Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT No Good Deed Goes Unsexed
By Couch Baron | Season 6 | Episode 11 | Aired on 06.09.2013
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Manolo the Spanish-from-Spain nurse brings Pete's mother by the office, and Peggy chats with her only to find she's mistaken her for Trudy – and that she's getting some action. When Pete learns that his mom is apparently banging the nurse, he tells her he's going to let him go, to which she tells Pete that he's always been unlovable. Pete calls Benson in to chew him out for his recommendation, but Benson tells him that Manolo isn't in love with his mother – because, apparently, he's into dudes, and so is Benson. Sadly, Benson's in love with Pete, who is not quite ready to return the sentiment. None of that matters, though, because I was right about the shorts. Also, Pete, Peggy, and Ted go out and get sloppy after an Ocean Spray meeting, and Pete clues in that Peggy and Ted have the mutual hots for each other, not that he disapproves. When Ted sees the rapport Pete and Peggy have, not knowing it's borne of their history together, he seems jealous; not only that, his wife tells him he's too focused on work even when he's not in the office. In the end, though, Ted seems to make the choice to stay with what he's got, which likely means Peggy's going to give Stan an even harder sell the next time she has a rat problem, which will probably be tomorrow.
Mitchell, Sylvia and Arnold's son, is in the apartment when Don comes home, and Megan tells Don the kid sent back his draft card in protest and now wants to run to Canada to avoid possible prison time. Don tells her from experience that the kid can't spend his life on the run, but soon a fit-to-be-tied Arnold shows up at their door, and he and Don go out for a drink, whereupon Don reiterates the sentiment we've heard from him before that he's against the war. Feeling a sympathy for the kid he probably didn't know he was capable of, Don goes to Pete and asks him to get hold of his old DoD friend (the one that buried the investigation into Don's past when they were courting -- I think -- Northrop Grumman) to see if he can get Mitchell a deferment. Pete suggests Don turn to GM, but when Don feels them out at a dinner, the reaction is frosty, to say the least. Ted initially chews Don out for this, but when he hears the problem, he offers to make a call to a highly-place military officer to get the kid into a pilot program – in exchange for Don working with him in the future. Don sincerely agrees, and then calls a grateful and tearful Sylvia, which is a much better ending to their relationship than anything we saw before. Or it would be, except when Sally sneaks into Sylvia's place to try to retrieve a letter her friend Julie left for Mitchell on her behalf, she catches Don and Sylvia in flagrante and runs off in horror. Later, it's a Dinner O'Awkward, as a drunken Don barely is home for five minutes before Rosen and Mitchell show up to thank him in front of a nauseated Sally. Don lies to her about what she saw, and she tells him she believes it, but her fatherly worship looks like it's gone for good. ABOUT TIME.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Don arrives at Dawn's desk and asks her to get Pete, but she tells him he's supposed to be in a status meeting and that she also needs to know whether he'll be attending the Chevrolet dinner that night. Don sighs in exasperation, but just then Pete appears, so Don pulls him into his office to ask if Pete's friend still works at the Department of Defense. Pete says no, but Don presses on anyway to ask how his friends get deferments for their kids. Pete runs down the standard answers -- college, divinity school, "medical baloney" -- but Don says he needs someone who can really pull strings. Pete points out that Don is having dinner with GM, one of the largest defense contractors in the world. When Don wonders what the politics of that request would be Pete snits that he doesn't know. "I'm not on Chevy." Heh. He walks out and Don trails after him, assuring that's not his fault before Pete tries to turn lemons into cranberry cocktail, bragging to the suddenly-appearing Roger that Ocean Spray loved them so much "they might even give us the blends." Heh. Roger, however, wonders about the potential conflict with Sunkist, and when Ted emerges from his office, a little kerfuffle ensues about who was supposed to tell who what when, and again, this is a PUBLIC COMPANY. Hire someone whose only job is to run back and forth between the partners and keep everyone up to speed! Anyway, Cutler, who's been twiddling his thumbs in the conference room this whole time, comes out and hears what's going on before proclaiming the two accounts about equal in billings. Ted points out they've already sunk five grand into Ocean Spray, and Roger's probably kicking himself for not booking the Presidential Suite for his California trip so he could match that number. Ted barks -- at Don, by the way, not Roger -- that maybe he should read a memo once in a while before stomping back into his office, whereupon everyone else breaks up. Great meeting!
Ted's lying on his couch, arm over his eyes, when Cutler enters and notes he warned Ted about the memos. "The more you send, the less they get read." Amen. He wonders why Ted is taking this so personally, adding that they'll end up with one juice account, but Ted snits, "I don't want his juice. I want my juice!" That's hot. Cutler doesn't have time for this nonsense and I don't know who can blame him.
In the lobby of his parents' building, Mitchell is hanging out talking to the doorman (the very same one who led off the season with the myocardial infarction) about Michigan -- he thinks it's beyond his reach, apparently -- when Sally and another girl (undoubtedly Julie) arrive. The doorman gives a typical Velveeta comment about them being a couple high-fashion models before introductions are made and Sally tells the doorman Don and Megan were supposed to leave a key, as she lost hers. The doorman doesn't know anything about it, though, and as he fumbles for his keys, Julie takes the opportunity to flirt with Mitchell a bit, and I'm not sure this character or the actor warrants the all the attention being devoted to them. I wouldn't wish Vietnam on anyone, but a little military service might not be amiss. The doorman tells Sally he'll let her and Julie in, whereupon Sylvia comes bustling off the elevator and declares the need for a cab, pronto, so the doorman hands Sally his set of keys while he heads out to find Sylvia that taxi for her precious boy in too-tight pants. Not to get ahead of myself, but I hope she's taking him to get his hair cut.