Don Draper at his finest

[@-CrampedStyle-]

What I love about Don, and something I just realized, that part of his power is that he nearly always controls when the meeting ends for him. He never waits for the other party to end the discussion. Almost always he's the one who says "Thank you for your time" and ends the meeting. Just for shits and giggles, I'm going to try that on interviews where I know I have nothing to lose.

[@daevydjae]

That, but he also holds the position of power, by putting it on the table, showing that it's in their best interest to accept and not a smart move to decline. You don't have that, you waste their time. Plus it's fiction so there's that. :-D

[@francismallard5892]

You’ll be surprised how well this works. I’ve used it many times. Also in social situations: a simple and friendly “well, this has been great! *brief pause* Thanks so much for [inviting me/organizing this/ thinking of me/agreeing to meet me/etc]! Let’s do this again!” All while extending a hand for goodbye handshakes or hugs. No need for an excuse “well, I gotta get home and feed the dog” or whatever. State the facts: this has been nice, let’s do it again. You’l be ASTONISHED by how people just fall into line. People are generally agreeable and don’t want to feel they’ve missed some social cue. So when you engage an assertive, friendly exit, people go with it

[@imanjones2392]

I completely agree. I don’t do it often but I’m always surprised how a little confidence and straight forwardness is received. Especially in situations like interviews where you’re sort of in a more perceived vulnerable position

[@sdporres]

How did it go?

[@-CrampedStyle-]

@@sdporres well, I got a new job, so maybe that had something to do with it.

[@sh2560]

One of the very few times we see Don nervous before he enters a room....then owns it of course

[@alloybust3842]

the brilliance of the whole scene, i think

[@الشراعالأخضرلتعليماللغةالإنكلي]

Don trolling hippies, kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaC9daigjdp3j5I

[@Ballarattrumpetguy]

Favourite scene in Maltese Falcon is when Humphrey Bogart observes his hand shaking after a particularly dangerous confrontation. He observes it happen, smiles... And moves on. Genius!

[@nates5703]

That contemptuous "You're incredible." "Thank you."

[@meris8486]

Such a great scene, the way he gets a taxi for _them_ like saying "You lost! Allow me to get the door for you on your way out"

[@alanaslanandhismusic]

it felt like a call back to the elevator ending in season 6. Plus the Waylon Jennings song was the icing on the cake

[@1091Floyd21]

And the arrogant fucker throws his cigarette butt on the ground.

[@kargs5krun]

Strange, the writers didn't think to have him retort at the end there with: "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn."

[@meris8486]

@@kargs5krun Really?

[@kargs5krun]

@@meris8486 Really.

[@yragcom1]

"You're incredible." "Thank you." Classic.

[@rymarsrs8552]

@Tha Real Mccoy Nah, that's some classic shit right there.

[@JiggyMcCue]

@Tha Real Mccoy bitch nigga

[@HH-oz9pf]

@Tha Real Mccoy fuck you

[@utkarshtripathi3781]

@Tha Real Mccoy Yes. Not every MM bit is classic.

[@hilljack68]

I can't decide if I like this scene better or the one where he tell's Duck "I don't have a contract"...

[@robjohnson8522]

That is my very favorite scene in the series.

[@prosay]

That was one of the best!

[@davidgakumo1485]

My favorite was the carousel

[@suzannadannaTARDIS]

@@davidgakumo1485 Thing is, there are so many scenes that each of us can have a different favorite - and none of us would be wrong. Don's such a well written and acted character.

[@mortykatz2236]

I love when he sticks it right down their throats

[@bellmeisterful]

I started watching this show thinking Dons gonna be this perfect, strong stud the whole time. I found out differently. Amazing show.

[@kemchobhenchod]

Cutler: You think this is going to save you, don't you? Plot twist: It did.

[@Buttcakes15]

“You think this is going to save you, don’t you.” *closes door* Bumpdumpadumpdumpadumpdumpadumpdumpa

[@mightbesherwood1313]

Plot armor.

