[[WMG: Harry will leave the firm.]]
* Tensions between Harry and the partners are at a high point as of seaon 6, episode 4, to a point where he even threatened to leave if Joan fired one of his employees. Peggy doesn't need the extra muscle, but Harry letting go of SCDP and joining the hip young firm it would reinforce season 6's running theme of the past.

[[WMG: The Draper kids will experience SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome if the series lasts past about 1967, possibly before.]]
* At their current ages, Sally will still be too young to drive when Woodstock occurs, and Bobby will still be in HighSchool when the VietnamWar [[{{Conscription}} draft]] ''ends''. The series has already shown a desire to hit on every turning point of TheSixties, thus older kids are needed.
** They don't have to be involved in those events. For example, with the Vietnam example, they could have Don Draper interacting with some of the draftees and volunteers, and him feeling the differences between Korea and Vietnam.
*** Less likely to happen now that Kiernan Shipka has been elevated to regular status as of Season Four. [[WordOfGod Word of God]] is that [[http://tinyurl.com/24z6rqv she gets more to do each season because she's an actor, not because she's cute]].
*** Glenn's back in Season 4, and it looks like they're [[ToyShip pairing him with her]]. This could go lots of places; since he's played by Matthew Weiner's son, they can pretty much bring him back whenever they want without losing the actor to another project.
** There's also the amount of turning points missed, such as the civil rights movement, the barely touched upon pop art during that era, the Beatles and Rolling Stones, the radical feminists, and that they wrote out Sal mere four years before Stonewall. From this point of view, it rather seems that they are going out of their way ''not'' to touch upon the turning points.
*** Events of the Civil Rights movement are seen on TV, and Paul Kinsey travels south with his African American girlfriend Sheila to take part in the marches. Nothing much about Pop Art, granted, but boss Bert Cooper owns a Rothko. Sally and Don go to a Beatles concert, and Don gets Sally a Beatles album for Christmas. The feminist movement came later. And, let's face it, the Big Events of the 60's have become predictable. It's refreshing when a show integrates them into the characters' lives but they aren't the main focus. The big exception was the Kennedy assassination.
*** Pretty much Jossed. They're talking Emmy nod now for Kiernan because of how much Don's home life turns on her. While the Beatles are getting touched by her and Don connecting and it's Don who gets the stones as his power walk music. Peggy is going to be the one dealing with sexuality and feminism though.

[[WMG: Don really is going to [[{{IShouldWriteABookAboutThis}} write an autobiography.]] ]]
* Maybe he was kidding when he said it to Roger in Season 1 but after the events of all these seasons maybe he decides to use his flair for words to put his life into perspective.
** Maybe he'll follow Roger
* In one episode, Don stated that he was a "lousy student" and never wrote more than three consecutive paragraphs before in his life. On the other hand, that was when he was starting a journal, so maybe he could build from there.

[[WMG: Don is the guy jumping off the building in the opening credits.]]
* Which could be the ultimate foreshadowing with Don at one point attempting suicide.

[[WMG: Sterling is the jumper in the credits.]]
* After the whole [[spoiler:losing LuckyStrike and not telling the others about it]] fiasco, he's looking dangerously close to losing it entirely.

[[WMG: The jumper in the credits is Lane.]]
* As of the end of the latest season, he has lost everything. He's been fired and disgraced for forging Don's signature and embezzling money from the company, he has British loan sharks breathing down his neck, and his wife just blew what little money they had left on a brand new luxury car. The last time we see him, he's hunched over in the parking garage, literally puking with desperation and panic. If he doesn't kill himself, his father or his wife's family will.
** Um. [[spoiler:He hanged himself after getting fired. It was featured quite prominently at the end of the episode where he got fired. We saw the body.]]

[[WMG: [[Series/DoctorWho Grace Holloway]] is the daughter of Joan Holloway]]
* She's just the right age and they look a bit alike, even having similar red hair.
** Where does [[VideoGame/BioShock1 Grace Holloway]] fit into this?
*** Maybe she's distant relative who Joan decides to name her daughter after.

[[WMG: Lane Pryce is related to [[Series/{{Angel}} Wesley]] ]]
* Or Mr. Hooker! They share a certain ineffectuality.

[[WMG: [[Series/{{Leverage}} Sterling]] is related to Roger Sterling.]]
* And inherited the DeadpanSnarker gene.

[[WMG: Don and Peggy will hook up]]
* Don is widly believed to be based on an specific advertising great who started his own firm and married a former secretary who became a copywriter.
** This seems really close to happening as of episode seven of season 4, but is averted for now.

[[WMG: Trudy Campbell will have a miscarriage]]
* You know to spice things up in their relationship.
** JOSSED. Trudy and Pete are now parents of a perfectly healthy baby girl.

[[WMG: The early '70s were/will be lean years for SCDP.]]
* The bad days will begin when cigarettes are banned from advertising on US TV in 1970 and end when the first Honda Civic debuts into the 1974 oil crisis. Since Lucky Strike is Sterling's pet account and Honda is Campbell's, this will set up a very interesting dynamic to watch.
** The basics of this may still happen, but as of the most recent episode Lucky Strike has dumped SCDP setting the lean years up in the mid 60's.
** Also, the Honda Civic is precisely the car account you would want to have going into the oil crisis. SCDP's execs viewing the Civic account as a mere consolation prize is a case of ItWillNeverCatchOn, and possibly foreshadowing if indeed the show's story takes the firm into the 70s. Between quieting tobacco ahead of the rest of the industry and landing a fuel-efficient economy car account a decade before the oil crisis, SCDP is poised for a huge comeback in the 70s.
*** But it looks like the car account they have at that time will be the [[TheAllegedCar Chevy Vega]].

