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The Drapers meet with Sally’s teacher because she got into a scrape with a “bruiser” girl at school. The teacher asks about changes at home. Betty explains about her dad dying. In the midst of the discussion Betty excuses herself to go to the bathroom. The teacher explains to Don that Sally is grieving and the special pain of losing someone at that age and doesn’t know if Don can understand. He says he can. Betty comes back and the teacher say it can wait. Betty is glad because she wants to put it behind them so that everything can be perfect.

Don enters a meeting and Lane is going over their expenses from their Baltimore trip and then complains about office supplies and disappearing credenzas. Don leaves the meeting.

Kinsey blathers about Marx to Pete who is struggling with Admiral TV account and griping that Ken got all the good clients. He notices that while overall Admiral is flat there are upticks in urban area, great jazz cities, Kinsey calls them. They realize this means black people are buying Admirals. Harry enters and agrees. Cosgrove comes in with Mets tickets and he and Kinsey take off.

Don is dictating as Lane enters. He nickels and dimes Don and Don tells him that they have to let the creatives be unproductive until they are. Don says if he wants to make money he needs to start getting his nails dirty with Bert and Harry.

Pete is looking over some maps. He gets a call from his Uncle Herman. It turns out it’s actually Duck Phillips calling to invite him to lunch and tells him he won’t waste his time.

The phone is ringing as Don enters. The house appears empty. It’s Suzanne Farrell Sally’s teacher. She’s calling to apologize for the meeting. She’s having a drink while she talks. He wonders why she’s apologizing. She says her father died when she was 8 and she might have over done it relating to Sally and didn’t mean to upset Betty. She says she doesn’t know why she’s calling and embarrassing herself. He smiles and says she’s fine. Betty calls him, it’s time to go to the hospital. She asks who was on the phone, he says no one.

Don gets Betty to the hospital and into a wheelchair and the nurse sends him off to the solarium saying his job’s done. As she’s wheeled to the door she sees a janitor and thinks it’s her dad. She fills out her paperwork but has trouble with the pen. The nurse takes the clipboard and fills out the paperwork. She’s having contractions and she says her water never breaks.

Don waits in the waiting room with another man, Hobart, whose baby is coming breach and he’s freaking out a bit. He tries to chat up Don and shows him a bottle, Don offers to drink with him. The guy has been there all day. He works at a prison. He asks if Don’s done it before. Twice. He says he never thought to bring a bottle. Don says his daughter took forever. Hobart asks if he throws the ball around with his son. Don says not enough. Don comes across a car ad in a magazine and pulls it out.

Back in her room Betty is getting ready for the baby: a shave and an enema. She overhears another woman screaming.

Don and Hobart chat. He works in a prison. He recalls a time when the prison team played the Yankees. Don jokes everyone was in stripes. Hobart observes he has to be careful with his child since he knows every one of the animals in prison would blame their mom and dad. for the way their lives tured out.

Betty is getting stuck painfully by nurse, she wonders where Dr. Aldrich is. The nurse assures her that the man on call, Dr. Mandelewitz, is the top man. Betty doesn’t want another doctor she wants her own doctor. The nurse explains once the drugs start working Betty will go into a familiar twilight. Betty soon starts going into a weird hallucination. She’s walking down a suburban tree-lined street in a pretty dress on a lovely afternoon. She catches a caterpillar in her hand.

Don and the other guy are rocking the cigarette machine at he hospital. They both have one after they shake out a pack. Hobart is getting emotional, worried that something might happen to his wife and then what would he do with the baby, and how could he love it. Don says our worst fears lie in anticipation. The guy wonders if Don is sure.

Betty is struggling with the nurse, calling the nurse a bitch, wondering where Don is, saying he’s never where you expect him to be. She asks to call him. She says “I’m just a housewife why are you doing this to me?” And then the Demerol kicks in.

The nurse comes in to tell Mr. Hobart that he has a little baby boy and that both mom and baby will be fine after some complications. (The nurse is played by Yeardley Smith the voice of Lisa Simpson). He gets up and is excited. Don congratulates him. Hobart tells him he’s alright and that his baby is going to be good too. He tells Don that he can tell he’s an honest guy. He wonders why the women in their lives put up with them since they don’t deserve it. He says he doesn’t know who’s up there -meaning God- but he says it’s a fresh start and pledges to be a better man. He asks Don if he heard him. Don says he did.

Betty for some reason is fighting the urge to bear down. She says she can’t do it. She drifts of again and imagines herself walking down the hospital hallway in her johnny. Then she is in a housedress in the kitchen. She sees her dad again mopping the floor, this time in her kitchen. He says he doesn’t know her. He turns around, he says he misses her but he had to go. She asks if she’s dying. He says to ask her mother. Her mother is at the table with a black man. She tells Betty to shut her mouth or she’ll catch flies. Betty says she left her lunch pail on the bus and she’s having a baby. Her dad says she’s a housecat, that she’s very important and she has little to do. The scene changes and she wakes up in a private room, drained and still a little sweaty, holding her baby. She says she’s beautiful. Don informs her it’s a boy. She tells him he looks terrible. He asks how she feels. She says she has to put her face on. She says Gene softly as she looks at the baby. She wants to call him Eugene. Don says they don’t have to decide on a name right now. She looks at the baby again and calls him Gene.

Don goes to the office. It’s full of baby stuff. The phone rings as he enters, it’s Roger. He asks for Don to get back to work since the art dept. is anxiously awaiting his approval on some things. He says he was gone half a day. Roger calls Lane a tick and says he’ll see him at the traffic meeting.

