Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A+ | 1054 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Float Like a Butterfly…
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2010.09.05
...and when she emerges from the bathroom, she sees Duck wandering drunkenly about. She follows him into Roger's office, in which she finds him farting (awesome episode for the sound designers) and taking down his pants and squatting as he explains he's "leaving Draper a little present." I hope SCDP has a lot of money budgeted for custodial staff Christmas tips. Peggy is able to stem the tide of disgusting bodily output by telling Duck that it's Roger's office, not Don's, although given their business relationship I'm kind of surprised Duck didn't let fly anyway. He manages to refasten his pants, but it hardly helps make him appear any more dignified as he babbles that he needs Peggy. We learn that he spoke to her roommate, who told him she was still at work, and also that he's the one that made the call she ignored right before she and Don went out to dinner. Speaking of Don, he's made it out of the bathroom, although not without some vomit on his shirt, and when he sees Peggy and Duck heading for the elevator, he asks what's going on. Duck immediately jumps, or drunkenly staggers, to the wrong conclusion, and after he spills the beans about his past relationship with Peggy (although he says "We were in love," which is at least half debatable), he says that as it turns out, Peggy's just another whore. Don, of course, takes a swing in defense of Peggy's honor, but whichever Duck he tried to hit isn't one that's actually there, and Duck quickly gets Don on the floor and threateningly tells him he killed seventeen men in Okinawa. He doesn't add "just to watch them die," which is a lost opportunity to my way of thinking, and Don, looking like this burst of physical activity is enough to send him to the bathroom stall again, gives, like, he literally says "Uncle." After everyone's back standing, Peggy starts to follow Duck to the elevator, but spares a look back to see Don wearily trudging into his office. Peggy, I don't care if your mother was there -- that dinner has got to be looking better now.