I really hope tonight’s episode will be a lot better than last week’s.
Who sang “Always something there to remind me” at the end? I just keep thinking “Las Vegas crooner”. And my mind goes Tony Bennett? Tom Jones? Dean Martin? Argh. Who???
Great episode. The best was Abe getting stabbed. Best thing Peggy’s done all season.
Lou Johnson, apparently. 1964 (episode is in 1968).
Betty may be cold, but she absolutely knows Don.
Did I miss something? What was Roger’s recurring dream?
Also, starting to think that Bob Benson might just be a genuinely nice guy. It’s just that we’ve gotten so used to seeing the way everyone else acts that it first seemed like he must have some ulterior motive.
I think it’s referring to his grandson’s recurring nightmare/dream, which ends up plaguing him (Roger).
That’s the only way to get sex out of Don. Don’t be married to him.
That he be an intimate part of Joan’s personal life (e.g., as a father figure to her child), perhaps?
ETA: IvoryTowerDenizen’s suggestion makes more literal sense, but perhaps there is a double meaning intended. Or not.
This is the first episode this season that I have LOVED.
The scene with Don and Betty in bed was sweet, sad, touching, sexy, and perfect. She really gets him. And she looks fabulous. He always looks fabulous, in or out of clothes.
Any connection between Bobby’s camp song about Abraham and Peggy stabbing Abe? Glad they finally broke up. He is a loser. Peggy has really bad luck with men. 
Still can’t figure out what Bob Benson’s scam is. I don’t trust him.
No Cutler weirdness? Boo.
Gotta say, this episode bored me. The sole moment that got my attention was the stabbing.
Can’t recall anything funny.
Maybe Bob really is a nice guy. That would be a twist.
Abe a loser? I never saw him that way. But I guess that relationship wasn’t really all that riveting.
Didn’t someone suspect in a previous thread that Megan’s swinging co-workers might be interested in a same-sex pairing? It looks like that was correct. And I was amused a little when Peggy stabbed her boyfriend. And whatever high-minded principals drove Peggy and Abe to buy that building, they bought into a terrible neighborhood.
I don’t think it required any suspicion. It seemed to me pretty clear that both of them were bisexual and that Don wasn’t safe either from that perspective.
Not even Bobby #1 and Bobby #5?
I don’t trust Benson/Bunson either. When he went to Pete’s office, I thought he was going to gossip/speculate about Joan and Roger.
I loved this episode too. Finally, some straight-up story telling. It may have been a bit soapy, but stuff happened.
And Fleischmann’s? They need to go with taste. Their competition is Imperial, not butter.
So Peggy didn’t know what Abe was doing, and Abe didn’t know what Peggy was doing. And that’s how this happened: no communication, not on the same page. She might as well live alone, because she effectively was when that scene started.
And it’s interesting to see this perspective. A lot of books from, and set in, this era, would be from Abe’s POV, breaking up with his live-in girlfriend because she was so square, man, and didn’t understand the downtrodden, only cared about selling margarine and the American Dream. But from this angle, he just looks like a dick.
As for Roger’s grandson, was it even a recurring dream? Or did Margaret call the very next day, after one bad night? I’ve never bought into that mindset, that kids should never see or read anything that might upset them. Talk them through it, comfort them, but accept it as part of the maturing process. Let them grow a skin.
Was Megan’s costar Ally Sheedy? Sure looked like her.
I loved that awkward pause when she told Ted about Abe getting stabbed. 
Abe was an ass; Peggy’s so much better off without him. Though she’s now stuck with that building.
I don’t normally like Bobby, but I loved the joke about him being Bobby #5. And that moment when he was super excited to be able to introduce his parents and let people assume they were a married couple. It was actually kind of sad.
Oh, and Bob recommending a male nurse to care for Mrs Campbell was a little odd. But worth it for Pete’s sheepishly asking if he was “Spanish from Spain, because that’s the only way Mother will ever accept him”.
Okay, I’ll be the first one to mention the elephant in the room that no one is talking about:
Bob’s shorts were absolutely insane. Seriously, I was a little embarrased for the actor; those screencaps will never leave the Internet. Of course, now I just can’t think of someone who’d wear those shorts as nefarious, so he probably is a nice (clueless) guy.
… and he does have the booty for them. Still.
Nah, Campbell wore shorter ones into the office on the weekend years ago.
This is true. I was in college from 1966-1970, and we had utter disdain for business majors. We looked down on making money. The business department of my liberal arts college was in the basement and those students and teachers, too, were totally beneath our notice. Kind of the way geeks/nerds were looked at before it became fashionable to be one.
Someone with Abe’s philosophy of protest would definitely despise and be intolerant of Peggy’ s job. But all liberal-minded protestors weren’t rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth types like Abe either. Yeah, there were those, but the culture of protest was spreading, and the country was changing by means of a slow ferment from within that eventually saturated the mainstream.
The society we live in today is so money-oriented and so completely unashamed of it that it’s impossible to imagine a widespread culture among college students and young people that saw earning money or even CARING about money as being vaguely dirty. We were an extremely idealistic generation.
My late husband was only nine years older than me, but that was enough of a gap to put him in Don’s generation. Whereas, I’m a few years younger than Peggy and a few years older than Sally.
I wonder what happened to Zosia Mamet’s character.
“I’m Bobby #5!” - Mad Men is getting meta.
Bob Benson said in the first episode that his father was dead (said to Ken after getting chewed out for sending food to the funeral.) Now there is a nurse that brought him back to health. Something’s up with “Bob Bunson”.
Between the short shorts and the blue suit, Bob is basically the new Pete Campbell.