[@segura9]

@Jericho Kilmanja everyone understood what he meant, so stfo with your nitpicking.

[@mkultra2456]

@@Buttcakes15 PUMP AND DUMP

[@mkultra2456]

@@segura9 loool you caught the big gay

[@BriRog68]

Don Draper had all his demons and flaws..not to mention lapses in judgement...but he was the MAN! and they all knew it! One of many great scenes!

[@DrHogfan]

the Boss.

[@luislaplume8261]

@@DrHogfan He is absolutely an Alpha Male! Not a soy boy like Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada.

[@johnkeith2450]

Best of the series

[@tomatillosocial2448]

me vibes

[@freddovich7925]

But the whole point of the show is that Don is just a facade, his personality is a fake construct, he is living a lie. Perhaps his business conduct in half of the scenes is admirable, in a lot of them he's a bully

[@Shawnasart76597]

Don is the king of "cool guys don't look at explosions." He drops a bomb, and then gets up and walks away, leaving his counterparts to sit in stunned silence to stew over whatever he has said. No need to belabor the point, no need to convince them, he becomes the epitome of cool confidence.

[@mkultra2456]

He is the Don Juan of Dons.

[@caddieguy6510]

This took some serious guts to walk into a meeting uninvited and was completely able to control the entire room, leaving everyone silent. Notice how Lou and Jim were looking down at the table when Don was talking, they knew it was the beginning of the end for them

[@themoreyouknowfools4974]

It takes charisma to do that. Lots of it.

[@BrokenGodEnt]

@@themoreyouknowfools4974 It takes balls bigger than jupiter and the strength to carry them into the next room without collapsing under their enormous gravity lmao.

[@caddieguy6510]

@bbabbich3467 yeah i agree

[@apolloparker4963]

@B Babbich lmao yeah people seem to not remember this is a script and all actors.

[@Tonyconstanza]

@@apolloparker4963 everyone knows that

[@dazem8]

one of the best written shows ever, imo. the whole cast was perfect, too.

[@deepfried13]

that whistle at the end, damn

[@MrJamberee]

deepfried13 It's not like he actually did the whistling.

[@darrylwayne1292]

It’s not that hard. Why wouldn’t it be

[@frankieeisenberg6506]

MrJamberee that’s not the point

[@ChicanoPridex08]

@@MrJamberee Lol you do know ppl can whistle louder than that don't you? Don't be so oblivious.

[@DeliriousGnome]

Omg the amount of bitter beta males angrily replying to this post lmao

[@julieerin115]

Lou and Cutler: the two most despicable characters on the show.

[@meris8486]

Mostly Lou. Cutler was a dick and he despised Don after a while but he had some good points, Don was a mess at times and hard to work with, I can't blame someone for getting frustrated.

[@tenzinaga6254]

don't forget about betty draper, she's probably the most hatable character on the show

[@Papa-Squat]

@@tenzinaga6254 really? Don revealed their marriage was literally predicated on deception and perpetually slept with everything that walked.. you can't empathize with someone like that even a little bit?

[@Morbutt]

@@Papa-Squat Did you pay attention during the first couple seasons? Betty was nuts and obnoxious. I'm not saying she deserved Don's infidelity, but I understand why he did it

[@healthypizza1745]

@@Morbutt He didn't change even after he was with someone else. What was his excuse then?

[@bellmeisterful]

Btw what Don does so well is known as The Takeaway. Gets up...walks out, acts like he doesnt want their business. Classic yet effective sales method.

[@66Bunn]

Every single time I walk by the Algonquin, when I'm in NYC, I think of this scene. I know that all the scenes in Mad Men were filmed in a studio or in spots around LA...but every time I'm in Manhattan (which is a lot), I can't help playing every scene in my head whenever I'm there. The Algonquin, P.J. Clarke's, Sardi's, The Pierre, NYAC, Broadhurst Theatre, etc, etc

[@frostpond]

New Yorker here… the sunlight is so pretty when they walk outside, clearly shot in CA… but the “Algonck” logo is correct out front.

