Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 3 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Yesterdayland
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 6 | Aired on 04.22.2012
...but instead of continuing there, we cut to an elevator in what looks like a fancy building, in which a grim-looking Roger and a perpetually sullen Jane are riding. A quick bit of snittery leads to Roger reluctantly apologizing for his mood, explaining that he doesn't know "these people," while Jane counters that the evening is important to her. But none of this is actually important...
...when you consider the fact that Jane's therapist (she hasn't been identified as such, but we'll find it out later), who's hosting the evening is... BESS ARMSTRONG! Patty Chase from My So-Called Life, everyone's favorite one-season show! Patty was my favorite character and the one I consider the most quotable and one of my favorites that I know will make my great friend Mark Blankenship happiest is, "Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot. A kiss must result in intercourse!" While, given the stuffy dinner-party conversation about the nature of truth, it's probably too much to hope for any dialogue that can hold a candle to that quote, any disappointment is more than made up for by the fact that Ms. Armstrong looks absolutely amazing; like, the woman is almost sixty and she looks like she could almost still credibly play a teenage girl's mother. Or at least her very young grandmother. Anyway, Bess is telling everyone it's a myth that tracing logic all the way down to the truth is a cure for neurosis or anything else and on that note, they all head to the living area to take LSD, which seems like a reasonable transition given that its effects are pretty much the opposite of logic. Actually, Jane and Roger linger, as he wasn't listening when she briefed him on this part of the plan, but she convinces him the experience will be good for them and frankly I'm surprised she needed to bother with even as much persuasion as she did.
After one square couple makes a hasty exit, Bess the Acid Merchant hands out slips of paper and tells Roger to copy what his neighbors are writing. Then she informs everyone that she's now taken the stuff four times, "and every experience was more beautiful than the last." Her male friend? Husband? adds that he's going to stay sober so he can guide them and it's a good idea in theory, but you have to make sure to get someone trustworthy who's not going to succumb to screwing with the trippers, which really is not easy, I'd imagine. Jane admits to being nervous, so the guy gives her some advice she'd do well to take about a positive state of mind being essential to having a good time and Bess assures them they're in a nice, safe environment before passing out the stuff (thoughtfully coated on sugar cubes) and instructing them all to let it melt in their mouths. As they pop their doses, Roger tells Jane, "You always say I never take you anywhere," and I'll be interested to see if he's this witty when he's tripping balls. Jane puts Roger's arm around her, they settle onto the couch and then he regards the paper he wrote, which reads, "My name is Roger Sterling. I have taken LSD. I live at 31 E. 66th St., NY NY. PLEASE HELP ME." HA! I mean, that's an invitation to robbery or worse, but there's something hilariously touching about it too. Still, note or no note, I do hope the straight guy isn't going to let them out of the house.