"Somebody used your name to end our business in the newspaper. It wasn't you was it?" Brilliant lol
@hwl3084 жыл бұрын
Roger is hillarious lol
@TsarOfRuss4 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha it was epic
@Ani23013 жыл бұрын
I love the second level to this line. It’s a quick quip by Roger but the deeper meaning is Don Draper isn’t his name, Dick Whitman used Don Draper’s name to “end their business in the newspaper” and Roger was asking if it was indeed the man in front of him using Don Draper’s name or if it was someone else.
@JakeLesser3 жыл бұрын
@@Ani2301 I might be wrong but did Don ever reveal to Roger his past? I know Pete and Cooper knew from the firm.
@shrapnel773 жыл бұрын
@@JakeLesser No, he did not. He did reveal his past to Roger when he had his Hershey chocolate meltdown, but never his double identity. The "second level" is for us, the viewer.
@geomonabe3 жыл бұрын
Whoever writes Roger Sterling's lines should have written mine.
@christinamasberg2 жыл бұрын
Now I feel like we're all in our own series, so someone tell my writers my show needs a giant fantastic surprise
@RB-ow7mt Жыл бұрын
That was a good line, though.
@ernestomoreno44093 жыл бұрын
I like how Bert is mad that he didn’t include everyone while the rest of the partners want nothing to do with it.
@houseofmatrix61743 жыл бұрын
Bert was the wisest
@michaelsieger91332 жыл бұрын
It’s better to look in control and unpopular than unpopular and weak.
@acreking96802 жыл бұрын
It showed he'd rather go down with the ship then to point the blame at his shipmate
@masoudmardani Жыл бұрын
I think he rathered that the letter wasn't out at all, but if it was out he at least wanted his name on the news paper.
@SamHusseini4 жыл бұрын
Most people don’t get the funniest line in this amazing scene. “Emerson Foote” was a bigwig in advertising who worked on Lucky Strike and eventually turned on tobacco, quit advertising as a result and then did tons of anti tobacco work.
@dorkmax70734 жыл бұрын
I don't know why, but the name popped into my head right now. I googled it, feeling some vague association with Mad Men and this scene. And saw that he was an Anti-tobacco ad man.
@vakeone3 жыл бұрын
Mad Men has tons of subtle humor.
@Egilhelmson3 жыл бұрын
Would they have known that, at the time?
@VENEKLASEN53 жыл бұрын
thank you
@srbaruchi2 жыл бұрын
@@Egilhelmson I think it's meant to be an anachronistic writers' joke for viewers. The secretary might not know the name, but all these mad men would. Foote's agency (Foote, Cone, & Belding) had taken a stand against tobacco advertising in 1948, and then he took a personal and very public stand in 1964, resigning as chairman from McCann-Erickson, which, like most big agencies, was still doing tobacco advertising.
@madumlao2 жыл бұрын
Pay very close to how Roger Sterling is reading the room. When Don was getting out of line he told him off, but when the others were firing up he was in bomb defusal mode. He was paying attention to and tempering everyone's mood from start to finish. Superb accounts man.
@Reach13355 жыл бұрын
I like how he's saying he's quitting tobacco with a cig in his hand. Just like every other person that's tried to quit before.
@louieg76764 жыл бұрын
You know you can't just quit immediately right? You have to quit slowly, taking lesser dose or sticks everyday..
@juliusebola97124 жыл бұрын
@@louieg7676 uhh no dude. You either quit cold turkey or you don't quit at all. there is no tapering a nicotine addiction
@kemchobhenchod4 жыл бұрын
His holding the cigarette is to show that it was purely a political move, not out of a genuine feeling. He later leverages an apology for this letter to land an even bigger tobacco account. Weiner was careful to not let Don be a hero.
@timbuckthe2nd6424 жыл бұрын
Lol you clearly dont get it.
@lonelyhearts42164 жыл бұрын
Did you even watch the show?
