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* ScifiGhetto: [[invoked]] This trope is why Ken is embarrassed to discuss his career as a writer.
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** In "Mystery Date" Peggy says she was discovered in the secretarial pool [[AStarIsBorn "like Esther Blodgett".]]
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* IronicEcho: When Pete gets his father in law to sign with the agency, Ken is excited and comments that he needs to get married to someone like Pete's wife, who has a powerful executive for a father to get him to do business with the agency. Several years and seasons later, Ken marries the daughter of an important businessman and promptly freaks out when the agency asks if he can get his father-in-law to hire the agency, commenting that he doesn't intend on bringing his family into his work and wanting to keep them seperate.
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* DreamSequence: Betty has a pretty funky one in "The Fog" when she gets drugged up while giving birth, and another in 502 "Tea Leaves" during her cancer scare.
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** Betty has a pretty funky one in "The Fog" when she gets drugged up while givingbirth, and birth.
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** Those are topped by "Mystery Date", wherein Don Draper dreams of murdering an old flame.
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** In Mystery Date [[spoiler:Joan dumps her husband and makes it clear to him that she remembers the rape and that it was a mistake to marry him. It's a huge growth moment for the character.]]
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** In Mystery Date [[spoiler:Joan dumps her husband and makes it clear to him that she remembers the rape and that it was a mistake to marry him. It's a huge growth moment for the character.]]
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* PrinceCharming: Thoroughly subverted. Don is this to Betty: smart, handsome and [[TheKoreanWar a war hero]] to boot. In reality he's a horrible husband and basically owes all his advance in life to his ability to lie convincingly. Joan initially saw Greg as this: a handsome surgeon appearing just in time to save her from spinsterhood. She soon finds out he's [[spoiler:a rapist]] and a failure in his profession. [[spolier: She finally gets tired of trying to make the sham work and kicks him out in "Mystery Date."]]
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* PrinceCharming: Thoroughly subverted. Don is this to Betty: smart, handsome and [[TheKoreanWar a war hero]] to boot. In reality he's a horrible husband and basically owes all his advance in life to his ability to lie convincingly. Joan initially saw Greg as this: a handsome surgeon appearing just in time to save her from spinsterhood. She soon finds out he's [[spoiler:a rapist]] and a failure in his profession. [[spolier: [[spoiler: She finally gets tired of trying to make the sham work and kicks him out in "Mystery Date."]]
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** Peggy might be the new poster child. She's gone from a secretary to copywriter with an office when the head of television doesn't even have an office. She went from being cowed by the men in her life to one who can call them out when they're not showing her enough respect (Don) or even shake them down when necessary ([[spoiler:Roger]]). She goes from being nearly pushed to tears over being treated as dessert in 1x02 "Ladies Room" to winning a battle of wills of chauvinist pig Rizzo by stripping down naked in 4x06 "Waldorf Stories."
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** Peggy might be the new poster child. She's gone from a secretary to copywriter with an office when the head of television doesn't even have an office. She went from being cowed by the men in her life to one who can call them out when they're not showing her enough respect (Don) or even shake them down when necessary ([[spoiler:Roger]]). She goes from being nearly pushed to tears over being treated as dessert in 1x02 "Ladies Room" to winning a battle of wills of chauvinist pig Rizzo by stripping down naked in 4x06 "Waldorf Stories.Stories" to the aforementioned shakedown in 5x04 "Mystery Date."
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** Peggy might be the new poster child. She's gone from a secretary to copywriter with an office when the head of television doesn't even have an office. She went from being a innocent young virgin to being a seductress with a baby she gave up for adoption while in the loony bin. She goes from being nearly pushed to tears over being treated as dessert in 1x02 "Ladies Room" to winning a battle of wills of chauvinist pig Rizzo by stripping down naked in 4x06 "Waldorf Stories."
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** Peggy might be the new poster child. She's gone from a secretary to copywriter with an office when the head of television doesn't even have an office. She went from being a innocent young virgin to being a seductress with a baby she gave up for adoption while in being cowed by the loony bin.men in her life to one who can call them out when they're not showing her enough respect (Don) or even shake them down when necessary ([[spoiler:Roger]]). She goes from being nearly pushed to tears over being treated as dessert in 1x02 "Ladies Room" to winning a battle of wills of chauvinist pig Rizzo by stripping down naked in 4x06 "Waldorf Stories."
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** Averted by the main adult women (Betty's relationship with her father Gene is strained; Joan's parents aren't shown; and while Peggy's relationship with her mother is not the best, all we know of her father is that he had a heart attack and died in front of Peggy when she was twelve). However, Gene grows rather fond of his granddaughter Sally, encouraging her to make her own way in the world and treating her like an adult (unlike, by implication, her mother), and she is the one most visibly upset by his death.
