In Babylon, when Roger tells her that before meeting her he was ready to leave his wife, she play-slaps him. But the intention of the slap was, Don’t you ever talk about leaving your wife.
And in Marriage of Figaro, she says that Lady Chatterly’s Lover is “another testimony to how most people think marriage is a joke.”
by rkl
July 2, 2008 at 12:19 pm
She had a very angry, superior air about her when she said that in Marriage of Figaro. Like “how dare they.”
July 3, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Which makes me even more curious about what is (IMO) the biggest mystery about her: why is she specially arranging to have a phone call with Mona Sterling in The Hobo Code?
July 3, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I always saw that as her running interference. Like, maybe Sterling doesn’t want to talk to her that day, so she’s in charge of the cover story.
July 3, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Actually…
I just realized this, and then the second commentary track told me. Roger’s not in the office that day. Cooper gives Don the bonus on his own. Joan does take the call to run interference, and then later has ‘errands to run’. They are trysting that afternoon.