@66Bunn3 жыл бұрын
"Someone named, Emerson Foote" What a brilliant name to cite. Read about Emerson Foote in the Ad game and how he resigned Lucky Strike around 1949-50. Mad Men is the greatest show ever
@marydestefano9487 Жыл бұрын
cite.
@whatev466 Жыл бұрын
@@marydestefano9487 Their citation is google. Just look it up.
@joshisaac22634 жыл бұрын
I love how the voiceover changes at 1:21; his inner monologue gets overpowered by the domineering and confident variation of his own personality, subtly showing how stark the contrast between the 'real' and 'artificial' Don Draper is.
@lelandrb4 жыл бұрын
Wasn't my interpretation. I thought it was a transition from Don reading out loud a draft of his thoughts to him reading the final copy, confident in the tone.
@darkale6583 жыл бұрын
It's a common device to show other people reading someone's words in their head, not everything is that deep lol
@erwind12573 жыл бұрын
You're spot on. The audio editing at 1:21 overlapped of the two tones on purpose.
@ykMMD3 жыл бұрын
Erwin D Nah it was a way to show other people reading it.
@erwind12573 жыл бұрын
@@ykMMD That's what we're both saying. It was a way to show other people reading it, in a tone that Draper didn't pronounce himself. That's the tone that other people were imagining it while reading it.
@slide41805 жыл бұрын
"Dawn, ah, this is, ah, Sennatuh Kennedy, ah..."
@Jaffa62904 жыл бұрын
underrated comment
@TOTCD3 жыл бұрын
Great impression.
@williammccormick28027 жыл бұрын
Slattery destroys every line he has in this scene.
@0Genus06 жыл бұрын
William McCormick Slattery destroys every single line he says in all seven seasons.
@johnfolsom49006 жыл бұрын
William McCormick is that good?
@DragonPrincessAoife5 жыл бұрын
degree7 he Slattered them.
@mabrurh5 жыл бұрын
John Folsom wouldn’t like to speak for him but I think so.
@MilanVoorhees5 жыл бұрын
I love him so much, I think Sterling may well be my favorite character after Draper
@miliano997 жыл бұрын
ilove how the`re all waiting for him and he, fully aware of that, just walks into his office.
@andrew7taylor6 жыл бұрын
Agreed. Shows them that he has the power to choose the playground, which is his office, in which he has the power. If he went to the conference room, it would have gave the power to the other 4 guys.
@shrapnel773 жыл бұрын
Given the time Roger and the others walked in, they must have bolted really fast from the conference room. I would have.
@inkedhigh4 жыл бұрын
After losing lucky strike and losing Marlboro he knew the agency wouldn't be able to take in any tobacco brand companies. He was really protecting the agency from being rejected from another company and have their name be looked at like "not good enough". That's just my thought
@anti-russbot51274 жыл бұрын
Actually, it made it seem like all the other agencies didn't care about people's health. If you pay attention he reads the companies in his letter (by name), it marks them as not progressive, greedy as if they don't care about people's health. If you think about this move was genius.
@Jay-xr3sb4 жыл бұрын
It was sour grapes, if he had booked off luck strike it would have been different. The others were right, he made a decision that concerned the whole business, good play or bad he was out of line. One of the many reasons he was outsted later on.
@henrypeters52914 жыл бұрын
@@anti-russbot5127 It goes in line with what Peggy said, he changed the conversation. They would still be able to bring in new business, it would just be even harder for them to get the bigger guys. At the same time, it generated enough publicity that they were clearly able to build off of, but Don didn't realize how much he had alienated himself.
@loremipsum36103 жыл бұрын
He basically pulled a "You can't fire me, I quit!"
@anti-russbot51273 жыл бұрын
@@solarydays Agree, which is why it pisses me off when companies try to use some sort of social problem in their marketing. It's like religion and state, both should be separated.
@Bennymisc7 жыл бұрын
Slept? Really? You weren't smiling thinking about the taste of shit that would be in every body's mouth over breakfast today? - One of my favorite quotes ever.
