It was my first thought as well, but I don’t think it’s the Soviet Anthem. The tempo and melody are all wrong.
That would be the Song of the Volga Boatmen, a spectacular rendition of which can be heard here:
Gah! Good one. I’m jealous. I tried to figure it out myself, and I even ran it through a song ID app.
Still pretty damn good.
Since we’re on music, can anyone identify the music played over the closing credits?
I thought he said Lake Placid.
Now I’m curious - about clam strips.
What happens to the ‘clam bellies’? Pet food? Fertilizer?
I think the “crotch hug” is what really gave us a glimpse as to what Don’s thinking.
We’ve seen over the previous few episodes that Don’s happy. He genuinely loves his new wife and he loves his new life. He turns away offers (both real and imaginary) to pull him away from Megan and would kill to protect what he has.
When he hugged her at the end, he was genuinely scared because he thinks he’s going to lose her and doesn’t want to go back to his old life. The problem is that Don’s selfish and clueless as to what Megan wants. He thinks he can treat her like Betty and everything will be great. Hell, he’s treating her better than Betty. All his attention is on her and she’s being treated like a goddamned princess but that’s not what Megan wants at all and Don’s completely confused.
The problem is that Megan’s never going to be happy until Don comes to realize that she wants to be valued, not patronized.
Orange sherbet.
They were going after something the way they went back to the scene in the hallway and showed Don’s and Roger’s days out of order.
I’m no film guy but the way they did it seemed a little off to both me and my wife.
I’m usually a fan of the device, but doesn’t work in a world that you’ve been exploring without it for years.
Just felt out of place and showy.
Well, I said maybe. 
I’ve never had anything like that happen on mushrooms, but what did happen led me to believe such a thing could be possible if you ate enough mushrooms. LSD would never do it. It just isn’t all that visual.
A dissociative could absolutely make you “experience” something like that (with sight, sound, etc.) but it probably wouldn’t be anything as normal as a baseball game. It would be some weird tunnel journey or something.
Anyway, to answer Sampiro, LSD wouldn’t do that, or anything like that. It messes with your sense of time enough that things like cigarettes you “just lit!” will be burned to the filter (of course, you didn’t just light it, it just feels like you did), and certainly the emotional effects they showed are accurate. But the music and the baseball game? No.
I did a lot of LSD back in the day, and I remember colors and emotions were more intense, and the two things they got right were Roger laughing (I laughed a lot on it) and you really don’t want to look in a mirror - there lies madness. You could get stuck in mirror, and it would get very weird. I remember getting fixated on someone’s freckles for what seemed like hours. Skin felt delicious.
I’m sure I never took “pure” LSD, and probably not a large enough dose of whatever it was I was taking to produce “melting” or the kind of stuff you see in a Steadman drawing. I never saw or heard anything that wasn’t actually there.
More like a hyper or heightened reality. Like if you were looking at friends, they pretty much looked normal. But if you happened to be out in public and looked at strangers’ faces, they didn’t look melty, but they just looked weird.
And if there was something you were anxious about, that mood could sometimes end up dominating the tail end of the trip.
Yeah, cigs would burn down in the ashtray because you weren’t paying attention. And a few times, I would go to take a cig out of my mouth and my fingers would slide down it and pull off the burning tip, but that was mostly because my lips were dry, so it stuck to them.
But music coming out of a bottle when you opened it? Nope.
Don on LSD would be very interesting. I could see him either running screaming down the street, or becoming addicted to it. (I know LSD isn’t physically addicted, but many people in the '60s did become psychologically hooked on it for a time.)
I think he would absolutely hate the insight it gives you.
Probably none. It doesn’t work that way. BTW, there was probably a lot more acid being dropped in the 80’s than in the 60’s
I agreed with you but then I was back watching season 3 last night and watched the episode where Peggy first hooks up with Duck. It also plays with the structure of the show. It opens with scenes from the ending of the episode (2 of the 3 scenes being mysteries) and then goes back to show you how they got there.
The show DOES use unusual devices just so sparingly that I think we often forget about them.
Its like when people complained just recently about the dream sequences with Don and them being out of place…but the show has done them before, and it used to be quite often.
I was taken aback at the “We are on LSD, please take us to [address]” notes at first. I forget that LSD was legal at this time.
Yes, yes, yes. That’s exactly what ran through my mind when they doubled back to the scene in the hallway with Roger and Don. “It’s a Pulp Fiction moment!!”