[@courtneyshannon2621]

I live near where the Janzen Swimwear company used to have their offices (the building has been remodeled but still has their logo on the building). I know this show is fictional, but I like to imagine the execs back in the day returning to that building and being like "Donald Draper fired us because he said we were too prude!"

[@winternow2242]

1:03 "Thanks for saying that, so we don't have to.." I was a never all that much a Jim Cutler fan, but that was beautiful.

[@pixseedustaerialimaging8191]

Only daddy that’ll walk the line . . . Choosing that song at the end was perfection

[@bobhin7986]

My only sole purpose in life is to learn how to call a taxi like Don Draper

[@plugboot]

Learn to whistle without using your fingers. Imagine your holding a lady friend’s packages, and you loudly whistle at the same time.

[@YUL695]

Yeah, it doesn't look nearly so cool to tap on your phone for an Uber

[@jhyacinth]

Don was saying to the client, “I have unique expertise; do you want me inside the tent pissing out or outside the tent (working at another agency on a competitive cigarette) pissing in.” And he was saying to Lou and Jim, “if the client comes to us to work with me, then you both can go pound sand.” Wow!

[@timf7413]

Because the entire thing is clearly Cutler trying to end run around Don, but Don is a much better strategic thinker than Cutler, which is how he got back into the agency to begin with.

[@glenndallas7171]

Great analysis. It's also backed up in the partners' meeting when Cutler wants to buy Don out, and Roger asks if he wants to see Don as competition later.

[@samuelmorse784]

This arrogant dumbass thinks that understanding a simple plot twist requires lengthy explanations. People who watch Mad Men aren't generally idiots.

[@TravelinBand747]

@@samuelmorse784 Yet the “arrogant dumbest” offers a far more quality comment than you.

[@philsurtees]

Thanks Einstein. In other news, water is wet...

[@philswaim392]

Legends say Don Draper is still waiting for that Taxi to pull up, and looks badass doing it.

[@Raughwe]

Don is, in his own, way, very warm. He is commerce. Take it or leave it.

[@nateswan9527]

Imagine what Don could do if he was sober in all 7 seasons

[@johngoodman4211]

Ha! Half of those idea's would probably come to you while under the influence! Just look to actors, musicians...

[@carlsnyder4833]

Don never feels the need to answer to anyone. Shutting the door on Cutler after he asks whether Don believes this will save his job was so satisfying.

[@shimadamada9646]

Tony Soprano sends his regards.

[@chaoticnique9748]

Stupida fackin' tony

[@Baggythebeast]

@@chaoticnique9748 'is gotta bee on 'is 'at

[@timbuckthe2nd642]

Three shows mixed into one. I like it

[@muhammadhussam659]

@@timbuckthe2nd642 I don't get it

[@abdullayaser700]

@@muhammadhussam659 game of thrones and the sopranos and Mad man

[@aztiff]

Also Jon Hamm at his finest. How he handles the chair before leaving the room, every last detail.

[@leroyproud294]

This is such a great series that I'm in the process of watching it again!

[@الشراعالأخضرلتعليماللغةالإنكلي]

Don trolling hippies, kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaC9daigjdp3j5I

[@TratUsYT]

I’ve watched it twice. Actually thinking will watch again some day. I come to KZbin to see clips pretty often, may as well!!

[@TravelinBand747]

The use of that Waylon Jennings song at the end was brilliant.

[@kountry5876]

Agree totally , hearing Waylon was the cherry on top !

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

... I added that song to my list of favorites after first watching this episode. 👍🏽💯🤗

[@tompulley9753]

So good at leaving on a high note. His trademark.

[@colderbeer]

It wasn't just Don's amazing talent they were so jealous of.....they couldn't stand the fact that it came so natural to Don, while they were beating their heads against the wall to only be half as talented....

