Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 246 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT It's 1962. What Else Is New?
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2008.07.27
Don arrives at the office, and Lois reminds him about his twelve o'clock in the conference room. Don sighs and heads in that direction...
...and inside, the sandwiches are still untouched but the bar is almost depleted. Just another day ending in "y." After the boys briefly and drunkenly try to get Peggy to tell them how women think, Don enters and calls the meeting to order, and is not thrilled with the state of everyone. The "Mohawk Airlines" account comes up, and all Paul has to offer is a series of slogans that are racist even for 1962, causing Don to announce, "There has to be advertising for people who don't have a sense of humor." Don's going to love eHarmony when that washes down the pike. He dispenses some wisdom about how the campaign should emphasize adventure and short skirts, and leaves, showing that while two years may have passed, he can still get more done in five minutes that all the yokels under him can do in a day. (I'll cut Peggy a break -- it's hard to accomplish anything with the glass ceiling pressing down on you so hard you can barely inhale.) Once Don's gone, Paul, as is his wont, pissily asks what Don meant, and Ken replies that it means the ad should make you want to go somewhere, or go up a skirt. Peggy: "That's the impression I got." Hee.
Betty arrives home and tells Carla that Bobby is turning blue outside, before kissing Sally, who tells her that they celebrated Valentine's Day at school, but everyone had to give a valentine to everyone else. Betty: "That defeats the purpose." Betty and I are agreeing from across the room, not for the first time. Sally pulls her mom's boot off before telling her that she'd like to go riding with her, but Betty tells her it's too dangerous. "Do you remember what happened to the little girl in Gone With The Wind?" Isn't Sally a little young to have seen that? Especially with "damn" being the most notorious word in the script?
Roger comes in to see Don, noting that common wisdom dictates that drinking alone means you're an alcoholic. He heads straight for the bar as he adds, "I'm really trying to avoid that." Hee. Roger tells Don about Duck wanting younger people, and hands Don a list of candidates in the twenty-something range. Don thinks any cachet younger people have is a myth: "You're talking as if they're some fresh version of us. They're not. Young people don't know anything -- especially that they're young." Take heed, whipper-snappers, the geezer with the high blood pressure knows of what he speaks. Roger, however, in his typically phlegmatic way, tells Don simply to prove Duck wrong. And speaking of which, hey, remember last season, when I speculated Duck was gay? Surrounding yourself with young boys isn't exactly proving me wrong.