10:01: Ambitious Boy Wonder Interview with Don & Peggy “Did I tell you I know Roger?”
10:02: “Aspiration is as good as Perspiration” Don wants to beat you senseless Ambitious Boy Wonder!
10:03: Boy Wonder asks Mrs. Blankenship where to eat. “I don’t work for you!” Classic Mrs. B.
Don to Peggy, “Are we on Candid Camera?”
10:04: “There’s no way he’s 24. I’m 25!” Yes Peggy, but honey you dress like your 55.
10:05: Don’s nominated for a CLIO and Peggy’s underhandedly pissed since the ad was her baby. (Peggy stop giving your babies away.)
10:06: Roger dictates his memoirs, “Charlie Chaplin was very lonely. Hardy was so mean to Laurel. Did I talk about silent films yet?” Is it titled “Death of an Ad Man” Roger! I WANT AN ADVANCED COPY!!!
Roger wants to know when his guy, Ambitious Boy Wonder, (a relative) starts. Don assures him, “The first of never!”
10:07: Flashback to post-Dick neo-Don. Neo-Don sells furs and is almost giddy in his eagerness to please Roger.
Roger drapes a mink on his shoulders! Neo-Don Drapers his ambition on his sleeve.
10:08: Neo-Don wants to work for Sterling Roger.
10:09: Va-va-va-voom young ambitious Joanie! Neo-Don’s coloring book portfolio in the box, mink on the floor, Play-doh in Noah’s Ark.
10:10: Joanie has the key to the mini-bar. Don: “Make mine simple but significant.” (I’m using that line the next time I belly up to a bar! I’ll either get a bourbon neat or thrown out by the bouncer.)
10:11: Dippy new art director, Stan Rizzo, reeling chicks in with the KKK. “Why is it so hard for you to accept that man’s natural state is nude?”
Peggy: “Have you been yelled at by Don yet?” Great comeback Pegster!
10:12: CLIO’s at the Waldorf.
Ted Chaough “Well, if it isn’t Pebbles & Bam Bam.” Love the cultural shout-outs, but who’s Pebbles—Don or Roger?
And thank you Roger for clarifying the spelling of Ted “Chaough” for all of us reviewers!
But Ted’s with (according to Roger) General Rufus T. Bullshit. But could Rufus possibly have known the real Don Draper???? This could signal a SNAFU for Dick-Don.
10:13: Pete’s puss when he sees Cosgrove & Birdseye approaching. Joan counsels it’s better to get flies with honey. Pete “Oh great, actual flies!”
10:14: Birdseye lets the cat out of the bag about Cosgrove moving to SCDP.
10:15: “Judas Priest! Are we merging?” Another classic Pete-icism. This is right up there with “Christ on a cracker.”
Love how Don cuts Pete off, “Don’t talk to me!”
DUCK DRUNK!!!! HI DUCK! Did he just get escorted out?
10:16: Pencils in the ceiling, Peggy in a pissy mood—Joan goes to the CLIOS but Peggy left out. “Don thought I was clapping for him.” “Who claps for themselves?” asks smug Stan.
10:17: Award for Best Cleansers, Waxes, and Polishes: GLOW COAT. (Notice the ménage et trios hand holding between Don & Joan and Roger & Joan. Hmmm…)
Pete rips CLIO out of Don’s hand. LIFE CEREAL meeting—Donny likes it!
10:18: Commercial Break: Fun Facts!
10:21: Don—a CLIO in the hand is worth a bushel of drunken clients in the conference room.
10:22: Roger’s inebriated victory run around the conference table!
10:23: Don presents a….drunken mess. Who is this Don so giddy & confident that he just throws out slogans like he’s pitching baseballs.
10:24: He swings and… “LIFE. The Cure for the Common Breakfast”…home run…the client’s like it, but uh-oh Don, that’s not your slogan to give away! I believe it was Ambitious Boy Wonder’s back at 10:01.
