“There were twenty in there!” 
I agree. So much so that I’m willing to overlook the fact that a tumor on one’s thyroid need not be malignant to cause weight fluctuations.
Pete’s gettin’ a touch overconfident there.
I’m intrigued by the new guy. This should be fun.
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Woody ben Tevye?
It looked to me like Betty’s tumor was malignant and she lied to Henry about it. I think it tied back to the conversation she had with her friend who said, “I would rather he told the children I was hit by a bus. Better that than saying goodbye.”
Oyyyy!
I’m more disturbed if they have Peggy get involved with him. She’s already got the foil of the polo jock guy she works with.
Hmmm. We didn’t hear the actual doctor, did we?
That also puts quite a different spin on the sundae-finishing. If I were dying, I’d have a hot-fudge IV.
Missed the edit window: but now that I think about it, from a character perspective it makes more sense to me that Betty would think “Fuck it, I’m dying” thank “Fuck it, I’ll just be fat, then.”
Good points. It occured to me that Betty’s doctor lied to her, but not that Betty lied to Henry. Back then it was common for patients with terminal dieases to be told they were fine; that’s what happened with Anna. Though if that were the case Henry would’ve been told. If Betty really is keeping her cancer a secret I wonder what how else her personality will change.
Agreed. There are so many places they can go with this. He could outshine Peggy & pose a threat to her, he fuck up badly & have that reflect on her, she could end up sleeping with him, or he might really have some kind of mental problem. I don’t think the last one is likely, but it would certainly lead to the most interesting plotlines.
That was real baby fat on Betty.
I gather she’s already back to her pre-baby weight.
Betty lying had occurred to me in the moment based off of her expressions, and honestly it fits with her being childish and prone to pushing bad things aside. I honestly hope that’s it, not out of hate, but I think it would make the most interesting story.
Clearly Don would gain sole custody in that situation, yes? Biological father in a no-fault (on paper) divorce, married, and secure. Francis wouldn’t have much of a case, right?
Tagg Romney (son of Mitt, grandson of Gov. George) responds:
Seriously, Tagg Romney, referring to a single TV show as “lib media”? That’s a lamer appellation than Tagg.
And while I admit the mention of Romney was gratuitous, the show didn’t take a position on him. A single character did.
Plus, based on ThelmaLou’s article, that scene was likely shot in August of last year. For all anyone knew, the GOP front-runners today could be totally different people.
It struck me as more of a “name drop so the audience can say ‘I know who that is!.. haha, I get it!’” thing than anything to take to the streets over.
The same article says Ms. Jones is eating her placenta. They should have worked THAT into the episode. “Sally, don’t you like your hot fudge placenta?”
A character who worked for Romney’s rival Rockefeller to boot.
Besides, being called a “clown” by Roger Sterling is pretty much a commendation.
Sure. But it was Henry Francis who did the name-calling.
I knew it was *some *bitter, white-haired guy.
Henry Francis.
The real Trade Winds. “New York’s a Lonely Town” still gets played a lot on oldies radio. Good song. I remember “Mind Excursion” too, though I never realized it was the same group. They changed their name sometime in 1966 according to that Wiki article. But they were American and there’s no way Harry could have thought they were as British as the Stones. THe Jefferson Airplane did psychedelic jingles for Levis in 1968. There is no such thing as not selling out.
I like the Betty lying about her diagnosis theory, but we know that January Jones has gotten thin since then. Weiner wrote her pregnancy weight gain into the series but putting her in a real fat suit for the rest of the season isn’t going to happen.
And Don Draper is worried about the kids at the Stones concert? Seriously? I realize he’s supposed to be thinking about Betty’s death leaving his own kids motherless but that’s not the Don Draper we knew. There are already sufficient boring old men on the show.
Farthest out allusion trawling of all time. Two new characters were introduced on this show, Dawn and Ginsberg. Famed humorist S. J. Perelman’s first book was called Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge. No, I don’t believe it either but I want to be the first to put it on the Internet.
Sally’s almost 13; that’s only 2 or 3 yrs younger than the girls at the concert, one of whom even admitted she’d have sex with a man she’d never met because he was famous, the other who Harry was flirting with. He doesn’t want Sally to be that girl in a few years.