BEST SALES PITCH EVER - DON DRAPER SALES PITCH

[@polyphoniczeitgeist465]

"Good Luck at your next meeting" absolute PERFECT intonation, gesture and facial movement. God damn I love this show.

[@mygoogleemail2063]

It was brutal. He was a killer who knew the smell of blood.

[@greekre]

they should have done a spin off, the story of what happened to the homo)

[@evmadic]

Makes it even sadder that Duck and Don couldn't ever get onboard with each other

[@aileanbreac5584]

I know. This show changed my life.

[@stevencooke1027]

The writing on this show was incredible.

[@markwollin5484]

"Good luck at your next meeting"... that was as cold as ice and the greatest 'close' statement I've ever heard.

[@integral]

The perfect thing about that is the way it releases tension. Don's presentation takes us to the place he's talking about and that release is necessary to bring things back to normal.

[@Cyril29a]

I don't agree. I think it was said too quickly. The importance of what Don had created needed to hang in the air longer... This line undercut the emotional importance of what had just transpired.Duck should have remained quiet and let don break the tension by bringing up that the execs got to see in to his private life and got to ride around the carousel with him... Then duck should have said the line.

[@dineshkalidasan4991]

"Takes us to a place where we ache to go again"... this dialogue is so deep and dope. Like he said "Nostalgia is like a Twinge in the heart" that we desire to feel it. Hats off to the writer 👏

[@terryhaircastle5702]

I like to imagine it's Pete gently playing the synth in the boardroom as Don speaks, helping to build the mood of the pitch with live music 😂

[@Dezzyyx]

lmao underrated comment

[@ToddJir]

That's hilarious!

[@szahmad2416]

Who do you think Don was referring to when he said "Sweetheart...?". Pete was doing both the music and the lights 🤣

[@nevveRo]

✈️✈️✈️

[@dear_dennis]

Ironically Pete is a huge music fan 😂😂.

[@jamess7264]

Don almost sold himself on being a happy, content family man. Great scene.

[@huracan200173]

He was, at some point. When he lost his way is subtle, and that's exactly the storyline in mad men. He understands what happiness is much much later on. But he could've been happy before, with Betty and the kids, but never knew how.

[@gnarfgnarf4004]

I worked with computer salesmen back when mainframes cost millions. Every good salesman was a showman at heart, with a penchant for theatricality. A good salesman makes you visualize yourself with the product.

[@psulion31]

Well said

[@yashsarda6224]

Nicely written

[@ralphholiman7401]

Same thing with trial attorneys. Every good trial attorney I ever saw in court, was a showman. Johnny Cochran comes immediately to mind.

[@chrissaenz6213]

@@ecstacy2921 wrong.

[@chrissaenz6213]

Yes. In sales-speak, we call that "put them in the picture" and "put them in the ether".,

[@fredofromchicago777]

Madmen is easily one of the top ten series of all time. The writing is incredible and it pushed the boundaries on a story line. The character development is fantastic. Perfect casting. Bravo.

[@playbackproductions1]

Have you ever seen Dharma and Greg? It's just as good.

[@xpez9694]

@@playbackproductions1 lol

[@maxibonkiswa]

It’s strange when people say someone was perfectly cast. You’ll never know

[@mkultra2456]

I wanna see Tony Soprano come in and start beating Don Draper with an ice bucket.

[@Bubbles99718]

I worked it a bunch of times as an extra. The clothes looked sharp but they were uncomfortable. :)

[@lennyg3684]

As a person in marketing /sales for 25 years.... This is the best sales pitch I have ever seen.

[@kristopherryanwatson]

ive been in the industry for about 14 muself. I have delivered dozens of pitches before to clients and have seen many pitched as well. this is incredible to watch.

[@gpsportmgmt]

They didnt buy tho right? They basically were depressed and said "good luck".

[@stevenjosephson8522]

@@gpsportmgmt If memory serves, Duck said they cancelled their next meeting before leaving the building and signed on.

[@ConradMontgomery]

Brilliant clip, and how right you are.

[@mikeabel7577]

@@gpsportmgmt That's not what happened. The Kodak guys canceled their next meeting and signed with Sterling Cooper.