@do_35075 жыл бұрын
This show reaaally did a number with this scene. It's an almost perfect copy of the ''Penalty of Leadership'' ad by Theodore F. MacManus. A letter to save a company, a letter that in fact saved their businesses and a letter that changed the ad world (wellll in Don's case their semi-fictitious ad world). They both acheived diferently the same purpose, to save a product. In MacManus case it was the Cadillac companny, in Don's case, well it was more grand than a simple company, it was to save the ad business itself from the lack of honesty they were adressing their public about the tobacco companys, and so they took the leadership and abandoned the tobacco business. Don in the end is receiving the penalty for that leadership as told by MacManus in his letter, and when Don tells Pete that '' this is an ad for the agency and if you don't understand that you shouldn't be in the business'' he is absolutely correct and the only one that seems to understand what was really happening was obviously Cooper by saying to him that he should've put their names on the letter. Not because he was afraid of beeing seen, like the others, in a sinking boat on wich Don delivered the final blow, but because he sees that Don left them out of being leaders as well. He as well as MacManus ended the letter in a similar fashion and while Don's is an adequate ending by saying that he is certain that their best work is ahead o them, MacManus raises his to a level hard to achieve : ''That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live-lives''.
@bigbuffguy95895 жыл бұрын
That's a pretty interesting history lesson about MacManus, but no, Pete was absolutely right. Don doesn't care about smoking. He's just butthurt and scorned that Lucky Strike left. Just because it worked out doesn't mean it was a good idea. He acted unilaterally and probably should have been fired. As for Burt, I don't think he necessarily agrees with Don's stance on smoking. He's irritated that Don didn't consult the other partners.
@FanboyFilms5 жыл бұрын
Pete says Don is "impatient and childish" but I would replace childish with impulsive. Sometimes it works against him. Here, it seemed to work. Their biggest client ditched them which was bad PR for the agency. Don's ad basically said they didn't dump us, we dumped them. It was a bold move to save face and save future business. Pete claims that Don puts himself ahead of the company but I don't think Don separates the two. What's good the company is good for him. He didn't consult because he knew they didn't have the vision to pull the trigger and the opportunity would have been lost. He left their names off so that if it backfired they could scapegoat him to save face for the company. The scene does show us what Don should have known, that Burt got it, and if Don had consulted him privately he probably would have approved and made Roger execute Don's plan.
@anusubis4 жыл бұрын
I just wanted to say great comment Super insightful and interesting, the reason I love the comment section, especially under Mad Men videos Keep it up!
@soumyatapodutta38574 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@rockancestor8 жыл бұрын
"You slept, really?... You weren't smiling thinking about the taste of shit that would be in everybody's mouth over breakfast today?!"
@AmericasComic6 жыл бұрын
I think this scene really marks the time where Jimmy McGill finally became Heisenberg.
@hahdhsjsjrkfn5 жыл бұрын
How even
@AmericasComic5 жыл бұрын
I’d say VERY even
@AmericasComic5 жыл бұрын
Larry Stevens you’re welcome and may you have blessings on all your journeys
@Vahki1005 жыл бұрын
In all honesty it wasn't until Qui-Gon's death that Dooku finally decided to leave the Jedi Order and the Republic. But I do agree with you entirely on your last point, the cheese boy from that scene in the Sopranos was my favourite character too. I wish we had seen more of him.
@sstar2024 жыл бұрын
* Saul Goodman
@avak19683 жыл бұрын
Cooper said the truth, though. Yes, it was an ad for the company. Yes, it was shortsighted because it showed potential clients that Don was someone who would take their money but then turn on them when they moved on. But, from the partners' perspective, it was also a statement that they were irrelevant.
@dorkmax70735 жыл бұрын
2:06 so much respect in three little words
@kemchobhenchod4 жыл бұрын
wow sharp, sharp observation
@williammccormick28023 жыл бұрын
Love it. Stan and Don always has mutual respect.
