MAD MEN - "Who answers her own phone?" 1.13

[@isabe11e99]

“Maybe he’s throwing you a surprise party” yeah okay 😂😂

[@daviswendye]

Betty has always been the most beautiful in the room. The thought that someone would cheat on her never crossed her mind. Lol.

[@animalfinatic9366]

She's so innocent

[@albertgaspar627]

Betty knows, but she lives in a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without a man to cosign. She knows Don is the trophy a woman like her is supposed to win.

[@andrewpodolio59]

she knows thats b.s. she's just trying to say something to make francine calm down

[@Grisostomo06]

I love Anne Dudek. She conveys so much in that scene with her eyes and body language. I like when she tells Betty she thought she'd know what to do and Betty says "Why me?" and she answers "I don't know." She realizes all at once how clueless Betty is.

[@azcaz16]

I don't think Betty is clueless. Denial maybe.

[@TheMichaelJordanofGambling]

Betty was far from clueless here. She knew and January Jones conveyed that massive denial effectively. Don’s extramarital affairs were the worst kept secret in the neighborhood. It’s exactly her friend came to her, but both of them in that moment decided not to acknowledge the truth.

[@stonem0013]

@@azcaz16 I think Betty was kinda hoping she would say it out loud, because she couldn't do so herself.

[@LDacic]

Think you might be reading a bit too much into that one detail.

[@lalallange5890]

I didnt know much about her..but I found out through looking at various articles..just HOW MANY people praised her talent. Apparently, she is quite well known in her profession. Yes, she is really good in this scene..as well.

[@reng935]

"It's close to $18" Betty: 😨😨😨

[@gemstones2942]

That was actually a lot for the time

[@hus390]

@@gemstones2942 $145!! Phone bill

[@LordExarKun]

Francine thinking on poisoning Carlton. Those were the days.

[@LSSYLondon]

That's like 145 dollar phone bill. Pretty high.

[@misssmisssymaria]

The way she looks at Betty and says “I don’t know” she’s thinking ‘Holy shit, she’s absolutely clueless! ‘

[@NoCommonSense9]

I'm not sure. Betty definitely knows about the affairs, but they have an unspoken agreement not to talk about it.

[@misssmisssymaria]

@@NoCommonSense9 During this part of the season, Betty was completely oblivious.

[@NoCommonSense9]

@@misssmisssymaria i guess it's up to interpretation, but i never thought that. I always got the impression from the therapy session near the end that she's known deep down for a long time, but she represses it because she doesn't want to deal with it.

[@vaughnjones2785]

Betty is very sweet to her here. I never forgot about this Betty when she went through her growing pains

[@stonem0013]

sweet? She was delusional

[@NikolaAvramov]

@@stonem0013 The two mix very well.

[@circling-girl]

Anne Dudek is amazing. She deserves to be the main character on some amazing show. She's impressed me so damn much on this, House, and that one episode of Six Feet Under.

[@Angel_Gomez]

And the one in How I Met Your Mother

[@fiestadancers]

I’m a huge Six Feet Under fan. Can’t place her in it. Do you remember which episode it was or what it was about?

[@francescotamburini5790]

This show is so good. Carlton cheats on Francine and that gives us a chance not only to see how Betty is naive and does not consider that husbands do cheat, but also that her best friend knows more about her husband than she does and misunderstood Betty’s life and marriage dynamic. No surprise Betty needed a therapist and shot down the neighbour’s pidgeons. Don Draper is lucky to be alive.

[@briantuma1502]

I don’t think she’s naive. She can’t admit Don cheats because it would ruin her facade of being the perfect housewife with the perfect marriage.

[@francescotamburini5790]

@@briantuma1502 I think it’s evident from her connection with Glen in season 1 that at this time she is emotionally immature, a bit like a child. She doesn’t know that people hurt each other, and that’s why she’s so crushed and angry when she finds Don is cheating with Bobby Barrett. It’s not like Don, who knows he’s cheating and knows he’s unhappy but he can’t admit that about himself because he’s bought in the white, suburban family life and doesn’t want to lose it. Don knows that that’s not the only possible life, and that people hurt each other, while I think Betty doesn’t yet. It’s only from her marriage with Henry that she starts seeing that being a wife does not make her happy and becomes more cynical (she cheats on Henry with Don!!!).