Pete is surprised when he arrives for his lunch with Duck Phillips to see that Peggy is also there. He’s offering them both jobs. (He says he realized that they had a secret relationship, that they engineered Freddy Rumson’s demise so Peggy could move up). He says at Grey they’ll be sitting on velvet pillows and showered with riches. Pete says no. Peggy wonders if they have to go together. Pete says if Duck wants to woo him he needs to buy Pete his own lunch. Peggy thinks she should leave too. Duck says why, she’s so talented she should strike while the iron is hot. She wonders what that means. He says she’s a freewheeling career gal with great ideas and that this is her time.

Back at the office Pete asks Hollis the elevator operator about what type of TV he has. He has an RCA. He wonders why he doesn’t have an Admiral since so many other Negroes seem to be buying them. Hollis says black people have more to worry about besides TV. Hollis doesn’t want to get in trouble but Pete says he’s really just trying to have an honest conversation. Hollis says he barely watches TV anyway. Pete doesn’t believe Hollis doesn’t watch baseball. Hollis laughs a conciliatory laugh but still doesn’t give up any Negro-TV-buying intel.

The next day the kids wave up at Betty and the baby through the hospital window.

Later, Don tries to make some late night grub. Sally comes down to join him for a snack. She didn’t know he could cook. He says Mommy’s much better. They banter about eggs and chickens. She wonders if the baby’s going to live in Grandpa Gene’s room. Don says it’s not Grandpa Gene’s room it’s the baby’s room. Sally says she thought the baby was going to be a girl. He says he thought she was going to be a boy so not all surprises are bad. Don tells her everything’s going to be fine. Sally says that’s what Mrs. Farrell said. So it must be true, says Don.

On his way to pick up Betty Don sees Hobart wheeling out his wife. For some reason Hobart shines him as Don tries to smile at him.

Pete and Kinsey take a meeting with Admiral execs. They lay out a plan in which the company takes out ads in black magazines like Ebony and Jet and urban newspapers. It would be pennies on the dollar on white-owned ad space and even a small increase in the Negro market would be like a doubling of a white market. The Admiral dudes are intrigued by the idea of white ads and Negro ads. Pete suggests doing integrated ads. One of the Admiral guys thinks that’s illegal. Pete assures them it’s not. The other executive says the conversation’s not worth having and saysmaybe blacks are buying because they think Admiral is what whites want.

Peggy comes to Don’s office with a baby gift. She says she knows he probably got a lot of clothes but not to return them because as the baby of her family she knows they never get anything new. She says she wants to talk to him about something serious and then essentially asks for a raise. She points out a newspaper article in which it says a law was passed in which women are supposedly supposed to be compensated the same as men for the same work. She says she does the same job as Paul Kinsey and often better. Don says it’s not a good time. She says it’s not a good time for her either. He says it’s not going to happen, he’s fighting for paperclips with Lane. She fingers the baby booty on her gift and says the third time must be old hat. He hands her a drink and says she’s going to be fine. She says she looks at him and thinks she wants what he has: everything, and so much of it. He says he supposes that’s true. He asks what she wants him to say. She says she was pretty clear. He asks if she’s seen what’s gone on at SC over the last six months. She puts down the drink and goes to leave and turns and asks, what if this is my time?

Pete sees her leaving Don’s office. He asks if she said anything. She says it’s none of his business. He says for her it might make sense to let them know and start a bidding war but he’s in a precarious position since he’s already sharing his job with Cosgrove. She says it’s her decision. He says her decisions affect him. She walks away.

Pete gets called on the carpet by Lane, Bert, and Roger about the Admiral account. They don’t want anything to do with the Negro market and Pete should’ve been sensitive to that. After they’re done yelling at him Lane thinks they should pursue the Negro market with somebody since money is there to be made. Bert says they’ll look into it.

Betty and Don come home with the baby. Francine is there and takes the baby as they sit in the living room. Francine says the fridge is full of goodies. She can’t believe she’s letting Carla go. Betty says Carla needed to be with her family and she can manage. Don offers to get her a bite. Bobby introduces himself to his baby brother.

Later that night, the baby begins to cry. Betty rises and walks down the hall. She pauses before she gets to the room, the baby continues to cry, she continues on.

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Tonight’s episode is all about parents and family: fathers and sons, fathers and daughters, mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, in-laws, and spouses, grandparents and grand kids.

Grandpa Gene is driving the kids to school. Or more precisely, he has his foot on the gas pedal while Sally steers. Gene yells at the person behind them to go around. Sally is enjoying this.

At Peggy’s sister’s house, their mom yells and bangs on the TV while Peggy breaks the news to Anita that she’s going to move to Manhattan. Anita can’t believe it. But Peggy justifies the rent due to the commute and says she’ s going to get a roommate.Anita says she’s going to be one of those girls. Peggy says she is one of those girls with a shy smile.

Pete has brought in an old college friend named Horace who’s looking to hire Sterling Cooper to promote Jai Alai. He believes that in seven years it’s going to eclipse baseball. (Hee). Kinsey, Harry, Layne, and Sal manage to stife their laughs as he describes the game, swoons over the star player Patchee (?), and tells them he wants to have Patchee to star in a TV show, not a sports show, but a crimefighting show, and he wants it to be on all three networks at the same time. (Yikes, what an ass). Kinsey also offers up a musical spectacular with Patchee featuring Desi Arnaz and glamourous ads in women’s magazines. Layne says it will cost at least a million. Horace is sold. The men can barely contain their glee as they walk him out. Patchee wants to take out Don to run slogans by him. Pete points out that they take him out.