[@Multi18only]

That musical theme just makes the whole scene.

[@ionitaa]

I guess you watch and enjoy a lot of motivational montages

[@omarlittl3]

@@ionitaa thats not necessary

[@rowananderson8318]

The way duck leans in like "good luck at your next meeting" is PERFECT, one of the best deliveries of any line I've ever seen

[@_Snapper]

its potent

[@stratiswashburn]

@@_Snapper it’s toasted

[@eugene5509]

@@stratiswashburn I like it...

[@TheNerdForAllSeasons]

When you know, you know.

[@ccnomz]

Duck was perfect as icing on Don's cake. But he wanted to be the cake ... stupid little duckling.

[@sallymiller1359]

Made me tear up just watching this missing my parents and my old life with them and family, now gone

[@GmoneyMozart]

Damn...I guess we all have to experience our own carousel eventually, where the times change, and the memories are all we have left, but at least they were great memories.

[@sallymiller1359]

@@GmoneyMozart Beautiful sentiment, friend, a lot of people don't even have that.

[@welshfreedom1451]

Sally Miller hope ur okay.. peace and love from Spain 🇪🇸

[@sallymiller1359]

@@welshfreedom1451 God bless you, friend. i'm OK, good days and bad like everyone else. Our country is being torn apart, glad my parents aren't here to see that.

[@rondobson1828]

@@sallymiller1359 All these people on "opposite" sides have far more in common than not. Unfortunately, certain foreign entrepreneurs make a lot of money promoting the idea that we're on opposite sides.

[@craigberger4096]

This episode is probably 15 years old, but it still remains one of the best on television. This is particularly and excellent show of how to sell a new technology.

[@alonenjersey]

I've got the first three seasons on DVD box sets and I still prefer it over so much of the crap that's out there now.

[@stevencooke1027]

I wonder if at the point when the airing of the show will be closer to the time period it portrays than it will be to present day people might still be appreciating it. Hopefully, no one tries a reboot,

[@cyclops86]

When I saw this video was the first time back in the early 2010s, I was young, with no losses.. and I cried. After 2019, after having lost my mother to lung cancer, I see older photos of our family and my mom and I truly understand the meaning behind this scene. Beautiful, tragic in it's realism.

[@kpfree5982]

That's quite touching, bless you brother, I hope life treats you well.

[@Historyfreak-f7o]

@@kpfree5982 And the same for you. That pitch brought tears to my eyes too.

[@Gukworks]

Love

[@leonhughes9014]

condolences... glad you managed to have photos to remember .. peace my friend !

[@guitaroso]

Jeez man - we might have been twins in another life - 2021 for me

[@patrickwentz8413]

Fantastic writing and acting. The look on the faces of the two Kodak men is priceless at the end.

[@rabbt3496]

They did not even realize what their product was lol

[@stevenjosephson8522]

They got the callow Harry Crane (who'd started fooling around on his wife at that point) to leave a fucking business meeting *in tears*. That's a pitch.

[@loplop7029]

This might be the greatest three minutes of television ever. I’m glad somebody else thinks so.

[@stevencooke1027]

I watch this periodically just to be amazed.

[@StGeoRUSH619]

My Mom and Dad had one of these, and this scene brought me back to my childhood. This pitch made me cry.

[@scott2836]

Don’s presentation reminds me so much of the “People will come” speech from the movie Field of Dreams. It has that same narrative sense, the same appeal to nostalgia, the appeal to connect emotionally (and perhaps on a level they will not completely understand, at first). Both are brilliant moments that are timeless and evergreen. Some of the finest writing and acting around.

[@shahanshah7622]

gotta appreciate this comment, i went and watched the clip.. then the movie because of it. great observation

[@scottg2946]

Fantastic observation! Field of Dreams is so much about nostalgia, and that speech is very much like Don's delivery here. I've seen both many times but never put the two together.

[@stevencooke1027]

Thanks for reminding me of James Earl Jones as Terrence Mann (I had to look it up).

