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I have heard that pronunciation, but I associate it more with rustic folks rather than a Manhattanite like Pete. I don’t know. Maybe I’m wrong. Do New Yorkers say [dʒæg waɪɚ] (“jag-wire”) instead of [dʒæg wɑr] (“jag-war”)?
He acknowledged it the first time Joan told him she was pregnant.
Anyone else have a worried moment when Don was driving the jaguar back from the bar completely shitfaced? If it hadn’t cut to commercial right then, I would have been sure that check he wrote was going to end up cashed.
At the exact same time that Lane’s shenanigans might kill it.
$50k in 1966 is equivalent to over $350k in today’s money. With Mohawk going on strike and pulling back on their advertising indefinitely, things are about to get dark at SCDP - even if they do win Jaguar (which is a glamorous client to have, but has never spent a ton of money in the US ad market.)
Me too but I’m glad it didn’t happen.
Don & Joan have wonderful chemistry, but I hope the writers never go there. I don’t want anything to ruin their friendship.
Didn’t enjoy this episode. The Lane subplot was boring and the Hare Krishna stuff was just bizarre.
They are going to make the staff work their asses off over the holidays. So if they don’t get it, with Don basically telling them, this is our Hail Mary pass, the employees are going to start to worry and maybe look elsewhere. My guess is they lose Ginsberg first and maybe Ken. I still think the firm is going to fall and fall fast.
Had he done so after Kevin’s birth? I thought he had been playing along with the discreet fiction that Joan’s husband was the father.
Agreed 100%! The Don-Joan scene ought to be their new template. We talking serious chemistry and excitement. No more Betty! No more Campbell! Don & Joan!
One more thing: Don can flat wear a hat!
He made reference to it when Joan first brought the baby to work.
Don may respect Megan, I don’t.
On the one hand, it’s good for her that she stands up for herself. On the other, the methods she uses for doing so are, to me, incredibly childish. Throwing plates across the room, this week, standing and screaming “I don’t want to talk to you” last comes across as throwing a tantrum. It’s a step up from Betty, but it’s a far cry from where I expect a grown up to behave.
Speaking of childish - was I the only person watching through my fingers with Don & Joan? They’re beautiful people and the actors have crazy chemistry with each other and still I really don’t want them to hook up. I like that the characters have a great friendship and respect the hell out of each other and want it to stay that way. (I also have the thought that Don hasn’t slept with either of his two work wives (Joan or Peggy) but I don’t know what to make of that.)
I’d love to see Jon Hamm and Christina Hendricks in a screwball romantic comedy together. It would be awesome. Just not as Don and Joan.
Sorry to keep beating this dead horse, but I thought he’d said “There’s my baby…” then made a bee-line for Joan, remarking “…somebody get the kid out of the way.” I.e., implying Joan was the baby in question.
Roger is a master of double entendre.
No.
I.e. making a joke that only Joan would understand.
Not sure I understood the Hare Krishna subplot. Was she trying to blackmail him after the sex? There was no proof that anything happened, so she has no leverage. What was the point of having sex with him?
You think his wife is going to be looking for ironclad proof if a hot woman shows up with that story? Harry has a history of infidelity and there are witnesses that she came to see him. And even if her story isn’t 100 percent persuasive to Jennifer, it’s enough to strain their relationship.
Fabulous idea! Reminiscent of Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade and Cary and Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief.
No, she was too inept for blackmail. She said that she traded herself to get Harry to manipulate Paul into staying in the cult. But even Harry pointed out that she did it backwards by first giving it away and then negotiating.
Megan might be justified to be angry, even yell “Where the hell were you? Why didn’t you call?” when he walked in the door.
Throwing a plate of food across the room, slamming another plate of food in front of Don and demanding he eat it while she sits there in stony silence, glaring icily out the window (while the smashed plate of food sits on the floor) qualifies as a tantrum. Especially when it’s the first time he’s done that to her.
And besides, Megan was Don’s secretary for a year (and an office receptionist for longer) and certainly knows that Don is quite often pulling very late nights, or all-nighters, often on the spur of the moment, and rushing out at the drop of the hat to glad-handle clients. Running out for cocktails on the spur of the moment with the CEO of Heinz Baked Beans (for example) is just a part of his job.