Why is Don surprised he has a reputation?
Because Don isn't one of those guys who just sleeps around - every one of Don's extra-marital conquests has been a beautiful unique snowflake affair that were all very meaningful for him! They're not notches on his bedposts, damnit!
t /rolls eyes FOREVER
I knew that dog wasn't gonna make it the moment Pete said he liked having one around the office. For a second there I thought Duck was going to get the dog drunk, but kicking him out into the street was much worse. (On a different show, Peggy would find him begging for scraps and take him home next week. But I'm pretty sure Chauncey's gone for good.)
I think that Peggy doesn't really know how to act as a grown up business woman so she's still testing the waters.
Yep. I think this is why she and Pete clicked in S1, actually - neither of them has/had any idea who they really are, but they both had this vague notion that they were doing it wrong. The big plus to Peggy's promotion wasn't the money or extra responsibility so much as it put her in a position where there isn't a strict set of predefined social rules. She spent all of last year wishing someone would just hand her the script, now she gets to improv.
Pete's got that weird knack to always say or do the thing which is exactly wrong by a quarter inch.
And then smile hopefully as if he's expecting a treat. ARGH!
I loved the way the reflection theme was carried through the ep (up until the last scene which was just a wee bit on the nose for my tastes). I want to watch it again with an eye towards that.
They're not notches on his bedposts, damnit!
I dunno... I never got the feeling that Don considered his affairs to be special in any way, other than perhaps Rachel, which of course, adds to the irony that it was never consummated-- perhaps if it had been, she would've wound up being just another affair. And with Bobbie, I got the distinct impression that started out very much as a notch on the bedpost. Or maybe it was just that he was intrigued by a woman who was the aggressor, I don't know. I'll have to think about that one.
other than perhaps Rachel, which of course, adds to the irony that it was never consummated...
It wasn't? Didn't he give Rachel the big family reveal afterward? Maybe I need to rewatch S1.
It wasn't? Didn't he give Rachel the big family reveal afterward? Maybe I need to rewatch S1.
It could be I'm totally forgetting something. But I recall watching an episode very near the end of the season where she's having lunch with a girlfriend and admitting that Don's not Jewish but they haven't done anything yet. Could be my brain is melting.
But I recall watching an episode very near the end of the season where she's having lunch with a girlfriend and admitting that Don's not Jewish but they haven't done anything yet.
Yep (her sister). And then the next time we see her, or very close to it, she and Don are nekkid in bed.
But I recall watching an episode very near the end of the season where she's having lunch with a girlfriend and admitting that Don's not Jewish but they haven't done anything yet.
Wasn't she lying through her teeth in that conversation?
I'll have to rewatch (OH, DARN!!) in case I have the timing of those two scenes switched.
Wasn't she lying through her teeth in that conversation?
Yeah, she was. I just went back and looked at the episode summaries on the site-- they did the deed in Ep 10, "The Long Weekend." I think it was just overwhelmed in my mind because so much else happened that ep (like when doesn't it, right?) what with Roger's heart attack and Joan's roommate coming on to her.
Definitely need to go back and rewatch the ep.
What Decemberists song was that, and where is it available
It's called "The Infanta", the lead-off track from Picaresque.
I'm proud to say that I won, in a charity auction, a Craig Thompson (of Blankets fame) original ink drawing depicting the procession of the Infanta with the song's lyrics strewn about the images. I love the song, but still feel it was inappropriate for the show.
I'm proud to say that I won, in a charity auction, a Craig Thompson (of Blankets fame) original ink drawing depicting the procession of the Infanta with the song's lyrics strewn about the images.
::dies of jealousy::
I love all the Decemberists' album art like woah. Are charity auctions the only way to actually possess any, or does the artist ever just sell any of it? Because, whimper.
There was exactly one moment in this episode where I really just loved Don wholly and unambiguously, not in an "oh, how broken he is!" way--when he told Peggy in the middle of the first Jackie/Marilyn discussion that she was Irene Dunne. Such a perfect, lovely, layered little throwaway.
