Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 2 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT The Grass Is Always Greener
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 4 | Aired on 04.21.2013
The SCDP team has repaired to a bar, and Pete is trying to bright-side that it's only one other firm, and one as small as they are to boot. Don, however, glumly points out that he only pursued Ketchup because it was supposed to be completely secret, so he obviously knows that the Raymond hammer is extremely likely to fall. Don's day only gets better when Chaough and Peggy enter, with Chaough asking if they can "join the Lonely Hearts Club." Heh. He adds that Heinz bought J. Walter Thompson's ("the biggest agency in the world") pitch in the room, and Pete can't believe it: "We paid for that room!" I have to agree that that's pretty tacky, but we've got bigger, whinier fish to fry, as Ken enters and sarcastically announces that he just got off the phone with Raymond, who told him they were at the Roosevelt pitching Ketchup, "but I said that was impossible because how could that happen at my firm without me knowing?" Don replies, with a look askance at Pete, that no one was supposed to know, and it's kind of hilarious that this flameout is happening in front of Chaough, who I'm surprised isn't ordering some popcorn to go with his drink. Pete tries to say he'll straighten it out, but Ken tells him not to bother, as Raymond has already canned them without even the customary ninety days exit period. "There's nothing better than being known for your loyalty." He storms out, leaving an equally disgusted Pete to tell Chaough that "Vinegar, Sauces, and Beans is available. Help yourself -- it's a gold mine." Instead of piling on, though, Chaough chooses to try to commiserate about how tough the small agencies have it, but Don doesn't want to play and heads out himself. Pete tells Stan it was worth the risk, but Stan's eyes go to Peggy, after which he passes by her, his middle finger outstretched. She doesn't look like she takes the gesture too seriously, and all I can say is that I hope she's proven right.
The one-set seduction scene is playing out, and after what we witnessed earlier, I'm surprised Mel wrote it only to include two people. Damn Standard and Practices again. Rod ends up on top of Megan on the bed, some kissing liberally interspersed, as Don watches from the wings, not looking particularly happy, although the day he's had certainly can't have helped, nor can Arlene's fairly snide-sounding whisper: "You like to watch, do you?" The AD calls a halt, and Megan giggles in relief and embraces Rod as he tells her she did great. And her acting wasn't bad either! Arlene, hilariously gleefully, then calls to Megan that her "agent" is there, and Megan's smile can't help but fade as she sees Don staring daggers in her direction, but she comes over and makes a show of taking his hand, as Arlene twists the knife by saying the scene was "steamy." If she really thinks so, maybe the four-way wouldn't have been as hedonistic as everyone thinks. Megan says she just needs to change, and Don offers to "keep [her] company," which is an interesting way of describing what's about to happen.