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

Roger resists taking on Honda as a client, while Ted at CGC competes with Don for the business. Sally's behavior leads Betty to take her to a psychiatrist, and Don and Faye exchange a few vulnerable truths. We can't tell you how it happens, but it does happen here, so re-watch with us!

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Peggy meets a new friend and starts to think about issues outside the office, Faye runs a focus group with the SCDP secretaries, and Pete gets a surprise from his father-in-law. We've got pears, so re-watch with us!

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Episode Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:31 Lee Garner's on the phone - is that a fire down by Radio City?

06:20 Harry: We're having lunch. Tag along. He always asks about you.

08:27 When you make a friend in the elevator and you didn't need Joan's script to do it

10:27 It was Monday, for cryin' out loud. Why hasn't she told you?

15:44 I don't care. I don't care how I heard.

17:32 Faye runs a focus group with the SCDP secretaries

23:31 You didn't do your homework because your wife is pregnant and your father-in-law told you

25:13 I feel like I gave him everything and I got nothing

29:28 Your problem is not my problem!

32:11 And Crane told me yesterday that you said I was marrying for money

37:43 I don't say this easily, but you are not a good person!

45:06 She's kind of pretentious. I know.

46:20 Every time you jump to conclusions, Tom, you make me respect you less

49:10 It's Don's turn to hide in the dark and slink away toward home

50:29 Peggy and Joyce go out

52:53 The genius writer can't even finish an apology letter

54:13 Peggy meets Abe; police break up the party

58:31 Hello, Miss Blankenship

59:29 Pete takes a victory lap over Vick's

1:00:10 Joey, to Peggy: Do you ever read the stuff between the ads?

1:01:42 Peggy, to Pete: Congratulations. About the baby. I'm very happy for both of you.

1:03:53 Faye and Don argue over the focus group results

1:07:26 Peggy and Pete pursue divergent paths; all the what-ifs in a single glance

1:10:03 Did you get pears?

1:11:13 Episode wrap-up and listener shout-out

Don heads to California and gets some shocking news from Stephanie about Anna. Joan and Greg are trying to start a family, and Don and Lane go out and try to shake off their loneliness. Fried chicken, indeed. Re-watch with us!

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00:00 Introduction

00:40 Joan at the doctor's office (the terrible one Peggy saw in the pilot)

02:38 Don, Allison, and Harry discuss California and New Year's Eve - awkwardness ensues

06:06 Lane: Fried chicken, indeed.

10:16 California: a convertible, Anna, and the introduction of Patty and Stephanie

15:22 Joan and Greg bicker over schedules and priorities

18:01 Anna, Don, and Stephanie go out for dinner ("I Just Wasn't Made for These Times")

28:06 Come on, man. Don't flirt with the niece. Also, you have no idea what's coming.

32:50 Anna: I know everything about you, and I still love you. She doesn't, but she seems to.

35:13 Don: I'm here now, and she's going to see some real doctors.

37:38 Anna: I want you to do everything you want to do. (Except mess with my niece.)

40:58 The moment when Sandy made Lois look competent, and Lane will never send flowers again

43:14 Greg: I can't fix anything else, but I can fix this.

46:00 Paint and goodbyes

48:01 Don and Lane's night out

54:57 Candace and Janine join Don and Lane - "that girl does not go to Barnard."

57:10 Joan: Gentlemen, shall we begin 1965?

58:10 Closing song, episode wrap-up, and listener shout-out

Peggy and Freddy disagree about how to market face cream, Joan leads the conga line at the office Christmas party, Glen re-enters Sally's life, and Don makes a series of poor decisions. You'll be married again by the end of the year, so re-watch with us!

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Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is up and running, and the partners are scrambling to keep and attract clients. Peggy and Pete arrange a PR stunt, and Betty and Henry navigate their new life as a blended family at Thanksgiving.

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Note: We had a technical issue with sound recording in the second half of this episode, where Jenna's phrases jumped in early and Steve's were late. We were able to edit most of them, but there are a couple of places where it sounds like Jenna is interrupting - we promise this was not the case in real time! We kept those few instances so you could hear the end of Steve's thought and the beginning of Jenna's, and apologize for the issue, as it wasn't apparent during the recording. Please believe Jenna doesn't interrupt Steve (unless he's hogging the chip and dip)!

Don and Betty's marriage has disintegrated, and Sterling Cooper is about to fold into McCann, unless Don can rally a team of talented individuals to pull off the heist of the season. This episode is a Mad Men favorite, so re-watch with us!

Our Double Dip question for S3E13 is: What is your favorite episode of Mad Men, and why is it this one?

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View the full transcript for this episode

00:00 Introduction

01:11 Don: My future is tied up in this mess because of you.

07:46 Is going it alone the best option?

