Line #10 Recap/MadMenS7E10TheForecast


1	->''Why don't you just write down all your dreams so I can shit on them?''
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3	Don puts his apartment on the market. Melanie, the realtor, does not like that it has no furniture (aside from the patio furniture that Don's now using inside) as she thinks this will deter potential buyers; Don, on the other hand, sees it as a blank slate.
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5	At work, Johnny Mathis fumbles a pitch and seeks Don's advice. When Don advises him to make a joke, Mathis' attempt goes over horribly, and he blames Don for it, lashing out at him. Don fires Mathis. Joan goes on a trip to California and begins an affair with a retiree named Richard (Bruce Greenwood). Richard initially rejects her when he learns Joan has a child, but later makes amends.
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7	As Sally prepares to go on a 12-day school trip, she is unexpectedly visited by Glen Bishop, who reveals that he has joined the Army and will be shipping out to Vietnam. At first he claims he is doing so for ideological reasons, but later he reveals to Betty that he joined up after flunking out of college. He tris to kiss Betty, and Sally mistakes it for inappropriate flirtation. When Sally later sees one of her friends flirting with Don, she is further disillusioned with both parents. Getting on the bus, she tells Don she hopes she doesn't turn out like him and Betty. Don tells her she is much more like them than she wants to realize.
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9	When Don returns to his apartment, a buyer has been found. Now, his realtor says, it's time to find a place for Don.
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11	!!This episode contains examples of the following:
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13	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Even Betty smiles at Sally's crack about her teen years being "when the states were still colonies".
14	* AndADietCoke: Inverted. Joan makes an early morning order to her hotel's room service that consists of a glass of skim milk and a grapefruit ... then she thinks and adds a French Toast and a pot of coffee.
15	* TheBusCameBack: Glen returns once again.
16	* CoolOldLady: Presumably, Gail Holloway has a kinship with Kevin's hippie college-aged babysitter.
17	---> '''Joan:''' ''(frustrated)'' You and Gail are quite a team.
18	---> '''Maureen:''' She needed a vacation.
19	* EpicFail: Mathis' pitches. ''Both'' of them.
20	* EvenTheGuysWantHim: According to Roger, [[DepravedBisexual Lee]] [[{{Jerkass}} Garner,]] [[TheBully Jr.]] had a thing for Don.
21	* FreudianSlip: Joan yells "you're ruining my life" at her babysitter, when she really means her son (frustration from Richard leaving their date after she reveals she's a mother of a toddler). Gets sadder when she's out the door and Kevin says "I love you Mommy" and she cries when replying affirmatively to him.
22	* HeelRealization: Likely pro-war Betty after the Vietnam-going Glen talks to her about his troubles with school and stepfather, when she sees Bobby and Gene running around with a toy gun, she scolds them and sends them off to watch ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' and then throws the gun away.
23	* IntergenerationalFriendship: Middle-aged and conservative Gail with the hippie-ish college babysitter, Maureen, as Joan can attest to.
24	* [[SheIsAllGrownUp He's All Grown Up]]: Glen had shown the promise of physically maturing earlier, but he really follows through on that here. Betty doesn't even recognize him at first and is quite taken aback at his appearance.
25	* [[AFatherToHisMen A Mother To Her Men]]: As tough as she can get with her guys, you can't fire members of Creative for saying "fuck" and expect Peggy to take it well.
26	* NotSoDifferentRemark: Don is quick to point out that, as frustrated as Sally is with her parents at the moment, she really does carry traits from the two of them.
27	-->'''Sally:''' You know what I'm going to write down for my dream? I'm going to get on a bus and get away from you and mom and hopefully become a different person than you two.
28	-->'''Don:''' Hey! I'm your father and you may not want to listen to this, but you are like your mother and me. You're going to find that out. You're a very beautiful girl. It's up to you to be more than that.
29	* ParentsAsPeople: Joan is great and a loving mother, but this episode has her resentful that motherhood has impeded her romantic life (especially with a man whose own kids have grown up), one of the many examples in the series where this trope is seen from the POV of the parent.
30	** Another with Don and Betty, very attractive people to look at with charm in spades, they are narcissistic and their eldest can see right through them.
31	* PrecisionFStrike: Sally, when Glen announces he's going to fight in Vietnam.
32	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Don and Mathis essentially take turns giving each other ones in their argument.
33	-->'''Don:''' You have a foul mouth. Take responsibility for your failure. That account was handed to you and you made nothing of it because you have no character.
34	-->'''Mathis:''' You don't have any character. You're just handsome. Stop kidding yourself!
35	-->'''Don:''' Everybody has problems. Some people can handle them and some people can't. Look at yourself because the next thing you're going to have to move past is losing this job. You're fired.
36	* SoapboxSadie: After Sally tells off Glen for going to Vietnam where he'd likely napalm kids, Betty dismisses her as this trope.
37	--> '''Betty:''' Don't listen to Creator/JaneFonda here.
38	* ShoutOut: A few:
39	** Betty refers to Sally as "Creator/JaneFonda" after she criticises Glenn for wanting to fight in Vietnam.
40	** Kevin is watching ''Series/SesameStreet'', which was first broadcast in 1969.
41	** The Draper boys want to watch ''Series/TheBradyBunch''.
42	* TheTalk: While preparing the checks for the "12 States in 12 Days" tour, Betty attempts to tell Sally to be careful since she'll be unsupervised (for the most part) with her friends and there'd be boys. Sally, being Sally, kids her mother about the awkwardness and lateness of this talk.
43	--> '''Sally: '''This conversation's a little late, and so am I.'''
44	* WakeupMakeup: Joan is this sort when she wakes up.

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