Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 283 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT White People Problems
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2013.04.28
Beverly's stock, not low to begin with, rises ever higher as she simply replies "Okay!" with a WTF smile, leaving Ginzo to berate himself not only for the confession but for ordering soup, which makes me realize this character could walk straight into an episode of Seinfeld and no one would bat an eye. Beverly, for her part, mercifully throws some cold water onto this overheating spectacle as she tells him she's merely doing a favor for her parents. "Tonight will not be the night." Ginzo forlornly nods, probably thinking that no night will be the night as far as Beverly's concerned, but she gives him hope when she tells him she saw his photo in advance and found him very handsome. "And I'm obviously very shallow." Heh. Ginzo's still a sentence behind as he asks if he really is handsome, and instead of holding up a mirror, she tells him he must have heard that before. Satisfied with that conversational topic, Ginzo asks if she makes a lot of money teaching, and Beverly continues to soar as she gives a disbelieving laugh followed by a serious "No." Ginzo, however annoyed you may have been, I think your dad did you a solid here.
The emcee introduces "Paul Newman," and while it's kind of easy, I admit I'm reasonably entertained by the choice to film him entirely from the SCDP cheap seats. Maybe it's the part where everyone at the table is squinting like they can't tell if it's him either that sells it for me. "Paul Newman" tells the crowd that he's not there as an actor, and hilariously, Cutler asides to Peggy, "We invited him because he's an actor." Hee. "Paul Newman" goes on that he's there because he has six kids, and he's worried about their future; as such, he's supporting Gene McCarthy, who he says stood up to Lyndon Johnson before it was politically expedient to do so. The crowd gives this some polite applause, but over it, a man's voice asks "Paul Newman" if he's aware that Martin Luther King is dead. A horrible gasp travels throughout the room, after which Abe gets to his feet and demands to know who said that. He's obviously hoping it's a joke, in as poor taste as it would be, but the emcee retakes the podium and confirms the worst by telling the room that they were hoping to keep the news quiet until the event ended, but now that the cat's out of the bag, they're going to take ten minutes for everyone to process "this terrible event." We get some shots of privileged, exclusively white people looking stricken...