You just said my fav… here's an underrated one:

The show opens on Don and CLOSES on DON?!?!?! #mindblown

'Very good, Happy Christmas' is my fav MM line by far.

That's exactly what I got.

I think it's just a cactus.

Eh. By today's standards…sure…but this show takes place 50 years ago. Roger's character grew up when there were still minstrel acts on the Vaudeville circuit in NYC. I always gave it a pass as 'drunk grandpa says something racially insensitive that he thinks is innocent'. I mean even though he used racial tensions as…

and cocaine!

She needed to exist so he could see he finally hit rock bottom in looking for relationships as an escape from his past. It helps that when he chased her, it was in the direction he needed to go.

5………..4, 7a, 3, 7b, 1, 6, 2

We also got one last 'Don Draper says 'what'' moment when talking to Sally.

I re-watched season 1 over the last couple weeks. I'm convinced at this point that anyone who has a gripe with JJ's acting and BD's character are just fanboys who hate an anithero being thwarted.

So my final take on the overall point:

Well it stands to reason there's plenty of professionals doing their due work finding the tastes of what's out there. It's not like McCann became so huge by being aloof. I see your point and I've been coming around to it a bit as well. Especially with the opening credits as a juxtapose.

So I am shocked, SHOCKED I tell you! :-) Shocked that the notion that Don created that ad is so prevalent. I didn't even think about it until the interwebz started talking.

fair enough.

See, I think the people trying to say Don made the ad are the crazy ones who are reaching…

Friends said I was way off predicting, before these final 7 eps, that Don was going to go West and find redemption in the Jesus Movement or some type of spiritualism. Wish I put money on it…

I can see 'Coked-Out Joan Harris & Pam Poovey' illustrated erotic fan fic 'Coming Soon to an Internet Backwater Near You!'

That's exactly what I got from it at the time. Was actually surprised at the 'he wrote the ad' opinions on the interwebz…

So, moving past generalities…that scene where Don calls Betty: I physically gasped when Betty's emaciated, ghoulish figure floated across the screen.