In syndication, Bert Cooper will be replaced by Daniel Radcliffe.

I don't think that this and Froide's statements are mutually exclusive. My upbringing was much as you described, but still I know how to play "Beg of My Neighbor" (a card game) because my mother taught me, and she was a natural untrained athlete, whether it was wiffle ball, badminton, jump-rope or hopscotch. BUT ……

A good catch I read elsewhere — on the television, Flip Wilson was telling Redd Foxx that children are a blessing.

I'm reminded of the fact that the beautiful Season 6 poster was inspired by TWA flight menus.
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I'd like to add Don's reaction to Diana's daughter telling him that, if her mother won a prize, it should go to her.

Yeah, they're shooting pretty low. Their target audience can't afford hammocks.

"Hell, he even said once that you don't learn about people through statistics and numbers, you get to know the clients and the product. "

Exactly. Joan's Rolodex was a cornerstone of SCDP. It saw plenty of use as they worked from home on a new start. She has connections and she knows how to use them.

They had also shown no sympathy when he was literally being maimed by the Chevy execs. And, earlier, Roger had forbidden him to write in his spare time, while Pete tried to best him at that as well and even expected Trudy to compromise herself sexually to get Pete's writing efforts better placement than 'Boy's Life…

I think that Lou Avery goes Franz Liebkind on the Japanese for not fully comprehending his creation.

Or, just enjoy them both, on their respective merits!

Joan may be manipulative and play up the "delicate girl" angle but I think she deserves credit for being far more than that. Remember the lawnmower butchery? She was the only one with a head cool enough to demand a tourniquet and to bark orders. She didn't give a damn about the blood, while Peggy fainted and the…

"Don needs a less irritating Meredith, a caretaker who can make him laugh and take him out of his regular existential funks."

I think that "attractive person privilege" was an underlying theme of the episode. Poor otherwise-clueless Mathis says Don gets away with a lot because he's handsome. The entire relationship between Joan and what's-his-name is built on attraction to superficial measures (until they realize they've limited themselves).…

But Harry is so bad at being bad. He's the opposite of slick. He telegraphs his evil intentions so obviously that he never succeeds, and he's so insecure that he over-shares. It's his only remaining redeeming feature.

Well said. I don't think that Joan saw it as Don's lack of respecting her "sacrifice." She knew very well that he was against her decision to see it through. The account appeared to others to be a business victory, but Don knew what an empty win it was, and acted accordingly. So Joan not only lost out on the IPO;…

Otherwise known as the Velociraptor.

I also took it as offing Reg, but it appears that Pete is gone (in which case, someone needs to deal with Reg's reanimated corpse).

Ever since Maggie's introduction I've appreciated that the show has ignored the old horror trope that young lust = early death.

Carol Lady MacBeth'd Pete into showing his true colors. I don't think that that is necessarily a bad thing.