All Things Mad Men: From Chip & Dip to Zou Bisou

Sally visits boarding school, Peggy comes up with a Rosemary's Baby ad, and power struggles boil over between Pete and Bob, and Don and Ted. Nice digs, by the way, so re-watch with us!

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Sylvia and Arnold are worried about Mitchell going to Vietnam, Pete learns his mother has a close relationship with Manolo, and Sally is witness to some of her father's "comfort." It's all your juice, so re-watch with us!

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Don and Roger go to California and try to fit in with the hippie scene, while Jim Cutler and Joan make different power plays in New York. Be slick, be glib, be you, and re-watch with us!

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Don and Betty visit Bobby at summer camp, Peggy feels torn between Don and Ted, and Peggy and Abe's relationship takes a sharp turn. Your activities are offensive to my every waking moment, so re-watch with us!

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In the S6E8 episode of Mad Men, the office team gets "energy" injections, Sally confronts a burglar, and Don wrestles with his breakup with Sylvia and flashes back to trauma in his teens. Stop tap dancing for Chevy and re-watch with us!

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The merger between SCDP and CGC causes some power struggles, which carry over into Don's affair with Sylvia. Pete is forced to care for his mother, while Bob Benson looks out for Joan. We've got a chair for you at the partners' meeting, so re-watch with us!

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Podcast Time Stamps

00:00 Introduction

00:42 Don eavesdrops on Sylvia and Arnold fighting, because he's classy like that

02:02 Peggy's first day . . . again; the reality of merging SCDP & CGC

04:47 "I went to a meeting this morning, and there was no chair for me!" (This is that meeting)

07:58 Pete's care for his mother means asking her building manager to pour her a gin and tonic

10:32 "I need you, and nothing else will do."

12:33 "Dammit, Burt! You stole my goodbye!"

15:43 A rap session about margarine in general

17:17 Don's power trip at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel

18:53 Ted's right and Don has no good defense

22:22 "Buy Trudy a catcher's mask, and be happy you get to go to work every day."

23:05 Gilligan's Island, margarine, and bacon's not up for debate

26:29 Bob might be an opportunist, but he does help Joan

27:49 "Oh, Mathis. I knew it! Don't you have any hope?"

28:52 A hero in a leaky waiting room

31:41 To play Don's control game, or not to play (spoiler: the only way to win is not to play)

35:33 Can the audience feel sympathy for Don when he goes home to Megan?

39:20 "Give him the early rounds. He'll tire himself out."

40:42 "I'll have the cook make your favorite for dinner." Can the audience feel sympathy for Dorothy Dyckman Campbell?

42:10 Peggy reminds Don he's a grown-up

43:58 Taking my novel is a bridge too far

45:30 Don pretends he's not terrified in Ted's airplane

47:29 "Honestly, Joan, every good deed is not part of a plan." (Except this one probably is.)

49:17 "My mother can go to Hell, and Ted Chaough can fly her there."

49:57 It's over. He's never been the one in control.

53:06 Sorry, Lawrence. Maybe if you'd taken Joan to the hospital, you'd still have a job.

53:52 The longest elevator ride in the world

54:49 Bobby Kennedy

56:24 Closing Song, Episode Wrap-Up, and Listener Shout-Out

Joan and Pete are outraged when Don walks away from Jaguar, while Don and Roger compete with CGC for a chance at Chevy. Peggy and Abe's new apartment is not the dream she envisioned, and Pete has an awkward and epic showdown with his father-in-law. Don't you feel 300 pounds lighter? Put your brain in a jar and re-watch with us!

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Podcast Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:44 "Even at 9 per share your part of the company will be worth a million."

04:07 Roger & Daisy and Mother's Day

05:37 Pete tries to seduce Trudy by pouting at her fiercely

08:03 "He thinks a stroll in Central Park is a gift, but I think she's going to want an actual gift."

10:49 There's poop on the stairs. Again.

13:43 Will you tell Jim you told me? He'll see it on your face.

17:10 Autograph envy in the elevator

19:21 The Daisy Hustle

20:03 "You talk like a woman who's been married much longer than you have."

21:58 Peaches, puppies, and petulance

26:33 Don remembers he's married

27:42 "Forget my name."

28:10 "Is he gone?" "Yes."

29:35 Ken's theory of mutually assured destruction

30:39 Pete rages his way down the staircase

33:12 "Just once I would like to hear you use the word 'we.'"

37:00 It's okay that you're not a team player, because you've got a chance at a Chevy Vega

38:37 A kiss from your boss

40:37 "I don't believe in fate. You make your own opportunities."

43:39 "Anybody have a cough drop? I know they don't."

44:40 "Spare me the outrage, Pete. I'm tired of it."

47:37 "The neighborhood's changing. We're part of that." And also, paint fumes.

48:55 Probably not the "we" Joan had in mind

53:43 Pete is incapable of doing the kind thing

55:48 "Make it sound like the agency you want to work for."

59:29 Episode Wrap-Up & Listener Shout-Out

An advertising awards dinner is interrupted with shocking news, Peggy is looking to buy an apartment, Ginsberg has a first date, and Don takes Bobby to the movies. You're not allowed to watch TV for a week, but re-watch with us!

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Podcast Time Stamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:40 Peggy: an apartment with a doorman?

02:44 Bobby pulls at the wallpaper, but nobody can hide all the torn things in the world

04:03 "My goodness, you're really good at everything."

05:12 "This is Beverly." "Our dads play chess together."

06:42 Peggy & Megan at the Andy Awards

08:21 Meeting Jim Cutler, Randall Walsh, and Ted's chair faux pas

10:04 Michael spews awkwardness and Beverly is remarkably patient

10:54 Martin Luther King, Jr

17:55 "I didn't do it! It peeled off!"

18:53 Pete calls Trudy, but she holds her ground

21:42 Megan complains about her father not wanting to feel his emotions right before going to bed with a man who avoids his emotions

22:39 Don goes out of his way to reach "Arnold" in D.C.

24:23 Peggy & Phyllis

28:05 "It's a shameful, shameful day!"

30:11 Dawn, Don, and Joan

31:59 "This is the only apartment for you. You don't want to be kicking yourself next week."

32:48 "I was trying to communicate without talking, but it isn't working." "Randy, it never works."

35:04 Parents and children: Betty & Don, Michael & Pop, Sally & Don

37:44 When you're not allowed to watch TV so your father takes you to the movies

41:25 "I saw us raising our kids with more different kinds of people."

44:09 The second time in the series Don actually notices his son

45:30 Henry wants to run for office (so Betty's going to get her blonde back)

46:35 One of Don's saddest confessions

51:39 Pete, alone

52:31 Bobby's worried about Henry, and to his credit, Don tries to comfort him instead of offering him money or telling him to move forward. He does have pensive alone time on his balcony afterward, though.

55:29 Episode Wrap-Up, Closing Song, and Listener Shout-Out

In Mad Men's Season 6, Episode 4, To Have and to Hold, Don, Pete, and Stan go after the Heinz ketchup account - but so do Peggy and Ted. Megan gets a love scene in her soap opera, Dawn punches Scarlett's time card, and Joan's visit from a good friend fortifies her professional resolve. Let go of your petty dictatorships and re-watch with us!

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Don and Sylvia's relationship prompts flashbacks to Dick Whitman's life with Uncle Mack, power plays erupt in meetings with Jaguar and Heinz, and Trudy is over Pete's lying, cheating man-babyism.

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