History Recap / MadMenS4E5TheChrysanthemumAndTheSword

* KansasCityShuffle: Working on the assumption that SCDP probably won't win the Honda pitch competition after Roger's behaviour, Don makes Ted ''think'' that SCDP is going to violate Honda's competition rules. This leads CGC to ''actually'' violate them ... thus giving Don the opportunity to impress the Honda executives by withdrawing from the competition because the rules have been violated. Also counts as a BatmanGambit, as Ted does ''exactly'' what Don expects him to do.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Sally's sexuality continues to burgeon; in this episode she plays with herself during a sleepover. Her friend's aghast mother catches her in the act and dumps her back home.

** Betty's distaste for psychiatry stems from her own go nowhere sessions with Dr. Wayne. The mortifying knowledge that her psychologist was feeding details back to Don might contribute to her prejudice, too.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Ted Chaough likes to this he is this to Don, but as the events of this episode show, it's actually the other way round.

!This episode contains examples of:

* FunWithSubtitles: In play when the Honda executives, who can only speak Japanese, converse with their translator ... who is himself stumped by some of what he has to translate.

* ShoutOut: Ted's mocking present to Don of a bottle of saki comes with a label on which he's written "Help me, Honda", a nod to Music/TheBeachBoys' "Help Me, Rhonda" which was released in March 1965 -- the month in which this episode is set ("Little Honda" had come out the year before).

''Punishment will only make this worse.''

* KansasCityShuffle: Working on the assumption that SCDP probably won't win the Honda pitch competition after Roger's behaviour, Don makes Ted ''think'' that SCDP is going to violate Honda's competition rules. This leads CGC to ''actually'' violate them ... thus giving Don the opportunity to impress the Honda executives by withdrawing from the competition because the rules have been violated. Also counts as a BatmanGambit.

* KansasCityShuffle: Working on the assumption that SCDP probably won't win the Honda pitch competition after Roger's behaviour, Don makes Ted ''think'' that SCDP is going to violate Honda's competition rules. This leads CGC to ''actually'' violate them ... thus giving Don the opportunity to impress the Honda executives by withdrawing from the competition because the rules have been violated.

* CallingTheOldManOut: Pete calls out Roger for his bigotry against the Honda clients, telling him that it's been twenty years since the war ended and that he's really only doing it because if they get more business, the company would be less dependent on Lucky Strike and in turn him.

* KansasCityShuffle: Done makes Ted ''think'' that SCDP is going to violate Honda's competition rules, leading CGC to violate them ... thus giving Don the opportunity to impress the Honda executives by withdrawing from the competition because the rules have been violated.

* LostInTranslation: The Japanese executives can only speak broken English, and their translator isn't the best. Unable to understand Don's description of the creative room, he simply tells his superiors that he has no idea what the room is for. He is not required when one of them makes a comment in Japanese about Joan's figure, though, as she has a pretty good idea of what's been said and tells him not to translate that.
* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: Don goads CGC into shooting a full ad in violation of the rules set out by Honda. When Don honorably withdraws SCDP from the competition the Honda representative is impressed.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Ted Chaough likes to this he is this to Don, but it's actually the other way round.

* ShoutOut: Ted's mocking present to Don of a bottle of saki comes with a label on which he's written "Help me, Honda", a nod to Music/TheBeachBoys' "Help Me, Rhonda"

* ShellShockedVeteran: Roger's trauma over losing friends in UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo keeps him from being objective about the proposed Honda campaign.

* CallingTheOldManOut: Pete calls out Roger for his bigotry against the Honda clients, telling him that it's been 20 Years since the war ended and that he's really only doing it because if they get more business, the company would be less dependent on Lucky Strike and in turn him.