Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 1809 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Half the Battle
By Couch Baron | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2010.09.12
Anyway, she says that the source of the incident was "an extremely blue joke," and Peggy wonders when, but it's unclear whether she doesn't believe Joan or if she's just wondering how she missed out on the office gossip. Don tells Joan, essentially, to get over it, and when she's gone, Stan grins that he knows the joke in question, but Peggy won't let him get more than a few words into it before asking if they're done. Don dismisses them, but as Peggy leaves, he asks her to "tell Ray Charles to come in here and clean this up." Inappropriate and insensitive, sure, but after Miss Blankenship's comment about "Negroes" last week I'm inclined to let it stand. Well, also because HA!
In his office, Harry is telling Joey some Peyton Place-related bullshit, the upshot of which is that Harry thinks Joey could be a TV actor, and he's got the connections to make it happen. Joey's like, don't know about that, and looks skeeved out when Harry tells him how handsome he is and that he already showed his people in California a picture of him from the Christmas party. At least he didn't ask Harry if he kept one for himself. Harry's girl then buzzes to let them know that Peggy is outside for Joey, and Joey takes the opportunity to thank Harry for thinking of him and hightail it out of there...
...and outside, he tells Peggy, "Everyplace I've worked, there's always some old fairy who comes on to me, but that was the weirdest by far." HA! I mean, to be honest, I'm surprised Joey hasn't heard the Casting Couch Call before, but the fact that Harry tried to do something relatively nice (if pretentious and self-important) and got labeled a lecherous old queen for it tickles me to no end. Peggy gets to her business, which is to ask what Joey did to Joan, and when he smugly tells her he told her off, Peggy informs him that he shouldn't have, as Joan's important around there. However, Joey dismissively tells her that there's a Joan in every company, and she's an overblown secretary who tells everyone what to do, adding that his mother was exactly the same. "She even wore a pen around her neck so everyone would stare at her tits." I never saw Joey's mother, obviously, but Joan has been doing that a lot lately, although frankly I'm surprised anyone would think they need the help. I mean, even Miss Blankenship couldn't miss those things. They've got their own gravitational force. Peggy doesn't give up, though, saying that Joan and Pryce basically run the place, and Joey tells her okay, he's got the message, before looking at his watch and wondering with a sigh if it's time to go yet. Exhausted, Peggy leaves him, and I hope for her sanity's sake she doesn't have to deal with Joey or Stan for the rest of the day.