@hectorornelas61825 жыл бұрын
"Idk its good not being the reason this place went down anymore" what a guy
@joncumber20203 жыл бұрын
Sees the partners waiting for him. Waves, forgets them and heads into his office. They run into his office. Classic.
@Joshpower573 жыл бұрын
Don: tells off multiple clients while the company is recovering, puts out a letter that says fuck you to tobacco and tells off Jaguar, and pitches while drunk to life cereal. Don to himself: I did nothing wrong and I improved everyones life. An everyone else is wrong. Lane: takes out a loan an pays it back because of money problems. Don to lane: you're fired because you can't be trusted.
@henrypeters52913 жыл бұрын
Well, what Lane did was illegal and all know how Don feels about forgery and lying.
@hmj2113 жыл бұрын
DAMN. You're right. I hate that this show killed Lane. The show contemplated existential anxiety, loss, shame, and dread all throughout and it had to deliver that blow to somebody, but I still hate that it killed Lane. Helps to be someone like Don, who is the boss and can also get away with that shit. I knew they had to kill somebody, but I wish he had just tried to ask for a damn loan. Business men do it all the time
@ronoccc2 жыл бұрын
Too right. Don got away with all sorts. He eventually got what was coming though when he got suspended. But it could have happened sooner. Don’t forget to add all the times he just fucked off for the day, even weeks at a time. Constantly napping . Basically not putting the work in.
@a.danielcoto49102 жыл бұрын
What Lane did was embezzlement, not take out a loan.
@stopbeinginsecure47862 жыл бұрын
FACTS ON FACTS ON FACTS
@connorduquette14323 жыл бұрын
I love how Lane raises his arm in the background at 2:33, like, "Where the _fuck_ does he think he's going?!"
@thelaw62672 ай бұрын
Another alpha male power move from Don, not going into the conference room to face the music from the others, instead forcing them to come into his office to whine about it and show their desperation.
@Thrillseeker89224 жыл бұрын
"So, no one is happy about this?" "I don't know, it's good not to be the reason this place went down anymore" Oh, Roger... XD
@lennyla3 жыл бұрын
Don was like: “Bitch I gave you IT’S TOASTED!”
@DonaldDraper43 жыл бұрын
That was a huge advertisement of the company, really so practical, useful, clever idea!
@mikepeterson7647 жыл бұрын
Im glad Im not to blame for this place going down anymore.
@RockSmithStudio5 жыл бұрын
2:09 Love that he knows that he's about to get an earful from the other partners and he just gives them a friendly wave lol
@CurseCreep4 жыл бұрын
Whats make this even heavier is that its supposedly the first time in many years Don has produced something textual for or in the name of the company. He has such a great sense of what people want and how they want it delivered. So good he doesn´t even need to produce it himself, just pick the best option
@christinaa.11654 жыл бұрын
I love this scene and get what the letters accomplishes, but if he had done this in a real company, he would have been kicked out. Not consulting your partners when using the name of the company is unthinkable.
@shrapnel773 жыл бұрын
Cooper was right, it made him and the other partner look like idiots.
@theprimalpitch1903 жыл бұрын
"something needed to be done" -- a true statement that is often the rationale for stupidity and yet sometimes is the rationale for brilliance. For Don's character it seems he wandered into brilliance.
@MonarchPoolPlaster5 жыл бұрын
You left out the part where the rival agency pretends to be RFK.
@guudnewdle69105 жыл бұрын
And when Cooper says "Get my shoes!" 🤣
@dickrichards96503 жыл бұрын
If I would have been him, I would probably have had a faux conversation as if RFK was really on the line, and waved them out.
@kemchobhenchod4 жыл бұрын
It's pretty gangster that when he gets a call from Robert Kennedy, he straight picks up the phone. Doesn't tell them to leave the room. He is always in the moment.