[@briantuma1502]

@@francescotamburini5790 I don’t think her relationship with Glenn was all that innocent. It was quite toxic. She gave him a lock of her hair. Ewwww Also, she knew how to be a manipulative jerk as her treatment of Carla their housekeeper shows. I think it’s great we can have different interpretations of Betty. It attests to the great writing.

[@animalfinatic9366]

To be honest, I truly don't think Betty is completely an awful person. It is clear at times she is caring and wise, it's just most of the awful things she does stem from her own situations.

[@shanehughes3511]

She is deeply unhappy. Her mother conditioned her to be a subservient woman to a man So she felt obliged to be a woman who was a doting wife worried only about her appearance. But she was unhappy wiry that life but couldn't escape it as she believed it was best for her and her future. Only time she was ever happy was when she was a model. If Don never made her his wife and she continued in her career she may have been a better and happier person

[@marishkaspirit]

@@shanehughes3511 if Don wouldn't have made her his wife, she would have married another man and continue same story. Even more proof of that is when she remarries and repeats the same narrative all over again. Her mother conditioned her to believe that her ultimate role is to be a thropy wife, and only nearly at the end of her life after 2 failed marriages and a changing world around her, she realized what truly made her happy. That's why she went back to studies. But it was too late by then. She wasted too much time stuck in her old believes. It took many years to get out of that mentality. It didn't matter that it was Don, or the second husband. It was the same issue.

[@stonem0013]

@@marishkaspirit not exactly true - she was happier with Henry than Don, since Henry is a kinder and more mature man, and Don is a selfish and deceptive narcissist who made all his women miserable.

[@nickoliver3523]

Wise?! Betty is the most immature adult character every created outside of family guy type comedy

[@ykMMD]

@@nickoliver3523 Not by the ending tho. When she decided to go back to school, everyone thought she was trying to hit the 'reset button'. Yet when she gets her diagnosis and knows she is going to die, she still goes to school. Francis asks her "Betty, why are you doing this" and she replies "Why was I ever doing it?", we realise that she may have been wiser than everyone thought. She made a big leap in terms of maturity and wiseness in that lat season.

[@dasikakn]

Always be working, ladies. Keep your skills ready.

[@jjohnsengraciesmom]

Amen to that.

[@sitcomchristian6886]

My mom knew of a lady who never left home. She lived with her mother until her mother died at the age of 90-something, making her 70-something when she was first on her own. She was totally helpless. It's wise to have a skill set that will pay the bills regardless of your circumstances. Maybe your marriage is bliss, but your husband could die unexpectedly. Even if you don't have to work, be ABLE to.

[@koolaidman6251]

So many little girls brought up to believe that if you present your virgin vag on your wedding night to a man and stay home serving him, he will appreciate and respect you. The shock for a woman who grew up believing that .. to realize that he didn't respect or care at all. . must be unfathomable. He got bored, wanted something different.

[@NikolaAvramov]

@@koolaidman6251 While on this planet so many little girls are brought up to stand in line and be some psychopath billionaire's whore and if they don't end up the one in a billion exception - become the bitter feminists that hate the very non-rich non-psychopath men they've ignored and hated with zeal their whole youth.

[@jeffmorin5867]

"skills"...lol good one.

[@imjinrat2325]

Betty knows immediately whats going on so she instantly makes up this surprise nonsense.

[@rockyaoki8929]

Betty is denying and thinking positive about Anne's marriage just as hers.

[@johnas9092]

Maybe it *was* a caterer.

[@fernandogutierrez4429]

Actually, she is upset because she has been dumped on her birthday.

[@charmedprince]

Suzy, can i call you Suzy?

[@christinaa.1165]

you know you can't trust someone when they answer their own phone

[@Sam-nz3vj]

It’s not that people who answer their own phone are untrustworthy, it’s that if he’s calling a woman so often in Manhattan then it should be a business colleague. A professional in an office wouldn’t answer their own phone. So it proves that the calls are personal.

[@annaelisavettavonnedozza9607]

@@Sam-nz3vj I think it was sarcasm ☺️

[@tvaddict69]

I am a woman who answers her own phone.

[@rusudan9631]

not everybody is so strong and independent

[@silverkitty2503]

@@rusudan9631 wut?

