We could revisit it. I rewatched all of season two on a whim this weekend on Netflix. He's not broad, I still think Don firing Sal is one of the show's finest emotional beats. This is someone who was a series regular for three seasons. Meanwhile Weiner finds a way to shove Glen Bishop back into the show any chance he…

I'd like to clarify, for the sake of everything holy, that a donkey punch is not a punch to the genitals. It's a punch to the back of someone's head while you're having sex with them from behind.

And to add to your Joan point, I agree. Joan is someone we've watched get raped, be impregnated by her boss, and had to have sex with a stranger (the Jaguar exec) to provide for herself. Only to have everyone still take her for granted as they always have. She's almost in a position similar to that of Peggy's, last…

I think he's a way for Weiner to hold a mirror up to the viewers. How we become so suspicious of someone who's just a genuinely good person.

Sal.

I don't know, Peggy and Joan have always had a bit of a tug of war. You could argue that in season one, the moment that Peggy becomes a copywriter, she's in a superior position to Joan. As with now, Joan is a partner, Peggy isn't.

She's in the consistently vague promo for next week.

Cutler made a crack about that too, of all the accounts for him to get worked up about meeting with, you'd think Manischewitz would be a cakewalk. Todd mentions it, but you wonder what's going on underneath the surface with Ginsberg. He seems to have some real anxieties and psychosis, and I wonder what of that stems…

It's all excellent.

Am I a total sucker for almost being moved to tears by Bob Benson's pep talk to Ginsberg?

I'll make Contact with your face with my fist!

What's more interesting:

I wager by the end of Season 7 of Mad Men, much in the way that Megan went from being a nobody at the start of Season 4, to being Don's fiancee, Bob Benson will be the most important person at SCDPCGC.

How about that sound design?

I get why they're needed for story purposes, but I do hate young Don.

I think it was more morbid curiosity than anything else.

Just the two of them in the boardroom playing checkers against each other. Not chess, but checkers.

I thought the same things and posted them in a comment of my own, that the shot of Don seeing Ted and Peggy was the most telling of the whole episode. And, how he reacts to Ted's secretary thereafter.

I may or may not be speaking from personal experience, but drugs of this nature certainly have a way of making you feel as if every thought that comes into your head is beautifully profound. In Don's highest of highs, he really thought he had the key to happiness there for a bit.

That Ginsberg's biggest character trait is his own neurosis, and now that everyone is on drugs, they're finally operating on his level.