[@listrahtes]

But it did not just came to him. He was always working in his mind. Reading any new literature and cinema. And he was the only one doing it. He had tremendous work ethic but in a creative way. Shown in the Honda negotiations and many other scenes

[@michaelkorba2813]

Love the closing music. Perfect scoring!

[@hilljack68]

Like everything else about this series...the song choice is perfect.

[@ultrapaiva]

The taxi scene is one of Don’s sexiest. He’s the alpha male, so full of himself and loving himself so much at that moment that he could touch the clouds.

[@aphysique]

Is he the Grant Cardone of this show

[@الشراعالأخضرلتعليماللغةالإنكلي]

Don trolling hippies, kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaC9daigjdp3j5I

[@jshepard152]

@@aphysique Yes. But at least he's not a scientologist.

[@YourAbeFroemann]

My favorite element of this scene is the over the shoulder look of confidence and contempt Don throws lou and jim (purposeful use of lower case) as he heads for the door.

[@waghprasad]

Plenty of things to despise Don as a person, but none come close to putting him down when he's doing his job. That's what we all love him for. The opening montage of the show was so subtle in depicting Don, he will fall throughout his personal life and maybe a little in his professional as well, but in the end he's alright. Because he's so damn confident of himself.

[@mariedewitt5033]

The only thing I find hard to believe is how Don came from such an impoverished, culturally deprived background to become a slave,polished, articulate, sophisticated Manhattan ad man. What a leap.

[@Hiraghm]

"You think this is going to save you, don't you?" me: I think his hat doesn't match his suit.

[@JJGerrard1980]

Grey and brown absolutely match. Figure it out newbie.

[@luislaplume8261]

If that was not a power play, then I don't know what is. I am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era.

[@yanceyboyz]

That was a desperation move masked as a power play. It was all or nothing.

[@jjgrey1488]

When you're a Gunslinger with your brains and balls and you're in a room with "softies"...The Waylon Jennings at the end is a nice touch...

[@RK-bz7hb]

My guy doesn’t even wait for a response. He KNOWS it worked out. Incredible.

[@craignewnes5148]

"You want to work here, Close!" A. Baldwin

[@raf44bravo]

Such a great series I miss this show.

[@SplinterAce]

You just got Draper'd!

[@admirdzafic5257]

SplinterAce great profile pic

[@ukrandr]

Close. But Don's "finest" was Carousel.

[@الشراعالأخضرلتعليماللغةالإنكلي]

Don trolling hippies, kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaC9daigjdp3j5I

[@WMMASceneNow]

Don straight up owned the CGC chumps.

[@vantheman12welshman66]

The greatness of Don Draper is that when he’s at his finest other men what to be him.

[@crazyredhare]

I've never wanted to be someone else. If I had to chose 007 or Don. I'd be the DON.

[@maxhalsted5381]

Damn right

[@sfk1066]

That’s how you save a career...like a boss.

[@floydmora1]

I would like to leave on my own terms as well. well done.

[@xxxxyz854]

"You hit me with rock, me hit you with bigger rock!" "Me help you hit everyone with big rocks!" "You need me to hit with biggest rocks!"

[@edseiya]

coolest taxi call ever

[@lindahuff8976]

Perfect show, perfect cast.

[@JohnBarron-n]

Coolest part of the scene is the whistle

[@ericwilliams626]

What Matt Wiener provided with Draper was a man who understands the problem, knew how to phrase the problem in such a way to get the client to see things through the prism he was looking through instead of the atypical narrow minded middle class business culture prism the rest of them look through. His answer, make me your slave and stave off your competition. Nobody had thought of that but Draper. All people see are problems, not solutions because, well, they aren't Creative.

[@Strongwind]

Such a man He is the man

[@Strongwind]

Sounds like someone has an inferiority complex

[@TheBarbahaba]

its not her fault after all its don draper that unconsciously drew from himself the image of what a man is in all his ads its only natural after all to see him as the man after being influenced by so many ads because he is the Man !!!

