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* Kiernan Shipka was named one of ''TIME'' magazine's most influential teenagers of 2014 and the only actress on the list primarily known for TV. Keep in mind that it seemed like a shoo-in for Creator/MaisieWilliams to win, yet she got passed over for a lesser-known actress from a show not nearly as popular as ''Series/GameOfThrones.''.
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* Joan telling off a condescending professor she meets at a business school by stating she knows more than he and what he thinks she knows about the business. He's going to need another pad.
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*** Joan telling Pete that he'd screw her and Joan over and it was better that she squeezed him out of the Avon lunch date.
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* The series finale leaves most of our main characters on a high or happy note:
** [[spoiler:Roger seems to have found true love with a woman his own age in Marie.]]
** [[spoiler:Joan is starting a successful film production company for advertisers. She is now her own boss.]]
** [[spoiler:Pete and Trudy head off to their new glamorous jet-setting life, literally.]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted with Betty, too weak from cancer to do anything but sleep and sit, while Sally has given up her plans to travel to Europe in order to take care of her and her family. Any semblance of happiness is that mother and daughter have in their own way reconciled.]]
** [[spoiler:Peggy turns down Joan's genuinely tempting offer to team up on Joan's production company, preferring instead to stay on at [=McCann=] and follow through on her dream of becoming the next Don Draper. Not only does she keep the job and looks like she'll be doing well at it, but she and Stan realize their love for each other and start a relationship that may finally work out. Peggy gets the job and the guy.]]
** [[spoiler:Topped off by Don. Having spent the past three episodes fleeing his identity, tossing away his worldly goods, reaching a Buddhist retreat at his lowest spiritual moment, he's last seen meditating on a Pacific-side hilltop. In the middle of "ohm"-ing, and with a chime, Don flashes a big shit-eating grin: he's just dreamed up the famous "I'd Like To Buy The World a Coke" ad which promptly plays out to the show's credits.]]
** [[spoiler:Roger seems to have found true love with a woman his own age in Marie.]]
** [[spoiler:Joan is starting a successful film production company for advertisers. She is now her own boss.]]
** [[spoiler:Pete and Trudy head off to their new glamorous jet-setting life, literally.]]
** [[spoiler:Subverted with Betty, too weak from cancer to do anything but sleep and sit, while Sally has given up her plans to travel to Europe in order to take care of her and her family. Any semblance of happiness is that mother and daughter have in their own way reconciled.]]
** [[spoiler:Peggy turns down Joan's genuinely tempting offer to team up on Joan's production company, preferring instead to stay on at [=McCann=] and follow through on her dream of becoming the next Don Draper. Not only does she keep the job and looks like she'll be doing well at it, but she and Stan realize their love for each other and start a relationship that may finally work out. Peggy gets the job and the guy.]]
** [[spoiler:Topped off by Don. Having spent the past three episodes fleeing his identity, tossing away his worldly goods, reaching a Buddhist retreat at his lowest spiritual moment, he's last seen meditating on a Pacific-side hilltop. In the middle of "ohm"-ing, and with a chime, Don flashes a big shit-eating grin: he's just dreamed up the famous "I'd Like To Buy The World a Coke" ad which promptly plays out to the show's credits.]]
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** Also her decision to not have the treatments (which would prolong her but not alleviate her suffering) despite what the grieving and aghast Henry and her Doctor say. After spending most of her life being dependent on what men think of her and of being the passive player in her life, she decides to take control of her own life even [[spoiler: if it means the end of it]].
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*** Later when she finds it's better to accept Hobart's deal and leave with half of her million dollars, in a move that befits the name BittersweetEnding, she takes off with her son's portrait and her rolex. She's going to make some calls.
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* Pete's passionately proposing to Trudy to reunite with him and move with him to Wichita. Despite her initial hesitations, they reconcile with [[TheBigDamnKiss a Big Damn Kiss]].
