She has savings? Really? This is Penny we're talking about.

He wasn't fired - he was sent off on sabbatical forcibly. While that was indeed the same thing that happened to Freddy Rumsen, you're right in pointing out that Freddy wasn't a partner in the firm. Not to mention, Freddy wasn't The Don Draper. Don has a charisma that allows him to worm his way back into people's good…

I agree that the mechanism of the identity-switch was a bit clunky. There was certainly an amount of luck involved. If the real Don Draper's face hadn't been so disfigured by the blast, Don/Dick might not have been able to get away with it. What if someone in the rescue squad had pointed out that the dead guy wasn't…

Pretty good list. Though I'd personally throw In Care Of in the top 5, and kick Meditations in an Emergency lower down the ladder. And maybe send Shut the Door … a couple of spots higher.

I don't mean they would arrest him based on Pete's word - but they might investigate him based on it. And if they dug deep enough, they could find some pretty glaring discrepancies in Don/Dick's backstory. For one thing, the real Don was 9 years older than Don/Dick, so that's a red flag right there.

Mad Men is just brilliant at showing the yawning gaps between how people perceive themselves and how others perceive them. Don is usually the subject of these changing viewpoints, but the incident you mention involving Peggy's sister in confession is a great one about Peggy. Throughout season 1, Peggy is depicted as a…

Pete has no proof in hand, that's true. But if he manages to convince the authorities to investigate simply on his say so - not too difficult, given that he has friends in high places - they could probably find enough to at least arrest Don. Anna wouldn't betray Don/Dick, and the real Don Draper might not have had any…

And put together a video of Bob asking Pete how he feels after the “Mr. Campbell… who cares?” incident, to which Pete of course replies "NOT GREAT, BOB!"

The creme de menthe in the water cooler is an awesome visual … balanced out nicely (and ickily) by the green puke.

Mad Men is one the most literary TV shows ever … not 'literary' in the sense of based on books or being about books, but rather one that takes the tropes of great literature and puts them to superb use in the TV medium. If fact, it sometimes goes back before written literature to ancient Greek drama: the cool reversal…

And refusing to translate the 'making love to a woman' line!

I didn't mind the dance sequences, but I couldn't help thinking how much more awesome they would have been if they had been on Bunheads. I think Bay and Emmett's dance and Kathryn's dream sequence would have been particularly spectacular.

I think that Travis may not want to hear something like that from Toby, and Toby knew that. Remember that Travis lost out on the manager job to Toby, and in Travis's mind at least, it was partially because he's deaf. They are not as close as Emmett and Toby, and Travis sees Toby as a rival to some extent. Toby…

Yeah - it's hard to buy Bay and Tank as a couple when Bay and Emmett have such incredible chemistry. I'm no shipper, but even I couldn't help thinking that those two really belong together during the whole 'Vegas' scene. Seriously Bay, what are you thinking? Here's a cute, sweet guy who cares about you and can…

Yeah - I thought it was great. Usually, on TV, we're supposed to believe that a character's artwork is amazing, even though it actually looks like crap. (Admittedly, SaB isn't so bad in this regard - though most of Bay's work isn't to my taste, I can usually see some good points in it). This was the rare example of…

This show has few flaws, but one of the biggest one is the way Daphne is portrayed. Here's a chance for the writers to tell a unique story about a deaf teenager finding her identity … but somehow almost all of Daphne's stories wind up being about her relationship with some guy and its fallout. The whole clinic…

If Ted is dead and it's the Mother who is telling his stories, it would explain why the stories are about Ted's life and not the Mother's or theirs together. She's telling the kids about their father's life as a way for them to get to know him.

I'm having the opposite experience rewatching season 1. I mildly disliked it the first time through, and only reluctantly continued with the second season, which is when I fell in love with the show. Now on rewatching season 1, I find it hard to believe I once disliked it - there's so much greatness there!

Season 4 felt disjointed as a whole - it didn't have a very clear cut seasonal arc, beyond that of trying to make SCDP work. However, it had several great standalone episodes, like The Suitcase (possibly the best episode of the whole series), The Rejected, The Beautiful Girls, etc.

People say that children really grow up only when they start seeing their parents as individuals, not people who exist just to cater to their every need. But the same works the other way around too: parents too 'grow up' when they realize their kids are individuals, not just extensions of themselves. Of course, in…