This episode was Don's "Signal 30".

Be that as it may, I thought this was a left turn for Don Draper character.  He came on like a run-of-the-mill twenty-something wannabe alpha male type who is not quite secure in his masculinity, what with the binge drinking with Ted, the need to dominate Sylvia in bed. Not smooth.

Maybe she will be the the Uncle Junior of this show, her demented state of mind somewhat ambiguous.

Oh, that is terrible, but I laughed anyway.

More like angry Vega owners who eventually overrun the advertising firm, forcing the staff to be choppered out from the roof.

Maybe Weiner did not want to rehash the episode before last showing the characters greeting the news of his assassination with shock, having miniature existential crises while contemplating 'what is the world coming to?' and all that stuff.

I would go as far as saying Don is thoroughly apolitical, so long as he is able to live out his lavish, 1950s-style reality find without any hinderances, he doesn't care who is in charge.  Sure, he did sing Nixon's praises in the first season, but that was only because the firm was pitching for the business of Nixon's…

If it turns out Bob is really working for the competition and has been poaching clients, I think this will be entirely plausible.

That Bobby Kennedy impression won't seem so funny now, will it?

@avclub-705562aaa4a5b85bfa44373d8e6bf234:disqus  I guess Peggy's boss gets extra kudos for doing a convincing RFK impression.

What if they go with the one pitch that they consider, after much discussion, is the best.  The whole point of merging was to convice the bigwigs at General Motors that their combined companies have the size and the clout to successfully sell the new model (the Vega) to the car-buying American public.

That nightie was Business Time, 1960s style.

Don would most obviously hate it, because it would mean that they would be held accountable to stockholders outside of the business, who are primarily concerned with a return on their investment, at the expense of doing the creative work he wants to do and would diminish ability to fire clients he does not like (e.g.…

Perhaps Pete's views are representative of the social mores of the time when interracial relationships were frowned upon by the wider society, in a word a taboo, that he caught his father-in-law doing something he should not do.

Probably the latter, as Trudy is very fond her father, being an only child and has had a lot of financial support from him in her married life.  Of course it would upset a conservative white woman like Trudy to imagine her beloved father with a negro woman. Pete's outburst probably worked against any kind of…

Yeah, maybe a Japanese make of car that would soon dominate the American market once the oil shocks of the mid-seventies hit.  Datsun perhaps?

The irony in that was Don was once a used car salesman who produced his own flyers.

When in the next episode, when RFK gets assasinated, will there be any mention of the crank call Chaough made to Don pretending to be RFK when Don took out the 'Why I Quit Tobacco' ad in the New York Times back in Season Four?

I envision it ending with a montage set to the Mick Jagger song 'Memo From Turner' from the film 'Performance'.

Do you think the Herb character could be the enduring influence of Matt Weiner's previous show on Mad Men, or possibly a heavy-handed attempt to insert an Italian-American presence into the current series?