** Played with somewhat when Betty told her father the she didn't want to discuss the arrangements for his death because she's his "little girl." Keep in mind that Betty's 9 months pregnant with her third at this point. She can't be daddy's little girl.
** Played with somewhat when Betty told her father the she didn't want to discuss the arrangements for his death because she's his "little girl." Keep in mind that Betty's 9 months pregnant with her third at this point. She can't be daddy's little girl.
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** Averted by the main adult women (Betty's relationship with her father Gene is strained; Joan's parents aren't shown; father appears to have walked out on the family when she was young; and while Peggy's relationship with her mother is not the best, all we know of her father is that he had a heart attack and died in front of Peggy when she was twelve). However, Gene grows rather fond of his granddaughter Sally, encouraging her to make her own way in the world and treating her like an adult (unlike, by implication, her mother), and she is the one most visibly upset by his death.
** Played with somewhat when Betty told her father the she didn't want to discuss the arrangements for his death because she's his "littlegirl." Keep in mind that Betty's girl" while she was 9 months pregnant with her third at this point. She can't be daddy's little girl.3rd child.
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* OddFriendship: Joan and Lane Pryce, who run into rough patches initially (in "The Rejected"), but who are acknowledged by the junior employees as "basically running" SCDP.
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* PrinceCharming: Thoroughly subverted. Don is this to Betty: smart, handsome and [[TheKoreanWar a war hero]] to boot. In reality he's a horrible husband and basically owes all his advance in life to his ability to lie convincingly. Again, Joan sees Greg as this: a handsome surgeon appearing just in time to save her from spinsterhood. She soon finds out he's [[spoiler:a rapist]] and a failure in his profession.
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* PrinceCharming: Thoroughly subverted. Don is this to Betty: smart, handsome and [[TheKoreanWar a war hero]] to boot. In reality he's a horrible husband and basically owes all his advance in life to his ability to lie convincingly. Again, Joan sees initially saw Greg as this: a handsome surgeon appearing just in time to save her from spinsterhood. She soon finds out he's [[spoiler:a rapist]] and a failure in his profession. [[spolier: She finally gets tired of trying to make the sham work and kicks him out in "Mystery Date."]]
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* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Kiernan Shipka, who plays Sally Draper, in Season 4.
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** Peggy in Season 2, she gets Freddy Rumsen's office (much to Harry's chagrin, "I'm head of television!") then in season 3 she bitches about her "girl" to Joan, much like Don does about his "girl" in season 2. Standing up to Roger's imperiousness at the end of Season 3 completes her arc.
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** Peggy in Season 2, she gets Freddy Rumsen's office (much to Harry's chagrin, "I'm head of television!") then in season 3 she bitches about her "girl" to Joan, much like Don does about his "girl" in season 2. Standing up to Roger's imperiousness at the end of Season 3 completes continues her arc.
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** Season 5, Roger tries to get Peggy to come up with an ad campaign on the fly because he forgot to get the dedicated copywriter for his account to do it. Peggy agrees, but only after shaking him down for $400+ (in 1966 money). "The lie costs extra," indeed. She doesn't even take him seriously when he threatens to fire her for not doing it.
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* HappilyMarried: Savagely subverted, even Harry and his wife (arguably the one solid marriage of the series has had adultery problems (Harry had a one night stand) and moreso, with season five, implied strongly that Harry is actively looking for any and all excuse to avoid being at home, where his wife has begun tormenting him into losing weight (making him a gender flip of a running them of the series, regarding women having their weight thrown into their faces by society).
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* HappilyMarried: Savagely subverted, even Harry and his wife (arguably the one solid marriage of the series has had adultery problems (Harry had a one night stand) and moreso, with season five, implied strongly a host of bad marriages.
** Largely true of Pete and Trudy Campbell, after Pete goes through his CharacterDevelopment and becomes less of a douchebag.
** Surprisingly true of Don and Megan Draper in Season 5, although it remains to be seen how long thatHarry is actively looking for any and all excuse to avoid being at home, where his wife has begun tormenting him into losing weight (making him a gender flip of a running them of the series, regarding women having their weight thrown into their faces by society).will last.
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** Three seasons after Dr. Greg raped her in "The Mountain King", Joan finally acknowledges what happened in "Mystery Date" (see TheReasonYouSuckSpeech below).
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---> '''Joan''': You’re not a good man, you never were, even before we were married--''and you know what I’m talking about''.
