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
Waiting for the next show, Don's reading what I'm guessing is a movie-promotional paper, given that it's titled The Ape and bears the headline "Big Round-Up Of Human Beasts." Even as people are starting to file in, an African-American theater employee sweeps up near Don's feet when Bobby returns from the concession stand and asks the man if he's seen the film. The guy tells him not yet, but he will get to see it for free. Bobby says it's really good, and they're seeing it again, and that's probably not something I'd announce to someone working for the theater, but I also remember doing that in a Pink Panther movie when I was a kid, so maybe things were just more lax back then. Bobby philosophically offers, "Everybody likes to go to the movies when they're sad," and the guy doesn't respond, but he looks thrown by the tacit expression of camaraderie, poignant as it is given the current circumstances. He'd be even more so if he'd known Bobby as long as we have.
Henry enters the bedroom and tells Betty she left the TV on, but she's in a similar headspace as her son: "I don't feel right turning it off. But I don't want to watch it." After saying he thinks the violence has died down for the duration, he tells Betty she'll never have to worry about money, and given that that's the second time we've seen him tell her that, I wonder if she's going to live to regret not taking Don for what she could have. She asks why he'd bring that up, and by way of answering, he wonders what he's doing - he keeps thinking about walking through Harlem behind Lindsay. And while he admits that was exhilarating, "what was the cost of avoiding that riot? Police corruption, disrespect for authority, negotiating with hoodlums?" He tells her he wants to do things differently, and all this is in aid of the news that he's been offered the seat of a dead state senator, and since he was a Republican, he would be "basically unopposed." Betty's delighted, especially when she hears that the position could be a stepping stone to the state Attorney General position, but from how quickly her face falls when he says he can't wait for people to really meet her, you'd think he mooed in her face.