Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 635 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Oh, Canada
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2012.04.29
Don and Megan are going over details for Heinz, the most notable being that the same actors would play the mother and child throughout the different time periods. Roger then busts in and notes that they're actually working, and it's not as awkward as "Megan, could you get us some ice?" but, typically where Roger's concerned, it's not great either. Megan heads out, and as Roger makes a beeline for Don's bar, he tells Don he's been working too. Don: "You finished yours, and now you're moving on to mine?" Heh. Roger, however, says he's been doing research on the ACS guys, and while Don doesn't think the atmosphere is going to be appropriate for drumming up new business, Roger demurs, asking if he remembers why he wrote that letter. Don counters by asking of Roger remembers saying it would kill their business, so Roger wonders if that means Don really thinks that people who sell cigarettes are bad, but Don tells him that's irrelevant -- the ACS people think that he was telling truth to power. "It doesn't matter why I wrote it." Roger sees his point, and muses that no one really knows why people throughout history have done good things. "For all we know, Jesus was trying to get the loaves and fishes account." Forget any emotion or depth he brings -- Jon Hamm should win an Emmy every year just for not breaking every time John Slattery delivers a line like that. Don says he'll do what he can, but he's not going to go overboard, especially not in front of Megan's Communist father, who hates him and all the capitalism he stands for. Roger, however, thinks that maybe Don's misinterpreting things, and dispenses the "sage" advice that lots of times, you think people are looking at you, but they're actually not. Don: "Lots of people that haven't taken LSD already know that, Roger." HA! I love that Roger has already babbled so much about his acid trip that people are preemptively cutting him off from bringing it up. Roger, unfazed, exhorts Don one more time before draining his drink and heading out...