typical small talk (read: Helen = Oversharer, Betty = Uncomfortable), Helen heads out.