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Looks like a Peggy centric episode. I wonder if we’ll ever get to see her interacting with Abe’s family. I’m sure they’re pleased as punch over their son shacking up with a shiksa who’s more interested in her career than children. 
Peggy is getting a place on 84th and York (between 1st and York)? She’d be living a block away from where my sister lives now. (Not too far east for my sister…)
I liked the joke about the Second Avenue Subway.
You could almost see the wheels turning in Harry’s head when Pete made that sarcastic comment about the TV-movie. It just hit me that Betty is turning into Henry’s mother! :eek: Just look at her.
Harry has truly become a repellent character. The fact that creepy Pete is the voice of moral outrage in their argument is pretty ironic.
Loved the very awkward attempt by Joan to “console” Dawn. (But not that hideous getup Joan was wearing! Ugh, worst thing Christina Hendricks has ever put on.)
I watch Mad Men to see office drinking, secretry skirt chasing, locker room jokes, cheating, backstabbing, and nailing ad campaigns on a moment’s notice while hung over. I also like (most) of the family-based stuff.
I don’t particularly watch it for the politics of the day or race riots.
This episode did nothing for me. Voted “Didn’t Like It.”
If it keeps on like this, I’ll probably just Netflix the first few seasons again.
Pete’s always been more enlightened on racial issues. Didn’t he advise a client in the first season to advertise in black magazines? (Although part of his argument was that the ads would be cheap.)
An once again Harry had a point, even if he expressed it in the most insensitive way possible. I did feal sorry for Pete tonight though. How hard would be for Peggy to get a mortgage? I doubt any banks back then would consider making a loan out to an unmarried couple. And of course if they were married the bank who only take Abe’s salary into account, not Peggy’s. My own great aunt had a hard time finding a bank that would give her a mortgage without her brother cosigning.
As a media buyer, I sympathized with Harry (though he was an ass for voicing his annoyances.) Having all of your spots get bumped for special coverage sucks.
I was almost more annoyed with Harry shushing Joan during the awards presentation. That was just a petty asshole thing to do, and do you think he would have done it if Don had made the binoculars comment? Plus, his shushing was louder than her whispered comment.
King Douche strikes again.
I wonder if Paul Newman really spoke at those awards. He must have right?
And Harry’s probally been on the phone with screaming clients who are even less diplomatic that he was.
I was baffled by Peggy’s worry that the condo was “too far east.” How wide is Manhattan? Like two miles, right? How far east *can *you get from where you want to be?
Also, at 23 minutes into the episode, they showed a closeup of a telephone in Don’s apartment. It was a push-button phone with 10 buttons. That’s right, 1 through zero, with no # or * button. This bothered me. For one thing, I don’t remember such a phone ever existing, and for another, I don’t remember push-button phones even existing in 1968. Of course, I was 10 years old that year, so my memory might be fuzzy, but I didn’t think push button phones existed until the early seventies.
Other than those quibbles, though, great episode. Loved the angst and the implicit forward and reverse racism. And of course the worry about what might have happened to Don’s mistress and her husband!
It’s a Western Electric 1500. The 2500 had the standard twelve we’re used to, and it came out in 1968.
Screen capture: Imgur: The magic of the Internet
So 10 button touch-tone phones did exist in 1968. I don’t know if they had spread to New York between 1963 and 1968 or if it was an experiment confined to Pennsylvania.
We (my parents) bought our first house that year, and we had a push button phone. As kids, we were enthralled and used to play songs on it. I was thrilled they got it in there at the right time. What I also remember was there was a bug in the system where if you were talking to someone and hung up, if they didn’t hand up, you were still connected and couldn’t make another call until the other party hung up. We used that trick a lot. Not sure if that was a local thing where we lived, or more general.
Loved this episode. Great character development.
I like Ginsberg, but there was too much time spent on his ‘date’ and his father. Why? (Of course, as Bobby got more screen time than he has over the whole course of the show, maybe because the next season is the last they want every character to get some screen time. Instead of just hovering in the background.) I have to say I was inordinately thrilled they were seeing Planet of the Apes, one of my favorite movies ever! Take that, horrible Betty! Bobby wasn’t watching TV - it was better!
What was with the weird LSD-addled insurance guy? The scene was good for a few chuckles between Don and Stan but it didn’t seem to be setting anything much up or offering a whole lot. I’m sure next season will have some pivotal moment that depends on what happened last night but most of the scenes can stand on their own and that was some combination of awkward, amusing and boring. I was glad when it was over.
Then again, so was Don.
Ethan, from Lost. AKA, Tom Cruise’s cousin.
I took it as just another snippet of the type of character one might find in that year in NYC.
Maybe. The rest of the episode seemed pretty dense in character development for a throw-away like that though. Seemed very out of place.
