Did the"Servicemen stand," thing make him think of something he buried?

My impression was he felt uncomfortable because, although he did serve, it was as Dick Whitman not as Don Draper, so it reminded him that he's a fraud (at least in his own mind), and even his wife and kids only know the lie.

That was so mean. Poor doggie.

I don't even like animals and I felt bad for that dog. Poor Chauncey. Perfect preppy dog name too. The WASP references sure were out in force this episode: the duck paraphernalia, St. Pauls, Fishers, etc. Classic.

That last moment with Don and his daughter in the bathroom was really chilling and beautifully played. I'm never sure what is going on in his head but there was a profound...something happening there!

The thing with Peggy is that it's always such a balancing act. Joan is right in that Peggy dresses and speaks like a little girl and wants to be treated like a man. I'm glad that whatshername told Peggy not to try to be a man, because I think she would have been vulnerable to that.

But still, when she dressed up and turned up at the club, that took nerve. But then she didn't demand to be treated as an equal; she sat on the client's lap. She was being treated as a woman, but not as a businesswoman. Small steps, I guess.

I missed Duck's intro to the show, I think. I've noticed that I tend to ignore any time he's on the screen. So I was confused with the turning out of the dog. Of course, I was watching it with my dog asleep on my lap, so it's unforgivable.

What else? Oh, the bondage. Kinda disappointing bondage. At least that conversation explains her strong coming on to him, and the motive was sexual originally, not business. Why is Don surprised he has a reputation? He hasn't spent a day on this show without a mistress, one would imagine he hasn't in a long time.

I think Don suffers much from the Madonna/whore complex. Betty only wears fluffy, cute, girly clothes (his reaction to the swimsuit), his wife must be Ceasar's wife for him to maintain the Don Draper persona. But he beds worldly, furprint wearing women, because that's what he really wants. I think the only woman that was a true anomaly for him was Rachel.

I was so sad for Chauncey. He did not deserve that and they cast an older IS with a cute graying face too. (Good casting - you could imagine Duck and family picking up a puppy when they were all about a decade younger and much happier.)

I think that Peggy doesn't really know how to act as a grown up business woman so she's still testing the waters.

That last moment with Don and his daughter in the bathroom was really chilling and beautifully played. I'm never sure what is going on in his head but there was a profound...something happening there!

I'd have to rewatch to remember exactly, but my impression was that Sally (the daughter) said something to him that echoed something Bobbie had said to him earlier. Aughhh... I really need to rewatch. Such a dense episode!

The Decemberists in the opening really took me out of the moment. Have they used contemporary (as opposed to period) music before?

I don't recall them using contemporary music before - it was an odd choice.

I was wondering why I didn't recognize the song. Never heard of the Decemberists!

Just watched the ep.

Want Duck to suffer the tortures of the damned, preferably public. I sat there, through that whole ep, with a feeling of dread because I just knew that the selfish SOB would do something.

The final shot of Don was brilliantly framed, with the reflection.

I'd have to rewatch to remember exactly, but my impression was that Sally (the daughter) said something to him that echoed something Bobbie had said to him earlier.

He kept telling Bobbie to stop talking and she didn't, continually exposing his "reputation." (I love the ambiguity of not being sure whether he really didn't remember the Random House hookup or if that he's got a rep to the point where people are bragging about having slept with him.)

Then, when Sally said that she wouldn't talk, because she didn't want him to cut himself, I think hit him hard on a lot of different levels, the first being of course, echoing his words to Bobbie.

I think, too, that some of it may well have been wrapped up in his reaction to Betty and her bikini. Lots of layers in this ep.