Don points out to Layne and Pete that Bert Cooper is close friends with Horace’s dad. Pete says Horace is a grown man with a dream and it’s their job to make it come true. Layne compliments Pete on his good work.

Gene comes into the kitchen and has Betty sit down with him. He wants to go over his arrangements. She’s uncomfortable. He says they do it now and then won’t have to talk about it ever again. He breaks down the funeral stuff and the will and that she runs the show since she took him in. (Betty’s getting her mother’s fur coats.) She tries to get up, he growls at her about being sensitive and how it’s her fault for shielding him from the dangers of the world and it’s probably why she married that “joker.” Betty says she doesn’t understand why he likes talking about it since she can see it upsets her, it’s selfish and morbid. She says she knows it must be horrible to be looking at what he’s looking at but she wishes he’d keep it to himself and he stalks off.

Crain, Kinsey, and Sal come to Don to say their Patio commercial director has dropped out to do a movie. He tells them to have Sal do it since it’s a direct, one shot lift from “Bye Bye Birdie” it should be so hard. Cosgrove and Harry are a little nervous but Sal is thrilled.

Peggy goes into the break room and pins up an ad for a roommate on the bulletin board. She describes herself as clean, responsible, and considerate, with some nice furniture, an allergy to cats but a tolerance for dogs. She signs it Margaret Olson.

Later that night at the Draper house as Don reads the paper in the living room Gene enters the kitchen with a box trailed by Bobby. He places the box on the table grabs a big knife and hands it to Bobby to open it. Don looks askance but approves when Gene tells him to make sure not to cut towards himself. He opens the box and begins removing it’s goodies: a replica of the Gettysburg address, his victory medal he won in France-he notes he should’ve gotten another for beating the clap- a Prussian helmet of a German soldier he killed. He shows Bobby the hole in it where he shot the guy. Don is not enjoying this and really steams up when he puts the helmet on Bobby’s head. (It’s a distressingly small helmet that fits well.) Bobby says war is bad. Gene says maybe but it makes a man out of you and to ask his pop. He tells him to take off the dead man’s hat. Gene tells him to keep it on. Don gets up and takes the helmet off Bobby’s head and out of the room. Gene gets sour and then pulls out a ladies fan. He says ‘”there was this girl…”

Over at the Romano house, Kitty comes flouncing out of the bathroom into the bedroom in a cute little green negligee. She says it was on sale. Sal notes it looks like a lot more than 20 percent off. She starts to kiss him but he begs off and says he’s working. She wonders what’s wrong. He says he just hasn’t been himself. She wonders what that means and why men have such a hard time expressing their emotions. She says the past few months there’s been something wrong. She says she doesn’t need that much but she does need tending. He apologizes. She wonders what she can do, he won’t even tell her or make an excuse. He says he’s just been under a lot of pressure at work. He says it’s all going to photography. And now he has a chance to direct this commercial and give himself a future. She says that tomorrow he will triumph and come home a conquering hero. He wonders what’s wrong with her, sweetly. She says she has a horrible flaw, she loves him. He talks about his fear of failure, he has one shot. She says it’s the movies, take one, take two, take three. He explains it’s just one shot. He then gets up and acts it out: pretending to be the girl running back and forth to the camera on the treadmill pulling on her dress and seductively looking in the camera. He acts like a woman very convincingly and in the course of his recreation a lightbulb goes off in Kitty’s head. He asks her what she thinks. She thinks he’s going to do great but is clearly alarmed.

The next day at SC Layne, Don, and Bert meet with the elder Horace Cook and explain about his son’s cockamamie scheme. He’s aware it’s a cockamamie scheme, you can’t even play it left-handed he points out. Bert says they can not take the business then. Horace says that’s silly, and not the way business works. He knows his son’s plan is gibberish but if SC refuses him he’ll just go somewhere else. Bert is confused, he wonders if it’s because he’s childless. He says he knows his son lives in a cloud of his father’s success, and perhaps when that evaporates and his face is pressed up against the reality of sidewalk he’ll be of value to someone. Kill or be killed, observes Bert, he says that’s how he was raised. Don asks if he wants them to proceed. Horace says when they put the trust money aside for him he was a little boy he didn’t know what kind of person they were making. Bert tells him not to be so hard on himself. Horace says that’s easy for him to say since he doesn’t have Bert’s name. On the way out Don tells Layne that he’ll sign Horace, Jr. tonight.

Kinsey takes a list into Harry, Cosgrove, and Harry’s secretary (Lois?) saying he’s got a list of ideas. They look at the list and start giggling. Moments later Peggy’s phone rings. Lois pretends to be a prospective roommate, who works in a tannery and subsequently smells and has burns on her body. The guys begin cracking up in the background until Peggy can hear them. She calls Lois a jerk and hangs up.

At the Draper kitchen table Gene is eating spoonfuls of chocolate ice cream with a sprinkle of salt on each one. Sally wonders why he does this. Gene says he has a salt tooth and pretends to show it to her. He offers her some. She says mom doesn’t like them to eat ice cream before dinner. He wonders if Betty’s afraid Sally will get fat like she was. He says her mother Ruth made her go into the city and walk home, which put a stop to fat little Betty. He asks if she remember her grandma. She remembers she gave her a ukulele. He wonders if she learned it. She admits she didn’t. He says she could since she’s smart. He tells her Ruth was smart too, she was a drafting engineer in the 20s. He worries that Sally remembers Ruth better than Betty does.He tells her she can really do something and not to let her mother tell her otherwise. He tells Sally he’ll keep a look out and to have some ice cream. She digs in. He does too saying he knows it’s chocolate but it smells like oranges and wonders if she smells it. She doesn’t. (Smelling oranges is a common symptom of a stroke or seizures.)