@alecnickel45724 жыл бұрын
Its pretty gangster until it turns out its a prank call lol
@kemchobhenchod4 жыл бұрын
@@alecnickel4572 It makes it even more gangster
@timheidel58495 жыл бұрын
Don Draper's comeback move: "Why I'm quitting Tobasco"...
@avae53433 күн бұрын
Bert’s face at the end cracks me up, it’s a strange fusion between indignation and amazement.
@krishykel12128 жыл бұрын
soliloquies and the writing of mad men at it's best
@811chelseafc4 жыл бұрын
Hate to (jk I love it) be that guy but that’s not a soliloquy. A soliloquy is a speech that is purely made of ones thoughts, usually used in plays where you can’t rely on facial expression to convey thought. This is a narration of something that is written. No one can hear a soliloquy except the character delivering it and the audience.
@NCRonrad3 жыл бұрын
@@811chelseafc honestly, the other characters reading the newspaper, combined with Don's initial draft thoughts make this feel like a soliloquy, and at the very least, hybrid between soliloquy and narration.
@TheLAKERSareGodsTeam4 жыл бұрын
3:52 Another example of why Don is the leading man. He understood risk taking. He took out a risky and bold ad. And even though Lady Chaough-gah-gah's call was fake, you have to pay attention to the reality that when the call came in, the Directors look at Don for the answers.
@henrypeters52913 жыл бұрын
You know that's actually the best point anyone has made in support of the letter. That said, everyone else was still right. He should have consulted his partners, though I understand why he didn't (Jon Hamm explained in an interview that the other partners likely would have neutered it). And it still freaked out the other clients and potential clients.
@ivanpb19832 ай бұрын
This really was the Golden Age of TV
@devonwelch80144 жыл бұрын
I love how Don doesn’t back away from the overwhelming criticism from his colleagues. He knows he’s right, even if that means being ostracized. He’s not being overconfident or insecure; Just confident in his own choices, and it pays off almost immediately. Be nice if real life worked like that most of the time.
@EnterJustice4 жыл бұрын
But then confidence wouldn't be worth nearly as much.
@Theanchoritegarlic3 жыл бұрын
So much group think these days, so much pearl clutching and egg shell walking ...
@nullpointer85533 жыл бұрын
did you watch the series? it doesn't work he got prank called by another agency and cancer society didn't give them their business
@shrapnel773 жыл бұрын
In the end, it hurt their business, not helped. They were essentially saved by Pete's accounts and smatterings of a lot of others. They were eventually swallowed up, so the letter did not do much.
@darkale6583 жыл бұрын
It didn't "pay off almost immediately" at all, they were hemorrhaging for a long while after this.
@kristopherryanwatson Жыл бұрын
it takes balls of fcking steal to write something like that and have it printed in the newspaper. a back-handed insult to an industry of whose key market share players literally kept SCDP afloat for so long. and, though it has been mentioned before in the comments, the mention of Emmerson Foote in this scene is absolutely brilliant. God damn. Mad Men was just so well written.
@florbfnarb70995 жыл бұрын
The volume level on this clip is remarkably low.
@livinize094 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU for reminding me to turn down the volume before moving on to another video.
@arthurdane85083 жыл бұрын
Dumping them, before they can dump you. I know at this stage, SCDP has already lost the Lucky Strike account, but this manoeuvre allows them to get their name out there. You close one door, but your actions IE the letter, allows them to open it up to so many more opportunities.
@leoswainbank8975 жыл бұрын
This is the "Reynolds Pamphlet" of Mad men
@clerkingamy374 жыл бұрын
💯💯💯
@richardroberts60212 жыл бұрын
Always surprised me that they put Don on leave for his Hershey's meltdown but not this. Yes it worked out in the end to be for their benefit but it was a betrayal of trust to the other partners that he didn't at least run it by them
@razbigranicu2 жыл бұрын
If he ran it by the partners they would have killed it. This was the only way.
@roeltiem772 жыл бұрын
This is the greatest written scene in television history and no one can convince me otherwise.