[@onastick2411]

Just for this scene alone, the writer/director deserve an award. The words, sliding you back to those distant places, lost in the swirling eddies of time, Don's face, almost crumbling, showing the world of regrets, those shifting silent shadows of the past, such a jealous creature. Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E Housman.

[@MagnusvonYoshi]

Matt Weiner, showrunner and co-writer of this episode, actually DID win the Emmy for Outstanding Writing that year, but not for this one. He got it for the pilot episode.

[@pavansridharan2098]

Thank you for this outstanding poem

[@jaehoony88]

Mad Men didn't win nearly as many awards as it deserves because Breaking Bad was also airing at the same time. Those were amazing years for TV.

[@gnarfgnarf4004]

Also the timing, the pauses, the pacing... masterful.

[@GladiatoreXD]

I am surprised Jon Hamm’s career didn’t take off as high as he deserves. I would have seen him as the perfect James Bond. So versatile and charismatic.

[@RideYEG]

I believe he battled depression throughout his role as Don. Probably just wants to take it easy now

[@arealperson641]

When someone has been in a role for that long it's not easy for the audience to imagine them in any other role

[@90boyle]

James Bond is British mate. Jon Hamm is Brilliant though.

[@GladiatoreXD]

@@90boyle if he is a good actor I presume he can learn British accent. Wouldn’t be a 1st

[@90boyle]

@@GladiatoreXD it really doesn't work like that in terms of accents and theres other factors.

[@royksk]

Selling emotions, some bloody good scripting here.

[@mikev5582]

Convictions sellsemotions buys; logic pays

[@jordan2695]

The most effective pitches build an emotional connection.

[@jmahan1178]

That is easily one of the most powerful scenes in television history.

[@daldude97]

Absolutely. They didn't just knock it out the park, that ball is in orbit!

[@tatata1543]

I bet if you asked a hundred people one might have a vague memory of it, there’s little about it that is memorable.

[@killerdude35]

I truly believe the the guy who ran out of the room crying wasnt acting! That pitch was brilliant!

[@rankoorovic7904]

In the episode his wife leaves him because she finds out he cheated.

[@inquisitor4635]

@@rankoorovic7904 selling the illusion

[@j.mauricerojas3650]

The musical accompaniment was amazing: just the right amount of build and volume. Kudos to the sound/music people!

[@nathanday01]

I've seen this series three times through. I knew what I was going to see. I didn't need to watch it again, but, as the clip shows, I wanted the nostalgia. And now I have tears in my eyes.

[@stevencooke1027]

Watch the VW ad with Neil Diamond's "I am" playing in the background. It gets to me every time.

[@irishjoe5868]

One of the finest television shows ever. Can say enough.

[@joshuaa901]

I’ve seen breaking bad and watched game of thrones & still feel this is the best series I’ve ever watched

[@saymyname6419]

@@joshuaa901 just finished watching it again and still want more

[@shrijitasgable]

Yes exactly, this is even better than those.

[@ChernorizecHrabyr]

The brilliant irony of this moment, Don showing slides of him and his family for work, while he avoids going with them on a trip in actuality.

[@jeffreyroedel9804]

I don't think the irony is lost on Don though, and that makes the scene even more powerful, and tragic. Brilliant.

[@lelandrb]

he's being sincere in this meeting, and you're dead on about the irony

[@andrewmeadows3232]

That's it. Photos can lie and create a false reality...Just like Facebook in today's world.

[@kuttycrew]

Not to mention, even Don couldn’t save Kodak

[@stevencooke1027]

Don was such a complex and both admirable and disappointing person in this show. Struggled in vain to get over his childhood, climbing a step or two and then falling backwards.

[@gavinvalle5653]

Duck showing that, when he needed to be, he was almost as cool as Don: "Good luck at your next meeting."

[@myfirstnamemylastname1395]

Spectacular writing, accomplishing everything in a single scene.

[@RM-dc6zd]

one of the best scenes in any medium, ever - although it helps if you have been watching the show and understand the backstories and context. Pure poetry. Profound. Multilayered. Metaphorical. Transcendent. Who hasn’t watched this and thought of a previous relationship, a path not taken? or perhaps thought of their parents, who used the carousel itself when forcing us to sit through their slide shows. How we try to capture and save a reality that can never fully be captured and saved. Although that never stops us from trying. We can capture some element that helps us recall, and provides nostalgia - the bittersweet ‘pain of an old wound’ indeed.