Don has lunch with Pete and Horace, Jr. H, Jr. thinks it would be great to have Jack Kennedy take in a game as an endorsement. It also would get his dad’s goat since he knew Kennedy before he became president and he’s against integration, his dad calls Patchee a wetback. Don points out that Jack Kennedy certainly got a better job than his dad. H, Jr. says he knows that Don thinks his idea is crazy but that Jai Alai has a fifty percent chance at least. Pete says his father’s dead but this is the kind of investment he would dig. He explains he has this vision of doing something big, people loving it, and having people dying to do business with him and this image of gifting his dad with a Jai Alai team on his 75th birthday. (That’ll show him!) Don says he applauds H, Jr.s enthusiasm but points out that his fortune is not just about money, it’s his future. He says they’ll take his money but he asks him to re-evaluate investing his future in this particular obsession, saying he can do better. Pete, obviously, looks alarmed but after a beat H, Jr. says he knows Don is just using an old sales technique, zigging so H, Jr. will zag back into his arms. He read about it in a book about advertising by Ogilvy. Don wonders why he’s not having dinner with Ogilvy then. H, Jr. says Pete talked him out of it. H, Jr. than says pointedly if Jai Alai fails, it will be Sterling Cooper’s fault. Don just looks at him bemusedly. And Pete says not to apologize, that’s what everyone thinks but no one ever dares say it aloud.

Peggy is taking down her, now vandalized, roomate ad. Joan mocks it as unfortunate. She reads it aloud and says it sounds like the stage directions from an Ibsen play. Joan offers her advice, to write something like: Fun loving girl, responsible sometimes, likes to laugh, lives to love, seeks size 6 for city living and general gallivanting, no dull moments or dull men tolerated. Peggy thanks her. Joan adds not to put it up here, everyone knows her here, to branch out. Peggy sits down and starts scribbling notes.

At night, Don can’t sleep so he gets up and pulls out an old shoebox full of photos. He lingers on one of his parents. On the back it says Archie and Abigail 1928.

The next day as he enters Pete shows him the Horace, Jr. contract and tells him to deliver it to Layne himself. The guys are playing Jai Alai in Hooker’s not office. Hooker goes to get Layne. Crain explains the game to Don. They goof on Horace’s dream. Layne is pleased to see all the boys engaged in ‘camraderie.’ He reports the home office is all atwitter at the good get. Don tries his hand at Jai Alai and whips a ball into the ant farm. He tells them to bill it to the kid.

Grandpa Gene is driving the kids to school again, this time really driving. He tells Sally not to keep him waiting this afternoon for ballet. He says he’s going to buy some fruit. She requests peaches. Bobby complains they give him a rash. Gene yells at him that his sister likes them.

A perky girl named Karen Erickson comes in answering Peggy’s ad. Peggy keeps talking about how fun she is. Karen’s last roommate wasn’t fun, she was always closing her door and Karen only believes in closing her door for one reason. Peggy wonders which one. Karen raises her eyebrows. Karen thinks she must be a good luck charm though because the girl got married. She asks if Peggy has a steady. Nope, still playing the field she says. Karen isn’t sure why but she gets along with boys better than girls. She also has some rules, no sailors. Peggy wholeheartedly agrees. Karen wonders if Peggy is Swedish, like her. Nope, Norwegian. They sit with this sad news for a moment and Karen says they just won’t tell her parents. She’s excited about looking for places but since Peggy works late they aren’t able to work out a time but say their goodbyes calling each other “roomie.”

Bobby and Sally wait at school. Betty comes to pick them up. She doesn’t know where her dad is, she’s hoping he’ll be at home when they get there.

Joan sprays the destroyed ant farm in disgust.

In the conference room everyone is assembled to watch the “Patio” ad. It’s exactly what they wanted but they think it’s a failure. They just can’t put their finger on why. They explain, magnanimously that since it was their idea, it’s their fault. They all shake hands and depart. Sal and Cosgrove are crestfallen, Peggy can barely contain her “I told you so face” as she shoots a brief look at Don. Harry says he knows what they mean, he’s not sure what’s not right about it. Roger points out the obvious: it’s not Ann-Margaret.

Sally sits on the stoop as policeman pulls up. He’s come to inform them that Gene is dead, he collapsed in line at the A&P. Betty is thrown but keeps it together, Sally starts to freak. The cop comes in to talk arrangements. Sally places her forehead against the door after the adults walk in.

Sal comes to see Don, saying he decided to bring himself to the woodshed. Don says he knows it must be horrible. Just as they start to talk Don’s secretary says that Betty’s on the phone and it’s urgent. She relays the news. He softens and offers his condolences. He says he’ll be right there. Sal asks. Don says there’s nothing he can do. Don tells him not to ruin the only good thing to come of this, Sal is now a commercial director. He wonders how he knows Don isn’t just saying that to make him feel better. Don says he’ll know when he hires him again. Sal’s elation returns.

Peggy and Anita show their mom into the living room, Peggy has bought her a new TV. Mom is psyched. She is less excited when Peggy tells her that she’s moving to Manhattan. Her mom tells her to take the TV back and is insulted that Peggy thinks she’s so stupid and can be bought off. Peggy tries to explain that it makes sense financially. Her mom, cruelly tells her that she deserves to be in the city and assures her that she will get raped. She says one day they’re both going to feel the broken heart she’s carrying. Peggy tries again to explain, her mother wonders why she would ever believe anything Peggy says. Peggy goes to kiss her goodnight but her mother shies away. She and Anita go to the door, Anita says the holy father dying was very hard on her. They hear her click on the TV and smile.