11:02 Bert: Young men love risk because they can't imagine the consequences.

17:28 Roger: Join or die? Jesus, Bert. He was doing better.

23:48 Just when you thought you'd had a rough enough day at the office, it turns out you're getting divorced, too.

26:39 Roger: Don't act like a stranger. We've got tea.

27:48 Henry: I'll take care of them, and I'll take care of you.

30:57 St. John: You'll prove yourself irreplaceable. You always do.

33:13 Fathers, children, and sad things

35:36 Shut the door. Have a seat. (It's so brilliant, this scene!)

41:12 Peggy: You just assume I'll do whatever you say.

43:19 Don: We need you to keep us looking forward. I do, anyway.

49:48 Roger: I acted like a started a business my whole life, but I inherited it.

Don: I need an attorney. Divorce.

Two truths among liars, but each already knows the other's truth.

51:53 Don: You never forgave me.

55:56 Pete: Hey, everybody! Harry Crane is here!

57:41 Divorce talk in the rarely lived-in living room

1:01:07 Don: I don't know if I can do it alone. Will you help me?

1:06:23 Don: Joan. What a good idea.

1:10:13 Allison: We've been robbed!

1:13:06 Don: I hope you get what you've always wanted.

1:14:53 Closing song, episode wrap-up, and listener shout-out

Roger and Mona support Margaret through her wedding as everyone is reeling from President Kennedy's assassination. Betty meets with Henry and confronts Don, and Pete suffers after not getting the top job - again.

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Episode Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:44 "Mr. Cosgrove has the rare gift of making clients feel as if they haven't any needs."

Do we feel sorry for Pete about losing this job again?

02:53 Apparently dull men are tolerated, and Karen's calling Peggy on it

03:42 "I don't like her, Daddy, and I've told you I don't want her to be there."

Mona referees the ongoing Roger - Margaret battle over Jane

07:17 "Lane told me Kenny is senior something of accounts and I'm not. I'm head of accounts something. I couldn't even hear. All I could see was his frog-like mouth flapping."

Trudy turns cold casserole into some lemonade for her pouty husband

08:57 Don's actually home when the baby wakes Betty up late at night

A discussion about marriage, detente, and why Don broke things off with Suzanne

13:06 We all know what "I have to go the printer" is code for at this point

14:13 In which Pete and Harry commiserate about who has more toys than they do

14:57 In which Don is complaining to Lane about a budget to hire a new art director

16:02 In which Peggy continues her pattern of poor romantic partners

17:35 News of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is breaking at Sterling Cooper

18:20 And at the Draper house, where Betty, Carla, and the kids are watching TV

20:59 And for Peggy and Duck in the hotel room

22:20 Don Draper processing the news, internally, with Betty, and with his kids

27:46 To attend, or not to attend Margaret's wedding? That is the question for Pete and Trudy.

31:24 Margaret's wedding

33:27 Henry arrives at the wedding

34:57 Toasts and TV

36:41 When you're getting that full Don Draper magnetism, and you're no longer into it

40:03 "He was so handsome, and now I'll never get to vote for him."

Who does Roger call when the world doesn't make any sense?

43:02 Life is short. Take a drive.

"I'm not in love with the tragedy of this thing. I want it to happen."

47:52 Pete, Appalled, and Trudy

48:53 "I don't love you anymore."

54:59 "My mother was crying and praying so hard there wasn't room for anyone else to feel anything."

56:46 Episode wrap-up and listener shout-out

Betty finally confronts Don about The Box (while Suzanne sits in the car outside). Roger meets up with an old flame, and Greg joins the army without talking to Joan so he can make his surgeon dreams come true. You want to know if you broke my heart? Obviously, so re-watch with us!

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This is a tense unboxing video! Betty finally opens the desk drawer in Don's home office, but he's too busy with Suzanne to come home for a confrontation about it. Paul competes with Peggy, but loses his great idea, while Lane learns the Brits are planning to sell Sterling Cooper.

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Mad Men C to Z Timestamps for S3E10: The Color Blue

00:00 Introduction

00:59 "Why don't we go to church every Sunday?" "We don't need to go every week."

Carla, Betty, and the kids discuss their day, but avoid discussing core beliefs.

Don says he won't be sleeping at home tonight, blaming Conrad Hilton.

02:52 Date Nut Bread and The Color Blue

Shockingly, Don lied and goes to Suzanne's, while Betty is home alone with a glass of wine.

11:04 40th Anniversary of Sterling Cooper and Aqua Net - Arrive in Style

Paul Kinsey sets up a double date skit, and Peggy improves it off the top of her head

15:15 "We finally have the answer to the question, 'What makes Don Draper smile?' "

Lane gives Don his $5,000 signing bonus

16:20 "I don't need you to put your little swirl on top of my idea."

