Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 330 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT My Dinner With Awkward
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2008.08.10
Okay! Sal is erasing Mohawk Airlines's name from the bottom of a sketch (heh) when Harry comes in and asks him if he might have a No.10 envelope with a windowpane. Sal is basically like, "Honey," so Harry spills the beans about what he did. Sal counsels him simply to throw the check away -- Ken will ask for it by the end of the day, they'll cut him a new one, and no one will be the wiser. I love Harry, but this display really isn't doing a whole lot for his relative merit. Sal then asks if Harry's upset about what he saw, and Harry says that he's not sure if it means much to Sal, but Ken's on three hundred a week. Sal stiffens and then deliciously sharpens his pencil, which, given his lack of actual claws, seems entirely appropriate. Harry babbles on about the fact that they're both married (Sal is indeed wearing a wedding ring now), and Sal can't believe that he told his wife what he found. "I wish you hadn't told me." He points out that media is a meritocracy, and asks if Harry thinks the place couldn't run without him. Harry doesn't know how to demonstrate that, so Sal responds, "Then you're worth every penny they're paying you." Hee. Don't get into tête-à-têtes with queens, Harry. Especially not when they're pissed off and overdue for a drink.
Don's in his office when Lois buzzes that Roger and "Ben Cosgrove" are there. Heh. Don irritatedly corrects her, and then the two of them come in and break the news about the Utz fiasco. Freddy joins them, and Ken chews him out for being drunk on the job, to which Freddy retorts that Ken should never have let the Schillings on for a surprise visit, the implication being that they all knew Jimmy was something of a loose cannon. They tell Don exactly what was said, eliciting a characteristic chuckle from Roger, which prompts Don to ask if they laughed in front of the Schillings.