At the Draper kitchen table, Don, Betty, William, and his wife drink and decompress. William keeps saying “Eugene Hofstadt Number 2.” Don wonders why. Betty explains there was another Eugene Hofstadt at the bank so that’s what people called her dad. William’s wife points out that at least now Gene is with his first wife Ruth. Betty hopes so. (Sally is listening, sitting under the dining room table.) Betty recalls Gene wondering what would happen when both his wives were in heaven. Knowing Gloria, says William, that shouldn’t be a problem. They chuckle. This ticks off Sally who storms in and melts down, wondering how they could be laughing. Betty tells her to calm down. Sally is insistent, weeping that Gene is dead and never coming back and they’re acting like they don’t care. Betty starts to boil and tells Sally to go watch TV. She looks beseechingly at Don. He gives her the face of “I know this is hard sweetie but do as mommy says.” Sally goes, grabs a blanket from the couch and curls up in front of the TV which is showing that famous horrific image of a protesting Buddhist monk setting himself on fire.

Later in bed, both still in their clothes, Don extricates himself from under Betty, lays a blanket over her and peeks in on Sally. She is sleeping with the book she was reading to Gene. He goes, grabs the cot that Gene slept on and brings it up to the attic.

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It’s the advent of the weekend and everyone is about to be scattered to the four winds with four storylines:

Don and Betty, Pete and Trudy, Harry and Jennifer, and Cosgrove are going to a lawn party hosted by Jane and Roger.

Bacardi wants more “situations” for its rum commercials by Monday so Kinsey, Smitty, and Peggy are going to have to work on Saturday to come up with them.

Joan is hosting an important dinner party for her hubby’s boss, the chief of surgery Ettinger, his colleague, and their wives.

Don is not psyched about going to the party but Betty bought a new dress so she’s in. (It’s a white lacy number that, in her current state, she says makes her look like an opened umbrella). They decamp to the grounds of the swanky club at which the party is being held and arrive and meet up with the other Sterling Cooper types, all eager to make good impressions on the Drapers. The ladies wander off to take a tour of the place. Pete sidles up to Don and points out several big muckety mucks from Dupont and Pan Am. Don counsels him not to hand out his card and wanders off.

Later, they all watch as Roger Sterling, in blackface, serenades his new young bride with a rendition of “My Old Kentucky Home.” Everyone seems to be enjoying it but Don who wanders off yet again, this time to the bar inside.

An older genteman in a white tux stands behind it and Don orders an old fashioned. It turns out the man is not the bartender but a guest at a wedding in another part of the club and he too is trying to get a drink but can’t figure out the bar. He hates weddings, he says, with all their expectations. Don admits he’s not a fan of his function either since he’s essentially at work. He hops over the bar and starts making them their drinks – it’s very involved with several kinds of liquid and the mashing of something, mint maybe?, straining over ice and a orange twist.

The older gentleman, who is named Connie, explains he’s never really comfortable at these swanky events since he essentially comes from nothing. Don concurs and recalls as a young man working as a valet at a road house where rich people would come blow off steam. Since the owners wouldn’t let him use the bathroom he used to relieve himself in people’s trunks. Connie has a good laugh at this and Don points out the valets at this club are probably doing the same things to their cars now. (When asked where he comes from Don says Pennsylvania by way of Illinois and says his family was in farming.) They laugh and toast.

Still later Betty is waiting outside a rest room as an attractive man approaches. He says he wishes she was waiting for him. She is in fact waiting for Trudy and the man is waiting for his date, since you can’t come to these things stag. (Although Cosgrove did and is regretting it). He asks her what it’s like to be pregnant. She says she’s never thought about it, mostly uncomfortable. He says it’s the martinis talking but asks if he can touch her belly since he hears the baby moves around. She allows it. He places his hand gently there and they stand a moment. She laments that “she” isn’t moving. He removes his hand as Trudy and his date return and they head off their separate ways.

Later still, Trudy, Pete, Don, and Betty sit at one table as Trudy laughs saying she told Pete that with “this set” they might run into one of her old beaus. Pete points out they haven’t. Harry and Jennifer screw up the courage to go over and make sure everyone knows they’re having a good time, awkwardly. The band starts playing the Charleston and the Campbells and Crains hit the dance floor. Betty begs off.

Roger Sterling arrives with the man from before and introduces Don and Betty, who pretends they haven’t met. The man apparently works in the governor’s office. Bert Cooper brings up the scandalous news that Rockefeller married Happy earlier that day. Betty is appalled since Happy’s divorce is only one month old. This means, says Cooper, that Rockefeller has basically committed political suicide and that now Goldwater is their only hope. They all turn to watch as Pete and Trudy take over the dance floor with their vigorous and happy looking Charleston. (And Allison Brie and Vincent Kartheiser really do cut a rug.)

Later still Don and Betty are getting a bite to eat from the buffet- Betty promises they can leave after this- when a very drunk Jane comes up behind them and fumbles for food. She trips and Don and Betty help her up. As they get her seated she says to Betty that she knew she and Don would get back together. Instantly livid Betty stalks off as Don tries to deal with Jane. She grabs he shirt right above his crotch and wonders why he doesn’t like her. Just then Roger arrives and wonders what’s going on. He asks someone to get his wife some milk. Don starts to leave but Roger stops him and asks him what’s up. Don says simply that Jane is drunk. Roger wonders what it is that he did to get under Don’s skin. He then muses that his mother was right, that conspicuous happiness makes other people uncomfortable. Don points out that no one thinks Roger is happy, just foolish.

