I took a gamble and was relieved it wasn't as bad as the previews made it look.  I appreciated the speech, didn't care much for the lower-brow humor, but a group of lunching ladies were sobbing with laughter and repeating all the lines.  I agree it's worth it for just a few of the moments (mine was the shower scene).

I thought the reason would be that Don was irritated she talks to her mother in French on the phone all the time. "Why don't you call your mother?"  How could anyone defend her after that?  This makes me so sad, because we just saw in reruns that Rachel Menken totally accepted him after he was confessing his parentage…

It seems like something made to do your ironing to.  And I have none.

I'd have loved to have been exposed to it daily back then as a kid, if it had aired ten years later.  I've tried watching it on Netflix now, but there is just way too much of it to watch.

I'm now watching the beginning of the Season 1 episode "Long Weekend" they ran Sunday morning.  Betty is gorgeous in blue and thin as a rail, upset a new woman has moved in on her father, commenting "and that fake smile!"  Don says "She seems like a perfectly nice lady.  Let him have it."

I do feel like the rush to write and post the review so quickly after the episode is unneccessary.

I, too,noticed something Megan was doing with her jaw in the office last few episodes and it's been driving me nuts.

That's true and it's sad.  There is no concern if the ad will sell the product, the ad is the product they're selling to the client.

This makes me wonder, Don obviously told Megan about his real name being Dick, and about being married to Anna, but has he not told her about his mother being a prostitute and dying in childbirth?  I can't imagine she would have said "WHY DON'T YOU CALL YOUR MOTHER?!" at the Ho-Jo if he had.  It makes it sound like…

Beth.

It had a ghost or two but was by no means supernatural?  Wha?  It's even called "Dark Shadows".

Yes, much too much Megan.  But no, @avclub-858b67085072a6f2403cf500871f4068:disqus I did not want to slap Sally this week, her behavior was totally excusable for a child. (But I did want to kick her in the butt when she said she was practically her new Grandma's slave when she asked her to set the table.)

"why is she so quick to lash out at Megan"

I definitely see it as an old-fashioned thing that will not die. I remember reading nightmarish accounts of the public weigh-ins, and the leader announcing weight GAINS to the room, and admonishments and shamings.  This particular meeting looked humane.

Red-headed acting friend was straight-up channeling Joan.  Mini-Joan!

@avclub-d7b683529752a4d24d84c4941861a363:disqus I read that, too, and it makes sense, what with her coming off of the Hot Tub Time Machine tittie scene.  Weiner certainly gave her a massive upgrade.

@avclub-c3121fa95cd6bc24f771b66449a2142c:disqus I don't think he ever would have actually suggested it to go into an ad, thought those ideas in his folder were his private brainstorming doodles for his own amusement.

@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus  That's true, as a kid in the 70s I loved getting an Orange Julius at the mall, but the swiveling seats in the old decor had a pitchfork design backrest.  I was a little terrified to go in there. (Thanks, religious indoctrination!)

@kencosgrove:disqus Agreed about the put-on, but a "put-on" is the Betty in her coming out?  Didn't we just see Megan explicitly teach her that?  Sally's learning from both of them, two of the masters.

From the beginning of the season, Megan vacillates from being very mature and grounded to being bratty, it's very uneven.  She's great with the kids, only handles her relationship with Don well about exactly half the time.  Having watched the last episode just before this new one, I was absolutely cringing at the way…