@registered: After Jane locked herself in the bathroom, Roger shouted something to the effect of: "What are you going to do, commit suicide?" It was incredibly jarring and will, in Mad Men fashion, probably foreshadow something. #madmen
English Patient #toddenglish
Hey! Hey, editors! Oh... have you been working out? Wow, yeah. It's just, uh, that shirt, it seems to fit.. really, uh, well. And is that a new haircut? It's so flattering! Also, has anyone ever told you how much you look like Brad Pitt? I mean, it's uncanny. Oh! I just remembered. You know my star? The one that makes me feel warm and special, even a little fuzzy, but in a good way? You know the one. Yellow, very pointy. Yeah! That one. You know, it's strange. I haven't seen it lately. I was wondering if it wandered over to you guys. It's always doing that, wandering, and you know, I get worried. So if you see it around, you know, could you tell it aLostLady misses it? I assume it wasn't viciously eaten by a coyote, right? So if you see it at the supermarket, or in the gym, just, you know, tell it I said hi, and it's welcome back anytime. #comments
@Brian Moylan: Oh, Brian. I was SO disappointed that she showed up looking like she was on permanent dishwashing duty. Such wasted opportunity to look as fierce as she felt.
@registered: I think Sal will stick around, and with good reason. Did anyone else read the interview about how Harry Crane's character was almost killed off (suicide: jumping out of a Sterling Cooper window, I think) in the first season? Weiner decided he had developed too much and audiences would fall in love with the lovable teddy bear he is, so he's still here.
I think Weiner should know how much audiences adore Sal... and Joan, for that matter. They may be a few steps away, but they'll still be here when we need them. More or less.
@Colonel Mustard: Well said, Colonel.
My boyfriend was Memorial's star safety ten years ago. He recalls the t-shirts as being in good fun, but now has the good sense to see it as embarrassing, revolting and offensive.
As they say, hindsight's 20/20, and luckily, my little meathead grew up to be a thinker.
@JohanPaladin: No, Henry said what she said-- When you DON'T have the power, delay.
The look on Betty's face was a flash of guilt as she remembered from whom she had heard the saying.
@GooberSaysHey: So dorky-cute! She's never dorky-cute. Awkward nervousness following illicit kisses looks good on her.
@Spirit Fingers: True. Don's never had to wax poetic to bed a woman. Duck's sweet nothings felt forced and likely untrue. I'd also bet that he's using her as a continuation of the Don power struggle. No offense, Pegs, but I sincerely doubt Duck's harbored any secret attraction for you all this time.
@hypeddown: The last real reason for a breaking point was when Roger blamed Don for encouraging him to leave Mona. And this was after they had that bonding guy's night in which Don finally confided his marital troubles with him. I think Roger unfairly blaming him was a slap in the face to the big leap of trust Don had just taken.
But it's obviously a laundry list of things Roger's done that had been building up to come to this. Sad, too. I liked their relationship, shitheads that they both are.
@mharker: And, if this helps: When Don gives Betty the reason for his anti-contract stance as being "They want me, but they can't have me," the exchange wasn't trying to be this clever, foreshadowing, symbolic piece of metaphor. It was actually extremely straight-forward. When Betty says, sarcastically, "Now why would I know nothing about that?", she's referring to herself and their marriage. She wants him (completely), and can't have him.
To use your term, I guess it's not so obvious after all.
@plasticene: That was the beginning and end of his "Can This Man Not Do Anything Perfectly?" moments this episode.
@tailpipebananna: Yes! And immediately after making a date, ahem, appointment with Silver Fox Belly-Toucher.
And I know, Conrad Hilton, big deal, but his sitting at Don's desk while Don was sitting in the oddly small visitor's chair across from him made me so uncomfortable. And then Connie saying to Don: "You seem nervous. I'm finding you difficult to talk to." Ouch.
@lafleur: Right, but she didn't even know his name, did she? It was entirely impulsive and reactionary. She's put too much thought into this thing with Henry. It's premeditated, which may be too much for her to handle.
@BettyCrocker: I guess the fact that no one noticed says it all, but I was waiting on pins and needles for her to be called out.
Drunken slut-slut teacher is an odd one. Drunken slut-slut phone call aside, she approached Don at the eclipse viewing, yes? Then immediately balks and takes offense at the ensuing small talk? Yet Don didn't walk away. WALK AWAY, DON.
@TorturedWriter: Yep, that's right. Cooper hadn't mentioned it since, so I was almost thinking he'd forgotten it, or dismissed it as untrue. Very crafty, Coop.
@ManchuCandidate: So bizarre! Who knew Duck had that kinda sweet talk in him? I should rephrase: who wanted to know??
And if Peggy was going to have a lapse in judgment due to hurt feelings, she would've been much wiser to have taken the job. Hermes? Revlon? Geez, woman, you turn a chance to write for those accounts down, yet you can't resist Duck Phillips?
Also: patting her dress seductively. Brian, you are adorable, but that was no patting. That was the hottest Betty's been in three seasons! I agree with you that she won't go through with the affair, though. I think her discomfort at his ordering apple pie was enough.