Later still, Don spies Roger and Jane slow dancing on the dance floor. He has Betty’s wrap and purse and is looking for her. He finds her off in the distance by some trees on the lawn. He approaches her and they kiss. He drops her things on the ground and they kiss more deeply.

Joan, after having had an extremely cordial but obviously fake run-in with Jane at the office, is prepping for her dinner party. She’s laying out place cards on her perfect table with her hair in a scarf as her hubby vacuums. He comes over and appraises the table and says that his boss needs to be at the head of the table. She points out that it’s his house so he sits there, she sits at the foot and then it’s boy-girl on either side. He wonders says who. She says Emily Post. He says it’s important for his boss to sit there. She says he won’t have his boss and colleague’s wives thinking she doesn’t know etiquette. He says he doesn’t want a fight. She says he should stop talking then. After a beat she comes up with a solution. A buffet at which the guests can then seat themselves. He thanks her and heads off to shower she says “hey!” and he comes back and kisses her.

Later, before dinner the three couples banter, there is the older chief and his wife, a younger doctor and his pregnant wife, a nurse. The nurse spills the beans on a “code pink”: when there’s an attractive unconscious female patient on the floor. The ladies go into the kitchen to check on the roast. The other two women compliment Joan’s place. She says she did what she could. The older woman tells her that she’ll look back on this time of scrapping financially with a smile. She remembers when Ettinger was a resident she worked as a kindergarten teacher and made three times as much as him. She tells her that whatever she does, not to get pregnant. The pregnant woman scowls. The older woman says she tried to tell the nurse that but… The nurse tells Joan to do what she feels like doing. The older woman praises Joan all night and says her husband is lucky to have her.

Later, after dinner the men begin talking shop. Ettinger praises Joan’s husband’s colleague and his steady hands during a “Pneumanectopy”(sp?). The two of them realize that this may be a slight to Joan’s husband. She wonders why they look apologetic and he sheepish. The younger doctor says everyone has bad outcomes sometimes. (Maybe Joan’s husband isn’t the best doctor?) He looks at the other two doctors and says he doesn’t like to trouble Joanie with “this stuff.” The older woman says no shop talk. The pregnant one then suggests charades. Her husband points out that she’s terrible. This hurts her feelings. Joan’s husband saves the day by asking Joan to play and sing for them and hauls out her accordion. She seems to covering her embarrassment while simultaneously telegraphing her annoyance. She claims she hasn’t played in ages and then busts out a perfectly played and cooed rendition of “C’est Magnifique” that slays her audience.

Kinsey, Peggy, and Smitty get high with the help of Kinsey’s old Princeton buddy who is now essentially a drug dealer…Peggy gets creative inspiration, Olive her secretary worries about her

In the night’s final storyline we see how grandpa Gene is being integrated into the Draper household. Sally has taken to reading to him at night. On Saturday afternoon as Don and Betty are preparing to leave, Sally goes to visit him and he’s in the rest room. She notices his money clip on the dresser and goes and takes five dollars from it. He notices immediately and starts to make a stink about it. Don and Betty wonder if he might be confused and not know how much money he had. Gene wants his five dollars. Don tries to offer him money and Gene gripes that Don thinks that money is the answer to everything. Don says nope, just this one thing and tells Betty he’s ready to go.

While they’re gone Carla and the kids look around the house. As she goes through his room, Carla thinks he suspects her. He says he knows it’s not her- he knows Sally took it- and calls her Viola. She says her name is Carla. He wonders if she knows Viola. She points out that not all black people know each other.

At dinner Carla tells Gene he has to eat. He tells he she’s not the boss of him. As Sally approaches, she peeks around the corner to make sure no one’s looking and throws the five dollars into the room before her and pretends she’s just found it. Carla holds her breath. Gene lets it slide. Later, at bedtime she pokes her head into Gene’s room and says goodnight real quick. He barks at her to get back in the room. She comes in and sits down nervously. He hands her the book and tells her to pick up where she left off.

Author: brayvalentine for IMDB

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We open on a clip of Ann-Margret singing the title song in “Bye Bye Birdie,” the gang is watching the movie musical in the conference room. When it ends Sal says Susan Watson on Broadway was good but didn’t have “that.” Apparently, a Pepsi knock off is starting a new diet drink to help women “reduce” called “Patio” and want to do a shot-for-shot copy of the “Birdie” sequence. The men are excited about the casting phase. Peggy wonders why they’re going with a male-targeted ad when it’s for women. Ken points out that she’s not fat anymore. Peggy thanks him, awkwardly, and wonders if they’ll at least be allowed to “make fun of it.” Ken tells her to stop being a prude. Peggy says clients don’t always know what’s best. Ken retorts that when they land the account she can talk to them that way.

It’s morning in the Draper house and a very pregnant Betty is bummed there’s no Melba toast left. Don tells her to have some oatmeal or the baby will only weigh a pound. Don notices some pictures of furniture. Apparently, they’re hiring a decorator for something. (A nursery?) She says they need to go to Tarrytown to stare at antiques. The kids protest that the stores are stinky. Don says they’ll go and like it…and then get Carvel.

Pete and Kinsey are meeting with new clients: they’re the folks behind Madison Square Garden, and they want to tear down Penn Station to build it. New Yorkers are not amused at the idea of tearing down the Beaux Arts classic. MSG wants Sterling Cooper to help sell the building since newspaper columnists and others are voicing vocal protest. Kinsey goes through the protests and seems to agree with them, much to the MSG men’s dismay. Pete says Kinsey is just helping them look for an angle. The MSG man snorts at Kinsey that New York is the greatest city in the world and if he doesn’t like it he can move. Kinsey complains New York is losing its memory. The clients leave in a huff. Pete tells Kinsey he’ll have to talk to Don now about his behavior. Kinsey asks him not to, saying he talked to them that way just so they’ll be impressed when Sterling-Cooper makes it happen for them.

