Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A+ | 548 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Women On The Verge Of Kicking Some Ass
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2008.09.14
It's dinner party time, and as Sally hops around for the adults' pleasure, Betty, Carla by her side, looks at the dinner table with satisfaction and hands off her apron. I think the chair at the head of the table is different from the others, which is a nice nod to her little meltdown earlier. Sally finishes up, and after the applause, Betty proudly says that she's going to be Piglet in a production of Winnie The Pooh. "It's all very professional-looking." In attendance are Roger, Mona, Crab, and his boozy wife, who cuts in front of Roger with her drink order. Man or woman, that seems like a good way to lose something. Betty sends the kids to bed as the doorbell rings, and it's Duck, bearing a large bouquet of flowers and apologies for being late. "My date canceled." Betty tells him he should have called, as she might have been able to find someone else for him, and then hands the flowers off to Carla as Don and the kids appear. Duck of course remembers Sally from her trip to the office, and if he knows that she left tanked, he has the good grace not to say anything. He then greets Bobby, who adorably hides behind Don before getting escorted up the stairs by his mother. Duck reiterates his apology to Don, saying he didn't want to come stag. Don doesn't think anyone cares, but Duck isn't so sure. "My wife hated odd numbers." She wasn't in the habit of smashing chairs, then. Duck greets Roger and Mona and then meets Crab and "Petra," with Roger handling the introductions: "Crab, Duck. Duck, Crab." I hope they named these two characters in anticipation of this moment. Don offers Duck a drink, and he opts for tomato juice, to which Petra practically slurs her disapproval. Talk turns to boating, with Crab eventually asking Don if he and Betty are going to join "Willow Oaks" or not. "We're lonely!" Before Don can answer, however, Betty enters and summons them all for dinner, and they head in, with Duck making up for lost time by talking to Crab about Rogers & Cowan. Roger notices, and hangs back to comment to Don, "He does everything you need him to do, you know?" Also, Petra bangs her head into the wall on the way in, settling the question of who's going to be the Party Drunk.