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* AllJustADream: In Mystery Date [[spoiler: Don has one hell of a fever dream in which he strangles an old flame to death and then kicks her body under his bed. It's meant to be symbolic of how he wants to kill the philandering part of himself, but damn, it's chilling.]]
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* HappilyMarried: Harry and Jennifer Crane, apparently; the one time he cheated, she eventually forgave him. Pete and Trudy Campbell are turning into this; Pete's philandering has calmed down quite a bit in recent seasons and after his last affair he asked her to never leave him in a position where he could cheat. They dance an extremely enthusiastic Charleston at that same Roger Sterling party, and by the finale they are working as partners in ways like no other relationship on the show. Averted by all other marriages: they're shot to hell.
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* TrophyWife: Jane Siegel Sterling is a perfect example. Roger throws away a decades-long marriage to Mona in order to take up with his sexy young secretary. He soon tires of her, although she appears to be sincerely devoted to him.
** Megan Calvet, now starting with season 5, the new Mrs. Draper. A slight inversion in that she wants to work in advertising just like Don.
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* TrophyWife: Jane Siegel Sterling is a perfect example. Roger throws away a decades-long marriage to Mona in order to take up with his sexy young secretary. He soon tires of her, although she appears to be sincerely devoted to him.
and by Season 5 they both seem thoroughly sick of each other.
** Megan Calvet,now starting with season 5, the new Mrs. Draper. A slight inversion Draper as of Season 5, is a borderline example. The age difference between her and Don, while referenced in that she the show, is only 14 years, and Megan wants to work with Don in advertising just like Don.rather than merely look pretty on his arm.
** Megan Calvet,
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** It's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney ''George'' Romney]] that Henry Francis was talking about, of course, but it can't be a coincidence that in episode "Tea Leaves", airing in the spring of 2012, Henry says "Romney's a clown".
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** It's [[http://en.''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney ''George'' Romney]] George]]'' Romney that Henry Francis was talking about, of course, but it can't be a coincidence that in episode "Tea Leaves", airing in the spring of 2012, Henry says "Romney's a clown".
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* ViewersAreMorons: Very much, in-universe; perfectly straightforward advertizing pitches are often rejected on the assumption that potential consumers would be either confused or bored. The series itself is a noteworthy aversion, as one of the most understated and subtle works of fiction currently being produced.
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* DreamSequence: Betty has a pretty funky one in "The Fog" when she gets drugged up while giving birth.
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* KneeHighSocks: The fifth season begins in the middle of 1966, when the miniskirt was starting to get popular. Don's new wife Megan is wearing the shortest skirt seen on the show at his surprise birthday party and several female guests, including Ken Cosgrove's wife are wearing dresses with hemlines way above the knee.
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* NamesTheSame: From "Tea Leaves" we have Don's newest secretary... Dawn. It becomes a running gag in the office.
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* TheRollingStones: In "Tea Leaves" Harry and Don make an ill-advised attempt to get them to record a jingle.
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* TheRollingStones: In "Tea Leaves" Harry and Don make an ill-advised attempt to get them to record a jingle.jingle[[hottip:*:Don notes they recorded a Rice Krispie cereal ad [[http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2012/04/mad-men-has-us-wondering-did-the-rolling-stones-really-do-a-cereal-commercial.html three years prior]]]].
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** It's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney ''George'' Romney]] that Henry Francis was talking about, of course, but it can't be a coincidence that in episode "Tea Leaves", airing in the spring of 2012, Henry says "Romney's a clown".
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* TokenMinority: In-universe with two different minorities. The sarcastic "equal opportunity employer" ad in Season 5 premiere "A Little Kiss" basically forces lily-white SCDP to integrate, and in "Tea Leaves" Dawn the secretary has been hired as their first black employee. In the same episode, SCDP hires a Jewish copywriter, which Roger thinks makes the business seem more "modern". (In the first season Sterling Cooper had to pluck some random Jewish employee out of the mailroom when meeting with the Jewish owners of Menken's department store.)
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* AmbiguouslyGay: Harry Crane gives off vibes of this. On at least two different occasions he's talked about how a different character is "queer". His crass jokes about what he'd do to Megan reek of HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday. And in "Tea Leaves" he talks about how good Charlton Heston looks naked.
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* HideYourPregnancy: January Jones was pregnant, but in Season 5 Betty's just gaining weight.
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* TheMan: In "Tea Leaves" Megan notices the squareness of Don's suit and Don says he has to look like this.
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** At one point, a character loses a foot due to a tragic accident. Aside from the fact that OSHA would've had a field day with the circumstances involved, nearly everybody seems to think it's obvious this means his career, in a desk job, is over because of the new disability.
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