[@indieboy269]

I agree and you stated that moist beautifully. Thank you.

[@johndoe-bw8wx]

If only Don was as good at running his personal life as he is running a pitch..

[@mattturner7531]

One is make believe, the other isn't. Don always did better with make believe.

[@nwaezeemmanuelonyekachi8191]

@@mattturner7531 he gets his act together later on, very late in the show though

[@albertgaspar627]

and that's the entire point, just like the show Ray Donovan.

[@jonathanlerner4898]

The one inversion was when he "shit the bed" with Hersey. Cut to the next scene, when he drives with his kids to show them his decrepit childhood home - one of Don's biggest efforts to set his personal life straight.

[@Clarence_Oddbody]

Like Randy in “The Wrestler,” The only place he gets hurt is out there.

[@MarekUtd]

As my old sales manager used to say "people don't buy on logic, they buy on emotion".

[@jonathanlerner4898]

Props to the music director here. If this was just Don's monologue without the brooding music, his character would seem...like a slight dullard. The music wins this fantastic, memorable scene.

[@EvanDahill]

One of the great TV moments. Gives me chills every time I see it.

[@bobosputnik]

"good luck at your next meeting." Perfect.

[@estebanquinones5918]

"Nostalgia it's delicate but potent In greek nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound its a twinge in your heart far more powrful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship its a time machine. It goes backward and forwards......it takes us to a place where we ache to go again" Fuck man...........

[@mikesalvaggio20]

Good luck at your next meeting

[@stephensinclair8127]

This line is brilliant on three levels; it breaks the tension, it tells you the scene has ended, and it tells you the impact the scene had.

[@emmanueloluga9770]

@@stephensinclair8127 beautiful

[@robertsantosuosso3740]

The 1960s version of the mic drop.

[@carolinagoldbug983]

@@robertsantosuosso3740 Nowadays, Duck would have said "Boom". I like "Good luck at your next meeting" better.......👍

[@DG-nq5ex]

I really should have used this at one of my job interviews.

[@luislaplume8261]

Even though not 1 member of my family and their ancestors ever worked for an ad agency, this is the best sales pitch I ever heard! And I am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era of the 1960s. 😊

[@paulquinnvoiceover8354]

As a copywriter in my old life, finding the core of what influences a behavior was the real target. Boy oh boy, Don Draper found it.

[@tvtitlechampion3238]

That bit about going home to a place "where you know you are loved" was inspired. Just cuts right through.

[@gojosatoru1442]

“Good luck on your next meeting” the level of sarcasm and double meaning is amazing in this show

[@eduardochernia]

I was as emotional as Harry when Don was done with the presentation.

[@CharlieBrown20XD6]

Where DID Harry go?

[@jwainer4397]

@@CharlieBrown20XD6 back to his reality. he was overcome with guilt after cheating on his (maybe pregnant) wife a short time before this scene during an office party. I think that is right, it's been a while since I watched this series.

[@yashsinha1236]

The Hersey's pitch was also on the same lines of selling nostalgia. The only difference was that Don actually broke during that pitch. It's incredible how they wrote his rise and fall (and rise again - coca cola) throughout the 7 seasons

[@nopejoeandangie]

He missed the pitch tho, coulda been like: "I grew up in a Kentucky whorehouse, the best girl there was named Carousel..."

[@stanthelyftman6871]

This is how a master sales person, thinks, speaks and acts. Well done, great show, great writing and great acting!

[@winstonwolff]

Don slayed that pitch. The first time I saw this episode it produced a real emotion, a real response to a fictional story. The show's writers were incredible and Jon Hamm's delivery was often spot-on. I really expected him to be A list after this show.

[@bravoalley228]

do you feel that he is not an A-lister?

[@alexn3190]

I’d almost forgotten how much I loved this show. 😢

[@ilovebrandnewcarpets]

I watched this years ago, and I didn’t really “get it.” I watch it now…and it’s all I can do to not cry.

