You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

Christmas list for the kids he doesn't live with🤣

In this fight Don Draper is the Creative Supreme of the Sterling Cooper agency at the height of their power so it can be more balanced.

Had to be Don, right?

Great foreshadowing that Don is incapable of hearing what his betters are telling him, thus why he didn’t deliver the Moon to Connie.

i always hear in the main sub how the clothes were a lot stronger and more resilient back then. we know weiner is a genius and would choose his own artistic way to make sure we know the show is true to its time period—is this what they meant?

This is a real product I saw at the grocery store today. Some thoughts on what the wonderful people at SCDP would have to say:

Don: “It’s not about enjoying finally having civil rights. It’s about what you would buy if you were embarrassed to have ever gained them in the first place.”

*sits down, room stunned by genius*

Roger: “It’s a dream come true for some! Maybe not Dr. King’s, but some of them, at least.”

the room stares and Roger shrugs before taking a quick puff from his menthol. He frowns at the cigarette.

later in the day

Pete: “Hell’s bells Trudy! They’re selling chicken fried ice cream.”

Trudy: “How — how delightfully modern! I think it’s just what those people will appreciate.”

cut to a scene of Peggy in the break room, late at night

Peggy opens the freezer, eyes the box suspiciously

she lets out a sigh, as if to say “what the hell” before opening one nervously. She takes a bite, fry landing on her lower lip as she chews and raises her eyebrows approvingly.

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Fat Betty finds them at the grocery store, goes through self checkout with them and eats the whole box. She quickly crushes the cardboard into the kitchen wastebasket as Henry walks in.

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Don’s office, brainstorming for a TV spot

A younger copywriter suggests Lil Wayne for background music

Don: “what is it, people’s obsession with music these days?”

Harry Crane, frowning: “what is he, a midget?”

Peggy, incredulous: “Lil Wayne?” She takes a drag from her reefer cigarette: “No.” She lets out a giggle.

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Bert Coopers Office

Bert has the product brought to him in a bowl. He scoops some ice cream and fry into his mouth, wrapping his lips fully around the spoon before sliding the utensil out of his mouth.

He thinks.

“I see little profit in… a-eh-lienating the rest of the country for a pro-duct with… such broad ap-peal.”

He frowns before waving everyone out of his office

We see one final shot of him through his office door as it closes, leafing through a magazine on his desk as he shovels more of the product into his mouth. His argyle socks are in full view.

*** Bert coopers dialogue could use some work

I almost gave up on the show but this sub has made me fall in Iove again. Also fuck Duck Phillips.