I imagine @avclub-2586d0717b58d4f4383144ca1341d079:disqus meant that Peggy could retaliate against Stan for trying to get it on with her.  I disagree with this for several reasons.  One, sexual harassment didn't emerge as consensus forbidden behavior in the business world until the early-1990s (really coalescing…

Shit, I totally missed that.  I thought she was the Hare Krishna girl that Harry risked a bladder infection with last season.  Probably just because she was dressed unconventionally and Harry introduced her.

Do they have Emmys for single-episode performances?  Because the lady who played Grandma Ida deserves one for the way her face could go from pleasant and convincing to straight-up angry and menacing in the blink of an eye.

I loved how that was the line that won Sally's confidence.  In Sally's mind, her mother is the worst.  But every daughter thinks that about her mother, at least from time to time at Sally's age.

She probably saw Don's name on the mailbox or something.  And guessing that a teenage girl would not see completely eye-to-eye with her mother is not any kind of lucky guess; it's the mark of someone who as paid the slightest attention to human interactions.  Besides, Grandma Ida clearly possessed those skills so…

I loved the heavy silence after Grandma Ida asks, "Your father is Don Draper, isn't he?"

WTF is a CD shelf LOL?

I thought the guy Rosen saved in that first episode was the doorman.  I remember Rosen kvetching about how grateful and groveling the doorman is to him afterward, and Don coming in drunk at some point later and bugging the doorman about what he saw when he almost died.

@avclub-dd0dfd8e343e1009e4c5d0cfe22f6afe:disqus , you use the past tense and a defined range of years, implying that at some point America stopped losing its collective shit.  I'm curious as to when you would estimate America got its head straightened out, because shit has been pretty fucked up as long as I can…

I don't think we've even seen him drink, have we?

And so far as we know, no one in that car was on drugs (they were just drunk).

Yeah, this was vitamins and speed, not LSD.  No one was hallucinating anything in this episode.  Their senses were heightened randomly, their ability to think logically was interrupted, and Don's sense of the passage of time was completely out of whack, but no one was seeing or hearing things that weren't there.  To…

Pete's totally Joey Bishop, then: the unloved, embittered, easily forgotten one.

@avclub-354d2a6c6dc7c81d151228eb1db371c9:disqus , and what good is introducing two droid characters that link two generations of a significant family, only to have their memories erased at the end, so they can't form any viable link between father and son?  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

"The only other pitch we've seen from him this season in any depth was when he made a deluxe Hawaiian vacation sound like somewhere you wait for the boatman to carry you across the River Styx."

@avclub-2abf2b82c099047f2d089c7e7abe42b1:disqus , you coulda said he "Dodged" his Chevy duties.

Chaoughaough even scolded everyone about their shit work upon his return to the office.  He was totally not down with the "proprietary" vitamin and stimulant concoction from Cutler's man.  Chaoughaough will "rap" with the youngins and say "groovy" (and "far out" can't be too far away), but he doesn't like tardiness,…

I kind of wish the scene had been Grandma Ida breaking into Roger's place.  Can you imagine the dialog between those two quick-witted smooth-talkers?  Shit, after some of "Sterling's Gold," Grandma Ida might be the one wondering if she was hallucinating.

Grandma Ida was perfectly cast.  She was instantly suspicious, but kind of grew on me, and I could understand how Sally would come to think that maybe she was telling the truth.  Then when she got angry, and her eyes shot daggers in about 3 nanoseconds, that just chilled me.  But Sally Draper is also Betty Francis's…

Truly.  In one of the scenes in Episode III, Palpatine was tempting Anakin to evil in a corridor somewhere, and on the wall was a frieze of what looked like an ancient Jedi battle.  It looked like the sort of thing you see along the cornice of Greek and Roman buildings, or on Roman columns celebrating an emperor's…