You kind of do, though, Paul. Little bit.

21:01 "It's not London. It's not even England."

Rebecca Pryce hasn't warmed to New York, unlike her husband

24:33 "He's arrogant. His plans were interrupted."

Don and Suzanne greet Danny, Suzanne's brother.

29:30 They're celebrating 40 years at Sterling Cooper, but Bert and Roger aren't in the mood

31:42 Who can it be now?

When you have romantic entanglements outside your marriage and you get a mystery call on the landline, things get awkward.

33:25 Paul Kinsey stays late and sets up his ideal work conditions for Western Union.

Paul Kinsey theatre, indeed.

34:50 Don leaves his key in his robe, and that's not a euphemism

35:19 "Achilles, I have thought of something very, very good."

If it takes stealing someone else's food from the work room fridge, it will have been worth it.

37:50 There and back again - the journey of the office desk drawer key

38:23 My baby takes the morning train, so I show up to ride along

Don seems in love enough to forgive Suzanne's indiscretion

44:55 "It's always the last place you look."

Lois offers platitudes while Paul self-destructs, looking for last night's great idea

46:29 After 40 years, Sterling Cooper is for sale. Party on, Lane.

49:15 "If you're going to call me, call me. I'm not playing a game here."

Henry is an unlikely candidate for calling and hanging up, but Betty checks, just in case.

52:21 "Who told you I was vain?"

Lane convinces Bert to attend the party, without seeming too desperate or revealing his secret.

53:40 Worst unboxing moment ever

The triumph of finally finding the key to the desk drawer Betty's been rattling for years is overshadowed by photos, the deed to a house in California, and a divorce decree that precedes their marriage by mere months.

57:25 Don attempts to take Danny to New Bedford

This time, he gives his card - not just the money

1:04:37 We were going to have an epic confrontation, but you never came home

1:07:34 "I want to show you off, Betts."

1:10:06 "The faintest ink is better than the best memory."

Peggy and Don empathize when Paul admits he lost his idea.

1:15:57 "Look how pretty Mommy is."

Pre-party taxicab conversations, and a lot of applause for the man with the lies

1:26:31 Episode wrap-up and listener shout-out

Conrad Hilton and Lee Garner Jr become even more demanding clients. Don starts something with Suzanne, and Betty starts something with Henry. Set your sights on the moon, and re-watch with us!

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Mad Men S3E9 Wee Small Hours episode time stamps:

00:00 Introduction

01:24 "I want what I want when I want it."

Conrad Hilton, Baby Gene, and Betty's fainting couch fantasies

04:33 "I'm going home. And the whole point is to run there."

Don finds Suzanne in the early morning, Martin Luther King Junior's I Have a Dream speech, and which pieces of history societies enjoy remembering or prefer to suppress

14:30 The first time Don ever got to work early

15:08 An old-fashioned letter-writing romance

17:51 "Give me more ideas to reject. I can't do this all by myself."

20:18 Sal directs the Lucky Strike TV commercial

We compare whether Conrad Hilton or Lee Garner Junior is the bigger bully

24:21 Don goes looking for Suzanne; it's the first day of school

27:58 Lee Garner Junior proves he is the bigger bully

32:29 Letter-writing and Lies, with a side of wine

36:53 "I can't work with him. He's no good."

We beg to differ, Lee Garner Junior. #JusticeForSal

Also, "I'm not going to do anything stupid like I usually do."

#YouAbsolutelyWill,Harry

40:24 "You're like a son to me."

47:02 "I wanted to see you. I drove past your exit a dozen times."

49:04 This Lucky Strike meeting is somehow worse than the one when Roger had a heart attack

50:51 Every time we watch, we hope this scene goes differently

1:00:50 Don, we're hosting a fundraiser

1:02:26 "Good night, boss."

1:03:03 Let's have a fundraiser

1:03:37 "How do you say fresh towels in Farsi? Hilton."

But the lesser bully wanted the moon.

1:09:03 "I'm actually the person who briefs Mr. Francis."

When the guest speaker takes the fun out of your fundraiser

1:15:52 "What do you think accounts does? Besides limit your brilliance."

"I'd tell you, but I don't want to hurt your feelings."

1:17:41 "Maybe it's not supposed to happen right now."

1:21:18 Sal has a genuine conversation with Kitty and lives happily ever after with Elliot from Belle Jolie. He definitely doesn't just call Kitty from a pay phone near Central Park. And he starts his own firm, "where copy follows art, not the other way round," and gets everything he ever wanted. That's what should have happened.

1:22:33 "You only want this because I'm new and different. I know how this ends."

1:24:12 Closing song, Episode Wrap-up, and Listener Shout-out