Talk about bombs dropping!

And the cast party was cute!

Oh gosh - yes! About Peggy being Don.

Man, as soon as you saw Don at the stables you could tell he was different.

I didn't know that the stock market crashed when the Bay of Pigs happened.

I guess Peggy's confession to Pete was also an end of the world thing, wasn't it?

I think Duck is going to temper tantrum himself out of being President of PPLSC.

I got the same feeling.

BTW, who played Betty's pick-up? He looked so familiar.

(But then he kind of looked like Don - in the half-light.)

(Over at TWOP they're saying it was Captain Awesome! Wow- that really is awesome.)

And I have to agree about Duck and his temper tantrums. In fact, I'm guessing that was the British firm's plan all along.

Okay, was Handsome Stranger that Betty did in the restroom Captain Awesome from Chuck? I'm almost positive it was, his voice is so distinctive, but he's not on the credits and it's not listed on Ryan McPartlin's IMDB page either.

And I absolutely, positively love that Saint John had absolutely no illusions about Duck. So dry and terribly British with the "He never could hold his liquor." Heh.

And Don not having a contract was about the largest bomb for me—just totally out of nowhere and the beauty of it was how it so clearly illustrated Duck's utter disregard for the place creative has in advertising.

I'm sure there's more, but I'm still processing. And let the speculation begin as to when they're going to pick up.

I just looked up the date. This all happened when I was in second grade, in Pomona CA, and my youngest sister was just under 2 months old.

I don't remember hearing anything about this. I don't remember my parents talking about it. I remember Cassius Clay beating Sonny Liston, but not this. Huh.

Oh, and I had a question: the sermons that Fr. Colin Hanks gives - all in English. Would that be in addition to the mass? (Was mass still in Latin at this time?)

And another - was that a "Milltown" that Betty's salon buddy offered her?

That was a tranq, right?

the sermon was always in english, as I recall. It's one of the only parts that wasn't Latin. I think the homily, might have been in english, too.