From Don’s accountant in the season 4 premier. Cracks me up every time.

Tracing current Don to the events of his childhood is a big part of the show. Raised in a whorehouse, becomes a philanderer and admits to betty that the sex "doesn't mean that much to me." Obvious influences from the hobo. Abused by his father, actively avoids repeating the cycle. So on and so on, all very common discussions. But that makes me wonder what parts of Don are simply organic. His interest in advertising doesn't seem to be based on his childhood, that's a pretty big one. What do you all think? Is this something anyone else thinks about?

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I have never noticed this but:

Betty: Come sit down. I want to talk to you. I want you to know that I think Ernie Hanson is a very nice little boy. But I don't want you running around just kissing boys.

Sally: I wasn't.

Betty: And you don't kiss boys. Boys kiss you!

The first kiss... it's very special.

Sally: But I already did it. It's over.

Betty: <sweet knowing smile> You're going to have a lot of first kisses. You're going to want it to be special, so you remember. It's where you go from being a stranger to knowing someone. And every kiss with them after is a shadow of that kiss.

Do you understand?

Sally: I think so.

Betty: <kisses her> Go play.

It's just a lovely sweet thing Betty does. She believes having these little formal chats is the way to show affection to her kids. And maybe it's not bad. It'll certainly be memorable. Betty didn't always get these chats correct. But she tried.

But at the end of this one, I wonder how much she wanted to stop mid sentence and aim the second half of that sentence at a completely different ending. I mean, she had to hear herself talking about Knowing someone. And just as soon as that scene is over it seems to hit her. Because the in the next scene Don has come home and Betty instantly rebuffs him, for not mostly just not being Henry, that she keeps randomly meeting and persistently daydreaming over.

I don’t think they were a good match (or, rather, I think that Pete wasn’t a very good match tuner to/for Trudy.)

Trudy is extroverted, seems like she’d have effective communication skills, perhaps actually did want to be a housewife, etc. Do you think she’d match better with a more sensitive person?

I’ve been curious as to how Margaret found her way into a commune coming from her high class background. Where did she actually meet those hippies? Also, what do you all think happened to her later in life? Do you think she stayed in the commune forever? How did her life end up? Did she stay in touch with her parents or her son?

She was on the receiving end of some of Don’s most callous treatment. I felt awful for her. She deserved so much better.

He wasn't ruthless enough. They would all recipe huge injections of income and yet lane having none of that had a contract where he would have to put large sums of money into the business, like all the other partners. Except he didn't have that large cash injection

He would have gotten a cut from them. Firing them wad the only leverage he had and he should have milked it for all it was worth