Mad Men Recap

Episode Eight, “Souvenir” was sooooooooo dull that I forgot to add it to my weekly recap. Here it is: Betty and Don. Italy. Get it on. Pete is by himself. He finds somebody new to force himself on. He feels bad about it. Betty and Don come home. Betty goes back to being psycho Ice Queen.

Episode Nine, “Wee Small Hours” has Don agonizing over working for Conrad Hilton, who calls at all hours of the night to tell Don about the idea of a hotel on the Moon. This causes Don to go into work early. While driving in he sees Miss Future Miss Hippie Teacher jogging. This makes Don postpone going to into work for a minute to offer her a lift home and a few moments of Donny time. He lays on the charm pretty thick, but she is all into Martin Luther King and the “I Have A Dream” speech.

Back home at Casa de’ Draper, Betty is having a dream and it is not about children holding hands. Betty is on her ugly couch she bought and then, well, I won’t go into great detail, but you won’t need your little blue pills, if you know what I mean.

Betty decides to write her dreamboat (ha!) a letter. He responds. One thing leads to another and Rockefeller holds a fundraiser at her house. Rocky doesn’t show up. Neither does Betty’s dream lover. Betty goes to his office to confront him and then decides that she doesn’t want to fornicate, at least not then.

Meanwhile at Sterling-Cooper, Sal Paul Lynde is working as a director on a cigarette commercial. The cigarette company guy puts the move on Sal, but Sal refuses. The cigarette guy calls Harry Crane, who job is to look like every other Dad in my neighborhood growing up and tells him to fire Sal. Harry doesn’t.

Hilton comes in and given the full Draper presentation. How do you say Hamburger in Dutch? Hilton. Hilton is unimpressed and chews out Don. Of course, maybe if he let Don get a full night’s sleep may he’d come up with something better. Hilton storms out, a total embarrassment to Don. But then again, Hilton will have a grand daughter named Paris, so it evens out.

The cigarette man comes into the office to watch the commercial and pitches a hizzy and stomps out. Sterling sees this and fires Sal and then in a great moment of management tells Harry to take Sal to Don to figure it out.

Don is not too pleased with this and decides to let Sal stay fired. Sterling comes in and threatens Don. Don is over his head, he says.

Being that this is Don Draper, he has three options. One, he can run off and adopt the identity of a dead man, but he’s already done that, and you can’t do that too much. Two, he can just run off. But he did that in California. Three, he can hop in to the sack with Miss Future Hippie. He chose three. As we knew he would.