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Roger changes tack to make new business. Pete has an awkward run-in with a client.
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Based on the preview Joan’s changed her look, Pete’s done something slimy, Cooper offers sage wisdom, & Peggy get’s upset about something.
Loved it. Everything falling apart and then a twist I never would have guessed.
Only regret is that I assume we’ll miss the immediate reactions from the SCDP team and come into it weeks later.
I want to marry this episode.
Probably the best episode of the season. Intrigue, confrontation and Don is back on his game, and paying attention to Megan.
What is the big secret from Chevrolet? The Monte Carlo? or the Vega? Both which were 1970 models that came out in 1969
I was going through the list of Chevy models on Wikipedia trying to identify the new model. And I liked the view of the lobby at the Chevy/GM headquarters, at a time when American manufacturers were at the height of their power.
Sterling Cutler Draper Chaough Cooper? Gleason and Pryce seem out, of course.
It’s nice to know that Herb has a wife who makes his life unpleasant. I’d hate to think he was happy at home.
If you were Pete (a sleazy proposition I’ll admit, but no offense) would you be honorable or expose your father-in-law (and your daughter’s grandfather) to everybody who’d listen?
Must be the Vega- XP-887 which was mentioned by Roger in the episode was one of the prototype model names.
The Blazer came out in '69, but I’ve no idea how big of a splash it made.
Hmmm…I took an Ill-fated road trip with a guy in 1973 in a cobalt blue Vega… <TL ponders her past misdeeds>
Did Pete really think his FIL was going to regard that encounter at the whorehouse as two men of the world who must keep each other’s secrets? Were people saying black in 1968 instead of Negro? I can’t remember.
In that scene at the beginning with Joan did anyone else notice that he never took his eyes off her bosom? Her chest does seem awfully large this season.
Joan she said she went through The Thing with Herb for nothing, but she DID get a partnership out of it. That’s not nothing. It was still icky and creepy, but when they go public she will be a millionaire and can put out a contract on Herb.
I kept thinking Camaro because of sending someone to the library for “everything on Mustang.” But Camaro was introduced in '67.
I couldn’t take my eyes off her chest either. She didn’t have those boobs in Firefly. I don’t think the shelf-chest is attractive, but then I’m not the target audience.
Pete is a slimeball. Did his father-in-law really think he’d “do the right thing”? Or did he know Pete would blab and that would be the last straw for Trudy?
What did the FIL think was the right thing for Pete to do? Kill himself? I was confused about that.
Yes, but now that Don fired Jaguar, the public offering won’t go through and she won’t get the million bucks that was mentioned.
Divorce Trudy. I suppose that his leverage is that he gets the account back.
Except that now that they got Chevy, even with the merged firm, it’s worth even more.
Do Roger and Don have a big enough percentage to make the merger call without the rest of the partners? Then again, do Joan, Pete and Bert have enough to do the public offering?
Love that Roger got a huge win. Love that Don and Peggy will be working together again.
I wondered about that, too. I guess we just have to go with it.
What I do have a problem believing is that Pete’s father-in-law could cancel the deal with an ad agency that has apparently been successful for Vicks without any fuss at all. What did he tell everyone else at the firm? Even in the late 60s, I can’t see “let’s get a new ad agency because the exec at the one we have is cheating on my daughter” going over well. Especially if someone wants to explore just how he found out about the cheating.
Yeah. It’s kind of like that might fly in the Family Values 50s, but not in the Free Love 60s.
The XP887 is the Vega. Absolutely positive on that. The car had a very unique pre-release ad campaign that never never said what the mystery car was or what it looked like.
It should also be noted that Campbell-Ewald is Chevy’s ad agency forever and always.
I don’t think Peaches makes Herb’s life unpleasant at all! She seems like an amiable enough airhead, in a proper “little woman” way, with Herb the indulgent “big daddy” way. As with all the men on this show, Herb has lust for other women who are sexier, but I would think he’s content with his Peaches and she with him (to pay for her numerous shopping expeditions, if nothing else).
How hilarious was Marie at that dinner?? “She (Peaches) is the apple in the mouth of the pig”. And Don, listening to the prattle about the puppies, had the same look on his face as during Megan’s Zou Bisou Bisou - like he was trying to look interested/happy but was being prodded with a sharp object at the same time.
Well, this payoff explains the slow buildup of the last few episodes and why Harry Hamlin suddenly showed up.
And this seemed to be one of those episodes where all the characters take the same action to reinforce what the episode’s theme is: Marie, Don, the Doctor, and Pete’s FiL all got fed up and quit on what was annoying them.
So Pete was right about having big things coming his way! 
Prior to the father-in-law/Vicks/prostitute blow-up, Pete & Trudy almost seemed on a path towards reconciliation. At least Trudy didn’t hit Pete with a rolling pin for grabbing her boob and seemed more playfully amused by Pete’s claims for a big future than irate or “Shut up, no one cares”.
I couldn’t have been the only one waiting on the “She speaks French” shoe drop (that never came).