Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 407 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT That's Some Great Business Sense!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2009.08.23
...so then we're in the conference room getting borderline screeched at again. Don, however, doesn't see it that way, saying that the pure way Ann-Margret throws herself at the camera "makes your heart hurt." I'll agree with him if I can add the words "not in a good way." Peggy repeats her assertion that the ad isn't targeting the user, but Don disagrees, saying that she's projecting the image of being happy that she drinks Patio, and the truth is that "men want her, and women want to be her." As I said, not in a good way. Peggy tries one more time to convince him, but Don ends the meeting: "You're not an artist, Peggy. You solve problems. Leave some tools in your toolbox." Peggy stands stock still as Don leaves the room...
...but on the elevator down at the end of the day, Roger catches her and asks her opinion as a "young girl," prefacing his question with this: "You're the only one around here who doesn't have that stupid look on her face." How quickly he forgets Mrs. Harris. Peggy asks what he's getting at, so he inquires what her father would have to do to make her not want him at her wedding. Peggy confesses that her father passed away, to which Roger replies, "There you go. You'd do anything." Roger of course means that she, like most girls, would love to have her father at her wedding, but Peggy looks at him like she's wondering if he's drunk. Honey, he was drunk when it was five o'clock somewhere, not just here.
In Brooklyn, Peggy gets off the subway. She walks past the entrance to a crowded and lively watering hole, and stops in front of the window. Moments later, she's checked her coat and has made it to the bar. Uncharacteristically, she's friendly to some guys, even repeating Joan's little comparison about the place being so crowded it's like the subway. The two guys she's talking to laugh, and one of them asks where her drink is. She refrains from replying "Up your butt," which is too bad because that response looks age-appropriate for him.