Mad Men

I'd love to see David Mamet write an episode or two. I'd love to see Draper, Sterling and Cooper banter as written by Mamet in a Glengarry Glen Ross episode.

Too bad this isn't an HBO series, a little nudity does brighten up a Sunday night.

 

I decided the whole hospital scene was a dream.
She had a baby, just everything that happened while they were there, didn't really happen, other than the baby.
Don thought it was real though.

 

Yeah, the thing that clinched it was when that prison guard dude was walking down the hall with the wife in the wheelchair and never even looked at Don. That whole thing in the waiting room had to be a dream. My favorite scene was the one with Don and Sally when he was making that hash with the eggs (at least I think that's what it was). She seemed better adjusted when her Dad tells her how it is. And Don is so gonna hit that teacher and that could be very problematic.

 

Not sure I agree with the whole "dream" thing. For a second, it looked to me from the expression on the prison guard's face as he and his wife walked by Don that maybe their kid died or something. I noticed she didn't have a baby in her arms as they rolled by Don and Betty.

I thought the hour was kind of slow, to be honest, though some of the hospital scenes and the Don at the office post-baby "I was gone half a day!" were hysterical.

 

Betty spends what seems like days in the hospital after the birth and Don gets grief for being gone from work for half a day. Both are way different from today's norms.

My first reaction on the prison guard/wife rolling by was that the separation that might exist between a blue-collar guy and a white-collar guy like Don might have returned, once they no longer were in the fox hole of that maternity-ward waiting room. They shared that moment or two, but really wouldn't have interacted otherwise in life. And maybe Don has some reason to be uncomfortable around prison guards or uniformed authority or something. ???

 

I think you're probably right about the blue-collar vs. white-collar dynamic, but not sure he has an issue with uniformed security, because Don gave him the head nod and then looked surprised when the guy didn't respond.

 

One of my favorite parts in the episode was the nurse's aide, Don and the prison guard fighting with the cigarette machine in the waiting room.

Interesting to those of us who are old enough to remember such things, and how soon we forget something like those cigarette machines that used to be so commonplace.

Things probably wouldn't work now without a credit card. I get a chuckle trying to imagine somebody dumping six or seven dollars worth of quarters into the machine to get a pack of smokes.

 

Hot for teacher, baby -- and hot for anything else that's ambulatory and good-looking within sight range.

 

I think the prison guard was embarrassed to have opened up to Don, and that's why he didn't make eye contact heading down the hall.

 

Watched it today (Tebow bless DVR!), and will echo two thoughts ...

January Jones' rack in her dream sequence was spectacular. I didn't think she had as much going there.

2. Don is SO going to tap that teacher. I do find it interesting that he seems to have zero desire for Peggy.

RB

 

Yeah, I thought about the pledge to "be a better man" and how that could make him uncomfortable in the light of day, no scotch on hand.

 

You can see how, especially in that era, two guys would be embarrassed about having opened up like that. Kent is probably right -- it might just be that simple.