Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 529 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Yesterdayland
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2012.04.22
...but soon, Abe's phone is ringing and it's Peggy calling with the news that she's home and requests that he join her. He asks if that means she needs him and she simply replies, "I always need you." Aw. I don't want to be alone either, after that story. Abe asks what happened and Peggy relays the story Ginzo told her, which Abe, with his reporter's knowledge, confirms did sometimes happen. Peggy tells him again to come over and he disconnects to do just that. After she hangs up, Peggy sits in the dark looking through her window at, presumably, Mars, as shivers run up and down my skin.
Speaking of people who often seem extraterrestrial, Roger marches up to Dawn and informs her that he's going to sit in Don's office with the door closed and she should inform him of his arrival. "One buzz for Don, two buzzes for Mr. and Mrs." You're kind of backing up my leadoff to this paragraph, Roger. He's not in the office five seconds, though, before a single buzz comes from the trusty Dawn and in a moment, Don's opening the door and asking who died. Roger suggests they play hooky, to which Don hilariously replies, "Should I close the door?" Hee. Apparently an old client of theirs (actually double-sided aluminum and Don wastes no time in referencing Roger's attendant heart attack) has moved over to Howard Johnson's to help them with their new models, so Roger's proposing a "completely debauched and unnecessary fact-finding boondoggle" to the flagship hotel in Plattsburgh, which is just an hour south of Lake Placid. But while Don isn't particularly interested in playing wingman to desperate and horny Roger, he does note that Plattsburgh is also quite close to Montreal. Roger, seeing where that train of thought is chugging off to, begs Don to get him out of having dinner with Jane's snooty friends who sit around talking about "Frank Lloyd Rice." Don raises an eyebrow and Roger explains, "I always say it that way. They hate it." HA! There are some internet comment fields I'd love to let Roger loose on, for serious. Don, however, declares his intention to take Megan and needles that it's fine if Roger wants to bring Jane. "Megan gets along with everyone." Roger at least takes the defeat with good humor and as they step out, Don instructs Dawn to get him out of all commitments he may have through the weekend. When he's gone, Roger sighs to Dawn, "It was a dumb idea." We then see, from a different angle from before, Don pull Megan out of the copywriter's room, which lets you know the episode's timeline has ceased to be linear...