Betty arrives at SC and Joan compliments her on the way she’s carrying, saying that she’ll soon be in a family way if it’s up to her hubby. Don’s secretary performs the old wives’ trick of swinging a necklace over her belly to determine the sex. It’s swinging side to side but they don’t know what that means.

Roger and Don and Bert meet with Price, the head Brit. He tells them they’ve been sacked by Campbell’s Great Britain. Bert tells Price to not bother calling every time they get sacked, since he’ll just wear a path in the carpeting and takes off. Price is mad that the account slipped through the cracks. Don says he doesn’t call meetings he’s invited to them. Price complains they’ve all effed up.

Don goes out to meet Betty and Roger says hello. She asks after him and he says it’s not hard to adjust to happiness. As Don and Betty depart, Joan and Roger are left standing there. Roger smiles at her, Joan walks away. (Awkward.) Betty tells Don she’s in a foul mood as they depart.

The Drapers and the Prices meet for dinner. The Prices have settled into a 3 bedroom place near the U.N. She snarks that this is good since that means there are plenty of Africans around. They drink a fancy schmancy wine, including Betty, and compliment it. Mrs. Price wonders how long Don and Betty have been together, he says ten years, she says nine. The Price’s have been together 15. Mrs. Price says she misses London, but what they’ve lost in Britishness they’ve gained in insects. Mr. Price tries to bring up business but Don steers them away from that. Mrs. Price asks after schools in New York, Betty isn’t familiar.

Driving home Don tells a pissy Betty that he didn’t want to be there any more than she did. She gripes that it was simply the cherry on her sundae. He asks her to tell him what’s wrong now, not later ten minutes after he’s fallen asleep. She says she hasn’t been able to reach her dad and it turns out that Gloria, his new, younger wife has left him. Betty’s mad at her for abandoning him in his hour of need. Don thinks she just finally realized he’s a son of a bitch. Betty is worried and suggests having her brother William and sister-in-law Judy to bring him up for the weekend. Don snarks, “Great, more antiques.” He wonders why she even bothered asking. Betty ignores this and says the baby’s really kicking. (Maybe because she’s smoking.)

In the office Roger’s ex-wife Mona and daughter Margaret show up. They’ve come to talk about Jane. Margaret doesn’t want her at her wedding, that it will ruin it for her since Jane is young enough to be her sister. Mona proposes that she and her date sit with the in-laws and Roger and “June” host their own table. Roger is annoyed at this, especially since he’s paying for everything. Margaret picks an invite. The wedding is set for Nov. 23, 1963. (So her wedding will be ruined for other reasons.)

Don has a visitor, Mr. Price. He compliments Betty and says she lifted his wife Rebecca’s spirits. He asks Don to take the gent from MSG to a nice lunch since Kinsey effed things up. Roger will be joining as well. The MSG guy is irate and wants SC to be its Cyrano De Bergerac and make New York fall in love with the idea of the arena.

Betty’s dad arrives at the Drapers with William, Judy, and their three daughters. They’ve brought sandwiches and Gene, Betty’s dad, even got one for Gloria. William shouts that Gloria is in Boca Raton and not coming back. Judy reminds Gene he should take his medication, Cumadin, with his sandwich.

Peggy eavesdrops on Joan charming some visitors, joking with them that she was in a place so crowded she felt like she was on the subway.

At lunch Roger joins Don, late. Don is grumpy and wonders what else Roger had to do today or the rest of the week for that matter. Roger says that Mona and Margaret are bringing him to his knees. Don says nothing. Roger surmises that Don is implying he’s made his bed and should now lie in it…right? Don says those are Roger’s words not his. Roger says the wedding has turned into a land grab for their daughter’s affections and Mona is pouring poison in Margaret’s ears. He says he no longer cares about wedding, he just wants to win.

Edgar from MSG arrives but claims he only has a minute. They coax him to sit and apologize about Kinsey. MSG man points out that they’re supposed to be helping him and he doesn’t like that they’re making him sound like a villain. Don points out he should only feel that way if he has a guilty conscience. He also points out that the project is going forward no matter what, so it’s up to them to change the conversation if they don’t like it. That change is neither is good nor bad, it simply is. Some people greet it with terror and others joy. Some throw a tantrum to keep things the way they are while other do a dance for something new. MSG man is intrigued and grabs a menu and asks, “What is that conversation?” Hooked! Don points out that when he went to Cali it was beautiful, clean, and full of hope. NYC is in decay, but MSG is the beginning of a new city on a hill. The MSG man says he doesn’t want Kinsey, the communist, on the account. Don says he’ll handle it personally.

Grandpa Gene comes in to where the kids are watching TV to see the end of the baseball game.

In the living room Betty says Gene seems well and has a good appetite. William says eating isn’t a problem and in fact when he heard Gloria was gone he was hoping Gene ate her. Judy says he’s down in the dumps but clearheaded. William disagrees saying he’s angry and in and out of clarity. He suggests the Parker Home in New Brunswick, halfway between them. It’s expensive but they can sell their house to give him something to live on. Betty says William just wants their fancy childhood home. She says those places are just for people who don’t have families. He angrily wonders what she proposes then.

Don comes home and stops by and says hi to Gene, who complains about his accommodations. Don tells him to man up.