[@shumyinghon]

he is talking about himself, thats what makes it so touching

[@herropreasesankyou]

Nostalgia is actually translated as longing for home. Nostos was the word the Greeks would call the return voyage. After months out at sea, in foreign ports, the idea of finally sailing home is a bittersweet reminder of how far away you are and how long you have been gone, and that, perhaps, there no longer is a home to return to.

[@jttasb]

My reply is not a translation or definition, but I read somewhere, or saw on a show, someone describe "nostalgia" as "a combination of familiarity and distance" and I thought that was a good way to describe the feeling.

[@herropreasesankyou]

@@jttasb But, that's more sentimentality than nostalgia. The key difference is the pain, ache, or longing you get with nostalgia. You wish to return, but there is nowhere to return to any longer. Like a childhood home that now houses strangers. And you're the stranger.

[@malesilverfitnessmodel]

An epic piece of TV filmmaking. Thanks for the memory.

[@belleyboy]

"It's a twinge in your heart more powerful than memory alone" what writing.

[@Clutching.My.Pearls]

I worked at Leo Burnett from 1969 to 1975, then as I like to say, my second tour was from 1985 to 1996. My experience was beyond wonderful and those early years were definitely the Mad Men days. Oh and Don Draper was based on Draper Daniels, from Leo Burnett.

[@captainkip4624]

They say that marketing is the difference between dead greasy birds and finger licking good. That clip proves the concept. It was very well done.

[@formyownedification3879]

This scene was an exceptional climax to the season. It tied in a lot of things that were going on throughout the show.

[@NityalPhysio]

This is soo deep and you can empathize on his feelings. Beautifully presented.

[@jackjax7921]

If you watch this casually it has full of life lessons, appreciation of nuances and subtleties. Now if you watch it with the marketer's eyes, holy shit...New layers of psychology.

[@aboazarim]

It´s amazing how they recorded and mixed the sound. It really sounds like in the 50s/60s.

[@topleybird2443]

Don using his own family as a means to sell photo projectors is just masterful. It’s such an interesting lie exactly b/c it’s a lie that he believes in, and b/c he believes it he can convince anyone of it. All of America in fact.

[@aap71]

Nietzsche said the blackest of lies is the half truth. It bears the weight of memory and the lightness of elation.

[@aap71]

See, I added that last part.

[@monjier]

It's almost like he believes in the lie because he believes in his lie. It's as real as he is.

[@threelegmulti2630]

One can recognize a solution without implementing it. I don't understand why that's hard to fathom..

[@emmanueloluga9770]

@@threelegmulti2630 what do you mean

[@jahfoolay3150]

A pure masterclass in the persuasive power of advertising.

[@galicredstone]

Quite possibly the best 3 minutes of television every produced.

[@garylens1]

That guy command his presence. The autonomy and audacity he had was a quality that women and men desire. Great show

[@ghostbond1074]

Eh, one day he's found dead in the parking lot because someone socked his lights out after he when to far and gave them to much bullshit.

[@joshrandall5297]

You're trying too hard.

[@downunderrob]

The first time I saw this, I actually cried. Don Draper at his Best.👏👏

[@totaleXess]

This comments section feels like home. Love you guys

[@Famdockevin1]

It will be said that *this* was the golden age of “Television.” The dramas of this decade were hands-down some of the best of writing, filmography, acting, and direction. Mad Men may not have been for everyone, but it may have been the best of those dramas. Scene after scene after scene of brilliance.

[@Bitingyouintheeye]

If you look at the entire show as a whole this is his highpoint in his work. From that pitch to the end of the show it’s all downhill for him, until his very last idea (on a hill) the personal emotion he uses through the slides, can be seen as what makes him successful, he needs that aspect of his personal life to be happy and in order for his work to function. When his personal life is in turmoil, his work suffers. The carousel is allowing him access to the feeling of his family, in order to close the deal. If only every other product he had to sell could somehow incorporate his family, so he could tap into it, he would also be successful at work, and successful within.

[@riyapatel618]

Show name?