[@pcprincipal345]

​@@Strongwind wtf ever that means

[@Strongwind]

@@pcprincipal345 Don Draper fine af 🥵

[@Random-gk8do]

You’re incredible Thank you

[@JSTX9216]

Jim Cutler and Lou Avery disliked this as of today 8-16-16 lol

[@TheBarbahaba]

they must have called Duck Phillips to see this video 3/6/2017

[@mikepeterson764]

and Jimmy Barrett and Dr. Faye showed on 8/17/2017

[@rchamp247]

Post Jaguar Joan left a couple of dislikes during this 2020 pandemic.

[@OriginalDisplayName]

Some one give him a British Accent - he should, nay he must, be the next Bond.

[@ronniejdio9411]

Thell never hire an American

[@oz_jones]

No

[@DerLamer]

White AND male? Won't see that Bond again in this century.

[@steveetienne]

@@DerLamer We will. The lash back against all the politically correct cultural marxist horseshit is coming and coming hard. I'm sure we will see some diversity quota Bond's but the be all and end all is profit and those films won't be profitable. Jon Hamm would make a superb Bond - that being said their should only be one person considered as the next Bond - Michael Fassbender.

[@xxxfirehuunterxxx]

@@steveetienne I find his English accent over done, but he might have mixed it by this point. Hamm would suit a Bruce Wayne more so than bond, though he'd fit in perfectly in both. Need to think more about bond actors honestly. There's a few.

[@hollyhatcher489]

Can't help but to love Don

[@pauljohnmorales1840]

Worked in the AD world for almost a decade .. he's as cutthroat as it gets! brilliant and trademark Draper.

[@glennwatson3313]

Maybe not a good Batman, but a great Bruce Wayne.

[@olliehays3206]

Glenn Watson I actually think he'd be a badass Lex Luthor with his head shaved

[@ducknorris233]

You’re incredible Garcias

[@jojogarcia8766]

Garcia? that's my last name... So... Thank you.😎

[@debgib007]

I am unworthy to make any comments on the Show or Don Draper; but my goodness that whistle!

[@darrylwayne1292]

I’m glad someone else caught it

[@tobia.1281]

This what you call coming through in the clutch.

[@claymac7895]

Jim and Lou never stood a chance going against Don, his talent simply eclipsed theirs in spite of his numerous messy character flaws.

[@nich3897]

I love both colors in this video

[@v1ryus]

Masterclasses in politics and negotiation - couple of things: Don passed both shit tests but appealing to Lee's greed and competitive spirit. Lee essentially doesn't care in the end because at the end of the day he still has to run a business and he probably realizes if he allows Don Draper to leave SCDP... He'll have an enemy who lowered himself to be a "lackey"

[@arcanondrum6543]

_"...that may be true but we don't turn on our friends as easily as you do."_ 1:42 Indeed, yes, *THANK YOU Tobacco Corporation for being so "good" to others.* We can all... "learn" SO much humanity from them.

[@paulchubb4405]

What a perfect use of Waylon Jennings

[@mattfain4882]

Don did the same kind of pause, pressed his head with both hands, just like Al Pacino did in the bathroom before he shot Sollozzo and McCluskey in The Godfather.

[@albertp-w4d]

Hey! good catch

[@MikeD-tc1tz]

the look Don gives them at 2:11. Priceless!

[@Tonyconstanza]

I knew someone like cutler they all have one thing in common they can’t take a punch

[@ericwilliams626]

I've had to prepare for my first presentation and I call tell you have spending two weeks brainstorming, taking copious sloppy notes, and redoing those sloppy notes again and again; it's the hardest thing to take something so simple, that nobody is thinking about or can see, and try to get someone to understand it in less the five minutes, less than two. Boiling simplicity down to a few simple phrases so someone gets IT is ridiculously difficult and laughable.

[@TPRM1]

Indeed. Any idiot can make a concept sound more difficult. It takes a genius to make it sound more simple. How did it go?