[[WMG: Samsonite=alcoholism for the ''Mad Men'' writers.]]
* Thus far, of course, we only have the evidence of "Six Months' Leave" and "The Suitcase," but it is kind of interesting that two episodes that deal with alcoholism also involve Samsonite in some major way. "Six Months' Leave" is kicked off by Freddy Rumsen passing out and pissing himself during a pitch to Samsonite, and "The Suitcase," which showcases the beginnings of Don's inevitable alcoholism (the puking should be a clue) and the depths of Duck's (every time he shows up), as well as mentioning how Freddy is now that he's joined AA (Roger isn't pleased), gets ''its'' start with Don and Peggy working late on the Samsonite campaign.

[[WMG: Megan is not her real name/she is hiding something]]
* "Megan" was a really rare name in North America in 1940 (when she would have been born), even less so for a French-speaking household in Quebec. Either she changed her name when she came to New York, or she's Don's counterpart in more ways in one...
** She seems to smirk when Don's not looking implying she's been working toward her goal in being the new Mrs. Draper.
*** Word of God indicates otherwise, with Matthew Weiner and Jonathan Ingla being very clear about Megan's sincerity in the audio commentary for "Tomorrowland".

[[WMG: The guy falling in the opening sequence is no-one]]
* It's purely symbolic of their lives falling apart, not a specific allusion to someone attempting suicide.
* It's mentioned off-hand in one of the commentaries that one of the junior executive characters (likely Harry Crane) was going to jump off the SC building early on, but the writers decided they like the cast too much to do it, turning the credits into TheArtifact.

[[WMG: In Season 5, the cast will go see ''HowToSucceedInBusinessWithoutReallyTrying'']]
The movie came out in 1967; Season 4 ended in 1965, so Season 5 will start at least half a year later. There's no way they're going to miss out on a Robert Morse CastingGag.

[[WMG: The company will now be Sterling Campbell Draper Pryce]]
With Bert gone, they don't even have to change the initials. Additionally, Ken Cosgrove and Harry Crane might be added as partners.
* Bert seems to have changed his mind about leaving in between Seasons 4 and 5.

[[WMG: Pete and Trudy are [[Series/{{Community}} Annie Edison's]] grandparents]]
Per [[http://fucknojezebel.tumblr.com/post/21244440984/this-is-my-favorite-ever#notes this Jezebel comment]]

[[WMG: The silver/red interior [[CoolCar '65 Coupe de Ville]] is Don's last Cadillac, for a while at least.]]
As he gets into his mid-40s in the late '60s he's likely to want something [[MidlifeCrisisCar sportier and more youthful]], and that '69 or '70 model (Mustang? Corvette? something European?) will be due for replacement right about the same time as the aforementioned 1973 oil crisis.
* Don doesn't seem like the type to buy a pony car or a sports car, perhaps a Nova coupe. Nothing fancy, but Novas made decent muscle cars. If the Oil Crisis is a big concern, they were also available with four and six cylinder engines. And even then, he seems more likely to drive luxury cars by this point.\\
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If anything, he's more likely to buy an Eldorado or a Tornado when he decides to replace his De Ville (probably around 1968 based on how long he seems to own cars).
* With a Chevy account, a Corvette maybe? Plus the Chevy Vega launch should intersect nicely with Sally's driver's license, giving them plenty of time to bond while he's giving her rides home from places the Vega he proudly presented her with took her (but failed to bring her home from).

[[WMG: Don Draper is no creative genius. He gets all his information through time travel.]]
The evidence is abundantly clear. When he still lives with Betty in their family home, when Betty goes into his office to snoop through is drawers, there's a copy of W.E.B. Griffin's book, "The Corps," which wasn't published until 1986. The only way Don could have gotten this book is if he traveled to the future and came back with it.

[[WMG: Ken Cosgrove is [[Series/{{Poirot}} Captain Hastings']] son.]]
He looks startlingly like Hastings, and has the same forgetable personality as Hastings, and he's of the right age for it. Perhaps Hastings had an illegitimate son somewhere in America in the mid to late '30s, and may or may not have known about him.

[[WMG: Don has crashed more than one car through drunk driving.]]
In the pilot, he drives home in a 1959 Oldsmobile Dynamic 88, and two episodes later he's driving a 1960 Buick Invicta convertible, which he drives for most of the season. Then, in season two, the Dodge Polara shows up, which he crashes halfway through, and replaces it with the Cadillac.

Betty, meanwhile, drove a 1957 Ford Country Sedan station wagon from the pilot until season three, when her father dies and leaves her his 1961 Lincoln Continental.

So, the reason those cars disappeared without explaination is Don crashed them. The Cadillac is a turning point - it's a symbol that he's 'made' it - which is why it was detailed when he buys it.
* Betty ''did'' have a newer wagon - [[http://imcdb.org/vehicle_283139-Mercury-Colony-Park-1962.html a 1962 Mercury Colony Park]] - but only briefly before inheriting the Lincoln. Not that that affects the point.

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