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Roger and Jane.

This scene also plays on his question for the doorman in the season premiere: "What did you see when you died?"

Seems that way, yet Roger has to cut him off from working on the plane? Hard to judge sometimes when we're not privy to the more mundane routines of the characters' lives, such as work.

We've seen in the past that Ted is no choirboy, especially re: Draper.

@avclub-525f76574b3a2a5bcb4da793c92a16fb:disqus  Too many Betty haters missed this central point about Betty. For me her ambivalence in a conventional suburban marriage was the major theme of the show (along with Don's self-reinvention) and made her the most sympathetic character through the first three seasons. The

This was made explicit in the "Previously on 'Mad Men'…" segment at the beginning, which included the subconsciously suicidal Royal Hawaiian pitch.

"You ever get three sheets to the wind and try that thing on?"

re: Jaguar, actually the other partners let Lane have his go at it, coached him up a little bit, and only took it away from him after he failed to close in the second meeting. Not surprising that Pete wouldn't want to take the same chance again.

The assumption that catchy 3-to-5-minute songs with verses and choruses don't make people think is extremely pretentious.

Actually I think about almost nothing but college football. 

Pete is a despicable person, but as Burt Cooper detailed at the beginning of this episode, he is very good at his job. Pete has more than pulled his weight on the accounts side.

Roger and Don don't do it for the money because, as Pete inappropriately but accurately points out in this episode, they already have money.

Miss Farrell remains No. 1 on the Mad Men Female Power Rankings. When Betty called Don on his Dick Whitman shit he should have said "OK see ya," hopped in the car and never looked back.

She did. She also had a Bobby Kennedy coffee mug on her desk at the end of this episode.

He described the pitch for Ted, but that is a far cry from seeing him deliver it in the room for the biggest client of his career. And we're not sure if Don's pitch (or Ted's) is the one they actually wound up going with.

We got a Cliff's notes version but never saw it or any of the work that went into it. Much less insight than in most of SCDP's other major projects, which often take up multiple episodes. Kodak, Hilton, Honda, Heinz, Jaguar, Royal Hawaiian… the audience had access to work and pitch on all of them.

This was one of the glaring weak spots of the episode in my opinion: The biggest client of Don's career, and not only do we not get the usual peek behind the curtain during the creative process – we don't even get to see the pitch.

Yes. After 'Girls Against Boys' Roger might want to think twice about guilt-tripping her back into the sack.

"I grew up in a place like this." … "There is no other place like this."

Yeah, Roger was chasing his own lead.