[@juanpablog1914]

What the hell? Whats next, are you gonna use vote or something?

[@misssmisssymaria]

Juan Pablo G “Whats next, are you gonna use vote?” That makes absolutely no sense.

[@Angel_Gomez]

Congratulations

[@Sanee650]

(11 year old video alright) Anyways betty isn‘t clueless about Don’s cheating but I think she probably WAS clueless up to this moment about everyone else knowing about it

[@VampireLovatic]

Oh no Francine, whatever happened you're not stupid, you speak italian.

[@AlexS-oj8qf]

Betty is in denial because if her friends are facing these problems then it's not so uncommon as she thought and the realisation that Don might be just like these men dawned upon her.

[@yudisaputra3273]

MH = Mike Hannigan? He just broke up with her

[@nico-zt9od]

Lol i got that one

[@lolabrini3758]

"i mean what the hell am i suppose to do now???!!" --- i finally know where i saw that actress, i knew her face was familiar! If u know that quote: u need help and u watched that show TOO MANY TIMES🙈like me🤷🏻‍♀️😔

[@thingthang2904]

Oh my god, it’s Precious from Friends!!!

[@lolabrini3758]

Thing Thang u got it 👌😎

[@Reach1335]

I know I don't often and I don't even have a secretary. If I could disconnect it and not be viewed as a leper I would.

[@michelletran2637]

She started talking about poisoning her family and I thought of Sippy Cup by Melanie Martinez.

[@WillKalili]

People were spoiled back then. $145 for a phone bill for long distance and the entire family is nothing.

[@Vvestlana]

Ever heard about inflation?

[@sallywhite7678]

Does anyone know what season, what episode this is? Thanks!

[@Dagibaus]

S01e13

[@cathyw4564]

Francine was in "Longmire".

[@mercedesbenz18]

She was one of the sisters in White chicks too.

[@valereirenfro9040]

This is why I'm not a great fan of the instituition of marriage. Women always get screwed. Always.

[@HHM706]

Errr there's a few million men who might disagree with you!!! :

[@brianwilson1074]

What kind of world do you live in? it certainly isn't the same as mine

[@zeppelin_7245]

What about all the men who lose everything they worked for to a woman after a divorce? Much more common.

[@falguninimje7019]

@@zeppelin_7245 wouldn't need a divorce if

[@reginasemenenko148]

This is the reason that most women work and have fewer children. Never put all of the eggs in one basket!

[@moosif5]

omg - $18 whole dollars..

[@jessicavictoriacarrillo7254]

Now in 2016, that would be $146.34

[@mikepeterson764]

My phone bill is 16 dollars a month.

[@GizmoMaltese]

@@jessicavictoriacarrillo7254 I once got a phone for a girlfriend. She called overseas. $2,5000 phone bill.

[@lastEvergreen]

@subcomandante marcos cool it with the red pills

[@Etianen7]

@subcomandante marcos inflation and purchasing power are actually related

[@B612nian]

@mangobanna now i get it

[@trishawilson7804]

Oh my.god,.am.clu3less,g33,w8z

[@saadabdullah5090]

Damn it woman pull yourself together. Have some pride for the love of God.

[@aaraar4055]

Honestly it surprises me that people are perpetually surprised and even devastated when they find their partners cheating on them. Look at yourself in the mirror first and ask yourself, would I sleep with this hag/ hog? If the answer is no, then it's a damn good bet your partner is sleeping or fantasising about sleeping with someone else. As for me, I'd I turn into an unpleasant hog one day, I wouldn't be surprised if my partner sleeps around.

[@Sam-nz3vj]

She wasn’t an unpleasant hog? She just had a baby and she was a mess in this scene because she just found out her husband was cheating on her. She was shown to be the typical 50’s-60’s housewife, and even if she wasn’t she doesn’t deserve to get treated like that.

[@aaraar4055]

@@Sam-nz3vj yes I know all that and I wasn't calling her a hag or hog. Making a general statement to the effect that, man or woman have a duty to make themselves attractive to eachother. When you take your spouse for granted, they're bound to stray. As a man if I don't keep my wife happy, I shouldn't complain if she finds someone who does.

[@NikolaAvramov]

Well, things are simpler for you psychopaths. The show's about people with souls.