[@huracan200173]

@@riyapatel618 Mad Men

[@serafinacosta7118]

No bar charts, no power point presentations. On a board room. He comes up with Caroussel and sells it to assuming retail buyers. That is brilliance. Kudos to the screen writers.

[@zacharyhicks6237]

They came up with it before. There were meetings before this. Sal even had to make art for it. It wasn't off the cuff, but it was still brilliant.

[@RtripleA]

So many awesome levels to this...the pitch, the emotion, the creativity and the music is THE cherry on the cake...Brilliant writing and without question one of the best tv shows ever, along with Game of Thrones!

[@4mevrywhr2evrywhr]

You lost me at Game of Thrones

[@davidowens5898]

Game of Thrones....?!!! Yer kidding? That series fell apart at the seams by the last few episodes. As if the writers just foned it in.......started out pretty good tho.

[@RtripleA]

@david owens Nope, not kidding, I thought GoT was awesome, although, I agree they got sloppy towards the end. In terms of character arcs, they rushed it and messed it up. Mad Men however, was on point from start to finish👊🏾

[@Hudler]

It's the stunned look on the faces of the Kodak execs who don't know what sort of verbal reaction is appropriate to respond to such brilliance that has become my favorite part of this scene.

[@sm70911]

Amazing writing / tone / and Ducks scene wrap up kills it.

[@dplunk13]

"Good luck at your next meeting" was said with so much swag.

[@erichodge567]

Wow, I don't know how I missed this episode; looks to be from Season 1, since Sal is still in the show. Anyway, that was a great scene. Starting in 1999 with the Sopranos, we were treated to a series of historic television shows: The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad. A real golden age of TV drama.

[@FaresTk]

It's literally the ending of season 1.

[@prachetasnayse9709]

Mad Men would’ve lasted longer but they were competing against GoT so they just decided to wrap it quickly.

[@hux2000]

Sal was in MM through season 3.

[@erichodge567]

@@hux2000 , my memory is shot.

[@nickgeorgiou7770]

Don’t forget Better Call Saul. But I agree we are lucky TV has been a savior of movies.

[@xpez9694]

This is simply an example of the powerful use of metaphor. This is put to great use to symbolize the potential value of photographs in a slide machine. Advertising uses the poetics of language to give meaning to products. Metaphor allows the transference of meaning of something onto something else. "This is not a wheel, it is a carousel."

[@andyshaw8870]

This really is, the best sales pitch I’ve ever seen.

[@Drrayoldman]

I remember this TV ad, and my family bought it and used it every holiday

[@YoungBizWhiz]

One of my favorite scenes from the show - and there were a lot of them 😀

[@RDASoccer]

Very fine show and so very well acted. This captures what Madison Avenue was like in the '60s.....

[@kiers1970]

The silloheutes. The lines. The delivery. Perfect

[@daisybluegroff]

This show stands out because it’s quiet, it reflects the era and contrasts current shows that are so kinetic. It moves slower than most, it’s like fine whisky.

[@fifthbusiness1678]

IMO the most brilliant sales pitch scene in all of Mad Men. And one of the best, period.

[@johnkeviljr9625]

First time I've seen this scene since the first time I saw it, when it first aired. It is just as compelling now as it was back then. Deeply stirring.

[@saqibkhan-pi5vo]

Watched the show during the lockdown and now watching these clips. Amazing content. Thanks Don!

[@zackamania6534]

Loved the inclusion of the Hollies “Carousel”

[@crazyralph6386]

Still brings a tear to my eyes

[@aphysique]

To a place we know we are loved, because that's what it's really all about!

[@MisterMoreno10457]

@@HolyBeared120th sounds like Las Vegas 🤣

[@localtrottingfrance8260]

excellent and one of the best sales pitch I have seen so far.... storytelling at its best

[@ThePlaton20]

BTW I know some Greek and Don's description of the term "nostalgia" is only partly correct. It consists of 2 Greek words, nostos and algos. Algos does mean pain, but the pain is connected to the Greek word "nostos" which translates most directly as "homecoming." However nostos has a much older, deeper implication in Greek which goes back all the way to the Homeric period. That deeper meaning has been lost in the English language, and nostos implies not just a simple "homecoming" but an epic journey returning to home from a distant land. Homer used the word nostos to describe the return of Odysseus to his homeland after years of fighting in Troy hundreds of miles away from his homeland in Ithaca. Normally it took 6-8 weeks to make that journey but for Odysseus it took 10 years.