[@jackjax7921]

2:48 The manliest whistle in any TV show. Lmao 😂

[@BuckingHorse-Bull]

the song that plays at 2:44 is Waylon Jennings - Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line

[@khurramqasir6815]

I think the moral is to say what you have to and strike a nerve then just walk out. if Don had stayed in the room, he may have come out to be needy and there was a good chance the strategy would've failed.

[@NoLeftTurn54321]

Genius writing.

[@TheJaviferrol]

- Well if you were to give us a shot, i´m prepared to leave the agency - Don, thanks for saying that so we don´t have to. 90 seconds later...

[@85308arizonaboy]

You know Don hit it out of the park when they follow with Waylon Jennings....

[@davidnicholson6680]

"Gentlemen, the exit is this way." *shuts the cab door*

[@diannemarlenehargitai4309]

Ad men like Mr. Draper made America great. It's called "compelling selling." The advertising industry in the US had no rivals on planet Earth! The world was fascinated with anything American, and this includeded cigarettes, Hollywood movies, blue jeans and rock and roll. We need leaders who are as razor sharp as Mad Men to curry favor with our Allies, instead of alienating the free world with our bullying, pompous ignorance.

[@Fan_Made_Videos]

Don's girly-eyes blink at the Les from Phillip Morris is hilarious

[@ericlol1337]

i love how this was apparently recorded with a flip phone, off a projector, that was screening in 244p

[@lousyacrobat]

don didnt have a meeting. the meeting had a don.

[@TTony-tu6dm]

“You think this is going to save you don’t you” Yea it kinda did

[@ukrandr]

Does anyone else think that Don was hoping Harry Hamlin's finger would get caught in that cab door slam?

[@MattyVice]

Damn, the Algonquin has been around that long? I walk past it every day

[@wakawakachuchu9353]

A true power player.

[@jimnoonan7124]

I love how they're restoring all these old films but I think this one's on bad stock!

[@adambrady9989]

Like a BOSS

[@fernando25black]

If Charisma had a son with Class, his name would be Don Draper.

[@jadentrez]

Lou should just change his name to: "We weren't expectin" ya, Don!" Sort of like batting in on Joe DiMaggio's off day, only to have Joltin' Joe show up. "Weren't expectin' ya, Joe!" "I know that, and I apologize. But -- "

[@shubhamlade9406]

Now that's what you call an undeniable confidence

[@dmartig1]

I truly could not stand Lou because I have run across many people like him. A true mediocrity who somehow gets into a position of authority just because he would never rock the boat.

[@65g4]

that was amazing

[@mja91352]

Andre: you need greater knowledge of a greater range of fictional characters

[@albertp-w4d]

This is some high level shit here

[@dmstn]

Jim Cutler is so morose all the time.

[@MORE1500]

A male version of Betty.

[@emmanuelmondesir1314]

@@MORE1500 far from it. Cultler is logic when everyone else is irrational.

[@HiddenWen]

@@emmanuelmondesir1314 Yeah, Cutler is the cold calculating executive. Probably the kind of person that would ruin creatives because he can't see the artistic elements of the profession,

[@brianwilson1074]

@@emmanuelmondesir1314 For someone logical he does a lot of ilogical things, like wanting someone as incompetent as Lou as the director of the criative dept. I get it that he kinda of doesn't care about that dept that much, but it's still a terrible decision to make in a AD company.

[@emmanuelmondesir1314]

@@brianwilson1074 Lou is dry but competent and controllable. At the start of Season 7 they stated that they went a full year just fine without Don. Lou isn't incompetent hes just unlikable and doesnt have Don' great ideas.

[@shawnfoxfirth9684]

Jon Hamm as the New Matt Helm .. .

[@ivandaniel08]

We don’t need to be saved. Without the cherry it’s no cake, it’s a pile of cream.

[@edpor68]

Don is the man

[@kemchobhenchod]

I will convince people like this.