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Christmas wishes come true. Harry helps out a friend.
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Merry Christmas Sterling-Cooper-Draper-Pryce. I wonder if this means we’ll be seeing more of everyone’s families this season? I just don’t see Mrs Olsen setting a place for Abe at Christmas dinner; his mom probally isn’t too thrilled by his live-in Shiksa [del]whore[/del] girlfriend. How are Joan and her mom doing in that one bedroom Manhatten apartment. Will Don & Megan head up to Montreal, or will he get the kids for the holiday?
Why would anyone search for “Mad-Men” when that’s not the name of the show? And the admin here have for some time now been encouraging us to search using Google, which doesn’t have the three-letter problem. If I’m expecting a thread to have been opened recently, I just do a “find” in the browser. It makes no sense to change the spelling of titles for the purposes of a search function that few people use and the board administration isn’t interested in supporting.
I’m just giving you the logic for why people have been hyphenating the title. Good or bad, that’s what it is. If you go back through the old threads, you’ll see that’s what folks have done.
Lane needs $$ because Inland Revenue is after him. Lane stealing money: BO-ring. Hare Krishna & office sex: BO-ring.
But holy shit! The chemistry between Don and Joan: worth the price of admission tonight. Worth the whole episode. Joan’s tantrum was perfection. And Don was his old, smooth, sexy self.
“Here’s $6,000. If we don’t come back, consider it sold.”
Those two are dynamite together. The whole scene in the bar was great. Even the song “Waltz in Three-Quarter Time” (which I love) supported the mood.
I know not everyone thinks so, but I much prefer the show when, as tonight, they focus on the everyday workings of the company, plus one period piece (the Hare Krishna-Star Trek thing), and one well-acted, well-scripted personal scene (the smokin’, yet platonic, Joan-Don-Jaguar-and-drinks thing).
I’m sorry, I just get bored when it becomes just another telonovela. That’s why I thought tonight’s ep was tied for the best one of the season so far.
A question – why does Pete say “Jagwire”? That’s neither Brit nor American.
Well Lane did forge Don’s signature on the check. Lane, being a junior partner, doesn’t have the authority to borrow money like Don. And, technically, Don did use the money for a business expense (test driving a car he intends to market.)
Megan’s tantrum is the moment that she officially becomes the brunette Betty in Don’s mind. I’d bet money that he shtoops Megan’s red-headed actress friend. (BTW, did they ever mention what part that Megan’s friend got on “Dark Shadows”?)
If Kinsey can just wait out a couple of decades and do some small rewrites, I’m sure that the producers of “Voyager” would be happy to make his episode.
And Don and Joan. I’ve always thought those two would make a really good couple, and I’ll bet Matthew Weiner thinks so too. They have terrific chemistry together, and they certainly understand each other well. Joan would be shrewd enough not to let Don get away with any shenanigans, but also understand his devotion to work. Don would certainly never get bored or feel like he can’t relate to Joan. Pity they’ll never get together.
Don wrote a personal check at the Jaguar dealership. He wouldn’t have had a company check on him. And anyway, he was going incognito, as a private citizen. It was a moot but tres cool gesture, as he did return the car.
I forgot; not only did Lane forge that check but he also lied to the banker and the other partners. He claimed that the firm had $50,000 in profits, but that was only because of the loan he took out.
I though Lane was forging Joan’s signature, not Don’s. It makes sense that Lane & Joan would be the two signatures required on the checks. They’re the ones that actually pay the bills and deal with all the adminstrative crap that goes along with running the company. And Don neither used a company check nor intended it to actually be cashed (plus the sales guy seemed to think they were just a random couple, not someone from the ad agency bidding for them).
As for extending SCDP’s line of credit; Lane probally does have that authority as the corporate officer who deals with the bank. He’s not going to be able to keep it secret from the others for long; especially if things don’t work out with Jaguar. And of course Joan, one of the few if not the only person at the company he can consider a friend, will be the first one to find out. What exactly is Lane’s problem with his taxes anyway? If I understood right thought he only payed taxes to the US without realizing he had to pay taxes to Her Majesty on the same income as well?
I loves seeing Kinsey again, though the Hare Krishna thing was completely unexepected. And the whole time he was in his office fucking Lakshmi I kept thinking “the door’s thin & the walls are made of frosted glass, and his secretary is sitting right outside his door listening to them grunting”. I’m surprised Greg was the one to file for divorce. NYS had even stricter divorce laws back then (somethign mentioned on the show) so I wonder what grounds he’s filing on. If he’s using adultery could Roger get dragged into the mess as a co-respondant? What proof could Greg come up with anyway?
Yeah, I didn’t quite know what was going on with Lane either. One of the earlier episodes implied that he was having money problems, but I don’t remember if it was ever specified whether it was he had bad luck financially, or did something he shouldn’t, or what caused the trouble.
If I understood right thought he only payed taxes to the US without realizing he had to pay taxes to Her Majesty on the same income as well?