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* Pete's passionately proposing passionate proposal to Trudy to reunite with him and move with him to Wichita. Despite her initial hesitations, they reconcile with [[TheBigDamnKiss a Big Damn Kiss]].
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* Pete's passionately proposing to Trudy to reunite with him and move with him to Wichita. Despite her initial hesitations, they reconcile with [[TheBigDamnKiss a Big Damn Kiss]].
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* After [[spoiler: finding out she's going to die in less than a year]], Betty still decides to resume her classes at the college and is seen slowly holding on the rail while heading to her classes. This is a long way from the passive and depressed Main Line princess who always expected someone like her husbands or her parents to care for her.
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* Just when Don is about to give a rousing speech on behalf of the partners, due to [[spoiler: the agency being taken over by McCann-Erickson, the whole staff (worried and annoyed over their employment) start off to leave the partners in the dust]]. [[WordOfGod Matthew Weiner even described it as a revolt against being dependent on wealthy and privileged bosses whose future isn't so precarious and makes decisions based on what's best for them]].
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* Just when Don is about to give a rousing speech on behalf of the partners, due to [[spoiler: the agency being taken over by McCann-Erickson, [=McCann-Erickson=], the whole staff (worried and annoyed over their employment) start off to leave the partners in the dust]]. [[WordOfGod Matthew Weiner even described it as a revolt against being dependent on wealthy and privileged bosses whose future isn't so precarious and makes decisions based on what's best for them]].
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** And this after Stan made a jab at her physical attractiveness and sexiness, after stripping, he ends up getting a RagingStiffie.
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* [[Funny/MadMen Doubles as Funny]]. Peggy finally going to work in [=McCann=]. She's wearing sunglasses, has a cigarette hanging from her mouth, and she's carrying "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife. [[http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5421/31/original/640.jpg]]
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* [[Funny/MadMen Doubles as Funny]]. Peggy finally going to work in [=McCann=]. She's wearing sunglasses, has a cigarette hanging from her mouth, and she's carrying "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife. [[http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5421/31/original/640.jpg]]jpg and she's carrying "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ7vFVaKCMI Joan standing up to Jim Hobart]]. Telling him off for all the sexism she's experienced from his underlings and revealing him to be the coward and bully he pretends not to be. She even threatens to take her half-million dollars with her (which she does) and threatens to seek a lawyer, ACLU, Betty Friedan, and the Equal Employment Opportunity.
** Betty is reading a book about hysteria, a deliberate call back to when Don had her go to a therapist over her insecurities and shaking fingers, now it's so nice to see her dissect her past life.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ7vFVaKCMI Joan standing up to Jim Hobart]]. Telling him off for all the sexism she's experienced from his underlings and revealing him to be the coward and bully he pretends not to be. She even threatens to take her half-million dollars with her (which she does) and threatens to seek a lawyer, ACLU, Betty Friedan, and the Equal Employment Opportunity.
** Betty is reading a book about hysteria, a deliberate call back to when Don had her go to a therapist over her insecurities and shaking fingers, now it's so nice to see her dissect her past life.
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* [[Funny/MadMen Doubles as Funny]]. Peggy finally going to work in [=McCann=]. She's wearing sunglasses, has a cigarette hanging from her mouth, and she's carrying "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife. [[http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5421/31/original/640.jpg]]
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* Just when Don is about to give a rousing speech on behalf of the partners, due to [[spoiler: the agency being taken over by McCann-Erickson, the whole staff (worried and annoyed over their employment) start off to leave the partners in the dust]]. [[WordOfGod Matthew Weiner even described it as a revolt against being dependent on wealthy and privileged bosses whose future isn't so precarious and makes decisions based on what's best for them]].
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* Pete finally giving a good sucker punch to a headmaster, who is withholding Tammy's admission into the day school, over a 200 year grudge between their families.
* Meredith telling Don that she demands some information about her job security. Not bad for the resident dumbass.
* Meredith telling Don that she demands some information about her job security. Not bad for the resident dumbass.