@cantcurecancer8 жыл бұрын
little did he know that that wasnt bob kennedy
@funkymunky8 жыл бұрын
Not only was it a bad move on Don's part, but a hypocritical one as well. Giving bad press to Big Tobacco while lighting a ciggie is like claiming to be vegan while biting into a steak.
@annaelisavettavonnedozza96078 жыл бұрын
obv, you're completely entitled 2ur opinion, but I'm gonna have to 1000% (respectfully) disagree w/u. I personally loved it. Madison Ave agencies were, & still are, a microcosm of blank suits distinguished mostly by certain reputable qualities. Draper's ad was incredible, & for the very reason you mentioned. Money & accounts were the driving force. Yes, what Draper did was disingenuous, foolhardy, flippant, & petty. It was also brilliant. It said "fuck you, assholes " to LS, loud & clear, who deserved it. It took two words "killing," & "other" & managed 2 alienate and humiliate the competition-associating THOSE agencies with death. It shut out big tobacco. It also opened the door for endorsements & major accounts w/ANYTHING REMOTELY health-related: Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, Serutan, Alka-seltzer, Vicks, Exedrin, Tylenol. It broke the rules, yet immediately eliminated any timid, fearful institutions, attracting instead, powerful companies unafraid of risks. It was unique, bold, smug. I thought it was brilliant.
@zzFishstick8 жыл бұрын
+AnnaElisavetta Vonnedozza well put!
@BANHMIZON7 жыл бұрын
very insightful. did you come up with that analysis independently? very impressive.
@chrisneto6 жыл бұрын
I think the title was a tongue in cheek ruse. Don meant quitting advertising for tobacco, rather than literally stop smoking. It was a smokescreen for his provocative article.
@labeedoo7 жыл бұрын
Damn it ..this show is perfect
@claymac78954 жыл бұрын
“I don’t know.. It’s good not to be the reason this place went down anymore”..
@edmundnschrag5 жыл бұрын
Why I'm quitting tobacco: No one can hear me speak.
@cameron1205874 жыл бұрын
Don should have shown a draft to the partners and put their names on it. Good idea. Poor execution.
@dickrichards96503 жыл бұрын
It's called big TOBACCO, ergo, it's a given within that world, as an advertising executive, that he isn't referring to quitting smoking, but stating that he will no longer work for TOBACCO companies.
@mkbits4 жыл бұрын
Man, I miss this show.
@7heavenlyvirtues3 жыл бұрын
it was the best storyline they did I think very powerful
@thomas3166 жыл бұрын
This is one of the few times when Don shows leadership. He does the right thing knowing the company will face doubt and criticism.
@simonr70976 жыл бұрын
Leadership would be convincing the board that this ad was a good idea, not going behind everybody's back.
@sabeeh896 жыл бұрын
This wasn't leadership. They all had valid objections and in reality, would've resulted in Don being forced to sell his stake or be sued. He made a massive decision with zero consultation with his partners.
@LLOOYYYDD5 жыл бұрын
That is NOT leadership. It was a stupid ass move. if a partner did that in real life, he'd be kicked out on his ass and sued and the company would write a retraction in the paper to follow up.
@JudgeJulieLit3 жыл бұрын
@@simonr7097 Apparently only Bert would have been convinced.
@Merrilsbank4 жыл бұрын
Shaw calls him pretending to be Kennedy haha so good
@write2pras849 ай бұрын
That Kennedy prank was hilarious!!! Was not expecting it 😂😂
@studiobencivengamarcusbenc52725 жыл бұрын
What an artist - the 4 others are just mainstream
@shrapnel775 жыл бұрын
Megan at the end starting to plant her seeds to win Don over. People think that she was such a great person.
@smit44594 жыл бұрын
Megan is my favorite character in the TV show.
@yovtobe3 жыл бұрын
No at this point she hero worshipped him
@abramsullivan77646 жыл бұрын
I freaking love this show it's bing worth watching on Netflix.
@mwilliamshs4 жыл бұрын
Like Bing Crosby? Or the search engine? Or the Bada Bing club in Jersey?
