Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 5 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT "I Demand Satisfaction!"
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 5 | Aired on 04.15.2012
...to the girl's room. She quickly strips down to leopard-print bra and panties, lies on the bed with its gold lamé spread and tries out a few role-playing scenarios; Pete shoots her down when she tries wife and virginal schoolgirl (the latter probably bringing Handsome to his mind), but when she tries, "You're my king," he's like, Bingo! And now you'll excuse me while I take a shower. Preferably with bleach.
Outside, the madam surveys her domain and sees one little boy who is not having fun and goes to check in with him, first mistakenly making him as a cop and then asking if he's waiting for a girl who's otherwise engaged, like there's a client any of them wouldn't bring to climax in three seconds flat if they could move on to Don Draper. The madam then goes to the gay place and Don Draper with another man is a puzzle my brain is not equipped to solve, so I'm glad when he explains he grew up in a place like this, the implication being that he's immune to its charms. The madam relaxes at the realization of shared experience, even picking up his drinks and Roger mentioned this before, but man -- even when he doesn't try.
Later, in a cab, Don and Pete drop a very pleased Edwin off and then Don directs the cab to 72nd Street, so we know something more about where he lives now, for you fictional 1966 stalkers. On the way, Pete lights into Don for his disapproval -- "you of all people" -- and Don doesn't defend himself, but Pete isn't done, sneering that he can't believe he has to explain he was doing his job "to a man who just pulled his pants up on the world," and adds that he didn't see any stern looks directed Roger's way. You could nitpick that Don isn't usually involved in Accounts bacchanalia, but Don doesn't bother splitting that hair, instead telling Pete in one of their weirdly familial moments that Roger is miserable. "I didn't think you were." He adds that he knows who he is and what he's done, but "you don't get another chance at what you have." Pete scoffs that those are brave words coming from a man on his second go-round, but Don has the last word: "Yeah. And if I'd met her first, I would have known not to throw it away." I don't really believe that, but he's trying to give advice here...
...and when Pete gets home, he takes a long, guilty look at his sleeping wife before heading off to take a shower. God, Pete Campbell, it's been five years -- can you stop making it so difficult?
Roger's in his office when Ken enters in answer to his summons and Roger wastes no time in telling Ken that "a little birdy" informed him about his side career. Ken, knowing where this is going, says he loves being an Accounts man, but Roger, probably already having bookmarked the time that Ken balked at using his familial connections to bring in an account, says he knows why Ken kept it a secret -- it's clear his attentions are divided. Ken doesn't put up a fight, saying he gets it, but before Roger heads off to a partners' meeting, he adds this: "As a fellow unappreciated author [HAAAAAAAAA HA HA] and a friend, let me tell you: When this job is good, it satisfies every need. Believe me, I remember." He walks out leaving that confirmation of Don's assessment of his happiness level alone with Ken, who does not look too jazzed himself.