Huh. I saw that as: he’s drunk, he’s horny, whacking off isn’t doing it for him, he’s drunk and horny and drunk and… where’s Peggy, she looks nice…
It was kind of amusing how they showed his llittle self love prep with the background jazz, the framed not all that risque picture, and the spooge cloth laid out just so.
Re the talk where Pryce is tying to convince Cooper to come to the party. Per the vanity remark was it intimated that Bert Cooper is in poor health?
I just saw this episode last night. Can someone help me out? The DVR cut the episode off at the 40th dinner right after Roger Sterling finished his speech but before Don got up to say anything. Can someone give me a brief synopsis of what happened after that?
Also, approximately how many minutes did I miss? This has happened before and I’m going to need to manually reprogram the settings for Mad Men.
Thanks
You didn’t miss much. Don got up, kissed his wife, and went to the podium to begin his speech. Meanwhile Betty was shooting daggers at him with her eyes. The end.
We didn’t really see any of his speech, as well. It was pretty much just the audience applauding loudly and him doing the gracious “Thank you, thank you…” routine.
More thoughts about the Lois Situation.
Pryce is in charge of hiring and firing. Lois cuts off the foot of Pryce’s snobby replacement who was part of the dead snake and Bombay “prize”. So maybe he cuts her some slack. Nothing new there.
But maybe there’s more to it. Pryce is on the outs with his wife, and like all good Mad Men no doubt has at least an interest in one or more secretaries in the office. Perhaps he and Lois will hook up (or already have).
No. Can’t do that. Can’t have Lois. Together. With Lane. Can’t.
IIRC The teacher’s brother mentioned that Julius Caesar had epilepsy but was still emperor of Rome! and Don said something like “yeah, look what happened to him”.
Or Seven Twenty-three…
I would not exactly say she was not fazed. I would say that it’s consistent with her expectations. As in, “What’s the matter Don? Don’t know where you’ll be in 3 years?”
That is to say, knowing Don as well as she knows him she might expect him to have a wad of cash in his drawer but that’s not the kind of secret she’s looking for.
But that’s the interesting thing about Paul. He’s not insincere about his progressivisim and bohemianism but he is pompous about it–and that’s the next worse thing!
Lightray, I think you are right though I’d be tempting to put it a bit differently. It isn’t just that Don is getting laid (as by Midge, Bobbie Barrett, and the odd flight attendant. It’s that, as with Rachel (though not quite as intensely I think), he’s once again in the grips of a relationship he thinks can be meaningful and emotionally enlivening for him.
I’m going to disagree with the others on the board. I think he’s completely pissed at her. First she emasculates him in Don’s office by trying to make excuses for him (“don’t be mad at him – he had a great idea but forgot to write it down. Poor Paul!”) Then, she comes up with a good idea from something Paul said.
Some saw this as Peggy giving him credit – I saw it as Peggy subtly pointing out to everyone that there was a great idea staring him in the face and he couldn’t see it – but she could. One upping him.
I’m not sure whether or not this was Peggy’s intent, but it definitely felt that Peggy was painting a picture that she was a professional and Paul was a child.
Meltdown I actually agree with you but wanted to catch up on earlier stuff in this thread. My impression is not only that he’s pissed but that he may even suspect her of foul play. The thing about the fortune cookie that Peggy says he commented on and which triggers her idea: my sense is that he may revisit that as though thinking that she almost manipulates him. But in either case he is pissed.
I saw Paul’s reaction as exasperated. He was annoyed that she is “spontaneous” and shows him so he specifically decides to prep separately, so they each can walk in on their own merits. He laid out the ground rules, worked independently and she STILL spontaneously showed him up.
I loved Don’s reaction to forgetting to write it down- “I hate when that happens” and Paul looking surprised at getting empathy, not chastisement.
I think the color blue reference is about people seeing things differently. As Don was being lionized as a great humanitarian, loyal, family man etc, Betty knows that he not what he appears and she sees him differently than everyone else.
Just saw the episode. What a show.
I can kind of understand why Paul’s frustrated - Peggy’s spontaneous ideas aren’t necessarily better than his well-thought-out ones. But when Peggy and Paul are meeting with clients, spontaneity counts. Don could’ve used some in his last meeting with Connie. I feel for Paul, but Peggy’s got a leg up on him here.
Hubby brought up an idea—what if the buyer is going to be the company Duck works for?
Don’t think so, unless Duck himself changes jobs, because he is now working for an actual ad agency, Grey IIRC, which still exists. And unless Grey is keen to be portrayed as the scene of who knows what, it seems unlikely. OTOH, it’s hard not to believe that Duck will not try to get his finger in it. He’s typically such an inept Machiavel though.
Does anyone have any idea how accurate or inaccurate the portrayal of Conrad Hilton is? I’ve not read his book (but seen it in the drawer at a few hotels…). Knowing how his one grandkid has turned out, the comment he made about his kids was telling as well.
Wiki doesn’t have much in depth re his personality other than he was an absolute workaholic. I think the face that he left almost nothing (relatively) to his kids speaks more to his notion of self bootstrapping and avoiding estate taxes than it does to craziness. The somewhat slim pdf bio at the end of the wiki article does show he was VERY religious.
Hilton Hotels is 100% onboard with Mad Men and is promoting the tie in so I guess there must be some truth to the loopy aspect of Conrad Hilton, though it does seem strange they would cooperate with their founder getting portrayed as a capricious, half crazy old man.
No kidding. The last episode where he was calling Don at all hours, I kept yelling “Smithers!”