@davidalan63543 жыл бұрын
@@mwilliamshs I think he means a bada Bing a Bada Boom 🤷🏿♂️
@kidcarlomagno70944 жыл бұрын
Somebody could explain to me please why Don wrote down the lucky strike letter right after staring for a long time the painting he bought from Midge and was about to throw away? I think this was the only thing I didn't understand from the shows narrative
@argylemanni280 Жыл бұрын
She was addicted to heroin and dying from it, and she knew it. He sold a product that promised the same death, only slower, and everyone knew it. He saw himself as no different than the dope pusher on the corner.
@cdavidlake220 күн бұрын
The exact moment Don became Jerry Maguire.
@siddharthm2852 жыл бұрын
This was the moment Dick Whitman became Heisenberg
@joshveazey4223 Жыл бұрын
I love the detail that while he’s writing a letter denouncing the cigarette companies, he is…you guest it…smoking a cigarette.
@maxlaver5614 Жыл бұрын
Pinnacle of writing
@kirikoshiba40463 жыл бұрын
Mannnn the fact that Roger asks THIS particular question: "SOmedbody used your name to end our business in the newspaper. It wasn't YOU was it?" He doesn't even know how loaded of a question that really is!!
@elkhalilounarhi31303 жыл бұрын
Damn lol
@quattordicimontenapoleone31133 жыл бұрын
Don is quick to fire Lane when he forges Don's name, but this he find ok and defendable. He's an excellent portrayal of the self made man who, because of his own ability and luck, thinks he's above everything else, and that he's always in the right.
@davidalan63543 жыл бұрын
Those are two totally different situations.
@JudgeJulieLit3 жыл бұрын
@@davidalan6354 Dick Whitman's entire life as "Don Draper" is a forgery.
@davidalan63543 жыл бұрын
@@JudgeJulieLit yea I get that but again it’s totally different. Don did what he did to escape poverty and his abusive/unstable household and rather it’s forgery or not he made something of it. Lane used another (alive)man’s signature and gave himself money because he was too prideful to ask for it up front. Money he would have gotten easy if he just asked but he didn’t which lead to a bunch of bad things happing to him. Two different situations
@milosmilosmilos Жыл бұрын
Also, he never reported Lane. It was just based on the fact that he can't trust him business-wise.
@quattordicimontenapoleone3113 Жыл бұрын
@@milosmilosmilos Very probably true, but Don did keep Pete around. I think he knew he couldn't openly challenge Lane and be sure to win that fight. And Don is highly impulsive. It's not like he's very consistent throughout the show, apart from his womanising.
@tonygordon75715 жыл бұрын
I really wish that it would have really been Robert Kennedy...
@66Bunn5 жыл бұрын
True...but it being Teddy Chaugh was hilarious and perfect in its own right
@JudgeJulieLit3 жыл бұрын
In a later decade, a call from environmentalist RFK, Jr. would have been plausible.
@jlassh Жыл бұрын
I love how pissed Roger is reading the letter lol
@somniloguy124 жыл бұрын
What I love about 'the letter' is that we never get a straight answer about how we are 'supposed' to feel about it. At least, that is how it comes across to me. On the one hand, the message is somewhat virtuous. On the other, it also cynical (it is an ad for the company). It feels like a step in the right direction for Don, yet I cannot help but feel that the partner complaints are all valid too, and their exclusion in the decision highlights it as a childish act by Don, who relies a lot on others whilst also wanting an easy way out of trouble.
@haneenhawash17395 жыл бұрын
I thought it was genius when he did it
@toddvandell855 жыл бұрын
And Robert Kennedy was calling for Don Draper and just as he's about to pick up the phone, THAT is where you cut the clip? Seriously? That aside, I find it a bit mordantly ironic that Don Draper was "quitting cigarettes" while puffing away on one like a chimney.
@jmuti545 жыл бұрын
To be fair, it was a piano by CGC and not actually a call from Kennedy, so OP prob didn't want to take away from the letter by including it.