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* Peggy telling off Don for laughing at her dream of being Creative Director.
---> Why don't you tell me all your dreams? So that I can shit on them?
** In that same episode, Mathis drops on Don, what is perhaps the most apt and brief TheReasonYouSuckSpeech ever delivered to Don
---> You don’t have any character. You’re just handsome. Stop kidding yourself.
** Joan tells off her boyfriend for freaking out about her being a Mom of a young child and about how that was going to cramp their more self-centered plans of touring Egypt and having non-stop sex. She basically pointed out that he was basically wanting her to choose him over her child.
---> Why don't you tell me all your dreams? So that I can shit on them?
** In that same episode, Mathis drops on Don, what is perhaps the most apt and brief TheReasonYouSuckSpeech ever delivered to Don
---> You don’t have any character. You’re just handsome. Stop kidding yourself.
** Joan tells off her boyfriend for freaking out about her being a Mom of a young child and about how that was going to cramp their more self-centered plans of touring Egypt and having non-stop sex. She basically pointed out that he was basically wanting her to choose him over her child.
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** Then later Megan finally tells off her passive-aggressive, devout Catholic Wet Blanket of a sister after the woman blamed her and New York for the breakdown of their parents' marriage. Megan shoots back that it's sinful to be a ghoul and live on other's misery. Their mother was unhappy for a long time and she's finally doing something about it.
** Marie taking all of the furniture from Don's apartment for her daughter. A bitchy move for sure but Marie is practically the trope codifier for MagnificentBitch.
** Marie taking all of the furniture from Don's apartment for her daughter. A bitchy move for sure but Marie is practically the trope codifier for MagnificentBitch.
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* Betty tells Don that she is working on her Masters in Psychology from Fairfield University. The melancholy Betty, who was the subject of a psychologist that shared her info with Don and saw herself as merely a pretty face and dissatisfied homemaker, has came a long way.
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* Betty tells Don that she is working on her Masters in Psychology from Fairfield University. The melancholy Betty, who was the subject of a psychologist that shared her info with Don and saw herself as merely a pretty face and dissatisfied homemaker, has came a long way. Also a CrowningMomentOfFunny when she says that people love to confide in her (considering the irony).
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---> '''Megan:''' I'm going to say a word. Wasn't going to give you a satisfaction of knowing you ruined my life.
---> '''Don:''' Megan.
---> '''Megan:''' Why did I ever believe you? Why did I believe the things you said to me? Why am I being punished for being young? I gave up everything for you. Because I believed you and you're nothing but a liar. An aging, sloppy, selfish liar.
---> '''Don:''' Megan.
---> '''Megan:''' Why did I ever believe you? Why did I believe the things you said to me? Why am I being punished for being young? I gave up everything for you. Because I believed you and you're nothing but a liar. An aging, sloppy, selfish liar.
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* Betty tells Don that she is working on her Masters in Psychology from Fairfield University. The melancholy Betty, who was the subject of a psychologist that shared her info with Don and saw herself as merely a pretty face and dissatisfied homemaker, has came a long way.
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* Don's first appearance in the season premiere. Arriving in Los Angeles by plane Megan picks him up at the airport. The shot of her as she gets out of her new convertible, wearing a sexy blue minidress, and it goes into [[OverCranking slo-mo to emphasize her long legs]] as "I'm a Man" by the Spencer Davis Group plays and cuts to Don as the chorus sings ''And I'm an man/yes I am/and I love you so" just before they kiss. A reminder from the show that no matter how bad life gets for Don, it's still great to be him sometimes.
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* Don's first appearance in the season premiere. Arriving in Los Angeles by plane Megan picks him up at the airport. The shot of her as she gets out of her new convertible, wearing a sexy blue minidress, and it goes into [[OverCranking [[{{Overcrank}} slo-mo to emphasize her long legs]] as "I'm a Man" by the Spencer Davis Group plays and cuts to Don as the chorus sings ''And I'm an man/yes I am/and I love you so" just before they kiss. A reminder from the show that no matter how bad life gets for Don, it's still great to be him sometimes.
