They bought it at the end of last season, at the height of the Cuban missle crisis. We’re now heading through JFK’s last summer…so, less than a year?
Lane Pryce mentioned that he’s been in New York for 10 months.
Shouldn’t Paul have come out of his office and bellowed for Peggy before he jerked off in there? To, you know, make sure she wouldn’t walk in on him?
And why was he bellowing for Peggy, anyway?
So what’s up with Hilton calling Don’s service? Did Don ask him not to call his home anymore?
Answering services – another blast from the past. As late as 1972, I remember calling an answering service to get messages. Does anyone still use them? Doctors, maybe? I can’t remember when we went to answering machines using tape, or when everything went digital.
Your friend should apply for the job of writing episode summaries 
This was a very good episode indeed. Don’t think I can say much more than has already been said.
I got the impression that he’d given up trying to come up with an idea all on his own and was going to try and get some sort of stimulus out of her.
So how did folks interpret Paul’s “My God” statement? Was it “My God, you are good at this shit.” or was it “My God, you conniving wench”?
Definitely awe.
Yeah, Paul seemed positive to me when she came up with the idea for the telegram. She wasn’t trying to show him up, she just was good at what she does.
A girl I dated in college from 87-90 worked nights for an answering service.
I really like the contrast with Peggy’s walk of shame from her Ducking, to Don’s cool preparedness of having an entire drawer full of clean, ironed shirts to hide his latest afterschool activity.
And while I know that Peggy encouraged Paul to tell Don about not writing down the great idea because she knew that Don would have had that experience, too (“hate when that happens”)… I can’t help but think that the reaction from Getting Laid Don was much better than he ever would have gotten from Being Faithful Don.
Such as… getting Lois as his secretary?
It was “My God, you’ve done it to me again!” Astonishment more than anger.
Yeah, that’s how I perceived it, too - except maybe with a little “Why didn’t I think of that?!” thrown in.
Pryce hands Don the check and they mention how it took two months since Don signed the contract. So this episode took place around 9/23/63. Two more months until …
I think Bert Cooper is not long for this world. His death just when a sale of S-C is lined up could be interesting.
As to a previous discussion of what Don does with all his money, how much is in the drawer? Assuming that what he tossed in was $5000, how many other such stacks are there?
I suspected that since “Guy Walks into …” that Pryce has “switched sides” and now sees himself as one of the NY S-C guys. He might want to stay in NYC which will lead to problems with Rebecca Pryce* and sure beats Bombay.
*Played nicely by Embeth Davidtz.
I didn’t pick up on that in the earlier episode, but you’re right. But he’s also still loyal to his British bosses. I wonder which side he’ll end up on.
It looked like at least 2-3 other stacks. Don pulled out a similar looking $5,000 stack for his brother so I’m guessing he has around $15-20,000 squirreled away in there.
Better hope the Draper residence doesn’t catch fire.
I’m not sure it was. The whole episode was about how events are interpreted differently by people, often to extremes. A bit like opportunity being a crisis (aka a crisortunity). The British boss mentions that no one’s asked him what school he’s gone to – a Doper remarked before about the Brits showing the sun setting on an empire, and I think America (suffocating values, faults and all) still holds some kind of freedom for someone like him who’s used to being bound to different but just as strict values.
Then there’s Peggy and Paul. He was convinced that her succeeding must mean he has to fail (not too rare a feeling for men confronted with women competing for ‘their’ jobs, even now). But he realized, IMHO, that she actually had some talent beyond being a novelty. Or it could have just been a Planet of the Apes-style ‘He can talk!’ moment…
I’ll admit most of this hinges on Betty reading The Group in the bath tub – a book about (mosty) wealthy women who lost money but gained freedom during the Great Depression.
That’s what I thought at first, but it didn’t fit with his bitching at her earlier in the episode - he’s too insecure to ask her for help. I thought he was checking to see if she was still there, struggling as hard as he was, or if she’d already come up with her ideas and gone home. This interpretation fits better with the insecurity angle, IMO.
Ah, I was wondering what the significance of that book was. I looked it up briefly and found that it was a major bestseller in '63/'64, but nothing about it being culturally significant.