Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 345 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT To The Moon, Connie!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2009.10.11
Sometime later, it's raining outside as Allison comes into Don's office and is amusingly startled when he bids her good morning from the couch. He tells her he'll need some coffee and for her to type up the ideas he recorded into the Dictaphone and get them to Connie before he leaves for Europe. Allison tells him that Connie's actually going to California now, and offers to get him on the line, but Don issues her marching orders: "[Dictaphone], coffee, Hilton." Heh. And while that sequence may mean he's going to be waiting a while for the coffee, that couch does look pretty comfortable, so I think I'm on board with the plan. Don lies back down as thunder rumbles outside...
...which is also being heard in Ossining, and as Carla arrives, the kids finish their breakfast and Betty, reading the paper, tells them to go play upstairs. After we see a close-up of the Times article she's perusing that talks about the unlikeliness of Rockefeller winning the Republican Party's nomination over Goldwater, Betty tells Carla she didn't sleep the night before, so Carla suggests she take a nap. Carla deserves a raise, and I say that without even factoring in the events of the rest of the episode.