Mad Men: Fights
The fights are on at SCDP.
There's a heavyweight fight between Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay.
Harry Crane is scalping tickets at SCDP for it. Harry tells Pete not to tell the wife that the tickets were free and the Harry is scalping them. There are somethings that the little wife shouldn't know. Right Pete?
Pete looks at his two pregnancies. Pete is the successful father.
Dick and Duck duke it out in the late night over Peggy.
Duck calls Peggy a "Whore". Dick calls out "Uncle". Peggy stays with the one that she likes the best, and it wasn't the one who won the fight and who sent Peggy flowers for her birthday.
Peggy said that she wasn't a girl who got noticed in the streets by guys. But she gets noticed in the Office by them.
Duck proposed to Peggy.
But Don won her.
Ida Blankenship served as the Ring Girl.
Who did that? You ask? Why, it was me. I photoshopped it all on my own.
And there was a suitcase scuffle in Don's office with Peggy and the Office Boys.
Notice that Joey is playing Joe Namath, because Joey is a Rebel like Joe. Not an Alabama Rebel, but an Office Rebel.
Does Joey clean up the Common Room when Joan tells the Office Boys to do it? Nope. Joey is a Rebel from the Hierarchy of Command. Joey takes a break from cleaning up in the break room. He is not afraid of Joan or Don.
And Cassius Clay wins the Heavyweight fight in 90 seconds.
So much for the Fights.
Duck Has a Drinking Problem
At the Clios, we saw that Duck was back on the sauce aged in oak barrels.
Duck has a drinking problem.
Click to viewDon Has A Drinking Problem
At the Clios, we saw that Dick/Don lost a weekend to the drink.
Dick/Don has a drinking problem.
Peggy Has A Drinking Problem
Peggy likes guys who drink.
Dick/Don and Peggy Have A Slumber Party
Peggy has a birthday, and she is 26 years old. Peggy and Dick/Don have a Slumber Party to celebrate Peggy's birthday.
It was the usual Slumber Party.
Peggy and Dick/Don raided the Adults' Liquor Cabinet and drank up the booze.
Then they fought over perceived slights and made each other cry.
Then they made up and pigged out on burgers and fries.
Then they ganged up and decided to pick on other people.
They listened to Roger's tape for his book, wait for it, titled Sterling's Gold. Shouldn't it be called Sterling Silver? What with Roger being the Silver Fox Chaser and all?
Roger: "This is take number four of Sterling's Gold by Roger Sterling. Bert Cooper hated me and I thought it was because he thought that I would be an ally of my father, but it turned out to be something to do with my Joie de Vivre, My Romantic Prowess.scene.. take three... Including some time with the Queen of Perversions, his secretary, Ida Blankenship. But don't use her name. It was all about him hating my very youth. All because the guy had been cut down in the height of his sexual prime by an unnecessary organectomy. Lyle Evans MD. I think he had him killed. Anyway sometime in the summer of 48 or 1932...no 1939..."
I told you that Lyle Evans was the Sausage King.
That "Organectomy" by the way was an "Orchiectomy". Bert Cooper has no balls.
And now, Don/Dick has to shag Mrs. Blankenship. Everyone else has.
Then Duck crashed the Slumber Party and they all decided to play Truth or Dare.
Duck's Dare was to poop on Roger's snow white chair underneath his pop art pic of black turds on white. I guess that Duck wanted the chair to match the painting.
But Duck was a dick and they made him go home.
Then Peggy and Dick/Don played Truth or Dare.
Dick/Don had to ride the elevator until he barfed. And He Barfed.
Then Dick/Don had to make a prank phone call.
And then Peggy and Dick/Don scared each other with spooky tales and raised a ghost at a seance.
And then, early in the morning, they fell asleep on the couch. Best Friends Forever.
Peggy had a great Birthday with her Best Friend.
Shadow Hands
"Voices leaking from a sad cafe
"Smiling faces try to understand
"I saw a shadow touch a shadow's hand
"On Bleecker Street"
Dick/Don loses Anna.
But Dick/Don gains Peggy.
Look who is sitting with the pictures of Dick/Don's nearest and dearest. It is Peggy.
Compare this hand holding of equals to the first episode of Mad Men, when a naive Peggy is told by the other secretaries that to keep her job as Don's secretary that she will have to sleep with him.
Peggy makes a move on Don.
But Don firmly turns her down and chastises her for trying from his height as her boss.
Peggy will look up to Don until this episode.
Watch the first episode and then watch this one. Everything from Peggy's and Don's relationship to crying in the office and in the office bathroom is re-addressed.
Dick/Don and Peggy will have an intimacy, but not the one that Don rejected in the pilot. They will have a true friendship and working partnership.
Uncle Max Says Things
Dick/Don tells Peggy about his childhood and his parents and his Uncle Max.
Don/Dick: "My uncle Max had a suitcase. It was always packed. He said, 'A man has to be ready to go any moment.'"
Anna had a suitcase packed and she was ready to go at any moment.
I don't think Uncle Max was talking about visiting Greece.
Peggy Shares
Peggy shares an office with Stan Rizzo, underwear and nudist creep.
Peggy also shares an apartment with the red head on the left.
I don't know what happened to Peggy's Fast Roommate who was of Swedish descent.
The Mouse in the Room
You know that Mouse that Dick/Don found in his office?
That was Peggy from the first episode. But Peggy is no longer a mouse. She is the Elephant in the SCDP Office, now. And in Dick/Don's life.
Classic Commercial
Here is an American Tourister commercial from the 1970's.
Screen Caps by Me
Gifs from the Treasure Trove of ONTD