Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 13 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT The Dark Side Of The Closet
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2007.09.06
Cut to the group at the dinner table, where Ma is just finishing up saying grace. When she's finished, the hobo thanks her profusely, and she's impressed with his manners, although Dick's dad is curt and crusty about it, even, when Hobo mentions he's from New York, saying that's why he "took to being on the bum" so easily. It's too bad this is a period piece, because this would be the perfect time for a Jean Stapleton-like "Oh, Awwwwchie!" Talk turns to farm work, with Hobo confessing he's not an expert but saying he's got experience with hard work in general, and then, at Ma's question, saying he's not a Communist. After some general agreement that Communists are bad news (and with Abigail sounding kind of religious-nutty about the whole thing), Abigail says her mother told her that life is like a horseshoe. "It's fat in the middle, open on both ends, and hard all the way through." That doesn't sound as fun as a box of chocolates. Ma gets a coin (a dollar, I think, which is quite a bit, given the times) and puts it in front of Hobo, but Archie takes it away and says he'll get it when he's finished some work. Dick watches all this attentively, and then everyone starts to eat in earnest…
…and then we're back in the bathroom, with Don looking in the mirror and realizing that pot gives you flashbacks in some wicked detail.