[@torys8236]

Agreed. To some, nostalgia feels like what should take 6-8 weeks actually takes 10 years. So, the meaning can still most certainly be appropriate.

[@flyingdutch9818]

By the way, nobody cares, pedant.

[@Sam-um9nu]

thanks for sharing this

[@mikewoodson6930]

Agree, and yes you are spot on. Good stuff.

[@Cedillallidec]

@@flyingdutch9818 What is wrong with you? What is going so wrong in your life you need to write this foolish and rude note? Get yourself together. One can only feel utter pathos for you.

[@TTony-tu6dm]

The power of the appeal to emotion. It can get people to believe anything, even things that aren’t true

[@dandavis8300]

Am I the only one that loved the Harry Crane character as comic relief? Here, Don picked his brain to figure out this pitch because Harry's sleeping in his office since his wife threw him out. Now he flees the room to avoid being seen crying, but goes right in front of the screen. Works hard, good at his job, but not quite attractive enough or glib enough; always a day late and a dollar short. Like the rest of us.

[@yirgster9842]

I didn't like him as comic relief. I thought him mostly despicable.

[@dandavis8300]

@@yirgster9842 --That's part of what makes him funny! See he wasn't nearly as despicable as Don or Pete. He didn't drive 2 men to suicide, by turning his back on his brother or firing a desperate man on Christmas Eve. He didn't rape anyone or try to pimp out his wife like Pete Campbell. And when he finds Kinsey in a cult, he gives him money to get out. He's basically a decent guy. Oh, and when he walks out of this meeting in tears because his wife kicked him out, it's hilarious.

[@andreww5574]

wasn't he discovered for having an affair and sleeping at the office? I think Don's pitch made him miss his wife and he probably rushed home to mend things

[@dandavis8300]

@@andreww5574 --Yes and things like that are always happening to him. Like Megan standing right behind him when he says what he'd like to do to her or getting locked out of the last partners meeting which would have made him rich because he's a little too greedy. He always gets punished for his sins right away, whereas Don or Pete seem to slide.

[@Hartfordland]

I remember watching it when it first aired. The pitch was his best..viewers knew it watching it for the first time.

[@lennyg3684]

The best sales pitch ever.

[@Divedown_25]

We had those at home and when some neighbours had been on vacation they invited for a showing, memories so clear in my head as a small child in the 60s70s. I took a lot of dia-projector photos growing up and had them instead of paper photos... memories. great scene

[@drichsk]

A beautiful, heartbreaking scene.

[@davidmc1489]

Never seen the show......but man....remember slide shows.....fuq a power point presentation....he killed it with nostalgia

[@pennywise8182]

Draper was a badass...Those original Kodak Carousels are super heavy too.Made of nothing but steel and chrome.Probably a good 10-15 pounds.

[@MassEffectFan113]

Like my pp.

[@BigLob2]

Well played Sir. Well played.

[@dawood121derful]

I never realized how much I miss the times of my childhood. It surely wasn’t perfect but it was magical.

[@Rushmore222]

It's amazing how sterile and ordinary that presentation becomes without the softly gripping piano and strings in the background. Well tailored music in advertising is just as effective a mood inducement tool as the imagery.

[@scottmmafan925]

I remember seeing this when Mad Men ran on TV. It's a great scene because Don is seeing his past through the slides and smiles because he likes his life. He sells the ad because he is so happy seeing his own past.

[@Rainy_Day12234]

This is why Madmen is one the greatest shows ever made.

[@johnwalter5875]

God Damn...I did not plan on cry.....That was powerful. WOW..wheww. Thx

[@marcusjohnson488]

“It’s delicate. (Pause) But potent …” I must try working that into a presentation one day

[@dobermanpac1064]

One of my top ten favorite series.