He enters the bedroom and Betty complains that Don didn’t hang up his coat and it’s covered in soot. She tells him William’s plan to put him in an old folks home. Don thinks that’s a good idea. Betty thinks he just wants the house.

William and Judy go to sleep in the bunk beds in Bobby’s room and chat. William says Betty never remembers that she and her dad fought all the time. Judy says family is important to Betty. William remembers that Don didn’t have anyone on his side at the wedding. Judy wonders why they can’t just move in with Gene and she’ll take care of him. William says it’s bad enough to work for him, he’s 30, and doesn’t want to be told he has the wrong tie on.

Peggy is washing her lacy under things before heading to bed. She brushes her hair and tries on some coquettish looks and sings “Bye Bye Birdie” to the mirror, trying to be cutesy. She goes back to brushing her hair.

Pete meets with Don, Paul and Kinsey. Don tells Kinsey to keep a low profile on the MSG account. Price shows up and asks for a private meeting with Don. Bad news, London has called, now there’s a problem with MSG, it’s a conflict and they’ve been told to turn it down. Apparently, it won’t be cost effective because they’ll have to service MSG with a big team of people. Don is pissed saying MSG is their way into the World’s Fair not to mention the 30 years of dividends it could pay with concerts, sporting events, special events. Price says the home office in London doesn’t appear to care about that. Don is mad saying he told them to go get the account, he did, and now he’s being told don’t do it because Price forgot to check with his boss? He wonders who’s running the place.

Don asks, “Why did you buy us?” Price replies, “I don’t know.”

As their meeting ends, Peggy’s waiting outside with Sal’s storyboards. Don hasn’t seen “Bye Bye Birdie.” Peggy screens the opening for him. She reiterates her opposition to the male bent of the approach and adds that Ann-Margret’s voice is shrill. Don wearily explains what he knows she knows: men want her, women want to be like her. She calls it phony and not really for women and if they were writing a play they wouldn’t go this way. He reminds her she’s not an artist, that she solves problems. He tells her to leave some tools in her toolbox.

At the end of the day, Peggy holds the elevator for Roger. They awkwardly chit chat. He asks her as a young girl, “what would your father have to do for you to not want him at the wedding?” Peggy says her father passed away. Roger says then she’d likely do anything to have him there.

Peggy comes up out of the subway and walks past a bar and looks in the window, before deciding to go in. She smiles at a guy and says hello as she makes her way through the crowd. At the bar she tries out Joan’s line about the subway. A couple of guys laugh. One asks her where her drink is. She smiles. Cutely.

Don comes home to Gene at the table playing solitaire, William plunging the sink, Judy setting the table, and the kids watching TV. Betty comes down the stairs saying she’s going for a bucket of chicken and that she’s a bad daughter. She tells Don that William says it’s a home, or they move in with Gene and Judy takes care of him. Betty doesn’t like that.

Don calls William into his office. William says he understands they’re all upset. Don tells him what’s going to happen: William is going to explain to Betty and Judy that William is going to support his father financially and Gene will move in with the Drapers. William will tell Betty and Judy that this is what he wants so he can pretend he did the right thing and the family house will be untouched. He tells William it’s now time to take a hike, but to leave Gene’s Lincoln. William protests and wonders how his family will get home. He tells him to take NY Central, Broadway Ltd., it leaves Penn Station in two hours. William huffily says, “You want him, you got him.”

Don sits at the table with Gene with the paper. He watches William tell Betty and Judy; she looks at him, happily I think. William comes in and breaks the news. Gene tries to protest. Betty says they want him here, just for a while, a vacation of sorts. Gene says he’s not that blue and then grumps that the animals are now running the zoo. William says they’re not selling the house and they’re giving him his car. Judy consoles him and says Gene really wanted to get out of town and always says Betty is a better cook anyway. (She says this with a somewhat pained expression.) William tells the girls to get their things together. Gene is not happy.

Peggy has a “stinger” with a boy at the bar who’s having a messy burger. He’s going to Brooklyn College, he loves to eat, his mom says he’s still growing, and he needs to work on his manners. He says he was pre-law but switched to engineering. She points out that those things are very different. He says if we’re all going to be replaced by machines he should be the guy who makes them. She says she works at an ad agency. He assumes she’s a secretary. She says her boss is a jerk. The guy’s friends come over to tell them they’re leaving, and asks if he needs cab fare. He points out that he lives around the corner. After the other guys leave she grabs the boy’s burger and takes a bite. He says she’s funny. She chews, and smiles.

They get along well, enough that they end up back at his place making out and doing some petting on the couch. She asks if he has a condom. He doesn’t. He’s sad. They make out some more. She stops him. He says it’s getting late. She says there are other things they can do. He’s psyched, they start making out again.

Don and Betty are awakened by noises from downstairs. Don goes down to find Gene dumping out booze. He says “the heat is on” and they have to get rid of the “stuff,” like it’s prohibition. He’s definitely losing it.

Back at the boy’s house, post-”other things,” Peggy gets up and gets dressed and tries to get gone. He awakens. She says she has to leave since she has to work in the morning. He tells her he hangs out at that place a lot. (So maybe he’ll see her again he silently implies). She says okay and adds “this was fun” and leaves.

Gene, Don, Betty and Bobby attend Sally’s field day and dance around the Maypole. Don seems more interested in the fresh-faced teacher and her bare legs as she frolics around with the kids. Another dad takes a family photo.

Coming in to the office late from the festivities, Don sees Peggy typing away. She comes in his office to talk Pampers.

Author: packer-gosling for IMDB