Joan told Bob that Pete was the only one in the office who had never broken a promise to her. Though she probably still regards him as a grimy little pimp.

Also, Mona's moved on, right?  Is she not married to the guy she showed up with at Roger's mother's funeral, causing Roger to lose his shit and kick everyone out, while Bob Benson's food platters arrived and Don spewed his guts out?

@avclub-cb10f554d73e40f723febf42a006a887:disqus  My money is on Greg getting his limbs blown off by a bomb planted by the Vietcong in a Saigon brothel that he visits regularly, sometime before the close of the decade. He survives, but fortunately he will be quite incapable of raping anyone ever again.

Life… cure for the common breakfast.

Well here's hoping Abe recovers enough to make it to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August, so he can find out what happens when you taunt the "Pigs".

I don't believe Abe is sincere in helping minorities.  I think he is just using their plight to advance his journalistic aspirations, like the 'Nuremberg on Madison' article, or how he wanted to run off to Harlem when MLK was shot so he could write it up for the New York Times.

Could you call this phenomenon 'Planned Bobscelesence'?

In a workplace permeated with fake identities, adultery, debauchery, drug/alcohol abuse, shady deals and secret love children, Bob Benson is the real rebel by virtue of being a legitimately decent person (unless subsequent plot developments prove it to be otherwise).

I'm expecting Ken Cosgrove to give the Black Power salute when he is awarded employee of the month for his efforts on the Chevy account.

The ambulance attendant will probably be voting for Nixon.

Kind of ironic, considering that when he was stabbed when coming out of the subway, Abe is happy to blame the 'racist establishment' rather than the malicious assailant who carried out the act.  While it was an accident, Peggy stabbing Abe and him ending the relationship has the silver lining that she will no longer…

Yes, and later in the episode, while he did acknowledge to Megan that he had not been around enough, he was not forthcoming with an apology, or any assurance that he would make amends. In other words, Don is indifferent to Megan, and at this stage has no clear intent of behaving any other way towards her.

What about if, with Roger's 'molotov cocktail' insurance buddy, they were the three musketeers of LSD?

@rawbun:disqus  I agree.  Don was born in 1926, so would have been old enough to be eligible for service at the tail end of WWII, yet he served in Korea, which was from 1950 onward, so that leaves the question about what he was doing for most of the 1940s, and if there were any incidents on this part of the timeline…

There was something kind of cold and unhuman about Faye.  Half the time, I suspected she might be a replicant.

I remember in an earlier season when Betty's father, in a semi-demented state scorns Don for 'Having no people".

Didn't they already have a rendition of that song in season four performed by a young Bob Dylan wannabe while Don and Lane were out on the town with a couple of prostitutes for New Years 1965?

It's the same city that Robert De Niro would refer to as an 'open sewer' a few years later in the movie Taxi Driver.

True, but if you are a snotty White Anglo-Saxon Protestant woman born around the turn of the 20th century, you probably consider Irish people to hardly be better than African Americans.

That's true, especially if you compare it to the hospital from season three where they took the victim of the 'John Deere' incident.  Possibly this nasty-ass hospital is one way of showing the decline of New York City from this point of time onward, that outside of the gleaming skyscrapers of Madison Avenue, things…