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* Meredith has become more competent and efficient at her job, much better than her [[DumbBlonde past]] [[TooDumbToLive state]].
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!!Season 7b
* Ken gets fired because the execs at [=McCann=] Erickson still hold a grudge over his leaving back in season 4. Roger and Pete choose not to fight for him and he seems on the verge of a DespairEventHorizon. Then in the last few minutes of the episode he walks into Roger's office and announces that [[spoiler: he got hired as Head of Advertising at Dow Chemical. Rather then simply firing Sterling Cooper in revenge, he is going to keep them as Dow's ad company and he is going to make Roger's and Pete's lives hell.]]
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** In the same episode, there is Joan at a lunch with an exec from Avon who is considering on taking on the agency, when the bill comes she states that she will take care of it. The Joan that started the show wanted the affluent life and the Man to financially support her has become financially independent and she loves the power.
** Peggy's WhatTheHellHero speech to Joan can count as one, telling Joan off for all the times she's belittled Peggy and her ambitions of becoming "more than a secretary", then later when she makes up a telegram from Avon appear to save Joan from being fired, and then right after that she tells a thankful and speechless Joan "You better hope they call". When one looks at Joan's AlphaBitch behavior in earlier seasons and remembers that the [[UngratefulBitch last time Peggy saved Joan's ass that the latter called her a "humorless bitch"]] this feels very triumphant.
** Peggy's WhatTheHellHero speech to Joan can count as one, telling Joan off for all the times she's belittled Peggy and her ambitions of becoming "more than a secretary", then later when she makes up a telegram from Avon appear to save Joan from being fired, and then right after that she tells a thankful and speechless Joan "You better hope they call". When one looks at Joan's AlphaBitch behavior in earlier seasons and remembers that the [[UngratefulBitch last time Peggy saved Joan's ass that the latter called her a "humorless bitch"]] this feels very triumphant.
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** Ken, after being warned by Roger not to keep writing, simply starts writing under a different pen name -- in essence, making himself like the robot in his earlier story and refusing to allow others to dictate his life.
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* Toward the end of "The Phantom", [[spoiler:Pete calls Howard out for being the horrible person that he is and attempts to beat the crap out of him. The cop who breaks up the fight gets one himself for not putting up with Pete's ego and throwing him off the train.]]
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-->'''Henry:''' [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter If you're so smart, maybe you should run for office.]]
-->'''Betty:''' You know what Henry? I don't know, but maybe that's a good idea!
-->'''Betty:''' You know what Henry? I don't know, but maybe that's a good idea!
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-->'''Betty:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny I’m tired of everyone treating me like I’m stupid. I speak Italian.]]
-->'''Henry:''' [[CompletelyMissingThePoint I'm sorry I embarrassed you.]]
-->'''Betty:''' You're sorry you forgot to inform me what I'm supposed to think. Guess what, I think all by myself.
-->'''Betty:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny I’m tired of everyone treating me like I’m stupid. I speak Italian.]]
-->'''Henry:''' [[CompletelyMissingThePoint I'm sorry I embarrassed you.]]
-->'''Betty:''' You're sorry you forgot to inform me what I'm supposed to think. Guess what, I think all by myself.
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* After the shock of seeing the box Ginsberg gave her contains [[spoiler:his nipple that he cut off and that he has clearly gone insane]] Peggy maintains her composure enough to walk out of her office and take a phone one of the secretary's desk to call an ambulance. She's come along way from fainting when a lawnmower ran over someone's foot.
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* After the shock of seeing the box Ginsberg gave her contains [[spoiler:his nipple that he cut off and that he has clearly gone insane]] Peggy maintains her composure enough to walk out of her office and take a phone one of the secretary's desk to call an ambulance. She's come along a long way from fainting when a lawnmower ran over someone's foot.
