History Recap / MadMenS6E10ATaleOfTwoCities

* TrojanHorse: How Pete sees Ted and Jim conceding on the name "Sterling Copper & Partners" or "SC&P". While neither of them will be name partners anymore, they have taken over the business of the firm. Don dismisses Pete's concerns, and says that the two businesses should fully integrate.

* ArtifactTitle: InUniverse, "Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce Cutler Gleason Chaough" is this for the agency, since Lane Pryce and Frank Gleason are dead, and the abbreviation SCDPCGC is a mouthful. That said, the most obvious answer -- to just drop Pryce and Gleason -- leads to "SCDCC," which Don points out ([[JerkassHasAPoint correctly]]) just looks like a typo. It also has the unintended side effect of leaving both Joan and Pete completely unrepresented; their insecurities on the topic motivate much of their actions over the course of the episode.
-->'''Duck Phillips''', a couple episodes ago: "Who's in charge over there?"

* ArtifactTitle: InUniverse, "Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce Cutler Gleason Chaough" is this for the agency, since Lane Pryce and Frank Gleason are dead, and even the abbreviation SCDPCGC is a mouthful.
* ArtisticLicenceHistory: Roger's explorer analogy is all over the place [[note]] Vasco da Gama was Portuguese, and never set foot in the New World [[/note]].

Set against the backdrop of the 1968 Democratic National Convention and ensuing confrontation between police and protestors in Chicago, Don, Roger and Harry travel to Los Angeles to meet with clients. The three attend a Hollywood pool party where they meet Jane's cousin Danny, who's now in the movie business. Don smokes hashish and hallucinates about the soldier he met in Hawaii and a pregnant, hippie Megan. He's actually face down in the pool and is saved by Roger.

''Be slick. Be glib. Be you.''

Set against the backdrop of the 1968 Democratic National Convention and ensuing confrontation between police and protestors in Chicago, Don, Roger and Harry travel to Los Angeles to meet with clients. The three attend a Hollywood party, where they meet Jane's cousin Danny, who's now in the movie business. Don smokes hashish and hallucinates about the soldier he met in Hawaii and a pregnant, hippie Megan. He's actually face down in the pool and is saved by Roger.

* TheBusCameBack: Danny re-appears in this episode -- Don, Roger and Harry encounter him at the California pool party. Danny's now a hippie movie producer. Appropriately, Life Cereal -- the product that used his only tag-line ("the cure for the common...") gets a mention during a business meeting that Don and Roger attend.

* EverybodyMustGetStoned: Most of the party people are. And at the end of the episode, ''Pete'' of all people steals Stan's spliff and takes a drag.

Back in New York, Jim has a confrontation with Ginsberg. Bob, who tries to defuse the situation, is given the Manischewitz account as a punishment; after reassuring a near-paranoid Ginsberg, he meets with them and later reports that they are putting the firm on notice. Joan meets a client for cosmetics giant Avon. Seeing this as her opportunity to bring some legitimacy to her status as a partner (and wanting to manage the account herself), she deliberately cuts Pete out of a meeting. After a scolding from Ted and Pete, Peggy saves Joan with a fake phone call from Avon. Ted informs Jim that he has broken through the management layers at Chevy. Jim adds Bob to the account. When Don and Roger return, Ted and Jim announce that they have agreed to compromise on the recently merged firm's name, which will henceforth be "Sterling Cooper & Partners".

Back in New York, Jim has a confrontation with Ginsberg. Bob, who tries to defuse the situation, is given the Manischewitz account as a punishment; after reassuring a near-paranoid Ginsberg, he meets with them and later reports that they are putting the firm on notice. Joan meets a client for cosmetics giant Avon. Seeing this as her opportunity to bring some legitimacy to her status as a partner (and wanting to manage the account herself), she deliberately cuts Pete out of a meeting. After a scolding from Ted and Pete, Peggy saves Joan with a fake phone call from Avon. Ted informs the other partners that he has broken through the management layers at Chevy. Jim adds Bob to the account. When Don and Roger return, Ted and Jim announce that they have agreed to compromise on the recently merged firm's name, which will henceforth be "Sterling Cooper & Partners".

Back in New York, Jim has a confrontation with Ginsberg; Bob, who tries to defuse the situation, is given the Manischewitz account as a punishment; after reassuring a near-paranoid Ginsberg, he meets with them and later reports that they are putting the firm on notice. Joan meets a client for cosmetics giant Avon. Seeing this as her opportunity to bring some legitimacy to her status as a partner (and wanting to manage the account herself), she deliberately cuts Pete out of a meeting. After a scolding from Ted and Pete, Peggy saves Joan with a fake phone call from Avon. Ted informs the other partners that he has broken through the management layers at Chevy. Jim adds Bob to the account. When Don and Roger return, Ted and Jim announce that they have agreed to compromise on the recently merged firm's name, which will henceforth be "Sterling Cooper & Partners".

Back in New York, Jim has a confrontation with Ginsberg; Bob, who tries to defuse the situation, is given the Manischewitz account as a punishment and, later reports that they are putting the firm on notice. Joan meets a client for cosmetics giant Avon. Seeing this as her opportunity to bring some legitimacy to her status as a partner (and wanting to manage the account herself), she deliberately cuts Pete out of a meeting. After a scolding from Ted and Pete, Peggy saves Joan with a fake phone call from Avon. Ted informs the other partners that he has broken through the management layers at Chevy. Jim adds Bob to the account. When Don and Roger return, Ted and Jim announce that they have agreed to compromise on the recently merged firm's name, which will henceforth be "Sterling Cooper & Partners".

--> '''Roger:''' We're conquistadors. I'm Vasco de Gama, and you're ... some other Mexican. We’re gonna land there, buy whatever they’ve got for the beads in our pockets. Our biggest challenge is to not get syphilis.
* CallBack: Roger, Don and Danny's conversation harks back to the latter's departure from SCDP in [[Recap/MadMenS4E12BlowingSmoke "Blowing Smoke"]]; Danny says he quit, but Roger correctly recalls that he was in fact fired. Also, Don hallucinates about PFC Dinkins, the soldier he met (and whose beach wedding he attended) in [[Recap/MadMenS6E1TheDoorway "The Doorway"]].
* TheBusCameBack: Danny re-appears in this episode -- Don, Roger and Harry encounter him at the California pool party. Danny's now in the movie business. Appropriately, Life Cereal -- the product that used his only tag-line ("the cure for the common...") gets a mention.

* GroinAttack: After too many short jokes, Danny delivers a punch to the groin to Roger.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Pete's fear of Jim and Ted trying to take over the company from within is dismissed by Don, but going by what Jim says to Ted after his confrontation with Ginsberg, Pete is actually onto something.

* SkewedPriorities: Oddly, Megan seems more upset and scared by the unrest in Chicago than she was when rioting happened in New York City back in [[Recap/MadMenS6E5TheFlood "The Flood"]].

* TheBusCameBack: Danny re-appears in this episode, when Don, Roger and Harry go to California for business. Danny's now in the movie business.

* MushroomSamba: Don takes hashish while in the party in Hollywood Hills. He ends up hallucinating Megan being at the party, as well as PFC Dinkins, who tells Don that he was killed in action.