Peaches & Herb would later leave the Jaguar sales game for music and have a major makeover. Pete’s father-in-law would become a groupie.
I could watch an entire hour of Marie laying waste to everyone around her.
From her expression, I thought she might have understood Marie’s comments.
Last week, Exapno Mapcase was surprised that no one on the show mentioned LBJ not seeking the nomination. Well, they mentioned it, briefly, this week, and Peggy even mentioned her enthusiasm for Robert Kennedy.
And BTW, did she buy that shitty apartment instead of the nice one on 84th and York? Why, oh why, did she do that? And why is she with Abe? They don’t seem to be very well-suited for each other.
Pretty sure. Abe was steering her towards some other neighborhood last week (I don’t know NY to remember it) with the promise that it was on its way up and getting nicer while staying interesting and multicultural (for their future kids!).
I think she at very least grasped that they weren’t flattering or being translated exactly.
Well, it does come with its own heroin addict tenant, and they’re steady since you rarely hear of heroin addicts trading up apartment wise.
I’m at least hoping that this place was a hell-of-a-lot cheaper. I had trouble believing that plotline because I think Peggy is secure and smart enough to take one look at it and say “Oh hell no”.
This episode took place in May 1968. RFK was killed on June 6th. The next episode will probably deal with that.
From the beginning I thought that the Jaguar arrangement would turn out to be a bad one as long as Herb could singlehandedly pull their business from SCDP and could thus ask for any ridiculous thing that he wants. What was going to happen when he decided he wanted another night with Joan? (I kind of thought that was where they were going this time.) It was just a matter of time before he asked for something they couldn’t give him and he’d find another struggling agency that could.
It was still a crappy thing for Don to have done unilaterally, but at the same time Roger shouldn’t have left him as the only one at the dinner without a professional glad-hander.
Question: when Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce was formed, what became of the former Sterling Cooper? Is it more likely still around or did its British owners probably sell it for its accounts (which since they took Lucky Strike and Vicks and a few others weren’t that substantial anymore)?
Christina has put on a few pounds since Firefly. (Why aren’t my extra pounds distributed that way?) She’s also wearing rocket nosecone bras…
I’d have thought the other two Jaguar guys would have more say than allowing Herb to do that unilaterally. Witness Don’s torpedoing of the “local business” ad buys when the two British fellows said they wanted to stay with the original plan.
But since Don told Herb “We’re not going to work for you anymore”, I guess it’s a moot point.
Just realized that Herb Rennett is played by the same actor who played the redneck sheriff who was in love with Idgie in Fried Green Tomatoes.
So Pete does get his name on the door. 
Actor had previous role. Film at eleven.
A whole episode of not being happy with what you have and making snap decisions that you may or may not regret later.
Don fires Jaguar and merges the company without telling anyone (Roger was obviously presented with a fait accompli). Guess we know who’s the star of this series.
Pete can’t catch a break. Bert finally gives him the compliment for his work that he deserves but everything else in his life crashes. He’s going to snap like a twig one of these days.
Peggy is trying to exert some control over her life but everybody else is making the decisions for her. Her face was a study when Don and Ted broke the news. Was this good news or bad news for her? She has no idea and doesn’t like that. Her little romance novel daydream about Ted was fun, but I still experc that it will stay in the daydreaming stage. Peggy doesn’t cheat even when everybody around her is. Didn’t Abe refer to the tenant as theirs: maybe they bought the whole building and inherited the tenants. (In NYS law today, leases must be honored when a building is bought, but I don’t know about 1968.)
No Sylvia. Sexy Megan. And Dr. Rosen’s heart dies.
“The heart wants what the heart wants.” But it doesn’t always get it.
Well, earlier, Bert, Joan and Pete were planning the public offering without telling Don. Admittedly, all the partners should have been involved in both decisions.
I liked that in her daydream, Ted was reading “Something” by Emerson.
What struck me the most is how alike Trudy’s husband and father are - both small, petty little men (who go to the same whorehouse) who don’t think through the consequences of their actions.
By pulling Vicks, there was no way that Trudy’s dad’s “princess” would be better off. At best, it would hurt Pete financially (which would hurt Trudy). At worst, Pete punishes Trudy (which is also going to hurt Trudy). Ken was right - it was a mutually assured destruction scenario and both of the men fired off their guns.
The difference is that Don got what he wanted.
I’m sure it’s being discussing somewhere, and people knowledgeable about 1960s partnership law have to weigh in, but both moves - the IPO and the merger - seemed dubious to me. Can you do transactions that major without informing all the partners and getting their vote? I know that technically neither have gone through but that’s the sort of thing that spawn lawsuits, even when everything goes right.
It was nice to see Roger finally doing something constructive, although working seems to have cut into his cutting remarks time. And Joan’s reaction was human and biting, but I’ll bet that all the others were thinking, “yeah, but what have you done for us lately?” They’re all that kind.
Do I dare hope that we get some kind of meeting between John DeLorean, Don Draper and Roger Sterling?
Make my day MW. 
Of course, Roger’s savvy business moves would include sleeping with a stewardess and getting an executive wasted. That’s Roger for you.