10:25: Triumphant Don “Roger, I’m done. Let’s go!” But not before Don orders Peggy to lock herself and the creepy art director into a hotel room for inspiration on vapo-rub and cough drops.
10:26: Cosgrove’s Return: “Approval Denied” by Partner Pete. (I can see the great set-up here!)
10:27: Lane declares to Pete, “Roger Sterling’s a child!” (How dare you, you prig! What do you know anyway? You didn’t have a clue who Red Skelton was!) And Pete, you’re the child if you believe him.
10:28: Lane redeems himself when he scolds Pete, “I’m lunching with Cosgrove on Monday. If you’re tantrums have subsided you’re welcome to join us.” Classic!
10:29: Menage et trios at the bar—Don, Joan, & Roger. Don’s slurring!
10:30: Faye doesn’t want to play doctor with Don.
10:31: Commercial Break: Oh, here we go! The Mad Men-like commercials. Oh, I saw this one before—Breyer’s Ice Cream. I hate it more the second time around!
10:34: Playboy, Sleazebag Stan, and Peggy
10:35: Peggy calls a bluff, takes it off, and calls the game “You chickenshit!”
10:36: Peggy bears it all.
10:37: Joan to Roger, “You crossed the border from lubricated to morose.” Can’t anyone give Roger a break tonight?
10:38: Flashback: Neo-Don stalking Sterling.
10:39: “I’d do anything to buy you a drink.” Roger jumps at the offer to go drinking at 10am! Neo-Don just bought himself a drink and a job!
10:40: Peggy’s on top. Her challenge gets a rise out of Stan.
10:41: “You win the prize for the smuggest bitch in the world!” Bye-Bye nudie Stan man!
10:42: Commercial Break: Fun Facts!
10:45: Cleansers, Waxes & Polishes winner in bed with Jingle winner, who get’s Don to raise his flag with her hummer rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner.”
10:46: BETTY! Yay! And she’s pissed at Don! “Why would it matter to you that Henry & I had an important brunch to go to! And I can’t get Carla, she’s at church!” Poor Carla! She can’t even pray in peace.
10:47: Wait, who’s this blond in bed with Don? Didn’t he fall asleep with a brunette? Wait that was Friday night and this is Sunday…Uh-oh—Weiner set-up: Don’s lost weekend. I have a feeling this is relevant!
10:48: And I’m right. Didn’t Doris just call Don a Dick? What did he say to her in his drunken glee spree? And Dick in a Diner?
10:49: The Breakfast of Champions: Canadian Club!
10:50: Peggy tells Don he lifted the Life slogan from Roger’s Ambitious Boy Wonder.
10:51: Peggy demands Don meet with ABW & fix it since she’s just spent the weekend locked in a hotel with a pig. (Don’s on overload.)
10:52: Commercial Break
10:55: Pete’s tantrum is not quite over. He wants to meet Cosgrove in the conference room.
10:56: Don lost his CLIO! Tells Mrs. B: “Call Pen & Pencil and see if someone found my award.”
Mrs. B: “What’s the category?”
Don: “Best Actress.” Classic!
10:57: Don bribes Ambitious Boy Wonder for his LIFE Cereal idea, but ABW draws line in the sand—he wants a job.
10:58: Pete puts on his partner pants with Cosgrove. Look in Cosgrove’s eyes, “Game on Pete.” This is going to get good—I expect some classic Cosgrove-infused Pete tantrums.
10:59: Don tells ABW “Go Away” after ABW forces Don to hire him. Scenes of Ambitious Neo-Don?
Roger to microphone, “I always liked chocolate, but my mother always gave me vanilla because it didn’t stain.”
Roger has Don’s CLIO which can only mean one thing—Don was drunker than Roger????
11:00: Flashback: Don shows up to work reminding Roger he hired him when they went out for drinks. Roger has no memory. Sly Neo-Don—doing whatever it takes to work at the agency. Maybe Ambitious Boy Wonder might turn into the next Don Draper? Nah, but he’d add to the great comic relief the show is displaying this season!
Until next week kids, have a Mad Week!