@jmuti545 жыл бұрын
Prank ** LOL
@whistlingspy3 жыл бұрын
there is a nice odd filter on this that makes it look like it was timed in the mid-60's
@EminencePhront2 жыл бұрын
3:25 Bert: "You humiliated us" Also Bert: "I'm just going go ahead and blackmail you with the information I have on you."
@Tziguene3 жыл бұрын
Kingpin of the spin.
@kunalsen2123 Жыл бұрын
This was Don Draper's Jerry Maguire moment.
@ViniciusSC103 жыл бұрын
Don: So, you didn’t say what you think about the letter” Peggy: “I thought you didn’t go for this kind of shenanigans” Earlier on the season, Don said that he didn’t like shenanigans when Peggy and Pete hired two actresses to fight for a ham. I love how Mad Men connects the dots between the story.
@flightofthebumblebee95293 жыл бұрын
This letter had new meaning for Don after Betty gets lung cancer from smoking.
@offloc11413 жыл бұрын
Slick and handsome from a distance. But you know Don stunk up close. Alcohol and cigarettes
@paulvest31573 жыл бұрын
Prime the audio...It happens to be crucial, yet we can't hear it.
@sneharghyaghosh14504 жыл бұрын
Pete is calling Don childish
@JudgeJulieLit3 жыл бұрын
In Pete's mind, not being "childish" is daily his top To Do.
@ownagebutter4 жыл бұрын
sure but when I put out an ad on craigslist explaining why I ate all the macaroni no one cares. the games rigged man
@captainpinky83075 жыл бұрын
2:54 he's smoking there. WTH???
@deprogramm5 жыл бұрын
addiction. Most people in this time were. But he said to not advertise it anymore.
@jschoo12 жыл бұрын
Why I’m quitting Tobacco.. lights a cigarette 😂
@luisinacasirola2 жыл бұрын
Can u please allow the subtitles youtube provides?
@flock2214 жыл бұрын
anything important about the fact that he is destroying his actual notes about alcohol sobriety to make this “advertisement”
@BatmanHQYT7 ай бұрын
Man it's wild seeing Megan as his secretary.
@jasonlefler34564 жыл бұрын
Google “Emerson Foote” and smile. This show is too much...
@jamesearlcash77254 жыл бұрын
R. Kennedy - "Er um..."
@courtneyshannon26218 ай бұрын
Pete was right though - when Don was getting the award in the Codfish Ball, he was told there that nobody wanted to do business with him because he stabbed a client in the back.
@randyzeitman135410 ай бұрын
Explain to me why he wasn't fired.
@martinnolan48004 жыл бұрын
The tobacco business is a cynical, drug dealer trade. Tobacco is THEEE “gateway drug”. Great episode!
@neoasura3 жыл бұрын
The start of getting woke, going broke.
@RUdigitized6 жыл бұрын
you cut the best part
@78g4767 жыл бұрын
Is there a follow up clip to this scene ?
@PantsofVance6 жыл бұрын
No, this was the show's final scene.
@ryancharlie51375 жыл бұрын
Yes. It wasn’t actually Senator Kennedy. It’s season 4, episode 12
@markofsaltburn5 жыл бұрын
Yes: the one where he speaks with his wife for the last time before her death from a smoking-related disease.
@mabrurh5 жыл бұрын
Lucky Strike becomes their client again right after
@JudgeJulieLit3 жыл бұрын
@@PantsofVance *episode's
@ijeomadijilawrence63202 жыл бұрын
This is a bold decision he made
@v1ryus2 жыл бұрын
Why would you end this scene right before it got good
@xsageexxsageex83392 жыл бұрын
Why is all the clips of mad men on youtube in shit quality? No other shows is like this, unless its from 1985
@richos073 жыл бұрын
Got a nicorette ad before this
@ryanb76494 жыл бұрын
Something tells me the partners were not in concurrence with Don's decision!